Chapter 312 The Painful Past (19)
The drunken man's face was gloomy and terrifying, his eyes were red, he took the glass and threw it at Ji Lanyue angrily.
Ji Tingyang and Ji Zeqiu's expressions suddenly changed, and they quickly pulled Ji Lanyue back to them.
The glass flew out of the man's hand and hit Ji Lanyue's spot with a loud bang. The glass instantly fell into pieces.
Looking at the sharp fragments on the ground, the image of Ji Lanyue's forehead dripping with blood flashed through Ji Tingyang's mind, and he felt a sense of fear in his heart.
Not bad...
Fortunately, my sister is fine.
However, after the cup in his hand was empty, the man's anger became even stronger, "Who asked you to hide? Did I ask you to hide?!"
He picked up the half-empty bottle of wine on the table and swayed closer to Ji Lanyue again. His words were unclear, "Let you spend my money and see if I don't beat you to death!"< br>
"Ah!" Ji Lanyue's face turned pale, and her screaming voice almost broke.
The three of them ran around the room as if running for their lives. Many furniture in the living room was tripped and fell to the ground, making it a mess.
Seeing that they had nowhere to hide, Ji Tingyang rolled his eyes and immediately ran into the only bedroom with Ji Zeqiu and Ji Lanyue, locking the door with a "click".
"Get out of here!" The man kept banging on the door, making terrifying banging noises. "I count to three. If you don't come out yet, don't come out again in this life!"
"Three..."
Ji Tingyang and the three of them huddled in the corner, leaning against each other, with beads of sweat dripping from their foreheads and their bodies trembling.
Hearing the man's voice counting down, Ji Lanyue's face turned even paler, and she clutched Ji Tingyang's arm in horror, "Brother, what should I do?"
Ji Tingyang was just a twelve-year-old child, and he was also very scared when faced with this kind of thing, but he still tried his best to hold back his fear and comforted his brother and sister, "We will stay here, he can't come in."
"Two..." The man's countdown continued.
Ji Zeqiu's hands were also shaking slightly, and he swallowed in fear, staring at the door for a moment.
"One."
As the countdown ended, a more violent banging on the door came from the room. The putty on the wall fell under the violent vibration, and even the door frame was deformed.
Just when they were worried that the door would be dismantled by the man sooner or later, the movement outside the door finally stopped.
He took a few rough breaths, slid his back against the door, and sat on the ground. His cursing voice was a little softer, "You're not going to come out, right? I'll stay here tonight and see when you come out!"
"When I catch you, I will peel off your skin."
"And that abominable Ji Yiyun, she has occupied so much inheritance by herself. I help her adopt three burdensome people and ask her to pay tens of thousands more yuan. What's wrong, she refuses to do this, you idiot!"
"For five thousand yuan, is she going to be a beggar? If I hadn't been short of money to buy wine, I wouldn't have bothered to talk to her."
The man chattered a lot when he was drunk. As time passed, his voice became softer and softer, and finally turned into one deafening grunt after another.
Ji Tingyang and the others looked at each other, and their hanging hearts finally slowly fell to the ground.
Just when Ji Tingyang was about to speak, there was a suppressed sob.
He originally thought the crying came from Ji Lanyue, but when he turned around to look, he found that the sobbing person was actually Ji Zeqiu.
"Second brother, don't be afraid. My cousin is already asleep and won't break down the door and beat us again." Ji Lanyue stretched out her little hand and patted him gently on the back.
"I miss my parents..." Ji Zeqiu made a choking sound in his throat, tears welled up from his eyes and wet his clothes.
Ji Tingyang paused and became silent.
The longing that had been buried in my heart for a long time was pulled out again by Ji Zeqiu's words, and a burst of pain surged in my chest.
The air in the bedroom was filled with an aura of pain and sadness.
Ji Lanyue looked at Ji Tingyang and then at Ji Zeqiu. Every time the eldest brother and the second brother talk about their parents, they always look sad and uncomfortable.
She was suddenly curious, what were her parents like?
But she didn't dare to ask anything, just wiped Ji Zeqiu's tears with her sleeves.
……
Early the next morning.
The dazzling sunlight shines into the bedroom through the window, waking Ji Tingyang from his sleep, and a numb pain spreads from all sides of his body.
Ji Tingyang slowly opened his eyes and found that their sleeping postures had all changed.
Ji Zeqiu leaned on his shoulder, while Ji Lanyue rested on his thigh.
No wonder my body feels numb.
When Ji Tingyang woke up, he did not forget to pay attention to the movement outside the door. When he heard the man's snoring continuing, he quickly pushed Ji Lanyue and Ji Zeqiu awake.
"Brother, let me sleep a little longer..." Ji Lanyue's voice was a little vague and she didn't want to open her eyes.
"Get up quickly, let's sneak to school before my cousin wakes up." Ji Tingyang said.
After hearing his words, Ji Lanyue and Ji Zeqiu suddenly woke up.
After a while, the bedroom door opened slightly from the inside, making a creaking sound.
The three of them tiptoed, stepped over the man sleeping on the floor, and escaped from the house smoothly.
However, when they passed by the old steamed bun stall, trouble appeared on their faces.
They have no money to buy breakfast.
Ji Tingyang tried hard to find change in his pocket. He and Ji Zeqiu didn't have to eat, but Ji Lanyue was still growing.
However, no matter how he turned around, his pockets were empty.
Perhaps seeing their embarrassment, the bun seller gave them three buns and said, "Take them and eat them."
Ji Tingyang did not dare to answer, "We have no money."
"You have been buying steamed buns from me for so long, so I won't charge you for these, just take them and eat them," the boss said.
Judging from the yellowing and old clothes they wear, you can tell that these three children come from a difficult family situation.
It doesn’t hurt to give them a few buns.
Ji Lanyue's eyes suddenly lit up, she took the steamed buns and said thank you to the boss in a sweet voice.
"Brother, one for each of us." Ji Lanyue handed one of the steamed buns to Ji Tingyang.
Ji Tingyang shook his head, "I ate a lot of fried rice last night. I'm not hungry yet, so you can eat."
It wasn't until Ji Tingyang returned to the classroom that his stomach made a growling sound.
He took out the water glass and planned to go outside to get more water and fill his stomach with water.
However, just after leaving the classroom, she bumped into Wen Li running towards him with a smile on her face.
"My family made a lot of breakfast today, and I brought you one too." She stuffed the thermos box into Ji Tingyang's arms and ran away before he could react.
Ji Tingyang opened the thermos box and was stunned when he saw the preserved egg and lean meat porridge inside.
(End of chapter)