Just as the two confronted each other, the door suddenly opened.

Zheng Guoqiang stood at the door in surprise, holding a briefcase in his hand, wearing glasses, and looking cowardly like a good old man.

"You guys, this... Xichen, let go, don't bite your mother." Zheng Guoqiang said sternly, his hand holding the briefcase trembled slightly, but he couldn't tell unless he looked carefully.

His hair was neat, and although his clothes were not expensive, they didn't look cheap, but none of these were ruined by the cowardice on his face.

Zheng Xichen stared straight at Zheng Guoqiang in disbelief, and the last hope in his eyes slowly disappeared into a dark daze.

Tears streamed down her face, and there were scars on her immature face, which seemed to be the result of being beaten.

Zheng Xichen didn't explain anything, but let go slowly, like a little beast struggling desperately after falling into a trap. go the same.

Mingming already knew about Zheng Guoqiang's virtues, why did she still have hope?

Maybe it's because he feels that although he is cowardly, he is the same as himself in one thing, which is about his mother.

She often wondered if this man would be braver if she mentioned her mother.

Before she could say anything, Li Li, whose hands were loosened, looked at the teeth marks on her hands, bared her teeth, with a ferocious face, like a shrew holding a kitchen knife, raised her arms fiercely, and slapped Zheng Xichen .

The sound of "pa" echoed in the living room. Zheng Guoqiang watched his own daughter being beaten by his second-married wife in a daze.

This is the first time Li Li beat Zheng Xichen in front of Zheng Guoqiang.

Zheng Guoqiang's face turned pale, his lips turned black, and he kept trembling, pointing at Li Li, he said angrily: "You, you, how can you hit someone!"

He was cowardly by nature, and he didn't dare to resist the tough Li Li at all, but this time he had to resist.

Looking at Zheng Xichen's little face that had lost its luster, he finally felt a tremor in his heart. The softest part of his heart seemed to be punched hard, and the pain was unbearable.

After all, she is her own daughter, so if she hit her, it hurts too.

Moreover, what he loves the most is Zheng Xichen's silence.

She neither yelled nor asked her father for help, but just endured all this silently. The deadly and desperate eyes, like an awl, pierced into his heart fiercely, piercing through the fog of cowardice .

Zheng Xichen raised her face in surprise when she heard his question.

Will Zheng Guoqiang protect her this time?

Li Li also stared at Zheng Guoqiang, a little surprised that this bastard actually gave Zheng Xichen a head, isn't it because of some evil spirit?
"Why, I'm her mother, don't I have the right to beat her! Besides, if this little bastard didn't bite so hard, I wouldn't be so angry to beat her!"

Li Li argued loudly, and as she talked, she also felt that she was justified, and then she became more confident.

Still pursing his lips, he stretched out the hand that was bitten with a blood mark and showed it to Zheng Guoqiang in aggrieved manner.

She felt that she was so wronged that she would be bitten by a little bastard, and she didn't care about the big and small injuries on Zheng Xichen's body. Compared with her, she was a heaven and an earth.

Zheng Guoqiang mustered up all his courage before he dared to question Li Li, but seeing her upright look, even that little bit of courage disappeared immediately.

However, even with a trembling voice and no confidence, he gritted his teeth and said, "Is this really the case? But you don't need to hit so hard, you see what the child has become."

Li Li didn't care how Zheng Xichen was doing, she didn't even look at her, "She, I think she's pretty good!"

"Very good, Li Li, you can really say it, you bully a child like this, do you have any shame!" He seemed to be going all out, and scolded loudly.

Zheng Guoqiang's face was flushed red, his chest heaved and heaved with anger, and he felt a little scary.

"You, don't be so fierce, I don't know what you are being fierce about." Li Li choked for a moment, startled by Zheng Guoqiang's rare anger, her eyes fluttered as she spoke.

Although she has always been very fierce, but with Zheng Guoqiang like this, Li Li still dare not go head-to-head. After all, no matter how weak Zheng Guoqiang is, he is still a man.

Seeing Li Li's guilty look, Zheng Guoqiang frowned, strode forward, hugged Zheng Xichen, and asked with concern: "Xichen, what's the matter, what happened?"

Zheng Xichen kept a small face indifferently, her big pupils didn't move at all, like a jade doll without emotion, standing there, neither sad nor happy.

She didn't move until Zheng Guoqiang's trembling hands wanted to hug her.

She frowned in resistance, and gently pushed Zheng Guoqiang's hand away with her dirty little hands.

