If you don't consummate the marriage for three years and then marry a successful educated youth

After receiving the candied hawthorns, the twins immediately became well-behaved, holding onto her clothes and eating the candied hawthorns with their other hands.

"Brother, the candied hawthorn is so delicious! It's sweet and sour."

In the past, my mother rarely bought things for them. If my grandmother saw it, she would scold my mother. She would always bring them out to buy things secretly. Thinking of my mother, the two children looked at each other and their eyes dimmed.

Lin Fengjiao just wanted to finish buying groceries quickly and go home. She paid quickly, put the groceries in her basket, and walked forward with her two little ones, standing in front of a roasted chestnut stall.

She pursed her lips, feeling a little hungry.

"Young lady, would you like a serving? They're all freshly stir-fried, and they taste amazing. Absolutely none of them are spoiled; I only select those without any wormholes to stir-fry."

"Okay, I'll have one..."

No sooner had she finished speaking than the twins grabbed her arm and cried out, "Mommy, we don't want to eat this! We want cotton candy! Go buy us some cotton candy!"

Lin Fengjiao looked at them, her anger rising, and her voice unconsciously increased: "Enough! You want this and that. I won't take you out tomorrow. You'd better stay home and behave yourselves."

The twins pouted, then burst into tears, crying, "No, I don't want to be at home! No, I want to come out!"

"Mom is mean. She made us stay at home, so we went to climb out the window and fell to our deaths, sob sob."

"...!!"

two minutes later

Lin Fengjiao, with a sullen face, handed over two cotton candies: "Eat them, and then hurry back. Don't make a scene anymore, you hear me?"

The twins smiled sweetly: "Yes, yes, we'll be good. Mom, are you angry? Don't be angry, we won't do it again."

"Okay, eat up. We'll head back soon."

Her gaze fell on the roasted chestnut stall not far away, and she sighed inwardly. She had really underestimated the difficulty of raising a child. She hadn't expected it to be this difficult; it wasn't just a matter of feeding the child.

These two are also very disobedient. The children back home are not like this. They started helping with chores at a young age and wouldn't cause such trouble.

On the way back, Lin Fengjiao thought she could finally relax, but the twins started clamoring for rice cakes again. She bought a portion, but it was all eaten by the time they got to the compound.

"Hiccup, Mom, we're full. Can we go to the courtyard to play with the other brothers later? You go home and cook, and call us when you're done, okay?"

"Okay, I understand. You can play in the courtyard then."

Lin Fengjiao was more than happy with this; it would give her a little peace and quiet. Otherwise, if they kept making such a racket, she would lose her temper and beat them up again.

The twins watched her go upstairs, then ran towards the children who were playing. They found Stone, who was dressed in tattered, dusty clothes, and whispered, "Stone, here's some candy for you."

Stone looked up, his eyes dim, reached out and took the package, opening it and licking it slowly, savoring every bite.

"What brings you two, Congcong and Mingming, here? Is your stepmother treating you well? Has she hit you?"

"Yes, I hit it. You can hit it harder now, take a look."

The twins deftly pulled down their pants, revealing red marks on their buttocks, with clear handprints. The adults looked over and walked over, expressing their sympathy.

"Oh dear, what happened? Who hit you? It wasn't your stepmother, was it? She just married into the family, how dare she be so bold?"

"Don't your fathers care?"

The twins exchanged a glance and shook their heads in unison: "Dad's busy, Dad doesn't know. It was our stepmother who beat us, and she forbade us to tell Dad."

Several adults sighed upon hearing this: "Alas, children without mothers are the most pitiful. The new bride seemed like a good person, but I never expected her to start beating the child as soon as she entered the family."

"Other stepmothers, at least, would pretend to be patient and only hit the children after they've had them. How come she's so impatient? She's already doing this now. If she has children, she'll probably be even more ruthless."

"Twin sons are so wonderful, it's such a pity that your mother left us so early. Oh, how pitiful."

After finishing the candy, Shi Tou pulled the two little ones away and muttered, "She treats you so badly, you'd better watch out. You'll have to use a self-inflicted injury trick."

"Don't wait until she gives birth to the child to use it. Now, while your father and grandmother still care about you, remember to secretly anger her and make her beat you. Leave scars before you go to your father and grandmother to cry."

"As long as they don't have children, they will definitely take care of you. Letting them have conflicts is the best thing for you."

The twins nodded: "Yeah, we'll remember Brother Stone. So, we really don't need to get along with her. Actually, when she took us out to buy candied hawthorns and other snacks, it was... okay."

Stone smirked and said sarcastically, "Okay?"

"All stepmothers are the same. Most of them pretend to be nice to you before you have children so that your in-laws will trust you. But once they give birth, they will immediately turn their backs on you."

As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeves to show them the bleeding wounds, all from being whipped.

"You all saw it, she was nice to me at first, but she changed after I gave birth to my younger brother. She would hit and scold me, and I was covered in bruises every day."

As Shi Tou spoke, he wiped away his tears and choked out, "Dad, Grandma doesn't care about me at all now that I have a younger brother. That woman is so cruel. She was so good to me before I had children."

The twins stared wide-eyed at the injuries, feeling an intense pain just looking at them. They nodded emphatically, "We'll remember. We'll definitely cause a lot of trouble to annoy Daddy."

"If she argues with her father and grandmother more often, no one will believe her. If we go out with our injuries and let people see them, they will help us."

Stone nodded: "Yes, don't be as foolish as I was before. I was too stupid before, I actually spoke well of that woman, and as a result, she wanted to kill me after she got pregnant."

"So, Brother Stone, what are you planning to do next? If you continue to endure this, your father won't care about you, your grandparents won't care about you, you'll have to do all the work for the whole family, and you'll still get beaten and scolded. How are you going to keep going?"

"Yes, I know. I'm waiting for my chance."

After learning from the experience, the twins went to other friends to ask how to deal with their stepmothers so they could live a good life.

*

Lin Fengjiao, completely unaware of what was happening at home, sneezed several times and rubbed her nose, wondering, "Who the hell is cursing me? Could I have caught a cold?"

He sniffed, and the faint stench wafted over again, causing him to frown. "Hmm? A stench. Right, I said I was going to find the source of that stench."

"How could I forget these past two days? No, I have to find it right away."

Following the smell into the bridal chamber, I forced myself to sniff, suppressing my nausea, and headed towards the place with the strongest stench. It took me a long time to finally move the wooden bed that had been made a little bit.

Lin Fengjiao shone her flashlight inside, and the next second her pupils contracted, and she screamed, "Ahhh!!!"