A ragged cub at the beginning

After eating the noodles, Tang Xu lay down for a while and fell asleep. There seemed to be rustling sounds in her dreams. She was confused and wondered if there were mice in the house. Otherwise, she should get a cat...

Four children crowded around the window, leaning their heads to look inside, occasionally exchanging a few words in a low voice.

"What are we doing here? We will disturb Aunt Xu!" Zhao Yunniang asked puzzledly.

"I think there are bad guys!" Fang Zijun had a serious face. If his tender cheeks hadn't trembled when he spoke, this expression might have been more convincing.

"What bad guy? Do you want to steal my mother?" July's eyebrows and nose wrinkled, making his face look rounder and fatter.

"Who wants to steal Aunt Xu? Let's beat him away!" Du Jiarui raised his arms. His arms were round and plump like lotus roots, making people want to take a bite.

"I feel a little cold. Did you notice?" Zhao Yunniang rubbed her arms.

"I feel a little bit too. Is the wind blowing?" Fang Zijun said as he turned around to look. Tang Ling was looking at the four of them with a stern face and a cold look in his eyes.

Fang Zijun was so frightened that he was about to scream, but Tang Ling covered his mouth. She glanced at the children and pointed with her finger. Fang Zijun and the other four followed her obediently with their heads down.

"Are you very free?" Tang Ling stared at them one by one.

Several children were so frightened that they shook their heads and hands.

Tang Xu woke up from a good sleep, staggered to the door and stretched comfortably. Then he saw the four little kids in the yard and almost choked.

They were seen doing horse stance with half a bowl of water on their heads. Du Jiarui's eyes were full of tears and his nose was running, but he didn't dare to move.

July's whole face was exerting force, and it felt a bit like squatting on the toilet...

Tang Xu covered his mouth and laughed secretly, Fang Zijun was the most relaxed, muttering something in his mouth. Zhao Yunniang had a stern face, beads of sweat rolled down her forehead.

"Why are you holding the bowl on your head?" Tang Xu asked Tang Ling in a low voice.

Tang Ling looked at her deeply, and suddenly slashed at her shoulder and neck. She blocked it with her forearm! She leaned back to avoid it! It was a good idea, but she was half a beat too late.

"You're getting useless. You have to practice too." Tang Ling's palm stopped at Tang Xu's neck. With the back of his hand, Tang Xu tilted and almost fell to the ground. "You're getting more useless."

"Why are you hitting me all of a sudden?" Tang Xu muttered quietly, reaching out to touch the back of his ear where he had been hit.

"I will beat you every day from now on." Tang Ling's tone was flat, but no one would doubt the truthfulness of her words.

"Why?" Tang Xu didn't understand.

"You need help even to get on a horse." Tang Ling looked at her with contempt again.

Tang Xu groaned twice and said, "If you want to practice, I can practice with the kids. Why am I the one who gets beaten?"

"They are practicing the basics. You have already practiced them when you were a child. Now I will help you remember them." Tang Ling looked at her deeply. The stuffing was more leaking than a sieve. She sighed, walked towards the children, took the bowls away, and said, "Take a rest."

Du Jiarui pursed his lips, stamped his legs and shook his arms. He didn't dare to collapse to the ground like he did before, otherwise he would have no snacks.

July pinched her arms and legs with her little hands, and made some "hey yo hey yo" sounds to encourage herself.

"Aunt! Don't I have a reward?" Fang Zijun jumped on the spot and came over as if nothing had happened.

"If you stand there for another stick of incense, I will take you to the roof." Tang Ling looked at him and said.

Fang Zijun's eyes lit up and he adjusted his posture again, "Great, great! Come on, come on, bring me the bowl."

"I can stand for a while too!" Zhao Yunniang saw that Fang Zijun could do it, so she didn't want to admit defeat either.

Tang Ling touched her shoulder and put the bowl back on her head.

