Wang Jinchuan grimaced all the way home. He couldn’t help but grimace. Every step he took, his muscles shook with pain, as if someone was cutting with a knife dipped in salt water.
He begged the doctor to prescribe painkillers. As a result, the stupid medicine was useless! When he went to the hospital to return the medicine, they called the police. He had no choice but to drag his aching body back to his hometown.
Wang Jinchuan didn’t dare to confront the police, not to mention the wallet he had stolen before. Just some time ago, he drank too much wine and almost dragged a girl who looked like a student into an alley. This was enough to make him tremble in fear.
What scared him the most was the strange man who suddenly appeared that day.
Just as the man said, from then on, his whole body was in pain, but the hospital couldn’t find the cause. Every night, other patients slept well, he was so weak from the pain that he couldn’t even make a sound.
The girl smashed a stone at his crotch, the injury was easily healed, but it also left after-effects. Previously Wang Jinchuan said he would try his best to look for the girl to get revenge. But now, he was in severe pain every day, his face was blue, how could he find the time to care about that?
Before, he stole money, and also ate and ran. He tried to do the same thing again, and steal things. As a result, walking in pain was a problem. Before he stretched out his hand, he was caught red-handed. There was no way out, only then did he think of coming back to his hometown. At least there was that yellow-faced woman at home who could serve him.
(TNote: yellow-faced woman = derogatory, it describes a woman who has married for a long time, she has aged with the burden of housework. The yellow refers to aging/fading looks.)
Seeing that he was almost there, Wang Jinchuan stopped to take a breath like an old man. His whole body hurt, especially his legs, so he couldn’t stand straight.
And his shoulders, sore and uncomfortable.
He was trying to reach out and rub his shoulder when he suddenly thought of the red eyes he saw that day. His hand stiffened, and was released somewhat unnaturally.
The man kept reassuring himself in his heart that it was all fake. It was the young priest that lied to him. It must be something like a trick. There was no ghost in the world, and there was nothing on his shoulder.
Thinking, he pushed the door open and shouted, “Where’s everyone? I’m back.”
The room was empty, there was dust on the desk that hadn’t been wiped for a long time, and there were even large cobwebs in the corners.
It could be seen that this house hadn’t been inhabited for a long time.
The man’s brow furrowed as he roamed around the house, confirming the fact.
His wife took her things, and they disappeared.
Even if his wife was gone, his son was gone too! Wang Jinchuan looked gloomy and hit the table with a fist.
“F*ck!”
Then, the stiffness was so painful that he couldn’t move for a long time.
He turned his neck, only to find it stiff and uncomfortable. He thought, that b*tch must have taken their son back to her maternal family.
When Wang Jinchuan drank too much or was in a bad mood, he liked to take it out on his wife and son. Sometimes, when the woman couldn’t stand it, she took their son back to her mother’s house, until he came to pick her up and she would reluctantly come back.
Because every time his wife goes back to her maternal family, she brings back meat and food, and sometimes she would give him money, Wang Jinchuan wasn’t angry when she went back. Anyway, this b*tch only had an old mother at home, so she wouldn’t sue him.
Their family was a rare single family, just under the mountain, far away from the middle of the village, and there was no one around. When Wang Jinchuan beats people, he would only leave bruises on places covered with clothes, and his wife was afraid of being beaten. Besides, she knows how cruel her husband was, and she couldn’t tell anyone. So, she usually protected their son in silence.
Wang Jinchuan thought of calling her back to do laundry and cooking for him today, but because of the journey here, he was really tired. He went to the inner room and planned to take a nap first.
These couple of days, he was suffering from pain. He couldn’t bear it after so many days. He frowned and went to sleep, trembling with pain.
Even if he fell asleep, he felt so uncomfortable, it twisted his neck, and he always felt that there was something on it.
Wang Jinchuan was bitten by Da Huang last time, and his soul was unstable. Then his soul came back and stabilized. Of course, he didn’t know that there was a little girl sitting beside him at the moment.
Her face was pale, her eyes were as red as the blood-moon, her small hands were covered with blood, and she was struggling to choke the man’s neck.
Xi Liu couldn’t see anything else. Except the bad Uncle in front of her, there was only darkness. She tried very hard to strangle this person, but no matter how hard she tried, Wang Jinchuan couldn’t feel it.
She was angry, so angry that her whole body felt like it was on fire.
Xi Liu thought, it’s good to burn.
When she burned, she would pull her uncle and burn him to ashes. He would no longer do bad things.
Choke to death!
