Zhang Chunxue lay straight on the bed, her throat dry and itchy.
Water... She wanted to drink water.
She turned her eyes with difficulty and looked at the sofa diagonally opposite. Her eldest daughter-in-law, Li Hongjuan, was curled up on the sofa, concentrating on browsing her mobile phone.
Zhang Chunxue was anxious, and a weak sound came out of his throat, "Water...water..."
Li Hongjuan seemed to still be wearing headphones, her fingers swiping across the screen quickly, and occasionally a smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, which was caused by some video she was watching.
An uncontrollable rage, mixed with powerless sorrow, suddenly rushed into Zhang Chunxue's heart.
Nanny! She obviously wanted to hire a nanny!
She has her own pension and savings, which is more than enough to hire a nanny!
But what did the three "filial" sons say?
"Mom, it's so expensive to hire someone else! Besides, we're worried, so we'll take care of you ourselves!"
Take care of yourself? Is this how they take care of themselves?
They take turns coming here, and all day long they are either grinning at their phones or taking a nap in their chairs!
The food was placed on the bedside table and became cold and spoiled, but they didn't even bat an eyelid!
The more Zhang Chunxue thought about it, the angrier and more anxious she became. The weak sound in her throat finally rose a little and turned into an unclear "ah...ah..." sound.
This time, Li Hongjuan finally heard it.
She reluctantly took off one of her headphones, frowned, and turned her head. "Why are you shouting? What do you want to do?"
Zhang Chunxue looked at her young but mean face and squeezed out a word from her throat with all her strength, "Water..."
Li Hongjuan heard it clearly, and the impatience on her face became even more pronounced. She stood up and folded her hands across her chest.
"Drink! Drink! Drink! All you do all day is drink water! I just wiped your body and changed your diaper, and you want to drink water again? Why drink so much? If you wet your pants and wet the sheets later, I'll have to clean it up for you."
After saying that, she didn't even look at Zhang Chunxue, walked back to the sofa, and put on her headphones again.
Zhang Chunxue stared at her back, her eyes red with anger and humiliation.
She, Zhang Chunxue, has been strong for most of her life!
When she was young in the village, then at the factory, and then at her sons' homes, she was always the one who had the final say. Who dared to look down on her?
But what about now?
He is old, paralyzed, and can't even speak clearly. He has fallen to the point where he has to depend on his daughter-in-law's mood and can't even get a word of advice!
What is this?
In her life, she gave birth to three sons, one daughter, and picked up a little mute from the fields.
But in her early years, because she favored boys over girls and thought that girls were a waste of money, in order to save up wealth for her sons, she accepted the unconscionable betrothal gift and married her 18-year-old daughter to the gambling-addicted and domestically violent old man!
She still remembered how her daughter had begged her with tears before getting married, and how she had heartlessly pushed her daughter away...
The result? Within a few months, my daughter was beaten to death, leaving not a single piece of skin unharmed!
For the sake of her three evil sons, she toiled hard, finding ways to save money and sending them to work as workers. Later, when they went into business, she also risked her dignity to help them with everything, and later took care of their children, and their children's children...
But she had given so much for these three sons, and when she was old, these three sons treated her like this.
When she was paralyzed in bed, these three sons came to ask about her well-being at first, but after they took away all her property, they rarely came again!
As for the three daughters-in-law, the second daughter-in-law who was married in later never came to see her, let alone take care of her, and the eldest daughter-in-law and the third daughter-in-law said they would take care of her, but when they came they just sat aside and played with their mobile phones. Sometimes they didn't care when she urinated, and only changed her pants at night. Poor her, her pants were wetted by urine several times without her knowing.
Even so, they still beat and scolded her. Later, in order to reduce the number of times she urinated, they only gave her water twice a day.
The grandchildren and great-grandchildren she raised were even more reluctant to visit her. Some of them would turn around and leave as soon as they reached the door, disgusted by the stench in her room, completely forgetting that they used to pester her for pocket money.
Zhang Chunxue's heart was filled with resentment, but she couldn't even move now. What else could she do? She could only curse these unfilial descendants in her heart.
Zhang Chunxue only felt that the strength in his body was being drained away bit by bit, and his vision seemed to be starting to become dizzy.
Is she...about to die?
After an unknown amount of time, the door was quietly pushed open a crack, and a thin figure slipped in along the wall.
It’s the little mute! Zhang Xiaoyang!
Zhang Xiaoyang looked at Zhang Chunxue, who was emaciated and almost lifeless lying on the bed, and his eyes suddenly turned red. Then, he gestured to Zhang Chunxue, and then left home with Zhang Chunxue on his back.
Zhang Chunxue lay on Zhang Xiaoyang's back and cried.
This little mute who was ordered around by her and treated as free labor, when had she ever given him a good face?
What she always ate were the leftovers on the table, and what she always wore were old, ill-fitting clothes discarded by her three older brothers. When it came to heavy chores at home, the first person she thought of was him.
But now...
When she was tortured so badly by her own son and daughter-in-law, unable to even drink a sip of water and left to wait for death...
It turned out that it was this little mute whom she despised the most and sometimes even too lazy to remember, who carried her out of this "home"!
Zhang Xiaoyang rushed Zhang Chunxue to the hospital as quickly as possible.
"She's in very bad shape. She's in late-stage renal failure, with electrolyte imbalances and chronic malnutrition..." The doctor sighed as he looked at the young man, his face flushed with anxiety but unable to speak. "She's old, and her health is very poor... Honestly, there's nothing we can do. Let's prepare for her funeral."
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