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Warning: Domestic violence scene
“Teacher Yan plays the piano really well.”
Xu Duo’s desk mate held her chubby face in both hands and looked admiringly at the man sitting in front of the piano playing.
Not to mention that children of this age were too young. In fact, at this age, children already have their own aesthetic vision. From head to toe, Yan Chu was in line with the little girl’s imagination of Prince Charming. Above all, other teachers had no affinity with them, making many children consciously become his little fans.
Of course, the most important thing was that Teacher Yan could always bring out delicious candies, which was the most crucial thing for greedy children.
Xu Duo also found the pieces played by Yan Chu pleasant. He was currently playing the ending song of a popular cartoon. With his play, many children hummed along, and Xu Duo was no exception. The book that had previously covered her face was also slowly put down.
The time of this class was very short. Every time the children had the piano class, everyone hoped time could go slower.
“You are a bad child. You are not allowed to like Teacher Yan.”
Just now, she quarreled with Xu Duo and sat at the same table. When Xu Duo also stared at Teacher Yan with big eyes, she pushed her with a pout, not wanting a bad child to like her favorite teacher.
“Hmph, what’s so good about him? He’s just a mute, and you idiots like him.”
Xu Duo’s temperament was like a hedgehog. When her deskmate said this, she immediately angrily retorted. However, as soon as she said this, she also regretted it. She did not truly want to scold this seemingly friendly teacher for being mute.
“Xu Duo, you are so mean! You are not allowed to curse Teacher Yan. You are a bad child, and I won’t be your deskmate anymore.”
Xu Duo’s deskmate stood up angrily. This time, she pushed harder. If it was not for the fact that the children had no strength, Xu Duo might have been pushed down with a chair.
“Xu Duo is a bad kid, a bad kid.”
Some students nearby also heard what Xu Duo said about Teacher Yan being mute and scolding them for being idiots. They did not like this student who had just transferred from another school, but now they disliked her even more. The children in front, back, left, and right are all stiff-faced, expressing their thoughts of not wanting to sit with her.
“I don’t want to be your classmate.”
Xu Duo, who got attacked by everyone, spoke stubbornly. But her red eyes showed that her current mood was not as indifferent as she had said.
Thinking that her deskmate had just pushed her, Xu Duo hesitated for a beat, picked up the thick book on the table, and threw it at her, just like her father hitting her mother at home.
The weight and edges of the book made it very painful if it really hit the child. And if it hurt the eyes or other sensitive parts, it would be even more troublesome. No one expected Xu Duo to explode abruptly, including the little girl who quarreled with her.
“Wa—”
Before the book hit her, the little girl had already opened her voice and was about to cry. However, the next second she closed her eyes, she did not feel any pain. Instead, she threw into a warm embrace, which was sweet-smelling, with a hint of bamboo leaves and mint.
The little girl quietly opened one eye and realized that Teacher Yan was hugging her, and Teacher Yan blocked the book that Xu Duo had thrown at her.
“Teacher, she is very mean. She beats people.”
The little girl felt she had found support and pointed to Xu Duo with her chest up to complain, “She even cursed Teacher as mute and us all idiots. We should drive her away, right? Let’s not be friends with bad kids.”
The children’s world was either black or white. If they did not like something, they did not like it. They would not hide their thoughts.
“That’s right. We don’t want to be friends with her.”
Some students felt that Xu Duo was too annoying to say this sentence from the heart, while others merely followed suit and thought it was fun to learn how to speak.
Xu Duo’s fists clenched tightly, her mouth pursed into a line, and the corners of her mouth were drooping down, staring fiercely at all the classmates who scolded her.
“But Teacher saw it just now. It was Tiantian who pushed Duoduo first.”
Yan Chu did not follow the child’s wishes. He took out the tablet he always carried, typed a line of words, and then the voice played it.
Xu Duo initially thought this teacher would scold her indiscriminately, just like her father. It was better than the previous teachers, where she always got blamed for not being social and not playing with other children when she just wanted to be alone and peaceful. Whenever the teachers complained to her father and returned home, he would scold and beat her.
But she did not expect that this new teacher would honestly help her speak.
“That, that’s because Xu Duo is a bad kid. I don’t want bad kids to like Teacher, and she called Teacher mute and us idiots, so I pushed her.”
