Chapter 82 Chapter 82 Tit for Tat
After dinner, they set off for Qingya Village.
Yu Laoer and his wife haven't come back yet. During the busy farming season, they usually work until the moonrise. If there is enough moonlight, they will continue to work at night. They will not feel at ease until they can harvest the crops in the fields as soon as possible.
Yu Jin was supposed to work in the fields with his parents, leaving his two younger sisters at home to cook, soak grains and beans, and process offal.
But now, there are more important things to do, and the work in the fields can only be left to my parents.
Fortunately, their family made some money this year. Yu Jin didn't want his two younger sisters to be too tired, so he hired two temporary workers to help, and the crops in the fields were harvested quickly.
Yuyin and Yuzhu sent them out. The two sisters actually wanted to go with their sisters, but unfortunately their sisters didn't let them.
"Okay, you stay at home." Yu Jin said to them, "Later, you can bring food to my parents. Harvest the crops in the fields as soon as possible today so that they can be dried tomorrow and stored in the granary soon."
The two sisters naturally agreed.
Sun Fangniang looked at Yu Jin giving instructions to her two younger sisters, and she looked upset, as if she had no idea what she was thinking about.
Seeing this, Yu Jin asked, "Cousin Fangniang, how are your crops now?"
The Sun family also had a few acres of land. When old man Sun made money, he took the opportunity to buy a few acres of fertile land. Unfortunately, they were all sold by Sun Datian later, and now only a few acres of land are left.
Aunt Yu held this tightly in her hand and refused to sell it to him no matter what. Otherwise, how would the family eat?
"We only harvested one acre." Sun Fangniang whispered, "We originally wanted to harvest all the crops in the field in the past two days, but he came home suddenly, and my mother was beaten so badly that she couldn't get out of bed. Zheng Ge'er vomited blood again today..."
The crops in the field were taken care of by the mother and her two daughters together. Now that something like this had suddenly happened at home, the crops in the field were still left there and had not been harvested.
Sun Fangniang felt very sad when she saw that other families were busy harvesting but her family was unable to do so.
Food is related to their survival in the second half of the year. Without food, they will starve to death.
Yu Jin sighed in his heart, and felt more and more that it would be better if Sun Datian was not around.
My aunt and her sons are all hardworking people. They would have lived a better life without Sun Datian. Sun Datian is just a redundant person. Why didn't God take away such a bad person?
Seeing that both of them were in low spirits, Yu Li said, "The ship has arrived."
She took the two of them aboard and said to the boatman, Wang, "Let's go to Qingya Village."
Wang Yugong didn't expect to meet them at this time. When he saw Sun Fangniang with a bruised face, he was shocked, "How...why is she injured like this?"
She was a nice girl, not very old, who beat her like this?
Sun Fangniang lowered her head and said nothing, pinching the hem of her clothes tightly, not wanting anyone to see her like this.
If she wasn't afraid that her mother and brother would be beaten to death, she really didn't want to come to Qingshi Village to borrow money in this state, although she didn't borrow any money in the end...
She felt a little confused and didn't know why she brought them back.
Even if cousin Li Niang does have some strength, Sun Datian is a big man and can be very scary when he beats people. Li Niang and Jin Niang are so thin, I'm afraid they will be beaten too, right?
The more Sun Fangniang thought about it, the more regretful she felt. She even wanted to get off the boat.
Yu Jin said: "This is my cousin from my eldest aunt's family. Uncle Wang should know that my eldest aunt married into the Sun family in Qingya Village..."
Wang Guangong suddenly realized what was going on. He looked at Sun Fangniang with sympathy and said hesitantly, "I saw Sun Datian coming back from the county town yesterday..."
He rowed a boat in this area and got to know the people from several nearby villages, especially Sun Datian from Qingya Village. He was a well-known figure.
I heard that he was a compulsive gambler. In order to gamble, he even sold his family's land. He also beat his wife and children. He was simply not a human being.
It was really unlucky for the eldest daughter of the Yu family to marry him.
The Yu family's behavior is also quite criticized. They knew their daughter was living like this, but they did nothing.
According to Mr. Yu, once a daughter is married off, it is her business how she lives her life. There is no reason for her parents to come and cause trouble for their son-in-law.
This statement drew different reactions. Some people praised the Yu family for being reasonable. A married daughter belongs to someone else's family. Why should her family members come to the house to interfere if they want to beat or scold her?