Qiyue and Du Jiarui, who had recovered, found Tang Xu and rushed over like little pigs. They hugged her arms and jumped up and down, chattering non-stop, and it seemed that they were not tired at all.

"Mom, am I awesome?"

"Aunt Xu! I'm great too! I'm great too!"

"Oh my god!"

"My Aunt Xu!"

With a "snort", it was Tang Qing. He had squatted there without knowing when, and now he was looking at Qiyue and Du Jiarui with contempt.

Qiyue didn't understand his contempt, but he had a filter for all his brothers and sisters. It was because Fang Zijun and Zhao Yunniang loved and spoiled him, and he became more and more spoiled. "It's my brother."

"Brother, don't you need to practice martial arts?" Du Jiarui asked curiously.

Tang Qing rolled her eyes and said, "I have already mastered the basic skills. I can beat up to 20 of you little brats."

Tang Xu snorted and laughed, "Look at what you are capable of. Tang Ling only needs one finger to hit you."

Tang Qing was speechless. After a moment of silence, he looked up and said, "It's not you, what are you so proud of?"

Tang Xu was silent too. The original owner would definitely not be bullied by this brat. But she, really couldn't. The previous conditioned reflex was like a flash in the pan. It was unknown whether the original owner's soul had not left at that time or she had never practiced since she came.

"Tang Xu, come here." Tang Ling pulled out a wooden stick from somewhere and stood in the yard calling Tang Xu.

No way? Are you serious? Tang Xu retreated to the stool behind him and sat down, his eyebrows drooping and his eyes looking pitiful. "Oh, my legs hurt so much, I can't stand anymore."

"Then sit down." Tang Ling walked over holding a wooden stick.

"Sister! Domestic violence is not allowed!" Tang Xu put his hands in front of his face.

Tang Qing groaned and said sarcastically, "Coward."

"What is aunt going to do?" July opened her eyes wide, not knowing what was going on.

"Mu Tiao Tiao, I need to be spanked." Du Jiarui said, frowning and covering his butt. "I, I cried so loudly, it was so noisy, it made my ears and head hurt! You can't spank me."

Your threat is so scary... Tang Xu couldn't help but rub the little fat boy's face and was amused by him.

"Hurry up." Tang Ling waved the wooden stick, making a terrible sound of breaking through the air.

"How about, let's wait until my leg heals?" Tang Xu negotiated in a low voice, with a pleading look on his face.

"Get out of the way, brats." Tang Ling pointed at the two little ones with a wooden stick, and the brats ran away.

"Aunt, please hit me gently." July advised in a low voice.

"Don't you want to stop fighting?" Tang Xu glared at Qiyue. Qiyue turned away cowardly and covered her eyes with her hands. "Qiyue didn't see anything."

I love you in vain!

Before Tang Xu turned her head back, her arm was hit, and she gasped in pain.

"Left hand." Tang Ling said and pulled it again.

Tang Xu raised his hand, but was slow.

Tang Ling frowned and turned to another person, "Tang Qing, come here."

"I'm hurt!" Before Tang Qing finished speaking, the wooden stick was already coming towards his face. He raised his head almost instantly, and stretched out his hand to grab the wooden stick. But Tang Ling was faster, and the wooden stick drew a circle in the air and hit his outstretched arm. Tang Qing squatted down, supported himself with his hands, and kicked his legs upwards. Tang Ling raised his foot and kicked him to the side, and the wooden stick attacked again.

It's said a lot, but it's only a few seconds.

"Wow~" July and Du Jiarui exclaimed at the same time.

Tang Xu was stunned and dazzled, and goose bumps appeared on his arms. This reaction was too fast, was it possible for a human to be so fast? But it was obvious that Tang Ling was more powerful. She was at ease the whole time and suppressed Tang Qing. Tang Qing wanted to grab the wooden stick, but never succeeded.

The two of them were talking back and forth, and the people around them were dumbfounded. Even Fang Zijun and Zhao Yunniang came over.

"Ouch!" Yu Xiaotao suddenly screamed.

