Zhou Yumei pointed at her and angrily shouted, "Old hag, get it clear, it's not your family that's kicking me out, it's me who doesn't want your son!"
"Justice is in the heart of the people. Why was I, Zhou Yumei, taken back by my parents' home right after I gave birth? Everyone nearby knows what your He family did."
In the past month or so since she moved in, the old woman has been spitting at her own house every morning, standing at the door and cursing, saying how shameless she is, how dare she squeeze back into town after being driven back to the mountains by her in-laws...
The old woman didn't mention anyone by name, but it would have a bad impact on her if she opened her business and cursed at her, so today I'll take this opportunity to vent my anger!
"..." Just as Mrs. He was about to retort, she heard Mrs. Li and her two neighbors whispering to the onlookers nearby.
"So she was taken away by her family right after she gave birth?"
"Well! The He family is dissatisfied with the birth of a girl..."
"I was wondering why she was speaking for the stepmother, it turns out she is even worse than the stepmother!"
"I am a woman myself, so I should understand how difficult it is for us to be women."
"People like them have black hearts. It's better to hope for God's mercy than to expect them to understand."
"Yes, the government should arrest people like this and put them in jail!"
Those harsh words and the contempt in everyone's eyes stabbed He Pozi like a knife. She could no longer stay there, and with her old face flushed, she pushed through the crowd and squeezed out.
Gong Xianghong and Luo Dayou thought that Mrs. He could help them, but she ran away without even saying a few words.
The two looked at each other and felt that they had come at a wrong time today. They also wanted to leave, but Zhou Yumei stepped forward and stopped them.
She pointed at Gong Xianghong and scolded her, "My cousin was only a teenager when you sold her to an old man who was more than ten years older than her and was a drunkard and a whore. You have children of your own, so how could you do such a thing that is worse than that of an animal?"
"Bullshit!" Gong Xianghong put her hands on her hips and cursed back, "Stop talking nonsense here. My Hai Li married into the Yan family and lived a happy life. It was your family that broke up that happy family..."
"You are the one talking nonsense!" Luo Haili said as she lowered her head and pulled aside her hair to show the scar on her forehead to the onlookers.
"My former mother-in-law called me here. If you all go to Guangming Brigade and ask about Yan Yongxin's family, you will understand why I am willing to risk my life to divorce him with my daughter."
She then pointed at Gong Xianghong and Luo Dayou and said, "I was bullied in the Yan family, not only did they not help me, they also took advantage of my misfortune and cut off all ties with me.
Seeing that I had escaped from the fire pit and was living a good life at my aunt's house, he came up with evil ideas again, collecting money from an old bachelor in the same village, and planned to sell me out again..."
Seeing that the crowd was looking at him and Luo Dayou with disdain, Gong Xianghong quickly argued, "You are talking nonsense. It was Fang Tuzi who sent someone to propose marriage, and we even asked him to go to the Zhou family to ask your opinion.
You said you didn't agree, so we rejected him. We came here this time because we heard you were in town, so we came to see how you and Qiaoling were doing."
Luo Haili stepped forward and pointed at her, "You speak better than you sing. You are the most vicious person in the Luo family! You are the one who didn't treat me as a human being since I was a child. You were the one who sold me to the Yan family. Luo Dayou is your accomplice."
"If my aunt and her family hadn't been here last year, my grave and my children's graves would have been covered with grass." When she thought about the past days, she didn't know how she had survived.
She looked up at the sky and held back her tears. "People often say that if there is a stepmother, there will be a stepfather. This is absolutely true. From the time you, Gong Xianghong, married into the Luo family until I was sold to the Yan family, I have never had a full meal in more than ten years.
When your uncles and aunts at home advised you, you called them hypocrites. If they really loved me, why didn’t they take me in? Even when they gave me a potato to eat, you blocked their door and scolded them. The life I have lived in your hands is three times more bitter than coptis chinensis!”
"Fuck you!" Luo Dayou yelled, "You heartless girl! If it weren't for your stepmother, I would have starved to death. If I had known you were such a heartless person, I would have thrown you into the mountains to feed the wild boars!"
"You thought that you had no evidence after all these years because you abused me? Gong Xianghong beat me and you not only helped her beat me, but also broke the tiles and made me kneel for hours."
Luo Haili pulled her pants up to her knees and said, "Look everyone, this is the scar they made me kneel on the tiles. It will be with me until I die."
"During those years at home, if there hadn't been kind-hearted aunties and uncles who secretly fed me and found herbs to treat my wounds, I would have gone to the underworld to reunite with my mother."
The crowd watching shuddered at the scars that covered her from the knees down.
Gong Xianghong and Luo Dayou's faces changed after seeing it. How could they have known that she had such a big scar on her leg!
Luo Haili stood in front of Luo Dayou and said word by word: "I know exactly what you are up to today. I will say it again in front of all the uncles, aunties, and grandpas today."
