Aunt Bi Jinzhi of the Bi family asked her twelve-year-old daughter Fu Xiaojuan:
"Juan'er, mom is going to your uncle's place? Come with me and keep me company." While tidying up her hair, she leaned over to look at the sky outside.
Fu Xiaojuan pouted, sat down at the table on the kang, turned her head to look at the kang impatiently, still holding the pencil tightly in her hand angrily, and kept poking the homework book with the tip of the pencil.
"I'm asking you a question. Come with me, or else you won't be able to get over the mountain..."
"mother!"
Before Bi Jinzhi could finish her words, Fu Xiaojuan yelled "Ah!" and interrupted her, standing on the kang and shouting angrily:
"Whenever you have something delicious, you go to my uncle's house. I think you are getting too greedy. It's been a long time since my father beat you up!"
Bi Jinzhi was shocked by what her daughter blurted out.
For more than ten seconds, she stared at her twelve-year-old daughter in disbelief, and Fu Xiaojuan's eyes were full of disdain.
That disdain revealed the position of this mother in her daughter's heart.
Bi Jinzhi's fingers trembled with anger: "You!"
After saying the word "you", Bi Jinzhi started looking for a broom. She was like a dazed woman, circling back and forth looking for a broom. She had only one thought in her mind: she had to beat her daughter! What kind of daughter dared to talk to her own mother like that?
"You little bastard, I'm going to skin you alive today! Who's your uncle? My mother's uncle! Your grandpa was thrown down on the kang, and it was your uncle and aunt who took care of him, you ungrateful thing!"
"What does it have to do with me?"
"Great! It has nothing to do with you, right? Did you dig yourself out of a **** pit?!"
Bi Jinzhi picked up the kang broom and climbed onto the kang, waving it, forgetting to take off her shoes. Fu Xiaojuan was already scared and hid everywhere on the kang. She hid from the broom while running around in patched socks, calling for help:
"Grandma! Grandma! My mother hit someone! My mother wants to kill me!"
The word "kill" stimulated Bi Jinzhi so much that she threw the broom away and threw it at her daughter without any care, while she herself was still kneeling on the kang.
A short old lady with wrinkled face, dark skin and white hair and black hair on her head pushed open the door and started cursing in a sharp voice:
"I've served you my whole life, and in my past life, I was unlucky enough to be related to the Bi family! You even want to beat my precious granddaughter, who can't give birth to a son. You're trying to cut off the roots of our Fu family! But get out of here!"
Bi Jinzhi's eyes were red. She looked at the bewildered Fu Xiaojuan with disappointment, then climbed down from the kang, stood on the cement floor and looked at her mother-in-law, whom she once thought was kind to her.
I am disappointed with my daughter and have become indifferent to my mother-in-law.
"What's the matter? You're a useless thing! You said you could have laid an egg and become a hero of the Fu family, but it's because of your dad, huh? You went to the trouble of secretly steaming a couple of lousy buns and then sent them over so cheaply. My good grandson is gone just like that!"
Old Mrs. Fu simply cannot bear to mention this matter now, as it makes her feel extremely heartbroken.
She was looking forward to it so much that she even asked the blind man Zhang at the east end to have his fortune told. He said that this time her daughter-in-law would definitely be pregnant with a boy, which made her happy!
My son and daughter-in-law have been married for more than ten years. They had their eldest granddaughter in the first two years of their marriage, and there has been no news since then!
Finally, God opened his eyes and allowed the only son of the Fu family to have a son.
But in the end, even after ten years of supporting her mother's family, she was spoiled! She and her son spoiled her!
I'm used to dumping all the good things in big and small bags to my mother's house. I support the fact that my eldest grandson lost his life because of a broken steamed bun!
It's so disheartening! The daughter-in-law is so eager to go back to her parents' home, but the mother-in-law can't even give her a warm welcome!
This time it’s over, everything is over. I went to the hospital and spent twenty dollars on a lot of examinations, and they said I can’t get pregnant again. There is no hope at all!
The more Mrs. Fu thought about it, the angrier she became, and her eyes were filled with deep hatred as she looked at Bi Jinzhi.
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Once, when Bi Jinzhi married into the Fu family, she heard that her future mother-in-law was quite powerful.
But she discovered through several secret observations that the orphan mother had to be strong in order to raise her son.
Later, she spent ten years proving that she was very similar to her mother-in-law, with a straightforward personality but reasonable.
But now, the mother-in-law in front of her made her feel so strange and scary.
The child she conceived after ten years was gone, and she was sadder than anyone else.
She also regretted that she had lost the baby. She kept slapping herself in the hospital, and the tears she secretly shed turned into blood!
She wanted to give her husband Fu Guo a big, fat boy, but her father had nearly died a while ago. When she heard the news from Li Ermaizi, the coachman in Zhaojiatun, she threw everything aside, put on her shoes, and started running. She ran so fast that her legs gave out from fear, and she fell to the ground...
She knew she was wrong, so she went out to cook for people and earn money even before she was out of confinement, trying to please her mother-in-law and husband. She even endured her husband slapping her when he was drunk, to the point that her own daughter looked down on her.
Recently, she had hit her three times, and each time the mother-in-law pretended not to hear. My daughter didn't understand her opinion of her a while ago, but now she understands it.
Bi Jinzhi did not continue arguing. She pretended not to hear Old Lady Fu yelling and scolding her and defending her undisciplined daughter, but she remembered every unpleasant word.
She opened the door to the west room, found a bag, and put the meatballs in the iron magnetic bowl into a bag. These were the leftovers from cooking for other families. She didn't leave any for her daughter, but simply pushed the door open and left, crossing the mountains to see her father.
Bi Jinzhi wiped the tears from her face and walked hurriedly, but her heart was blank.
Noisy? So noisy that Fu Guozuo, who worked as a carpenter in town, was driven back home?
Then, in front of her mother-in-law and daughter, she beat her without any reason? She took revenge on her over and over again?
The toes of her cloth shoes were rubbed and pilled, and Bi Jinzhi's face turned pale. Slowly, her graceful figure climbed over the first hill.
Even though I understand the truth, I will still complain about what I should complain about, scold what I should scold, and feel sad about what I should feel, because the pain in my heart cannot be explained or relieved by reason.
Living together till old age sometimes has to do with patience.
Bi Jinzhi wondered if her eldest niece and nephew would be on vacation soon.
Her eldest brother went out with his lame leg to build a house for someone else. It’s time for him to come back, right?
Is her father feeling better? I hope he can stay with them for a few more years.
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In Zhaojiatun, Zhao Dashan, the son of village chief Zhao Shugen, pushed open the door of the Bi family with a letter in his hand.
"Aunt, Yue...Sister Xiaoyue has written a letter to you. Let me read it to you!" Her face flushed slightly, and she almost called out the affectionate "Yueyue" in her heart.
Yueyue, are you coming back soon? Zhao Dashan was more anxious than anyone else to read the letter, to see the beautiful handwriting, to ease his longing.
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