Chen Hongmei twisted her body and sat on the edge of the kang in the west room, with her head lowered, stirring her hands constantly.
She was also hesitant in her heart. She now felt that her mother was not sincerely doing this for her and did not want to tell her some things.
"Oh, are you trying to drive me crazy? Can you please give me a straight answer?"
Wang Huilian reached out and pushed her. She wondered when this girl started to become so timid.
Chen Hongmei thought about it and compared it with her mother, who was more on her side in the whole family.
Tears flowed before she could speak. She mustered up her courage and said to Wang Huilian, "Mom, I don't want to go back. Can you talk to Dad?"
After saying this, Shen Hongmei was afraid that Wang Huilian would refute, so she stood up anxiously and grabbed Wang Huilian's arm: "Mom, I beg you, please help me!"
"Anyway, my grandfather has accepted the betrothal money, and I...I have slept with him, so we are even now."
"Please talk to my father and grandfather and let me live at home, okay?"
Wang Huilian looked at her daughter in this state, and finally confirmed her thoughts. She raised her hand and stroked Shen Hongmei's cheek, asking her with heartache.
"Did you have a quarrel with Changgui? Or did he beat you? Why? Tell me. If we are right, I will risk everything this time to seek justice for you."
"You have parents, brothers and sisters. We can't let others bully us. Hongmei, tell me the truth. What's going on?"
No matter how Wang Huilian asked, Shen Hongmei just cried and shook her head, refusing to say why she couldn't live with Zhao Changgui.
Wang Huilian was impatient and didn't have the patience to play guessing games with her. After she didn't answer after being asked several times, she couldn't help but yelled at her, "When did you become so chubby?"
"Even if I want to stay at home for a few days, I still have to be prepared, right? Don't you think about it? If you don't say anything, will your grandfather let you stay at home?"
"Wait for Zhao Changgui to come pick you up, so your father and I can control him and make him not dare to bully you in the future! Oh, I'm really worried to death."
Wang Huilian sat down angrily, complaining, "That vixen in the opposite room is always against me, and now you're here to cause trouble for me. Are you going to let me have a good life for two days?"
Shen Hongmei wiped away her tears: "I just don't want to live with him anymore. I don't want to go back."
Wang Huilian reached out and pinched her hard: "Shut up, what nonsense are you talking about?"
"Do you think getting married is just playing house? You get married today, but after two days you feel uncomfortable and then you don't get married?"
"If that were the case, your father and I would have died long ago. How could there be three of you brothers and sisters?"
After scolding Shen Hongmei, Wang Huilian looked at her daughter's face covered with tears, and her heart softened again. She endured the tightness in her chest and softened her tone.
"Hongmei, we are not afraid. Tell me the truth and I will help you find a solution. Is that okay?"
Wang Huilian's soft-spoken question finally made Shen Hongmei, who had always been ashamed to speak, unable to hold back.
"Mom, he...he wants that every night, I...I really can't stand it."
After saying that, she turned around, lay on the kang, buried her face in her arms, and cried uncontrollably.
After Wang Huilian heard this, she opened her mouth several times and looked at Shen Hongmei, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Just now, she imagined many situations in her mind, such as the couple quarreling, and Zhao Changgui beating Hongmei again.
Or maybe Hongmei just couldn't get along with the four little brats of the Zhao family and felt wronged.
Or maybe there is some conflict between neighbors.
Anyway, I didn't expect it was because of the things between husband and wife.
Wang Huilian persuaded Shen Hongmei in a somewhat awkward voice: "Hongmei, this kind of marriage between a man and a woman... that's normal. It will be a little painful the first time, just bear with it... it will pass."
"If not, how can we pass on our family line? Every woman has gone through this."
"If you run back because of this, I will have to ask your father to send you back tomorrow without your grandfather."
After saying this, Wang Huilian lowered her upper body again and whispered to Shen Hongmei: “When you go to bed, you should be a little sweeter and coax him, so that you will suffer less.”
"You have to learn to act like a spoiled child, okay? Don't go against a man. If you make him angry, can you beat him or beat him? In the end, won't you still be the one who suffers?"
Wang Huilian earnestly taught Shen Hongmei the ways of husband and wife, but Shen Hongmei didn't listen to a word she said.
"Then why are you and my dad still fighting? I've never seen you act like a spoiled brat to my dad."
"You...you kid..." These words made Wang Huilian's old face turn red.
"Your father and I are already an old married couple, what else is there to talk about?"
"But how long have you and Changgui been married?"
Speaking of this, Shen Hongmei felt even more aggrieved and cried to her mother, "But he is about the same age as my father, an old man. I feel sick just by looking at him. He might as well kill me if he asked me to say something nice to him."
Wang Huilian immediately reprimanded her: "He is your man, too. Once a woman is married, her husband is her heaven, and carrying on the family line is the most important thing in a woman's life."
"Look at your second aunt. She has been married for so many years. Does she have a say in this family? Who listens to her? Who gives her face? Isn't it because she can't give birth to a son?"
"You should give me face by giving birth to a son as soon as possible so that I can get a foothold in the Zhao family as soon as possible. Then I can rest assured."
Wang Huilian kept telling Shen Hongmei that she should respect men. She could be a little bit temperamental at ordinary times, but she must not be vague on major issues.
Chen Hongmei originally wanted to get some support from her mother, but her mother kept asking her to obey Zhao Changgui, which was completely different from what she expected.
The grievance in her heart became even worse, and she couldn't help but yell at Wang Huilian: "Don't you understand what I'm saying? I said I don't want to live with Zhao Changgui anymore, and I won't go back even if I die."
After Shen Hongmei finished yelling, she pounded the kang hard with her fists, as if that was Zhao Changgui.
Wang Huilian was so scared that she quickly stepped forward and covered Shen Hongmei's mouth with her hands: "My ancestor, please shout a little quieter, what if others hear it?"
Shen Hongmei was like crazy, trying to break free from her mother's hand.
She just wanted to shout it out so that everyone in the village would know.
Who made the whole family want to push her into the fire pit?
Thinking of the miserable life she had led in the Zhao family over the past few years, she wanted to die.
Just as the mother and daughter were arguing, Li Xiaoqin and Li Xiang lifted the curtain of the west room and walked in.
Li Xiaoqin looked at Wang Huilian and the other person who were quarreling on the kang in surprise: "What's going on? I can hear the quarrel in this room while I'm in that room? Why is Hongmei crying?"
Wang Huilian saw that what she feared was coming true.
She was determined to cover up for Hongmei in front of Li Xiaoqin and to save face for herself.
But in the end, this little vixen still made a fool of herself.
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