Zhang Shengli ran to the police station to report the case, but they said that these were family affairs and the officials would not investigate unless the people reported them. Even if they did investigate, they would just try to smooth things over or give them both 50 lashes.
Zhang Shengli felt so frustrated, it was indescribable. But he had no other options. Who could blame him for being inferior to her? A grown man couldn't even beat a woman.
Zhang Shengli came out of the police station with heavy steps. It was late at night and the street lights were dim, stretching his shadow long, as if even the shadow was mocking his incompetence.
He looked up towards home, feeling a mixture of emotions. Home, which should have been a warm haven, had become the place he most wanted to escape from.
On the way home, Zhang Shengli couldn't help but recall every moment with Xie Chunhua.
From Xie Chunhua's meticulous care for him in the beginning, to his and his mother's schemes against Xie Chunhua later on, and finally to him getting the job he had always dreamed of, it seemed as if everything had gone as he wished, but why did he still feel inadequate?
"Human greed is like a snake swallowing an elephant" is probably referring to myself.
In fact, he knew what he was thinking, but he couldn't say it.
Could he say that he disliked Xie Chunhua because she was a widow, tall, fat, and snoring? Could he say that Xie Chunhua was not worthy of him?
He can't!
He was not afraid of being called an ungrateful person, but he was afraid of being slapped by Xie Chunhua.
That woman really hit people.
When was the first time he was beaten? I think it was the first day after his wedding. He had just gotten a job and was so happy that he wanted to have a drink to celebrate.
He asked Xie Chunhua to prepare a few dishes. She looked at him with a pair of cow eyes and said:
"Go by yourself! Don't forget, you are a son-in-law. Do you know what a son-in-law is? He is a male daughter-in-law who marries into our family. In the future, you will have to take on all the housework, such as washing clothes, cooking, sweeping the floor, and other things that a young wife should do."
He was furious when he heard that. It was true that he was a son-in-law, but he was not free labor. He raised his fist to hit Xie Chunhua, but this woman was so strong that she pushed him to the ground in an instant.
Alas, a wise man never suffers a loss in front of him. That night, not only did he not drink any wine, he also washed the dishes in the house, swept the floor, and washed the clothes.
From then on, he was often punched by that woman Ye Chunhua.
Unfortunately, every time I went to sue her for domestic violence, the police would say it was a family matter and they wouldn’t intervene.
In fact, he didn't want to embarrass himself in the police station again, but he really had nowhere to go, so he stayed in the police station for a while under the pretext of filing a complaint.
He felt that it was better to stay in the police station than lie at home.
But he had to go home, otherwise he would be caught by that woman and beaten again.
When Zhang Shengli returned home, Xie Chunhua had already fallen asleep. The room was silent, with only the constant snoring and the occasional sound of turning over breaking the tranquility of the night.
Zhang Shengli lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. He began to wonder if his marriage had truly come to an end and whether he should still try to salvage it.
He thought of a conversation between him and his mother Liu Juhua.
The first time he was beaten, he went home and told his mother Liu Juhua, wanting her to help him make a decision on how to take revenge on Xie Chunhua.
Liu Juhua consoled him:
"Shengli, just bear with it. If this gets out, how embarrassing it will be for our family? Oh, just bear with it. When she gives birth to a child, she will treat you well for the sake of the child."
"Really?" Zhang Shengli asked Liu Juhua for confirmation. Why did she not believe it?
"Really!" Liu Juhua gave her son confidence, although she didn't know what the future would be like.
But what was the result? The result was that several years passed and Xie Chunhua's belly remained unchanged.
He didn't dare to find fault with Xie Chunhua, after all, Xie Chunhua had a son with her ex-husband. He had no choice but to secretly go to the hospital to check, but found that he was dead.
No one knew how Xie Chunhua found out, but in any case, he finally discovered the diagnosis, and from then on, he had even less status in this family.
Zhang Shengli's life is a mess and he regrets it very much. Liu Juhua also regrets it as much as he does.
Liu Juhua really regrets it, and she regrets it often.
When she was young, she could earn some money with her beauty, and she thought she was great and looked down on everyone.
He abandoned his obedient and capable daughter-in-law and asked his son to sell his job and go to the countryside with the daughter of Director Qiu. He thought he could marry into a rich family, but unexpectedly he was dumped.
Now that he has married into the Xie family, he thought that with his son's good looks, he could easily control the widow Xie Chunhua, but unexpectedly, she controlled him instead.
Why is her life so miserable!
Liu Juhua sat in the dilapidated yard of her home, the sunlight filtering through the sparse leaves, dappling onto her wrinkled face.
Her eyes were empty, with a bitter smile on her lips. The regret in her heart surged like a tide, washing over her heart again and again.
Back then, she was a famous beauty in the county. With her beauty, some important people in the county would have some ideas about her. After a while, she became involved with them.
At that time, she was arrogant and always felt that her son should have a better marriage. She was always finding fault with the beautiful, gentle, obedient and capable future daughter-in-law, and always felt that she was not worthy of her son.
In order to give her son a better future, she forced him to get together with that fickle and illicit woman. Later, she even forced her son to give up his stable job and follow Director Qiu's daughter to the countryside.
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