Chapter 83
Little brother Ma broke off some eggs and fed them to his sister, and fed both the egg white and the egg yolk to her.
After feeding her, he went out to fetch some well water and used it to wipe Ma Jiaolan's face.
"Sister, it's a little cold, just bear with it."
After wiping his face, he was still reluctant to leave. He just went out to pick up a thick wooden stick from the firewood pile and returned to the room to look after his sister.
After a long time, it was time for dinner, but he still didn't go home.
But when I was starving, I found that no one had brought food to my sister.
Little Brother Ma started to blame everyone in the Pang family again and went out picking up the wooden sticks.
Ma Jiaolan didn't know how her brother did it, but she got two bowls of rice porridge and two steamed buns.
Ma Jiaolan was able to sit up and wanted to eat by herself, but her brother was afraid that she would not be able to hold the food and would spill it, so he continued to feed her.
He broke the steamed bun into pieces and put it into the rice porridge. After feeding his sister, he wolfed down the other bowl.
But before Pang Da came back, he was probably drinking with his coworkers again. Then Ma's father and mother came to look for him.
The two of them barely noticed, and still couldn't see their daughter lying on the bed, so they squatted down and grabbed Ma Xiaodi's shoulders, "You kid, your mother and I have been looking for you for a whole day! What are you doing at your sister's house?!"
Ma was shoveling the firewood, with a childish look of justice and amusement from the adults: "I'm going to teach that Pang guy a lesson for my sister!"
"Why are you so stupid? Is it your turn to take care of your sister's family affairs? Stop meddling in other people's business and go back with your husband!" said Dad Ma.
"I won't go back! I won't go back!!!" Little Brother Ma ran around in the small room.
Ma Jiaolan had almost rested enough and tried to get out of bed, but her eyes became blurry and her legs became weak, so she hit her knees on the bed.
Seeing this, Ma Xiaodi hurried over, but Ma Jiaolan held his shoulder and said, "Good brother, go back with your parents, okay? Sister is fine, she will be well tomorrow."
Hearing the commotion in the first room, Pang's mother and others came in. Seeing that Ma Jiaolan's parents were there, they couldn't help but be sarcastic.
Ma Jiaolan's parents also felt inferior because their daughter could not give birth to children for her husband's family, so they lowered their heads and listened to the scolding.
Only Ma Xiaodi looked at his sister's slightly dazed eyes and said, "Sister, will you really be okay tomorrow? Are you lying to me?"
"Really? If you don't believe me, you can come back to see your sister tomorrow, okay? Now go back with our parents first?" Ma Jiaolan said in a negotiating tone.
Just when Ma was wondering whether it was true or not, Pang Da came back.
Still drunk, he staggered into the house and was stunned to see so many people.
But when his eyes shifted to Ma Jiaolan, his anger once again reached its peak.
The anger my coworkers had been giving me when we were drinking seems to still ring in my ears:
"Pang Da, both of your wives can't give birth, is it your problem?" a co-worker teased.
The other workers immediately burst into laughter. "Maybe it's true, otherwise why wouldn't it lay eggs? Show us that thing!"
After that, several people in the factory forcibly untied his belt. Pang Da was extremely ashamed and couldn't stop them, so he was seen through.
When the coworkers saw this, they laughed even more wildly than before: "No wonder my sister-in-law chose a guy named Zhu, the baby is so young. That guy named Zhu gave birth to three kids in a row."
"Pang Da, if your wife gives birth, it will definitely not be yours!"
These conversations and humiliations flooded into his huge brain the moment he saw Ma Jiaolan.
Regardless of the presence of others, he came to the woman again and grabbed her hair, "You are cheating on me, right?!"
Ma Jiaolan shook her head in confusion, "I..." No.
Before he could finish his words, Pang Da started punching and kicking.
The adults did not try to persuade him, and Ma's parents even wanted to take their son away. However, when Ma heard the noise in his parents' arms, he broke free and went to hit Pang Da, waving the firewood in his hand.
The huge brain felt pain and pushed the ten-year-old child away.
Then he pulled Ma Jiaolan's hair and went outside.
The Pang family's mother and others at the door even made way.
Pang Da dragged the man to the center of the yard, slapped Ma Jiaolan in the face, and uttered vulgar humiliations.
Little Brother Ma was pushed down onto the leg of the only piece of furniture, the wooden table, and stars appeared in his eyes for a while.
After he recovered, he immediately stood up and ran to the yard. Seeing this scene, he burst out with great strength and resentment: "You dare to hit my sister?! You dare to hit my sister?!" He repeated these words, waving the firewood in his hand and hitting Pang Da, and finally said with full strength: "I will kill you!!!"
However, the stick did not fall on Pang Da.
Pang Da easily pushed Ma Xiaodi away again.
However, this time when they pushed open the door, they were right next to the well in the center of the yard, and Brother Ma was about to hit the stone well and might even fall into it.
Ma Jiaolan ignored the pain in her body, stood up, grabbed her brother's hand and pulled him behind her.
Before she could say anything, Pang Da grabbed her hair and slammed her hard against the wooden stake in the stone well.
Her temples hit an unexpected object, and Ma Jiaolan opened her mouth in pain, her eyes tightly squinted.
It snowed for a while, then opened its eyes, it was still snowing, and then it was plunged into darkness, and even the faint candlelight could not be seen.
