The courtyard: the atmosphere of human life

Little Ruyi looked at the disappointing golden egg, slapped his forehead and looked hopeless.

"Ruyi, mom has said that I can forgive you for being naughty, but I can't forgive you for lying. Tell me again, what did you two do?"

Xiao Ruyi looked at Darong, sighed, and truthfully told her about her schedule after school today.

"Jindan, go home to find your mother. Ruyi, come with me into the house."

After listening to this, Darong had a gloomy face and took Ruyi into the house.

That period was the stage of popularizing education about pneumonic plague, and every household was very familiar with the word "plague". When Darong heard that Xiao Ruyi dared to catch a dead mouse, she was furious.

"Didn't your teacher tell you about pneumonic plague? Why did you go to catch dead rats? Do you know how rats die?" Darong asked Xiao Ruyi a series of questions.

At that time, Xiao Ruyi had not yet realized the seriousness of the problem. As usual, she stood directly in the empty space of the closet with her neck stiffened.

"I'm asking you a question, are you deaf?" Darong became even angrier when she saw Xiao Ruyi's expression and rushed directly to her.

"I can't let her beat Jin Xu in vain. It's nothing for an adult like her to bully a child. I just want to scare her to death."

Xiao Ruyi argued with Darong as usual with confidence.

Darong had never hit Xiao Ruyi before, but this time she couldn't control her temper and picked up the kang broom and pointed it at Xiao Ruyi.

"If you say that to me again!" Darong felt that she was on the verge of taking action.

But children who have never been beaten don’t know how painful it is. Little Ruyi still yelled at Darong again.

Darong beat Xiao Ruyi with a broom in one go, making him scream and howl like a ghost, and he ran around the room in circles.

"Mom... I was wrong... Mom, I won't be stubborn anymore, Mom... Dad, please come back soon..."

It was not until Darong felt tired from beating that she sat on the sofa, panting heavily and cried with Xiao Ruyi.

"Let me ask you, do you know where you went wrong?" Darong pointed at Xiao Ruyi with a kang broom and asked.

Little Ruyi was now covering her butt, no longer as arrogant as before.

"I shouldn't have argued with my mom..." Little Ruyi was still sobbing and choking, and it took her a long time to finish her words.

"You deserve to be beaten for being stubborn, but mom doesn't beat you because you're stubborn. It's because you don't know how to protect yourself. Can you touch a dead mouse casually? Can you just enter someone else's house casually?"

Darong looked at Xiao Ruyi who was crying so hard that she felt distressed too. There is no mother who does not regret beating her child, but beating a child really does make a difference.

Little Ruyi had received that beating at an age when she should have been sensible, and she had completely learned her lesson. She no longer dared to act lawless and argue with Darong.

"You're too harsh. Look at this butt, it's covered with bruises."

After work, Zhong Yunxing went out to drink with a few workers on the construction site. When he came back, Ruyi was already asleep.

He looked at Darong using a warm towel to wipe Xiao Ruyi's bruised little butt, and said to Darong with a frown and very unhappily.

"If you don't discipline her, she will go crazy. How can a girl of her age still get into trouble? When she was little, she was called a nagging person. Now that she's grown up and still acts like a crazy girl, no one will like her."

Darong got angry again after hearing what Zhong Yunxing said. She was already feeling extremely distressed after the beating and just when she couldn't find a way to vent her anger, Zhong Yunxing came forward to take the blame.

"You can't be so harsh with your punishment, can you? She's a girl after all. I've never been beaten like this when I was a kid."

Although Zhong Yunxing dotes on Darong usually, as long as Ruyi is involved in everything, all the principles and bottom lines cannot surpass his precious daughter in Zhong Yunxing's eyes.

"Then tell me how to manage it? Is standing in the corner a problem? Is she a problem? Tell me how else you can manage your daughter?"

Darong threw the towel away, turned around and confronted Zhong Yunxing.

Darong and Zhong Yunxing have been married for many years. Although there have been many bumps and bruises in their relationship, Zhong Yunxing rarely quarrels with Darong. In most cases, the quarrel ends with his tolerance and forgiveness.

But that night, Zhong Yunxing and Darong were arguing with each other and neither was willing to give in.

It was not until Ruyi was awakened by their quarrel and kept crying and apologizing to Darong that the two finally stopped arguing.

Darong hugged Ruyi in her arms and tears began to fall again.

In the two days that followed, Darong and Zhong Yunxing had their first cold war. Neither of them felt they were wrong, and this time neither of them was willing to admit their mistake first.

"It's over. My dad and mom are getting divorced too."

Little Ruyi sat on a big rock in the open space, with his head hung down, and spoke to Little Golden Egg in a very sad tone.

"Ah? Didn't you apologize?" Little Golden Egg's eyes widened, full of fear.

After the parents of two classmates in their class divorced, both of them lived with their grandmother and were pitiful because they couldn't see their parents every day.

At that time, divorce was a very scary thing in the minds of children.

"I apologized. I've apologized to my mom several times. She said she forgave me, but she still ignored my dad. Oh!"

Little Ruyi frowned, looking worried and not knowing what to do.

"Ruyi, what are you doing?"

Ruyi and Jindan were just silent when they heard Xiaoying calling them.

"Auntie? Why are you here?" When Xiao Ruyi saw Xiaoying, she ran to greet her.

"I'm here to see you. Is your mother at home?" Xiaoying asked Xiao Ruyi.

"Just tell my mom directly when you come to see her. Why am I asking my mom when you come to see me? Ha..." Xiao Ruyi said to Xiaoying with a sneer.

"My mother is at home, you go, aunt."

After being patted on the head by Xiaoying, Ruyi smiled and answered honestly.

"Sister? Are you there?" Xiaoying called out to Darong from outside the window when she reached the door.

"I'm here, Xiaoying, come in." Darong happily welcomed Xiaoying into the house.

Xiaoying came here today to ask Darong to accompany her to a blind date. Now Xiaoying is at the age of getting married. An old colleague of Darong's father introduced her to a young man from Nanjian.

"From Nanjian?" When Darong heard that it was from Nanjian, she first went through all the boys in the dormitory in her mind, but it seemed that none of them was suitable for Xiaoying.

"He was assigned to the South China Construction University. He studied architecture and lived near the paperboard factory."

Xiaoying briefly reported what she knew to Darong, who nodded slightly after listening.

"Sister, tomorrow is the weekend. Let Ruyi go with me. I will take her to the garden to play for a while in the evening and then she can stay with me. When you come over tomorrow, you can bring her back with you."

After Xiaoying and Darong agreed on a time, she left with Xiao Ruyi.