The chubby girl pouted and looked at Yan Chu’s penetrating eyes. She lowered her head guiltily, her voice becoming quieter as she spoke.
“But Teacher is mute. It is not a curse word, and Duoduo also is a very adorable little girl. Why do you say she is a bad child? Pretty little girls don’t swear.”
Yan Chu touched the two little knots on the chubby girl’s head. After getting praised by the teacher she liked for being pretty, the anger she had just felt disappeared immediately. Although she still thought Xu Duo was a bad kid, that classmate named Tiantian generously apologized to Xu Duo, then looked at Teacher Yan eagerly, hoping he could praise her a few more words.
“Duoduo, look at Tiantian apologizing to you. Shouldn’t you also say sorry for calling them idiots?”
Yan Chu took Xu Duo’s hand and maintained the squatting posture with a warm smile.
“And if the book you threw hit Tiantian, Tiantian will be injured, just like Tiantian pushed you. If she pushed you to the ground, you would also be injured, right?”
The teacher’s smile seemed to have magical power. Xu Duo was stubborn and refused to admit her mistake, but she could not help but apologize under Yan Chu’s gaze. After apologizing, she was a bit puzzled why she said sorry.
“Alright, everyone said sorry. The two cute and beautiful little princesses will be good friends from now on.”
Yan Chu seemed to be performing magic. He closed his hands, and a handful of candies was inside when he opened it again. The students in the class had seen the teacher’s magic several times, but they still could not help being amazed. The classroom suddenly became lively.
The children in the school had good family conditions, and even the most expensive candies were not rare. However, this magical way of appearing made them taste better than other candies in their mouths.
And it was Xu Duo’s the first to see such a scene, her eyes shining brightly, and she could not move away from the candy. She wanted to ask the teacher how he made the candy but could not.
More than twenty students in the class were given candy by Yan Chu, and Tiantian and Xu Duo were given an extra one.
“Teacher Yan asked me to be good friends with you, so let’s be good friends from now on.”
The chubby girl had candy in her mouth and muttered, “So in the future, you can’t call me an idiot anymore, you know? Also, Teacher Yan likes me the most. You can’t compete with me for Teacher Yan.”
The little girl said clearly.
“Hmph, you can’t call me a meanie then.”
Xu Duo was impatient to make friends with this deskmate. Who would let her eat someone else’s food and have to obey their order? Looking at the candy she solemnly placed on the table and reluctant to eat, she snorted and spoke.
“For you.”
After class, Xu Duo secretly followed Yan Chu out of the classroom and took out a band-aid with a picture of a Bishojo2Bishojoa pretty/cute girl character at the corner of the stairs where no one was around.
When she threw a book before, Teacher Yan blocked it for her deskmate. She saw that a corner of the book’s spine hit his arm. When school started, all the books she got were brand new, and hers did not have book covers. The sharp edges and corners cut a small gash on his body. Fortunately, the injury was not deep, with only a little blood dripping.
Xu Duo just apologized to the little chubby girl, but she did not say sorry to Yan Chu, thinking that before she came to school, her mother brought her a band-aid to replace the bruise on her forehead as a gift for admitting her mistake.
“Thank you, Duoduo.”
Yan Chu was a little surprised. He did not expect that this withdrawn child would come to give him a band-aid.
“Need not.”
Xu Duo looked at the four big characters on the tablet and felt a little embarrassed. She did not know why she was angry and threw a book at someone. She knew how bad it was to beat someone, like when her father hit her mother. It hurts.
She was a little scared. Could it be that she would become like her father?
“Duoduo is a very kind and lovely girl. This is a reward for a good child.”
Yan Chu took the band-aid and raised his arm to ask Xu Duo to put the childish band-aid on his injured area. In return, Xu Duo got a handful of candy.
It was the first time that she was praised sincerely by the teacher. Obviously, she was a disobedient and bad child in the mouth of her grandpa, grandma, and father. Even her mother would sigh and feel sad because she refused to call him father.
But the person in front of her said she was a good child, and Xu Duo looked down at a handful of candy in her hand, wanting to cry a little bit.
This time it was not because of sadness but because of joy.
“Duoduo, you—”
Zhang Li had been in a good mood during this time. Her husband was on a business trip due to work and would not be home for a long time. However, her daughter unexpectedly became more cheerful after transferring to another school. At least she was not as silent as before. When she returned home, she ran to her room.
