Chapter 1145 Stepfather 56
His eldest brother and sister-in-law, who had always been resentful of his living off the family, started clamoring to divide the family property. They didn't want to work hard to earn food and then have to support a disabled brother for nothing.
Wang's father and mother had no choice but to separate Wang Mazi and let him live on his own. They gave him the two thatched huts in the old house, gave him thirty kilograms of food, and a set of luggage for him to build, and then he was kicked out.
Wang Mazi had disabled legs and could not get out of bed. At first, Wang's mother would take time out every day to cook a meal for him and take care of him.
But in the blink of an eye, it was autumn harvest time and everyone had to go to the fields to work. Wang's father and mother, who were already old, were also assigned to work in the elderly team.
At the end of the day, the two old people were so tired that they could hardly lift their legs, and they were not as attentive in taking care of their youngest son. Sometimes they didn’t even cook for him for the whole day.
Wang Mazi was so hungry that he climbed down from the kang and went to the stove to cook himself some porridge.
His tibia was shattered, but his knee was still intact. He could crawl on the ground without any problem, and could even cook a meal while crawling. So when the Queen Mother remembered her son and hurried to the old house to see him, she saw him kneeling on the ground, leaning against the stove, drinking porridge.
Seeing that her youngest son could take care of himself and would not starve to death, the Queen Mother never came again.
Because Wang Mazi's wound was not well taken care of, it became infected. When the brigade finished its autumn harvest, Wang Mazi fell acutely ill and had a high fever that wouldn't go away.
Wang's father and mother wanted to send him to the hospital, but Wang Mazi's sister-in-law stopped them and said, "Dad, Mom, if you want to send him to the hospital, I won't stop you, but you can't spend my money to save him."
"Dad, Mom, don't blame me for being heartless and ungrateful. It's just that my brother-in-law is too lazy and greedy. Since I entered your Wang family, I have never seen my brother-in-law working in the fields to earn work points."
"Now that you are sick and have no money, you want to spend my money. I don't agree."
Wang Mazi's sister-in-law looked at her father-in-law and mother-in-law with suspicion, "Dad, Mom, it's not easy for me to earn these little cents. Why should I spend the money I worked so hard to earn on my brother-in-law?"
"If you want to secretly spend my money on my brother-in-law, then mom, you just need to return the money my husband and I have earned over the years to me, and I will keep it myself."
"Let mom take care of it. I'm exhausted after so many days. How can I have the energy to send the third child to the county town? I just came to see the third child. Since he is fine, I will go back."
The Queen Mother turned around and went home.
The Queen Mother did not want to lose control of the family property, so she had to give up the idea of sending her youngest son to the hospital.
The Wang family members didn't care about Wang Mazi, and the villagers cared even less about him. A few days later, Wang Mazi died in great pain.
Three days after he died, the neighbors next door smelled a foul odor and realized that Wang Mazi had been dead for a long time and his body had already started to stink.
Wang's father and mother cried very sadly and were heartbroken, but when Wang Mazi was buried, his body was just wrapped in his own rags. The Wang family was not even willing to buy a thin coffin.
Yuanchun stood on the top of the mountain, watching Wang Mazi's funeral procession, with the corners of her lips raised.
The last ruffian and street scoundrel in the village is dead. The villagers’ chickens will no longer disappear for no reason, and the sweet potatoes and potatoes in their private plots will no longer be lost.
After the autumn harvest, there was no work to do in the fields, so the villagers ran to the back mountain every day in a hurry, and everyone was racing against time to pick dried fruits.
Yuanchun didn't want anyone to know that she was going to the mountains to pick nuts, so she would deliberately avoid the villagers and quietly go into the mountains and forests.