Chapter 9: Don't Open the Door
Old Man Xu: "Let's find a new marriage for her! The betrothal gift can be used to buy some food, and life at home can be a little easier."
"This... If I marry Daya, how can Su handle all the housework by herself?"
Old Mrs. Xu was short-sighted. Whenever she thought about having one less person to do the housework, she wanted to keep that money-losing guy for two more years.
Anyway, as long as she doesn't starve to death, just give her some food and she'll be fine! If she gets married, she'll be working for another family! If she stays for two more years, she can earn two more years.
Old Man Xu: "Don't we have a big room and a third room at home? Can't we take turns to help out?"
"Also, as long as the betrothal gift is high, it doesn't matter if the person is not very good-looking, as long as they can make a living."
Mrs. Xu: "Okay, OK! I'll ask around some other day."
At night, Xu Zhiyi lay in bed, tossing and turning, scratching her itch. Oh my god! The original owner wouldn't have fleas on his body!
She bent down and smelled herself. Wow, there was a strong sour odor. She had been quarreling all day, but she had ignored it!
Now that I'm calm, I'm almost smelling bad!
When he couldn't stand it anymore, he took a look at the sleeping Su, got up quietly, opened the door and went out, secretly found the kitchen, and saw that there was still half a bucket of water left inside.
I took the towel and scooped up a little water, just enough to wet the towel. Then I went back to the room and wiped my whole body several times. Finally, I felt a little better!
At the hour of Mao (between 5 and 7 in the morning), Su woke up and saw her daughter was still sleeping. She moved lightly and was about to get out of bed when Xu Daya suddenly spoke, which frightened her.
"Mom, where are you going?" Xu Zhiyi was feeling unwell and couldn't sleep well, so she knew every little movement of Su.
"Ah! It's already the morning hour, mom has to get up and make breakfast. Your grandpa and the others may have to go find water today, and they won't be back until the evening! Mom has to get up and prepare food for them."
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyi quickly grabbed Su and said, "Mom, it's still early, sleep a little longer. Besides, I told grandma yesterday that you were injured by her! It will take ten days or half a month to recover."
"During this period of time, you should work less. The Xu family still has two daughters-in-law. If you don't work, I don't believe that you can just wait to starve to death."
Su: "Hey, Daya, my mother's injury is really not a problem anymore!"
Xu Zhiyi really wanted to say that the original owner's mother and daughter had such an ending in their previous life because she couldn't stand up straight. Both mother and daughter were softer than buns.
If Su was strong enough, she could take the original owner away from Xu's family. The widow of Fenglin Kingdom could take the female heir away when she remarried, and the male heir could also be taken away if the man's family agreed.
In the original owner's memory, in the second year after Xu Yong's death, Su's family came to take her and the original owner back home. They didn't want their daughter to be a widow at such a young age. As a result, Su strongly refused to remarry in public and wanted to stay with her deceased husband Xu Yong for the rest of her life.
"Mom, since you still recognize me as your daughter, you must listen to me and not go." After Xu Zhiyi said this, she turned sideways and closed her eyes to sleep regardless of what Su said.
Hearing this, Su was very troubled: "Daya, what are you talking about? Don't you want me as your mother? Mother did this for us. Do we have to stay in the room every day and steal every meal?"
"Your father is the least favored in this family. Your grandparents and I all hate him, but what can we do? Even if I remarry, will things be better? I have no other wishes now. I just hope you can find a good family to marry into. That way, all the suffering I've endured will be worth it."
She could remarry and escape this cage, but her daughter couldn't! She had heard of widows remarrying with their daughters, and then the daughters were forced to live in their stepfather's house.
When it was finally exposed, all the rumors were directed at the woman, forcing her to commit suicide. Although she would not necessarily encounter this situation if she remarried with Daya.
But as long as there is such a possibility, she will never let her daughter take this risk.
Some people in the village also advised her to remarry, saying that an old widower had taken a fancy to her and was willing to accept her and her daughter, but she was unwilling.
As long as she could endure a few more years in the Xu family, as long as her eldest daughter grew up and found a good family to marry into, she would die without regrets!
Xu Zhiyi: "Mom, Dad has been dead for so many years! The previous promise is invalid!"
"Alas, mother, if you still want to acknowledge me as your daughter today, you are not allowed to leave this door."
Su: “…” Although she was indeed afraid of her mother-in-law’s making a fuss, but looking at her angry daughter, she thought, forget it, just stay with her to sleep for a while!
Who would have thought…
"You're going to die, Su, you died in your room, right? What time is it? You don't have to do housework, right?"
Old Mrs. Xu got up and saw that there was no fire in the kitchen. She opened the pot and saw that it was empty. The old man had to follow the village team immediately!
Now that the food supply is not ready, they will be hungry for the whole day! She is so angry! She must teach Su Shi and that money-loser a lesson today.
Su, who was lying on the bed, woke up suddenly when she heard Old Lady Xu's curses. She saw the sun was already up! Damn it! How could she have fallen asleep?
"Open the door, you won't open it, right? Su, if you're brave enough, die in there, or I'll make you suffer." Old Mrs. Xu knocked on the door for a while, and when she saw no movement from inside, she spoke harshly in anger.
Su reacted, got up quickly, and ran to open the door.
"Mom, please open the door! Just open the door and let grandma come in to beat us up. It's okay. It's not the first time my daughter has been beaten. The pain will pass. If she can't pass, it's just right. Maybe she can be reunited with her father on the Naihe Bridge."
"Mom, please beg for some milk later, and ask her not to hit your daughter's back and hands. The injuries on your daughter's back and hands have not healed since the last time she was hit. But it doesn't matter, your daughter's legs are still fine, so let your milk hit her legs and heal them."
As she said this, she took off her shirt with her back to Su Shi: "Mom, can you check if my wound has scabbed over? If it has, if grandma likes to hit me on the back, then I will just have to endure it!"
Su looked at her daughter's back, which was covered with several large bruises and a few long scabs.
Su collapsed, touching the wound on Xu Daya's back, and kept crying: "Daya, why didn't you tell mom? Why didn't you tell me earlier? Does it still hurt?"
“It doesn’t hurt anymore!”
When the mother and daughter were beaten together, Su would always help the original owner to block the beating, so she subconsciously thought that her daughter was not beaten, and it was only herself who was hit, so she did not pay attention to checking the original owner.
The original owner was afraid of causing more trouble to her mother, so she never mentioned it and was even very careful to conceal it so that Su wouldn't know at all.
"Wuwu, Daya, mother thought... wuwu... mother was sorry for you, mother was useless, mother was wrong!" Su covered her face and cried suppressedly.
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