"Now that you've eaten all the food and have the energy, you're acting like a tyrant, aren't you?" Lin Changfa sneered, "If I'd known you were so clueless, I shouldn't have married you. I'd have let your mother marry you off to an old widower who's willing to pay a high betrothal gift and loves to drink and beat people. That way, you wouldn't have brought trouble to my family, lived in my house, eaten my food, and ended up raising an ungrateful person like you!"
"Lin Changfa!"
"Why are you yelling? How have I, Lin Changfa, ever wronged you, Yu Lanhua? I'm warning you, if you keep making trouble like this, we'll get a divorce, and you can go live with Yu's parents and brothers."
Yu Lanhua was so frightened by Lin Changfa's cold roar that she dared not say anything and could only sob.
The three sons didn't want to persuade their confused mother anymore. The two daughters-in-law were so tired from cooking and making fire that they couldn't even lift their hands. How could they have the time to comfort their mother-in-law?
Moreover, in this situation, even they would not do such an excessive thing as to share their own food with their mother's family. They still have husbands and sons. If their husbands and sons are not well fed, how can they care about others?
Seeing that no one paid any attention to her, Yu Lanhua had no choice but to sit aside and sob, while the others leaned on the cart to have a good rest during the finally available free time on the road, so as to replenish their energy for the next journey.
The rest lasted until evening. The dry weather made the days longer and longer. When we were not in a hurry, we only ate one meal a day, which saved enough for tomorrow's meal.
Other people’s beef jerky had already been smoked, but because Lin Pingmao’s family had so much, there was always a constant supply of beef in the baking rack.
Yu Lanhua got up and went to the toilet a little further away. She glanced at the grill as she passed by, thinking sadly that it would be nice if her mother and her brothers and nephews could also eat these.
Chen Mei and Chen Zhi, two sisters-in-law, were just coming over with some dry firewood. Seeing Yu Lanhua staring at her family's food, they couldn't help but interrupt her and asked, "Changfa, what's wrong with you?"
Yu Lanhua woke up as if from a dream, and left, shaking her head in shame and anger.
I could almost hear Chen Mei and Chen Zhi whispering to each other: "What do you think she's after? Her parents don't love her, yet she's obsessed with them. Has she lost her mind?"
"It's a good thing that Changfa has a good temper. If it were another man, he would have hit her long ago. He wouldn't even know when. The man at home, his son, and his grandson might not even have enough to eat, and he's thinking of withholding their food to support his wife's family. I don't know what he's thinking."
Yu Lanhua walked to a place where they could not see her before she spat heavily on the ground. What was she talking about losing her mind? That was her mother, how could she ignore her! These women said it lightly. If it was their mother and brothers from their natal family, would they do the same as her?
Yu Lanhua angrily walked to the hay to relieve herself. When she stood up, put on her clothes and was about to leave, a pair of dirty hands covered her mouth.
Yu Lanhua was so frightened that she struggled violently. The opponent was weak all over due to hunger. He was no match for Yu Lanhua who had a full stomach every day. Even an adult man who had been hungry for a long time could not subdue Yu Lanhua and would be counterattacked by her.
The man behind Yu Lanhua spoke hurriedly: "Sister, sister, I am Silang, Yu Silang!"
Yu Lanhua was startled. She turned to look at the ragged and skinny Yu Silang, her eyes reddening again. "Silang, you're really Silang. Why are you here? Where's mother? Where's Liulang and Dao'erliang'er?"
Yu Silang looked at Yu Lanhua with a complaining look in his eyes: "Sister, it's fine if you didn't send us rice, but how could you just leave us and mother without a word and go away without even saying goodbye? We chased you all the way and our legs almost broke. Mother cried all day and her eyes were swollen. After all, we are from the same mother and we are blood relatives!"
"Silang, Silang, I don't want to do this either. Your brother-in-law... woooo!" Yu Lanhua started crying again when she saw her brother.
Yu Silang's eyes flickered, knowing that it was her brother-in-law Lin Changfa who didn't allow her to take food from home. Food was so precious along the way, and no one was allowed to touch even a little bit except her parents, her husband, her wife, and her children.
Judging from the current situation, he can only go through his eldest sister's channels, and maybe he can steal some food.
It was really unbearable to go without food. Everyone in the family was lying on the ground with hunger and unable to get up. The children were almost starving.
Thinking of this, the sadness in Yu Silang's eyes became more real: "Sister, we finally caught up with you. You are the only hope for our Yu family to survive. I beg you, I beg you, give us some food to save us. Just one meal will be enough, sister!"
Yu Silang suddenly knelt on the ground, hugged Yu Lanhua's legs and cried inconsolably.
Yu Lanhua was heartbroken and squatted down, hugging him and crying bitterly: "Brother, I really have no choice. If I give it to you, your brother-in-law will abandon me!"
"Sister, you are a member of the Yu family. He doesn't want you, but we do. We are your brothers of the same blood. Anyone can want to abandon you, but the Yu family will never want to abandon you." Yu Silang lied without blinking. All he was thinking about now was how to trick food out of Yu Lanhua.
Thinking of the cold treatment she had received from her husband, son, and daughter-in-law over the past two days and the sincere and warm treatment she had received from her brothers, Yu Lanhua was deeply moved.
Yu Silang said, "Sister, mother is over there. Do you want to come with me to see her?"
Yu Lanhua wiped the tears from her face and nodded, "Go, go, how is mother?"
“Not so good…”
The voices of the two people were getting farther and farther away from where Yu Lanhua and her family were resting.
When Lin Zijun woke up and didn't see Yu Lanhua, he asked his two younger brothers, who were reinforcing a cart and a wheelbarrow, with some confusion: "Zizheng and Zikun, have you seen mother?"
The two were so busy that they didn't even look up: "No."
Lin Zijun looked at his wife Niu Qin again: "Qin'er, have you seen mother?"
Niu Qin and Zhu Ying, two sisters-in-law, were mending the family's torn clothes. Niu Qin was biting the thread with her teeth when she heard him. She looked up at him and said, "You haven't come back yet? It seems like you went to the bathroom."
Lin Zijun put down what he was busy with and hurriedly called Lin Changfa and his two brothers: "We have to go look for it. We have been gone for half an hour."
Lin Changfa wiped the sweat from his head. He felt dizzy from the scorching sun and took a sip of water. "Go find her! Go find her! This woman is getting restless every day."
When the father and his two sons were about to go out to look for her, Yu Lanhua came back by herself.
Lin Changfa frowned at her and said, "Where have you been? You didn't even say hello. You made the children so anxious!"
Yu Lanhua raised her head with an unnatural expression on her face: "Nothing, just... I just couldn't poop, so I stayed a little longer."
No one asked any further questions about this. This happened before when I didn't eat any meat and only ate rice porridge and wild vegetables. It was difficult to defecate. Although it was not to the extent that I had to use a bamboo stick to dig it out, it was still quite time-consuming. My anus was very painful after defecation.
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