The so-called truth
Following her gaze, Yun Qique also turned his head to look at the calm Yun Jinglu. He also heard Chen Yuefeng's words, but he acted as if he had heard something insignificant.
"make a deal."
Then, Chen Yuefeng recounted her tragic and miserable past:
The fire killed her family and burned down her home. However, the young girl knew that the arsonist was her real biological father - her uncle Chen Guihong who lived next door.
The night before the arson disaster, she saw her mother having an affair with Chen Guihong. She had no idea what it meant until her stepfather rushed into the house with a hatchet.
They had a big fight, and she, hiding under the wall at the back window, heard her mother's angry accusations and told her about Chen Yuefeng's life story.
This was unacceptable to both men.
The stepfather was determined to make the whole village know about it, and while the three of them were fighting, the mother accidentally killed the stepfather with a hatchet.
As they discussed how to dispose of the body, Chen Guihong discovered her eavesdropping. He offered her candy to coax her, then, through threats and inducements, told her that if she dared to reveal the truth, her mother would be executed by the village chief for murdering her husband. As long as she kept quiet and obeyed, he, her biological father, would have enough time to deal with everything and return to her and her mother's arms.
Chen Yuefeng, who had been subjected to constant beatings and verbal abuse from her stepfather, dreamed of changing her father. However, Chen Guihong was always secretly kind to her. She also wanted to make her mother happy and live a good life, so even though she didn't understand, she decided to be a good child and not see anything.
She cooperated with the adults and pretended that her stepfather was not dead. The next day, her mother sent her to the mountains to collect firewood early.
On the way, her aunt asked her about it, and she followed her aunt's words and admitted that her stepfather had abused her again while she was collecting firewood in the mountains. After all, being abused was common. The villagers tried to intervene, but her stepfather was a cruel and ruthless person, and gradually, no one dared to intervene. So, her aunt just shook her head and sighed, and went home to get her half a steamed bun.
In fact, Chen Guihong gave her two pieces of cake.
She went to the mountains and ate sweet cakes in seclusion. She was very happy. She had never eaten them before, so she broke them off and ate them bit by bit, taking a long time to sip them. At that time, she was still imagining how happy her future would be. She was also a child who had a father who loved her.
However, when she returned home, her house was on fire and the fire burned down everything in the thatched hut.
Chen Guihong held a bag of small change and new cloth and told her that these were thrown out by her mother when she knew she could not escape, and they were to give her a stable life.
Everyone in Yangmei Village was eyeing the inheritance covetously. Although it was just a little change and two pieces of flowered cloth, it was already a considerable fortune for this poor village located in a remote area far away from the downtown area.
The village chief used the excuse that Chen Yuefeng was young and unable to keep the property, and was also worried that someone might have an eye on it, so he announced publicly that the property would be kept by the village chief until she came of age.
During this period, the village chief's words and deeds were implicit and deliberately leading to the meaning that "whoever raises her will get the inheritance."
He hugged her and said with heartache that as a neighbor he would raise her as his own daughter.
Chen Yuefeng naturally chose him as well.
Chen Guihong's wife and three sons disliked her very much, but thinking of the money and that she was a girl who could be exchanged for a betrothal gift or become a child bride, they did not show it too obviously.
Chen Guihong's wife said that the house was small and there was no extra space for her to sleep, so she had to sleep on a kang with her three brothers. She said that she was young and that in the poor house there was no distinction between men and women, so it was a blessing to have a place to sleep. Either sleep there or get out and die.
The younger son was a fool, and his mother had taught him to be cruel and rude. He would always pinch her waist in bed, leaving it bruises all over.
Even if Chen Guihong was told, he would only respond with a few words and not actually stop the fight, which only earned him threats and warnings from his wife. After all, even a foolish child knew that in this village, in this family, daughters were far more despised than sons.
Everyone in the village said that she had killed her father when she was born, and now she had killed eight members of her family, leaving her with no family.
In this way, Chen Yuefeng lived in his house for several months. She had to do a lot of chores every day, just as if her stepfather was still alive, but she had lost her biological mother's care.
Until Chen Guihong's wife asked her to be a child bride for her mentally retarded little son, but Chen Guihong was unwilling.
They started arguing again, and Chen Guihong even slapped her several times. During the argument, the couple began to talk nonsense about each other. After learning about her background, the matter was dropped.
However, the younger son was unhappy. He did not understand why siblings from the same father could not marry, and secretly cursed her that if she did not marry him, he would have his father burn her to death just as he had burned her entire family.
Chen Yuefeng was angry and started arguing and fighting with him. Chen Guihong and his wife came to separate them. After learning the whole story, his wife pushed her to the ground in a rage and told him the whole truth about how her father burned her whole family to death.
He also said that if she didn't obey, he would burn her to death.
Six-year-old Chen Yuefeng didn't say anything, but that year, she endured the disgusting feeling and coaxed the youngest son of the Chen family to play. After they had a good relationship, she tricked him into catching grasshoppers, but actually designed to have him bitten by a centipede.
When she was young, she thought that the centipede's venom could kill people, but unfortunately, he didn't die.
Even though her youngest son said that she had gone to the bathroom, Chen Guihong's wife kept crying and harping on the matter.
