In a hazy moment, the warmth that enveloped my whole body turned into a biting chill.
"I'm sorry, Dad."
Cheng Jinyang opened his eyes again and saw that he was in the Li family's clan in Longxi, floating in the air like a ghost.
To be precise, he was suspended in front of the door of the Genealogy Identification Center. Standing in front of him was Li Qingwan, who was eleven or twelve years old.
As a girl, Li Qingwan seemed unable to see him in her dreams. Her face was pale and her lips were trembling, as if she was suffering from some kind of uneasiness.
Her father was standing next to her, holding her pedigree identification report in his hand, and just flipping through the pages.
Turn to the end, then start from the beginning, and continue turning page by page.
Five-grade guarantee.
No matter how many times he flipped it, Li Qingwan's appraisal result was still guaranteed to be the fifth grade, and there was no possibility of entering the fourth grade.
However, his father was still reading there, silent, with a cold face and mechanical movements, which made the young Li Qingwan even more desperate.
"I'm sorry, Dad." She pulled her father's clothes.
However, her father ignored her and she could only keep apologizing.
It wasn't until her tone and gesture made Cheng Jinyang, who was watching, feel excessively humble and uncomfortable that she heard her father sigh long and say:
"go home."
When he got home, his father sat on the sofa and said in a deep voice:
"You go take a shower first."
So Li Qingwan ran to the bathroom, and Cheng Jinyang, who was in ghost form, followed him and saw a bathtub in the bathroom.
Next to it are piles of various medicinal materials.
Xiao Qingwan poured the medicinal materials into the bathtub according to the proportion, then turned on the hot water switch. The water temperature of the gas stove was controlled at 70 degrees, and soon white smoke floated out from the top of the bathtub.
Then she started to take off her clothes.
Cheng Jinyang subconsciously wanted to run away, because if the dream developed further and Li Qingwan discovered him here, he might be held accountable for exposing her.
However, when I thought about it, she couldn't see herself now. Even if she ran away at this time, how would she prove to her that she didn't see him? It's not as if she was guilty!
Now that there is no suspicion of guilt, you must look at it! Even if you are beaten, you can’t be unjustly accused, right?
Before he could make a decision from the dilemma, Li Qingwan had already finished taking off his clothes and stepped into the tub.
Almost as soon as she entered the water, her skin turned red like cooked shrimp.
What is the concept of hot water at 70 degrees? In some rural areas, hot water at this temperature is enough to pluck chickens. However, Li Qingwan stayed in the medicinal bath at this temperature, and his body was already red and shiny.
, so anxious that Cheng Jinyang wanted to pull her out. :(/
Can't do it.
After all, it is in ghost form and cannot touch the physical body.
After the medicinal bath, she climbed out of the tub and dried herself with a towel... Every time she wiped, a large piece of skin fell off, revealing a bright red bloody wound, which made Cheng Jinyang's eyes irritate and his SAN value plummeted.
However, Longxi Li's physical activation ability was activated, and the wounds that had been cracked by the burns were quickly healed.
"Really...will it be useful?" After wiping herself, she looked at herself in the mirror and murmured.
Cheng Jinyang was silent for a moment and began to think about the meaning of her words.
I see.
As for blood concentration, the currently accepted view among nobles is that they can only rely on natural growth. That is to say, in the first half of life, the older you get, the stronger you become.
Another point that has been confirmed is that if the power is used frequently, there will be a slight bonus to the increase in blood concentration, but this bonus is not worth mentioning compared to the natural growth value.
Reminiscent of the physical activation of the Longxi Li family, which mainly focuses on wound healing and flesh and blood regeneration, we can deduce that the purpose of this high-temperature medicinal bath is to increase Li Qingwan's blood concentration.
However, this thing is basically useless. If medicinal baths were useful, the nobles would have bought all the medicinal materials in this bathtub in the entire Jiankang City without finding any residue.
While he was silently cursing, he saw Li Qingwan biting his lower lip and silently changing into a piece of burlap clothes.
Then she pushed the door open and went out. Cheng Jinyang followed her to the living room and saw her tall father, who had already changed into training clothes also made of burlap and held a wooden stick as thick as an adult's arm in his hand.
"Bear it." Father said in a deep voice, "Let the pain help you digest the medicine. If you really can't bear it, just tell me directly."
Cheng Jinyang:???
Ah? Wait a minute, although I did see in some fantasy novels that the protagonist uses self-abuse training to upgrade. But that is a fantasy novel! Can it be applied in reality?
Besides, Teacher Li is such a cute and cute girl, wouldn’t it be very dangerous if you hit her with this stick...
Just as Cheng Jinyang was thinking this, she saw her father swinging the stick high.
The next second, bang! Li Qingwan knelt down.
Her face convulsed in severe pain, but her father seemed to have no mercy and continued to beat down the stick like a rainstorm.
Soon, Li Qingwan's figure was crumbling like a candle in the wind. His face was pale, his arms were shaking, and large beads of sweat were flowing down his forehead and back of his neck. Cheng Jinyang couldn't bear to see it.
Hey, this is too much. Such a beautiful teenage girl is still a daughter, how can she be so cruel? What if something happens... Oh, if there is physical activation, then it will be fine.
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Finally, Li Qingwan, who was beaten until he was almost unconscious, fell to the ground. His eyelids were drooped in the hematoma, and he seemed to have passed out.
Cheng Jinyang looked at her silently.
Her father, with a complicated expression, stared at his daughter who was lying unconscious on the floor and said:
"A total of six hundred and seventy-two sticks."
Then he raised the stick again and hit his body hard.
One stick, two sticks, three sticks...the force of each stick was exactly the same as the one that hit the daughter. Soon, except for the right hand holding the stick, other parts of the body were covered in bruises, soaked with sweat and stains of blood.
However, this man, who seemed to be made of steel and had a heart of stone, still silently swung the stick and beat his scarred body.
It wasn't until the six hundred and seventy-two beatings were completed that he dropped the stick, knelt down on the ground with a pale face, and carefully picked up his daughter from the ground, showing an expression of guilt and sadness.
Cheng Jinyang:???
He felt that his brain seemed to be somewhat exhausted.
In the past, the sources of girls' heartache were all obvious incidents. Ah Zhi was caused by her mother's cheating, Miss Wang was caused by oppression within the clan, Qingqing was caused by school violence, Xiao Wangshu was caused by family pressure, and Cui Xiaoniang... should be regarded as doting and loving.
Lack of communication issues.
But what does Teacher Li mean?
Domestic violence? It’s not like that. The reason why Teacher Li’s father hit her with a stick was to train her ability to use physical activation, thereby promoting her absorption of medicine and increasing blood concentration (although it may not be of any use).
As for perpetrators of traditional domestic violence, they often treat their children with anger and obvious malice. The difference between the two is huge.
Besides, after watching the whole process, I don’t feel that Teacher Li showed any disgust or rejection? Otherwise, judging from her father’s attitude, which is so guilty that it is equivalent to self-harm, as long as she says, "Dad, I don’t want to work hard anymore," her father will probably immediately
I will give up on her.
The more Cheng Jinyang thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong, and he gradually fell into puzzling thoughts.