She began to complete the homework assigned by the teacher earnestly and became obsessed with watching cartoons, especially the opening and ending parts. She would always learn to sing along carefully, sometimes with movements, bouncing around, and finally had the vitality of a child.
Zhang Li was about to ask her child what she wanted to eat tonight when she saw her hiding a handful of colorful candies in her piggy bank. She heard the sound of the candy being put in, and there was still a lot of candy inside.
“Where do these things come from?”
The family had never bought this brand of candy. In Zhang Li’s impression, this brand of candy seemed quite expensive. Xu Nan gave her limited living expenses. Her parents were in poor health, and there was no pension when they got laid off in their early years. So, she had to deduct part of her limited living expenses to her parents. Therefore, she did not often buy those high-end sweets and snacks when shopping for her daughter’s snacks.
If it was given by her classmates, they could not give that much. Zhang Li remembered the occasional news broadcast on the news TV, saying that the perverted pedophile teacher would use snacks as bait to do obscene things to students, and she immediately became nervous.
Although Star Elementary School is a well-known private elementary school, there might be vermins in any school. As a parent, Zhang Li had to think too much.
Xu Duo did not want to explain too much to her mother, so she stuffed the candy into the storage bin and hid it on the shelf. These were all her treasures.
“Duoduo, Mom is talking to you.”
Zhang Li seriously looked at her daughter. This issue should not be taken lightly.
“Where are people? Are they all dead somewhere?”
Just when it was difficult for her daughter to come clean, there was the sound of opening the door, followed by the voice of Xu Nan, who was regarded as a demon by Zhang Li and her daughter.
Zhang Li stiffened and could not understand why the other party had returned so many days earlier. She tried to raise a smile and make her expression look more natural, then walked out of her daughter’s bedroom.
And just in case, she also locked her daughter’s room to prevent her daughter from running around when her husband’s voice sounded obviously irritable.
“Xu Nan, you’re back.”
Zhang Li helped him take his suit off with a stiff smile and took the briefcase he handed over.
“It’s hot outside. Let me prepare the bath water, and take a good bath.” Xu Nan did not like shower-style washing. His favorite way of bathing was to sit in the bath, the water temperature was moderate, and it was comfortable to soak for more than ten minutes. He could wash away half of the tiredness from all over his body.
“Hmph, the weather is hot. No matter how hot it is, it will be as angry as I am now.”
Seeing his flattering wife, Xu Nan slapped Zhang Li heavily to the ground.
In the past, unless he was furious, he seldom hit Zhang Li in the face. Most of the time, he hit her where the wound could be hidden.
Xu Nan was very concerned about his reputation and did not want outsiders to spread that he had a habit of beating his wife.
The few times he slapped Zhang Li in the face, it was because he was very furious. The most recent time was when Zhang Li went to school to take a leave of absence for her child. Xu Nan was the one who caused an injury to her face.
Because Xu Nan missed a contract of 10 million yuan and Xu Duo happened to be sick, Xu Nan felt that his wife was eating and drinking for free. She could not even take good care of a child. In addition, the said contract got snatched by his competitors, so he angrily slapped her a few times.
This time, Zhang Li could not figure out what she did wrong and why Xu Nan hit her as soon as he got home.
“Your old Zhang family is good. I married a daughter from their family, along with two old ones. I have to support both of them, the young one, for 200,000 yuan. You really can say out loud, “What’s wrong?” Aren’t you selling yourself to me? Is it because of the roots of their old Zhang family? They don’t care if I kill you.”
Xu Nan came back so early this time, of course, because the business trip had not been completed, and the company changed personnel temporarily, so they let him come back.
He was currently the company’s vice president, but there were still three other vice presidents in the same company. Seeing that the general manager was about to retire, whoever could take the position was waiting for their performance these days. However, he had made such a mistake. He did not know if his vice president position could be stabilized, let alone the general manager position.
At this juncture, he received a call from Zhang’s parents, asking him for 200,000 yuan for his brother-in-law to marry a wife. They talked in circles and deliberately pointed out Zhang Li’s constant beating.
What a joke. If Zhang’s parents genuinely cared about their daughter, they should have dragged Zhang Li to divorce him. They still wanted to set up a memorial archway1memorial archwaya memorial to show filial piety after becoming a bitch. Didn’t they choose him because Xu Nan would make money and could support their family of vermin?
