Chapter 216: Difficulties of a Stepmother (8)
Mai Huaer always remembered the beautiful dream she had in the Zhang family. Aunt Zhang became her mother, and grandma and grandpa Zhang became her grandparents. She would never be bullied by others again.
Because she had heard from the elders that beautiful dreams should not be told, otherwise they would not come true. So she never told anyone. But she did not expect that her dream would come true so quickly.
Aunt Zhang would actually become her stepmother.
She tiptoed out of her father's room and trotted all the way to the pigpen like a thief. She lay on her own hay bed and was so happy that she almost jumped up.
After knowing this news, she suddenly felt that being forcibly taken back from the Zhang family by her grandmother was not such a bad thing.
In the room, the argument between the Qi family's grandmother and Qi Yangui continued.
"I don't allow you to bring the old leftover woman from the Zhang family home to me!" The Qi family's grandmother said in an imperative tone.
Qi Yangui immediately frowned in disgust, "Mom, in big cities, it's normal for a girl to be unmarried at the age of 27 or 28."
"Even if the Zhang family gives us all their property, my Qi family won't take it!" The Qi family's grandmother knocked heavily on the ground with her cane.
"Mom, do you still want a grandson?" Qi Yangui's eyes flashed with impatience.
"There are many women in this village. Even if a lunatic or a psychopath comes to my house, I don't want the old girl from the Zhang family." The old lady of the Qi family spat on the ground and said very unhappily, "My son, do you know what the old Zhang family and other villagers said about me when I went to pick up Mai Huaer."
She patted her chest heavily, her eyes were red, "They said that I killed Mai Huaer's mother, and that I was very vicious and wanted to kill Mai Huaer too. They didn't even think about how much money I spent on Mai Huaer's mother's funeral. Which woman in this village who didn't give birth to a son has such good treatment as her."
Qi Yangui tilted his head and rolled his eyes.
Outsiders don't know what kind of virtue his mother is, but his own son doesn't know it. He is the best at pretending. Furthermore, what the villagers said was not wrong. Mai Huaer's mother was tortured to death by her. When a pregnant woman should have been replenishing her body, she made people do all kinds of work and did not allow her to eat oily and meaty food.
She was so thin that she was skin and bones. How could she give birth to a child in peace? Of course, Qi Yangui was such a coward. When he went on, he would never think carefully about his mother's actions.
It was because of Wu Matchmaker's clever mouth. Wu Matchmaker was a figure in Juyang Village. As long as she was sincere in matchmaking, she would succeed.
It just so happened that she owed the Zhang family in her early years. Now Old Zhang asked her to arrange a marriage for the old Qi family. Although she did not understand, she must have put in real effort.
The first thing she did was to ask her family to invite Qi Yangui to drink. When he was drunk, she pretended to talk about the suffering of Mai Huaer's mother and Mai Huaer at home. In order not to offend anyone, these gossips were naturally not known to Wu Matchmaker, but were said by the villagers in private. She just took this opportunity to say it out to let him pay attention to the impact in the village.
Although Qi Yangui was a coward, he still loved face, otherwise the old lady of the Qi family would not have pinched Mai Huaer's invisible parts to save face.
Now that he knew that the villagers had been talking about him for a long time, Qi Yangui, who loved face, naturally blamed his mother.
The second thing was that the matchmaker inadvertently mentioned the wealth of the Zhang family, and how much dowry the old Zhang couple had agreed on in order to marry off their old daughter. When Qi Yangui, who was idle and had no source of income, heard this, it was like a pie in the sky.
The third thing was that Wu Matchmaker directly poked her man's self-esteem. It turned out that Mai Huaer's mother was bullied because she was a beggar who came to the village. After she followed Qi Yangui, everyone laughed at him for marrying someone who didn't know how many hands he had. This is also the reason why Qi Yangui, the grandmother of the Qi family, stood by and watched while bullying Mai Huaer's mother. A man like him who has no ability, cares most about the layer of membrane of women. And the old girl of the Zhang family, under the strict education of the old Zhang and his wife, has never had a few good words with a man. She is a serious virgin. When Qi Yangui heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Whether you agree or not, I will go to the Zhang family to propose marriage." Qi Yangui raised his foot and was about to go out.
He had taken out the wife's money he had saved to buy gifts and was going to visit the Zhang family at noon.
"If you dare to go, I will no longer have a son like you." The grandmother of the Qi family threw the crutches at him.
For some reason, she hated the old girl of the Zhang family in her heart. She always felt that the old girl of the Zhang family was here to bring bad luck to her. Besides, she had her own ideas about her son's second wife. Widow Wang in this village, although ten years older than her son, is good at cooking, chopping wood and working in the fields. The key is that she is as gentle as Mai Huaer's mother. Once she enters the gate of their Qi family, if she says something, she dares to conclude that Widow Wang will never dare to say anything else.
"If you don't want me, your son, to take care of you in your old age, just beat me to death." Qi Yangui felt a pain on his back from being hit by the crutches, and hatred flashed in his eyes, "Other sons marry clean wives, but you, the first one you married to me was a beggar, and the beggar died of dystocia, and you are still planning to marry a widow for me. Are you afraid that I, Qi Yangui, will not be laughed to death by the villagers?!"
The old lady of the Qi family was stunned. She didn't expect that her son actually hid his hatred for her.
All she did was for the good of the family. In this family, he and she are the only blood relatives.
She panicked for a moment and didn't stop him.
Qi Yangui strode out of the house. Thinking of Mai Huaer's mother, he suddenly wanted to see his ugly and dirty daughter. He looked towards the pigsty, saw Mai Huaer lying there with a silly smile, and shook his head with disgust.
When his next child is born, whether it is a boy or a girl, he will not let her be as sloppy as Mai Huaer.
Mai Huaer rarely has the opportunity to be alone with her father. Seeing Qi Yangui coming to see her, she was a little flattered. Just when she wanted to please him, she was hurt by the deep disgust in Qi Yangui's eyes.
She pulled the corner of her mouth with some sarcasm.
Her father, who was so proud, didn't even care about his wife who was pregnant with three children for him. How could he care about a money-loser like her?
Because of this look today, Mai Huaer's imagination of her father was completely shattered.
(End of this chapter)
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