Chapter 44 Divorce
Ye Lao Da was lucky enough to catch up with the factory recruiting warehouse workers. He came home from work in town for a day or two and didn't know about Xiu Hong. He turned around and looked at his wife Zhao Zhaodi. Zhao Zhaodi told him
"Xiuhong from the third family is infertile. This time, she was chased back by her husband and mother-in-law. What's the point of being pretty? If she can't lay eggs, even bachelors don't want her."
Zhao Zhaodi said with gloating satisfaction
"Snap"
Old Mrs. Ye didn't want to listen and put down the bowl.
"What nonsense! If you don't want to eat, go out and feed the pigs. Is it your turn to speak about Xiuhong's affairs?"
Zhao Zhaodi saw that her mother-in-law was angry and her father-in-law had a gloomy face. Her husband Ye Dajun only knew how to coax his mother and did not stand on her side.
"Just leave, and don't tell me anything yet."
Zhao Zhaodi timidly put down the bowl, grabbed a steamed bun and went back to the house. She didn't know what was wrong with the old Ye family. They treated a little girl like a treasure. The whole family was not allowed to tell anyone if she couldn't survive. It seemed that everyone in the family had a problem in their brains.
"Ye Xiulan, is your sister really infertile?"
Ye Xiulan was walking home from school when Zhang Dani rushed out and shouted loudly. The classmates around her who were also leaving school were all looking at Ye Xiulan, gazing at her with strange eyes.
Ye Xiulan swung her two pigtails and turned around to glare at Zhang Dani. "Zhang Dani, it's none of your business whether my sister can give birth or not. So what? You're the only one who can give birth? Go ahead and give birth. A student giving birth every day isn't it shameful!"
After saying that, he bent down, grabbed a handful of dirt and threw it at Zhang Dani, then ran away with his little friend, leaving Zhang Dani roaring.
"Ah! Ye Xiuhong, I'm going to strangle you to death!"
Zhang Dani is Aunt Zhang’s daughter. Don’t think that Ye Xiulan doesn’t know what’s happening in the village just because she goes to school every day.
Aunt Zhang was gloating over her sister's affairs and was a joke all day long. Zhang Dani was as annoying as her mother and had been a gossip since she was a child.
"Sister! I'm back."
Recently, Ye Xiulan rushes home to see her sister as soon as she gets out of school. She always feels that her sister is not in a good state. She has no idea what she is thinking about every day, as if she has lost her soul.
"Sister, why are you ignoring me? Say something."
Ye Xiulan took off her shoes and climbed onto the kang, slowly lifting the corner of the quilt. Looking at her sister lying in the quilt in a daze, her hair stuck to her face with tears, and she looked half dead, she felt annoyed.
"Sister! He's just a man! Why are you so sad? Why would you go back to his crappy family? He's full of ugliness. If you get pregnant, it'll be a ugliness too. It's better not to have it!"
Jin Fenglian, who had just made a bowl of brown sugar water for her eldest daughter, heard her younger daughter acting weird again in the room, so she quickly took the bowl and went into the sisters' room.
"Ye Xiulan, what are you doing crazy about? Can't you see your sister is in pain? Go, go out and light the fire."
Ye Xiulan looked at the stubborn mother and daughter, got out of bed angrily, and went to the stove barefoot to light the fire without even putting on her shoes.
Seeing the little girl's devilish appearance, Jin Fenglian pointed at her back and started to curse, "You little bitch! You'll freeze to death without shoes!"
Ye Xiulan pushed hard, slamming the kitchen door shut, and said to her mother, "Just freeze to death! I don't have to watch you two get mad at me!"
Ye Xiuhong sat dejectedly on a small wooden stool, using tongs to poke the fire in the stove. Thinking of her confused family, she was so angry that she wanted to poke a hole through the stove.
These days, her mother has been looking for a secret recipe for having a child every day, and her parents are discussing which family to adopt a child from, but no one in the family is reliable.
