04
"Qiu'er, why are you back again?"
When Yang Qiujin arrived at her mother's home in Xinfeng Brigade, her mother Wu Shulian was just about to go to work.
Wu Shulian is 50% similar to Yang Qiujin, both have big double eyelids and rosy lips, but Wu Shulian has very fair skin and a small face. She is almost 45 years old, but looks like she is in her 30s and still has charm.
"Mom, I just picked some bamboo shoots and brought you some." Yang Qiujin walked into the Yang family's mud house and handed the basket to Wu Shulian. She looked around and said, "Is my dad slacking off from work again?"
"He said he had a headache and won't leave work today." Wu Shulian took the basket and saw the bamboo shoots and candied eggs inside. She looked at Yang Qiujin with some joy, but also some guilt: "Qiu'er, you're married now. Save the good things for your mother-in-law and Tianyou. Don't always bring them to mom and make people in your team laugh at you."
"Who dares to laugh at me? Have you forgotten that you were working in the mountains before and fell down from the mountain. Your waist and legs were broken and you almost died. You were paralyzed in bed. My sister and I begged my aunt to send you to the best hospital in Shanghai. We took turns to take care of you and finally saved you. Those things of mine were for your health. Who dares to say anything about me?"
Yang Qiujin got angry when she saw Wu Shulian holding a sickle in her hand. She snatched the sickle from her hand and rushed to the east room angrily: "You said you have only been well for a few years, but you still have many problems with your waist and legs. You should lie down at home and recuperate. But you left a healthy old man to work in the fields to earn work points to support you, and you, a sickly person, went to work in the fields. How many work points can you earn with your body? Is it enough for the two of you? Don't earn any work points, and get a lot of problems with your body. Then Qiuyue and I will have to pay for it!"
Wu Shulian was so frightened when she saw her expression that she quickly stopped her: "Qiu'er, your father is really not feeling well, don't argue with him..."
Unfortunately, her frail body could not hold Yang Qiujin back.
Yang Qiujin rushed into the east room. Her father Yang Chenghua was sleeping soundly on the bed wrapped in a quilt. She was so angry that she went forward and lifted the quilt, kicked Yang Chenghua to the ground, and cursed: "Yang! What time is it? The sun is shining on your butt! Why don't you get up and go to work? You let my mother work again? You are a grown man who has been lazy for half your life, and my mother has worked hard to raise you for half her life. You still want her to take care of you until you are old?! Can't you see that she is in poor health now and needs to rest?"
Yang Chenghua has an unshaven beard and messy hair. He is already 45 years old and is wearing a white vest. He still has a handsome face and fine features.
He grimaced in pain, his eyes half-closed, and stood up from the ground, holding his buttocks, cursing: "Who kicked me? You don't want to live anymore!"
Yang Qiujin sneered: "I am Gui'er, and you are Gui'er's father, Gui'er's grandson!"
Yang Chenghua's eyes widened a little. He saw his eldest daughter holding a sickle in her hand and standing beside the bed with murderous intent. He quickly shut his mouth and slipped away in his pants, hiding behind Wu Shulian, who was a head shorter than him, at the door. He asked with a frightened expression, "You unfilial daughter, what are you doing here again?"
It was simply because he was afraid. He had been lazy and gluttonous since he was a child. He would rather lie down than sit. Asking him to work in the fields would be like killing him.
With his laziness, it would have been impossible for him to get married in this era where labor was honored. However, he was handsome and had a good mouth to please women. He had many affairs when he was young, and finally he persuaded Wu Shulian to marry him without asking for any dowry, wearing half-worn clothes.
Not long after the couple got married, Grandpa Yang decided to let the brothers divide the family property. Originally, as long as the couple worked hard, they would have no problem supporting themselves.
But he was lazy and didn't want to do any work. He was also used to brainwashing Wu Shulian, coaxing her around. She was willing to bear children for him, take care of the house and revolve around him.
Even so, no one thinks it's a big deal, after all, this is how most women live these days.
However, Wu Shulian could not give birth to a son. Over the years, she only gave birth to two sisters, Yang Qiujin and Yang Qiuyue. In the eyes of Yang Chenghua, who favored boys over girls, Wu Shulian was just an old hen that didn't lay eggs. He always looked down on her and wanted to kick her out.
But he also knew that if he really kicked Wu Shulian out, who would wash his clothes and cook for him, bring him footbath water and wait on him, who would work hard in the fields to earn money to support him? No matter how handsome a man is, if he doesn't earn money to support his wife, but is supported by his wife instead, this is unacceptable.
He looked down on Wu Shulian and her daughter, but was reluctant to give up the series of benefits Wu Shulian brought him. He just dragged it on without knowing the reason, and his personality became more and more weird.
He started out by beating and scolding the three of them, and later became addicted to gambling, spending all the valuable items in the house on gambling.
Later, he joined a group of uneducated people to do petty things and visit kilns. Finally, he had an affair with a widow from the Pioneer Brigade, which made Wu Shulian so angry that she cried every day. Later, he teamed up with the widow's mother and daughter to drug Yang Qiujin and pushed Yang Qiujin into the house of Chen Shengqing, whom the widow's daughter Shi Fangfang was unwilling to marry...
After Yang Qiujin woke up from the drug, she learned that it was her biological father who had done the murder. Years of accumulated disappointment and resentment burst out. She picked up a kitchen knife and chopped at Yang Chenghua like a madman.
