"You stinky bitch, today I'm..." Before the man could finish his words, Gu Yan had already hit him with the rolling pin in his hand. He cried out in pain and jumped back several steps as if he was on fire.
The old lady stretched out her hand to stop him, but Gu Yan dodged it. Ignoring an old lady with bound feet who staggered and almost fell, she hit the man with the rolling pin in her hand like the Tiger Subduing Stick of the Eighteen Arhats of Shaolin.
"I let you beat your wife, I let you be too lazy to earn work points, I let you make trouble for no reason when it's cloudy or rainy, and I let you stay at home and eat for free..."
The rage that was pent up in his heart turned into reality, and the stick that hit him made a loud sound like wind, beating him so hard that he had no power to fight back. I wanted to reach out and grab it, but it was so hot that it felt like it was on fire. A big blister formed on my hand, and my clothes gave off a burnt smell as if they were ironed.
"You shrew, you dare to hit your own man. This is against heaven. I will go to the brigade to sue you and ask the branch secretary to judge the case..."
The old lady jumped up and down and cursed, but seeing her daughter-in-law waving the stick like a butterfly, she did not dare to snatch it away. The door curtain was lifted up, and all the women in the yard came to watch the fun.
This yard is a troglodyte courtyard, with a cliff on the east and a cliff on the west, but one is lower and the other is higher. Twenty or thirty steps on the west side will lead to the main street of the brigade. The houses on the north and south sides are all made of blue bricks and large tiles, and now they all belong to the Han family. It was still raining at night, and even if the neighbors heard it, they had no intention of coming to see it.
"Oh, second sister-in-law, this tigress is showing her might." The younger daughter-in-law just came into the family two years ago, holding a baby in her arms.
The eldest sister-in-law rolled her eyes at the sister-in-law who was just looking for trouble, then turned to Gu Yan and said indifferently, "Aunt, don't be angry, watch your stomach."
"Gu Yan, you shrew, you dare to hit my brother, I..." The fierce Han Xiaomei turned around and walked out. After a while, she came back with a rolling pin and said, "I will beat you to death...ah..."
The one in front was the little girl's shouting, and the one in the back was Han Laoer's shouting. His wife's rolling pin was enough to give him a hard time, and he couldn't avoid it no matter how hard he tried. This time the damn girl hit him back with a stick.
"Where are you going to hit me? Get out of here..."
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, brother, I didn't mean it." The little girl apologized and raised her hand to hit him with a stick. I don’t believe it. I can’t hit you.
“Ah…ah…”
The brother and sister shouted in unison, and one of them was hit extra, right on the spot where he had just been hit. One was when a rolling pin was attacked. The huge force caused her wrist to loosen, and the weapon fell to the ground. There seemed to be wetness at the base of her thumb.
The little girl didn't dare to act wild anymore. She retreated to the door, covered her hands and hid behind her two sisters-in-law. Old Mrs. Han was also intimidated by this weak and useless daughter-in-law. She sat on the edge of the kang in amazement, not knowing what to say.
In the darkness, no one dared to say a word. Several women at the door had already retreated outside. The only sound in the room was her son's howling like a pig being slaughtered.
"Stop, stop hitting me. My wife, please stop hitting me."
The other two brothers, who had no intention of intervening, were also startled by the pig-slaughtering howling and came to the main hall and the side room with their clothes on. As for the head of the family, Old Man Han, he would not easily interfere in the affairs of the younger generation.
"What's going on?"
The eldest and the third brother came over kicking and clattering. Their brother could no longer bear the excruciating pain and began to beg his wives for mercy.
"The couple is fighting." The eldest son's wife only said this, and her voice sounded helpless. The third brother's wife's next words were full of gloating, "Second sister-in-law was so powerful today, the tigress showed her power. She beat the second brother and made him scream."
Brothers are born from the same mother, so they will definitely side with their own family. The third child was not happy to hear this. "Why are you everywhere? Hurry up and take the child back to the house to sleep. Don't catch a cold in such a cold day."
The fight in the room stopped when the second son begged for mercy. The third son's wife muttered something and went back to the south room with the child in her arms. The sky was gloomy without the moon or stars, as if a black silk curtain was wrapping people up, making it so stuffy that one could hardly breathe.
“What are you looking at? Get out of here.” Before the end of the world, Gu Yan worked as a stunt double on the film sets, often playing the roles of killers, female monsters and the like. Her strong aura allowed her to go out smoothly, and everyone automatically made way for her on both sides.
Behind the north room is the toilet. A small area built with mud bricks is used to build a toilet and pigpen to prevent exposure and accidents.
Nowadays, toilets are cleaner than other ones. After all, farm manure is a rare and good fertilizer. I unzipped my pants and let the water out, and my stomach immediately felt relieved.
"I'm dying of suffocation. You have to come here at this critical moment to ask for a beating. Why can't you wait until I finish using the toilet?"
I tied up my trouser pockets and returned to the front yard. The lights in the main room were already on. Han Laoer's high and low shouts were heard from inside. It seems these people have changed sides.
“It hurts, it hurts, it hurts…”
"My son, look at how he got beaten. This woman is a shrew. Divorce her tomorrow and I will find you a better one."
"Mom, please be gentle. It hurts."
Han Laoer had a bad temper and he shouted this in exasperation. He was in poor health when he was a child, and the old lady doted on him, fearing that she would not be able to support him. The result is a lazy and greedy kid.
