Chapter 18 Selling Off Family Property
Why bring up divorce today of all days? It's completely illogical!
"Bullshit! I've worked myself to the bone for your Lu family, farming, raising pigs, cooking, and even climbing mountains in the middle of the night to fetch a doctor when my child was sick! But how have you treated me? You and your son curse and beat me every few days, and you don't even spare my two young daughters!"
She became increasingly angry as she spoke, her chest heaving violently.
"I am a woman, that's true, but I'm not an animal, not someone to be beaten and abused at will! Why should I put up with all this humiliation from you!"
Shen Cuifen continued angrily, "I didn't pursue the matter of you lying to me about marrying me before, which was considered giving your family a chance! But now you've actually given my daughter away behind my back to marry a bachelor in his forties. That man doesn't even have a proper job and spends his days drinking and gambling at the village entrance!"
She continued speaking through gritted teeth.
"Your family has no conscience! How could you push my daughter into such a pit!"
"Your whole family are ungrateful wretches, young and old alike, all with wicked hearts! Am I supposed to stay in your house forever, enduring your beatings and insults, and even being pushed into a fire pit by you? Why should I put up with it!"
At this moment, the old lady Zhao, who had been hiding behind her son Lu Weidong, poked her head out from behind and interjected with a disdainful expression.
"Which husband doesn't beat his wife a few times? Your father beat me when he was young, and I still endured it for decades, didn't I? I think you've become so arrogant because you've fallen for some random guy!"
Shen Cuifen was taken aback by what she said, but then she laughed in anger.
"Oh, you reminded me. I've come up with a plan. I don't have to get a divorce, but I can beat that bastard Lu Weidong half to death! Then he'll be lying on the bed unable to move, and nobody will have a good life."
She thought to herself: Anyway, the person lying down can't throw punches anymore, and won't hurt her or the children anymore, right?
In this life, she has already personally experienced the suffering of her previous life.
Shen Cuifen knew it perfectly well.
The heart-wrenching cries still seem to echo in my ears.
The Lu family.
They've all been cut from the same mold for generations; none of them are good people at heart!
Otherwise, you have to make the old man half-dead, otherwise the person who gets bullied and beaten will only become more and more unlucky!
Seeing the fierce look in Shen Cuifen's eyes, Lu Weidong felt a chill run down his spine.
That wasn't just empty boasting.
That's the look you only get when you're truly determined.
She really does what she says!
"You're just trying to scare me!"
Lu Weidong was very firm in his words.
Even if you want to go back to your parents' home, no one will support you! The elders in the family will never allow you to step out of this house!
As he spoke, he lowered his head, and his tone gradually softened.
"Forget about it. You need to know your place and understand your situation before you speak!"
His voice was lowered slightly.
“Look at Li Yongping. Although he’s a bit old, he’s a good person and knows how to care for others. The key is that he’s an acquaintance of Shuixian’s from the same village. If Xiuwei goes there in the future, someone will be there to look after her. So what are you trying to achieve by making such a fuss?”
The old lady couldn't help but lean out to join in the fun, and quickly chimed in to smooth things over, saying, "Oh, that's right! Lu Shuixian is Xiuwei's aunt, how could she harm her own family? She genuinely wants to find you a good husband."
As the old lady spoke, she glared at the broken pig feed trough on the ground, then continued to complain.
"And you, instead of being able to play matchmaker and get together with someone, you got carried away and started hitting them! How can you be so unreasonable!"
"snort!"
Shen Cuifen sneered and didn't intend to respond to their words.
"You make it sound so easy for you. If that man surnamed Li is really as you say, why don't you go and marry him yourself? Why should I have to suffer this injustice?"
"And what about Lu Shuixian? Does she allow her daughter Wang Chunli to marry him willingly? Could it be that she's unwilling to let her marry into a 'good family,' only thinking of throwing her own sister into a pit of fire, while pretending to offer well-intentioned advice?!"
Before she could finish speaking, she pointed at everyone around her and shouted, "I'm telling you all—stay away from my daughters from now on! If you dare to lay a finger on my two precious daughters again!"
Suddenly, Shen Cuifen slammed the feeding bowl in her hand onto the floor.
The mother and son were dumbfounded.
In the courtyard outside, only Lu Weidong and the old lady remained, staring at each other, unsure of what to say.
"Dad...Grandpa and Grandma, I'm hungry too."
It turned out that Lu Fuhua, who had just cried herself to sleep, had just woken up.
"Eat, eat, eat!"
Lu Weidong was already extremely agitated by Shen Cuifen's harsh words.
Upon hearing her son mention dinner, she became even more agitated and almost instinctively roared at Lu Fuhua.
Shen Cuifen kicked Lu Fuhua hard in the butt, glaring at him as she scolded, "Can't you even wait for the rice to cook? You're thinking about eating before we've even started the fire? If you want to eat, you have to help start the fire!"
The youngest son cried out in pain from the kick, rubbing his eyes with one hand as he walked sobbing to the stove, picked up firewood, and bent down to add fuel to the fire.
Shen Cuifen went straight into Lu Xiuwei's room.
She was preoccupied with something, and her face was tense.
As soon as she entered the door, she stood in front of her daughter, staring intently at her and said seriously, "Listen carefully these next few days. No matter what your father asks you to do, you can't go with him on your own. No matter what he says or does, you have to ask me first."
As she spoke, she turned to look at the calendar hanging on the wall, her fingers unconsciously stroking the edge of the paper, clearly remembering it in her mind.
March 9th this year.
Her daughter had been sold by that old bastard who was like a vicious dog.
There are now only three days left until that day.
Every time she recalls that scene, she trembles all over.
Looking at her emaciated daughter lying weakly on the bed, her face pale and lifeless.
She curled up in the thin blanket, feeling a pang of sorrow in her heart.
She made up her mind, her eyes resolute.
Lu Xiuwei blinked, smiled gently, and tried to ease the atmosphere, saying in a relaxed tone, "Mom, don't worry, you have the household registration booklet in your hands. I'm not so easily fooled."
"Don't underestimate Lu Weidong. That bastard tricked and forced me into marriage back then. What if he tries something underhanded with you one day? Do you think you're invincible? Don't let your guard down!"
She took a deep breath and continued, "I had a nightmare a few days ago. I dreamt that your father sold you to two brothers who then abused you. I woke up all night in a cold sweat."
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