Su Yue was a smart person. In her previous life, she naively thought that they were just evil slaves rebelling against their master, and she didn't think much about it after her father beat them to death.
Cuicui said that it was the idea of someone from the Prime Minister's Mansion. Was it the father who had always disliked her and her, or the mother and daughter who had the heart of a beast in human form?
"What are you doing here? Don't you know how to go to work?" Outside the door stood a thin man who reeked of alcohol.
The obscene eyes were like a poisonous snake, entwining around the mother's chest. This man was Cuicui's husband, Yun Ma's son Zhang Dong.
In her previous life, she was inexperienced and didn't understand the meaning of this look. It was also because of his own willfulness that he ran away secretly, giving Zhang Dong the opportunity to take advantage of him.
"Why did you come back for dinner today?" Cui Cui greeted her with a smile.
Of course Su Yue knew why he came back so early. He must have lost money and was driven back. This man was usually addicted to gambling and sex. His whole body was seriously depleted and he looked extremely wretched.
She moved in front of her mother calmly, blocking Zhang Dong's dog-like gaze.
Seeing the dry Su Yue, Zhang Dong lost interest instantly. Then he glanced at the big and strong Cuicui, and his anger rose: "I can come back whenever I want. Do you think it's your turn to ask about my affairs?"
After being yelled at by her husband, Cuicui no longer had the energy to beat Su Yue.
Seeing that Cuicui stopped talking, Zhang Dong glanced at Su Yue with a lewd look.
Su Yue lowered her head, her long eyelashes hiding her overwhelming hatred.
This house is my father’s ancestral home in the countryside. It is in an abandoned state and no one takes care of it.
He was just afraid that the villagers would say that he had forgotten his roots after becoming rich, so he let Yunma and her son look after the house.
Because my grandfather was falsely accused of corruption, my father asked them to live in this house. He said that he didn't want my mother to see the miserable state of her family and would be unhappy about it, so he wanted her to recuperate in the countryside.
In fact, my father was eager to send them away and live in harmony with Liu.
When they first arrived, Yun Ma and the others had some concerns and did not act too recklessly.
Later, they found that the Prime Minister's Mansion had completely abandoned them there, not caring about them at all, and not even giving them a penny every year. As a result, they gradually began to dislike them and made them do all the dirty and tiring work.
They were always beaten or scolded by their mother, whose temper was weak and whose life became more and more miserable as the emperor was far away.
In her previous life, she hated her mother's weakness. She would always remember that on Laba Day of that year, she lost her temper at her mother and ran away.
When I came back, as soon as I stepped into the courtyard, I saw Zhang Dong, Cuicui and Yun Ma coming out of my mother's room with smiles on their faces.
When they saw me coming, they walked away calmly.
When I entered my mother's room, I saw her lying on the bed in despair.
Afterwards, the mother's mental state became unstable due to the shock.
Later, because my third uncle gave up literature and took up military service and won a victory in a battle at the border, the emperor directly appointed him as the general of national defense and redressed the grievances of my grandfather and others.
When one prospers, all prosper. The father, who was a man of few circumstances, then remembered his wife who had been "resting" for several years, and took the mother and daughter back home.
She was too stupid at that time. When she was alone with her father, she told him all the sufferings that her mother and she had endured, including, of course, the humiliation and madness that her mother had suffered. She still remembered the scene when her father lost his temper and smashed the study room, as well as the obscure look in his eyes every time he looked at her mother thereafter.
Thinking about it now, I realize that the look in my father's eyes was a hidden murderous intent, and the person he wanted to kill was my mother. After all, no man can tolerate his wife being humiliated, even if she is forced to do so.
Mother is like father’s private property. He may not love her, but he will never allow her to be desecrated.
So in order to cover up the gossips, my father killed everyone in the house. The neighbor next door also died suddenly a few days later.
Looking at the two people leaving, Su Yue's eyes gradually became clear.
"Mom, your clothes are wet. I'll boil some water for you to take a bath. Don't catch a cold." She patted her mother's back softly.
The mother was stunned. Her daughter had never been so gentle to her before. Since her daughter was born, Mrs. Liu has been very good to her. From childhood to adulthood, Mrs. Liu has satisfied her daughter's every wish. The daughter didn't want to study, and Liu was there to fan the flames and indulge the master.
The servants in the Prime Minister's Mansion all said that Liu was more like the second young lady's mother than her own mother. However, it was precisely because of this indulgence that her daughter's temper became extremely arrogant and willful.
During the five years in Zhuangzi's life, the daughter complained all the time that she was incompetent and cowardly, and that she was unworthy of being her mother. She also kept repeating how good Liu was to her.
And she could only try her best to make her daughter live a little more comfortably in this dirty and filthy farm.
Her daughter's sudden concern made her nose suddenly sore, and tears as big as beans fell like broken strings. Over the years, she had to do endless rough work, and her daughter scolded her every now and then, but she never shed a tear.
"Mom, don't cry. I was wrong before. I was stupid and disobedient." Seeing her mother crying, Su Yue also started sobbing.
"Why are you crying, damn it? Did someone die in your family? Don't be unlucky here. Bring me a living person to light the fire." Cuicui banged the stove in the kitchen.
The mother stopped crying and gently wiped Su Yue's tears with the corner of her clothes. "Mom, go light a fire. Yue'er, don't worry about mom. The clothes will be dry in a while."
After saying that, he secretly stuffed half a hardened steamed bun into Su Yue's arms and walked towards the kitchen.
"You slut who only knows how to pretend to be weak and seduce people, stop playing tricks on me." There were many dirty curses coming from the kitchen, but the mother had heard them for so long that she had become numb and just repeated the action of stuffing firewood into the fire.
Touching the steamed bun in her arms, which still carried the warmth of her mother, Su Yue's heart, filled with hatred, trembled slightly.
In her previous life, her mother was afraid that she would not have enough to eat, so she often saved her own food and secretly gave it to her. Unfortunately, at that time, she did not appreciate her mother's kindness at all.
Dinner was ready, but it was just ordinary white porridge with a few steamed buns and a dish of homemade pickles.
"What are you looking at? Go back to work and wait until we finish eating before you eat. Come on, come on..." Yun's mother glanced at them with disdain in her triangular eyes and knocked on the bowl with her chopsticks, making a 'bang bang bang' sound.
"That's right. We originally thought that we could make some money from the mistress from the Prime Minister's Mansion. Who would have thought that in these few years, the Prime Minister's Mansion hasn't sent us even a penny, and instead we have to support these two bitches." Cuicui also complained.
The family of three finished their dinner while cursing and swearing, and when it was the mother and daughter's turn, there were only a few grains of rice left in the pot floating in the soup.
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