Most of the people who say these things are those who treat their daughter-in-law as a beast of burden. They think that they have spent money on their daughter-in-law, and it is their business if they want to beat or scold her. The daughter-in-law's family has accepted the betrothal money, which is equivalent to selling their daughter to their family.
Some people also said that the Yu family was cold-blooded. Seeing their daughter being beaten like this, they were indifferent. I am afraid that even if any of their family members pass the exam in the future, those married women will not be able to get any protection...
These are families who love their daughters very much and they really can't bear to see this.
Wang Chengong didn't know what to say. After all, the Yu family didn't do anything except being cruel to the girls.
Even if someone brings this up, Grandpa Yu and his people just don't care about married women. This is a family matter and even the county magistrate won't be able to sort it out.
At most, people would accuse them of being cruel, but that would not hurt them at all.
The Yu family did not think that this matter would damage their reputation. The daughter who was married off was not their own and it would not damage their reputation.
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The sun had already set when the boat arrived at Qingya Village.
As dusk fell, many people were still busy harvesting in the fields.
After getting off the boat, Sun Fangniang looked at the two of them hesitantly.
"Or, you should go back." Fear appeared on her face. "He will really hit you. You will be beaten by him..."
She felt more and more that she must have lost her mind for bringing them back.
Yu Jin could see the fear on her face and held her hand tightly, "Cousin Fangniang, don't be afraid. Trust my sister!"
Sun Fangniang: “…” How can you ask me to trust Li Niang?
Li Niang looks so weak...
Yu Li was a little impatient, "Okay, let's go."
Meeting her cold gaze, Sun Fangniang inexplicably didn't dare to say anything. She always felt that Li Niang had changed a lot.
She didn't want anyone to see her appearance, so she took the two of them and took a small path home.
The Sun family's house is a rare blue brick and tile house in the countryside.
This was built when Old Man Sun was alive. Now twenty years have passed, and this brick house looks much older, but from the outside it still looks quite grand. People who don't know the situation might think the Sun family lives a very good life.
These things happened ten years ago. Now everyone in the village knows that the Sun family is so poor that only an empty shell is left. Maybe one day when Sun Datian is short of money, he will sell this house, which will also bring a lot of money.
Sun Fangniang pushed the door open and went in.
There is a yard as soon as you enter the door. There are a lot of things piled in the yard, which looks messy. There are also a few chickens pecking at food on the grass, and they don't run away when they see people.
There are several rooms inside.
Sun Fangniang went to see her mother first.
The room was quiet and dimly lit. Aunt Yu was lying on the bed, as thin and frail as a paper man. Her dark, thin face was pale and shrouded in a gray hue. One could tell at a glance that the situation was not good.
Seeing Aunt Yu's look, Yu Jin's heart tightened, and he finally understood why Sun Fangniang went to the Yu family to borrow money.
Sun Fangniang pushed her mother, trying to wake her up.
After a while, Aunt Yu finally opened her eyes, but she looked confused and didn't recognize anyone at all. She said, "Fang Niang... Let's go, take Zheng Ge'er away..."
As he spoke, he fell asleep again.
Yu Jin was a little scared, "Is my aunt okay?"
"I, I don't know." Sun Fangniang was also very scared and said helplessly, "When I left today, my mother was still conscious. She asked me to take Zheng Ge'er and hide, but..."
But where can they hide?
Seeing that Aunt Yu’s face was as pale as gold paper and her condition was very bad, Yu Li touched her hand and transferred some of his supernatural powers into it.
This ability is rare and it certainly won't make her well immediately, but it can protect her heart and prevent her from dying for the time being.
Sure enough, soon Aunt Yu's complexion looked a little better and her breathing became steadier.
Sun Fangniang was just thinking about whether to send her mother to the clinic when she heard Yu Jin ask, "Where is Zheng Ge'er?"
She still remembered Fang Niang said that Zheng Ge'er was beaten to the point of vomiting blood, and she didn't know how serious his condition was.
Thinking of her brother, Sun Fangniang hurried to the next room to check.
There was a boy lying on the bed in the next room. He was as thin and weak as Aunt Yu, with a dark face and pale lips.
But he was sober.
When the three people came in, he opened his eyes and called out, "Second sister..."
"Zheng'er, are you okay?" Sun Fangniang went over and saw him struggling to get up, so she quickly reached out to help him up.
The Yu Li sisters saw his appearance clearly.
