Chapter 136
The next morning, Yin Zheng got up and went to the chicken coop to get two eggs and boil them.
Seeing this, Xiao Wang, who was cooking in the kitchen, opened her mouth to say something, but after meeting Yin Zheng's gaze, she swallowed the words.
The eggs at home were to be saved and sold in town, so my mother-in-law kept a close eye on the eggs and hardly let us eat them.
Only when my third brother Yin Youcai came back from town would my mother-in-law, who felt sorry for him, take out eggs and cook a bowl of egg soup or steam a bowl of egg custard, so that the children could have some eggs.
Occasionally, when Zhiyuan came back, my mother-in-law would steam egg custard for him for a few days out of pity for him, but it was never as good as that made by my third brother.
When Xiao Wang first came, she was dissatisfied with this matter. Later, after seeing her mother-in-law's attitude towards her second brother, she surprisingly found balance in her heart.
Xiao Wang glanced at the two eggs in the pot, a trace of heartache flashed in her eyes, and then she looked away.
Most of the things in the house were bought by my second brother, but he usually had no money. Every time my mother-in-law asked him to buy something, she would not give him money. So my second brother would go hunting in the mountains and sell the money in the town, and use the money to buy the things my mother-in-law asked him to buy.
Occasionally, the second brother would collect bird eggs or pheasant eggs in the mountains and bring them back to cook for the two children. That was why little Wang was speechless when she saw him reaching into the chicken coop to touch the eggs.
The chickens were bought and fed by someone else, so what's wrong with touching two eggs?
Thinking of this, Xiao Wang turned her head away and pretended not to see it.
After the meal was ready, Yin Zheng went back to the room and took a look. Jiaojiao, who had just woken up, was sitting on the bed with her hair messy and her eyes bent as she smiled at her father.
Yin Zheng's eyes softened slightly. He walked forward, picked him up, changed his clothes and put on his little cloth shoes, then carried him out to wash and eat.
The water for washing was heated up by Yin Zheng earlier, and adding a little cold water made the temperature just right.
Jiaojiao obediently tilted her little face up to let her father wipe her face. After wiping her face, she put her little hands into the water and washed them carefully. After washing for a while and feeling that they were clean, she raised her hands to let her father wipe them dry.
Jiaojiao was wearing the new clothes his father bought for him today. There were no pockets in front of his belly. He looked down and patted his belly with a bit of discomfort.
Seeing this, Yin Zheng thought about sewing a small pocket on his clothes the next day, which would not be difficult.
During breakfast, Yin Zheng peeled two eggs for Jiaojiao, which, as expected, triggered another round of scolding from Wu.
Yin Zheng turned a deaf ear and raised his hands to cover Jiaojiao's ears.
Although she couldn't hear clearly because her ears were covered, Jiaojiao knew that Wu was scolding her father because her voice was very loud and her expression was very fierce.
Jiaojiao, who was protecting her father, glared angrily, handed the half-eaten egg to her father, and stood up from her father's arms by holding the table. She slammed her little hand on the table, bared her teeth, and said viciously: "Oh, bad boy, no, daddy!"
Mrs. Wu slammed her chopsticks and looked at the child in front of her with a bad look: "Who are you banging the table at, you idiot?! This unwanted little bastard is going to make a scene..."
Mrs. Wu didn't finish her words because Yin Zheng overturned the table.
A square table with a missing corner and cracks on its surface lay on its side on the ground. Steaming porridge and wild vegetable soup rolled all over the floor and mixed with the dirt. Two coarse porcelain bowls were broken. The frightened Yin Youzhi and Yin Youbai were stunned for a moment, then raised their heads and burst into tears.
Little Wang quickly took the two people who were crying so hard that their noses were running into her arms, and the look she gave Yin Zheng was filled with unconcealable fear.
Yin Zheng stood up holding Jiaojiao with a gloomy expression. The emotions churning in his dark eyes were extremely fierce and cruel, like a dragon whose reverse scales were touched. The aura of his whole body was so violent that even Yin Dazhu, who had been watching, couldn't help but feel scared.
Faced with such a Yin Zheng, the usually unscrupulous Wu couldn't help but feel afraid.
She knew how powerful her son was. He was even brave enough to fight a blind bear rushing down the mountain.
Thinking of the scene when the blind bear's blood splashed all over Yin Zheng's head and face, Wu couldn't help but shudder.
Even if she knew this was her son, she would never dare to hit him. But what if? What if her son got so angry that he lost his mind? You know, a person who lost his mind can do anything.
A few years ago, there was a son in the neighboring village who became addicted to gambling and killed his old mother who refused to give him money.
Thinking of this, Wu, who had been moving her mouth to curse a few words, stopped talking out of instinctive fear and dared not curse anymore.
