Chapter 112: Chapter 112: Lin Ci’s Wounds
The father and son hurt each other.
Wu Ti: "Do you really like Miaomiao’s sister?"
"She’s great, better than my sister at home."
The little boy pouted, "Why is my sister not as good as Miaomiao’s?"
Wu Ti was speechless.
The little boy recalled the things his two-year-old sister did.
She bit him, kicked him, pulled his hair, stole his food, disturbed his reading or sleep, cried a lot, and was noisy.
He lifted his little head, "Can I trade my sister?"
Wu Ti’s temple throbbed.
Wu Yu continued, "Give my sister to Mr. Gu, and Miaomiao will be my sister."
Wu Ti hurriedly gave him a bowl of jujubes and chased him out.
"Don’t say this in front of your sister."
"I know, saying it would make her tear my book again."
The little boy walked away grumpily with the bowl.
Sigh, other people’s sisters are better.
Tuanzi and Su Chaomu squatted in front of the fence watching the chicks and ducklings.
Su Chaomu suddenly turned off the microphone.
"Sister, turn it off, turn it off."
Tuanzi blankly turned off the microphone.
Su Chaomu then waved to the cameraman following them.
"Sir, please go farther, I want to whisper to my sister."
[What’s something we can’t hear?]
[I want to hear too]
[Alright, the cameraman voluntarily walked away]
[Willing to respect privacy of children, pretty good, some shows would love to film 24-7]
Ensuring no one could hear, Su Chaomu whispered, "Sister Lin Ci has many scars on her hands and legs."
Tuanzi: (○o○)
Su Chaomu thought she didn’t believe him, quickly explained, "Her family’s vegetable plot is near mine, there’s also a small ditch nearby."
In the morning, Lin Ci followed her mother Yun Xiuxiu to the plot, and Yun Xiuxiu asked her to wash the harvested sweet potatoes on the spot. Lin Ci went to wash the sweet potatoes.
Coincidentally, Su Chaomu was fooling around in the plot, got his hands dirty, and ran to wash them. He personally saw Lin Ci avoiding the camera, rolling up her sleeves to wash the sweet potatoes, exposing scars on her arms.
Later, she accidentally fell into the small ditch, instinctively rolled up her pants to avoid getting wet, revealing scars on her legs.
"Those scars clearly look like they were from being beaten by someone."
Tuanzi blinked, "Could it be that pretty auntie hitting her?"
Yun Xiuxiu is very pretty, with graceful demeanor, and is a lead actress, also known as Qing Yi.
Su Chaomu shook his head, "I don’t know either, she doesn’t look like someone who would hit others."
The little boy was slightly conflicted, although he was mischievous and occasionally got scolded by his dad. But his dad’s scolding was slight teachings, nothing serious, and didn’t leave any scars.
The scars on Sister Lin Ci’s body clearly were from malicious beatings.
"Do you think we should intervene in this matter?"
Tuanzi thought about it, "Let’s probe the situation first."
The righteous Little Heroine certainly wanted to handle such matters, but when she went down the mountain with her master before, she encountered people who disliked them for meddling. Clearly, they helped that person, yet the person turned around to blame them.
Even as a little Tuanzi she felt very frustrated, her master comforted her saying, "Some people voluntarily immerse themselves in mire; such people, you can’t help, there’s no need to disrupt your own mind for them."
If Sister Lin Ci ultimately hoped for their help, she would surely lend a hand.
The two discussed it, happily started eating honey dates.
Not long after, Wu Yu also came over, squatting to eat honey dates.
After eating, Tuanzi decided to give Lin Ci’s family some tea.
"Wu Yu, do you want to come?"
Wu Yu recalled the distance between the two houses, shook his head.
Tuanzi and Su Chaomu went together, quickly arrived at house number 5.
Yun Xiuxiu was tidying up in the yard.
She was sweating profusely, yet dressed tightly.
Lin Ci quietly helped beside her, also dressed tightly.
"Auntie, Sister Lin Ci, we’ve come to bring you some honey pomelo tea, we made it ourselves."
Yun Xiuxiu paused while wielding the hoe.
She thought of her husband’s message conveyed by his assistant.
Among the current five groups of guests, the top three most popular are Gu Peihai’s group, Su Hanjiang’s group, and Wu Ti’s group.
Her husband asked her to interact more with the popular guests to attract the audience to their live broadcast.
If she and her daughter became popular, they could participate in more shows, earn more fees, and support her husband’s movie production.
If she didn’t follow her husband’s advice... Yun Xiuxiu adjusted her mood, proactively opened the yard door, smiled and said, "Thank you, come in quickly."
Tuanzi and Su Chaomu walked in.
Yun Xiuxiu: "Are you tired? Let me pour you a glass of water."
Tuanzi politely smiled, "Thank you, Auntie."
Yun Xiuxiu entered the kitchen to pour water, passing her daughter, she instructed her.
"Play with the brother and sister for a while."
Lin Ci nodded.
She came closer, "Do you want to see the chicks and ducklings in my house?"
Tuanzi smiled sweetly, "Sure, sister, would you like to take them for a stroll in the village? That way, they’ll be healthy."
Tuanzi gently persuaded, Lin Ci hazily let the chicks and ducklings out.
Just then, Yun Xiuxiu brought out the water.
Tuanzi took it, Su Chaomu cooperatively handed over the small jar.
"Auntie, this is pomelo tea, it’s delicious."
"Thank you, you two are really capable."
The two children smiled sweetly having finished the water.
Tuanzi: "Auntie, we’d like to take Sister Lin Ci along with the chicks and ducklings for a walk, is that okay?"
Yun Xiuxiu looked at her somewhat shrinking daughter and thought for a while, then agreed.
Just two kids wouldn’t discover anything. She instructed her daughter in advance, her daughter was very sensible.
Soon enough, a scene of people walking chicks and ducklings reappeared in the village.
Because it’s a weekend, and the start of the semester, village kids didn’t need to fight schoolwork, each full of energy, seeing this magical lineup, also joined them.
"Miaomiao, when will you teach us stick skills again?" asked a dark-skinned boy estimated to be eight or nine years old.
He held a stick, showing off by spinning it in his palm.
"See, I can even rotate it behind my back."
Tuanzi applauded cooperatively, "You’re amazing."
Since everyone wanted to learn, she certainly would teach.
Picked a shady spot, the eyebrow-height stick class reopened.
Tuanzi gave Su Chaomu a look, the latter nodded, intentionally stood close to Lin Ci.
If Lin Ci couldn’t keep up, he patiently reassured her.
After the class ended, Lin Ci got closer to this little brother.
Su Chaomu scratched his head, "By the way, forgot to ask, did your parents let you learn? My dad found out I was learning, and beat me once, it hurt."
The comment section was all question marks.
[Isn’t Su Hanjiang very supportive of him learning stick skills?]
[It can strengthen the body and make friends, that’s Su Hanjiang’s original words]
[Lying isn’t good]
Su Chaomu lied only to see Lin Ci’s reaction.
Upon hearing words like ’dad’ and ’beat’, Lin Ci instinctively flinched.
Su Chaomu continued, "But my mom really supports me learning, I love my mom! You have a good relationship with Mrs. Yun, right?"
Lin Ci nodded, softly said, "I really like mom too."
The Ancient Martial System truthfully conveyed the dialogue between the two to the host.
[Miaomiao: So it’s her dad beating her?]
[Ancient Martial System: I checked her family’s demographics; her grandparents and maternal grandparents are all deceased; the family only has three members, likely her dad is the one hitting her]