Chapter 221: The Difficulties of a Stepmother (13)
The next day, the old lady of the Qi family acted like a mother-in-law and ordered the bride to cook for her. Shi Yi obediently went to the kitchen to cook for her, but
when the food was served, she swept it all to the floor, saying that it was not to her taste. Shi Yi said nothing, pulled Qi Yangui out of bed, and asked him to clean up the mess on the floor.
Mai Huaer squatted in the corner with white rice in her hands, not knowing how to evaluate her old lady. Which new bride in the village came in with so many dowries like her mother Shi Yi? But her old lady was not happy at all, and was picky in all kinds of ways.
Qi Yangui and the old lady of the Qi family had another argument, each insisting that they were not wrong. In the excitement, the old lady of the Qi family threw all of Shi Yi's things out of the house, and Qi Yangui quickly moved Shi Yi's things back home. The cycle went on and on, and the two of them made the whole house a mess. Shi
Yi didn't want to care about the two of them at all. As early as when they started to quarrel, he took Mai Huaer to the street to make new clothes. In a while, Qi Yangui will make a stupid move to sell Mai Huaer to Lin Shazi from the neighboring village, so she has to plan for Mai Huaer as soon as possible.
Shi Yi and Mai Huaer returned to Qi's house with their full things. Seeing that their things were thrown all over the floor, Shi Yi immediately had an idea. He asked Mai Huaer to throw all the things in her hands on the floor, and took her hand and cried all the way back to her parents' home. Of course, there were many nosy villagers on the way. Shi Yi pursed his lips, said nothing, and just cried. The villagers were even more curious. There were many people who went directly to Qi's house to inquire. When they arrived at the door and saw the things thrown all over the floor, they understood why Shi Yi was crying.
This mother-in-law and daughter-in-law problem has not been properly solved for thousands of years. The old Qi family is no exception.
After Shi Yi took Mai Huaer back to her parents' home to stay for a night, the next morning at dawn, Old Zhang came to Qi's house with people in a menacing manner and took all of Shi Yi's things back. Qi Yangui knew he was in the wrong, so he didn't dare to stop him. He just waited for Shi Yi to calm down before taking her back.
Mai Huaer didn't like her home at all, didn't like her family, and didn't like that atmosphere. But she loved the Zhang family very much. In the Zhang family, she felt that she was free and safe. Her nerves didn't have to be tense all the time, she didn't have to worry about whether she would be beaten suddenly, and she didn't have to worry about whether she could eat every day. But she also knew that she wouldn't stay in the Zhang family forever. But she was still grateful to her mother Shi Yi. It was her mother Shi Yi who gave her the family love she wanted.
On the tenth day that Mai Huaer stayed at the Zhang family, she waited for her father Qi Yangui to come and apologize. She heard her mother Shi Yi tell her father with her own ears that her household registration must be moved to the Zhang family before her mother Shi Yi would go back to the Zhang family. Her father prepared to take her mother Shi Yi to the village committee to handle it without much thought. Her mother Shi Yi waved his hand away and followed him out with the materials that had been prepared long ago.
At night, her mother Shiyi told her that she was no longer a member of the Qi family, and her household registration was directly registered under the Zhang family's household registration. She also realized that none of the materials prepared by her mother Shiyi were used, because her father did not register her household registration at all, which means that she was still an illegal resident at the age of nine. She didn't know whether to be sad or happy for a while.
The Qi family had no feelings for Mai Huaer, so they never thought of letting her go to school. Mai Huaer was nine years old and didn't know many simple words. During the summer vacation, Shiyi gave her a cram school.
When Mai Huaer grew up, she often thought about when her life began to change, perhaps it started from that boring summer vacation of learning to read.
Although she secretly envied other peers who went to school, there were many girls of her age in the village who did not have books to read. Relatively speaking, she was not so eager to study. So when Shiyi forced her to study, she felt very painful. Shi Yi pretended not to know and taught her repeatedly and patiently. After the summer vacation, he gave her a simple test and found that she had mastered the spelling method and could correctly spell the Chinese characters that must be mastered before the third grade. Then he sent her to the second grade when school started.
Shi Yi knew that Mai Huaer was resistant to learning, so he picked her up and dropped her off at school every day and accompanied her to study rain or shine. After a while, Mai Huaer couldn't stand the boredom of studying and secretly ran back to the Qi family.
The Qi family's grandmother was very happy. She coaxed her as a good granddaughter and didn't let Mai Huaer do anything. She even took the initiative to let Mai Huaer sleep in her bed. Qi Yangui was always lukewarm towards Mai Huaer. Mai Huaer was also used to his attitude towards her and didn't feel anything special. But she naively thought that her grandmother had figured it out, and she was really happy.
Since Mai Huaer sneaked back to the Qi family, the Zhang family and his wife became cold towards this cheap granddaughter. He complained to his wife, saying that it would be impossible to raise a child who was not his own, but Shi Yi's mother retorted that she had not been optimistic about this matter from the beginning. The couple of the Zhang family wanted to test their daughter's attitude, but they saw that their daughter ate and drank normally every day, and did not look sad at all. They were relieved.
Mai Huaer was sleeping soundly early in the morning, but was suddenly pulled out of bed by her father. She got up and walked to the door while wiping her eyes in a daze, and saw a man about 27 or 28 years old, staring at her with blank eyes, drooling constantly, and he seemed not very smart.
"Lin Zi, take your wife back." Qi Yangui pushed Mai Huaer to him and closed the door.
"She is so beautiful. You are so beautiful." Shazi Lin looked at his wife, whom he had saved for a long time, and was so happy that he could not see. When he saw her running away, he chased her and hugged her.
Qi Yangui was not moved at all when listening to the heart-wrenching cry of Mai Huaer outside the door. He had no feelings for Mai Huaer in the first place. After marrying Shi Yi, he felt that Mai Huaer was even more annoying. That's why he sold Mai Huaer to this fool Lin at a very low price, just for peace and quiet, out of sight, out of mind.
Mai Huaer was held in the arms of that fool Lin and touched in various ways. When she saw her grandmother coming back from the field digging sweet potatoes,
she struggled with her hands and feet and screamed loudly, thinking that her grandmother would not sit idly by. Who knew that because of her good relationship with Shi Yi, her grandmother hated her to death a long time ago, and treated her well these days just to sell her to fool Lin for money.
Her grandmother put down the sweet potato basket and went to the pigpen to feed the pigs, as if she didn't see anything, which made Mai Huaer completely heartbroken.
Even if she was really a fool, the attitude of her father's grandmother told her that she was sold. She
was passed around by her owner like an emotionless livestock.
(End of this chapter)
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