The whole family stocked up on supplies two years in advance, so they could live a life of luxury wh

Mountain village.

evening.

Something came up at home.

A laborer left Xinghua Village two days early to head home.

I just got home.

He had just taken out the copper coins in his hand when his wife brought him a bowl of warm soup. "Erwa, have some hot soup first. You've been doing such hard labor for so long, I really feel sorry for you."

Erwa put down the copper coin, took the hot soup from his wife's hand, and said with a smile:

"Guess whose family I ran into while I was working this time?"

"Who?"

"Could it be someone I know?"

"Hey, you're right, it's the family of someone you know who's become rich."

Upon hearing this, Erwa's wife immediately perked up and hurriedly asked:

"Who is it? Whose family has become wealthy?"

Erwa took a sip of the hot soup, wiped his mouth, and said with a smile:

"She is Xuecai's wife."

"sky!"

"She's actually Xuecai's young wife?"

Erwa's wife screamed upon hearing this.

"I heard that her family was very poor. She didn't even have a dowry when she married into the family. And it seems that she's been married for three years now, and her family hasn't come to visit her at all. She's a pitiful person to have married Xuecai."

"Was the company you visited this time her family's family?"

Erwa nodded:

"We were hired by a wealthy man named Lu in town to work for her family. There's a really tough girl in her family who I heard can even kill a wild boar with one punch."

"Kill a wild boar with one punch?"

"That takes a lot of strength!"

The two were talking inside the main room.

suddenly.

They heard Aunt Liu's cursing start again.

It turned out that Granny Liu was waiting for her daughter-in-law to come back after washing the clothes so she could tidy up the house.

After tidying up, she would massage her legs and shoulders, going around massaging her wherever she went, while she began to inspect every corner of the room.

If there's even the slightest speck of dust, she'll turn around, grab a broom, and beat her daughter-in-law.

"What kind of work have you been doing?!"

"You lazy, good-for-nothing woman!"

"He can't even do a simple job properly."

"Mom, I've tried my best to clean the house, I really haven't been lazy!"

"Mother, stop hitting her! Stop hitting her!"

"Mother, it hurts so much! It hurts so much!"

"I'll beat you to death, beat you to death!"

No matter how Li Chunhua tried to explain, Granny Liu picked up a broom and started beating her until she begged for mercy. Granny Liu finally got tired of beating her.

She then had Chunhua serve her until she went to sleep.

"Go and get a winnowing basket and some mung beans. If you don't let me sleep well tonight, you won't get any sleep at all."

Li Chunhua cried as she went to the kitchen to get a winnowing basket, which she then sprinkled with mung beans. She then stood in front of her mother-in-law's bed and kept shaking the mung beans in the basket, making them sound like rain.

"Beep beep beep~"

"Tick-tock~ Tick-tock~"

The sound was slightly off, and Granny Liu raised her hand and pinched Li Chunhua's arm tightly, causing her tears and snot to flow down her face. She didn't dare to wipe them away because her mother-in-law was too fierce.

Half an hour later.

Li Chunhua's arms were already so sore that she couldn't lift them anymore, and her mother-in-law was asleep. She thought she could rest for a while, but she didn't expect that her mother-in-law would find her as soon as she put down the winnowing basket.

Having rested enough, Granny Liu got up and gave Li Chunhua another beating.

Li Chunhua's face was covered in bruises from the beating.

After sleeping for a while, Granny Liu felt hungry again.

She then asked Li Chunhua to cook for her.

"Tonight I want to eat bean sprouts stuffed with meat. As for you, I won't make things difficult for you. The bean sprouts can't have roots, the meat has to be all lean, and the amount of meat stuffed in each bean sprout has to be the same."

Bean sprouts can't be overcooked or undercooked. If you do it wrong, I'll kill you.

"Yes, Mother-in-law."

Li Chunhua dared not disobey her mother-in-law's wishes. She spent a long time just picking bean sprouts, and she also had to spend time chopping meat. Although her in-laws had meat to eat, she was not allowed to eat it.

Half an hour later.

The rice and bean sprouts stuffed with meat are ready.

The food had just been served.

Granny Liu ate meat and rice with great relish, but her daughter-in-law, Li Chunhua, could only eat brown rice; she wasn't given any white rice.

A salted fish was hanging in the center of the roof beam.

Li Chunhua could only look up at the salted fish and the bland, unappetizing brown rice.

Because she was so tempted, Li Chunhua couldn't help but glance at the salted fish a few more times.

Granny Liu immediately reprimanded:

"Hey, who told you to look at me for even a second? Look at all those salty-eyed fish, you'll get salty enough to kill you!"

As she spoke, she poked Li Chunhua's forehead with her finger.

The pain was so intense that Li Chunhua saw stars.

She dared not resist, and could only cry as she continued to eat her brown rice with her head down.

After the meal.

Granny Liu finally quieted down.

She told her daughter-in-law to clean the kitchen and tidy up the dishes, and after that, she had to fill the water tank before she could go to sleep.

Li Chunhua had no choice but to do as her mother-in-law said, and she had been living like this for three whole years.

Sometimes I cry.

Sometimes I feel numb.

Li Chunhua used her thin shoulders to fetch water from the well by the river and then cleaned up the kitchen and main room. By this time, it was already 9 PM.

Liu Xuecai, who was quite drunk, slowly walked in from outside the courtyard.

Because his uncle worked in the county government, he was able to get a good job in the town. While other families were eating coarse food, his family could eat white rice and meat.

His only regret was that his family was now wealthy.

But Li Chunhua was an eyesore that bothered him a lot.

No matter how he tortured her, she just wouldn't die.

This has made it difficult for him to find a new wife.

Lately, he has taken a fancy to the top courtesan of the Manchun Courtyard, and when he returns and sees the aging and faded Chunhua, he feels increasingly disgusted.

As soon as I entered the house.

He threw his clothes on the ground, walked slowly to the bedside, grabbed his wife Chunhua from the bed, and scolded her:

"Who told you to get into bed with me?"

"Get down here right now and find somewhere to sleep."

"I...I!"

"What do you mean, 'what do you mean,' get the hell out of here!"

After saying that, he didn't care about anything else and kicked Li Chunhua, who was only wearing her undergarments, out of the room.

"Snap!"

The bolt was closed.

The door was tightly shut.

Li Chunhua had just gotten out of bed when her husband dragged her out. She was dressed in thin clothes, and it was autumn, so the weather was cool. The cold wind outside made her shiver.

She covered her body and went to a corner in the storage room, where she squatted down helplessly.

Tears finally streamed down my face again.

"father....."

"mother......"

"My daughter is having such a hard time!"

She hugged her knees, her shoulders heaving from crying. She wanted to go home, no matter how poor that home was, she just wanted to go home.

the other side.

Xing'er hired an oxcart in Qingshi Town to go to the village at the foot of the mountain.

They walked until evening but still hadn't reached the village at the foot of the mountain.

The oxcart driver suggested:

"Nizi, it's getting late. Why don't you stay at my house for the night? I'll carry you to the village down the mountain early tomorrow morning."