Chapter 73: The Evil Stepmother is Ready to Be Evil to the End (5)
In the evening, on the Li family's dining table, there was an attractive roast chicken, a jar of fragrant peach blossom wine, and several plates of snacks to relieve the greasiness.
Muyan was the only one at the dinner table. She poured herself a cup of peach blossom wine, took a sip, and the aroma of the wine between her lips and teeth made her smile comfortably.
Wanzai looked at the roast chicken on the table and asked the question that had been on his mind for a while, "Boss, don't you get tired of eating roast chicken every day?"
Muyan reached out and tore off a chicken leg, opened her mouth and took a bite, her lips and teeth filled with the aroma of meat, "Greasy? How can something given for free be greasy?" After saying that, she took another bite of the chicken leg in her hand.
Maruzai: ...
When Muyan finished eating one chicken leg and was about to tear off the second one, the sound of a door opening was heard outside the yard.
It was Li Da and the other two who came back, but this did not stop her from eating the chicken leg. She tore off the second chicken leg and took a bite.
Li Er pushed the door open and happened to see Mu Yan sitting at the dining table eating a chicken leg. Seeing the fat and tender chicken leg in her hand, Li Er couldn't help swallowing his saliva.
That's hers, it has nothing to do with him.
Li Er forced himself to turn around, walked to a low table in the corner that was only up to his knees, and sat down.
There were three bowls of water on the side of the low table. The water in them was the leftover water from their lunch. In the bowl in the middle of the table was the whole grain pancakes he had made at noon.
Li Er drank a sip of cold water, reached out to grab a pancake and started eating.
The pancake was hard and loose, and Li Er had to drink three sips of water to wash it down after taking a bite.
The smell of roast chicken from the table not far away would occasionally drift towards him, and he ate a pancake while enjoying the aroma.
During these three months, the three of them worked desperately to pick herbs every day just to complete the task assigned to them by the vicious woman.
Only after you finish it can you eat a whole grain pancake. If you don’t finish it, you will have to go hungry when you come back at night.
He had experienced twice the feeling of working hard for an entire afternoon without eating dinner, and it was probably like that.
The vicious woman took all the money they earned from picking herbs and spent the whole day eating and drinking lavishly.
At first, after selling the goods for money, the vicious woman enjoyed herself with wine and meat. Li Er argued with her, but all he got was a scornful laugh from her and a beating.
When Li Er came out of the pharmacy after selling the money for the second time and wanted to argue with her again, the three of them were taken to a restaurant by the vicious woman.
That was the first time in Li Er's life that he had entered such a luxurious place. After entering the restaurant, he didn't know what the vicious woman said to the waiter. After the waiter heard her words, the look in his eyes made Li Er feel scared.
Led by the waiter, they entered a private room.
Not long after Li Er sat down in the private room, a sound that gave him goosebumps came from the room next door.
It was a man's voice, a young man.
Li Er never knew that men could make such disgusting sounds.
He used to hang out with a group of scoundrels in the village, and knew a little about matters between men and women. He had even seen that woman once. The voice of that woman and the image stayed in his mind for several months before gradually fading away.
At this moment, that person's voice brought back the sounds and images that had faded from his mind.
Soon, the disgusting screams turned into miserable cries and thrashing sounds.
"Go and have a look,"
He heard the vicious woman's voice and for some unknown reason he stood up and walked towards the window she pointed to.
There is a small window on the wall adjacent to the private rooms. It is obvious what it is used for.
Walking to the window, Li Er poked a hole in the window paper with shaking fingers, and the hole was facing the big bed in the private room next door.
Just one glance and Li Er's face turned pale.
He stayed where he was and didn't notice when Li Da and Li San walked to the window.
By the time he discovered them, their faces had turned pale with fear.
He pulled the two of them back to the table and sat them down, and for the first time he looked at the woman in front of him with pleading eyes.
He finally understood why the waiter had looked at the three of them with such a playful look when they entered the restaurant.
After leaving the restaurant, Li Er no longer dared to fight with her.
Every day when she opened her eyes, she would go to the mountains to pick herbs desperately, try her best to complete the daily quantity she required, and eat whole grain cakes willingly.
Every time he carried herbs to the town to sell, Li Er was always worried. He was afraid that she would take them to the restaurant again. Whenever they passed by, he would just walk by in a hurry.
"Second brother, go take a rest!"
Li Er came back to his senses and saw that Li Da, who had just spoken to him, was cleaning up the table where people had finished their meal, while the man who had eaten meat and drank wine had disappeared.
Li Er responded and told him to finish cleaning up and go to bed early, then got up and went back to his room.
Li San was already snoring on the big bunk bed.
Li Er lay down and fell asleep soon after listening to Li San's snoring.
The next day, Li Da and his two companions got up at dawn.
Li Da boils water and cleans the yard, Li Er cooks, of course, they cook their own meals, and Li San fetches water and washes clothes.
After finishing the work, the three of them ate a coarse grain cake and carried the basket up the mountain again.
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Five years later,
With the desperate efforts of Li Da and his two companions, Mu Yanhua hired someone to build a house with two entrances and two exits in the village.
The house with red walls and gray tiles and two majestic lions standing at the door seems out of place in the dilapidated environment of the entire village.
Ever since the house was built, a line of people would squat under the red wall at mealtime, not for any other reason but to smell the aroma of meat wafting from the other side of the red wall.
People who don't eat meat all year round can go home and eat two big bowls of brown rice just by smelling the aroma.
That evening at dinner, a group of people squatted under the red wall again.
"You can imagine how cruel this woman is. We live in the same village, and I've begged her so many times to teach me how to identify herbs, but she hasn't even nodded."
"People like her are selfish. They will go to hell after they die."
"She's selfish, and Li Da and the other two have also learned bad habits from her. I once secretly went to Li Da to ask him to teach me some herbs, but who would have thought he would just walk away without even looking at me."
"That's right. They wanted to tear his stepmother to pieces before, but who would have thought that in the past few years, they have become his stepmother's dogs. If they tell him to go east, he won't even dare to look west."
The people squatting at the foot of the wall were speaking in high spirits, filled with envy and jealousy.
Suddenly, a hoarse female voice interrupted their high spirits.
"Auntie, is this the Li family?" a woman in tattered clothes asked a middle-aged woman squatting against the wall.
"Yeah, who are you?" The middle-aged woman still had some excitement left in her, and her tone was not very friendly.
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