After a while, he reached out and patted Su Xiaoli's back gently, and said in a gentle voice: "You beat a few of them, so why are you crying? They should be the ones crying."
"I...I just want to cry..." Su Xiaoli twitched and said to Su Mu, "I was just scared."
"Don't be afraid, brother is here." Su Mu stretched out his hand to wipe away the tears on her cheeks, then pinched her pink face and said: "Those are all defeated by my brother. If they really want to
If they dare to beat you, my brother will beat them half to death."
"Well..." Su Xiaoli nodded while crying: "But, the tears just can't stop, what should I do..."
Su Mu looked at her helplessly, thought for a while, and said to her: "Stop crying, brother will take you to buy candy, okay?"
"Okay." Su Xiaoli nodded vigorously, but tears kept falling.
"Why are you still crying?" The back of Su Mu's hand was covered with Su Xiaoli's tears, cold and wet. He stretched out his hand to hold Su Xiaoli into his arms, and comforted her in a low voice:
"Are you scared? Not afraid... not afraid..."
"Well...I...I'm not afraid..." Su Xiaoli finally stopped her tears, hugged Su Mu with her backhand, and said in a twitchy voice.
Su Mu hugged her for a while and waited patiently until she stopped crying completely before letting her go.
He looked at Su Xiaoli with eyes as clear as spring water, smiled at her and said, "Don't cry anymore?"
"Stop crying..." Su Xiaoli shook his head in embarrassment. His hair that had just been pulled by those boys was sticking up on his head, looking like a poor child that no one wanted.
"Be good." Su Mu held her little face with both hands and kissed her hard on the cold cheek. Then he stood up, walked around behind her and said, "Brother, let me comb your hair again."
Su Xiaoli stood there obediently and let Su Mu tie her hair again.
After combing her hair, Su Mu looked at her carefully, then took her little hand, picked up his schoolbag, and went downstairs.
The two of them returned to the reception room at the entrance of the school, took Su Xiaoli's schoolbag, said goodbye to the old man, and then went home.
At night, Su Mu was lying on the bed, looking at Su Xiaoli who was sleeping soundly next to him. After hesitating for a moment, he couldn't help but reached out and lifted the quilt covering Su Xiaoli.
Su Xiaoli, who was under the quilt, huddled up like a little hedgehog, hugging the doll in his arms, and fell asleep quietly.
Su Mu stared at her for a while, his eyes moved slightly, and then he gently opened her pajamas.
On her fair back, there were several brown marks, deep and shallow, of different sizes.
As early as the beginning when he and Su Xiaoli were taking a shower together, he saw the scars on her back. When he asked her at that time, she only said that she accidentally fell down when she was a child.
He didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but today, when he saw that Su Xiaoli's eyes were filled with fear, but she still relied on her own weak strength to resist instinctively, he suddenly understood that maybe she had been raped before.
I'm used to being bullied.
The scars on her body were probably the marks left when she was bullied by others in the past.
Su Mu's eyes flashed, and his fingertips gently poked the scar on her back.