Chapter 362 Chapter 363: Cousin Haili
When Yang Chunyan returned home, she saw Zhou's mother standing by the vegetable field, talking to a thin woman. From her profile, she could tell that she looked unhappy, which probably wasn't a good thing.
At this time, Zhou's mother and the woman turned their heads to look over. She saw a sallow face...
"Chunyan, this is Haili from my aunt's family, you can call her cousin."
"Cousin." Yang Chunyan greeted with a smile.
Luo Haili embarrassedly showed Yang Chunyan a smile that was uglier than crying, "Little cousin-in-law!"
Yang Chunyan smiled at her gently and walked into the vegetable garden, "Mom, go back to the house and talk to my cousin. I'll pick the chili peppers."
Mother Zhou handed her the basket and said, "Take your time picking. You'll have enough time to make the bean paste tomorrow."
Yang Chunyan smiled and nodded, "I understand."
Mother Zhou took Luo Haili to the kitchen and said, "Why should you be angry with a bad person? You've made yourself angry at such a young age. You'll suffer when you're old."
Luo Haili's tears fell again, "Aunt, I..."
Yang Chunyan watched the two people leave and sighed. This was a woman with a truly miserable life. She had a miserable life in her previous life, and Luo Haili was seven times more miserable than her.
When she was a few years old, her biological mother died. Her stepmother married in and gave birth to two younger brothers. She was sold to the Yan family in the next village when she was a teenager, in exchange for a dowry for her younger brothers to marry wives.
They had just gotten married and lived a good life for two years, but later they found out that Yan Yongxin liked to play around with money. Luo Haili went back to her parents' home to complain but no one paid attention. If Yan Yongxin found out, she would be beaten...
Later, Yan Yongxin went even further and wanted to marry Yan Qiaoling to the son of a gambling friend to pay off his gambling debts. Luo Haili finally exploded and hacked him to death while he was sleeping...
Mother Zhou poured a bowl of boiling water and mixed it with a bowl of brown sugar water for Luo Haili, "Drink some sugar water, and auntie will cook you a bowl of noodles."
"Thank you, aunt!" Luo Haili took the bowl gratefully and started drinking from it in small sips. After a few sips, she felt warm all over and had some strength.
Zhou's mother fried two eggs, scooped two scoops of water into the pot, went to the stove and started to light the fire, "What are you standing there for? Take a stool and sit down!"
Luo Haili pulled a bench and sat down. "Aunt, I heard that my youngest cousin bought a tractor?"
Zhou's mother nodded. "Yes! His mother-in-law borrowed money to buy it, and she's still in debt! How did you know?"
Luo Haili put the bowl on the stove, "Yongxin told me."
After hearing this, Zhou's mother frowned and asked, "Are you borrowing the money to help Yan Yongxin pay off his gambling debts?"
Luo Haili blushed and nodded, "Yongxin said that as long as the money he owed was paid back, he would never go there again, and he also said that he would live a good life in the future..."
Her voice became smaller and smaller, and by the end it was barely louder than a mosquito's hum.
To be honest, she herself didn't believe it, and she didn't want to ask her aunt to borrow money, but Yan Yongxin said that if she didn't come to borrow money, he wouldn't give Qiaoling food...
She had no choice. She couldn't rely on her mother's family, so she could only shamelessly come to her aunt's house...
Zhou's mother sneered, "I won't go there again. If the gambler's words are to be believed, I will fry fish for him with my palms."
"I don't believe it either." Luo Haili shook her head bitterly, "The debt collectors come to our house every day. We have to sell all the grain we just harvested to pay off the debts, and we are still fifty dollars short of paying it off.
The valuable things have been sold out long ago, and the only things left to sell are sweet potatoes and corn, which are worth very little. If we sell them, there will be no food left at home..."
Zhou's mother said angrily, "Once you get addicted to gambling, you can't get rid of it. The family of my third aunt in Fangtian Brigade was so rich, but it was completely squandered. I think you'd better divorce him as soon as possible."
Luo Haili shook her head, "The Yan family won't agree..."
After hearing this, Zhou's mother looked at her with dismay, "Useless thing, are you going to follow him around and pay off his gambling debts for the rest of your life?"
Luo Haili shrank her neck and looked at Zhou's mother, "Aunt, if I divorce, what will happen to Qiaoling? I have suffered enough as a stepmother, and I don't want my child to suffer that kind of hardship..."
"Your mother-in-law thinks she is just a little girl, so you take care of her yourself." Zhou's mother looked at her, "You have your own hands and feet, so why are you afraid of not being able to find food?"
Luo Haili still shook her head, "The Yan family won't agree."
Mother Zhou said angrily, "You haven't even tried it, how do you know the Yan family won't agree?"
Luo Haili looked up, her eyes red as she said, "I told him that if he continued gambling like this, I would divorce him and take Qiaoling away. He said that I could go, but I had to return the betrothal money to him. I don't have a penny on me, so where would I get the money to return it to him?"
Zhou's mother looked at her and her nose was sore. "Even if I lend you money today to pay off his gambling debts, he will owe new debts in less than two days. What will you do then?"
"When a gambler loses his money, he will do anything. The third aunt's son lost all her coffin. If it were the old society, he would have sold his children long ago."
Luo Haili wept and said, "I know this won't work, but when I married Yan Yongxin, my husband left all the betrothal money behind."
"I went back to my husband to ask for the betrothal money, but he said that the money was gone a long time ago. He also said that it was okay for a man to gamble a bit when he was tired from work, and that a few fights would not kill anyone, so he told me to go back and live a good life with Yongxin.
She couldn't hold it in any longer and choked up, "He beat me when I got home, saying that he bought me and that I would die in his house."
"What~" Zhou's mother dropped the tongs and strode forward to look at her, "Where did I hit you?"
Luo Haili slowly lifted her clothes and said, "He never hits me in the face. Every time, he hits me in a place that no one else can see... Woo... Woo... Woo..."
When Zhou's mother saw the skinny body covered with scars of different sizes and colors, tears immediately fell from her eyes.
"Oh my God, this is not the way to beat a cattle thief. How could he kill a bastard like that? Luo Kaixu is such a blind, heartless bastard..."
Luo Haili's tears fell like beads from a broken string. "Yan Yongxin didn't allow me to tell anyone, and even said that if I dared to tell anyone, he would sell Qiaoling out. Aunt, why is my life so miserable..."
Mother Zhou looked at her and thought of her youngest sister who died early. She hugged her and cried, "My poor youngest sister, poor Haili..."
Yang Chunyan heard the crying and returned to the kitchen with a basket of vegetables. Seeing the two people crying together, she felt sad. "Mom, cousin, don't cry. If there is anything, let's discuss it together and we will always find a way to solve it."
"Yes, let's work together to find a solution." Mother Zhou lifted her apron and wiped away her tears. She said in a hoarse voice, "Chunyan, cook a bowl of noodles for your cousin."
"Hmm!" Yang Chunyan put the noodles into boiling water and started cooking.
Mother Zhou sat down next to Luo Haili and took out a handkerchief to wipe away her tears. "Listen to your aunt. You can't live with a man like this anymore. If you can divorce him, do you want to?"
"I want to, I want to dream about it. If it weren't for Qiaoling, I would jump into the Ning River and end it all. I want to die..."
Luo Haili was choking with sobs and unable to speak. She felt that she must have done a lot of evil in her past life, which was why she suffered so much in this life...
(End of this chapter)
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