He was really thin, as thin as a skeleton, with no flesh on his face, and many scars in places that his clothes couldn't cover. But he looked very calm, more stable than the average teenage boy.
When Sun Zheng sat up, he might have torn the wound on his chest, and he couldn't help but hold his chest and gasp.
"Zheng Ge'er." Sun Fangniang was extremely anxious. When Sun Datian left today, Zheng Ge'er was knocked to the ground by him and vomited blood. She had always kept this incident in mind and was afraid that something might happen to him.
Sun Zheng took a breath and endured the pain in his heart.
When he saw Yu Li and the other person, he was stunned. He recognized Yu Jin but not Yu Li. "Cousin Jin Niang is here. This is..."
"It's my cousin Li Niang." Sun Fangniang said.
Sun Zheng was a little surprised when he heard this, but he didn't pay much attention to Yu Li's current state. Instead, he asked, "Second sister, did you borrow the money?"
Sun Fangniang lowered her head and whispered, "No."
Seeing this, Sun Zheng was not surprised and sighed, "Second sister, don't go. You really can't borrow money."
This is fifty taels of silver. Who in this country family can come up with fifty taels of silver in one go?
Even if we can take it out, why should we lend it to them?
Everyone knows that Sun Datian is a compulsive gambler who never pays back the money he borrows. No one would be so stupid. Only his sister still holds out a glimmer of hope.
In other words, people have become desperate and have no other options but to hope for the best.
It turned out that no one would lend her the money, even if she knelt until her knees were sore.
In order to support their two cousins' studies, their maternal grandparents were so cruel that they even treated their own family members harshly. Moreover, in the eyes of the Yu family, they were all outsiders and they would not lend them money.
Sun Zheng understood this very well, so he didn't feel any resentment.
Sun Fangniang almost shed tears.
Seeing this, Sun Zheng hurriedly diverted her attention, "Second sister, I'm hungry."
It was indeed getting late, and Sun Fangniang said, "I'll go cook for you. You lie down and don't get out of bed casually." She was really worried about her brother, and when she saw him vomiting blood, she was frightened out of her wits.
Sun Zheng responded verbally, but after Sun Fangniang left, he sat up again and tried to get out of bed with difficulty.
"What are you doing?" Yu Jin said unhappily, "I heard that you were beaten until you vomited blood, and you are lying down because you are not feeling well."
"It's okay, I won't die." Sun Zheng said calmly, as if he didn't take it seriously.
Yu Jin felt that he was just being stubborn. Looking at his expression, he looked so ugly.
Sun Zheng's chest hurt so much and he had no choice but to lie back down as she held him down.
He looked at the two cousins in the room, feeling a little complicated, and asked, "What are you doing here?" Then he added, "You should leave quickly, he will be back soon."
He was worried that they would be beaten too. Both cousins were girls and there was no way they could beat Sun Datian.
Yu Jin said: "It's okay, my sister is here."
Sun Zheng looked at Yu Li in confusion, his expression a little bewildered, not knowing why cousin Jin Niang said that.
Cousin Li Niang...has changed a lot, but she looks so thin and weak, and she has suddenly become so beautiful. He is a little worried that Sun Datian will have some bad thoughts when he sees her...
"Okay, you're just a kid, don't think too much." Yu Jin said, letting him lie down.
Sun Zheng smiled bitterly, "Cousin Jin Niang, I'm only one year younger than you..."
Yu Jin just snorted, turned to look at Yu Li, and said, "Sister, Dagu and Zheng Ge'er don't look very well. Let's send them to the county town to see a doctor later."
Fortunately, they had told Wang the boatman in advance and asked him to pick them up at Qingya Village in two hours.
After dark, Wang the boatman usually would not go out on the boat, but if they gave him more money, he agreed.
Yu Li nodded, "Okay."
Having said that, she didn't stay here for long and walked out.
Yu Jin stayed and decided to look after Zheng Ge'er here to prevent him from causing any trouble.
Sun Zheng was lying on the bed, looking at her in confusion, and asked again: "Cousin Jin Niang, what are you doing here?" He thought they came to check on them and would leave soon.
But now it seems not to be the case.
Yu Jin did not answer, but asked seriously: "Brother Zheng, do you hate him?"
They both knew who this person was.
Sun Zheng stared at the ceiling with empty eyes and said numbly, "What's the use of hatred?"
"Then do you hate it?" Yu Jin asked immediately.
