Chapter 24, Banyan Rong
The lantern in the princess's hand eventually fell to the ground, and in an instant, the candle flame climbed the outer wall of the lantern.
The burning hole grew bigger and bigger, and the fire shone on the princess's pale face, and in an instant, bean-sized tears rolled down her face.
It was as if she had suddenly been pinned to the ground, and suddenly she couldn't walk.
Everything in front of him came too suddenly, and a powerful man with a full beard was holding a whip, and under the whip was the banyan rong protecting the master.
Rong Rong had been begging not to beat the master, because the master was already old, and at his age, he might not be able to take a few whips.
But the bearded man had no intention of stopping, but became more and more excited the more he fought.
He loves his whip and the pleasure he feels when he whips it on Rong Rong.
He likes to listen to the pleas of others, and it is then that he feels that he is on top of him, so that he can forget that he is usually called by his master like a dog.
The more despised the person is, the more he likes to despise others, and he can only find superiority in those who are more pitiful than him.
When the fire was lit, Banyan saw the princess, and she swallowed all the words of pleading in pain and silently endured the whipping of the bearded man.
She was afraid, she was afraid that her cries and pleadings would scare her beloved daughter.
But the princess was frightened, and though she knew all this, when everything was really laid out before her, she did not know what to do but cry.
She used to see her mother at dawn.
Gently beckoned her to get up, and made her a fragrant breakfast, sometimes with two or three plates of delicious pastries.
Her mother was always so gentle, she was so old, she would treat her like a child of two or three years old, comb her braids, and sit under the big tree with her in her arms and tell stories.
As she spoke, her mother would fall asleep in the warm wind.
Then she would quietly come out of her mother's arms and cover her with a soft carpet.
Their life is very peaceful, the mother goes out late and returns early, and the master sits in the hall to see a doctor or plant medicine in the medicine field.
When they are not working, they cook together, herd sheep, grow vegetables, and raise chickens.
It's a paradise, no oppression, no bullying.
But is this really a paradise?
Of course not!
Tonight she met a mother who looked different than usual.
Rong Rong wears a dark red cloud veil embroidered with dark red patterns. Gorgeous, bright, but without warmth.
The silky shoulders and smooth back were marked with hideous whip marks, and the blood seemed to have not yet coagulated, so terrifying in the starlight.
The scattered cloud temples are inserted with a few valuable steps, and the picturesque faces are depicted more than fairies.
It's just that after wiping the corners of her mouth, the blood stains and whip marks still left tell that she is not a fairy, she is a poor woman who has fallen into the mud and dust.
The master lay on the ground, motionless, and the blood hole on his forehead had stained the silk scarf in Rong Rong's hand red.
The princess came to her senses, rushed to the bearded man, and hugged the man's leg with her small thin arms like firewood: "Don't beat my aunt, don't beat my master." ”
The bearded man stopped the whip with a cruel smile, but stroked the back of Rong Rong with his hand, and tightened his fingers suddenly, blood gurgling out of his fingers.
The princess punched and kicked him, and to him it seemed nothing more than tickling.
"You're a bad person, I'm going to beat you to death. The princess cried and beat at the same time.
The bearded man shook his leg contemptuously and kicked her out, "What the hell? ”
Rong Rong grabbed her daughter's body that was about to be kicked away, and tears flowed down one by one.
She kissed the princess: "My daughter, don't offend him, protect yourself." A-Niang just wants to see you and talk to you, A-Niang is sorry for you......"
She kissed and cried and said she was sorry.
"No, no, don't say that. The princess wiped her mother's tears with both hands.
"Are you hurt?" Rong Rong held the princess's arms and looked at her body in panic, afraid that the kick just now would hurt her.
"No, A-Niang don't worry. In fact, the bearded man kicked her little stomach, but she didn't want her mother to worry no matter how painful it was.
The bearded man crossed his arms and looked at the three people under his feet, and sneered: "This is your daughter? Haha, it is useless to give birth to such a little monster without dying." ”
Speaking of this, he bent down and approached Rong Rong: "Why don't you take this little monster with you to give it to the iron-headed god and chew it as a bean?" ”
Rong Rong hugged the princess tightly and stared at the bearded man hatefully: "Don't you scare her like this, don't you have a wife and children?"
The bearded man grabbed her hair, and the whip scraped lightly on her face: "Cheap stinky people, you also deserve to be compared with others?" he spat and continued, "I've seen it, can I leave with peace of mind?"
The princess wanted to go up and bite him, but was stopped by Rong Rong.
Rong Rong hugged her daughter tightly and said softly: "Take good care of the master, A-Niang is going to a far away place, you have to remember what we said, one day, we will go to a far place together to see the big world." Remembering our wishes, we must remember. ”
The bearded man impatiently took the whip handle and knocked her the back: "Why is there so much nonsense, I can't bear her, you can take her with you." ”
Rong Rong was dragged back, desperately turning around and shouting to her daughter: "Ah Niang loves you very much, my cutest little princess, I'm sorry." ”
The princess took her mother's hand and cried: "I want to be with Ah Niang, where Ah Niang goes, my daughter will go." ”
The bearded man looked at the mother and daughter with a disappreciative smile, and dragged Rong Rong even more energetically.
Rong Rong broke the princess's hand, the princess grabbed it again, the bearded man's laughter was so harsh, it stabbed Rong Rong's heart into pieces, the master was still lying on the ground and life and death were uncertain, and the daughter followed her only one way to die.
She gritted her teeth, pursed her lips, swallowed the blood in her stomach and didn't want her daughter to see it, and looked at her daughter affectionately.
Then he resolutely shook off his daughter's slender but grabbed her arm with all his strength, put away his tears, left his attachment, and walked forward without looking back.
In her short life, there was too much sorrow, and only her daughter brought her peace and hope.
The bearded man followed, urging incessantly, spitting on the woman and her daughter. Spit on their filth and ugliness.
Suddenly, a voice said, "Even if she makes a mistake and wants to be punished, you shouldn't humiliate her like this." “
The voice is immature, but it turns out to be a small fish.
In her heart, making mistakes is a punishment, but there should be respect between people, or how different from the beasts that have not yet opened their minds?
In the sky, she didn't have many immortals in contact, all of them were polite and had clear rewards and punishments.
Naturally, the same should be true of man.
But she looked at it for a while, and was a little confused, what was the big mistake of the princess's mother?
She knows that there are no rules, and the Heavenly Palace also has various punishment regulations, but that is not the right thing.
At this time, I saw the bearded man torturing the injured woman, bullying the weak princess, and attacking their mother and daughter with foul language, so that she couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to come out and reason with him.
Yes, what a reasonable little fish, what she thinks is to reason with the bearded man.
Because in her heart, people are the spirits of all things, and immortals are just made by people.
Spirits also have to become human beings first.
Therefore, how precious people should be, the reason why people are human is because they have more humanity than all things.
But she didn't know that sometimes the truth didn't make sense, because some people couldn't be called human.