Everyone looked over. She pointed at Tang Qing and said, "Is the wound torn? It's bleeding."

Everyone looked closely and saw that there was indeed a red spot on Tang Qing's back, which was slowly expanding.

"Oh, hurry!" Tang Xu limped back to the room to get medicine and gauze, and he and Yu Xiaotao changed the medicine on Tang Qing's body.

"This child doesn't have any clothes either." Yu Xiaotao frowned and said in a low voice.

But Tang Qing didn't seem to care much. After bandaging his wound, he sat at the table and drank water like a big shot.

Tang Xu was very excited at the moment. After watching the fight just now, she was already imagining herself becoming a martial arts master. She looked at Tang Ling with great ambition, "Sister, come and train me! I want to become like this too!"

But she soon regretted what she said. When she ate, her arms were shaking like sieves and she could only use a spoon. She went back to her room and looked at her arms. The red marks and white skin were interlaced, like a zebra.

So funny, woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

"Little zebra, you're so pitiful. You were beaten by your sister and cried so hard..." She sang "Little Zebra" while applying medicine to herself. She was sweating from the pain and collapsed on the bed. She didn't want to move at all and fell asleep in a short while.

Tang Ling took a look from the window and threw away the wooden stick in his hand. It's so weak, let's change to something else next time.

After seeing Tang Xu's training methods, the children became more obedient and did whatever they were told to do.

In the afternoon, Tang Xu was awakened by a loud noise. Her hands and legs hurt. With tears in her eyes, she struggled to move out of the house.

It turned out that the items that had been customized before were delivered. The owner of the carpentry shop took the drawings and directed his apprentices to assemble them.

The children watched curiously, not knowing what was going on. Not to mention them, Fang Yuanqin and the others didn't know what it was. The whole yard was surrounded. They knew the swings, but they just thought the slide was weird.

Fang Yuanqin helped to check it over. The wood was thick, and the joints were very solid. No splinters were found. Tang Xu paid the balance and let the people go.

"Aunt Xu, what is this for?" Fang Zijun asked while touching the slide.

"You climb up the stairs and then sit down and slide down the slope." Tang Xu said.

Upon hearing this, Fang Zijun climbed up like a monkey, his eyes brightening as he slid down the slope. When he landed, he waved his hands and jumped up excitedly: "What fun! I want to do it again!"

When the children saw his appearance, they all followed him.

"Come one by one and line up." Tang Xu reminded.

"Ok."

The yard was suddenly filled with the children's joyful screams and laughter. Dong Wanwan looked at her son's ever-present smile and felt that she was lucky to meet Tang Xu. He could learn to read and write, and learn kung fu without spending a penny. Who would believe this? Speaking of food and entertainment, her Fang Zijun had benefited from it. Even she and her brother Yuanqin had gotten a great bargain, getting a business for free, something they had never dared to think about before, and could not even dream of.

She thought that all her luck in this life might have been used up in being neighbors with Tang Xu.

Yu Xiaotao had the same idea. Not long ago, when she couldn't get out of bed during her confinement, she even thought about dying, but she didn't expect to survive. She would never forget the kindness of Dong Wanwan and Tang Xu.

Now her biggest wish is that her two children are healthy and Yunniang is happy every day. She eats well and sleeps well, and An'an is getting fatter. Everything is getting better and better.

Joyful laughter came out from the open courtyard gate. A few children came to the door at some point, staring at July and his friends with envy on their faces.

Tang Xu was about to invite them to come in and play when a fat guy squeezed in. He pushed a little girl down because he was too strong. The girl looked only two or three years old. She didn't react when she fell to the ground. She looked up at the fat guy and cried for a while.

The fat man was half a person taller and twice as wide as the little girl, and looked at least six years old. He didn't even look at the little girl, and rushed into the yard, touching and looking here and there.

"Jiang Xiaobei is bullying people again!" Some child shouted, and Tang Xu felt that the name sounded familiar.