"Ever since you sold me to the Yan family, and let them beat, scold, and humiliate me, and even cut off all ties with me, I have told myself that my biological mother is gone, my biological husband is gone, and I will not even look at you even if you die in the future."
A man shouted, "Little sister, you are right to do this. You should cut off all ties with these wicked bastards, otherwise they will burrow into your flesh and suck your blood like blood-sucking worms until they suck you dry!"
Mrs. Li looked at the scar on her leg and sighed, "My God, this girl is really lucky. Such a big scar below the knee, it looks like the flesh has rotted and grown back to this state?"
"Yeah! If it wasn't rotten, why would it leave such a big scar?"
"How could you do such a thing? You have a black heart!"
It was also the first time that Zhou Yumei saw the wound on her leg. She looked at her distressedly, "Cousin..."
Luo Haili smiled and said, "It's okay. It doesn't hurt anymore."
Luo Dayou and Gong Xianghong wanted to escape when they saw that the situation was not good. A gray-haired old man stepped forward and spat at them, "Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. You evil people, you don't deserve to be human!"
"A pair of sons of bitches, beat the bastards!" The man who spoke just now stepped forward indignantly and punched Luo Dayou in the face.
"Ah~" Luo Dayou screamed and ran away with his head in his hands. He was kicked on the butt and thrown far away.
Gong Xianghong, who was running after him, was tripped by someone and fell with a thump. He didn't care about the pain and quickly got up, picked up Luo Dayou who was lying on the ground and ran away.
Everyone just wanted to beat them up to vent their anger, and when they saw them running away, no one chased after them.
Zhou Yumei said to the people who helped her with gratitude: "In the future, if you are thirsty and want to drink some water when you go out, or have too many things to put away, or want to leave a message for someone, just come to the agency store to find us."
After hearing this, everyone thought that sometimes they should leave a message for others, and their shop was easy to find, so they smiled happily and said, "Then we won't be polite in the future!"
Zhou Yumei also smiled and nodded, "Just come on!"
She and Luo Haili only lived in the main house. The corner house, the wing room and the woodshed were all empty, and they just put their things in the woodshed.
After hearing this, the old woman said, "Little sister, I still have half a bag of dried pickled cabbage left to sell today. Can you come and take it?"
"Okay!" Zhou Yumei smiled and pushed open the gate next to her. "If anyone has anything else to put away, just bring it over."
The man who had just attacked looked at his stall equipment and said, "Little sister, I sell rice candy on the street. I'll put the wooden board and two long stools here with you."
Luo Haili nodded and said, "Brother, just send it in."
Then two more people who were setting up stalls put their belongings into the yard. The onlookers, seeing that there was nothing exciting to watch, also dispersed.
Several vendors who were setting up small stalls also bought some household items in the store. The woman selling dried pickled vegetables bought a pack of matches, and the man bought a pack of cigarettes, a pound of salt, and five cents of fruit candy, and left happily.
After seeing off a few customers, Zhou Yumei finally remembered to ask Luo Haili what she had asked her to do just now.
Luo Haili picked up the red eggs on the counter and looked at her happily, "Chunyan gave birth to a seven-jin son, and the youngest went to his mother-in-law's house to announce the good news."
"Great!" Zhou Yumei happily took the red egg, "After Qiaoling finishes school this afternoon, we will take her back to Funiu to give her the confinement gift."
After the two arrived in the town, Zhou Yumei asked the village chief for help and sent Luo Qiaoling to the primary school next to the store to study in the first grade.
The store has been open for almost two months. In the first month, not counting the income from selling pea jelly and fried potatoes, the agency store earned about 60 yuan. Before the end of this month, it has earned more than 110 or 120 yuan.
Together with the two of them selling pea jelly and fried potatoes, they earn more than 200 yuan a month.
The cousins are good-tempered and get along well with each other.
Luo Haili smiled and nodded, "Okay! Go check if Xiaoxi has woken up first, so I can go cook."
"Okay!" Zhou Yumei thought about it and said, "Just now Luo Dayou said that someone told them that we were in town, so they came here. Who is this loud speaker that is so annoying?"
Luo Haili shook her head and said, "I don't know! The neighbors around my house have already been offended by them. Even if they knew, they wouldn't tell Gong Xianghong. Also, our team always goes out from the south end of the street, so they probably won't go this way."
Zhou Yumei curled her lips after hearing this, "A distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor. They actually offended all the neighbors around them. The temperaments of this couple are really similar to that of Mrs. He!"
"That damn old woman really looks like Gong Xianghong. As soon as I opened the door of the shop in the morning, she would deliberately throw dirty water at us." Luo Haili laughed again, "Once she threw it on a passerby and almost got beaten!"
"You deserve it! I finally got rid of my anger today!" Zhou Yumei said, looking at her knees. "You were injured so badly, did your knees hurt when the weather changed?"
Luo Haili rubbed her knees and said, "When it hurts, just boil some spatholobi and soak it in water and it will be fine." (End of this chapter)
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