Xi Liu will strangle you!
She indignantly chanted words that no one could hear and choked the man with force.
( TRIGGER WARNING. The paragraphs after this will depict violence and abuse on a minor. Please not that this is a work of fiction. If you can’t read such things, please continue to the next chapter.)
–Xi Liu, I’ll take you to a good home to enjoy the blessings. Don’t cry, quickly wipe your tears. Otherwise, those people won’t love you, and you would suffer poverty with uncle. When you go there, you will live in luxury, and there would be nice new clothes to wear. Why are you crying?
–I told you not to cry, didn’t you hear? Hurry up and wipe your tears, if the big boss isn’t happy with you, I’m going to throw you into the ravine to feed the wolves!
–Hurry up, put on this dress, and then go and behave well. Do you hear me?
–Show this shoulder, ah, that’s it. Come on, uncle will give you a lollipop. You take it. You’ll see the big boss later. You have to smile. Understand?
She was ignorantly dressed in clothes she shouldn’t have worn at that age and led to a man.
The man had a big belly and a double chin, and his eyes almost went invisible when he smiled. When he saw her, his smile was even bigger, and his eyes were full of the meaning that Xi Liu couldn’t understand.
He coaxed her to come around to take off her clothes.
Xi Liu thought of Grandpa’s words, grabbed her clothes and refused to let him take them. The girl’s voice was crisp and immature. “Grandpa said that girls can’t take off their clothes for others.”
The man she called ‘uncle’ coaxed, “Xi Liu, this is not someone else, from now on, you will follow this gentleman. Hurry up and be good, let go of your hand.”
“No, Grandpa said no …”
No one listened to Xi Liu’s words. They broke her little hand with force, and she cried and resisted. “It hurts, my hand hurts …”
Instead of holding the two back, the tiny cries of the little child aroused even more desire. The look in their eyes frightened Xi Liu as she struggled to jump off the stranger’s lap and try to get to her grandfather.
But the door was locked. She was too young to open the door. She had to cry and knock on the door for help.
“Grandpa, I want Grandpa…”
Someone picked her up from behind and went to take off her clothes. Xi Liu got anxious and she bit the hand, in exchange for a scream from the man.
“Boss, are you, all right? Don’t be angry. The little girl isn’t sensible. I’ll just have to beat her …”
Uncle beat her and told her to undress herself. Xi Liu stubbornly shrank in the corner, crying so hard she couldn’t see, still holding on to the words taught by her grandfather, “Grandpa said, Xi Liu is a girl and can’t show it to boys.”
That’s what the aunt next door taught her. She used to ask why grandpa sent eggs to her aunt every month and asked the aunt to bathe her. The aunt also said that girls’ bodies shouldn’t be shown to boys, even her grandpa.
She later worked very hard to learn to bathe herself, so the eggs would be able to remain for her grandfather to eat. The aunt said that when she grew up and became successful, she could buy a lot of eggs for her grandfather…
“I don’t want to enjoy the blessings. I want Grandpa. Uncle, take me home, Xi Liu doesn’t like meat, Xi Liu doesn’t want to wear new clothes. Xi Liu wants Grandpa!”
She cried and begged her uncle to take her home, but eventually she was carried to the stranger who gripped her hands. Xi Liu struggled desperately, and her little foot accidentally kicked between the legs of the man.
Later, the man left in anger. Another uncle tried to undress her, Xi Liu bit again, and then, the tiny child’s neck, was choked by a pair of large hands.
The last words she heard as a human were full of insidious violence.
“I let you enjoy the blessings, but you didn’t enjoy it. You don’t know what’s good for you!”
The little girl’s eyes gradually became bloodshot from suffocation, and her face became red. She wanted to make a sound, but she could only silently stretch out two small hands to struggle.
Xi Liu didn’t want to enjoy life. Xi Liu just wanted to be with grandpa.
Grandpa said that he would let Xi Liu go to school and college. When Xi Liu went to college, she could earn money for Grandpa’s retirement, and he wouldn’t have to work so hard carrying firewood down the mountain every day.
She wanted to buy warm quilts for Grandpa, good shoes for Grandpa, and take Grandpa to see a doctor in the big city. Every day, Grandpa would only need to bask in the sun, comfortably.
–But all of this, was ruined by Uncle!
The little girl had red-eyes, and in her mind, only her childhood beautiful fantasies about the future existed. It made her even angrier.
“It’s all your fault! Xi Liu can’t buy shoes for Grandpa, can’t buy a comfortable quilt, can’t let Grandpa enjoy his blessings. It’s all your fault!!!”