Sun Zheng was silent for a long time, and finally said: "How can I not hate him? I really hate him... If it weren't for him, mother and second sister wouldn't be so miserable, they would have a good life..."
Instead of being beaten by that man all the time in order to protect him.
Sun Datian didn't like his lame son and felt that he was embarrassed by his son. Every time he came back and saw Sun Zheng limping, he felt unhappy.
When she was in a good mood, she would just kick him a few times, but when she was in a bad mood, she would pick up a stool and want to break his other leg as well, so that he would have to lie in bed from then on and avoid running out and embarrassing himself.
In order to prevent Sun Datian from really breaking his other leg, his mother and second sister protected him and suffered many beatings.
Yu Jin looked at him, confirmed his attitude, and said, "In that case, no matter how badly he gets beaten, you must not be soft-hearted."
What she hated most was the situation where after being beaten by her husband, others would help her vent her anger, but the person being beaten would turn around and blame the other person for hitting her too hard and hurting her husband.
Because such an example had happened in the village before, and they were afraid that Sun Zheng would be similarly affected.
Sun Zheng thought she was joking. "If someone really beat him up, I'd be happy."
"It's better that you think so." Yu Jin patted him happily.
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By the time Sun Fangniang finished cooking dinner, it had already darkened.
She lit a lamp and was about to bring the porridge into the house for her mother and brother when she heard an angry voice outside the door.
"Open the door, I'm back!"
Sun Fangniang's hands trembled and she almost knocked over the bowl in her hands.
She looked towards the door with horror, as if there was a terrible monster there, about to break in and eat them all.
The person outside the door did break in.
The courtyard gate couldn't stop him at all, and he kicked it open with one foot.
When people living near the Sun family heard the noise, they quickly closed the door and no one came out to check.
In the past, some neighbors couldn't stand it and wanted to come over to persuade Sun Datian not to go too far. However, Sun Datian ended up blackmailing them and shamelessly demanded money from them. The neighbors were almost driven to collapse by him.
From then on, no one wanted to meddle in the Sun family's affairs.
The mother and daughter of the Sun family were indeed pitiful, but no matter how pitiful they were, with someone like Sun Datian around, who would dare to help? They were afraid that they would fail to help and get into trouble.
Sun Datian drank a little tonight, but he was still sober.
He kicked the door open with great arrogance, and the Sun family’s gate couldn’t stop him at all.
There is moonlight tonight. Although the moonlight is not very bright, it still allows people to see Sun Datian's appearance clearly.
He was not very tall, but had a lot of flesh on his body. It was obvious that he was well fed and very strong.
After entering the house, Sun Datian was about to call his wife and children when he suddenly saw a man standing in the yard.
He thought it was the second daughter in the family, but when he looked closely, he found that it was not her, but a strange girl. Even in the dim light, he could still see that her skin was dazzlingly white and she was very pretty.
He sobered up a little in an instant and looked at her with lustful eyes.
"Who are you?"
Sun Datian walked towards her excitedly. At this moment, he did not have time to think about who this girl was. When he saw her appear in his yard and she was so beautiful, he became lustful.
Sun Datian was a womanizer, otherwise he would not have fallen in love with the beautiful Yu Dagu. However, Yu Dagu was later tortured into this state, becoming a dark and thin woman, which made him feel very disgusted. So he found a lover in the city, hoping to have another healthy son.
At this moment, he had drunk some wine, and the alcohol had corroded his brain, so he no longer cared.
Just as he pounced forward, suddenly a huge force hit him, and he flew backwards and fell heavily to the ground.
His spine felt like it was breaking and the pain was so severe that he couldn't even make a sound.
Before he could recover, a foot stepped on his head, almost deforming his face and blocking the scream he was about to make.
Yu Jin, who was in the room, heard the noise and ran out. Seeing her sister stepping on a burly man like a dead dog, she felt distressed.
"Sister, don't dirty your feet."
She looked around, then went to get a stick and said, "Big sister, hit him with the stick, don't get your hands dirty."
Yu Li: “…”
When Sun Fangniang in the kitchen heard Yu Jin's voice, she finally suppressed her fear, calmed herself down and walked out.
When she saw the scene in the yard, her expression was blank for a moment.
Yu Li didn't take Yu Jin's stick. She loosened her feet, grabbed Sun Datian's neck and lifted him up.
