116, Hit to Death (3 Updates)
Yuan Amu said this, squatting down weeping, “I am human too, I am human too…”
“Why do you treat me like this, treat my child and daughter-in-law like this? They are so kind, why do you scold and hit on a whim?”
“Where did I go wrong? All year round, whatever you ask for, as long as we have it, we give it to you. Why do you still push us so hard?”
The old lady was dumbfounded by Yuan Amu and the wife of Ai.
It took her a while to find her voice again, “You, you wait, I’m going to call the old man!”
She rose to her feet and stumbled out.
It was only then that Ai’s wife, holding her four children, burst into loud crying, feeling sorry for the crab. She turned to look for the dustpan, knelt on the ground, and started picking up the crabs to put them into the dustpan.
Her hands were cut and bleeding from the broken bowl shards, but she paid it no mind.
She continued to pick them up.
There was blood on the crabs, and she turned back to knead the dough.
The cries continued in the courtyard.
“…”
On top of the courtyard wall, the onlookers went down, unable to help but comment, “How tragic!”
Indeed, it was truly tragic.
The mute went to pull his mother. Ai’s wife looked at him, trying hard to muster a smile, “Mother believes you are not a bad omen, you are my good son, a good brother!”
Looking over at Yuan Amu, who was sobbing in a corner, Ai’s wife felt disappointed for the first time.
She also made up her mind. After eating this meal, she would leave with her four children.
Anywhere was better than this, even begging, it would be better than living in this Yuan Family, neither human nor ghost.
Soon the old lady, the dumb grandpa, the eldest uncle, and the youngest uncle came over, pointing at Yuan Amu and cursing loudly.
When the mute’s siblings wanted to make a fuss, Ai’s wife held them back, quietly taking the steamed buns out of the steamer, still not fully cooked.
She also made a soup with egg flowers, “Father, come and eat!”
She called the four children to eat.
The steamed buns had blood on them and were still raw, blood was on the crabs, and there were eggshells in the egg soup.
“Old man, look, look…” the old lady kept shouting.
What she said was unpleasant, and the neighbors came to watch, pointing and commenting.
But in the end, everyone had an idea of the situation.
They really looked down on this family.
Yuan Amu was stunned.
The mute grandpa was also somewhat surprised.
Ai’s wife was acting too out of character today, it was just too strange.
Ai’s wife stood up, went into the room, and took out a small box. She opened it and poured everything out onto the ground, spilling Copper Coin everywhere.
“This is all our family’s possession, all here. If you want it, take it!” She tossed the box onto the ground.
Ai’s wife turned to look at her four children, “Mute, you actually have a name. Your mother once asked a fortune-teller in town to pick it for you, calling you Xiujie. He said you were destined for great wealth and honor, that you would be a grand lord someday. Mother has always believed that you are a good child. Mother wanted to be with you, to share in your fortune. But look at these Yuan Family people, they are like wolves and tigers, with vicious hearts. They can’t tolerate us, Mother…”
Having said this, Ai’s wife suddenly rushed toward the stone pillar under the eaves.
“Ah…”
Instantly, a scream erupted.
“Mother!”
“My child…”
“Thud!” A heavy sound.
Ai’s wife was bounced back, collapsing softly to the ground, her head split open and bleeding, her brain squirting out.
“Oh…”
She called out weakly.
“Mother!” The mute screamed heartbreakingly, rushing forward to catch his mother, “Mother…”
In fact, he was not born mute, but he lost his voice due to a fever as a child, which damaged his vocal cords.
Despite being smart and capable, he couldn’t talk but knew everything.
“Mother!”
“Mother…”
“My child!”
Ai’s wife, leaning in the mute’s arms, uttered her last instructions word by word, “Xiujie, you are my Xiujie. You see clearly, it was they who drove me to death. Never forgive them, never forgive them ever!”
After she spoke, she gasped several times in the arms of the mute and then breathed her last.
Chapter 118