Although the force was very light, Zheng Guoqiang felt the rejection and resistance sensitively.

His daughter doesn't trust him.

This realization frustrates him.

The daughter in my impression is not like this, she is well-behaved and cute, she will raise her face and call him daddy, and then turn around like a cheerful bird, playing at his feet.

But now, Zheng Guoqiang looked at Zheng Xichen's bruised little face with trembling heart, and wanted to hug her with pity.

It's just that Zheng Xichen didn't want to appreciate it at all.

This meager belated sympathy was nothing more than a drop in the bucket to her, far from improving her life, and
Zheng Xichen looked at Zheng Guoqiang mockingly, and shook his head, "What's the use of talking, anyway, father, you won't help me, will you?"

This sentence Zheng Xichen said was very mocking, especially the word "father".

Li Li didn't interrupt, and stood beside her with interest, arms crossed, watching the father and daughter "turn their eyes against each other". If it wasn't for the fear that the flames of war would affect her, she would even want to clap her hands.

That's it, Li Li thought evilly, kill this little bastard!

Seeing Zheng Guoqiang being speechless by her, a trace of sadness appeared in Zheng Xichen's dark pupils, and tears rolled down the corners of his eyes.

"Father, I won't forgive that woman for scolding her mother. As for you, I don't want to count on you anymore. I've really, really, been disappointed too many times."

At this moment, Zheng Guoqiang looked at Zheng Xichen's indifferent expression blankly, as if he was meeting his daughter for the first time. He opened his mouth and wanted to explain to her, but what could he explain?

Explain that he actually wants to help Zheng Xichen get ahead, explain that he still cares about Zheng Xichen, and explain that he reminded Li Li not to be so ruthless.

But how he said it, how could he justify his cowardice.

Zheng Xichen and Li Li were right, he is a coward, a coward who can't protect his daughter!
Zheng Guoqiang sat on the ground as if exhausted, like a dead fish, no longer energetic.

And Li Li stood by, a little disappointed, but expected.

Isn't that right, this Zheng Guoqiang is also very courageous today, he dared to get angry with her, he thought he couldn't take it anymore, he was going to explode once, but it turned out to be a "squib"!
Zheng Xichen looked at the man slumped on the ground like a puddle of mud, murmured in disappointment, pushed Li Li away, and walked out the door.

She no longer wants to stay in this suffocating and painful home.

Li Li was pushed by her and couldn't stand still, almost fell, and suddenly cursed a little angrily: "My mother just said what happened to your mother, a dead person, can't you say it?"

Zheng Guoqiang could hear it clearly, but he didn't dare to make a sound. He just frowned, and his fingers slowly contracted, knowing that blood was oozing out.

After Li Li finished cursing, she glanced at the man on the ground, feeling a little bored, and cursed in a low voice: "What a family, they are all trash, what a bad luck!"

After all, he even kicked Zheng Guoqiang before Shi Shiran ruined the room.

After Zheng Xichen walked out of the house, she wandered in the street, like a ghost with nowhere to go, her face was pale, her bones were thin, and she was very haggard. Only those wide-open eyes contained no despair, no despair. Hope, without sadness or joy, is like a pool of spring water, shining brightly.

At this time, there were very few people on the street, and the place where they lived was close to a slum. Everyone was worrying about making a living, and not many people were idle.

As usual, Zheng Xichen walked into a small alley and came to the back of a pastry shop.

The pastry shop here is not like the one in the big cities, which has a variety of pastries. This pastry shop only sells some cheap biscuits that you bake yourself, and dry cookies that are too hard to swallow without water. bread.

The owner is an amiable old woman and her son. They can't sell out all the cakes every day, but there are not many left, so they feed some stray cats and the like.

This old woman knew the situation of Zheng Xichen's family. She felt sorry for Zheng Xichen, but her own situation was not much better. She wanted to give Zheng Xichen some money so that she could live better. His son strongly opposed it.

Because her son thinks that Zheng Xichen is very unlucky, but he is just a little beggar cheating money. He can bear it if he has nothing to eat some unnecessary bread, but if it comes to giving money, he will definitely not agree.

The old woman was sitting on a small bench, mending some old socks, clothes and so on. She adjusted her reading glasses and looked up.

After seeing Zheng Xichen's obviously beaten face, the old lady was obviously agitated, "Xichen, alas, my poor little one, that woman hit you again? Come and let my mother-in-law see."

Zheng Xichen's tears, which she had endured for a long time, finally fell, and she threw herself into the arms of the old woman, sobbing softly, "Mother-in-law, mother-in-law"

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