If she wants a divorce, then she can do it. Her sister can go home and never have to see that evil mother-in-law again. What's wrong with her life? They are all like the sky has fallen. What's wrong? Will her sister starve to death after leaving that cowardly man?
After all, they are sisters. After dinner, Ye Xiulan suppressed her temper and went back to the room to coax her sister.
"Sister, look at this is what I wrote today. Do you think I've made some progress?"
Ye Xiuhong's hair was scattered on her face. She stared blankly at the notebook handed to her by her sister. The notebook was filled with regular script, which looked pleasing to the eye.
Ye Xiuhong fell into long memories. She couldn't remember how long it had been since she last wrote. There was endless farm work to do every day, her mother-in-law spoke harshly to her, and her husband was becoming more and more impatient with her. How did her life become like this?
It was all because she couldn't give birth to a child. Why should she still live if she was useless? The more she thought about it, the more painful it became, as if a needle was drilling into her head. She curled up in bed in agony.
"Ah! Xiulan, my head hurts! Ah! It hurts!"
Ye Xiuhong's face was pale, with streams of cold sweat streaming down her forehead. She helplessly banged her head against the earthen wall, trying to ease her pain.
"Sister, sister, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me, Mom! Come quickly, Mom!"
Ye Xiulan hugged her sister's head in panic to prevent Ye Xiuhong from tearing her scalp.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?"
Jin Fenglian put down her kitchen work and rushed into her daughter's room. She saw her two daughters hugging each other. The eldest daughter had blood on her forehead. She was holding her head and talking nonsense like a madman. She could no longer stop crying.
"My poor daughter, God is blind. What sin has our family committed to deserve that damned Cui family to bully our child like this? I can't accept this! Divorce! Xiuhong, let's divorce him! Come home and let your mother support you!"
Jin Fenglian held her two daughters in her arms and checked the eldest daughter's forehead.
She was originally still hesitating about how to reconcile with the Cui family. After all, no one in the surrounding area had ever divorced. She was thinking about how to put in nice words to the Cui family and what gifts to bring when she heard her little daughter screaming.
"Mom, I have a headache, my head is going to split!" Ye Xiuhong curled up in Jin Fenglian's arms, mumbling incoherently.
"It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt. Mom is here. Don't worry, kid, we won't go back to the Cui family. We will never go back."
Jin Fenglian hadn't figured out something for two days, but when she saw her daughter's bleeding head, she suddenly understood why her daughter had to suffer in the Cui family! The Ye family could afford to support her!
As for Xiulan's marriage, let her do whatever she wants! If she believes in rumors and superstitions, then she can just not marry!
After figuring it out, Jin Fenglian became very happy. From now on, her daughter will follow her and see who dares to bully her!
After holding back the anger for so many years, she can finally let it out. Tomorrow she will go to the Cui family and tear that old lady Cui apart, so that she and her daughter can vent all the anger they have endured for so many years.
Ye Xiuhong gradually calmed down in Jin Fenglian's arms. She was so tired that she fell asleep soon.
Seeing that the eldest daughter was asleep and worried about disturbing her, Jin Fenglian took the younger daughter and left the LZ's room.
"Oh, the weather is really nice today." Thinking of the miserable appearance of old lady Zhang, Jin Fenglian couldn't help feeling excited.
"Come on, Xiulan, what do you want to eat? Mom will make it to celebrate your sister coming home!"
"Mom, you finally figured it out. I told you what's so good about the Cui family. Our family doesn't lack a pair of chopsticks. If Dad doesn't agree, just give half of my meal to my sister." Seeing that her mother agreed to her sister's divorce, Ye Xiulan boasted to her mother smugly.
The next second, his mother poked him on the forehead.
"Ouch! It hurts."
"You're the one with the most clever ideas every day. Today you're right. I'll boil you an egg later."
When she heard that there were eggs to eat, Ye Xiulan didn't care about the pain in her forehead and ran to take the eggs from the chicken coop.
Jin Fenglian yelled at the little girl at the top of her voice, "Don't forget to buy one for your sister too!"
"knew!"
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