Yu Xiaotao was standing close by and quickly pulled her up. The weather was not warm now, and the little girl was wearing a thin cotton jacket. She should not have been injured from the fall, but just frightened. She knew all the children in this area, and she patted the child's leg: "Dear Cuicui, are you frightened? Okay, don't cry, auntie will pat you."

"Cui Cui? Cuicui, are you crying?" A woman came over and picked up the little girl.

"Push, he pushed Cuicui and she fell." Cuicui was held by her mother. With a backer, she immediately cried and complained, pointing with her little finger at the little boy who pushed her.

Cuicui glared at the little fat boy, disgusted by the thought of his difficult mother. She checked the child and found that he was not injured. She spat at the little fat boy and said, "How can you be so shameless to bully such a little girl when you are so big?"

"Humph." The little boy didn't care. He walked to the slide and pulled July, who was climbing up, down.

Cuicui's mother scolded, "You are as shameless as your mother!" Then she left with the child.

Tang Xu's heartbeat stopped. She watched Tang Ling catch Qiyue before she shouted, "What are you doing!" She didn't care if the other person was a child or not, and shouted angrily, "Whose child are you? Why are you pulling him!"

The little fat boy said confidently, "I want to play! He's climbing too slowly!" He continued to climb up, but Tang Ling didn't tolerate him. She picked him up and threw him outside the yard. She was careful not to hurt him. But the scene of the child falling was too exciting, and he gasped.

The fat man fell to the ground, splashing a cloud of dust as high as an adult. The people around him were startled and quickly stepped back.

The fat man was stunned for a moment, then he slapped the ground with his hands and feet and began to cry: "Murder! Someone is going to kill the children! Help! Mother!"

Tang Xu narrowed his eyes. The bitch looked more and more familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen her.

The shouting was so shocking that a lot of people gathered at the gate of the yard soon. A sturdy woman pushed through the crowd and came in, "Who bullied my son?" She said, not helping the child, and looked around, trying to find the person who bullied her son.

"Hey, who can bully this tough guy from your family? You must have fallen down by yourself." said one person.

"That's right, don't you even look at your child's head?"

"He is the only one who can bully others. Who dares to bully him? If you beat the small one, the big one will come."

The crowd was talking at once, which showed how bad the reputation of this mother and son was.

The fat woman turned a deaf ear to him, and finally reached out to pull the child up, and asked, "Son, who bullied you?"

The child pointed his finger and said, "It was her. I wanted to go in and play, and she threw me out from so far away! I almost fell to my death! Mom! Go beat her up!"

Tang Ling didn't even look at the mother and son, and patted Qiyue's back gently, imitating Tang Xu's usual way of coaxing children. Qiyue was frightened just now, and now she was nestled in her aunt's arms, tears welling up in her eyes.

"It was obviously you who pulled July first! July almost fell!" Zhao Yunniang said angrily.

"That's right! Jiang Xiaobei relies on his fatness to bully others!" Fang Zijun couldn't bear to see his younger brother July cry. If Tang Ling hadn't intervened, he would have gone up and beat Jiang Xiaobei up!

The fat woman Yu Yan pulled Jiang Xiaobei into the yard, put her hands on her waist and said, "He almost fell, but he didn't fall, did he?! Why did you throw my child away! Where did he fall? Can you afford to pay for it?"

"Are you talking like a human being? If July falls, can your family afford the compensation? You are so shameless that no one wants to bother with your family. You must have become a bad person, right?" Dong Wanwan pulled Zhao Yunniang and Fang Zijun behind her. Yu Yan is not a shameless person and she has beaten other people's children before.

Tang Xu finally moved in front of July and kissed him on the forehead to comfort him.

Tang Ling put the child down, turned around and looked at Yu Yan and her son coldly.

"You are the one with a problem! My child is scared because he just played with your junk! You have to pay me!" Yu Yan pulled Jiang Xiaobei to sit on the ground, "If you don't pay, we won't leave!"