They had long wanted to find fault with his family so that they could snatch Chen Yuefeng away to raise her. The villagers who were fighting for the inheritance took the opportunity to stir up trouble and asked the village chief to find a new adoptive home for her.
The villagers said that she was unlucky and brought misfortune wherever she went.
She identified the real murderer and vowed to take revenge, so no matter how difficult the days that followed were, she relied on this belief to survive.
Later, she moved to countless villagers' homes. In this poor and sad village, there were always conflicts, and there was always someone who had to endure hunger, grievances, cold and fatigue. This person must be her, who was an outsider no matter which family she was in.
After all, they raised her, so she had no complaints and worked hard to repay them. But if they bullied her too much, she knew from a young age that she would find an opportunity to secretly retaliate, then pretend to be pitiful and ask the village chief to change her home.
Finally, after all the families had passed her around, the village chief made the decision to let her grow up eating at a hundred families' homes and living in a small wooden house that was converted from an abandoned granary. Although it was simple, she could sleep peacefully.
Later, she met Chen Abao.
Chen Abao treated her very well and said that he would marry her and bring her home to live a good life when she grew up. At that time, he would be a butcher like his father and bring meat home for her every day.
However, Chen Abao drowned.
The villagers said that Chen Abao was killed by her.
For a time, the villagers regarded her as a plague, and tried to avoid her as much as possible. Harsh words were poured down on her, and the village chief, unable to withstand the villagers' resentment and the quarrels of his wife, finally locked her up and opened a hole under the door to facilitate the delivery of food. Of course, the food was still delivered to the family whose turn it was.
She felt it was good. The food was poor, but it was quiet and undisturbed, and she didn't have to work. However, the children in the village sometimes threw things like insects and feces at the door where the food was delivered to scare her.
On the day of her coming of age, she was released.
The inheritance was divided among all the villagers because she ate the wild vegetables and leftovers they gave her.
She hated every villager who bullied her equally, but was also grateful for the kindness that gave her a bite to eat.
Chen Yuefeng didn't want to be imprisoned anymore and she wanted revenge, so she started to work diligently for the villagers.
Unexpectedly, she caught the attention of a childless wealthy family in Lynx Town, who wanted to buy her to give birth to a son. This gave the villagers a chance to make money, so they took advantage of her good looks and figure and asked for a high price. The wealthy family disagreed and bought a cheaper and healthier girl from another village.
This was the truth she learned later. At the time, she believed them, thinking they had protected him and driven away the rich man. She was very grateful and worked even harder.
A year later, Chen Abao came back to life and returned home.
He was soaking wet, his skin was as white as a corpse, and riverweed was stuck in his hair. No matter who looked at him, he looked like a water ghost who had just crawled out of the water.
All the villagers didn't treat him as a human being and kept their distance from him.
Although Chen Yuefeng was grateful for his kindness, she also knew that Chen Abao was weird, so she stayed away from him.
At night, Chen Abao often knocked on her door, asking if she was asleep, but she always pretended to be asleep and didn't dare to open the door. When she opened the door in the morning, there was always a large puddle of water and some algae.
Late that night, a lot of water flowed in from the doorway. His voice was so close that it seemed to be in this dark room. He told her that he would help her get revenge.
The next day, Chen Guihong's entire family died in the homestead that had been abandoned after her house was burned down. The headless bodies knelt in a row, soaked in blood.
The severed head appeared neatly in front of Chen Yuefeng's mother's grave two miles away. A thick stack of paper money and three incense sticks were bitten in its mouth, and there was a tattoo on its face: You deserve it.
Chen Abao proposed to her privately, but she refused. Then Chen Abao's father took the money and asked the village chief to decide the marriage, without even asking for her opinion.
Chen Abao's father was among those who discussed selling her to a wealthy family for a suitable price, so he knew exactly how much the greedy villagers would ask for.
She tried to escape countless times, but was caught every time. She was locked up until she was forced to marry in the wedding ceremony, and then locked in the bridal chamber where she was beaten, scolded and bullied by Chen Abao.
Chen Abao even died while he was sleeping with her.
With her hands and feet tied, she had to suppress her fear and nausea. She was pressed face to face with the corpses all night until dawn, when Old Man Chen came to unlock the door.
He angrily scolded her for being unlucky and almost beat her to death.
She knew without a doubt what nasty things the villagers would say.
She was locked up in the bridal chamber like a dog and soon discovered she was pregnant. She wanted to get rid of the child, so Old Man Chen chained her limbs and head to the bed, fearing she would bite her tongue to commit suicide. Old Mother Chen watched her constantly, saying the most unpleasant things.
She could feel that she was pregnant with a dirty thing because it was growing too fast and always made her mouth dry and want to drink blood.
Old Man Chen offered her pig's blood to drink, but she didn't find it fishy at all. The more she drank, the thirstier she became. Later on, she developed a mad craving for blood, often picking strands of hair covered in algae from her itchy throat.
Her belly was so big as if she was pregnant with several babies. She felt that her belly was about to burst. Just before giving birth, the active fetus kicked and moved around in her belly. At night, she could clearly see the baby's handprint on her belly.
However, it seemed that she was the only one who could see these abnormalities, and she was the only one who could hear the child's "hehehe" laughter. Every time at this time, Old Lady Chen would fall into deep sleep.
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