Chapter 211 The Difficulties of a Stepmother (3)
"Be obedient." Shi Yi pressed Mai Huaer's head into his arms, her clothes wet with hot tears.
"Now that your mother and father are gone, you have to pay the debt." The old lady of the Qi family walked up to Shi Yi with a cane, trying to snatch Mai Huaer back.
"If you dare to touch her, I will make your Qi family unable to stay in the village!" Shi Yi felt Mai Huaer trembling with fear, and was afraid that the old lady of the Qi family would really try her best to snatch her away, so he carefully hid Mai Huaer behind him like an old cow protecting its calf.
"You are an old leftover woman who can't get married, and you want to meddle in our family's affairs?" The old lady of the Qi family rolled her eyes and started to hit people with her cane.
"Mom, don't hit people!" Qi Yangui ran in and stopped her, panting, "Old Zhang is coming."
"It's good that he's coming! I was just afraid that he wouldn't come!" The old lady of the Qi family sat on the ground and cried and cursed: "Everyone in the village, please judge for yourself. How can the unmarried daughter of the Zhang family interfere in the affairs of our Qi family..." The more she spoke, the more she cried. Her face was covered with tears and snot. If you didn't know, you would think she was really beaten.
The people watching at the door began to echo each other.
"That's right. Why does the Zhang family want to get involved in the affairs of the Qi family?"
"Hey, you don't know yet, no one wants the daughter of the Zhang family. If she doesn't get involved, who will she marry?"
"That's right. You see, the girls in the village start getting engaged and married at the age of 16 or 17. Girls at the age of 28 are already mothers of several children. But no one likes the old girl of the Zhang family..."
"If you keep talking here, I'll be rude to you." Old Zhang, who was trotting back, happened to hear the villagers talking about his daughter, and his face was pulled long.
"What's wrong? Can't we talk about the old girl of the Zhang family?" Granny Li delivered a dead fetus, and the mother died of dystocia. She felt unlucky and depressed.
All the women in Yang Village were delivered by Granny Li. Her reputation was very loud, and this time it was directly hit by the Qi family. Now, I'm looking for someone to vent my anger.
Unfortunately, she picked the wrong person. Old Zhang had a bad temper when he was young. He finally got a daughter, and he was too busy protecting her to allow people to talk about her. He immediately waved the sickle in his hand and scolded: "You old widow, if you keep whining here, I will make you unable to walk in the future."
Granny Li was frightened by his fierce eyes and took a half step back, hiding in the crowd and stopped talking.
"Oh my God, how could my old Qi family get into this kind of thing? My daughter-in-law is gone, but how come my eldest grandson is gone too..." The old lady of the Qi family had just seen the ferocity of Old Zhang, and she didn't dare to confront him head-on, so she had to pretend to be pitiful.
"Dad~" she shouted aggrievedly.
Old Zhang saw his daughter standing next to the dead Qi family daughter-in-law, and there was a half-grown girl hiding behind her, looking at him quietly, and he felt pity and anger in his heart.
His daughter has the same temper as him since she was young, and has a clear distinction between love and hate. Mai Huaer, who lost her mother, was protected by her. But what kind of family is the Qi family? He has told her since she was young that if she gets involved in the affairs of this family, she will suffer.
"Humph, I'll tell you when I get back!" After he finished talking to Shi Yi, he glared at Qi Yangui, who was standing next to him like a piece of wood.
Qi Yangui didn't know how he had provoked Old Zhang, and his shoulders shrank unconsciously.
"Old Zhang, look at how messed up our Qi family is, and your daughter comes to make trouble. What is your intention in the Zhang family..." The old lady of the Qi family cried for a while and stopped, and began to wail again.
"Shut up." Old Zhang pointed the tip of the sickle at her forehead and said viciously: "If you cry again, I will smash your house and see where you two mother and son sleep."
"You..." The old lady of the Qi family wanted to speak, but was covered by Qi Yangui's mouth.
Old Zhang gave him a look that said "you're smart" and walked to Shi Yi to pull her home, but Shi Yi stood still.
"Why are you staying here if you don't want to leave?" Old Zhang glared, and everyone knew that he was really angry.
"Dad, Mai Huaer has to follow me too." Shi Yi grabbed Mai Huaer's thin wrist, and the clothes on her sleeves fell down, revealing the small whip marks.
"Aren't you afraid of retribution?" Old Zhang looked at the new and old scars on the child's hands and gave the mother and son of the Qi family a fierce look.
"This is our Qi family's girl. How to manage it is our family's family business." The old lady of the Qi family broke free from her son's control and "argued with reason" with Old Zhang.
"Your Qi family has been busy recently. We, the Zhang family, will take the child back to take care of him for a few days. On the day of the child's mother's funeral, we will bring the child back and let the child wear mourning clothes to send him up the mountain." Old Zhang was very polite in his words, but his expression clearly showed that he would not tolerate rejection.
In Juyang Village, where men are valued more than women, every household is proud to have a son and ashamed to have a daughter. How could they allow a daughter to enter the mourning hall? As for wearing mourning clothes to send the deceased's family members to the mountain for burial, that is even more of a boy's thing. This girl does not even have the qualifications to go to the mountain to worship. Even if Mai Huaer stayed at home, she would just do some odd jobs and then be severely beaten and scolded by her family. It's hard to say. A few days after the child's mother died, the child also followed.
If you think more seriously, it is not certain whether the two mothers and sons of the old Qi family will send Mai Huaer's mother to the mountain for burial. When they married their daughters-in-law, they were so stingy that they didn't invite guests.
"What is this that Grandpa Zhang said?" The old lady of the Qi family smiled, and the wrinkles around her eyes were all concentrated at the end of her eyes.
They married a jinx into the family, and their precious grandson was not born to them. How could they still want to hold a funeral for her? There is no son. They are not allowed to enter the ancestral tomb of the old Qi family.
Old Zhang could tell at a glance that the Qi family's grandmother's smile was fake, and he shouted at the top of his voice: "You guys, when Mai Huaer's mother is buried, we will send Mai Huaer back."
He said this deliberately for the villagers outside the door to hear.
When Mai Huaer heard what Grandpa Zhang said, the tears that she had finally stopped flowed even faster. Because only she knew what kind of life she and her mother had lived in this family. When her mother was alive, grandma and father did not treat her mother as a human being. Now that her mother is dead, they are probably rolling her mother up on a straw mat and burying her.
(End of this chapter)
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