"Damn it! How dare you run!" Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of her running away. Jiang Mingjie brushed away Jiang Mingzhu's hand that was wiping his blood and quickly caught up with her.
He was tall and striding. He caught up with Jiang Suichu at the entrance of the alley, grabbed her hair from behind and threw her against the wall.
"Jiang Suichu, I haven't taught you anything in a month, huh?" Jiang Mingjie was still carefree at first, but now he was completely angry.
He grabbed her hair so hard that Jiang Suchu felt that his scalp was about to be ripped off by him, and painful tears welled up in his eyes.
But never a tear was shed.
Not to be outdone, she glared at him, "Jiang Mingjie, I don't think I owe you anything. Why are you doing this to me!?"
The words were almost shouted.
Over the years, she has been humiliated by Jiang Mingjie and Jiang Mingzhu all the time. When she was at home, she was beaten and scolded behind her grandmother's back and refused to let her eat. At school, she worked with other classmates to isolate her, tear up her homework and hide her schoolbag, and rob her of her living expenses. Because of them, she was often hungry in junior high school. If it weren't for Jiang Minghao, she thought she would have died of hunger long ago.
If it were anyone else, she wouldn't be so emotional. But they are her relatives, at least they have the same blood flowing through them.
She didn't understand why they did this to her.
Before Jiang Mingjie spoke, Jiang Mingzhu spoke first.
"Because you are obviously a dog fostered in my house, but you always act cold and aloof. You can't place yourself clearly."
dog?
Jiang Suichu looked at her with cold eyes, "Jiang Mingzhu, you know exactly how I have lived in your house these years. I am very grateful that my uncle took me home despite my aunt's objection, but these years I The tuition and living expenses for school are all subsidized by the government, and it doesn't cost your family a penny. As for the food you eat..." She paused for a moment, looked at Jiang Mingjie and Jiang Mingzhu, and said, "You two should be thinking There are also a few.”
Every morning, while they were still sleeping in bed, she was woken up by Qu Ping to do farm work in the fields. No matter it was cold winter or hot summer, she could not rest as long as she was at home.
She still remembers the biting cold of standing barefoot in the deep water fields in early spring, and the furnace-like sun in the cornfields in the dog days of summer.
Her shoulders still have scars and purple-red marks from carrying corn and rice when she was a child.
No matter how they bullied her over the years, she never said these words. Because it was true that she was dependent on others, and she didn’t want to embarrass her grandma.
She endured it and finally went to high school. She went to the city and stayed away from them. She thought it would be fine. But no, as long as they see her, they just want to bully her.
She knew that bullying her had become their habit.
Her words didn't move them. Jiang Mingzhu stepped forward and grabbed her schoolbag, unzipped it and dumped all the contents on the ground.
"So much nonsense."
Things were scattered all over the floor, including books, test papers, pencil cases, sunscreen given by Tang Mi, and the bankbook just given to her by her grandma.
"Jiang Mingzhu, what are you doing!" Jiang Suichu glared at Jiang Mingzhu angrily as he looked at the things scattered on the ground. He struggled but could not push away Jiang Mingjie's shackles.
Jiang Mingjie pressed her against the wall, warning her with his eyes, "Don't fucking move around. I'll let you go after I take the money."
Seeing that the bus was coming, he didn't bother to embarrass her anymore. Besides, there was a bit of noise here, and he was afraid that someone would come later.
He urged Jiang Mingzhu, "Hurry up!"
Jiang Mingzhu didn't care much, "I know."
Jiang Mingzhu crossed her arms and kicked away the test papers on the ground with disgust. The reverse side of the passbook was facing up. Jiang Mingzhu thought it was a student ID card and kicked it aside.
No money was seen.
Kicking open an exercise book and seeing the pencil case, Jiang Mingzhu bent down to pick it up and opened it.
There are only a few pens and erasers in the pencil case, and nothing else. There was also a mezzanine. Jiang Mingzhu thought she hid the money in the mezzanine, but she didn't see any money inside, but she saw a two-inch photo.
Jiang Suichu saw her rummaging through his pencil case, and his eyes instantly darkened, "Jiang Mingzhu! Put it down!"
"Don't move!"
Jiang Mingzhu stopped taking out the photo, raised her eyes and looked at her with a smile: "You won't let me move, but I will!"
After saying that, she pulled out the two-inch photo.
The moment she saw the photo, Jiang Mingzhu's heart trembled for a moment.
The man in the photo has clean and neat short-cut hair and a righteous look between his eyebrows.
