"It was there that I realized that I could win the respect of others through my own efforts."
Shen Qingzi's eyes were shining as he said this.
Xiao He saw that Shen Qingzi was very happy now, and he was also happy for her.
Xiao He knows what kind of situation Shen Qingzi is at home. Now Xiao He is very happy to see that Shen Qingzi seems to be a different person compared to before, generous, decent and confident.
Since childhood, Xiao He has liked to play with this sister.
At that time, He's mother told Xiao He that this is Shen Qingzi, the daughter of your Uncle Shen's family, and you should call her sister.
From then on, when Xiao He saw Shen Qingzi, he called her "Sister Shen" and "Sister Shen".
Although Shen Qingzi was only a few months older than Xiao He, Shen Qingzi heard Xiao He call her sister and felt that she should protect this little guy.
At that time, Xiao He was small and Qingzi was a head taller than him. Sometimes boys from the same village would bully him because he was taller than Xiao He.
Xiao He has a pure nature and is not good at fighting with others. He is not as big as those children, so he can only let them bully him.
One time, those children were bullying Xiao He again, asking him to lie on the ground and learn how to bark. If he didn't bark, they would beat him.
It was midsummer and the weather was extremely hot. The group of children were in the shade under a big tree. The cicadas chirped from the tree, which made people feel extremely annoyed.
Each of those children held a popsicle in their hands and ate the popsicle in their hands. At the same time, they bullied Xiao He and asked him to bark like a dog.
Qingzi's grandma asked Qingzi to go to the canteen next to the big tree to buy some popsicles. Xiao Qingzi was feeling resentful that her grandma would only order her to do things. When she looked up, she saw a child from the same village raising her hand to hit Xiaohe.
When Qingzi saw Xiao He, who usually called her "Sister Shen" with a smile, lying on the ground and being bullied by them, Qingzi felt a fire in her heart and shouted, "Stop!"
The children were a little wary when they saw someone coming, but when they saw it was Shen Qingzi, they became angry again.
"Isn't this Shen Qingzi, a little bastard from the Shen family who doesn't know where he came from!"
Grandma Shen usually didn't restrain her words and deeds when chatting with people in the village. As time went by, the women who talked so much started to talk like this. Gradually, the children also knew it and started to talk about Shen Qingzi in the same way. .
Shen Qingzi was used to being scolded at home. She was worried about her mother and was afraid that if she contradicted her grandma, her grandma would be angry with her mother, so she didn't resist.
But now that grandma was not around, Shen Qingzi heard those children talking about her again, and her heart became even more angry. She shouted "Ah" and then rushed towards the child who was about to hit Xiao He.
Although those children were scolding quite happily, they did not expect that Shen Qingzi would suddenly rush towards them, and they were immediately panicked.
It didn't matter that they were in a panic, but they didn't notice that there was a pipe behind them. They saw Shen Qingzi rushing over and taking two steps back. The child in the back tripped over the pipe, and the child in front was knocked down by the child behind. He tripped and fell, and in one fell swoop, the whole army was wiped out.
Those children were shouting "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh", which attracted the proprietress of the canteen to come out and check.
When he saw the children huddled together in front of his house, he also made a serious face and said, "You guys always come to my place to make trouble, and today you made a mess on my pipes. Look at me. I’m going to find your house and complain to your mother!”
The children were making a mess on the ground, and when they heard that the landlady was going to the house to complain, they immediately looked at each other, saying good things and scolding each other.
When Shen Qingzi saw the landlady coming out to teach them a lesson, Shen Qingzi didn't want to tangle with them anymore, so she picked up Xiao He on the ground and ran away.
The landlady here was still scolding the children, but Shen Qingzi and Xiao He had already rushed to the door of Xiao He's house, and then they stopped and took a deep breath.
After that, Xiao He began to secretly make up his mind to eat well, grow taller and stronger quickly, so that others would not bully him casually.
Later, Xiao He started to eat well. As expected, he grew a lot taller and stronger. He's mother was so happy. After becoming taller and stronger, Xiao He was not bullied in the village.
But that incident also brought a lot of trouble to Shen Qingzi.
The group of children felt very uncomfortable after being scolded by the landlady. They blamed everything on Shen Qingzi and Xiao He, thinking that it was the two of them who had caused them such misery, and they were determined to take revenge.
But they knew that Xiao He's parents loved Xiao He very much, so they didn't dare to attack Xiao He. So, Shen Qingzi became the target of their anger.
So, they spread rumors in the village that Shen Qingzi liked Xiao He. Once they saw Shen Qingzi holding Xiao He's hand and running away. They didn't know where they went or what they did with him.
The reason why a rumor is a rumor is because it will spread more and more powerfully, and you don’t know what it will become in the end.
Maybe you don’t remember what the original version was like, but what Grandma Shen heard was “Shen Qingzi seduced Xiao He and said she wanted to elope with him.”
At that time, Shen Qingzi and Xiao He were only eight or nine years old, but they were rumored to be like this. Even if they were still children, the Shen family felt ashamed.
Grandma Shen's reaction was the most intense.
When she heard about this, she rushed home and got a feather duster, shouting, "Shen Qingzi, you little hooves, come out here! See if I don't beat you to death! You went out to seduce people at a young age!"
