The past three months have been as unreal as a dream for Yunshi. She went to school like an ordinary child every day, and then went home to eat and sleep, and was occasionally beaten and scolded by Tang Wan for poor grades or naughty. has been like this for 16 years, until that day she was walking on the road after school when she was suddenly stopped by a neighbor's aunt, and told her in a panic: "Your parents have been arrested for telecom fraud." Your mother thought something would happen and left you a letter in advance. At the end of the day, he gave her a piece of paper and hurried away.

Yun Shi didn't believe it, her mother, who was still scolding her in the morning and threatening to break her leg if she didn't study hard, went to prison when she came back at noon. But when she opened the letter, it was indeed Tang Wan's handwriting, and asked her to go to Jianfeng Mansion to find Mu Jianfeng, saying that it was an old friend. She's got everything in order. She walked into the Jianfeng Mansion in a daze, but was sent by the front desk and said that she could not enter without an appointment. She returned home in a trance. Before I went in, I saw a bunch of people blocked at the entrance of the corridor, and a police car parked downstairs.

She sneaked away in fear. Desperate, he had to spend the night at Bobo's house.

When she came to school the next day, she couldn't calm down, and her mind was full of thoughts about how she would live alone in the future and who she could rely on. Before the first class was finished, she was called to the office by the head teacher, and the two men in black claimed to be Mu Jianfeng's subordinates, and she was later led into Mu Jianfeng's house like this. Three months passed in a trance.

Yun Shi looked at Bobo and Xiaoying beside her, as well as the other classmates, and she missed this feeling of sympathy so much that she began to think that maybe everything was just a crazy dream she had. In the afternoon, after school, she can go home side by side with Bobo and Xiaoying, and Tang Wan must be cooking at home and waiting for her.

"Poetry, poetry." Xiaoying woke up the rhyme that was still sleepwalking. "School is out. Aren't you going home? ”

"It's half past seven, didn't you say you'd be scolded if you went back late." Bobo reminded her too.

"Bobo, Xiaoying. Did I just have strange dreams? Yun Shi held her cheeks, her eyes were misty. I dreamed that my mother was in prison, but she was still waiting for me at home to eat. ”

Bobo felt sorry for Yun Shi and said to her softly. "Shishi, I know you're sad, isn't your mother pregnant? It is legally said that pregnant women do not seem to be in jail for a long time. ”

"Yes, you just have to be patient." Xiaoying also comforted Yunshi. "Why don't you eat dinner with me, and you can go back early after eating."

Yun Shi rolled her reddened eyes and nodded sadly.

The three of them went to a food stall not far from the school, and Bobo and Xiaoying diligently poured food and Coke for Yunshi. I also told her about a lot of interesting things that happened at school recently, which made her happy. After eating, Yun Shi reluctantly left.

When she arrived at Mu Mansion, she looked down at the table below. Oh my God, it's half past nine. She quickened her pace and hurried into the first-floor hall.

"Where have you been?" A sharp voice rang out.

Yun Shi struck a clever blow and turned to look. Mu Jianfeng was standing on the side of the hall, looking at her with burning eyes.

Yun Shi was frightened in her heart, and slowly approached him step by step.

"I went to the bookstore after school." Yun Shi lowered her head and whispered, not daring to look at Mu Kunlong's eyes.

"Really?" His voice was cold, and he turned to Mama Zhang behind him and said, "Mama Zhang, call Xiaolu down for me." ”

Yun Shi was suffocated when she heard this, and her heart beat a drum.

After a while, Mu Xiaolu slowly walked down from the second floor in a goose yellow pajamas.

"Dad—" She approached Mu Jianfeng with a smile.

"Do you know where Yunshi went today?" He asked with a gloomy face.

Seeing this, Xiaolu immediately put away her smile, blinked her big eyes innocently and said, "I don't know." ”

"Don't know?" Mu Jianfeng's eyebrows tightened. "You two are in the same school and class, how can you not know what she is doing? Did I say that you will be sisters in the future, and you should love each other? ”

"Do you think that she was born in the country, rough and cheesy, and dull-minded, so you look down on her?" He asked in a loud voice.

Xiaolu blushed and did not answer.

"I asked you if you had one?" Mu Jianfeng said angrily.

"I have." Xiaolu was so frightened that tears spread out of her eyes.

"Mom Zhang, bring me rattan—" Mu Jianfeng said with a stiff face.

