Chapter 3 The Son of Sin 3

She looked like she hadn't been beaten into submission yet, so all we could do was keep her tied to the earthen bed all day. She couldn't do any work, and we didn't dare let her cook.

The family slept on the earthen kang (heated brick bed) in the cave dwelling, with a curtain hanging in the middle to block the view. Ji Dama never covered it when he was doing business.

The others pretended not to hear, but Ji Erma felt a surge of warmth in his heart.

But Er Ma's wife had been harvesting corn in the field all day, and the weather was starting to get cooler, so she wasn't really interested in doing *that*.

What she didn't expect was that her husband would go and sleep with his older brother.

Ji Dama noticed the commotion beside him, but only opened his eyes and glanced at it.

He used to make a fuss, but now he doesn't care anymore.

The original owner always knew that his mother was bought, so from the time he was old enough to understand, he felt that he had relatives in the city and that he was half a city person.

He's always bragging outside; he'll eventually end up in the city.

The adults would just laugh when they heard this, and sometimes they would tease him about when he would go to the city.

Some people even gave him candy and asked him if his dad was licking his mom every day.

He even asked him how many people he had seen pupae on his mother's body.

The original owner was naive and, after hearing what his two cousins ​​had said, spread it around.

The others laughed more and more wickedly.

Rumors circulated in the village that Er Ma sneaked into his elder brother and sister-in-law's kang (heated brick bed) in the middle of the night, and that the three of them were on the same kang.

This angered Er Ma's wife, who then hit Yu Man.

She dared not hit her own husband, nor her brother-in-law, but could only hit Yu Man, who was tied up.

They were hitting and cursing at the same time.

It was because of this that the men in the village took the initiative to ask Ji Dama.

Later, during the less busy winter months, people would often come to visit the Ji family.

The original owner was just a little child and didn't understand. He only remembered that anyone could go up to the kang (a heated brick bed) in their house.

Once, when he returned from herding sheep, he ran into an uncle from the village who was tying the rope on his pants as he walked out.

I even chatted with my dad for a bit while smoking at the door.

He went to see the mentally challenged mother, wiped the snot off his face, went up to her, and called her "Jianni" (meaning "cheap girl").

This is how her family calls her.

The woman's eyes flickered, and she gave him a melting fruit candy, asking him to bring over the sickle from the house.

The original owner peeled off the sugar coating, and the fruit candy also had a tobacco-like smell.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he went out, he told his father about Jianni wanting the sickle.

Ji Dama praised the original owner as a good son, and Yu Man was beaten again.

One day, on his way home from school, the original owner encountered several cars that looked just like the ones on other people's TVs.

These cars are a bit strange, though; some of them are missing their rearview mirrors.

Some cars have dents, and some have cracks in their windshields.

The original owner kept staring.

Despite their flaws, these cars are still very cool.

Suddenly, one by one, the cars stopped, and a casually dressed man got out, just like a big star on TV.

The original owner thought to himself, "In this freezing weather, won't this person be cold?"

His clothes were covered in footprints and mud, and he had injuries on his face.

Seeing him walk towards her, the original owner immediately thought of human traffickers.

He picked up a cold stone from the ground, threw it at the target, and then ran away.

But when I got back, I saw a lot of people gathered at my door.

His two cousins ​​grinned at him, saying, "Your mother ran away with someone and wrecked the house. Your father and my father were both injured."

How can your mother be so shameless?

Everyone else looked at him and said, "Poor kid, his mother went back to the city to live a better life and abandoned the child."

“The child is so grown up, and she has become like that. I didn’t expect her family to still want to take her back. Aren’t they ashamed?”

"How heartless! The child is already so big, and she still ran away. Putting everything else aside, Ji Dama at least gave her some food to eat."

"Yeah, Malaysia is single again this season, but he's probably done for, right?"

"Both brothers are ruined."

"You people don't know how to speak properly. What kind of life does Huaizhi's mother live? Why doesn't she run away and stay here to die?"

"I think it wouldn't be a pity if the whole family of Da Ma died this season."

"Exactly, what are some men still regretting? To put it bluntly, everyone understands their own little schemes."

"They will all suffer retribution."

"Do you women want to get beaten up? You dare to interrupt men? Or have you not been beaten enough?"

The woman dared not speak out against her anger.

Inside, one could hear the aunt's cries, and Old Lady Ji was also lying on the ground, groaning in pain.

The men all said that the original owner's mother was heartless, while the women all felt that the original owner's mother had escaped from suffering.

Some people secretly envied the original owner's mother.

All these years, my family is still searching.

How wonderful!

The original owner also cried. Others thought he was crying because his mother had run away and he would be motherless now, and he was heartbroken to see his family members injured.

In reality, he was crying because he had missed the opportunity to go to the city.

He learned that those cars were there to pick up his mother.

With so many cars, you must be incredibly wealthy.

But why did he run away?

Thinking of this, the original owner ran outside again, slipped and fell flat on his face in the snow, and quickly got up.

She ran while calling for her mother.

Others who heard this just felt sorry for the child.

That woman is so heartless. Can't she just live a good life for the sake of her child?

The original owner developed a fever upon returning and no longer liked the cave dwelling.

They also look down on sauerkraut stew with glass noodles, and even more so on bean flour and oat noodles.

He felt that his mother would definitely come back to pick him up, because he was her son, her only son.

The old Chinese medicine doctor in the village said that his mother's health condition meant she couldn't have children anymore.

Therefore, he was absolutely certain that his mother would come back.

Even if he doesn't come back, she will come to pick him up.

He dreamed of being taken to the city to live a better life every night before going to sleep.

So he looked down on everyone in the village, including his crippled father and his two cousins, his second uncle and aunt.

He also looked down on his classmates and other friends in the village.

He studied hard so that he wouldn't be looked down upon when he went to school in the city. He waited and waited until he graduated from elementary school, junior high school, and high school.

I'm about to go to university.

He didn't wait for Yu Man to come and pick him up.

The worst part is that he can't afford the tuition to go to college.

After Ji Da Ma became disabled, he was completely useless at home. Ji Lao Tai also passed away, and Ji Er Ma and his wife's own son was no longer in school. How could they possibly support him to go to university?

Meanwhile, Ji Dama was still fantasizing in his cave about how successful his son was.

Sooner or later, we'll take him to the city to enjoy a comfortable life.

Although she lost her woman, she left him with an excellent son.

The original owner was so angry that he cursed, "Why don't you just die? You can't even keep a woman, and now you want to hold him back."

After packing his meager belongings, he secretly stole money from his second uncle's family while they were out and ran away.

He went to the city where he went to university; he wanted to stay in the city and not go back to that cave dwelling.

While on the train, the original owner saw his fellow passengers watching a program about finding missing relatives on their phones.