Chapter 97: A violent father, a cowardly mother, a weak me and a broken home
The original owner's father was a domestic violence man who had three hobbies: smoking, drinking, and beating women.
In the original owner's memory, her mother was often beaten by her father. Every time her mother was beaten all over, he would hug her and cry for a long time.
As she grew up, her mother cried about her difficulties while enduring beatings from her father. The original owner thought that as long as she grew up, her mother would no longer care about her, divorce her and leave the family.
But she didn't.
It’s not that the original owner didn’t protect her mother behind her, but in the end, both mother and daughter were beaten more severely by their father. The original owner received as many beatings as her mother received.
When the original owner reached adulthood, he could no longer bear it and advised his mother to divorce him. His mother said, "Although your father beats me, he is a family man. Besides, there is no man in the world who doesn't beat women."
The original owner thought her mother had been beaten stupid and wanted to persuade her again, but what she didn't expect was that her mother actually told her father that the original owner had instigated her to divorce.
The father rushed into the original owner's room and beat him to death.
"Mom, save me!"
The original author pleaded desperately, but she did not wait for her mother's rescue. Instead, she read an expression of gloating and satisfaction in her mother's eyes.
After the original owner died, it was his mother who dealt with the body. She dug a big pit on the back mountain and threw the original owner into it.
"You caused me to get beaten when I was alive, and now you make me dig a hole for you after I die. I really owe you."
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"Shanshan, mommy did all this for you. You must remember mommy's kindness when you grow up."
A woman with a bruised face and nose gently stroked Zhang Shan's face. Zhang Shan's throat tightened and she felt like crying. This was the emotion that the original owner had when she left.
"Good girl, mom~"
She is only three years old now, what can she do? She can only be obedient and comfort her mother.
Zhang's mother felt that Zhang Shan was too young and did not understand her sacrifice at all, and she felt a little discouraged.
After crying for a while, she comforted herself.
But heartbroken by being beaten by her husband again, Zhang's mother limped into the kitchen, wiping her tears while cooking. When Zhang's father came back, she had already prepared a dish and a soup.
"Boss, I made fried leek eggs and vegetable soup today. Eat more."
Zhang Shan stood beside the dining table. She was not even as tall as the table and was drooling at a bowl of eggs.
She stood on a stool and stretched out her spoon to the only meat dish on the table. Before she could even beat the egg, Zhang's mother slapped her on the back of her hand with a chopstick.
"Shanshan, that's for dad to eat. We can just eat the vegetables."
Zhang Shan swung the spoon, knocking the entire plate of eggs to the ground, and then cried loudly.
"Wow wow wow..."
Mr. Zhang was already annoyed, and when he saw the eggs spilled, he became even angrier.
When Zhang Shan was crying, she deliberately sat on the ground, moving her little butt around and hiding under the table.
When Zhang's father beats someone, he naturally chooses the one he is most comfortable with.
Therefore, Zhang's mother, the instigator, was used as a punching bag by Zhang's father.
"Bitch, I work so hard outside to make money, but when I get home I can't even have a safe meal, do you want to rebel?"
"Boss, I don't have..."
Zhang's father didn't listen to Zhang's mother's excuses. Beating her with his hands was not enough for him, so he picked up the broom at hand and hit her.
The couple was fighting fiercely. Zhang Shan stopped crying, picked up her small bowl and spoon from the table, and ate while watching the fight under the table.
Sometimes she felt that every beating she received from Zhang's mother was not in vain.
After eating and drinking, she fled the battlefield and went out to find her friends.
She is not even four years old yet, and Zhang Shan feels that eating only vegetables and rice cannot meet the nutritional needs of the body.
She could only drool at the roadside snack stalls. Zhang's mother would not give her any pocket money, so her four pockets were empty.
"Little boy, do you want to eat?"
A woman selling grilled sausages asked gently and lovingly.
Zhang Shan nodded, and the smile on the woman's face became more genuine.
Wherever Zhang Shan's eyes went, the woman's hands reached out, basically sweeping over everything on her stall. When the things were almost baked, Zhang Shan moved to another stall.
The woman waved to Zhang Shan, "Little boy, your barbecue!"
Zhang Shan showed a confused look, "Auntie, are you going to give it to me to eat?"
"You can sit here and eat, and your parents can pay the bill later."
"Oh, so it wasn't given to me to eat. I don't have any money, and neither do my parents."
Zhang Shan seemed to have thought of something and shuddered, revealing the red marks on the back of her arm, which were caused by Zhang's mother hitting her with chopsticks this morning.
The woman at the next stall couldn't stand it anymore. "Chen Hongmei, do you have any shame? The kid never said he wanted to buy your lousy grilled sausages, did he? You grilled so many for him, don't you feel guilty about making this money?"
Chen Hongmei did make a lot of money using this trick. She used her kind and friendly face to lure children to her stall and fried a lot of skewers for them. The children could not resist her enthusiasm and reached out to take the food.
They thought the skewers were free, but after they finished eating, Chen Hongmei asked them to pay.
No money?
Then let their parents pay.
In this way, Chen Hongmei cheated the children. She made money, but the children were beaten up by their parents.
They learned their lesson and stayed away from Chen Hongmei's stall, which affected her business as well.
"Little boy, come to your auntie. If you see someone with bad intentions in the future, stay away from them!"
Chen Hongmei was not convinced, "Why doesn't she want to eat? I just asked her if she wanted to eat."
"What does such a young child know? You fried so much for her, can she eat it?" The woman looked angry when she saw the chili sauce that Chen Hongmei had brushed on her.
