Chapter 6: Repeatedly beaten

In the creek, Chen Miaoji is responsible for driving the fish in the water into the fishing net; Chen Biao is responsible for catching the fishing nets and keeping the fish in the nets, while Chen Xin is responsible for watching the fish and holding lanterns to light the way.

Actions at night caught more fish than during the day. The three siblings were very satisfied.

Chen Miaoji stepped the position of aquatic plants on the shore, according to the old man, there will be more fish in these places, Chen Miaoji has also demonstrated several times, and sure enough, he played in the water to his heart's content, stepped on aquatic plants, and splashed all over his body...... He was very satisfied and signaled that Chen Biao was going to catch fishing nets.

In less than half an hour, I gained a lot.

"Hurry up, hurry up." Chen Miaoji called Chen Biao at the same time.

Chen Biao filled the fish in the net into the bucket one by one. Chen Xin held the edge of the barrel with both hands, poked his head in, and watched the fish jumping in the water keep swimming in the water, and his heart was full of joy.

"What is this?" The one in Chen Biao's hand was like a snake and his body was like a loach. For a while, the three of them looked at each other, you look at me and I look at him, and they all speculated in their hearts. Cool winds blew on both sides of the road, and the sounds around me were loud. Chen Miaoji rubbed his eyes vigorously and cheered up to carefully examine the surrounding environment...... Before Chen Miaoji could speak, Chen Biao and Chen Xin had already disappeared.

Chen Miaoji looked at the water by the stream, it was very turbid, and he went down with a fishing net, and it was a catfish that came up, and then he saw a long water snake in a small puddle next to it...... Chen Miaoji rolled his clever eyes, and shouted in his heart: "I can't look back, I can't look back...... He stood up suddenly, pretended to be indifferent and walked a few steps, muttered a few words in his mouth, and then ran away with a smoke.

When Chen Miaoji came home, his family was waiting for him to come back and have dinner together.

"Why don't you wash your hands and eat? You're just waiting for you. Grandma was stern and had a lesson.

"I'm not hungry." Chen Miaoji was not in the mood to eat for a while.

The result of skipping meals was that he was beaten by his father with a ring ruler.

Chen Miaoji was beaten, and he grabbed a steamed bun and ran away with great grievances, climbed onto the roof, leaned against the chimney to blow the wind, and his clothes were dirty by him, and when he came back, his grandmother found out and was beaten again. Grandma still made it with bamboo. There were several marks of beating on the legs, and there was still blood on the wound that was drawn down by the bamboo, and finally the blood stains were clumped and stuck to the flesh, and the bruises were swollen around them.

He held back his tears, not wanting to let the tears come out, even if he cried like a tearful man in his heart, he still looked very stubborn on the surface, and he didn't admit that he was wrong. As a result, because of the confrontation with my grandmother, I was beaten again by my grandfather. Chen Biao and Chen Xin secretly poked their heads at the door, with sympathy, fear, distress, and guilt on their faces, and their expressions were very complicated.

"Hit hard, beat me to death." Chen Miaoji was very irritable, angry, and aggrieved.

"Do you dare to talk back?" Grandpa said that the strength was heavier. "Do you know you're wrong?"

"I'm not wrong." Chen Miaoji squinted at his grandfather, his eyes full of stubbornness.

"If you're wrong, you won't admit it?" Saying that, Grandpa beat him harder and harder. "Do you know you were wrong now?"

"Yes, yes." Chen Miaoji is used to being beaten, and he just wants to end it all quickly, because he can go to bed after the beating.

"What's wrong?"

The pain of the flesh can be endured, but the pain in the heart is indescribable. Chen Miaoji is no longer willing to answer, and if he answers wrong, he will be beaten, and if he is not wrong, he will be beaten. This kind of thing is repeated several times a day, and it is commonplace. As a result, his family beat him more and more, and his character became more and more rebellious.

On the afternoon of September 9, 1873, in the rainy and rainy mountain path, Chen Miaoji held the taro leaves high with both hands, and followed Chen Biao closely behind him (he did not bring an umbrella when he went out, and temporarily picked it in someone else's field). Chen Biao's taro leaves are obviously much smaller than Chen Miaoji's, although Chen Miaoji's taro leaves are large, but they are inevitably drenched in the rain into soup chicken. The two of them walked for a long, long time one after the other, as if they would never come to an end, looking at the distant mountain road against the wind and rain, the cold rain hit the body, cold in the heart, this rain was enough to extinguish the fire in the heart, Chen Miaoji was extremely crazy in his heart. Complain about why it rains heavily at this time......

When he arrived at the village, Chen Miaoji asked to exchange taro leaves with Chen Biao, but at first Chen Biao didn't dare to exchange with him, but was later forcibly snatched by Chen Miaoji. said that he felt sorry for Chen Biao, but no, he hated being seen by his family more than Chen Biao, and then he was counted out for this reason. Whatever he was most afraid of, Chen Miaoji thought that his plan was perfect, but when he turned the corner, his grandfather saw him and Chen Biao being drenched in the rain, and Chen Miaoji was beaten without reacting.

