Chapter 1: One Dead, Two Dead
The night in deep winter is particularly cold and lonely.
A villager’s home in Weijia Village.
Cen Yan, wearing a thin old dress full of patches, sat in the yard, working on embroidery under the bright moonlight.
Her fingers were frozen stiff and needed to be rubbed from time to time to ensure that they could thread the needle flexibly.
She had been working on these tasks for several days, but there were still a few things left to be completed.
Cen Yan felt tired and stopped for a while, stroking her slightly protruding belly with one hand.
In the room, her five-year-old son coughed uncomfortably in his sleep from time to time, which made her heart tighten. She did not dare to stop and hurriedly picked up the needle and thread again.
The family was so poor that they couldn't even afford an oil lamp. Her eyesight was getting worse and worse, and she was pregnant, so she couldn't stand the fatigue.
But my son is seriously ill, and I have to finish these embroidery works as soon as possible to save enough money to buy medicine for my son...
When her son recovers from his illness, she will save money to send him to school, and he will pass the imperial examination and become a high-ranking official. Then her hard days will be over.
A mother is strong. For the sake of her son, she must grit her teeth and endure it no matter how difficult it is!
At this moment, the dilapidated courtyard door creaked and was pushed open.
A tall, square-looking man hurriedly walked in from outside, without even looking at the hard-working woman sitting in the yard, and walked straight into the house.
After a while, he came out with something in his hand, walked past Cen Yan without looking at her, and was about to leave the house and go out.
Cen Yan didn't want to pay attention to him.
But when she saw that he was holding a blue handkerchief in his hand, her heart skipped a beat. She quickly stood up and grabbed him: "You stole my money. What are you going to do with it? Are you going to redeem your father again?"
"Get out of the way!" Seeing her trying to stop him, the man slapped her hard in the face without saying a word.
"Wei Zan! You are not a human! You are a beast!" Cen Yan's cheek was swollen from being hit, but she held on to his clothes tightly and refused to give in, "That's my money, you can't take it!"
"Cen Yan, my father is being held captive by those loan sharks. If I don't give him money to save him, he'll have a finger chopped off! You call him dad too, don't you understand filial piety?!"
"I don't understand! I just know that your father has squandered all the family money on eating, drinking, whoring and gambling! He is a bottomless pit that can never be filled! Give me back the money! This is what I saved with great difficulty to buy medicine for Fu'er! You can't just care about your father and ignore our child! Fu'er, he is almost dying of illness! I, I am pregnant with a child! You can't just ignore the life and death of us mother and child!"
Cen Yan's face was covered with tear marks. The hot tears flowed onto the red and swollen scars, making her face burn with pain. But she seemed not to feel it at all and just held the man tightly.
Hearing this, Wei Zan's face showed no emotion, but his eyes turned red and showed a bit of madness.
"Are you going to let go or not?" He looked at her coldly.
"No! Not unless you give me back my money!"
"Okay! Okay!" Wei Zan got ruthless and kicked Cen Yan away with his foot, hitting her in the abdomen. She flew and hit the stone table beside her. She was in so much pain that she couldn't get up for a while.
She didn't notice that a stream of sticky blood was flowing out from under her.
Wei Zan had no intention of pulling her up quickly. He glared at her fiercely and turned to go into the house.
Soon, a child's crying was heard in the house.
“Fu’er!” Cen Yan was startled. She quickly supported herself with both hands. Regardless of the abnormal pain in her abdomen, she stood up and rushed into the house. She saw Wei Zan, like a madman, strangling his son’s neck tightly…
"No...no!" Cen Yan rushed forward to stop him, but was kicked away by Wei Zan without mercy.
Her body flew out like a broken kite and fell to the ground. Her whole body was in pain and she had no strength to get up. She could only watch Fu'er being strangled to death...
Fu Er...
That's her son...
"Ah...ah..." Cen Yan screamed continuously, her heart aching as if it was being cut out, and tears of despair kept flowing down.
"Now that our son is dead, we don't have to buy medicine anymore. The baby in your belly will probably die too, and we won't have to spend money on raising children in the future. As for this money, I can use it to redeem my father, right?!" Wei Zan looked at her coldly without caring about the pool of blood under her body. He turned around with the money and hurried to the casino in the neighboring village.