Perhaps it was because of anger. It was obvious, no matter how hard she tried before, she couldn’t even leave a scratch on this man. But now, Wang Jinchuan’s neck had begun to show choking marks that looked like they came from a child’s hands.
That trace was small, as if bruised, and the sleeping man’s face also looked red. His eyes had a hard time opening, and his hands started to flail about.
A sweet smile appeared on the little girl’s cute and delicate face as she said, “Uncle, does it hurt?”
“At that time, Xi Liu also felt very painful.”
Clang–
Clang–
The sound of a bell spread into the room. While the hands around the man’s neck were still choking him, the girl looked up in confusion. The blood in her eyes hadn’t faded, but they looked innocent.
–“Xi Liu, come back…”
–“Xi Liu, come back…”
The little girl slowly let go of her hand, her eyes still red, her bare feet fell to the ground, and she followed the hoarse and familiar voice.
In the bamboo forest, Zhong Hua shook the bell with one hand and put clothes in the fire in front of him with the other hand. The clothes were burning, and the flame was very strong. His eyes were red. As if he didn’t know he was tired, he kept shouting the little sister’s name who he grew up with.
“Xi Liu, come back, come back…”
The little girl looked confused and slowly came. She stood not far away from him.
Her clothes had changed a little bit, from the gaudy clothes that don’t look like children’s clothes to Mickey Mouse cartoon clothes with childlike innocence.
Xi Liu’s hair was still messy and she was barefoot, but at least her body was clean.
Zhong Hua seemed to feel something, and slowly raised his head.
After seeing the little girl as big as he remembered, he burst into tears and smiled.
“Do you like it? Brother still remembers, Xi Liu said that she likes Mickey Mouse the most.”
That was a few years ago, when he deliberately saved money and thought about buying it for Xi Liu, the little sister. When he got home, he found that the person had already left.
The clothes were also put aside at the bottom of the cupboard at home. He thought he would never get a chance to give them to her.
The little girl’s eyes gradually became clear. She bowed her head slightly and looked at her brand-new dress, revealing a smile.
“It’s the Mickey Mouse I’ve always wanted.”
She spoke happily, “Xi Liu likes it!”
Wang Jinchuan grimaced all the way home. He couldn’t help but grimace. Every step he took, his muscles shook with pain, as if someone was cutting with a knife dipped in salt water.
He begged the doctor to prescribe painkillers. As a result, the stupid medicine was useless! When he went to the hospital to return the medicine, they called the police. He had no choice but to drag his aching body back to his hometown.
Wang Jinchuan didn’t dare to confront the police, not to mention the wallet he had stolen before. Just some time ago, he drank too much wine and almost dragged a girl who looked like a student into an alley. This was enough to make him tremble in fear.
What scared him the most was the strange man who suddenly appeared that day.
Just as the man said, from then on, his whole body was in pain, but the hospital couldn’t find the cause. Every night, other patients slept well, he was so weak from the pain that he couldn’t even make a sound.
The girl smashed a stone at his crotch, the injury was easily healed, but it also left after-effects. Previously Wang Jinchuan said he would try his best to look for the girl to get revenge. But now, he was in severe pain every day, his face was blue, how could he find the time to care about that?
Before, he stole money, and also ate and ran. He tried to do the same thing again, and steal things. As a result, walking in pain was a problem. Before he stretched out his hand, he was caught red-handed. There was no way out, only then did he think of coming back to his hometown. At least there was that yellow-faced woman at home who could serve him.
(TNote: yellow-faced woman = derogatory, it describes a woman who has married for a long time, she has aged with the burden of housework. The yellow refers to aging/fading looks.)
Seeing that he was almost there, Wang Jinchuan stopped to take a breath like an old man. His whole body hurt, especially his legs, so he couldn’t stand straight.
And his shoulders, sore and uncomfortable.
He was trying to reach out and rub his shoulder when he suddenly thought of the red eyes he saw that day. His hand stiffened, and was released somewhat unnaturally.
The man kept reassuring himself in his heart that it was all fake. It was the young priest that lied to him. It must be something like a trick. There was no ghost in the world, and there was nothing on his shoulder.
Thinking, he pushed the door open and shouted, “Where’s everyone? I’m back.”
The room was empty, there was dust on the desk that hadn’t been wiped for a long time, and there were even large cobwebs in the corners.
It could be seen that this house hadn’t been inhabited for a long time.
