Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

"Oh! There's money!" A child found money from the Chinese textbook. It was three yuan in total. For a child, it was an astronomical amount of money.

The child who lost the money was a little surprised, "I didn't put the money in the book."

Zhang Xiuhua touched his head and said, "The money has been found. Let's not pursue it any further. Everyone makes mistakes. Let's save face for the person who stole the money."

The child who lost the money was just staring at Li Zhiqiang. He didn't go forward to check his schoolbag, so the money was not put there by him.

When the older children saw that they had found the money, they wanted to leave.

Zhang Xiuhua asked them to apologize to Li Zhiqiang, "He didn't steal the money, but you wrongly accused him and hurt him. This is wrong?!"

"But he lied!"

Zhang Xiuhua stared at him, "Have you never lied in your life?"

The older child blushed and had to apologize, "I'm sorry!"

The other children also apologized one by one, "Sorry!"

Zhang Xiuhua gave each of them a candy and said, "You apologized to Li Zhiqiang, which shows that you are all good children who correct your mistakes."

The children didn't expect her to share the candy with them and looked at her in surprise.

"Go back quickly!"

The children all ran away in a swarm.

After the people left, Zhang Xiuhua asked Ergou why he didn't come back to ask her for proof.

"I was afraid they would come back and confront my dad. I told my dad that the school waived my tuition. Only then did he let me study."

Zhang Xiuhua understood. Ergou's father had previously used the excuse that his studies cost money to make him drop out of school, so Ergou tried to earn money on his own. In order to prevent his father from taking his money, he lied that the school waived his tuition. Once you lie, you have to use countless lies to cover it up. It's really hard.

Zhang Xiuhua touched his head and said nothing.

She pushed the bicycle and the other children followed behind. At the entrance of the village, everyone went their separate ways.

You Caiyou had already prepared the meal and came over with a gossipy look on his face, "What happened?"

Baolin spoke quickly and stepped forward to tell the whole story of the blunder that had just happened.

Youcai felt that Aunt Zhang was just too kind. "If it were me, I would definitely catch the thief and let everyone laugh at him."

Zhang Xiuhua laughed, "There's no need to kill him with one blow. Give him a chance, and maybe he'll correct his mistakes."

While they were talking, they heard a child crying outside. Baolin had already rushed out to watch the fun, with Yaoyao and Youcai following closely behind her.

Zhang Xiuhua went into the kitchen to prepare the food. As soon as she brought it out, Baolin hurried back, grabbed her sleeve and dragged her out, "Mom, go and have a look. Ergou is about to be beaten to death by his father."

Zhang Xiuhua hurriedly put the food in her hand on the table and followed her to Ergou's house.

Ergou's father was beating his son with a stick, "I told you to steal money! You won't learn your lesson unless you are beaten."

The villagers gathered at the door to watch the fun, but no one stopped them. Rural people have their own set of principles for disciplining children. Stealing must be punished.

Ergou was beaten without making a sound, his lips tightly pursed. His stepmother stood by and said nothing. When some villagers looked over, she sighed and said that the child was too difficult to manage.

Zhang Xiuhua stepped forward and stopped the man, "Enough! Stop beating him! Ergou didn't steal the money! I've already asked the child, and his money has been found. How can you be a father if you beat your child without knowing the truth?"

Zhang Xiuhua had never wanted to break up with Ergou's father. After all, she was happy, but if they lived behind closed doors, Ergou would definitely be beaten even harder.

But she didn't expect this man to be so confused! Ergou clearly didn't steal the money, but he didn't believe it.

When Ergou's father saw her trying to stop him, he was furious. "He didn't steal any money, why did those people frame him?!"

Zhang Xiuhua was incredulous at the question. "You would rather believe that your son is a thief than that he is innocent? How can there be a father like you in this world? What kind of life is Ergou living? Everyone in the village has eyes, but you are blind. How can you be a father?!"

Zhang Xiuhua doesn't know how to curse, so she pulled Ergou over and compared him to his brother. "They are both sons, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that they are treated differently. Sangou is wearing new clothes, but what about Ergou? He's wearing old clothes with patches on top of patches. And these shoes, you must have returned them, right? Not only do they not fit, but the soles are also worn out."

She listed them one by one for everyone to see, and today she had to make it clear.

Ergou's father is not confused, he is pretending to be confused. He is just like Zhang Wangcai, he just wants to live a quiet life, as for how his son lives, he doesn't care at all. Anyway, his son is unfilial, he will be punished by law in the future!

"People are all made of flesh and blood. If you are not kind, don't expect him to be filial to you in the future." Zhang Xiuhua said to the four brothers of the Wang family, "Old man Wang was a fool when he was alive. Look, he froze to death and no one knew about it. Are you sure that Sangou will be filial to you?!"

The villagers were afraid that the two would start quarreling, so they rushed over to separate them. Ergou's father also didn't want to quarrel with a woman like Zhang Xiuhua, so the two sides were pulled apart.

Zhang Xiuhua touched Ergou's head, then looked at the villagers, "Everyone has sharp eyes. Ergou has never stolen anything. Don't listen to slander. He has no mother to begin with, and it's worse than having a father. He is too pitiful, and we uncles should give him a hand and not let him go to a dead end."

After she said that, everyone rushed to express their opinions, "Ergou is a good kid, he will definitely do well in the future."

"Yeah, Ergou is fine. Ergou's dad, I would say you are just a fool!"

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Everyone expressed their opinions one after another, and Zhang Xiuhua took the children away.

On the way back, Baolin said excitedly, "Mom, you are so awesome! His dad will definitely not bully him anymore in the future."

Zhang Xiuhua touched her head. If it were that simple, she would have come to him directly.

Two days passed in a flash, and Zhang Xiuhua secretly asked Ergou, "Does your father still beat you?"

Ergou shook his head, "No more hitting." He scratched his head, "You've been looking at me strangely lately. You don't seem to be close to me, but you don't hit me either. It seems like you don't want to control me."

Zhang Xiuhua sighed. Cold violence? He is so tall, but his heart is smaller than a needle!

"But I feel much more at ease. I used to go to great lengths to lie to them. Now I save myself the trouble." Ergou had a look of infinite satisfaction on his face.

Zhang Xiuhua suddenly understood. It's not that Ergou's father hadn't thought about making amends to his son, but the damage had been done, Ergou was on guard against him, and because of his status as a father, he couldn't bring himself to please his son, so he just stayed with him unwillingly.

Well! That's it. At least she helped Ergou and didn't make his situation worse!

While the two were talking, Baolin was crying and shouting outside, "Mom!"

Zhang Xiuhua is helpless. These children call "Mom" at least a hundred times every day, especially Baolin, who has to call several times at a time.

"What's the matter?"

Baolin rushed in and showed her claws, "The rabbit bit me! Look, my hand was scratched by it."

Zhang Xiuhua looked closely and found that it was indeed scratched, but there was no injury to the skin, so no vaccination was needed.

Zhang Xiuhua was pulled to the rabbit shed by Baolin. The female rabbit lay in the shed motionless, not allowing anyone to approach.

Zhang Xiuhua smiled, "It's pregnant!"

Baolin and Yaoyao looked at each other, then they jumped up hand in hand, "Wow! That's great!"