Zhang's mother lowered her head and went to the kitchen, and after a while, she took out a two-foot-long rattan.

Xiaolu saw the rattan in Mu Jianfeng's hand and pleaded.

"Dad, I know it's wrong. I won't dare in the future. ”

"Get your hands out!" Mu Jianfeng grabbed her delicate hand. "Spread out—"

Xiaolu choked and stretched out her hand, straightened her arm and raised it in front of Mu Jianfeng.

"Have I ever taught you that your clothes are torn, they can still be mended, and your hands and feet are broken, and it is rare to be connected?"

Mu Jianfeng picked up the rattan and pulled it down heavily.

Mu Xiaolu's whole body shook in pain, crying even more fiercely, and her tears couldn't stop flowing.

Yun Shi saw that Mu Jianfeng raised the rattan again, and rushed up with an arrow step to block in front of Xiaolu.

"Don't hit her, she's right!" She said urgently: "If you want to beat me, hit me, I lied." It has nothing to do with her! ”

"Good!" Mu Jianfeng nodded, "If you dare to do it, you must dare to do it." You are negligent in discipline and do not learn and do not know. It's time to educate you. ”

Yun Shi stretched out her palm and held it high.

"You let Xiaolu go. Just beat me until you're satisfied. She said with a low brow.

Mu Jianfeng raised the rattan without mercy. Yun Shi was in pain, but she bit her lip tightly and didn't make a sound.

Mu Jian was angry that she had a stubborn personality, and she stretched out her hand and slapped it twice.

"Tell me where you went all afternoon?" He stopped and asked her.

Yun Shi was worried that if she told the truth, he would get angry and stop letting her see her friends. She gritted her teeth and lowered her head to repeat her previous words.

"I went to the bookstore."

"If you keep lying, then I'll beat you until you tell the truth." Mu Jianfeng's breath became short.

He slapped her hand twice more, and saw Yun Shi burying her head and not saying a word.

"The broken hand delays your studies." He put down the rattan and commanded the rhyme: "Turn around." ”

Yun Shi turned around obediently, and Mu Jianfeng squatted down, picked up the rattan and whipped it on her calf.

He looked up and asked, "Still lying?" ”

"......" Yun Shi clenched her injured palm and raised her head without saying a word.

Mu Jianfeng gritted his teeth, and the rattan swished.

In addition to the sound of rattan whipping in the hall, there was also Xiaolu's suppressed sobbing. Zhang's mother stood aside and watched in horror, but she didn't dare to step forward to stop her.

He Lu heard a noise and walked out of the bedroom on the second floor. Seeing the sight on the first floor, he covered his mouth in surprise and hurriedly ran downstairs.

She first looked at Xiaolu, who was crying on the side, turned around and walked to Mu Jianfeng's side, and took Mu Jianfeng's hand.

"Husband, stop fighting." She glanced at Yunshi's scarred calves and shouted. "Even if a child does something wrong, he can't beat him so hard."

"You don't care." He pushed He Lu away with a cold face, looked at the motionless rhyme, and asked. "Aren't you going to tell the truth?"

"Yunshi, just apologize." He Lu couldn't bear to look at her bloodstained calves anymore, and pulled Yun Shi's arm to persuade.

Yun Shi's forehead was covered with beads of sweat, her vision became a little blurred, and her voice was hoarse.

"It's okay, I'll take it."

Since she has been beaten so much, is it still necessary to be honest?

Mu Jianfeng's eyes were red, and he hated that she didn't use this tenacity in her studies, but on crooked ways. He lifted the rattan again.

He Lu wanted to stop him, but he couldn't stop him. Zhang's mother also caught up, afraid that she would die if she beat again. The three of them twisted into a ball.

Mu Kunlong walked down from the third floor and happened to see this scene.

He is not a nosy person, the Mu family's family rules have always been strict, and he has grown up like this. But when he saw Yun Shi's pale face and thin body staggering in the empty hall, he suddenly felt unbearable.

She had always been alive and kicking like a sparrow, and her voice could be heard from afar. Now it is as miserable and desperate as having its wings clipped.

"That's it." Mu Kunlong stepped forward quickly and snatched the rattan from Mu Jianfeng's hand.

He Lu and Zhang's mother both breathed a sigh of relief and stepped aside. Yun Shi couldn't hold on any longer, and fell down with a thud.