Chapter 4 Misconduct
Granny Li settled the mother, and gently touched the black hair on the top of the baby's head wrapped in rags with her old wrinkled hands. The baby's cute eyes seemed to be smiling at her.
He said: "My little boy, you are a blessing. I hope you can bring a younger brother."
Then she asked Daya to take care of her mother and sister, left the room, and walked out silently. She was too disappointed with these people in her heart.
"Aunt Li, my wife..."
Granny Li stopped and looked at Acer intently. This man still had some conscience.
"Ms. Li, don't leave. The people inside are dead, and it was you who caused them to die."
Lai chased Li out of the kitchen and stopped him.
"Uncle..." Grandma Li looked reproachfully, looking at Acer's father who still had time to do carpentry in the thatched shed. Such a big thing happened at home, but he still had time to do work.
"Brother and sister, you shouldn't be meddling in my family's affairs. If you are, you must take responsibility..." Acer's father paused while working and said this without raising his head.
"The old man is right, don't come out of this door." Lai's triangular eyes stared with a gloomy face, his little nose turned upward in a snort, and his cold thin lips pursed fiercely.
"Lai, you won't let me go because you want to treat me to red eggs? You can eat red eggs even after you give birth to a girl! Or are you just hoping that your daughter-in-law will die? Why don't you go in and have a look? Be nice.
Are you told to say he is dead?"
Granny Li looked at this family with disdain. As a neighbor, she could not stand their mistreatment of Mrs. Li.
People in the village have been gossiping for a long time. It's just that Li's fate is not good, and he always gives birth to girls. He can't help himself, and others can't help him even if they want to.
"My wife is not dead?" Acer ran into the room happily regardless of the blood inside.
"Madam..."
Mrs. Li fell asleep quietly there. The baby that Daya held next to her was staring with round eyes. She looked cutely at the cheap daddy whom she met for the first time. He was a tall and handsome man wearing a sleeveless undershirt.
, a pair of trousers wide to the knees, a pair of old cloth shoes, and her long hair tied with a cloth scarf.
"Mom is asleep"
Hearing Da Ya's voice, Acer touched Da Ya's head, sighed softly, and said, "My dear, please take good care of your mother."
"Dad, I'm hungry..."
The three girls who followed outside, and Da Ya looked at their father with their ignorant eyes open, full of hope.
"Dad, I'm going to find you something to eat." For the first time, Acer felt ashamed of his wife and daughter, so he went out and grabbed a wild egg and a large bowl of millet porridge from Lai's Food Guard.
The obedient dolls in the room saw the millet porridge and eggs, divided some of the millet porridge, and obediently left the eggs for Mrs. Li.
Acer fed the newborn baby some rice soup.
Li woke up from a nightmare with sweat on her face and thought she was dead. When she opened her eyes, she saw four girls and a newborn baby in her arms.
"Mom, are you awake? Are you hungry? Dad and we left wild eggs for you." Da Ya swallowed hard as she spoke, while the other three smaller children were staring at the wild eggs.
Mrs. Li was stunned for a moment, when did her husband protect her like this?
"I'll share the eggs with you. Mom will eat millet porridge."
"No, these are the eggs my mother needs to replenish her health. We can't eat them." Da Ya said this, and her three sisters nodded obediently, but stared at the eggs and swallowed their saliva.
Mrs. Li insisted on giving each doll a little wild egg, and then ate the remaining eggs.
In the evening, Mrs. Lai came back from her eldest daughter's place. Seeing that there was no movement in the kitchen, she angrily stared at Mr. Li's room and jumped up and cursed:
"Okay, you Mr. Li, do you still want to enjoy happiness after giving birth to a loser? If you want me to cook for you, bah..."
As Lai cursed loudly, her two daughters looked out from the crack in the window and chose to watch the play in silence.
After Mrs. Li ate millet porridge, she lay on the bed and took care of her baby. Mrs. Lai sent Daya out to pour vegetables, plow the ground, pull weeds in their two-acre rice field, and carry water to the rice field in the reclaimed land.
water.
Mrs. Li was scolded by Mrs. Lai outside, and she put the baby on the bed in a panic. She had just given birth to a baby and wrapped her head in a cloth, enduring the pain and getting out of bed.
"Mom, my mother just gave birth to a baby, please cook me another meal!" Acer stopped doing carpentry and begged his mother hard. At this moment, the man hated himself for not knowing how to cook.
"What... I can't give birth to a child, and you still want me to serve her. It's a good idea..." Mr. Lai glared at his son with hatred. Today, his son was too disobedient and always spoke for Ms. Li.
"Grandma, don't scold my mother, I'll cook." Daya went to work in the fields all afternoon, worried about her mother at home, and came back tired and dirty. As expected, she heard grandma's scolding as she entered the courtyard.
"Hmph, hurry up and wash your hands and cook." Lai glared at the patched, ill-fitting coarse cloth top and short, dirty pants that reached her knees, with a look of disgust on her dirty face.
The baby wrapped in rags began to receive milk, eat, sleep, and sleep. Soon, when she woke up the next day, she found that her mother was not beside her. There were three little sisters beside her to accompany her. The eldest sister was not here.
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"ah"
"Sister, do you want to poop or pee? Sister, help you." Five-year-old Erya took on the responsibility of taking care of her sister. Her mother was forced by her grandma to go up the mountain to collect firewood, while her eldest sister went to collect pigweed.
Tang Shiqi sighed in her heart that such a small baby was burdened with a heavy responsibility, and it obediently solved the problem of physical hygiene with Erya's help.
I'm so hungry. Why hasn't my mother come back yet?
"Second sister, fifth sister is so good"
"Fifth sister is so good"
Listening to the other two sisters praising the fifth sister, Erya showed an innocent smile, touched the two sisters' heads with her little hands and said: "Fifth sister is good, you should also be good."
"Uh-huh"
"Hahahahaha"
Erya and her two younger sisters laughed. The children's laughter made Father Hongji, who was doing carpentry in the yard, frown in annoyance.
However, Acer smiled a little as his daughters laughed. The girl was also his bone marrow.
"What's the fuss about?"
"Be quiet"
The three girls in the room heard the fierce voices of the two aunts in the next room. They shrank their necks in fear, and the room became quiet.
Tang Shiqi woke up and saw that it was daytime. The baby didn't know the time and ate and slept day and night. Her mother was at home today. When she woke up, she peeed and breastfed her.
"Look, this child is quite good, but he was born with the wrong appearance! It's a pity for a boy. Your daughter must take good care of her. These sensible granddaughters will bring you blessings in the future."
Tang Shiqi paused at the sucking mouth, heard a strange voice, and learned from her words that this was her grandmother.
"Mom, I know, but I can hardly bear it anymore when I keep giving birth to girls." Mrs. Li secretly wiped her tears while speaking in front of her mother.
"We have to hold on even if we can't hold on. Who makes us women? Don't cry all the time when you just gave birth to a baby. People always have to look forward. Life will get better in the future."
Chapter completed!