Chapter 209 The Difficulties of a Stepmother (1)

Virtual Hall of Different Space and Time.

"What are you here for?" Shi Yi said with a hint of tiredness.

She looked at the woman standing opposite her, fiddling with the soul-guiding lamp in her hand from time to time. She found from the soul-guiding lamp that the woman's life was ordinary and there was nothing to be regretted.

"I want to save my stepdaughter." The woman fiddled with her long hair, with a look of awkward embarrassment.

"Sign the contract." Shi Yi raised her hand, and Fu Liansheng, who was waiting beside her, understood and took

the contract to the woman. "My stepdaughter... no, my daughter, she is a very good child, and I hope she can have a bright life." The woman bit her finger and pressed the handprint, her eyes mixed with tenderness, regret and pain.

"Deal." Shi Yi took back the contract, and with a wave of his hand, the woman disappeared into the hall.

"You haven't asked her what she can pay?" Fu Liansheng said anxiously.

"She has tacitly agreed that I can take what I want myself." Shi Yi reached out and brushed off the non-existent dust on his shoulder. The distance between them was less than half a foot. Fu Liansheng could clearly see the tiredness in her eyes and feel her warm breath.

"See you later." Shi Yi suddenly pulled him away and disappeared on the spot. Fu Liansheng fell to the ground unexpectedly.

"This little ancestor is getting weirder and weirder." Fu Liansheng climbed up with one hand, picked up the contract and walked to the file room.

Juyang Village.

"This damn unlucky star, it's all her fault." The old grandmother frowned, stabbed the bamboo cane heavily on the ground, and spat out the phlegm in her throat.

At the same time, all the relatives started to persuade him, but most of them were of no substantial help.

The little girl squatting beside the firewood pile, wearing a patched flowery dress that obviously didn't fit her, stared at the closed door with a look of despair and helplessness on her face, and could not hear the words of the so-called relatives.

She hugged her legs tightly, thinking of when her mother gave birth to her little sister, she was also waiting alone at the door. After hearing her mother's roar in the house, her grandmother came out with a wrinkled baby wrapped in rags.

Her poor little sister, before she had time to open her eyes to see the world, was drowned in the urine bucket by her grandmother who despised her bad luck. From beginning to end, she never even heard her little sister cry.

If her mother gave birth to another sister this time, it would definitely be the same ending.

"This unlucky star, she only knows how to make shit every day. It's because of her bad luck that the child's mother fell down at the door and gave birth prematurely." The old grandmother said, her face excited, holding her crutches and taking a few steps forward, kicking her several times.

The little girl seemed to feel no pain and let her kick, her eyes were so empty that it made people feel distressed.

"Stop hitting her. What does this have to do with the child?" Shi Yi, who was standing on the roadside and watching, stood in front of the little girl.

"You, a girl from the Zhang family, are too nosy." The old lady was about to hit Shi Yi with her crutches.

The onlookers around stood by and watched, and some of them urged the old lady, "This is the Qi family's business and has nothing to do with the Zhang family," adding fuel to the fire.

Qi Yangui, who had been silent, grabbed his mother's arm and advised, "Mom, this is the old daughter of the old Zhang family, you can't hit her. Old Zhang will fight you to the death."

The crutches that she thought she could not avoid did not fall on her. The little girl Mai Huaer came back to her senses and stared at the aunt who was blocking her way with some confusion.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here, no one can hurt you." Shi Yi hugged the child tightly in her arms like a hen protecting her chicks, and looked at the old lady without giving in.

Mai Huaer unexpectedly fell into a warm embrace, and her mind became clear. She remembered that the one holding her was Aunt Zhang, who was two years younger than her mother.

During the Chinese New Year last year, she had given her maltose to eat. The taste was so sweet that she still remembered it clearly.

"An old, leftover woman who can't get married is actually here to manage our family affairs." Seeing Shiyi challenge her authority, the old lady spit on the ground and rushed up to fight again.

"Mom, Old Zhang, Old Zhang, we must fight to the death." Qi Yangui was afraid that the old Zhang family would cause trouble, so he hugged her waist tightly.

The main reason was that the old Zhang family had a reputation in the village that was too fierce, and they were very protective of their only daughter. He remembered that when he was a child, his friend accidentally knocked down Zhang Shiyi, who was still a bean sprout. In the afternoon, Old Zhang went to his friend's house with a weapon, and he was almost using a knife. Since then, no one in the village, young or old, dared to provoke the Zhang family, for fear that the Zhang family would fight them to death. This is probably the reason why Zhang Shiyi, who is 28 years old and has a delicate appearance, is still unmarried in the village.

"If you have time to make a fuss at the door, why don't you go in and see your daughter-in-law's delivery?" Shiyi picked up Mai Huaer and glared at the onlookers. These ignorant people are invisible accomplices.

"Qi's, your wife seems to be in trouble." Granny Li, who was delivering the baby, shouted in the house.

"Mom, what should I do?" Qi Yangui seemed to have lost his backbone and looked at his mother for help.

"What a sin." The old lady of the Qi family, who originally wanted to use violence against Shiyi, was worried about the precious grandson in her daughter-in-law's belly. She cried and ran in with trembling feet.

Everyone onlookers knew that she was not shouting this sin for her daughter-in-law who was in labor, but for the precious grandson of the Qi family in her daughter-in-law's belly.

Mai Huaer was held high in Shi Yi's arms. She looked at her relatives with a strange look. She saw indifference and gloating on their faces.

Yes, these relatives have always used all kinds of words to squeeze them because there are no boys in their family. Now that her mother is dying, there must be no boys in their family again, and they have countless things to say.

She cast her eyes on her father again. Her father stood at the door and looked at the ground with his hands and feet huddled. His cowardly image made her feel cold.

Maybe she was too sad, and tears flowed down her face.

When she realized that she had soiled Aunt Zhang's clothes, she looked up carefully to see Shi Yi's eyes, but she saw full of heartache in Shi Yi's eyes.

"Don't cry, I'm here." Shi Yi patted her thin back gently.

This child was so light when he was held in his arms, as if he was a piece of bone. It is conceivable how much grievance he suffered at home.

Mai Huaer had never felt such tenderness before, and her tears flowed like a flood.

She thought at that time that no matter what happened in the future, she would be good to Aunt Zhang.

(End of this chapter)