Okay, if they wanted money, just let him beat her to his heart’s content before we talk.
Listening to Xu Nan’s words, Zhang Li immediately understood that she had been hiding things from her parents and could not wait. She spoke to Xu Nan, and perhaps just as she hit the spot where Xu Nan had something to worry about, she became that punching bag again.
Xu Nan grabbed her hair and pressed her head against the floor. Zhang Li felt her head almost numb with pain. The teeth on one side of her face were loose, and blood was constantly coming out of her mouth and nose.
She screamed loudly, but later, she could not even make a scream.
Zhang Li felt that her life was too much of a failure. She suddenly thought it would be great if she passed now. But she still had Duoduo, so she was reluctant to die.
She whimpered and begged for mercy, and Xu Nan seemed to have given up enough anger. He did not intend to beat her to death. He looked at Zhang Li’s half-bruised face and one of her missing teeth, and he snorted coldly, kicked her to the side, untied his tie, and walked towards the bathroom while humming a song.
Zhang Li curled up in the corner, afraid to make any noise.
“You are Xu Nan? We just received a report saying that you beat your wife and child at home and asked us, the police, to come and intervene.”
The doorbell rang when Xu Nan got out of the shower and changed into pajamas. He coldly hinted at his wife to enter the bedroom and then opened the door.
At first, he thought it was the noisy old lady again, but he did not expect that it was the police who knocked on the door this time.
“It’s a misunderstanding. How could I domestically abuse my wife and child?”
Xu Nan’s heart tightened, and he denied it without thinking.
Zhang Li did not go back to her bedroom. Normally, Xu Nan would not want her to appear in front of him after beating herself up, so every time she got beaten, Zhang Li would sleep in her daughter’s bedroom.
Upon hearing the police arrive at their house, Zhang Li immediately looked at her indifferent daughter and lowered her voice nervously, asking her: “Duoduo, is that you?”
For their daughter’s safety, they bought her a children’s phone that could only call both parents’ phone numbers or numbers like 110.
Zhang Li recalled seeing her daughter fiddling with her phone when she entered the room. At that time, she did not think about it that much. Now, it seemed that only her daughter could call the police.
But she never taught her this. Why did her daughter call the police?
Now was not the time to think about this. Zhang Li’s head was in a mess, and she must not let her husband know that Duoduo phoned the police. Otherwise, according to her husband’s temper, he would beat Duoduo.
“Can you please let your wife come out? We have clearly received a call to the police and strongly urge our police to visit and intervene now. If there is a serious domestic violence problem, at the request of the person concerned, we need to bring you to the police station to assist in the investigation.”
Dealing with domestic violence had always been a headache for the police. If it was not for a child who called the police and repeatedly emphasized that her mother would get beaten to death if they did not come, they would not want to get involved in these family conflicts.
“My wife isn’t home.”
What a joke. How could Xu Nan be willing to let Zhang Li come out with such a face?
“I called the police. I want to sue my husband for domestic violence.”
Zhang Li opened the door of her daughter’s room and came out. After a while, the bruises on her face became even scarier. The two dispatched police officers looked at that face and could not help but gasp. What kind of hatred was this? To be able to land such a vicious attack.
“Zhang Li, what nonsense are you talking about? Get the hell out of here now.”
Xu Nan pointed at Zhang Li and spoke angrily, disregarding his previous elegance and gentleness.
“I phoned the police. Police comrades, you must save me.”
Zhang Li dared not let her husband know that her daughter had called the police, so she simply took it upon herself. Moreover, her husband has been hitting her harder every time recently, and she was afraid that she would be killed one day.
No matter how cowardly a person might be, anyone who still had a bit of attachment always wanted to live.
Zhang Li still wanted to watch her daughter grow up. She thought, ‘Let’s get a divorce, don’t care what her parents say, don’t care about her younger brother. She wants a divorce.’
Neither of the two police officers mentioned it was a child who phoned them. Under Zhang Li’s repeated requests, they took her and Xu Nan back to the police station to make reports and conduct injury assessments. Because there was an underage child without other guardians at home, they also brought her to the police station.
On the way to the police station, Xu Nan used the excuse that his child needed adults to watch as an excuse to call his parents and Zhang Li’s parents. Throughout the process, he looked at Zhang Li’s eyes and wished he had eaten her alive.