"Chen Biao is holding a big 'umbrella'......" Chen Miaoji's hand was grabbed by his grandfather, and he was indignant while dodging his grandfather's pursuit.

"Are you embarrassed? According to what you mean, Chen Biao wants to take the small one? How old is it? I always take my younger brother out to fool around. Grandpa reprimanded. Forgot the ancestral family law? ”

"He is also your grandson, and I am also your grandson, why do you beat me every time I don't beat him? This time he pulled me out to play. Chen Miaoji was extremely dissatisfied. Since he ran away from marriage, his family's abuse of him has been more serious than before, he used to be naughty and beaten at most, but at least it didn't hurt his bones, since the last incident, his family really fought to the death.

"Are you acting like a brother?" Grandpa hit harder.

Chen Biao hid behind the door, secretly watching Chen Miaoji being beaten through the crack in the door, his expression was full of guilt and distress.

Chen Miaoji has been beaten for as long as he can remember. The most serious one was to mistakenly think that he had stolen the family's money and was beaten, (September 19, 1873) was also taken off his pants and hung up and beaten, Chen Miaoji said that he did not steal, but the family did not believe his words at all, after the beating, Chen Miaoji asked Chen Miaoji to hand over the money, it is said that the lost money is still a large amount, which can maintain the family's expenses for three months. It doesn't matter if he was beaten with his pants off when he was a child, but now he is old enough to start a family.

Chen Miaoji looked at his grandfather and father with a hateful face, and said in a straight voice: "I said I didn't steal." I didn't steal it. ”

Grandma also helped to come up with ideas on the side, saying that Chen Miaoji has a hard mouth, and she will admit it if she gives him a little bit of a good taste. Grandma ordered someone to put a wooden bucket she had prepared on Chen Miaoji's head, and asked him to squat on the horse and then hold the wooden barrel.

The barrel contained mollusks, like leeches, a group of moving, the back was dark green and black, and there were vertical stripes of yellow longitudinal lines, some large and some small, several lying in the barrel, stretching and stretching its slender body, its movements were very agile, its body seemed to be infinitely extended, if it was drilled into the flesh to suck blood, it couldn't be picked off, just looking at the hairs stood up...... It doesn't matter if it's soft, the most disgusting thing is that it still has thick mucus on its body. There are 5 pairs of eyes, which are more monsters than monsters. I used to like to go to the water to catch fish, but since I saw the old man at the head of the village being sucked by leeches, I never went into the water again. Chen Miaoji saw with his own eyes that the leech could continue to survive after being cut off, and even regenerate a new body from the broken part, the nine-tailed fox could not compare to it, and its regeneration power was very strong, and it seemed to be immortal.

Chen Miaoji's hair was numb, and she hated that her grandmother could come up with such a ruthless move, but the most poisonous woman was like this, she was her own grandson. This is torture to extract confessions. There are so many leeches, it seems that grandma is bloody. Tormented...... In the end, Chen Miaoji ran away from home crying and vowed never to come back. He was very aggrieved and squatted on the side of the street, looking at the villagers who came and went, the world was so big, but he was so lonely, and he said to himself aggrievedly: "Why don't you persuade me?" Comfort me and I'll go back. "I thought longingly: 'Persuade me to go back, when will you find me?'

Today's weather is particularly good, the big brother and the little brother both go hunting in the mountains, and I naturally follow. My big brother is still holding my little hand with one hand and the horse with the other, just like when I was a child. I'm followed by my favorite dog.

"I'm grown up now, brother~ don't be holding me." I pouted, I wanted to play by myself, I wanted to catch rabbits by myself.

It took a long time for my big brother to react, it had been a long, long time since the last time we came to hunt together, and I remember that I was only 8-9 years old, and the dog was very small like me, and now, my hair is longer and taller. The dog was caught by a hare when he broke a hind leg, and now he has become a three-legged one-legged dog, and now his physical strength is not as good as before, we haven't gone far, and the dog has been panting. I begged my big brother to let me walk with the dog and walk a little slower.

This harvest feels no more than last time, maybe because I have grown up, the rabbits in my arms are very small, I was small when I was a child, and I was very excited to hold a hare, and the mood gap at this moment is a little big. This hunting was the last time I had such carefree days, because it won't be long before I get married, the eldest brother is the father, I can't say anything, I just want to cherish the time when we can still be together. Brother, I really don't want to get married, do you know my heart?

At 8-9 o'clock in the evening, Chen Miaoji was so hungry that she wiped away her tears, walked to the end of the alley and looked at her home and turned back to the place where she had just squatted. I wandered around like this several times, and I really had nowhere to go but to go home. "I didn't do anything wrong, why should I go?" said that Chen Miaoji plucked up the courage to go home, as long as the person who stole the money was caught, he could prove his innocence. Before he could get home, he found out that the thief was beaten again.

"Why did you hit me again?"

"If you don't come back for dinner in the evening, what do you want to do?" Chen Jinhai clenched the ring ruler in his hand. Chen Jinhai couldn't count how many hits, but Chen Miaoji still didn't admit his mistake, and later Chen Jinhai got tired and drew a ring ruler directly on the wall, letting Chen Miaoji hit it by himself......