Humiliation, who wouldn't be enraged?

  Hua Rou's eyes instantly turned red, she couldn't wait to turn around and tear Zhang Hua's mouth apart.

  But she didn't forget her current situation.

  Sister also said that if you can't prevent the other party from making a move again, don't take action rashly. Huā Róu, you haven't yet acquired the skills to survive, you must endure!

  She warned herself in her heart, grasping the straps of the basket tightly with both hands, and quickly left the herb garden to hide under an old tree.

  Why is this happening to me?

  Am I wrong just because I won't?

  Do I deserve to be bullied?

  No! I refuse!

  Hua Rong's fingers trembled as she unrolled the scroll, eager to learn. But as she gazed at the unfamiliar characters, tears began to fall from her eyes, dropping one by one onto the scroll, smudging the ink...

  Mother! Why won't you let me learn to read? Why?!

  Hua Rou's shoulders shook violently at this moment, her heart was really in pain, and memories flashed back to when she was a little girl...

  At that time, she was probably six or seven years old. She had an interest in the magical characters written by her father for the first time. Watching her father sitting in the small courtyard writing and drawing, she went up to ask him what he was doing, whether he was writing a prescription.

  "Dad is counting!"

  What is drawing? She doesn't understand, but she grasped an uncut yellow crayon and, imitating her father's mannerisms, drew on the table.

  Dad smiled and picked her up, putting her on his lap, holding her hand and handing her a pen: "Come on, Dad will teach you to write characters. What's good to write? Let's write 'flower'".

  He said and grabbed her hand just as he had finished drawing a horizontal line, when his mother came back.

  She remembered her father quickly putting her down and taking back the pen from her hand, his face somewhat uneasy.

  "What are you two doing?"

  "Mother, Father is teaching me how to read!"

  As soon as Mother asked a question, she answered without hesitation. Father hastily raised his hand to cover her mouth but ended up stopping in mid-air.

  Then she remembered that her mother rushed to her side, as if something terrible was about to happen, and anxiously picked her up and took her back into the house, closing the door behind them.

  She was terrified and bewildered, not knowing what had happened, but through the door and window she clearly heard her mother questioning her father: "I told you before, it's not allowed to teach her to read, have you forgotten?"

  "Haven't forgotten, but... she will eventually learn to write her own name..."

  "Does a village girl need to know how to write her own name?"

  ...... Grandpa was silent, she peeked through the door crack to glance at the yard, grandpa hung his head like a withered peony.

  "Do you want her dead?"

  "I don't want to, but..."

  "No thoughts, just peace! She can't read or write, so she won't think about the outside world, and she won't..." The mother's words were cut off as she covered her face with both hands and wept.

  His father saw the situation and hastily rubbed his hands: "I was wrong, don't cry, I... I won't teach you anymore, never again! No matter what it is, whether it's names or counting, I won't teach you anything!"

  She nodded with a sob: "It's good to be a rustic village woman. I just want her to live in peace."

  She witnessed this scene, and her father really never taught her to read or count again. She, no matter how curious she was, no matter how much she wanted to learn, didn't make a sound anymore, because she didn't want to see her mother's tears and her father's guilty look.

  Who would have thought that she would end up illiterate and being bullied, becoming a useless person in today's society.

  Half an hour later, the three of them finished picking and were ready to leave. Zi Hua Xiang Bao handed a basket to Zi Qi: "Sister, look!"

  "What are you picking so many stone ears for?" Ziqi looked at Zihua in confusion: "The master only asked us to take out a share of one coin, one is enough!"

  "Hey, there's still one more thing I want!" She cackled mischievously as she rummaged through the backpack full of stone ears: "I picked all the ones that can be picked from the cliff edge, I guarantee she won't have enough!"

  Ling Ling couldn't help but interrupt: "Zi Hua Shijie, it's no big deal if Hua Rou Shimiao can't gather the punishment, but if she risks her life to get the Stone Earring by climbing down the cliff, what if something happens?"

  "That's great!" Zi Hua rolled her eyes: "Who made her harm us sisters and can't come in? I'd rather she had a fatal accident!"

  Ling Ling was shocked and couldn't say a word. Zi Qi shouldered his backpack: "Alright, let's go! It's getting dark!"

  Zi Qi walked away, and Zi Hua immediately followed. Lin Lin looked in the distance with a gloomy face, carrying her basket as she also left with them.

  As the three of them left, Hua Rou hastily rushed into the herb garden and found some familiar herbs. After finding about seven or eight of them, she looked at the picture book in her hand to find others, and soon found almost all of them.

  "All we need now is for Shi Er to arrive!"

  Hua Rou carried a small basket on her back and started searching for stone ears, but the cliff edge was empty, not a single stone ear in sight.

  Hua Rou could only walk along the edge, sometimes flipping over stones and cautiously poking her head out to take a look. The sky didn't disappoint her, she finally saw an ear stone, but... this ear stone was growing on the outer side of the cliff wall, half a person's height away from the top of the cliff.

  Hua Rou put down her basket and lay on the edge of the cliff, stretching her hand downwards, trying to pick it up, but she couldn't reach it at all.

  Hua Rou lay on the ground and looked at the increasingly dark sky, worried that she couldn't gather all the materials. She gritted her teeth, untied her sweatband, tied one end to a tree at the edge of the cliff, and the other end to her own waistband. Then she lay down on the ground, with her upper body protruding from the cliff, stretching out her hand to reach for the stone ear.

  As soon as the head stretched out of the cliff edge, the howling wind blew against the face and hair, and the endless depth that could not be seen was dizzying.

  Hua Rong closed her eyes and took two deep breaths, then opened them again to look at Shi Er, attempting to pick him.

  As her fingers touched and the distance between them shortened, Hua Rou's upper body also leaned out more and more.

  She finally reached the stone ear, but taking it down required strength. She used force, couldn't balance her body, and slid downwards.

  "Ah!" Along with Hua Rou's loud cry, she hung on the edge of the cliff, but unfortunately her handkerchief and waistband could not support her body, they began to deform, split...

  Hua Rong's heart was in a state of panic, she tried to climb up, but the smooth cliff wall had no place to exert force.

  The towel is pulled because it's as thin as a finger wide, and the waistband is even looser.

  Huā Róu struggled to lift her foot up, when suddenly a hand grabbed her ankle. At the same time, the rope broke and Huā Róu hadn't even seen who had grabbed her before she slid down, headfirst, with only an endless abyss in front of her eyes.

  "Ah!" Fear made her scream, she felt like she was falling off a cliff, but the hand grasping her ankle emitted a terrible strength, pulling her back, and she lay safely on the edge of the precipice.

  Hua Rou's cries stopped, she gasped for several breaths before reacting and quickly crawling back a bit to see Tang Xiao panting heavily beside her.

  "What are you doing? Are you trying to get yourself killed?"

  Tang Xiao glared with his eyes wide open, almost shouting in anger.

  Hua Rou's eyes widened in surprise, and she opened her right hand, which had been clenched into a fist, revealing the stone ear inside: "I... picked it."

  "A stone ear, is it worth it?" Tang Xiao saw that it was just for a stone ear and became even more enraged.

  "Master wants us to gather all the materials, just lacking this one..."

  "But this doesn't mean you can risk your life, does it?"

  Hua Rou heard this and lowered her head, speaking in a soft voice: "I thought it wouldn't be a problem..."

  "What do you think?! The most foolish thing in the world is to think that!" Tang Xiao's face was very unsightly, he angrily stared at Hua Rou: "Have you ever thought that your rash decision might cost you your life?"

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