Lin Shitou slowly lifted up his clothes, revealing the eye-catching scars. Lin Niuniu didn't understand why her brother did this, but she did whatever her brother did. She also lifted up her clothes, revealing the same eye-catching scars.
Everyone who came to the Lin family to watch the excitement was shocked, "Oh my God, why do these two children have so many scars?"
"Of course it's the stepmother's doing. What kind of child would fall like that?"
Shen Shuyu and Wang Saozi were both in the crowd. Wang Saozi said it was a sin. "Zhang Honghua, you didn't give birth to these two children, so you don't feel bad, right? What did they do wrong? Why are you so cruel to them?"
Afraid that others couldn't see clearly, Lin Shitou was no longer afraid of the cold and took off all his clothes. There were countless scars of all sizes on his body, and some of the new wounds were even bleeding.
"Zhang Honghua, can you tell me what happened to Shitou's injuries?"
"What else could it be? It must be that the stepmother abused the child. With so many wounds on his body, it's impossible that the child whipped himself."
"It must have been Zhang Honghua who did it. My children told me that they often saw her playing with rocks and Niuniu at home."
“My kids told me that, too.”
"What kind of hatred or grudge is this? Is it necessary to beat the child like this..." Most of the men in the family members who came to watch the fun were of higher rank than Lin Hai.
Before, they didn’t know that Zhang Honghua was so excessive towards the child, but now that they know, they can’t just stand by and watch. Some of them have reported the situation.
Zhang Honghua panicked, "Their injuries are none of my business, I treat them better than Yaozu.
All the injuries they suffered were in the countryside. You know that life in the countryside is not easy. Their father is not at home, so it is normal for others to bully them because they are helpless.
The weather is cold now, and I said I’d make cotton clothes for them tomorrow…”
Zhang Honghua began to make up stories about how good she was to her step-son and step-daughter.
Everyone rolled their eyes. "On the day the children arrived at the army, Mrs. Wang took them to the bathhouse to take a bath. Many people saw it at the time. The two children didn't have a single scar on their bodies. Now it's time, and you're only thinking about making cotton-padded clothes for the children. What were you doing before?"
Shitou had just taken off his clothes and caught a cold. Now he was shivering all over. Shen Shuyu took off her military coat and put it on Shitou. The adult's military coat was big and could wrap the two children like a quilt. Shen Shuyu asked Niuniu to get closer to her brother and she helped the two children put on the coat.
Lin Niuniu didn't know who Shen Shuyu was, but Lin Shitou knew her. "Teacher Shen, I'm not cold." He wanted to take off his military coat and let Shen Shuyu wear it.
"I'm not cold, you guys put on some clothes so you don't catch a cold."
Lin Hai came back from training and saw a bunch of sisters-in-law standing at his door. Lin Hai immediately felt something was wrong, "Honghua, what's going on?"
After the man came back, Zhang Honghua was no longer so panicked. Lin Yaozu pointed at Lin Shitou and Lin Niuniu angrily and said, "It's all their fault. They beat me and said that my mother treated them badly."
Lin Hai scolded them directly, "Shitou, Niuniu, how can you, as older brothers and sisters, hit your younger brother? How can this be allowed? What did I teach you normally?
How could your Aunt Zhang treat you badly? She cares about you every day and even more than she does about your brother. You are so ignorant.
"Deputy Battalion Commander Lin, are Shitou and Niuniu your children?"
Shen Shuyu's question startled Lin Hai, "Of course they are my children."
"They are your children. How can you, as a father, speak so indiscriminately about your own children without even asking them? You just say that the children are ignorant. Both children are covered in scars.
Shitou is too old to go to school, and Niuniu is so young she doesn't even have the strength to wring clothes, yet you ask her to wash your clothes in cold water in the freezing weather, with her hands covered in chilblains. How much do they have to do to be considered sensible?"
Zhang Honghua didn't know Shen Shuyu, and didn't know she was Gu Jiandong's wife, so she opened her mouth and wanted to scold her. But Lin Hai knew his wife well, so he blocked her mouth before she could curse.
"Haha, Teacher Shen, you're joking. I'm the child's biological father, how can I not love them?"
Lin Shitou glanced at his father cautiously and said, "Yes, my father is very good to us. He said that children should be diligent from a young age, work more and eat less so that they can grow up healthily.
He said that children don’t need to wear such thick clothes. If they are exposed to the wind more and get used to the cold, they will not catch a cold easily in the future.
He said it was not good for children to sleep on the kang, and that sleeping in the woodshed was more comfortable so that we could watch the stars at night... Everything my father did was for our own good, and my sister and I understood.
Lin Shitou earnestly told everyone how good their father was to them. It was a cold day, but Lin Hai's forehead was sweating just listening to him. Especially when he saw the leaders in the crowd, the sweat on Lin Hai's forehead became even more profuse.
Zhang Honghua even wanted to tear her stepson and stepdaughter apart. She knew that she couldn't raise the children because they were not her own. Look at what she said. Wouldn't this lead to misunderstandings?
She and Lao Lin were usually pretty nice to them. They couldn't even get enough to eat in the countryside, but when they came here, she gave the two children two steamed buns every day. What else did they expect?
"Oh, I'm going to die. They say being a stepmother is hard, and it's absolutely true. If I do something a little wrong, the children will use it to blame me. If Lao Lin and I hadn't been good to them, would the two children have grown up so big? They would have starved to death long ago.
Shitou, Niuniu, if you're not happy with Aunt Zhang, you can tell her at home. She'll change. There's no need to make up stories in front of everyone."
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