Besides the bite wound, Zhou Cailian had several scratches on her hands, but the skin wasn't broken. She washed the bitten area with soap and, seeing that Yu Qiuying hadn't come out yet, went to the kitchen to wash the dishes.
After lunch, before the dishes were even washed, Mom and the third son started arguing. Sigh, the third son is really insensible. He's making Mom so angry over a woman. He doesn't even think about how hard it was for Mom to raise the five of them all by herself. Life has only gotten a little better in the last two years.
But Zhong Xiaolan's family asked for a dowry of 1,000 yuan. These days, the dowry for getting a wife in the countryside is only 100 or 200 yuan. If the family is better off, it's 200 or 300 yuan at most. I don't know what kind of spell Zhong Xiaolan has cast on the third son. He doesn't care whether the family can afford it or not. He has argued with his mother several times about the dowry.
Today, she went even further, saying many hurtful things that made Mom faint from anger.
Thankfully, Mom is alright.
But Mom hit the third child today, I wonder if the third child will hold a grudge against Mom...
"Cailian, don't do all the housework by yourself anymore. Your sister is all grown up now, so you should ask her to help when you need to." Yu Qiuying changed her clothes and came out but didn't see Zhou Cailian. Hearing the noise in the kitchen, she went over and saw that Cailian was indeed inside, washing the dishes.
She stood at the kitchen doorway, watching her eldest daughter's busy figure, and felt a lump in her throat as she thought about her unfortunate life in her previous life.
My eldest daughter is twenty-four this year. She married into the next village when she was twenty, but she didn't get pregnant for three years after marriage. At the end of last year, her former mother-in-law sent her back to her parents' home.
The two did not obtain a marriage certificate; they only held a small wedding banquet. When her in-laws sent her back to her parents' home, it was as if they were divorced.
Actually, it wasn't her fault that the eldest daughter couldn't get pregnant for three years; it was because her ex-husband was disgusting. That bastard was gay and couldn't get an erection with women at all. It's pitiful that the eldest daughter had never experienced anything like that before. She was so confused that she hadn't experienced a real married life even once in three years of marriage, and she thought it was really her own problem.
Her former mother-in-law also spread rumors that she was infertile, until she remarried and became pregnant, at which point the gossip stopped.
At that time, everyone thought that since it wasn't that the woman couldn't have children, then the man must have a problem. Even Yu Qiuying herself thought so at the time. She never imagined that the man didn't have a physical problem, but that he simply didn't like women.
Speaking of which, that man kept it a secret quite well in his past life. She only found out he was gay when she went back to her hometown to see her daughter for the last time, the year her eldest daughter died.
That day, she was immersed in the grief of her eldest daughter's death, and since her eldest daughter and that man hadn't had any contact for over twenty years, she only overheard a bit and didn't pay any attention to it.
The eldest daughter is truly unlucky. She met such a disgusting man before, and even after remarrying, she still didn't have a good life.
Her second husband was an abusive man. His first wife was tortured to death by him, leaving behind two sons. The eldest daughter initially thought it was because she couldn't have children, so she thought it would be better to marry into the family and become a stepmother. At worst, she could treat them as her own children.
The man didn't mind that his eldest daughter couldn't have children because he already had two sons, so she married him. But who would have thought that the man, who seemed like an honest person on the surface, would reveal his true nature after marriage? He was not only short-tempered, but he would also hit people if things didn't go his way.
When she was first beaten, the eldest daughter thought that she had already married twice and it was not good to get divorced again, so she endured it and did not dare to tell her mother.
Less than six months after her marriage, her eldest daughter suddenly became pregnant. Even though it turned out to be a girl, she was still happy.
But before she could be happy for even a few days, the man beat her again, the reason being that the child kept crying and disturbing his sleep.
The eldest daughter hadn't even finished her postpartum confinement period when she had to take care of her newborn child and her two stepsons, who were five and three years old respectively—both at a very active age. She was raising three children all by herself, doing housework, and farming, leaving her no time to even catch her breath.
Even so, the man still berated her for being useless, complaining that she did this wrong and that wrong, and would hit her whenever he was unhappy.
The worst incident resulted in her eldest daughter being hospitalized for over half a month. She only found out about this from others. She reported it to the police that day and later went to the man's house to cause a scene, eventually forcing the man to divorce her eldest daughter.
Later, the eldest daughter remarried, bringing her daughter who was not yet three years old with her. Her third husband was from the next town. He had two daughters and a son. The man was alright; he was hardworking and could endure hardship, but he was a bit stingy and didn't know how to be considerate.
After his eldest daughter married him, she gave birth to a son and a daughter, bringing the total number of children in the family to six. Life became very difficult.
With more children, there are more conflicts, not to mention a blended family with six children who are not from the same father and mother. The house is in constant chaos, with no peace and quiet.
What's most hateful is that the eldest daughter served that family for more than ten years, and finally endured until the children grew up and became successful, but none of them were close to her.
Her three stepchildren all complained that she favored her own children, while her three biological children complained that she hadn't fulfilled her responsibilities as a mother.
When her eldest daughter was 45, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. None of her six children were willing to go to the hospital to take care of her, and she died after only two months.
Thinking back on all this, Yu Qiuying felt a pang of heartache. Fortunately, she was reborn early; if it had been two days later, her eldest daughter would have fallen for that abusive man.
Zhou Cailian had no idea what Yu Qiuying was thinking. She quickly washed the dishes without turning her head and said with a smile, "It's nothing for me to do some work. Besides, there's not much housework. Caixiang needs to study, so don't disturb her."
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