The mont she no longer made a sound, that woman finally smiled.
A joyful smile.
When she realized the original owner’s death, instead of feeling fear, she felt relieved.
After the original owner’s father ca back, he directly took the original owner to the sewage gutter...
That was the original owner’s whole life; she only wanted to survive.
Now, even though Xia Zhi has run away and showed people her wounds, her parents will surely take her back.
If she wants to escape from the demons, she needs people to know their sins. So people are born human, but are not fit to be human.
Xia Zhi is too young, she must find a way to leave that couple, and it’s best if they receive punishnt. The police are her hope.
Now she can relax for a little while.
...
"Child, look at here, let’s draw a picture, shall we?"
The psychologist asked Xia Zhi to draw, but when Xia Zhi couldn’t even lift her hand, they realized her hand was also injured.
"Child, how much have you suffered?"
The female police officer’s tears fell again, realizing that seeing this child, she easily tears up, for Xia Zhi has suffered too much.
So young, she appears around two years old, supposed to be a carefree age, but has suffered so much hardship here.
"Sister... don’t cry."
Xia Zhi’s hoarse voice ca, very small, but Xia Zhi did speak.
"You can talk!"
The police and doctors looked at Xia Zhi in astonishnt, quickly speaking up.
"Tell us what happened, was there a bad person who took you away?"
The female police officer hurriedly spoke, taking out her notebook, as they had always thought Xia Zhi couldn’t speak. It’s really great.
Before Xia Zhi spoke, tears had already fallen. Her eyes seed to have so many words but didn’t know where to start.
"No, bad person."
No bad person, the female police officer looked at the doctor.
"Then your wounds?"
The female officer covered her mouth, suddenly afraid to hear what ca next.
"It was... mom. She said I was noisy."
Xia Zhi could no longer see the people in front of her, her eyes blurred with tears long ago.
"Sister, I want... grandma. I want to live..."
Listening to Xia Zhi’s intermittent words, the female police officer was already sobbing uncontrollably, realizing if she didn’t understand now, she was a fool.
They had already found out, this little girl lived right across the street, her father Xia Wei was a construction worker, her mother did nothing but eat and idle. Xia Zhi also had a brother who went to school.
Every day, her mother would either hit or scold little Xia Zhi.
The neighbors had grown used to it. They just didn’t expect it to be this severe.
They hadn’t looked for Xia Zhi from yesterday till now, as if they hadn’t lost a child at all.
Everyone ate, drank, played cards, looking like they were in a very good mood.
"Okay, sister will help you find grandma, tell sister how she hurt you."
The female police officer extended a hand to wipe Xia Zhi’s tears, every movent gentle, afraid of hurting her.
"She said I deserved to die." When Xia Zhi said this, her eyes lost all light. Like an abandoned child.
And she was indeed an abandoned child, killed by her own biological parents whom she should have relied on.
"Good girl, you don’t have to say anymore. First, heal your wounds. With sister here, you’ll be fine."
The female police officer held Xia Zhi in her arms, despite the pain it was very warm.
It was a kind of warmth Xia Zhi had never felt before.
A strange feeling.
Xia Wei and Zhang Lyn were directly taken to the police station, initially unwilling to admit their daughter was missing. Until the police ntioned Xia Zhi’s condition.
They were both charged with child abuse and detained.
On Friday, that policewoman ca over with a boy.
Xia Zhi recognized him at once; that was the original owner’s brother.
"Sister, did they hit you again? I made so money selling bottles, brother will take you ho, we’ll go find grandma."
Little Bun Xia Yu’s tears imdiately fell, crying uncontrollably at his sister’s appearance.
"Officer uncle, sister, I want to sue them, I want to sue them for abusing and my sister, they are not human."
Xia Yu, ten years old, couldn’t constantly care for his sister due to boarding school; he didn’t expect that in just a few days she’d be beaten into the hospital.
Xia Zhi, still young, couldn’t talk much due to her throat’s suppuration, but Xia Yu was different, he could speak.
"Okay, so do you want to tell us what really happened?"
Xia Zhi just watched as Xia Yu started to speak.
Originally, Xia Zhi was thinking about how to say it, so people wouldn’t think she was too mature for a child.
But before she could think, Xia Yu appeared, and it was just fine now, she didn’t have to speak. Being protected by a brother felt... quite strange.
If at that ti, the original owner hadn’t been killed, would her brother coming back on Friday have taken her away too? But unfortunately, there are no ifs.
"Did you know your sister was beaten?"
"I knew, they are not human. Every ti they’re unhappy, they take it out on us siblings, using sticks, whips, hangers, sotis even pinching with their hands.
They said we were here to pay off debts, that without us, they’d live lavishly.
They’re always fighting, and every fight they throw my sister away, every ti she’d end up in a trash bin, I’d secretly bring her back.
We used to live with grandma, the family sold land and got a hundred thousand, they took us back for the money.
When the money ran out, we beca burdens, beca punching bags."
A year ago, they were happy even without parents, because grandma loved them. Grandma said coming to the city was good, promising.
But now Xia Yu regrets it deeply, he doesn’t want promise, he wants his sister to be okay, he looked back at his sister.
His sister’s mouth was forcing a smile, but it was so painful that her features distorted, no uninjured place on her body.
"Did you tell anyone else?"
The female officer’s tears had already blurred her eyes; she felt she’d cried all her tears in these two days. Yet the next mont, tears flowed again.
"We told them, but they said my sister and I were disobedient, punishing disobedient children was normal.
Soone asked, then nothing would happen, later just even more brutal beatings,
Sister, being young, would cry when hit. Every ti she cried, they’d hit harder, I could only tell her to endure."
Xia Yu gave himself a harsh slap here.
The "pop" sound, not only striking his face but also everyone’s hearts.
Xia Zhi ran over, holding his hand, reaching out to touch his tears.
"Brother, don’t cry. Doesn’t hurt..."
Xia Yu patted Xia Zhi’s head, "Good girl."
After speaking he looked at the policewoman, "My sister was beaten silly by them."
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