Chapter 2: Household Registration 2 Dong Taohua banged her head against the wall in grief and despair...
Old Dong cried out in pain and turned to look at his step-wife. Wang Sumei glared at him and asked, "Old man, what did you promise me yesterday?"
"Didn't I tell you that your granddaughter can't stay? Look at our house, it's so crowded. How are we going to accommodate her if she stays here?"
"I don't care. If you insist on keeping this girl, I won't live with you anymore. Just live your own life, you old bastard."
Wang Sumei's words were intimidating. If she could leave, she would have left long ago. Why would she have to squeeze into the small public housing unit that Old Dong and his ex-wife shared with her son, daughter-in-law, and grandson?
But Mr. Dong was really scared by her.
He had a really hard time in the two years after his ex-wife died. Not only did he come home from exhaustion during the day and no one cared about him, but he also had trouble sleeping alone at night.
Life became even more difficult after the eldest daughter went to the countryside. Neither he nor his eldest son knew how to cook. The second daughter was only fourteen years old and the youngest son was only six years old. With no one to cook, the stove would be cold when he got home. He would be tired all day and still have to cook, wash clothes and take care of the three children at home.
Only after marrying this wife did he live the good life of having someone to serve him when he got home. He was really afraid of living without a wife. Now that his step-wife said she didn't want to live with him anymore, Lao Dong got scared.
Old Dong avoided his eldest daughter's expectant gaze and hesitantly said, "Taohua, your aunt is right. Our house is too small. There's really no room for one more person."
Dong Taohua was very desperate. She could accept her eldest brother's refusal to let his daughter stay because brothers and sisters would naturally fight for the interests of their own families after they got married.
She could accept her stepmother and stepbrother's rejection because they had no blood relationship with her and would naturally consider their own interests. Only her father, Lao Dong, made her despair.
Twenty years ago, Old Dong gave up on her once by sending her to the countryside. Twenty years later, Old Dong refused to keep his daughter, abandoning her once again.
Dong Taohua collapsed instantly. She grabbed the celadon teapot on the table in the main hall and threw it out. The teapot hit the opposite wall hard, then bounced to the ground and shattered into several pieces.
Wang Sumei screamed, "Ah, my teapot. Dong Taohua, you lunatic, what are you doing?"
"Wang Sumei, are you shameless? What do you mean by 'your teapot'? This was clearly bought by my mother." Dong Taohua said, noticing the thermos bottle in the corner. "This thermos was also bought by my mother."
As she spoke, she strode over, picked up the water bottle, and held it up.
Liu Qiang was about to stop them, but Dong Fuyun, who was standing next to him, saw this and quickly stepped between Liu Qiang and Dong Taohua, preventing him from interfering with Dong Taohua. He said, "Brother Liu Qiang, be careful. There are porcelain pieces on the ground. Don't get your legs pricked."
Liu Qiang struggled to push Dong Fuyun away, hoping to save the kettle, but he was too late. The kettle fell to the ground with a thud, its inner shell shattered, and the hot water inside flowed steaming onto the floor.
"Oh my God, my thermos." Wang Sumei was only concerned with the teapot and not the thermos.
Dong Taohua didn't care about anything, and she couldn't do anything about it. The extreme grief and despair in her heart made her want to do something to vent.
A person full of despair has amazing destructive power. With the addition of Dong Fuyun who came to stir up trouble, in less than ten minutes, everything that could be smashed within sight in the Dong family's main hall was reduced to rubble.
Dong Taohua finally calmed down and looked at Old Dong with sadness in her eyes.
Dong Taohua said: "Dad, are you really my real dad?
My mother passed away, and my eldest brother took over the job. When I was sixteen, the neighborhood committee sent educated youth to the countryside, and Ping's father gave her his job to keep her.
Dad, you said, my second sister is ten, my youngest brother is only six, and my oldest brother is a temporary worker. If you give me the job, there will only be two temporary workers at home, and the wages are too low, and I'm afraid we won't be able to support the family. I listened to you and, for the sake of my family and my two underage siblings, I packed my bags and left Hucheng alone.
I was only sixteen when I left. I stayed in that remote mountain village for twenty years, suffering utterly and never being able to return. My daughter is the same age as I was back then, and now she finally has the chance to leave, but you refuse to accept her household registration...
Dad, when you refused to give me the job and instead gave it to my stepmother's son, I didn't hate you. But now I can't help but hate you. I have no future in this life, and you want to stifle my daughter's as well. What's the point of living then...
If you insist on not accepting He Ye's household registration, I will die in this house. I was born here and will die here, so it is a worthy death."
When Xu Heye woke up, she heard her mother's tearful accusations. Everyone thought she was just threatening them, but only she knew that it was all true.
Dong Taohua glanced at her family and a sad sneer appeared on her face. She clenched her fists, suddenly jumped up, and slammed her head against the wall.
Xu Heye's eyes were bloodshot, and she didn't know where she got the strength from, but she rushed over and pushed Xu's mother away. The two of them fell to the ground with a loud bang, shaking the floor like an earthquake. You can imagine how great the force was.
Everyone looked at the mother and daughter falling to the ground, their faces turning pale. If it was a show, there was no way such force could be used.
If Dong Taohua had really hit the wall that time, it's hard to say whether she would have survived. If the eldest daughter (stepdaughter/sister/stepsister) had really died in this house, who would be able to live in this family in the future?
Even if they could endure the fear and live in this house, the people in the alley would look at them strangely when they knew they had forced someone to death.
Dong Fuyun reacted the fastest, rushing to the mother and daughter, and said in fear: "Sister, He Ye, are you two okay?"
Xu Heye looked at her uncle and forced a smile: "Uncle, I, I'm fine. Please go and see my mother, see how she is..." Before Xu Heye finished speaking, she fainted.
Dong Fuyun looked at his unconscious elder sister and niece, then looked at his father, Old Dong, and the others with hatred: "Dad, big brother, do you really want to force your elder sister and niece to death?"
Old Dong turned pale with fear and murmured, "No, no, how could I possibly want to force Taohua to death."
Wang Sumei was also terrified as she watched the mother and daughter. This cheap stepdaughter was too cruel, she could do such a cruel thing to herself. If she didn't agree, what if she went crazy and attacked them?
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