Yang Chenghua was stabbed twice on the arm by her and was so scared that he ran around everywhere, shouting in the village that his daughter was an unfilial person and wanted to kill him, which attracted many people to come forward to dissuade him.
In this era where filial piety is the most important thing, Yang Qiujin's behavior is undoubtedly treasonous. Everyone condemned Yang Qiujin for being unfilial while trying to find ways to pull her out.
Unfortunately, Yang Qiujin was already mad with rage, and she only wanted to kill her scumbag father Yang Chenghua, and she would chop down anyone who stood in her way.
Everyone was frightened by her crazy look and watched Yang Qiujin catch up with Yang Chenghua, and the father and daughter started fighting in the street.
In the end, the lazy and weak Yang Chenghua was no match for Yang Qiujin, who had built up a strong physique from years of working in the fields. Yang Qiujin stabbed him several times on the back, face, hands and feet.
Of course, the blow was not very severe, just scratching the skin. It was not as serious as when Yang Qiujin pinned him to the ground, punched and kicked him, and beat him like a pig's head.
From then on, Yang Qiujin became famous overnight and became a well-known young prostitute in several villages and towns. After all, there were many prostitutes in that era, but almost none of them dared to beat and kill their own fathers. Yang Qiujin was the first one.
After being severely beaten by Yang Qiujin, Yang Chenghua still refused to accept the defeat. After he recovered, he put on airs again and wanted to beat Yang Qiujin into submission and admit her fault, just like he did when they were children.
Unexpectedly, the times are different now. He is over fifty years old and not as strong as before. He is no match for the young and strong Yang Qiujin. Several clashes ended with him being beaten into a pig's head. In the last one, he almost had his balls cut off.
From then on he behaved himself. He no longer dared to do anything sneaky or go to kilns, nor did he dare to have any contact with the widow. Apart from his laziness, there was nothing wrong with him.
Yang Qiujin despised Yang Chenghua's cruel behavior the most. She thought about how arrogant he was when he was young. He would always beat her and her sisters whenever they disagreed with him. He always felt that he could control their lives and satisfy his addiction to the power of being a father.
Now that she is older and has been disciplined by me more, she is afraid of me and dares not confront me face to face, so she hides behind her mother. Ugh! What a rubbish!
Yang Qiujin threw the sickle in front of him and said, "I'll give you one minute. If you stay at home and don't go out to work, I'll chop off your useless balls!"
Yang Chenghua knew that she would do what she said, and fearing that she would cut off his balls again, he hurriedly put on his clothes, picked up the sickle and ran out. Only when he ran out of the yard did he dare to curse in a low voice: "I am really in trouble. I gave birth to such a debt collector, a jinx..."
Yang Qiujin watched Yang Chenghua leave, then turned to look at Wu Shulian, "Mom, why did you divorce him?"
From a very young age, Yang Qiujin and her sister persuaded their mother to divorce the scumbag, but she always fooled them with reasons such as you are still young and it is pitiful to not have a father, or your father is good to her except being lazy.
Later, when Yang Qiujin grew up, she realized that it was not that her mother did not want a divorce, but that the word divorce did not exist in the education and environment she received.
Her mother was born before the founding of the People's Republic of China. At that time, rural women were taught to regard their husbands as their gods and never get divorced. No matter how many tears or grievances they shed, they had to endure them until they both died of old age.
Yang Qiujin was unable to change her mother's mind and could only brainwash her over and over again, saying that it was a new era and women should hold up half the sky as the Chairman said, and should dare to fight against men and live the life they wanted.
She has hands and feet, she will not starve to death if she leaves a man, and her two daughters will support her until the end of her life. There is no need for her to waste her time on a scumbag.
Her mother always responded with "hmm" and "ah" and I don't know how much she heard.
"Your dad has been doing pretty well lately, getting full work points every day, but he was just being lazy today."
Wu Shulian did not dare to look at her eldest daughter. She lowered her head and took the things out of the basket and put them in the kitchen. She took out three steaming steamed buns and three cooked salted duck eggs from the pot and put them in Yang Qiujin's basket. She changed the subject and said, "These are the duck eggs I just soaked. Take them back and let your mother-in-law and Tianyou taste them. Shengqing hasn't had a letter for two years. When will your miserable life end?"
Yang Qiujin took the basket and said, "Mom, can I be as miserable as you? You are used to my dad, doing all the work yourself, and you don't divorce him. You keep torturing yourself. When you torture yourself to death, I will put you in a coffin made of bitter coptis root, and let you suffer in the underworld, working like a cow or a horse and never having peace in your life."
Wu Shulian didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "You kid, you are talking nonsense again."
"Mom, remember, your body is your own. If you ruin your body, no man will care about you any more, except for his own children."
Yang Qiujin brainwashed me every day, "The candy eggs I gave you are for your health. You are not allowed to secretly give them to that scumbag. If you give them to him, I will never bring you good things again. I will also find fault with him and make him spit out the food he ate from me. Don't even think about taking advantage of me!"
"I know, I know." Wu Shulian nodded repeatedly: "I locked the things you gave me in my cupboard and ate them secretly without telling him. But I had to send the candies and eggs that I couldn't finish to your sister. She has been married for more than two years and still hasn't gotten pregnant. Her in-laws treat her with disdain. I don't know how she is doing lately."
Yang Qiujin thought of her sister who had the same miserable life, sighed, said nothing, and went home carrying the basket.
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