It's Jiang Suichu's father, Jiang Zhiwei.
He is also her biological uncle.
Although she had no memory of Jiang Zhiwei, looking at the photo, she seemed to suddenly understand where Jiang Suichu's sense of pride came from.
Seeing the panic in Jiang Suchu's eyes, she felt a little relieved, and a bad idea slowly came to her mind.
The corners of her mouth raised in a playful smile.
Jiang Suchu looked at her faint smile, and his heart sank.
Sure enough, Jiang Mingzhu threw the pencil case to the ground, held the photo with two fingers and reached out to Jiang Mingjie.
"Brother, lend me your lighter."
Jiang Suchu was really afraid of her. She stared at the small photo on her fingertips and begged her with a trembling voice.
"Jiang Mingzhu, please give me the photo back, please."
That was the only photo she had of her father.
Jiang Mingjie didn't see what the photo was, so he thought she was out of temper and wanted to tease Jiang Suichu. The two of them did this kind of thing frequently, and he didn't think twice about taking out the lighter from his pocket and throwing it over.
Jiang Mingzhu caught the lighter that was thrown and looked at her with a faint look: "Jiang Suichu, aren't you very good at studying? Then you can calculate how many seconds it will take me to light this photo."
After saying that, she pressed the lighter and there was a click.
Blue flames shot up, just millimeters away from the photo.
Jiang Suichu stared at the flames with anger and despair in his eyes.
She struggled hard and cried, begging Jiang Mingjie to let her go.
"Jiang Mingjie, I beg you. Please ask her to return the photos to me, and I will give you all the money, okay?"
Jiang Mingjie was stunned. He had never seen Jiang Suichu like this before.
No matter how they bullied her in the past, she would always remain expressionless and would neither cry nor make a fuss.
Not to mention crying and begging him.
He felt something was wrong and looked at Jiang Mingzhu: "What kind of photo is it?"
"No..." Jiang Mingzhu saw Jiang Mingjie loosen up, and the hand holding the lighter trembled slightly, and the blue tongue of flame quickly licked a corner of the photo.
The weather is already hot and dry, and when dry paper encounters an open flame, it ignites almost instantly.
Jiang Mingzhu's fingers were aroused by the rising flames, and the brief burning pain made her subconsciously throw away the photo in her hand.
A burning photo flew to the ground.
Jiang Mingjie saw clearly the moment the photo landed, and he was a little at a loss for a moment.
The moment he saw the photo being set on fire, Jiang Suchu couldn't control himself anymore. She pushed Jiang Mingjie away and almost rolled over to him.
Not caring about anything else, she put out the flames with her hands.
The photo was too small, and when she put it out, only half of it was left.
She knelt on the ground, holding the half of the photo, and carefully brushed away the dirt and ashes on the photo.
Dad, I'm sorry for not protecting you.
Her eyes were blurred, tears could not stop flowing, half of the photo was tightly held in her hand, her fingers were trembling, and she got up from the ground with difficulty, holding her knees with both hands.
She wiped away her tears and turned around, staring at Jiang Mingzhu.
There was extreme anger in her eyes, but mixed with a hint of sadness and disappointment.
Jiang Mingzhu looked at her eyes and her heart palpitated. She took a step back, but still pretended to be calm, "You——"
As soon as he spoke, he was interrupted by Jiang Suchu's slap in the face. Jiang Mingzhu was hit so hard that she tilted her head. She lost her balance and fell against the rough cement wall.
She covered her face, turned her head and looked at Jiang Suchu with disbelief and anger. She opened her mouth for a long time without saying a word.
Jiang Suichu didn't spare any force from this slap. Her palms were numb, followed by tiny pains.
Then she rushed towards Jiang Mingzhu like crazy, slapped her in the face, pulled her hair, and treated her like she had treated herself in the past ten years.
Jiang Mingjie was originally thinking about what he would do if his father found out about the photo, but now he saw the two of them fighting each other and couldn't care less, so he went up to separate them.
After all, Jiang Mingzhu was his biological sister. He did not try to win over Jiang Mingzhu, but unilaterally restrained Jiang Suichu.
With help, Jiang Mingzhu's arrogance returned. She pulled Jiang Suichu's hair, punched and kicked her, scratched and scratched her, and spoke full of vicious words.
The commotion was so loud that many onlookers gathered around. I couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to step forward to help, but I was frightened by the looks of Jiang Mingjie's friends and didn't dare to step forward.
