Hungry!
My stomach is so empty and burning with pain that I wish I could put my hands in my mouth.
Originally, Li Xiuniang thought that the days when she worked like a slave in the Gu family, was tortured by her mother-in-law, treated as a nobody by her sister-in-law, and despised by her brother-in-law, were the most miserable experiences in her life.
Oh, no, that was not the most difficult period.
Instead, his son accidentally drowned, his daughter died of a cold, and he himself was beaten to death by an old hunter in the mountains.
...She was clearly heartbroken at that time, unable to control herself, and felt that this was the greatest pain she had ever experienced.
But she forgot that for a person, being beaten to death is far less painful than starving to death.
Being beaten does hurt, but it only lasts for a short time.
Once you close your eyes, everything is over.
Hunger is not.
Especially on the road of fleeing famine, there were starving people everywhere and the bark of the trees along the way had been stripped off.
Leaves, grass roots...all edible things were snatched away by the crazy hungry refugees.
Even some inedible things, such as Guanyin soil, were started to be stuffed into people's mouths.
There is no way, the feeling of being hungry is too uncomfortable.
Under extreme hunger, people can turn into animals.
"Grandpa, don't kill me! I, I won't cry anymore, and I won't say I'm hungry anymore. I can work! I can also make money--"
Last night, Li Xiuniang was too hungry to sleep and ran to the woods alone to try to find something to eat. She heard crying not far away.
Li Xiuniang felt that the girl's voice was somewhat familiar, as if she was the daughter of Li Xiucai from the same village.
Li Xiucai was the only scholar in their village. After failing the imperial examinations many times, he opened a private school and lived a good life with the help of tuition fees.
Li Xiucai has two sons and a daughter. The daughter is the youngest, and the couple loves her very much.
Li Xiuniang was very envious of the little girl of the Li family——
While other girls were still hungry and helping with work, the little girl of the Li family was held by Mr. Li, holding snacks that were only available in the county, and her little face was white and chubby.
The clothes he wore were also new, not old clothes that had grown too small for his older brothers and sisters.
The smile on Li Xiucai's little girl's face was so bright and happy.
But this child, who was pampered by his family, was killed by his own grandfather while fleeing from famine.
In her previous life, Li Xiuniang had long forgotten these memories that caused her immense pain.
She only remembered that when she was a child, her family suffered a disaster and everyone in the village fled the famine.
Grandparents, friendly clansmen, familiar neighbors, one after another, all fell on the road fleeing famine.
Her parents, brother, and sister also lost their lives due to illness or hunger.
In the end, only my uncle, my cousin, and she were left in their family.
Li Xiuniang didn't know whether she was lucky or unlucky. Just when she and her uncle and cousin were about to starve to death, they finally arrived at a small town.
I met Zhao who was carrying her daughter to the town to buy things.
"Three pounds of beans! Auntie, I only want three pounds!"
"Look at my niece, she's already ten years old, she can work and won't eat for free."
"Raise her for two or three years and she'll be married off, and you can even receive a betrothal gift."
"...It's a bad year, so you can't get a betrothal gift? Do you have a son? It would be nice to have a child bride for your son!"
My uncle seemed to have found a life-saving straw and lobbied desperately. In the end, he was almost begging.
Li Xiuniang no longer remembers clearly what happened in her previous life.
She only remembered that she was bought by her mother-in-law, Zhao, for three pounds of beans.
When she first arrived at the Gu family, she was indeed very grateful to her mother-in-law.
If she hadn't bought me, I, my uncle and my cousin would all have died.
So, she worked hard and tried her best to repay her mother-in-law's kindness.
When her husband "died", she was only seventeen years old, the age of a flower.
If I remarry, I can marry into a good family.
But she remembered her mother-in-law's life-saving grace and did not remarry, but stayed in the Gu family and worked like a slave.
She serves her mother-in-law and takes care of her sister-in-law. She would rather sacrifice her own son and grit her teeth to support her brother-in-law's studies.
For ten years, she worked very hard.
Instead of receiving gratitude from her husband's family, she was despised and hurt.
She watched her children die one after another, and was sold to a remote mountain, where she was abused by a forty-year-old hunter...
Li Xiuniang finally woke up. At the moment of her death, she swore in her heart: "If there is a next life, I would rather starve to death than enter the Gu family's door."
Li Xiuniang never thought that people could really start over again after death.
But why should she be reborn on the road of fleeing famine?
It doesn't matter if it's earlier or later.
It has been a long time since I felt hungry, especially to the point of being extremely hungry and almost hallucinating.
Li Xiuniang's brain was a little dull, and the hatred and resentment that were once so deep did not seem so clear anymore.
He bit his lower lip hard, using the pain to remind himself: "No! I must never forget this hatred!"
They would reach the town soon anyway.
Although this place also suffered a disaster, it was better than their hometown. At least they still had some food reserves.
If she doesn't go to the Gu family, she can sell it to other families.
I just can't be with my husband anymore.
Everyone in the Gu family is a bad person, except her husband, who is a kind person.
In her previous life, after Li Xiuniang was beaten to death, her soul floated back to the Gu family and heard the conversation between Zhao and her mother and son.
It turned out that her husband was injured while repairing the river embankment and was washed away by the river.
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