Chapter 50: Her Story......
Dong Qiong'er continued: "After I was picked up by Li Zhengqing when I was a child, I had a serious illness and lost my memories before I was abandoned. That's it, I used to hate my parents who abandoned me.
However, when I was a child, I had a strange dream over and over again, and when I woke up, I forgot what it was.
I didn't tell anyone until one day, when I finally remembered, it wasn't a dream, it was a memory I had lost.
When I really remember my childhood memories, I ...... I can't hate the parents who abandoned me. β
Dong Qiong'er paused, and finally her eyelashes trembled slightly, and there was a touch of sadness in her bright and beautiful eyes.
Ning Xi raised her eyes to look at the thin body, and she could feel that Dong Qiong'er's faint words seemed to be full of a trace of pain.
She didn't speak, and waited quietly for Dong Qiong'er's next words.
Dong Qiong'er sighed lightly, glanced at Ning Xi, and then said, "I remember that I was born in a remote and backward small village.
My father and mother were honest farmers, and every day my father went out to work with his back to the loess, and my mother stayed at home to feed the chickens and ducks, sew and mend, and take care of the housework.
Father and mother are looking forward to the old lady having a proper rain, so that the green seedlings that have been sown out will sprout and grow up quickly and have a good harvest.
The happiest day of the year is when the ears of rice hang their heads and harvest those heavy grains. My father and mother should have been happy, but my birth ruined their lives. β
Dong Qiong'er said, at first, her eyes showed warmth and yearning, and then her expression also darkened, and there was more self-blame in her voice.
"Because I was born with a strange fragrance on my body, I was pointed at by the villagers and regarded as ominous, and they even said that I was the reincarnation of a monster, a legendary fox spirit, specializing in seducing people's souls.
Eventually, when I was five years old, my mother finally couldn't stand the gossip of the villagers, and one day she left me and my father and ran away from home. β
Ning Xi looked at the other party's gloomy expression, thinking of a lonely little shadow after losing his mother, and couldn't help but feel a trace of sympathy for the woman in front of him.
Dong Qiong'er's faint voice continued: "My mother gave birth to me, a freak, and I have endured it silently for five years, to be honest, my mother left this family, I really don't resent my mother."
After my mother left, my father was depressed for a while, but my father still cheered up for me.
My mother is gone, but my father still protects me, and he doesn't care about the bad words and ridicule of others, and still regards me as his own.
Despite my father's protection, I still didn't dare to go out, because the children of the same age in the village, under the advice of their parents, did not dare to touch me, and there was no one to play with me, so I often had to hide in my yard to play.
When I was seven years old, my father saw that I was lonely, so he built a swing for me in the courtyard and made a small wooden horse, which is really clumsy and ugly when I think about it now.
Moreover, when my father was not working, he would go to the mountains to hunt, and often brought back some small animals for me, such as rabbits, brocades, and so on.
I even brought back an elk once, and I clapped my little hands excitedly, and I was so happy that I was lonely with these little playmates at that time. β
Dong Qiong'er said this, with a rare smile on her face, but Ning Xi could feel sad from these words.
But Dong Qiong'er's smile didn't last long, and her voice suddenly became heavy and said: "I thought that there would be no children in the village to contact me, but once a few boys came to my house when my father was out and wanted to play with me."
At that time, I was very happy, but when they came to the house, they immediately arrested me, and I was terrified.
I tried to fight as hard as I could, but they were eleven or twelve-year-old boys, tall and strong, and I was only seven years old at the time, and there was no way to resist.
Later, from the words of these playful boys, I learned that several of them were idle and bored, and bet to see if I had the legendary fragrance on me.
They didn't care about me crying, they took it as fun to bully me, and they all rushed to smell me, and then they wanted to ...... You're going to pick off my clothes and play with me.
At last...... In the end, they said that they were going to wash my body, my eyes were red from crying, my voice was hoarse, and they still refused to let me go. β
Dong Qiong'er's voice was faintly choked, as if this moment had touched the deep trauma in her heart.
At this time, Ning Xi's warm and moist jade face was a little overwhelmed, and she pursed her lips, wanting to say something, but when the words came to her mouth, she couldn't speak.
She didn't know how to say comfort, so she could only wait silently, listening to her narration and venting her emotions.
Dong Qiong'er was silent for a moment and then said: "Fortunately, my father came back ahead of schedule and saw those little rabbit cubs bullying me, and caught them in a rage and beat them for a while, and even broke one of the children's legs.
Because my father beat those children, their father and mother quickly brought someone to the door, and smashed my house without saying anything, and my father protected me with his body, and my nose and face were swollen by their hands.
Later, the matter went to the patriarch......"
Dong Qiong'er paused, when she said these words, it was very heart-wrenching, and Ning Xi couldn't help asking, "Then did the patriarch call the shots for you later?"
Dong Qiong'er shook her head and said, "No, the grandfather of the child who broke his leg is the younger brother of the patriarch."
Dad wanted to go to the patriarch to theorize, they didn't give Dad a chance to defend himself at all, and the parents of the children who bullied me said that their children were just joking with each other, but Dad was heavy-handed and should have expelled our family from the village.
My father was frightened and begged and pleaded, but in the end they did not agree, confiscated my family's land and property, and drove me and my father away. β
"Are you strange, why am I saying this?" Dong Qiong'er stopped again, looked at Ning Xi with slightly red eyes, and continued without waiting for Ning Xi to speak: "I want to say that even if I left the village with my father later and lived a life of being blinded by people and begging and wandering every day, I still have my father and a home, and I am still very happy."
But Li Zhengqing ruined my and my father's home!"
Hearing these words, Ning Xi's heart was shocked, and she could detect the hatred that erupted in Dong Qiong'er's voice at that moment.
"But can you imagine? What kind of benevolent old man saved a dying girl in the ice and snow? What little girl got sick and forgot her memories after she was cured?
All of this is a lie that Li Zhengqing has carefully fabricated to erase my previous memories and deceive me, but I am naΓ―ve to believe such a person?"
Dong Qiong'er's voice became trembling as she spoke.