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The Pang family consulted several doctors in succession, and on the third day, when they found that Ma Jiaolan could not be cured, they threw her back to the Ma family.
Ma Guerlain is blind.
Old Mrs. Ma cursed: There is one more mouth to feed at home, but he can't do any work.
"Freeloader."
I wish Ma Jiaolan would disappear, or just die and commit suicide.
After all, she had been married before, and was divorced like this. Not only was her reputation bad, but she couldn't help with housework at all. In the future, she wouldn't be able to get married.
Isn't this just supporting a useless person for a lifetime?
Old Mrs. Ma’s daily curses spread from the yard to the second house, and Ma Jiaolan could hear them clearly.
The unfocused eyes looked somewhere unknown.
Someone entered the room. She listened to the slight noise that she didn't want to disturb and judged that it was her mother. She asked, "Mother, is there anything I can do?"
Ma Jiaolan's mother smiled bitterly, "Did I disturb you? It's okay, just stay at home, and I will take care of you."
Ma Jiaolan knew that in order to subsidize the second wife's household expenses at her grandmother's side, she took on a lot of odd jobs.
She would do any work that was available, as long as it was for her daughter.
Ma Jiaolan's mother poured a glass of water for her daughter and wanted to feed her.
A neighbor burst into the yard and shouted, "Ma family, go to the pond! Your youngest son—"
*
When the Ma family arrived at the reservoir, Ma Xiaodi's body had been carried ashore, along with the bodies of four boys who were close friends of Ma Xiaodi.
Ma Jiaolan heard that her younger brother was in trouble, so she had to rush over. Ma's father carried her here, and when he saw this, he loosened his grip, and Ma Jiaolan fell on the grass. She didn't feel any pain, but the silence around her made her feel sad.
It was as if the shadow of misfortune was gradually covering her.
Maybe it was a long time, maybe just a few seconds, before the crying of her father, mother and grandmother woke her up.
Father and Mother Ma burst into tears and hugged their youngest son. Old Mrs. Ma cried and groaned, then fainted from the great shock.
Ma Jiaolan didn't hear a word from her brother.
Didn't hear it.
Ma Jiaolan couldn't see it, but it seemed like she had telepathy with me... At this moment, the telepathy was calm.
Just like the lifeline or electrocardiogram, it is generally flat.
Clear tears flowed silently from his eyes.
Then, the other four families arrived and saw their children lying on the lawn without a sound or life, with corpse spots gradually appearing. They rushed forward, hugged them and burst into tears.
At this moment, in this small village, five families are seeing their loved ones off.
At this moment, the parents questioned the accident while crying.
The cause was that someone lightly kicked the electric fish device nearby: "They were electrofishing, and it probably leaked electricity."
“Why do you want to electrofish?”
Not only adults but also children from the village came to join in the fun. One of the children stammered, "It was the Ma family's younger brother who heard... from someone that fish eyes can heal human eyes, so he borrowed the electric fishing equipment from Zhuang's family and asked us to go with him, saying that he only wanted the fish eyes and would give us all the fish, but I didn't go."
Brother Ma thought that if his sister ate the fish eyes, his sister's eyes would be cured.
For a moment, everyone's hateful and accusatory gazes were directed at Ma Jiaolan, who was covering her face and crying.
Some even crawled up to her and slapped her.
Ma Jiaolan was beaten by four or five people, her cheeks were burning, and she fled on her mother's back. Ma's father returned home carrying his son's body.
From then on, the parents of the four children brought their relatives to the Ma family’s door every day to cry for their parents.
This was really big news in the small village. Many people watched the excitement while eating melon seeds at Ma's house.
And the words they kept repeating were nothing but "unlucky star", "you killed your brother and my son", "give me justice", "compensation", etc., which were both curses and words of benefit.
Mrs. Pang, the old lady from Ma Jiaolan's ex-husband's family, also came out and said, "That Ma Zhaodi is a nemesis. When she was at my house..."
Everyone in the village was at the Ma family, listening to what Old Lady Ma said, nodding their heads and commenting from time to time.
At the lumberyard, the workers asked Pang Da about Ma Jiaolan. Pang Da looked disdainful and said, "That bitch is unlucky for her father, mother and husband."
At the Ma family, old lady Ma was lying on the bed with tears in her eyes, weakly saying, "Unlucky... a money-loser... my Ma family is going to be destroyed..."
When he saw his eldest grandson, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and said, "You must be safe. If you are also harmed by his sister like him, my life will really be ..."
After saying this, his eyes sparkled, and he said to Ma's father and mother in a vicious and firm tone, or in a firm and vicious tone, "I don't want to see her again. All of you in the second branch, either stay away from me, or throw Ma Zhaodi away!"
“Throw it away?!” Ma Niang shouted, covering her mouth: “Mom, where should I throw it? Zhaodi, her eyes…”
"Don't mention it to me! Just throw him out! Whether he lives or dies, it's none of our Ma family's business!!"
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Ma Jiaolan doesn't want to live anymore.
It's not the words of others that enter your ears.
But in the dream, the brother was wet, holding a few fish eyes, smiling brightly and saying to her: "Sister, eat quickly, your eyes will be healed after eating."
Or after a while, he would turn into his childhood self, playing with the piece of wood she had smoothed. When he saw her, he would let go of his hands, crawl over, and wave his little hands in front of her knees, his white cheeks moving slightly: "Sister, sister..."
Ma Jiaolan woke up crying.
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