Chapter 114: The Evil Mother-in-Law Meets the Violent and Lazy Daughter-in-Law (1)
The original owner was called Li Ling. She had been married to her husband for just half a year. The scene just now was the daily activities of her husband's mother, the old woman, who was taking out her anger by beating her.
Li Ling was married through exchange marriage, and Yang Yun, who should have been her sister-in-law, became her elder sister-in-law.
Li Ling had been married to her husband Yang Fu for a year but had never been pregnant. However, Yang Yun, who had moved to the Li family, gave birth to a big fat boy for her brother.
This made her old mother, Liu Shufen, very unhappy, so she would beat and kick her at every turn, calling her a hen that couldn't lay eggs.
In the 1980s when material was scarce, especially in their mountain village where people could barely get enough to eat, bride exchange was a very common phenomenon. It not only saved the betrothal money, but also solved the issue of their son's marriage.
As for whether the daughter who was exchanged lived a good life, the parents never thought about it. In their eyes, they raised their daughter to this age just to exchange a wife for their son. If they couldn't exchange a wife, why would they waste so much food to raise someone else's daughter-in-law.
In the Yang family, the one who made the decision was the original owner's mother-in-law Liu Shufen. The original owner's husband Yang Fu was a taciturn person. He usually didn't dare to say a word when he saw the original owner being beaten by his mother.
The original owner's father-in-law was a completely upgraded version of her husband. He was well-known in the surrounding villages for being henpecked. When Liu Shufen told him to go east, he didn't even dare to look west.
Since the day Li Ling got married, her mother-in-law has never given her a good look, because that's how her mother-in-law treated her, and she wants to make Li Ling experience everything she had experienced before.
I have to get up before dawn in the morning to cook for the whole family. Although the food is not very good, it is hot.
But these had nothing to do with Li Ling. She could only eat the cold pancakes left over from last night, and she couldn't eat them on the table.
"While you're eating, wash the clothes in the basin outside. The grass in the cornfield has grown half a person's height. After you finish washing, go and pull the grass quickly."
Faced with her mother-in-law's orders, Li Ling never dared to say no and could only eat while washing clothes.
Obviously, the Yang family didn't have much land and the yard wasn't big, but from the moment Li Ling opened her eyes in the morning, she had no time to rest. Her mother-in-law would always find some work for her to do, no matter how big or small. She just couldn't bear to see Li Ling not working and being idle, as if being idle would cost her her life.
One year after Li Ling and Yang Fu got married, there was no sign of pregnancy, so her mother-in-law started asking around for folk remedies for infertility.
The farmers were extremely poor, so the folk remedies they could use were naturally free herbs that could be found in the mountains.
Li Ling's breakfast every morning became a bowl of herbal medicine that was more bitter than Coptis chinensis, plus a cold pancake.
Li Ling didn't know whether these medicines were effective for pregnancy, but not long after taking them, she felt her stomach aching from time to time.
She told her mother-in-law about her stomachache.
When her mother-in-law heard this, she was surprised. She thought that she was going to be pregnant, so the herbal medicine that she had taken once a day could now be changed to one meal in the morning and one in the evening.
The intervals between Li Ling's stomachaches became shorter and shorter, and the duration became longer and longer. Finally, one day, while working in the fields, she fainted in the ground.
After she woke up, she heard the villagers' descriptions and realized how scary she was.
Li Ling wondered why her mother-in-law would be willing to send her to the town clinic if she wasn't scary.
There was an old Chinese doctor in the clinic. After hearing that Liu Shufen had asked her daughter-in-law to drink random folk herbal remedies to treat infertility, he scolded her in person.
Liu Shufen rolled her eyes, thinking that since she was already here, she knelt down in front of the old Chinese doctor.
"Doctor, please, my son is the only child in our Yang family. If my daughter-in-law can't give birth to a child, our Yang family will be extinct."
Liu Shufen cried with tears and snot all over her face, and kowtowed on the ground.
"Doctor, please, please let our Yang family have a successor."
It is the duty of the old Chinese doctor to treat patients and save lives, but Liu Shufen's kneeling made him look like a villain.
The old Chinese doctor was furious but still took Li Ling's pulse. The result of the pulse check plunged the Yang family into complete gloom.
Except for the damage to her spleen and stomach caused by drinking the herbal medicine, Li Ling was healthy in other aspects, which meant that she could have a baby.
In this way, the reason why Li Ling has not been able to get pregnant becomes obvious.
On the way home from the clinic, Li Ling was threatened by Liu Shufen.
"If you dare tell anyone about this, I'll have Yang Yun beat your mother to death."
Just this one sentence completely strangled Li Ling's lifeline. Thinking of how tough her sister-in-law was, she wondered how many kicks her mother could withstand.
For the sake of her elderly mother, Li Ling could only swallow the matter.
After returning home, Li Ling saw with her own eyes that her mother-in-law beat her husband, a nearly 1.8-meter-tall man, and made him run around the yard.
Her father-in-law could only squat at the foot of the house, smoking his pipe with a gloomy face.
Li Ling thought her mother-in-law would force her husband to take herbal medicine to treat his illness.
What she never expected was that her mother-in-law would actually let the eldest brother of Yang Fu's uncle enter her and Yang Fu's room in the middle of the night.
Two months later, Li Ling finally became pregnant.
Liu Shufen was both happy and angry about the result, which made her even more ruthless in ordering Li Ling around.
When Li Ling was eight months pregnant, she was squatting in the field pulling weeds. Perhaps because she squatted for too long, her fetus was disturbed and her stomach immediately began to hurt.
When her mother-in-law and others rushed over, she was in so much pain that she couldn't walk.
One of the experienced middle-aged women, seeing that Li Ling's water had broken, immediately asked her to give birth in the field.
With nothing, Li Ling gave birth to the child.
When Liu Shufen saw that Li Ling gave birth to a boy, she held the child tightly and refused to let go, not caring whether Li Ling, who had just given birth, was dead or alive.
Li Ling was finally carried home by her husband Yang Fu. He had no expectations for the child Li Ling gave birth to. Instead, he hated the child very much in his heart.
As soon as I saw him, it was like a reminder that he was infertile and his wife had to rely on others to have children. No man could tolerate this kind of humiliation.
Li Ling did not notice that something was wrong with her husband because she had no time to observe Yang Fu.
On the third day of her confinement, she was driven to the fields by her mother-in-law.
"I got out of bed the next day after I gave birth to Yang Fu. It's already a blessing enough for you to lie down for one more day. How can you lie down for a few more days?" Liu Shufen said bitterly.
The reason why Li Ling was able to lie down for one more day was actually because she had a premature baby and lost a lot of blood during delivery. The next day, she was drowsy due to deficiency of qi and blood, and her face was so pale that she looked like she had been dead for several days.
How could she go to work in the fields when she looked half asleep?
After Li Ling gave birth, she only looked at him from a distance.
Her mother-in-law was afraid that she would snatch the child away, so she never brought the child to her. The child was held by Liu Shufen during the day and slept with Liu Shufen at night.
And Li Ling is just like a machine that brings the child into this world.
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