Chapter 214: Stepmother's Dilemma (6)
While Old Zhang was still thinking, Grandma Zhang sighed several times. She said helplessly: "Then you shouldn't think about going to the old Qi family."
"Mom, although Qi Yangui is a coward, he doesn't look bad. He is afraid of my family. Don't you know that in the morning at his house, his mother wanted to beat me several times, but he tried his best to stop her."
"Did she really say that?" Grandma Zhang gave her husband a look for confirmation.
Old Zhang nodded hurriedly and added: "When we wanted to take Mai Huaer away, Qi Yangui didn't dare to stop us."
Shi Yi saw that his mother's face finally showed some joy, and her eyes were not as resistant as before. He continued while the iron was hot: "If I really get married, Qi Yangui would not dare to touch me. This old lady of the Qi family is fierce and vicious, and likes to use her son as a stick, but I am not easy to bully."
"You are so tough..." Grandma Zhang felt that something was wrong with what she said just after she finished speaking.
Her daughter is one of the strongest girls in the village. She looks pretty, but if an ordinary guy wants to compete with her daughter in strength, he may not be able to beat her.
"Mom, you know I'm not the kind of person who can be bullied, what are you still worried about?" Shi Yi pulled her sleeves and acted coquettishly.
Grandma Zhang was about to speak, but when she saw Mai Huaer walking out barefoot, she lost her voice, and Old Zhang also subconsciously closed his throat.
"Auntie, Grandma Zhang, Grandpa Zhang, did I disturb you?" Mai Huaer twisted the corners of her sleeves, her movements were uneasy and nervous.
She was afraid that they would hate her because of this.
Because she had just had a dream in the warm big bed. She dreamed that Aunt Zhang became her mother, and Grandpa Zhang and Grandma Zhang became her grandparents. No one dared to bully her anymore.
"Mai Huaer is awake, I'll go get you some hot noodles." Shi Yi smiled and went over to hug her.
"Auntie, I made your bed dirty." She lowered her head, tears welling up in her eyes, about to fall.
"It's okay, there are several spare sets in Auntie's closet. Let's change and wash the sheets together after dinner, okay?" Shi Yi wiped away her tears carefully.
She understood that the harder a child's life was, the more likely they were to be afraid of others having a bad impression of them. Mai Huaer liked her and her parents in her heart, so she was afraid that they would hate her.
Grandma Zhang was a little bothered by Mai Huaer, but after all, she had lived for most of her life, and she was kind by nature. How could she be willing to see a child cry? She immediately went out to heat noodles for the child.
Mai Huaer had never had a hot meal at home, and she ate a bowl of noodles clean, almost licking the plate.
Grandma Zhang really felt sorry for the child, so she went to cook her another bowl, and even scooped up a spoonful of fried bacon at home and cooked it for her to chew.
Mai Huaer didn't know how many times she had cried, but she just couldn't suppress the emotion in her heart.
The warmth she felt from Aunt Zhang's place was tens of thousands more than the sum of her life. She didn't understand why the family of her blood relatives treated her so badly, while Aunt Zhang, who had hardly spoken to her, was so good to her. Shi
Yi watched her finish her meal silently, and then took off the dirty sheets with her, washed them, and replaced them with new ones.
In the kitchen, bath water was boiling on the stove, and Old Zhang, who was adding fuel to the fire, looked up at his wife from time to time. Because his wife hadn't spoken much since dinner, and looked like she was worried.
"Do you think our Zhang family can really suppress the old Qi family?" Grandma Zhang asked the knot in her heart.
She was afraid that her daughter would suffer if she married there.
This age is indeed very old in the village. If they really stay in this family for a lifetime, who will take care of their daughter after the two old people close their eyes and ascend to heaven. If she really married into the Qi family, she would be able to suppress the old and weak ones, and as long as she raised Mai Huaer well, she would not have to worry about no one to take care of her daughter in her old age.
"Of course she can." Old Zhang was so excited when he saw his wife speaking.
He added a handful of fir leaves that were easy to catch fire to the stove, and the crackling sound of burning immediately filled the whole kitchen.
"Don't you think about the reputation of you and me in this village. I am irritable and protective of my shortcomings, and you are hot-tempered and straightforward and protective of your shortcomings. You can almost be said to be walking sideways. But the principle we usually follow is 'I will not offend others if they don't offend me', so we get along well with the villagers."
"You are right." Grandma Zhang thought it through thoroughly.
For her daughter, marrying into the Qi family might really be the best choice. Seeing that the water in the pot began to boil, she shouted at the top of her voice and brought Mai Huaer over to take a bath.
Mai Huaer is about to become her granddaughter, so as a grandmother, she naturally has to take good care of her.
The Zhang family only has Shi Yi as a daughter, so naturally they want to give her everything good. Therefore, they worry a lot about their daughter's personal problems, and specially built a personal bathroom and a small toilet for Shi Yi. In this way, she can avoid embarrassment when she goes to the toilet.
When Mai Huaer walked into the bathroom dedicated to Shi Yi, her eyes widened.
She had never thought that girls could take a bath and go to the toilet alone, and there were so many things to pay attention to when taking a bath, and there were a lot of bottles and jars.
Thinking of her mother who died of dystocia, she always carried water to take a bath at the door of the pigpen late at night, and called her to watch if anyone came. If someone was watching her when she was taking a bath, she could not continue to take a bath and could only put on her clothes and go into the house. Thinking that she couldn't take a bath openly at home, her eyes were red again.
Shi Yi knew that she must be sad because of the scene, so he deliberately avoided the topic and explained to her the use of the bottles and jars on the table.
Mai Huaer was a little shy at first, but Shi Yi's frank attitude made her feel relieved, because she was sensitive and didn't see any contempt for herself in Shi Yi.
She took off her clothes obediently.
Shi Yi took a look and turned away reluctantly.
Before, she only saw the scars on the child's hands, but now without the cover of clothes, she understood the meaning of the word "covered with scars".
There was not a single good spot on Mai Hua'er's body that was covered by her clothes. The dark black marks and the slightly lighter dark red scars were intertwined all over her body. There were also some marks from nails, sickles, and pinches. The grandmother of the Zhang family who came in to bring a new towel almost cried.
(End of this chapter)
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