“Bang!”
Hua Shi waved his hand and swept the sticky thing to the ground. The touch made him almost scream again.
In the darkness, she seemed to touch something with tentacles and wings, a tiny insect, or something...
This realization made Hua Shi feel a little creepy.
She hadn't figured out what that slippery thing was just now, but now her bed seemed to be covered with small insects.
Hua Shi stood where he was and pushed the window open in the dark.
The dark and clear moonlight shines in from the window through the shallow treetops.
Hua Shi was so frightened that he didn't dare move towards the kang bed. He stood sideways by the window, staring straight ahead.
Her medium-sized kang bed was covered with cockroaches, including on the pillows, quilt...everything.
What made Hua Shi feel a little nauseous was that in the areas where cockroaches were densely populated, there were several pieces of bloody rat meat.
The cockroaches seemed to be attracted by the rat's flesh and blood, crawling up and down around the rat meat.
The sight of the flowers made his bones shudder and his hair stand on end. Anger welled up in his heart and his brows furrowed tightly.
No need to think, this must be Hua Yu's work again!
She just didn't understand how she had offended this petty guy!
Before, they stuffed dead mice and cockroaches into her closet, but this time they hid dead mice and cockroaches directly on her bed.
If she guessed correctly, this dead mouse was the one Hua Yu caught in the chicken coop during the day...
During the day, she saw Hua Xiao and Hua Li washing dead mice. She thought they were so hungry and had nothing to eat that they secretly washed the mice and cooked them to eat later, so she pretended not to see it.
After all, when people are hungry to a certain extent, they will eat leaves and soil, so it is not uncommon to eat a few mice.
Who knows!!
The mouse wasn't eaten, so it lay on her bed, dripping with disgusting blood, being eaten by dozens of cockroaches...
…
The next day, the sky was slightly light, and the door was pushed open by a hand, and the old wooden door made a creaking sound.
Hua Shi came out of the house with dark circles under her eyes and a ruthless look on her face. She was holding a roll of bamboo mat in her arms, with thin sheets and pillow rolled inside.
She didn't sleep much the whole night. She rolled up her bedding and threw it to the ground, along with the mat and quilt. Then she lay down on the hard, dusty kang to sleep.
There was no mat on the kang, which was really uncomfortable. When I took a breath, my nose and mouth were full of the smell of dust, which made it impossible to sleep. My body was dirty and sticky, and I felt extremely uncomfortable. I almost squinted until dawn.
The lingering heat of summer hadn't faded yet, and the air was dry and hot. She tossed and turned, drenched in sweat, mosquitoes buzzing in her ears all night. She was terribly sleepy, but couldn't fall asleep, suffering through the entire night...
Hua Shi thought about it all night, but couldn't figure out how she had offended this petty-minded younger brother to make him do such a cruel thing!
“Hehe…”
Yawning, Hua Shi walked straight to the well and threw the mat to the ground.
She finally understood that it was basically impossible to coexist peacefully with Hua Yu. This guy had a black heart, and she had to find a way to make him obedient...
Hua Shi scrubbed the quilt vigorously, and when she thought about her bed full of cockroaches last night, she got goosebumps again.
The hazy sky was brightened by a ray of morning sunlight...
Just after finishing washing the clothes and hanging them on the low wall, there was a noise coming from Hua Yu's room, and after a while, the door was pushed open.
Hua Yu came out of the house holding his younger brother Hua Ying's hand. When he saw Hua standing in the yard, his eyes moved, and then he pretended not to see her and pulled Hua Ying straight into the small kitchen next to them.
Hua Shi stood there with his sleeves rolled up, his light-colored trouser legs half wet, his hair disheveled, his face covered in water and sweat, and he looked drenched in sweat and a mess.
Seeing that the culprit Hua Yu turned around and walked away as if nothing had happened, Hua Shi was extremely angry.
Pretend! Let's see how long you can keep pretending!
…
Hua Shi did not tell Li about this matter, and Li did not know about it.
Just a few days passed and everything seemed to be over.
Hua Yu didn't do anything weird anymore. He planted soybeans in the field. The sun was very strong these days, so Hua Yu had to take care of the soybean seedlings in the field, going out early and coming back late.
When the soybean seedlings are just planted, they need to be watered four or five times a day.
Hua Shi knew that the fields where soybeans were planted were halfway up the mountain, with no land in front and no mountain behind, and were covered with bare, dense thorns and barbs everywhere.
This means that if Hua Yu wanted to water the land, he had to go down from the ridge of the field and follow the path down the hillside. There was a stream there, but it was very troublesome to carry water as he had to climb the hill.
After a few days of tossing and turning, Hua Yu became a lot darker and thinner. His chin became pointed and protruding, making his dark eyes look big and his eye sockets bulge out. He looked gloomy and depressed.
It's easy to imagine how many trips it would take to water two or three plots of land, and how exhausting it would be. Hua Yu's legs weren't working well under the scorching sun, and his limping leg made it even more torturous...
The watering work was all done by Hua Yu alone, and Li did not let Hua Xiaohua leave to help him.
Hua Xiao would stay home to feed the chickens, wash clothes, and cook. Hua Li would go up the mountain to gather grass for the pigs, helping others feed the pigs. She earned a couple of cents a day and handed it over to Mrs. Li. Five-year-old Hua Ying was also sent out by Mrs. Li to gather sticks and firewood. She had to fill three baskets a day. If she didn't, she wouldn't eat.
Hua Shi didn't need to do any odd jobs, but was ordered by Li to stay at home and read books, recite poems, and learn to write with her father Hua Ciyuan. She was not allowed to go out.
Except for Hua Shi who didn't understand, the other people in the Hua family seemed to be accustomed to Li's arrangements.
After being forced to follow Hua Ciyuan to read for a few days, Hua Shi learned another thing from Hua Ciyuan...
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