The operation to eliminate the locusts was successful, but the success made her feel strange, and even made Li Xiaoxiao feel a little uneasy, as if something was about to happen.
My heart was beating unusually fast, so I had no choice but to keep walking back.
She kept walking towards the Li family's house, her pace quickening, becoming increasingly hurried.
"Chu Yinan, are you crazy? That's your child too! Why did you get rid of it?"
As winter approached, few pedestrians were on the road, and the surroundings were eerily quiet. The woman's sharp voice pierced through the winter chill.
The man was extremely impatient and very dissatisfied with the woman's hysteria. "You bitch, what do you mean 'my child'? That's not my child at all."
Yin Yixue yelled, then her eyes filled with tears and disappointment. She felt a strange movement in her belly; she was only five months pregnant. She gently soothed her belly, signaling the baby not to move.
Suddenly, a car sped towards her from a distance, crashing through the steps and heading straight for her. Sensing danger, Yin Yixue turned her head and saw it, instinctively screaming, but her voice was drowned out by the loud honking of surrounding cars and the sounds of impact.
In her final moments, when she thought she was going to die, the man who was supposed to divorce her rushed over. It was the only time he offered her a warm embrace and a gentle voice, "Ah Xue, don't be afraid, I'm here."
After being comforted, Yin Yixue panicked, clutching her stomach. The two of them were about to lose the child they had never met, and they were buried under the car wheels.
The surrounding area resembled a ground covered with crushed red roses.
"Ahhhhhh!" Yin Yixue screamed as she woke up, her whole body trembling several times. She saw the dilapidated roof and smelled a musty odor.
Where is this? Wasn't she dead? But this is the 'home' that I used to know so well.
Why was she here? Just as she was wondering, Yin Zhaodi said impatiently from the side, "Sister, what are you screaming for? Are you going to sleep or not?"
Wasn't Yin Zhaodi supposed to be abroad? How come she's next to her? Yin Yixue was still a little dazed. Just as she was confused, Yin Zhaodi moved beside her. The bed made a few stomping sounds. Yin Zhaodi smacked her lips, turned over, and went back to sleep.
There were actually two people sleeping on the big bed. Yin Yixue patted her face and pinched it. She felt pain and realized that something was wrong. That's right, she was back, back to this dilapidated home.
She clutched her stomach; there was no baby inside.
Mingming never wanted to come back in this lifetime. This is a temporary house built in the suburbs of Wuyang District. There is a younger sister on the big bed and a younger brother on the slightly narrower bed next to her.
This family is very poor. All their food, clothing, and other necessities are scavenged. The father asked friends to give him their children's unwanted clothes. Even the mattress with the large mattress was an old mattress that a wealthy family didn't want during renovations and was about to throw away as garbage, but this man picked it up.
Underneath the large mattress were bed legs repaired with five-hole bricks, and she and Yin Zhaodi squeezed into one quilt.
Early in the morning, just as Yin Yixue woke up, Chen Qun yelled at her, "Xiao Yi, why aren't you up yet? Too lazy to even pick your lice? Does this whole family not eat? All you do is slack off every day. Have I raised you for nothing?"
Chen Qun's shout immediately snapped Yin Yixue out of her daze. She quickly got up, and as usual, she would have yelled, "Why do I have to cook all by myself? Doesn't my sister eat? Why doesn't she cook?"
Chen Qun would then give her a severe scolding, saying that she didn't know how to be a good older sister.
At that time, she did not know that she was not the family’s biological daughter, so she always complained about the unfairness.
Now she was quite sensible and immediately put on her pajamas and got up to start a fire. Winters in the south are still a bit cold, and the machete and matches were icy cold, so starting a fire wasn't easy.
"Okay, I'll get up right away."
Seeing that she didn't talk back, Chen Qun was about to continue scolding her, but stopped before he could finish and continued washing the vegetables.
Yin Yixue got up and grabbed the frozen machete. She felt the skin on her hands was about to stick to it. With swift strokes, she chopped large chunks of firewood into small pieces. After chopping, she put the pieces into the stove. Large pieces of firewood were placed around the edge of the stove, with smaller pieces in the middle. Several plastic bags were used to cover the small pieces of wood, which were then lit and quickly put into the stove.
Soon, the fire was lit, and Chen Qun was washing vegetables. This whole family always cooked noodles for breakfast.
After the fire was extinguished, Yin Yixue finally regained some clarity. She didn't know what year it was, but she wanted to leave this place as soon as possible and return to her original home.
The couple in this family were originally infertile and had not had children for many years. Later, they decided to buy a child to raise. They saw a baby being given to them at the door, with 10,000 yuan in the bag. Seeing that it was a girl and there was a large sum of money, they secretly took the baby and raised her.
At first, the couple treated her very well, even though they found her in winter, a year when snow was falling in the south, a rare sight.
So she named herself Yin Yixue.
Two years later, Yin Zhaodi was born. She gradually fell out of favor. She was even kicked off the bed while taking a nap with her mother, which caused her a lot of pain. Chen Qun just used some gauze to stop the pain and couldn't bear to take her to the hospital.
Two years later, Yin Zhenghan was born. She was only five years old when she had to participate in washing diapers. The diapers were made from old clothes that no one wanted, and they were so dirty and disgusting that Chen Qun made her wash them.
Once, she wasn't clean enough, and Yin Lang slapped her so hard that her nose started bleeding.
Recalling these things, Yin Yixue shuddered and dared not think any further. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that every day here was agonizing.
After a while, the fire in the stove roared and blazed, bringing a bit of brightness to this cold winter. The noodles were cooked, and Chen Qun shouted at the top of his lungs, "Lazybones, get up and eat your noodles!"
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