The weather was getting colder, and Er Ya woke up because she was cold.
She opened her eyes and the first thing she saw was the idiot's drooling face as he slept, the blankets all rolled up by him.
The fool didn't understand what a wife was; he treated her like a novel toy, playing with her day and night.
Er Ya initially resisted fiercely, and once almost bit off the idiot's ear.
In return, they were subjected to beatings and starvation.
She tried to escape many times, but each time she was caught and brought back, and her leg, which was only slightly lame, was completely broken.
While locked in the dark cellar, Er Ya thought that living like this, which was worse than death, was worse than being dead.
But she overestimated herself; she was afraid of the dark, afraid of hunger, and even more afraid of death.
After being starving in the dark for three days, she lay weakly on the ground, longing only to see the light and have a hot meal.
"Please, let me out! I promise I'll never do it again. I'll be good and won't run away. Please let me eat. I'm so hungry..."
After leaving the cellar, Er Ya wolfed down a bowl of spoiled rice, having lost all dignity.
The simpleton's father chuckled and said, "Your dad is really good at making decisions. Your mom was much more stubborn than you back then, but in the end, she was still subdued by your dad and gave birth to two kids for him."
Er Ya froze.
So, the nightmares she's experiencing now are the same ones that woman went through back then?
Er Ya suddenly started gagging and vomited up all the spoiled rice she had just eaten.
Enraged, the mentally challenged father picked up his sheep-herding whip and was about to lash her when the mentally challenged mother stopped him.
"Don't stop me. I think she deserves a beating. She'll behave once she's beaten into submission. A wife who's beaten is like dough that's been kneaded."
The simple-minded mother stared intently at Er Ya, who was vomiting uncontrollably, and said excitedly:
"Don't call yet. She looks pregnant. Her period hasn't come this month, so she's probably really pregnant."
Upon hearing this, the mentally challenged father immediately threw down the whip, his face beaming with excitement: "Really?"
"Whether it's true or not, we'll find out by asking someone to come and take a look."
Er Ya lay face down in the foul-smelling vomit, staring in horror at her stomach.
No, absolutely not. She didn't want to have a child with the fool who forced and abused her.
That's a bastard child; she doesn't want it.
But reality disappointed her; she actually got pregnant.
The mentally challenged parents were overjoyed and refused to let their son sleep on the same kang (heated brick bed) with her anymore, fearing they would lose their child.
Er Ya cried her heart out, and then she seemed resigned to her fate.
This made her mentally challenged parents relax their supervision of her a little.
The simple-minded mother stuffed a bowl of poached eggs into Er Ya's hands, and seeing that she obediently ate them, she smiled and said:
"That's right. We women are all going to get married and have children eventually, it doesn't matter who we marry. If you behave, you'll suffer less."
Remembering something, the mentally challenged mother added, "Whatever you do, don't be like your mother. She's the most stubborn woman I've ever met. You have no idea what she was like back then..."
As the mentally challenged mother recounted her story, Er Ya trembled more and more violently.
That woman had suffered so much torment and humiliation, far worse than she is now; no wonder she ran away.
"Alright, go to sleep after you finish eating. As long as you give my family a smart, big, fat grandson, my family will not treat you badly."
After her mentally challenged mother left, Er Ya hid under the covers and cried her heart out.
Looking at her still relatively flat stomach, Er Ya felt nothing but disgust and hatred.
This is not her child; it is a bastard, a disgrace.
At that moment, she suddenly understood her biological mother.
The family of the simpletons took great care of Er Ya's health. They stopped hitting her, stopped starving her, and didn't make her do any work. They only required her to eat and sleep well.
After observing for more than a month, seeing that Er Ya was taking good care of herself during her pregnancy and even learning to make clothes for the baby, they gradually lowered their guard.
Er Ya often thinks that if she didn't have memories of her past life, she would probably just accept her fate.
But she remembered it all, remembered that air of freedom, that feeling of being respected.
She could have endured the darkness if she had never seen the light.
Before her belly grew fully, Er Ya took advantage of her mentally challenged parents working in the fields to trick the mentally challenged man into taking her up the mountain to play.
Taking advantage of the fool's inattention, Er Ya pushed him down the ravine and ran away alone.
She took the most dangerous path, a route she had painstakingly planned over the past few days, which she could complete in less than two days.
After walking for a day and a half without anyone catching up, Er Ya thought she had finally escaped successfully.
However, she was caught up with once again just as she was about to escape the mountains.
"Yang Erya, you filthy bitch, what have we ever done to wrong you? You're trying to kill my son."
"You'll pay for my son's life."
The idiot is dead.
The foolish parents wished they could beat Er Ya to death to atone for their son's death.
But she was carrying their family's only heir.
So they planned to capture Er Ya first, and after she gave birth, bury her with their mentally challenged son, making her work as a slave for him underground.
Er Ya knew perfectly well what would happen to her when she went back.
She dared not look back and fled for her life in a panic.
But the path along the cliff was too narrow. She already had a broken leg, and in her panic, she lost her footing and fell.
"ah……"
Er Ya lay broken and mangled at the bottom of the cliff, blood gushing from every part of her body.
She knew that her life had come to an end.
Her consciousness gradually faded, and in her daze, Er Ya remembered her past life again.
