Zhang Meng stewed the chicken for two hours before serving it on the table. As soon as it was served, the whole house was filled with the aroma of chicken soup.
The fragrance drifted directly outside, causing many people to drool.
Among them, the Niu family who lived next door to the Zhang family was the most pitiful.
Every day at mealtime, they could smell the delicious aroma of Zhang’s food.
"Mom, I want to eat meat." At noon today, there was only a bowl of pickles on the Niu family's dinner table.
Zhang Lihua glanced at her son who seemed to have become thinner due to hunger in the past two days, and thought of the two fat boys in the Zhang family. She felt extremely uncomfortable. Why could those two orphaned boys eat so well while her son had to eat pickles with her?
"Come on, Mom will take you to eat something delicious next door." Zhang Lihua took her youngest son's hand and went out.
At this moment, a little girl, about ten years old, sitting at the dinner table looked up and called out to the mother and son, "Mom, Dad told you not to go to the house next door. We can't afford to offend them."
When Zhang Lihua heard her daughter was actually using the men in the family to pressure her as a mother, she was so angry that she let go of her youngest son's hand and slapped her eldest daughter in the face, cursing, "You money-loser, are you your father's child or mine? You actually listen to your father so much? I cook for you every day, and this is how you treat me, isn't it?"
After just one hit, the little girl's face started to swell up.
The little girl didn't cry, but looked at her mother stubbornly, "I only know that all the money in this family is earned by my father. Mom, you should stand up for yourself. Look at what you have done. The uncles and aunts in this military region look down on our family. What else do you want?"
When the little girl said this, her eyes became red. If her mother could not be replaced, she really did not want to have such a shameful mother who only knew how to stir up trouble every day and made none of the uncles and aunts in the compound look down on their family.
When Zhang Lihua heard that her daughter dared to accuse her as a mother, her face turned red with anger. She raised her hand again and moved her feet, kicking her eldest daughter to the ground.
When Niu Dayong came back, he saw his daughter-in-law kicking her eldest daughter to the ground without any maternal love.
The eldest daughter lay on the ground motionless for a long time. He was so frightened that his face turned pale. He immediately ran in and picked up the eldest daughter on the ground, "Hua'er, are you okay?"
When Niu Xiaohua saw her father hugging her, tears fell uncontrollably and she threw herself into her father's arms, "Dad, you're back!"
Niu Dayong's eyes turned red, and he looked up at Zhang Lihua angrily, "Zhang Lihua, what are you crazy about? Hua is our eldest daughter, do you want to kill her?"
When Zhang Lihua saw Niu Dayong rushing in, she was completely stunned. She had only one thought in her mind, that is, she was dead.
Although her husband Niu Dayong is a rural man, he does not have the idea of favoring boys over girls. On the contrary, because the eldest daughter was born first, he values her more than the younger son. Now that he sees her beating the eldest daughter to death, he will definitely beat her.
Zhang Lihua immediately begged Niu Dayong for mercy, "Dayong, I, I didn't mean to do that. It was that stinky girl Xiaohua who forced me to hit her. I didn't mean to do that either."
Niu Dayong felt heartbroken when he saw his daughter's swollen face. At the same time, he was extremely disappointed with his daughter-in-law Zhang Lihua. He stood up and slapped her in the face without saying a word.
After a while, there was a loud fight in the Niu family.
The lively atmosphere at the Niu family's house has been happening almost every day in the past few years. At the beginning, everyone would go over to persuade them to do something because they lived together, but after a while, no one went over there anymore.
Hearing the murderous screams coming from next door, Zhang Meng frowned.
Gu Mingtai's face was not in a good mood at this time. The family was having lunch happily, but such a depressing sound came from next door. No one would feel good.
Gu Mingtai stood up and said to his family with a dark face, "You guys eat first, I'll go over and take a look."
Grandma Zhang couldn't stand seeing this man beating a woman. Although she also didn't like the wife of the Niu family next door, this man who beat a woman was the most annoying.
"Hurry up and go take a look. Comrade Niu is also wrong. If his wife does something wrong, he shouldn't beat her like that. It sounds creepy. Please don't let anything happen."
Grandma Zhang said. Gu Mingtai nodded and turned to leave. Zhang Meng also put down her chopsticks and called to the man who was about to leave, "Wait a minute, I'll go out with you."
This man is so honest. What if he is bullied by Zhang Lihua? It would be better for her to follow him.
The couple quickly arrived at the next door. The door was not closed, and they saw the mess inside.
"Deputy Battalion Commander Niu, what's going on?" Gu Mingtai stood at the door and shouted to the man squatting inside.
Niu Dayong looked up and saw that it was Gu Mingtai. An uncomfortable expression immediately appeared on his dark face.
"It turned out to be Captain Gu. No, nothing happened. It's just that my wife at home was angry. I had a few arguments with her and she wanted to die." Niu Dayong explained embarrassedly.
Gu Mingtai glanced at Zhang Lihua who was sitting on the ground. Half of her face was covered by her hair, making it difficult to see what her current condition was.
"Okay, don't make so much noise. We all live so close to each other, it would be bad if we disturb others." Gu Mingtai didn't care what happened to them. He just wanted to warn the family to be quiet and not disturb them while they were having dinner.
Niu Dayong's face turned pale, and he replied with a twitching smile, "I know, I'll be careful." Only then did Gu Mingtai, satisfied, take Zhang Meng back. At this moment, his thigh was hugged by a dirty little boy.
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