The man in that household was a carpenter in his thirties, who made furniture for people all day long. His wife had just died, and he had two sons and a daughter at home.

I want to find a woman to help with housework and take care of the children at home.

People don't want her to have children. If she can't, that's even better. As long as she can work, that's fine.

So for Xu Meiling who is unable to have children, isn’t this a very good marriage?

The matchmaker was smart and said to Xu Meiling, "Meiling, this man is a good carpenter and can make money for you. He doesn't mind that you can't have children. As long as you take good care of his children, it will be a great achievement.

Besides, as a carpenter, you are not at home all the time, and you have the final say at home. What else are you dissatisfied with? You will never find this shop again if you miss it. "

What the matchmaker didn't say was that this carpenter Yu was a domestic violence maniac, and the woman before him couldn't stand his day-to-day torture and jumped into the river and died.

The matchmaker thought that a good pot should match a good lid, and Xu Meiling was not a good match for a carpenter.

Xu Meiling was really moved, especially the last thing the matchmaker said.

If a man is not at home all day after marriage and you are the head of the household, then won't you be able to do whatever you want with his kids?

This is indeed a good marriage.

So Xu Meiling sold the house left by Chen Jianghe, packed up her belongings, and prepared to get married and start a new life.

Unexpectedly, what was waiting for her was not a good life, but endless beatings and control.

Yu the carpenter's family didn't even put a wedding sign on the door. After the person arrived, they asked her to start working. This made her feel very disappointed. Xu Meiling, who was used to speaking harshly, scolded her directly.

As a result, on the wedding day, the man hit her head with a carpenter's tool, and her head was bleeding.

The mother-in-law simply pressed a handful of wood ash on her head, wrapped her up in rags and threw her into the kitchen to do the work.

Of course she would not be so obedient. She wanted to run back to her parents' home with her luggage before the matter was settled. As a result, she was pinned to the ground and beaten by a group of people from her husband's family, and then tied to the kang like a dog.

All the money and notes she had were taken away, even the clothes she brought with her and that Chen Jianghe had bought for her were taken away by her sister-in-law and brother's wife.

While choosing, they also laughed at her for being fat, saying that it would take up too much fabric to make clothes. They could tear this one dress apart to make two.

Xu Meiling was angry and heartbroken, but there was nothing she could do.

Even her hatred towards Chen Jianghe has faded a lot now.

Chen Jianghe was a bad person, but he still had some humanity and bottom line, but this family didn't treat him as a human being at all.

It's like a den of jackals, tigers and leopards.

This is how Xu Meiling began her long days of suffering at home.

Yu the carpenter did work outside half of the month, but there was no one in the family who let her be the boss.

She is a slave without human rights.

Her parents-in-law kept a close eye on her. All she had to do was work. She had no private space at all. They wanted her to work fourteen hours a day.

Even when she went to the village, others seemed to be monitoring her. No one talked to her, and her movements would be told to her family.

The people in this village are like ghosts, lingering around.

She didn't dare to run away, for fear that she would be caught and given another brutal beating.

The children were not the docile little sheep she had imagined. Instead, they were outright devils. They often played tricks on her, either causing her to fall into a dung pit or causing her to bang her head until it bled.

After Carpenter Yu returned home, they still made false accusations and were beaten again. The wounds healed and then reopened, and then healed again.

In short, life here is not what she imagined at all. It is like falling into hell.

Xu Meiling's previous tricks of crying and making a fuss and threatening to hang herself were of no use here. These beasts didn't even treat her as a human being, so how could they care about her life?

She began to recall the past days with Chen Jianghe crazily. Although Chen Jianghe loved to nag, spoke harshly, and even despised her, he still bought her food, drinks, and things that she deserved.

People always need some comparison to know what they want.

When Xu Meiling woke up in the middle of the night, she always lamented her bad luck and how she had to endure all the hardships.

In her first marriage, she married a treacherous scholar who abandoned his wife and daughter.

She was married to a cold beast and fell into a wolf's den.

She hadn't been back to her parents' home for several years. Her family seemed to have completely forgotten about her, as if they had forgotten about her at all. They had never even visited her once.

She didn't know how long she would have to endure this life...

One year? Two years?

Or, wait until the day she dies?

After a few years like this, she had been completely enslaved and was like a walking corpse.

She is now so thin that even her biological mother would hardly recognize her. She used to weigh nearly 200 kilograms, but now she is so thin that a gust of wind can blow her down. The skin on her body is folded up in layers, and she looks ugly, old and scary.

She was washing clothes by the river when she overheard people talking about news from her mother's family.

The news of Xu Huaiyu, the murderer who killed his father and mother and then ran away, spread everywhere and everyone was discussing it.

She hadn't thought about the incident with her family yet, and continued to wash the clothes numbly.

What does it matter to her whether someone else murders their children or their mothers? She only cares about whether she can finish her housework on time today so that she can have two children to feed. She is so hungry.

But when she heard the words Xu Jiatun and Xu Huaiyu, her head suddenly started buzzing.

She rushed over regardless of everything and learned the whole story. She felt terrible.

Hahahaha, this is ridiculous. Her good brother actually killed his mother. From then on, she really had no home to return to.

Haha, what are you still looking forward to? Haven't you been homeless for a long time?

What if her mother is around? No one comes to check on her and see if she is doing well. No one really cares about her.

For a moment she went a little crazy.

A glimmer of hope suddenly appeared in my mind.

Xu Huaiyu could kill her mother, so why couldn't she kill Yu's family and run away?

She couldn't live like this any longer anyway. Living like this was just waiting to die. The only difference was whether she died sooner or later. She might as well give it a try.

At worst, I'll die here.

She really couldn't survive this kind of life.

Xu Huaiyu's incident was like a beacon of light in the darkness, giving her a glimmer of hope, but also invisibly handed her a knife.