Unexpectedly, I slipped and fell yesterday, destroying this tire.
Old Mrs. Liu was crying and wailing at home.
Ignoring his wife's recent miscarriage, Liu Wentao began punching and kicking Caifeng.
"You useless jinx, you finally got pregnant with a boy, and I served you the best food and drink, and this is what happened..."
Old Mrs. Liu was so angry that she gritted her teeth. When she first heard that her daughter-in-law was pregnant, she specially took her to town and spent a few copper coins to have her pulse checked.
People say she's a man, and I've been treating her to the best of everything.
They wouldn't let her do any work, and now, unfortunately, they still couldn't keep her job.
"Wentao, that bitch is a jinx. With her around, no boy in my Liu family will ever be allowed in."
Liu Wentao listened to what his mother was saying and thought it made a lot of sense.
Otherwise, it's impossible that she kept having daughters before, and now that she finally found out it was a son, she would still have to take good care of him and let him miscarry.
Many women who were pregnant with boys still went to work in the fields, came back to take care of their families, and successfully gave birth to their babies.
"You jinx, the Liu family can't keep you here, get out!"
Cai Feng was still recovering from her miscarriage, and now her husband had beaten her so badly that she was lying on the ground and couldn't get up at all.
Cai Feng was covered in cold sweat, and her lips were pale, making her look like she was about to faint at any moment.
"Wentao, stop hitting her. Throw her out. It'll be troublesome if she dies at home."
Seeing Caifeng's near-death state, Old Mrs. Liu dared not let her son continue hitting her.
Adults are different from children. If a child dies, you can just put him in a basket and throw him away in the back of the mountain. But it's not so easy to say what will happen to a grown adult.
Liu Wentao grabbed Caifeng by the arm and threw her outside. After throwing her, he went back inside and locked the gate to the yard.
Cai Feng stumbled and crawled on the ground, knocking on the tightly closed door.
"My lord, I really didn't mean it. Please, for the sake of all the years I've served you, don't send me away."
"Next time, I promise I'll give you a son, please don't divorce me."
Liu Wentao was furious as he listened to the woman's heart-wrenching cries from outside.
He slammed the door open and kicked it hard in the woman's stomach.
"You jinx, how dare you say that after all these years you still haven't been able to give me a son?"
"I finally got it and you ruined it, you bitch, you think you can get the hell out of here next time?"
Men, women, and children from Liujia Village gathered around the entrance of Liu's house, pointing and gossiping.
"Tsk tsk tsk, this baby hasn't even been born yet, and it's already like all the previous pregnancies that all resulted in girls."
"Of course, would you throw this away if it weren't a girl?"
A newlywed woman standing nearby asked with a puzzled look, "Didn't they say there was a boy? He died after birth and was buried."
Several women nearby were laughing; this newlywed was so naive.
"If a boy had been born and died after birth, who knows how badly Liu's wife would have been beaten."
Old Mrs. Liu carried a basin of dirty water directly from inside the house and splashed it outside the door.
"You bunch of gossips, get out of here! Gossiping, you rotten tongues!"
If you don't get out of here, don't blame me for ripping your tongues out.
Instantly, the crowd in front of the Liu family's house scattered; they didn't want to provoke this old woman.
They can really get physical when they go crazy; they're not stupid.
"Drag her out of the village and don't let her embarrass herself in front of my house."
Cai Feng shook off Liu Wentao's hand that was holding her, ran straight to Old Mrs. Liu, grabbed her leg and started howling.
“Mother, I have no family home anymore and nowhere to go back. If you throw me out here, aren’t you just leaving me to fend for myself?”
Please, please let me stay home and do your laundry, cook for you, and take care of you so you can enjoy your old age. Please don't send me away.
When Grandma Liu heard about washing clothes and cooking, she suddenly realized that if she really kicked her out, whether she lived or died, she wouldn't benefit from it. It would be better to just sell her away.
Thinking about how the family's finances were already stretched thin.
"Get up, go back inside first."
Upon hearing this, Cai Feng assumed that her mother-in-law had come to her senses, after all, she was a living, breathing person.
I've always done so much housework by myself; it definitely wouldn't work without me.
If I can get pregnant with a boy quickly, I'm sure I can keep the baby without even getting out of bed.
Liu Wentao was completely baffled as he watched his elderly mother bring Caifeng back to her room again.
It wasn't until his mother came out that he asked, "Didn't you say you'd divorce her and find me someone else? Why are you letting her stay at home again?"
Old Mrs. Liu glared at her and said, "You idiot, how can you just kick her out like this? Do you think that's fair to the dowry you paid for her marriage back then? And all the food you've eaten all these years?"
"Then, Mother, what do you mean?"
Grandma Liu whispered in Liu Wentao's ear, "When the time comes, you can just sell her, and then you'll have the money to get a wife."
Upon hearing this, Liu Wentao suddenly thought of the widow his old friend in town had mentioned before.
“Mom, I suddenly remembered something. There was a woman in town who was of average appearance and rented a room specifically for that kind of thing.”
When Grandma Liu heard this, she said, "What's the use of earning a pittance? Isn't there a Widow Wang at the village entrance in our village?"
"I heard they just give you a small handful of cornmeal or something each time, so they might as well just sell it."
Upon hearing this, Liu Wentao knew that his mother wouldn't understand the intricacies of the situation.
"Mother, the town doesn't collect a lot of copper coins at once like this village. Just think how much money our family would make over time?"
When Grandma Liu heard that there was such a good thing, she thought, "Isn't this just like doing business?"
Then he suddenly remembered when he was young and fleeing famine, he heard that the beauties in the brothel could earn a lot of money.
Thinking back, Cai Feng is quite pretty. If we let our son over there to keep an eye on things and collect the money, wouldn't the family have a steady stream of income?
Then I'll buy my son a girl from a respectable family so she can give me a big, fat grandson.
Grandma Su thought about it more and more and felt that the matter could be accomplished.
"But Mother, the rent for a house in this town isn't cheap, you see."
When Grandma Su heard that she wanted to rent a house, she hesitated again. She was really reluctant to spend the money, but she remembered what her son had said.
Suddenly, he slapped his thigh and realized, "You can't catch a wolf without risking your son."
"Okay, I'll go get it for you right away. But you have to set a higher price for it, and this Cai Feng looks pretty good too."
Liu Wentao impatiently coaxed his mother to go back and get the money, "I know, Mom, don't worry. When I earn the money, I'll buy you a maid to serve you. Then you can just be a happy old lady."
Grandma Su was overjoyed by her son's flattery.
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