Oh, no, she also had to do chores, but now that Chen Ermei has married into the family, she doesn't have to do so much work by herself anymore.
Just like when her sister-in-law was still alive, she didn't have to do so much work. It's a pity that her sister-in-law had a bad life and died young.
Chen Ermei didn't want to wash. She felt that if she compromised today, her future might be just like her previous life. If that happened, what would be the point of her rebirth?
Lin Chunyan saw that she had been told several times to stop, but the girl wouldn't budge, so she gave up. Since she had already tried to persuade her, and the girl wouldn't listen, then let Xu Weimin and Xu Jingui teach her a lesson!
Da Bao and Xiao Bao were playing hide-and-seek in the yard. Xiao Bao wasn't watching where he was going and accidentally bumped into Chen Er Mei.
Chen Ermei was already simmering with anger, and now Xiaobao had bumped into her for no reason. She gritted her teeth and pinched him.
Xiao Bao immediately burst into tears, shouting to Lin Chunyan, "Grandma, waaaaah! It hurts!"
"Brother, it hurts! Waaaaah!"
When Da Bao heard Xiao Bao crying, he rushed over to comfort him, repeatedly asking, "Xiao Bao, where does it hurt? Tell your brother?"
Xiao Bao was anxious, but he couldn't explain it clearly, so he kept pointing to his stomach and then to Chen Ermei.
Da Bao guessed that Xiao Bao probably meant that Chen Er Mei hit him. Da Bao was still young, and he didn't want to get into a conflict with Chen Er Mei, so he decided to take Xiao Bao to find his grandmother.
He just saw his grandma go out; otherwise, she would have come out long ago if Xiaobao had been crying so loudly.
When Chen Ermei saw Xiaobao crying and complaining, she felt something was wrong and blocked the two of them from going out to find Lin Chunyan.
Chen Ermei knew that Xu Jingui didn't like her that much either. She had originally planned to first get along well with the two little brats, and then have another child of her own.
However, she was so angry because Lin Chunyan had just asked her to wash the dishes that she couldn't help but pinch Xiaobao. She couldn't let them complain to her.
Chen Ermei tried her best to smile kindly, and then said in a low voice, "I'm sorry, it was my fault just now. Your name is Xiaobao, right? Can you forgive me?"
"You are not our mother! We have our own mothers!"
When Da Bao heard her claim to be her mother, she loudly retorted. "She's not! Her mother is very beautiful, she doesn't look like this at all!"
Seeing that Da Bao was so uncooperative, Chen Er Mei felt even angrier, as if she liked being their stepmother. If it weren't for Xu Jingui, she wouldn't even look at them!
Seeing that they still wanted to go out, Chen Ermei simply picked up Xiaobao. When Xiaobao saw that she had picked him up, he cried even harder.
He kept pushing her away with his hands and feet, repeatedly shouting, "No, no, I want my brother, waah, waah, I want my brother!"
Seeing that he couldn't push her away, he desperately stretched out his hands, wanting Da Bao to hug him.
Da Bao was also very anxious down below, kicking Chen Er Mei incessantly: "You bad person! Let go of my brother! Or I'll bite you to death!"
Chen Ermei was annoyed by the two of them. She struggled to carry Xiaobao back home. When Dabao saw that she refused to put Xiaobao down, he bit Chen Ermei's leg in a fit of anger.
In pain, Chen Ermei reflexively kicked Da Bao away, which was witnessed by Xu Jingui who had just returned.
"Da Bao!"
Xu Jingui was furious when he saw Chen Ermei dare to kick Da Bao. His eyes practically blazed with rage. After picking Da Bao up, he looked at Chen Ermei as if she were already dead.
Chen Ermei never expected to be so unlucky, and frantically tried to explain that Da Bao had bitten her first.
"I didn't mean to, Da Bao bit me first, and I kicked him accidentally because it hurt..."
Xu Jingui continued to stare at Chen Ermei without saying a word. When he noticed that Xiaobao was being carried by her and was crying incessantly, his expression turned even more unpleasant.
He put Da Bao down, took Xiao Bao from him, and calmly said to them, "Grandma is chatting with someone in the alley outside. Da Bao, take your brother to find Grandma. Dad will give you some money; ask Grandma to take you to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy candy."
Da Bao took the 50 cents Xu Jingui handed him and nodded obediently: "Okay, I'll take my little brother to find Grandma to buy candy."
Xu Jingui patted Da Bao and Xiao Bao's heads and instructed them, "Okay, go ahead, remember to watch where you're going, don't fall."
Once he was sure Da Bao and the others had left, he closed the gate to the courtyard and walked toward Chen Ermei with a gloomy face.
Chen Ermei was so frightened by his gaze that she kept backing away. The abusive man she married in her previous life had the same look in his eyes before he hit her.
Chen Ermei felt she must have seen wrong. In her past life, Xu Jingui had always been very good to Huang Qinqin. Everyone in the family compound praised him. He would never hit a woman.
Despite trying to comfort herself, Chen Ermei knew she had made a mistake the moment Xu Jingui raised his hand.
Chen Ermei closed her eyes and waited for the slap to fall. It wasn't that she couldn't dodge it, but based on her experience in her previous life, the more she dodged, the harder she might be hit!
Snap!
Xu Jingui slapped her hard, and seeing that Chen Ermei wisely didn't dodge, he finally felt less angry.
However, he warned her, "If I see you lay a hand on Da Bao or Xiao Bao again, I'll break your legs!"
"Also, I didn't marry you to enjoy a life of luxury. Aren't you the most hardworking person in the entire steel factory compound? What, my mom just asked you to wash the dishes, are you not going to do it?"
Chen Ermei shook her head fearfully, trembling as she said, "No, I... I'll go wash right away..."
"That's right! I'm warning you, if it weren't for your ability to work, why do you think I would marry you instead of Huang Qinqin? Because you're ugly?!"
Without even looking at Chen Ermei's reaction, he walked straight towards Xu Daya.
He slapped her on the head: "And you! You saw Da Bao and Xiao Bao being bullied by her, why didn't you go and help them?"
When Xu Daya saw her brother arrive, she sensed something was wrong. Sure enough, she was also beaten. At the time, she didn't understand how much her new sister-in-law meant to her brother, so she didn't dare to help.
What if Xu Jingui now values Chen Ermei more? Wouldn't she be in big trouble?
But now that they know Chen Ermei is just a worker, things are different. She quickly pledged her loyalty to Xu Jingui: "Brother, I won't do it again. I'll definitely keep an eye on her from now on and won't let Dabao and Xiaobao be bullied by her!"
"Okay, I'll let it slide this time. You two hurry up and finish washing the dishes, or we won't have time to cook this afternoon."
"Yes, yes, we'll hurry!"
Xu Daya quickly called Chen Ermei over: "What are you still standing there for? Come and wash the dishes!"
Chen Ermei didn't dare to argue anymore, but she felt numb and mechanically began to work. She didn't understand why Huang Qinqin was able to do no work at all in her previous life.
But in this life, she married into this family, only to be beaten and forced to do all the housework...
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