The man’s brow furrowed as he roamed around the house, confirming the fact.
His wife took her things, and they disappeared.
Even if his wife was gone, his son was gone too! Wang Jinchuan looked gloomy and hit the table with a fist.
“F*ck!”
Then, the stiffness was so painful that he couldn’t move for a long time.
He turned his neck, only to find it stiff and uncomfortable. He thought, that b*tch must have taken their son back to her maternal family.
When Wang Jinchuan drank too much or was in a bad mood, he liked to take it out on his wife and son. Sometimes, when the woman couldn’t stand it, she took their son back to her mother’s house, until he came to pick her up and she would reluctantly come back.
Because every time his wife goes back to her maternal family, she brings back meat and food, and sometimes she would give him money, Wang Jinchuan wasn’t angry when she went back. Anyway, this b*tch only had an old mother at home, so she wouldn’t sue him.
Their family was a rare single family, just under the mountain, far away from the middle of the village, and there was no one around. When Wang Jinchuan beats people, he would only leave bruises on places covered with clothes, and his wife was afraid of being beaten. Besides, she knows how cruel her husband was, and she couldn’t tell anyone. So, she usually protected their son in silence.
Wang Jinchuan thought of calling her back to do laundry and cooking for him today, but because of the journey here, he was really tired. He went to the inner room and planned to take a nap first.
These couple of days, he was suffering from pain. He couldn’t bear it after so many days. He frowned and went to sleep, trembling with pain.
Even if he fell asleep, he felt so uncomfortable, it twisted his neck, and he always felt that there was something on it.
Wang Jinchuan was bitten by Da Huang last time, and his soul was unstable. Then his soul came back and stabilized. Of course, he didn’t know that there was a little girl sitting beside him at the moment.
Her face was pale, her eyes were as red as the blood-moon, her small hands were covered with blood, and she was struggling to choke the man’s neck.
Xi Liu couldn’t see anything else. Except the bad Uncle in front of her, there was only darkness. She tried very hard to strangle this person, but no matter how hard she tried, Wang Jinchuan couldn’t feel it.
She was angry, so angry that her whole body felt like it was on fire.
Xi Liu thought, it’s good to burn.
When she burned, she would pull her uncle and burn him to ashes. He would no longer do bad things.
Choke to death!
Xi Liu will strangle you!
She indignantly chanted words that no one could hear and choked the man with force.
( TRIGGER WARNING. The paragraphs after this will depict violence and abuse on a minor. Please not that this is a work of fiction. If you can’t read such things, please continue to the next chapter.)
–Xi Liu, I’ll take you to a good home to enjoy the blessings. Don’t cry, quickly wipe your tears. Otherwise, those people won’t love you, and you would suffer poverty with uncle. When you go there, you will live in luxury, and there would be nice new clothes to wear. Why are you crying?
–I told you not to cry, didn’t you hear? Hurry up and wipe your tears, if the big boss isn’t happy with you, I’m going to throw you into the ravine to feed the wolves!
–Hurry up, put on this dress, and then go and behave well. Do you hear me?
–Show this shoulder, ah, that’s it. Come on, uncle will give you a lollipop. You take it. You’ll see the big boss later. You have to smile. Understand?
She was ignorantly dressed in clothes she shouldn’t have worn at that age and led to a man.
The man had a big belly and a double chin, and his eyes almost went invisible when he smiled. When he saw her, his smile was even bigger, and his eyes were full of the meaning that Xi Liu couldn’t understand.
He coaxed her to come around to take off her clothes.
Xi Liu thought of Grandpa’s words, grabbed her clothes and refused to let him take them. The girl’s voice was crisp and immature. “Grandpa said that girls can’t take off their clothes for others.”
The man she called ‘uncle’ coaxed, “Xi Liu, this is not someone else, from now on, you will follow this gentleman. Hurry up and be good, let go of your hand.”
“No, Grandpa said no …”
No one listened to Xi Liu’s words. They broke her little hand with force, and she cried and resisted. “It hurts, my hand hurts …”
Instead of holding the two back, the tiny cries of the little child aroused even more desire. The look in their eyes frightened Xi Liu as she struggled to jump off the stranger’s lap and try to get to her grandfather.
But the door was locked. She was too young to open the door. She had to cry and knock on the door for help.
“Grandpa, I want Grandpa…”
Someone picked her up from behind and went to take off her clothes. Xi Liu got anxious and she bit the hand, in exchange for a scream from the man.