Jiaojiao, who was in her father's arms, saw that her father was angry after being scolded, so she patted her father's chest with her little hands and murmured incoherent words to comfort her father. While speaking, she made a fierce expression to Wu, which she thought was very ferocious, to scare her.
Yin Zheng looked at Jiaojiao in his arms, who was comforting him angrily. The anger that suddenly rose in his heart because of the word "death" gradually dissipated.
He exhaled slowly and raised his hand to touch the back of Jiaojiao's round head.
Last night, the youngest son of Li Laifu's family in the east of the village died of a fever. After hearing the news, Yin Zheng, who was already worried about raising a child for the first time, became even more nervous.
The word "death" was like a thorn in his ears, and he couldn't bear to hear anyone put this word together with Jiaojiao.
Yin Zheng, whose emotions had calmed down, glanced at the frightened expressions of Wu and the others, then lowered his eyelids to hide the emotions in his eyes.
In fact, he knew from a young age that his parents were partial to him not only because Yin Youcai was judged to be a future scholar, but also because of some strange behaviors he showed when he was a child.
An overly calm baby who has his own thoughts shortly after birth.
It's hard to imagine a one-month-old baby still in swaddling clothes looking at you with those eyes that should be innocent and naive.
That expression, which shouldn't appear in a baby's eyes, inexplicably makes people feel panic.
Mrs. Wu, who was often frightened by those eyes, often wondered if there was some unclean thing attached to her child, otherwise that kind of look would never appear in such a young child.
For this reason, she secretly went to find fortune-tellers in several nearby villages, and also went to the Taoist temple in town to ask for talismans and burned them for the child to drink, but it still didn't work.
At first, Wu was just a little scared and hid little Yin Zheng's strange behavior from Yin Dazhu.
It was not until Yin Youcai was born and there was a pure child for comparison that little Yin Zheng's strange behaviors became more and more obvious. The fear that Wu had buried in her heart gradually turned into disgust and fear.
I remember one time when Li Tiezhu's family was slaughtering a pig, the butcher they hired was probably a novice, and he didn't cut the pig hard enough. The pig, which was stabbed in the throat, started struggling violently, and the butcher ran away because he couldn't hold it down.
I still remember when the pig ran out of Li Tiezhu's house covered in blood, the aunts on the road were so scared by the pig that suddenly rushed out and was covered in blood that they screamed loudly.
Little Yin Zheng, who was only four years old, calmly took the sickle that Yin Yuanzhi had just used to cut grass for pigs and hung it on his waist. He walked forward quickly. The moment the pig ran past him, he raised the sickle quickly and accurately and stabbed the pig's throat.
A large amount of blood oozed out from the pig's throat, gradually turning half of Xiao Yin Zheng's body red. Xiao Yin Zheng, who was holding a sickle, still had dark eyes without any fluctuation.
When the people who were chasing from behind saw this scene, they subconsciously stopped and looked at Xiao Yin Zheng with unspeakable emotions in their eyes.
Among these people, Yin Dazhu was also there, his stunned eyes contained a hint of...fear, and an unconcealable disgust that surged from the bottom of his heart.
Little Yin Zheng was happy when he saw him holding a sickle. Thinking that he had helped, he just took a step forward to ask for praise when he saw the look in Yin Dazhu's eyes. Although he didn't know what that look meant, little Yin Zheng still stopped, didn't get closer, and didn't want to ask for praise anymore.
Thinking about all this, Yin Zheng carried Jiaojiao into the house.
In fact, he would not take action against the Wu family. Although he did not have any feelings for them, at most he would just stay away from them and would not do anything to them.
Regardless of whether they treated him harshly or gave up on him, at least they did provide him with a safe place to stay in this chaotic world, allowing the young boy to grow up. For this reason alone, it was impossible for him to do anything to them.
So there’s actually no need to be so scared!
There was a heavy rain that night, and light rain continued for the next few days. The temperature suddenly dropped to a low point, and the villagers changed into cotton jackets again.
Faced with the sudden drop in temperature, Yin Zheng was always worried, fearing that Jiaojiao would catch a cold. However, he did not expect that in the end it was not the young Jiaojiao who caught the cold, but he, who was strong and healthy.
The moment he realized he had a fever, Yin Zheng knew the opportunity to split the family had come.
If he wanted to successfully divide the family and achieve the desired effect, he could not propose the division himself. He had to find a way to make the Wu family dislike him and be eager to separate him.
The only way to make the Wu family willing to separate him was to make him a burden who could not work to earn money and could only eat for free.
After all, considering Wu and Yin Dazhu's dislike and aversion to him, if he wasn't really able to make money and work, they would have separated him long ago.
I have a leave!!!
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