She has grown a little taller recently, but she is still shorter than Sun Datian, not to mention that she is very thin. Sun Datian seems to be a size bigger in front of her.
But at this moment, she pinched the sturdy Sun Datian's neck and lifted him up as if she was picking up a chicken.
Sun Datian was hanging in the air. The hand that was pinching his neck was like an iron clamp and he could not break free at all. His face was flushed red and he was almost suffocating. His instinct for survival made him desperately try to pull the hand that was pinching his neck away.
When he pinched his second daughter yesterday, he just felt extremely excited;
When it was his turn to be strangled, the fear of death made him so frightened that his eyes bulged and he struggled weakly like a goldfish out of water.
Yu Li pinched him and turned to ask Sun Fangniang: "Do you want to fight?"
Yu Jin handed the stick to her and encouraged her, "Fang Niang, go ahead and hit her!"
Although her sister can beat up scumbags, it is not as satisfying as beating them up by herself. If she had a father like Sun Datian, she would also want to do it herself.
Sun Fangniang held the stick and looked at Sun Datian, who was being strangled like a dead dog. She found that his struggles were getting weaker and weaker, like a fat pig waiting to be slaughtered.
Then, without hesitation, she hit Sun Datian on the back with the stick.
Sun Datian let out a muffled groan.
Yu Li finally let go of his hand and let Sun Datian fall limply to the ground.
The air filled his throat and he was about to cough when the stick came down on him with a crackling sound.
Sun Fangniang closed her eyes and beat him fiercely, as if she wanted to vent all her fear, patience, and dread.
This world always likes to impose moral constraints on people to restrict their behavior.
Children cannot speak out about their parents’ faults, cannot rebel against their parents, and can only accept the beatings obediently. Resisting is considered unfilial and will be condemned by thousands of people...
But children are also human beings, they will feel pain too. Who can not resist when they are hurt?
Sun Datian was hit so hard that he subconsciously hugged his head.
When people are beaten, they will always instinctively protect their vital parts, such as the head. After all, the head is a vulnerable part, and if it is really hit by a stick, it will be no joke. On the contrary, other parts of the body are protected by fat, so they can recover from the beating.
Sun Fangniang's strength was not strong enough, and after fighting for a while, she was out of breath.
This also made Sun Datian feel better.
"You stinky bitch, how dare you hit me?" he shouted fiercely, staring at Sun Fangniang with bloodshot eyes.
Sun Fangniang took a step back in fright.
But the next moment, the vicious Sun Datian was kicked by someone and bent his body, then spat out a mouthful of blood.
He screamed and a hoarse sound came from his throat.
Sun Fangniang was stunned, and clenched the stick tightly. When she was hesitating whether to continue hitting, someone suddenly came up from behind her.
The man took a stool, raised it high, and smashed it towards Sun Datian's legs fiercely.
Sun Datian screamed again, and this scream was very shrill.
The neighbors near Sun's house were horrified when they heard what happened, and were even more afraid to go out to check.
They worriedly thought, would Sun Datian really beat his wife and children to death? However, the voice did not sound like Fangniang and her daughter, but more like a man's, but the voice was broken and distorted, and it was impossible to tell whose it was for a while.
Under the dim moonlight, Sun Zheng held a stool in his hand and smashed it viciously at Sun Datian's legs again and again, as if he wanted to break it, smash it, and smash it into pieces...
His expression was calm, except for his eyes which were bloodshot due to his excitement and looked very scary.
Sun Fangniang was stunned.
After a while, Sun Datian's legs were smashed into a bloody mess, and he was breathing out more than breathing in.
Sun Zheng's strength was gradually exhausted.
He collapsed on the ground exhausted, holding his chest and gasping for breath, his lips turning purple.
But his eyes were surprisingly bright. He looked at the blood-soaked trouser legs of Sun Datian and said as if to himself: "Dad, you broke my legs that year and made me a cripple for life, so you should give me a pair of legs... Don't worry, we will take care of you in the future and won't let you die so soon..."
The sound was like the devil's whisper, extremely creepy in this moonlit autumn night.
Yu Jin was a little scared and moved carefully to her elder sister's side.
Sun Fangniang finally reacted, quickly dropped the stick in her hand, and went over to support Sun Zheng, "Brother Zheng, why did you come out? Are you okay?"
Seeing his expression, her heart tightened.
Sun Zheng smiled at her and just as he said it was okay, he fainted.
"Brother Zheng!"
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