“Boss, are you, all right? Don’t be angry. The little girl isn’t sensible. I’ll just have to beat her …”
Uncle beat her and told her to undress herself. Xi Liu stubbornly shrank in the corner, crying so hard she couldn’t see, still holding on to the words taught by her grandfather, “Grandpa said, Xi Liu is a girl and can’t show it to boys.”
That’s what the aunt next door taught her. She used to ask why grandpa sent eggs to her aunt every month and asked the aunt to bathe her. The aunt also said that girls’ bodies shouldn’t be shown to boys, even her grandpa.
She later worked very hard to learn to bathe herself, so the eggs would be able to remain for her grandfather to eat. The aunt said that when she grew up and became successful, she could buy a lot of eggs for her grandfather…
“I don’t want to enjoy the blessings. I want Grandpa. Uncle, take me home, Xi Liu doesn’t like meat, Xi Liu doesn’t want to wear new clothes. Xi Liu wants Grandpa!”
She cried and begged her uncle to take her home, but eventually she was carried to the stranger who gripped her hands. Xi Liu struggled desperately, and her little foot accidentally kicked between the legs of the man.
Later, the man left in anger. Another uncle tried to undress her, Xi Liu bit again, and then, the tiny child’s neck, was choked by a pair of large hands.
The last words she heard as a human were full of insidious violence.
“I let you enjoy the blessings, but you didn’t enjoy it. You don’t know what’s good for you!”
The little girl’s eyes gradually became bloodshot from suffocation, and her face became red. She wanted to make a sound, but she could only silently stretch out two small hands to struggle.
Xi Liu didn’t want to enjoy life. Xi Liu just wanted to be with grandpa.
Grandpa said that he would let Xi Liu go to school and college. When Xi Liu went to college, she could earn money for Grandpa’s retirement, and he wouldn’t have to work so hard carrying firewood down the mountain every day.
She wanted to buy warm quilts for Grandpa, good shoes for Grandpa, and take Grandpa to see a doctor in the big city. Every day, Grandpa would only need to bask in the sun, comfortably.
–But all of this, was ruined by Uncle!
The little girl had red-eyes, and in her mind, only her childhood beautiful fantasies about the future existed. It made her even angrier.
“It’s all your fault! Xi Liu can’t buy shoes for Grandpa, can’t buy a comfortable quilt, can’t let Grandpa enjoy his blessings. It’s all your fault!!!”
Perhaps it was because of anger. It was obvious, no matter how hard she tried before, she couldn’t even leave a scratch on this man. But now, Wang Jinchuan’s neck had begun to show choking marks that looked like they came from a child’s hands.
That trace was small, as if bruised, and the sleeping man’s face also looked red. His eyes had a hard time opening, and his hands started to flail about.
A sweet smile appeared on the little girl’s cute and delicate face as she said, “Uncle, does it hurt?”
“At that time, Xi Liu also felt very painful.”
Clang–
Clang–
The sound of a bell spread into the room. While the hands around the man’s neck were still choking him, the girl looked up in confusion. The blood in her eyes hadn’t faded, but they looked innocent.
–“Xi Liu, come back…”
–“Xi Liu, come back…”
The little girl slowly let go of her hand, her eyes still red, her bare feet fell to the ground, and she followed the hoarse and familiar voice.
In the bamboo forest, Zhong Hua shook the bell with one hand and put clothes in the fire in front of him with the other hand. The clothes were burning, and the flame was very strong. His eyes were red. As if he didn’t know he was tired, he kept shouting the little sister’s name who he grew up with.
“Xi Liu, come back, come back…”
The little girl looked confused and slowly came. She stood not far away from him.
Her clothes had changed a little bit, from the gaudy clothes that don’t look like children’s clothes to Mickey Mouse cartoon clothes with childlike innocence.
Xi Liu’s hair was still messy and she was barefoot, but at least her body was clean.
Zhong Hua seemed to feel something, and slowly raised his head.
After seeing the little girl as big as he remembered, he burst into tears and smiled.
“Do you like it? Brother still remembers, Xi Liu said that she likes Mickey Mouse the most.”
That was a few years ago, when he deliberately saved money and thought about buying it for Xi Liu, the little sister. When he got home, he found that the person had already left.
The clothes were also put aside at the bottom of the cupboard at home. He thought he would never get a chance to give them to her.
The little girl’s eyes gradually became clear. She bowed her head slightly and looked at her brand-new dress, revealing a smile.
“It’s the Mickey Mouse I’ve always wanted.”
She spoke happily, “Xi Liu likes it!”