"I don't care. I've already passed the exam. She has to buy the bill whether she wants to or not." Chen Hongmei said shamelessly.
Chen Hongmei grabbed Zhang Shan's hand, right where she was injured, and Zhang Shan immediately burst into tears.
"Mom and Dad... Shanshan is in pain. The bad aunt hit Shanshan..."
The child can't lie, she can only talk nonsense.
Passersby gathered and pointed at Chen Hongmei.
"I know this woman. She has been setting up a stall here and forcing people to buy and sell things. This girl must have been blackmailed by her."
Someone has already called the police. Their child was deceived by this woman and now feels that the world is no longer a good place.
After the police arrived and learned about the situation, they criticized Chen Hongmei. Zhang Shan was hugged by a passerby, who was the person who called the police.
"Her grilled sausage looks dirty. I don't want to eat it. It makes my stomach hurt."
The passerby quickly grasped the key point and called the market supervision department to complain. Her son also ate her barbecue and had a stomachache so severe that he was hospitalized. Why didn't she notice it at the time?
As soon as the police left, the market supervision department came and took samples from Chen Hongmei's stall with bags.
"Boss, these things of mine are not expired and are absolutely hygienic."
Chen Hongmei's voice was trembling and cold sweat was running down her back. She felt that she was doomed. She must not have checked the calendar before going out today. Why was she so unlucky?
"We will know whether it is sanitary or not after we check it out."
Then, take samples from other stalls as well.
The excitement soon ended, and the kind passerby even bought a hamburger for Zhang Shan.
Zhang Shan went home only after she finished eating.
Her house was only a short distance away, so we got home quickly.
As soon as I entered the door, I heard Zhang's mother crying.
When he saw Zhang Shan coming in, he became even more furious.
"How dare you, an ungrateful wolf, come back?"
She was still upset about being beaten today. If this little girl wasn't a liar, would she have been beaten?
Zhang's mother wanted to teach Zhang Shan a lesson in revenge, but when she saw Zhang's father coming back, she immediately put away her ferocious expression, smiled and asked, "Boss, are you hungry? The food will be ready soon."
Father Zhang sat on a chair, kicked off his shoes, and stepped on the ground with his sweaty and smelly feet. Zhang Shan thought it would be better not to eat dinner today.
She quickly returned to her room and locked the door.
Fortunately, Zhang's mother planned to have a second child, and separated Zhang Shan from her early on, giving her a room of her own. Otherwise, she would have to endure those two noisy father-in-law and mother-in-law at night, which was really unbearable.
In the evening, Zhang Shan did not come out to finish her meal, and her two parents ignored her.
At night, Zhang Shan was hungry again. She only ate a hamburger in the afternoon, which she had digested by the evening.
Zhang Shan sneaked out, boiled two eggs for herself, cleaned up the battlefield, and went back to her room to rest.
The next day, Zhang's mother found that two eggs were missing. "Shanshan, did you get up last night and secretly cook eggs?"
Mother Zhang's face looked very unhappy. All the eggs in the house were eaten by her husband. She would secretly add more food to herself from time to time. She had planned the eggs in advance and would fry one for her husband every few days and leave two for herself.
"Mom? Eggs?"
Zhang Shan drooled as she looked at the egg in her hand.
"You little bitch, why are you so greedy?" Zhang's mother reached out to hit Zhang Shan. Zhang Shan was frightened and burst into tears, attracting the neighbors passing by to crane their heads to look.
They had been listening at the door for some time.
"Sister-in-law, Shanshan is so small, she is not even as tall as the stove, how can she cook eggs for herself in the dark? This is too outrageous!"
"That's right, maybe you remembered it wrongly."
Everyone blamed Zhang's mother, and Zhang's mother was embarrassed, "Maybe I remembered it wrong, Shanshan, hurry up and go to school!"
The kindergarten is close to home, so the original owner has always gone to and from school by himself.
The school teacher also reminded Zhang's mother to pick up the child in person, but Zhang's mother refused to go, saying that it was necessary to train the child to be independent from an early age.
The teachers and neighbors were speechless. The child was still so young, they were worried, so they asked an aunt from the same community to take her to and from school.
But Zhang's mother was very dissatisfied and felt that the neighbor aunt was interfering with her child education. The two had a big quarrel and finally parted unhappily. After that, no one took care of Zhang Shan.
Zhang Shan went to school, and her mother cleaned the house and prepared lunch.
At noon, Zhang's mother couldn't help but complain to Zhang's father, "Shanshan, eat more, or you'll be hungry again in the afternoon. You're at school, it's not as convenient as at home, where you can cook eggs for yourself, but there are no eggs for you at school."
"Mom, I didn't eat the eggs? Auntie said I was too small to cook them or they would explode."
Zhang Shan looked at Zhang's mother with red eyes, and Zhang's mother felt a surge of anger.
You little vixen, you're pretending to be pitiful at such a young age.
"What explosion?"
When Mr. Zhang heard about the explosion, he was shocked.
"Mom said I got up at night to boil eggs, but I didn't!"
Then, Zhang Shan shed tears again.
Before Zhang's father got angry, Zhang's mother couldn't stand it anymore. "If there's nothing, then there's nothing. Why are you crying?"
This was the first time that Zhang's mother got angry at the dinner table, and in front of Zhang's father. Zhang's father's face darkened, "Bitch, who are you showing off to?"
Then, Zhang's mother was beaten again.
Since Zhang Shan came, the frequency of Zhang's mother being beaten has increased. She used to be beaten every three days, but now she is beaten every day without missing a meal.