"My child..." Cen Yan stretched out one hand, trying to reach her son's body that was thrown on the ground beside the bed, and covered her stomach with the other hand, trying to protect the other life inside.
Who will save her and the children?
However, sadly, blood was flowing all over the ground.
Cen Yan cried out to the sky and the earth, but no one answered. She only felt her body gradually getting colder, and she knew that her life was coming to an end.
In this life, she was blind and mistook a vicious and unfaithful man for a good man.
If there is an afterlife, she will never live a cowardly life again! She wants to avenge the dead children!
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"No...no...Fuer..."
"What do you want? It's almost dawn, and you still dare to be lazy and sleep in? You little bitch, hurry up and get up and work!"
A sharp curse woke Cen Yan up.
She opened her eyes and saw an old lady with gray hair, triangular eyes, a wrinkled face and a mean look. She was holding her waist with one hand and holding a broom in the other, as if she was ready to beat her at any time.
"Grandma? You, aren't you dead?" Cen Yan was dazed and recognized that this was her grandmother, Old Lady Cen, who had regarded her as an enemy since she was a child.
"You are the one who is going to die! You are a foul-mouthed money-loser! How dare you curse me to death? I will beat you to death now!" Old people are most taboo about the word "death". When Mrs. Cen heard this, she was so angry that she picked up a broom and hit her!
Cen Yan felt pain all over his body from being hit.
She gritted her teeth, jumped out of bed, and grabbed the broom in the old woman's hand: "What are you crazy about? You thought I was a child and let you beat and scold me!"
"Tsk tsk tsk, what? I can't beat you now that you've grown up? Not to mention that you're still a little girl now, even if you get married in the future, I will still punish you!" Old Mrs. Cen said, snatching the broom and hitting Cen Yan again!
This time, Cen Yan didn't dodge and was hit hard again.
She was stunned.
What do you mean she is still a little girl? What do you mean she will get married in the future?
She was clearly already married, and when she was beaten to death by Wei Zan, she was already over 25 years old!
But what is happening now?
"I'll beat you! Bitch! You dare to curse me to death! I'll beat you to death!" Old Lady Cen was still not giving up and hit her with a broom...
"Yan! Mother! Stop hitting her! Yan is still young! She is weak and can't stand your beating!" At this time, a woman came running after hearing the sound, lifted the curtain and came in, and quickly stopped Old Lady Cen.
"Get out of here! It's all because of you, the stepmother, who doesn't know how to teach the child. This damn girl has become more and more outrageous, so she cursed me to death! I think you were the one who taught her these words. Do you wish I would die soon so that no one can order you around?!" The more Old Lady Cen said this, the more she felt so in her heart. She simply blamed everything on the woman and immediately hit the woman's thin body with the broom!
Cen Yan looked at the woman and was completely dumbfounded.
But soon, she came to her senses, hugged the woman, and took the blow for her!
With a "pop" sound!
Cen Yan groaned when the broom hit her, and her little face wrinkled in pain.
The woman was so distressed that tears welled up in her eyes. She quickly hugged her and said, "Yan, Yan, does it hurt?"
"Mom, I'm fine, it doesn't hurt..." Cen Yan's tears suddenly fell, her throat was swallowing, and she shouted out this name that she had never called a woman in her previous life!
Yes, past life.
She was reborn!
The woman was also stunned when she heard it.
This was the first time that this stepdaughter, who had always disliked her, called her "mom" since she came into the family!
"Okay, you still dare to stop me? Then I'll beat you to death first!" When Old Lady Cen saw that Cen Yan dared to disobey her and stopped her from hitting Li, she became so angry that she smashed the broom in her hand even harder!
Cen Yan raised his hand and pushed Old Lady Cen away!
Old Mrs. Cen staggered backward and almost fell.
When she stood firm, she heard footsteps coming from outside. She simply threw the broom to the ground, sat down on the ground, and started to cry and yell: "Oh, I don't want to live anymore! My granddaughter wants to kill an old woman like me!"
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