Zhou Qiong led her out of the mountains, giving her a bright future she never dared to dream of before, allowing her to live freely and with dignity.
Zhou Qiong was her benefactor, but all she repaid him with was betrayal and death.
And that woman, her own mother, was also killed by her.
But what did her mother do wrong?
When it came to her own turn, didn't she also hate the child in her womb and desperately want to escape?
She repaid kindness with enmity, so this time, Zhou Qiong did not save her, allowing her to return to the fate that Yang Erya was meant to have.
Sure enough, she suffered endless torture and died a gruesome death.
At that moment, she finally understood.
Because of Zhou Qiong, she was able to become Yang Xi; without Zhou Qiong, she would only be the unfortunate Yang Er Ya.
They will never be able to escape this man-eating mountain.
In her past life, Zhou Qiong was pushed down the stairs and died, and her mother was driven to jump off a building to her death.
She was now in pieces, lying at the bottom of the cliff waiting to die.
Er Ya thought, this is probably retribution.
On the verge of death, Zhou Qiong suddenly appeared before her, and a glimmer of light returned to Er Ya's unfocused eyes.
Qi An looked down at Er Ya, who was lying in a bloody mess, and said calmly, "You see, without Zhou Qiong, you would never have been able to get out of here."
Er Ya's already dry eyes were now brimming with tears.
"I'm...I'm sorry, Qiong...Sister Qiong, Mom, help, help me...help me..."
Qi An squatted down and asked Er Ya with a smile, "If you were the farmer, and could do it all over again, would you still save that frozen snake?"
She won't.
Er Ya's pupils began to dilate as she strained to look into the distance, at the world beyond the mountains.
She originally had a chance to get out, but she cut off her only hope with her own hands.
Er Ya breathed her last unwillingly, her eyes remaining open until the very end.
Qi An glanced at her corpse with a mocking expression, then turned and disappeared.
As Zhou Qiong wished, Er Ya never managed to get out of there before she died, and she will rot in this place after she dies.
The fool and Er Ya are both dead; the fool's family line has ended.
Desperate and foolish, the parents vented their resentment on Er Ya's family.
The mentally challenged father broke into Er Ya's house with a knife and killed the old woman and Er Ya's younger brother.
Er Ya's father fought desperately to snatch the knife and killed the mentally challenged father, but was then killed from behind by the mentally challenged mother with an axe.
After the mentally challenged mother killed someone, she also drank pesticide and died.
In the end, only the mentally challenged sister managed to leave the mountains.
Six months later, the movie was released and grossed over 10 billion yuan at the box office. Qi An's portrayal of the crazy villain became incredibly popular.
Although Zhou Qiong didn't say it, Qi An had seen her memories, so he knew the regret in her heart.
After working as a stunt double for so many years, she wanted a role that would make her memorable.
Remember a female action star named Zhou Qiong. She loved movies and took every small role very seriously, but she just had some bad luck.
So Boss Qi gave her this small gift.
From then on, whenever martial arts, villains, or female demons were mentioned, Zhou Qiong's name would be repeatedly brought up.
On the day of the film awards ceremony, the director was all smiles, and when he gave his acceptance speech, he both praised and scolded Zhou Qiong.
They praised her superb acting skills and amazing agility, then focused on accusing her of various terrifying actions during filming.
The old man also showed a photo on the big screen, which showed a large number of empty bottles of nitroglycerin and antihypertensive drugs, making it particularly convincing.
The audience felt that the old man deserved the award.
After the awards ceremony, Qi An went to the prison.
Song Bin has been living off women for over a decade without suffering any hardship. He looks young and handsome, at most thirty.
But now, only half a year later, he looks haggard, with half of his hair turned white, and he looks to be over fifty years old.
Under the loving care of his "roommates," Song Bin was covered in bruises, his body reeked of a foul odor, and he was barely conscious.
When he saw Qi An, he was completely unaware of how illogical her presence was; he just kept kowtowing, repenting, and begging for forgiveness.
"Wife, I was wrong. Please save me, get me out of here. I don't want to stay here anymore. They're all bullying me..."
"Please, let me out! I want to get out! I'll kowtow to you, please save me, save me..."
His consciousness was clouded; he was not far from going insane.
Qi An chuckled: "Don't worry, I'm here to save you. You'll be able to leave here soon; your Xiao Xi has been waiting for you for a long time."
The next morning, when his roommates were about to urinate on Song Bin as usual, they discovered that he was already dead.
After the forensic autopsy, he looked completely bewildered.
Song Bin died from a ruptured liver and gallbladder, meaning he was scared to death.
The prison guards pulled up the surveillance footage and saw him suddenly kowtowing and talking to thin air, then shrinking into a corner with a look of fear on his face, pushing something hard.
He was still saying, "Get out of here, don't look for me, it's all your fault..."
After watching the surveillance footage, everyone was even more puzzled.
What did he see before he died?
Boss Qi said it was nothing, just a minor illusion.
In Song Bin's "eyes," Yang Erya, broken and dying with her eyes wide open, was lying in his arms, asking him why he didn't save her.
The adulterous couple both went to hell one after the other, paying the price for their evil deeds.
Kindness is not a crime, but it needs a sharp edge to protect it.
May every kind-hearted farmer in this world not be let down.
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