Chapter 222: Difficulties of a Stepmother (14)
Mai Huaer’s days at the Lin family were tormenting.
Because they feared that she would run away, she was tied up by the fool Lin and locked in a dark room, where she was fed at a fixed time every day. But because the fool Lin was a little mentally retarded, sometimes he would forget that Mai Huaer had not eaten, and at this time the fool Lin’s disabled father would come to feed her and give her water.
But Mai Huaer was always frightened by the fool Lin’s father. She felt that the fool Lin’s father was much scarier than the fool Lin himself. Because every time the fool Lin stared at her, she would get goose bumps all over her body.
She began to miss the days with Shi Yi, and even felt that the days of studying, which she hated the most before, were much more lovely. She began to regret why she didn’t keep Shi Yi’s mother’s words in mind. But she didn’t know whether her mother Shi Yi had discovered that she was no longer at the Qi family, and whether she was willing to take her back to the Zhang family. As long as she was not asleep, she would think about her mother Shi Yi repeatedly in her mind.
On the day she was rescued by Shi Yi, she didn't know how long she had been locked in the dark room. She only remembered the foolish expression of Lin Shazi when he wanted to do something bad to her. She was disgusted. Because it reminded her of the way her beastly father forced her biological mother when her biological mother was still alive. That night, she couldn't sleep well because of her biological mother's heart-wrenching cry.
After Mai Huaer was rescued from the Lin family, she became much calmer. She stayed at Zhang's house, trying to find a chance to tell Shi Yi that she wanted to go to school, but Shi Yi's cold attitude scared her and she couldn't say a word.
It was Shi Yi's mother who felt sorry for the child and told her what had happened during this period. Ever since she knew that she was sold by the Qi family, Shi Yi has been looking for Qi Yangui to discuss divorce. Because Shi Yi originally married into the old Qi family in order to take better care of her. She was able to come back from the Lin family because she divorced Qi Yangui. All her dowry was taken by Qi Yangui, and at the same time, their Zhang family paid ten times the price to the Lin family to redeem her.
Mai Huaer didn't know what to say after hearing this. She didn't know how to face Zhang's grandma, grandpa and Shi Yi's mother.
In just half a month, she lost ten pounds.
The Qi family no longer wanted her as their own child. After what happened in the Lin family, she also gave up the idea of going back. But she made the Zhang family pay such a high price, and she didn't know how to repay them.
She was eager to study.
Because she always heard the old people say that knowledge changes destiny.
She didn't want such a fate for herself.
The topic of gossip among people in Juyang Village recently was the Zhang family and the Qi family.
The old leftover woman of the Zhang family married the cowardly man of the Qi family, and they divorced in less than two months. She was originally an older leftover woman, but now she has become a second-married woman.
As for the Qi family, it is even more interesting. Qi Yangui eagerly married the leftover woman from the Zhang family, but she ended up letting her mother bully her, which angered her family, and she even sold her own daughter for money. The Zhang family was so angry that they brought people to make trouble. In the end, the divorce was successful, but Qi Yangui didn't care about his face and took all the dowry from the Zhang family. The old lady of the Qi family is even more interesting. As soon as her son got divorced, she brought the widow Wang, who had been widowed for more than ten years in the village, back home. It is said that Qi Yangui was unwilling at first, but his attitude changed after his mother locked him and the widow Wang in the house for a day. It's not even a month yet, and I heard that the widow Wang has started to vomit during pregnancy. The old lady of the Qi family even specially invited a Chinese doctor to take the pulse and said that it was a son. The mother and son of the Qi family were very happy, and took the dowry from the Zhang family to start building a new house.
Mai Huaer, who was enjoying the coolness under the tree, was shocked when she heard the villagers gossiping. She always thought her father and grandmother were cold and indifferent, but she never thought they were so cold and indifferent. She was ashamed that the same blood as theirs flowed in her veins.
She thought that the Zhang family moved to the town because they couldn't stand the gossip of the villagers. They took her homeless with them out of kindness.
In the new place, she should have forgotten the things that made her sad in the past, but it made her remember those things more clearly.
Every night she dreamed of her grandmother smiling at her, dreaming of Lin Shazi locking her in a dark room, dreaming of the disappointed look in her eyes when she skipped school, and dreaming of her mother who died of dystocia saying that she was disappointed in her.
With such a complicated mood, she welcomed the first official New Year in her life.
The Zhang family took her to the market to buy a lot of things, including clothes, shoes, hairbands, chickens, ducks, fish, meat, rice crackers, and fireworks, skipping ropes, hula hoops, and other things to play with.
At midnight on the New Year, countless fireworks shot up into the sky. She turned around to look for Shi Yi, but she saw Shi Yi smiling at her. She thought she was dazzled and rubbed her eyes to look again, but Shi Yi hugged her. Her eyes suddenly became sore and countless tears welled up.
"School is about to start, so you can't be like before." Shi Yi gently touched her hair.
This child has been through so many things in a short time and can still maintain a kind heart, which shows that she did not make a mistake. Everything she does now is also for Mai Huaer's good, hoping that Mai Huaer can get out of her original environment and become better.
Mai Huaer didn't really understand Shi Yi's heart and the efforts of Shi Yi's parents for Mai Huaer until she grew up and had her own family and became a mother.
Mai Huaer, 10 years old, is in the second grade of the town's primary school. Because she is older than the average children, she rarely takes the initiative to play with them. But because she has experienced many things, she is more mature than the children in the class, and knows how to tolerate when getting along with them, which also makes her popular in the class.
At the end of the semester, she won the third place and ran back home with the certificate in both hands.
Shiyi's mother was very happy and pasted the certificate with glue in the most conspicuous place in the house. Old Zhang bought her his favorite candied haws. What she wanted most was Shiyi's praise, but unexpectedly she got a gentle hug from Shiyi.
She felt that every minute and every second of studying hard in school was worth it. Moreover, she no longer felt tired of studying. It was also because of this encouragement that she worked harder in her future studies and went all the way to a key university.
In college, she came into contact with more people and more camouflage days, which made her, who had been concentrating on studying, relax a little.
On a rainy day, the umbrella that was suddenly handed to her head and the gentle but shy smile made her heart, which had been silent for a long time, beat for the first time.
She has read many books and understands that this is called "heartbeat".
(End of this chapter)
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