"You are really good at dealing with your mother. Why didn't you dare to hit that woman just now? It would be embarrassing for a grown man like you to tell others about her beating you like this."
"I..." Does that mean I don't want to fight back? If I keep getting hit one after another, will I have any room to fight back?
Gu Yan ignored what they said. Anyway, she will just deal with whatever tricks she has. The most important thing right now is to rest. She feels really uncomfortable with such a big belly.
She went back to her room, locked the door, and went to sleep on the kang in one go. When her two daughters, who were hiding in the corner, saw her come back, they also lay down beside her again. The little girl seemed to want to say something but didn't dare to open her mouth. She looked at her mother with fiery eyes full of admiration.
After tossing and turning on the kang all night, she had to get up to go to the toilet at dawn. The little girl next to him said, "Mom, do you want to pee?"
Seeing her nod, the little girl quickly climbed out of the bed and said, "Wait a minute, I'll go get you a urinal. It's raining outside again, and the team hasn't rung the bell yet, so it should be a holiday. You sleep a little longer in bed, and I'll go to the cafeteria and get you some food later."
As the little girl spoke, she opened the door and walked out of the house. In less than a minute, she brought in a small earthenware jar. I should have brought this thing in before going to bed last night, but I forgot about it because I was so busy last night.
Gu Yan had already put on her clothes, and she was embarrassed to ask the child to empty her urine. She bent down, picked up the clay pot, and went to the toilet.
Han Dahua behind her was confused by her mother's attitude. She stood on the ground in a daze, looking down at her toes. After a while, he looked up and asked his sister quietly, "Is mom angry?"
Xiaohua in the bed hesitated for a moment, her tone full of uncertainty, "It shouldn't be!"
The two sisters were about to say something else when they heard the sound of Gu Yan's footsteps. She came in, closed the door, and returned to the kang.
It was a very cold day. Although it wasn’t below zero, it was probably pretty cold.
"Why are you standing there? Come up and get some sleep. There's still two or three hours before the canteen opens for dinner."
Dahua's uneasy heart was calmed. She nodded vigorously and climbed back onto the kang. The kangs here are not like those in the Northeast that have flues for burning firewood. Most of the kangs here are solid and rely entirely on the stoves on the edges for heating. Now that there is no fire, the kangs are icy cold.
There is a folk saying that goes, "A fool sleeping on a cold kang relies on his strong firepower." They are located at the border of the north and the south, so it is not cold here, but there is heavy snow one after another in winter. As for the coldness, it's nothing compared to the north where the temperature can easily be minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius.
Basically, once the sun comes out, the snow will melt away in a few days. If you sleep on a heated kang, you will get sore throat that you cannot stand it. This has led to the formation of customs and habits that are different between the north and the south.
Gu Yan pressed half of the quilt under his body so that he would be warmer. Her biological clock kept her awake, so she simply opened her eyes and looked around at her new home.
There were stains all over the blue bricks, from smoke and fire, as well as smears all over them, and they were so black that they had long lost their original color. The holes in the patches of the children’s winter cotton jackets in the box are no big deal, the key is that they are too small to be worn, which is what we dealt with last year. She was so pitiful that she couldn't even ask her mother-in-law for even a piece of cloth and cotton.
A cabinet, mostly empty. There were only two thin quilts for a family of four. The baby in my belly was about to be born, but I didn’t even know where the quilt was. The two young girls were originally wrapped in a large quilt.
The room was completely bare, without even a table for dining. It makes me sigh just thinking about it. When the original body got married, she was kicked out of the house naked. The clothes she wore on the wedding day were borrowed from her mother. When she returned to her parents' home the next day, she took them off and wore her own old clothes to return to her husband's home.
This kind of thing is quite common these days. If a person can have a piece of clothing without patches when going out, he is considered to be a well-off family. For a girl like her, who is neither loved by her father nor her mother, the two torn quilts her mother-in-law gave them were given to her because she was afraid they would freeze to death.
After some thinking in my mind, I decided to improve my life first. As for bringing out something shocking, she could only try to keep a low profile. Find a way to cover it up.
He sat up from the bed and put on the dirty and old clothes. The two children also quickly sat up and dressed.
"Mom, what are you going to do? Let me run errands for you."
Seeing such a sensible child, she couldn't help but feel comforted. She reached out and touched her daughter's head: "It's okay, I'll sit for a while. If you want to sleep, continue to sleep."
The two children never sleep in on weekdays. Hearing this, they shook their heads, put on their clothes and got up. The eldest got out of bed to fetch water to wash his face, while the second one knelt on the kang to fold the quilt. Her arms were too short to reach it, so she folded one end and then jumped to the other, looking as cute and serious as a little rabbit.
As far as I can remember, these two kids usually fold the quilts, so Gu Yan doesn't make a fuss about it. The two children are so thin that it makes people feel sorry for them. It’s okay for them to do some work after they are full. In fact, they are more capable than her big belly.
He took out a candy from the space, tore open the plastic wrapping, raised his hand and stuffed it into Xiaohua's mouth. The child was stunned for a moment before he reacted. Then her eyes widened in surprise. She actually ate the legendary candy.
The candy was so delicious! She had never eaten anything so delicious. Oh, no, the cookies mom gave me last night were also delicious.
Seeing her sister coming in to get some water, she quickly spat out the candy in her mouth. Just when she was about to give the candy to her sister, she saw that her mother had already stuffed one into her sister's mouth. She happily put the candy back into her own mouth.
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