Ma's mother understood completely, and for some reason, she started laughing.
“Ma Shengcai, Ma Shengcai, do you really think I care about your Ma family? Do you think that just because I married into your Ma family, I have to be grateful to you and thank you to the point of tears? Let me tell you, Ma Shengcai, I hate you to death, I hate your Ma family to death.”
“If your family hadn’t given money to my parents back then, would I have come to your house? I didn’t come here voluntarily; I was sold by my own parents… to get money to come here.”
After a pause, Ma's mother didn't want to use the word "sell" to insult herself.
“Ma Shengcai, do you remember? When I first came to your house, didn’t I beg you to let me go? I promised to return double the money if you let me go. I would go begging or working to pay you back. But what did you say? You said you would never let go of the wife you finally married.”
“Ma Shengcai, do you remember now? It was you, Ma Shengcai, who couldn’t find a wife, so you came to my house with money to exchange for me. I came to your house because my parents tied me up, not because I came voluntarily.”
As she approached Mr. Ma, Mrs. Ma screamed in anguish.
Many things may be forgotten or subjectively ignored, but that doesn't mean they're over.
"Shut up! How could I, Ma Shengcai, not be able to find a wife? Don't talk nonsense."
Mr. Ma spoke loudly, but the guilt in his eyes couldn't lie. Back then, he truly couldn't find a wife. His family had some savings, but their reputation was poor.
Families with connections, or even ordinary families, wouldn't consider him. In the end, they had no choice but to exchange money for Ma Mu.
"Ha, Ma Shengcai, ask yourself honestly, can you even fool yourself?"
Mr. Ma fell silent, partly because he was in too much pain to speak, but more so because he couldn't find the words. The truth was as it was; he couldn't find a reason to argue.
“Ma Shengcai, do you have nothing to say? I have something to say. That night, you were afraid I would try to run away, so you took me into your room late at night, while your parents stood guard at the door. Ma Shengcai, do you remember what I said that night?”
What did they say?
Ma Shengcai shuddered violently. His mother was right.
As long as she's alive, she won't let them go.
“Honey, that’s all in the past. Look how well we’ve been doing all these years. Sweetie, I promise you, as long as you take us to the hospital, I can pretend nothing happened. Oh no, as long as you take us to the hospital, I’ll let you go if you want. This time it’s for real, absolutely for real.”
Recalling what happened many years ago, Mr. Ma's expression became somewhat unnatural.
He didn't want to admit he was scared, but the reality was that Ma's mother was really doing it; she didn't want to let him off the hook, and he panicked.
"Let me go, Ma Shengcai doesn't want to leave anymore, I just want you to come with me."
A sharp pain shot through her abdomen. Ma's mother knew the medication was taking effect. Even though she had taken a small dose, she had administered a strong dose; none of them were going to escape today.
“Ma Shengcai, look at this scene. Doesn’t it look familiar? After all, I also took medicine the day after that night!”
The medicine I didn't finish was repaid double today; there seems to be some kind of cyclical nature at play.
Sitting back down, Ma's mother slowly picked up her chopsticks and began to eat methodically, as if nothing had happened.
The horse's father on the ground seemed to recall what had happened; his eyes began to glaze over, and then they rolled back.
As for Ma Facai, who was standing to the side, he closed his eyes completely. He ate the fastest and in the largest quantities. He wanted to ask his mother why.
But she slowly shut her mouth, as if asking or not asking would have the same result.
Father Ma slowly closed his eyes, while Mother Ma kept her eyes open, looking at the sky outside. After smiling, Mother Ma closed her eyes.
Her life was filled with suffering and she made many terrible mistakes. Leaving was the best choice for her.
This was also her only compensation to Ma Mei. She was wrong from the very beginning; she had the opportunity to make amends, but she watched it slip away.
Oh well, maybe this is her fate.
Two days after moving, Ma Mei sat in her dimly lit room, her eyes twitching uncontrollably. She felt flustered but didn't know why.
She was clutching the note her mother had given her. After seeing her mother, Ma Mei wanted to throw the note away, but ultimately didn't.
When moving, Ma Mei wanted to throw the note away, but in the end she didn't. She held the note tightly in her hand, clutching it tightly.
Only after her palms were soaked with sweat did Ma Mei realize there was still a note inside.
After thinking for a while, she picked up the note and put it down again, picked it up and put it down again, and finally Ma Mei opened the note and read it.
There were many words written on it, written crookedly, clearly by someone who had just learned to read. Reading each word carefully, Ma Mei found herself with tears streaming down her face.
It stated where the Ma family's house certificate was located, where Ma's father and son, Ma Facai, had made their money, and also described Ma's mother's life, implying that writing about her life was a mistake.
In the very end, the last sentence is: I hope we never meet again in the next life; she was not a good mother.
Her hands suddenly went limp and fell to her sides. Ma Mei didn't know what to say. She had no feelings for Ma Facai, her father, from the very beginning.
Whether the two men live or die has no impact on her.
But she still had feelings for Ma's mother, and she still had expectations of her. Ma Mei herself couldn't pinpoint when those expectations and feelings disappeared.
Perhaps it was through repeated scoldings, or repeated beatings, or maybe it happened sometime later!
Let's not meet again in the next life.
Upon seeing this sentence, Ma Mei knew what it meant, and felt an empty, terribly painful feeling in her heart.
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