Shen Qingzi was taking a nap in her room at the time and woke up when she heard her grandma shouting outside the door. As soon as Qingzi woke up, Grandma Shen rushed into Shen Qingzi's bedroom and was about to beat her with a feather duster.
Qingzi was still young, and although she was often scolded by her grandma, she had never encountered Grandma Shen chasing her with a feather duster, so she would only cry and dodge.
Grandma Shen's scolding not only woke up Shen Qingzi, but also woke up Shen's father and mother.
The first reaction of Father Shen and Mother Shen was to go up and stop Grandma Shen, but Grandma Shen pushed her away. Mother Shen was also hit hard with a feather duster by Grandma Shen, "You are a hen that can't lay eggs. You don't usually do this."
I know what I have taught her, so that she can go out and seduce people!"
Mother Shen knelt on the ground, looked at Grandma Shen aggrievedly, and said, "Mom, you misunderstood, Qingzi doesn't know how to do it. She is still so young, how could she go out and do that kind of thing!"
Qingzi saw her mother kneeling on the ground to defend herself, while her father was supporting her grandma on the side without saying a word to her. She gave up on Father Shen in her heart.
From that moment on, Qingzi made up her mind to take her mother away from this place, this house with no human touch at all.
Even though Mother Shen kept pleading for Shen Qingzi, Grandma Shen didn't like this adopted child in the first place, and now that such words were heard, she couldn't listen to any other words and still only chased Shen Qingzi to beat her.
Shen Qingzi was so frightened that she didn't know where to run. Seeing her mother being beaten, Shen Qingzi felt distressed, but she didn't notice Grandma Shen rushing towards her.
When Grandma Shen saw that Shen Qingzi was not running away, she immediately caught her and hit Shen Qingzi with the feather duster in her hand.
Qingzi was beaten and screamed "Ouch". She wanted to run away out of instinct, but Grandma Shen held her firmly in place. She could only cry and twist while being beaten.
When Mother Shen saw Qingzi being beaten, she felt extremely distressed. She rushed over to stop Grandma Shen, "Mom, stop beating her. Qingzi is still young, she can't bear it!"
With that said, Mother Shen hugged Qingzi into her arms, with her back to Grandma Shen, and the feather dusters naturally fell on Mother Shen.
While being beaten, Mother Shen begged Grandma Shen for mercy.
The sound of beatings, scoldings, begging for mercy, and cries filled Shen Qingzi's bedroom, and also occupied Shen Qingzi's memory of that summer, and she could not erase it no matter how hard she tried.
Later, when Grandma Shen got tired of beating, she stopped beating her. Father Shen helped her back to the room, leaving Mother Shen and Shen Qingzi hugging each other and crying.
Shen Qingzi seemed to have been beaten unconscious, his eyes were empty, and he could only sob instinctively.
Shen's mother was frightened when she saw this. She endured the pain in her back and picked up Qingzi from the ground and put her on the bed. She called her several times before she came back to her senses.
"Mom, let's go, shall we? Let's leave this place together?" Qingzi said this after coming back to her senses.
After Shen's mother heard this, she burst into tears, "I'm sorry, child, it was me who hurt you. If I hadn't brought you back, you wouldn't have been bullied like this. It's mom who's sorry for you!"
Mother Shen hugged Shen Qingzi and cried, feeling very regretful that she had brought Shen Qingzi home and let her suffer all this.
"Mom, shall we go?" Shen Qingzi was still saying this persistently.
"Qingzi, we have nowhere to go. I have no job and no income. I can't support you on my own!" Shen's mother said while wiping the tears from Qingzi's face.
Shen Qingzi looked at the crying mother in front of him, and made up his mind to study hard, escape from this place, take his mother with him, and never come back!
After that, Shen Qingzi studied harder and harder, and her grades were always among the top three in the grade. The teacher liked her very much and valued her.
The children who originally wanted to cause trouble for her did not dare to bully her anymore when they saw that she was so popular with the teacher.
But that incident had an impact on her relationship with Xiao He.
Originally, this incident happened to two eight or nine-year-old children, and the adults just laughed it off, and no one would think about it afterwards.
But Shen Qingzi remembered it in her heart. Every time she saw Xiao He, Shen Qingzi would think of her grandmother's insults and beatings, which made her feel very depressed.
So she no longer took the initiative to play with Xiao He. When Xiao He came to see her, she excused herself and said she wanted to read at home and not go out.
Xiao He also roughly knew the rumors about the two of them, and seeing Shen Qingzi's attitude, he was also afraid of causing trouble to Shen Qingzi. After being rejected twice, he no longer made a special trip to ask Shen Qingzi to go out to play. Already.
Xiao He liked this sister very much, so when he met Shen Qingzi on the street, he would still greet her very warmly.
Although Shen Qingzi no longer plays with Xiao He, she is still very happy when she sees Xiao He greeting her on the street because she also likes this younger brother.
In this way, Shen Qingzi and Xiao He went from being best friends to fellow villagers who could only say hello and say a few words on the street.
Shen Qingzi lost her only good friend in the village. By the time she figured it out, it was already too late. They had grown up and their relationship would never be the same again.