Chapter 145 Stolen Life 7
Chapter 145 Stolen Life 7
The kitchen was filled with smoke. A tiny figure, not even as tall as the stove, was standing on a small stool. He was waving his arms, which were so thin that only skin and bones were left, and was struggling to stir-fry the vegetables in the pot.
Her face was pale, half of it was swollen, her big eyes were lifeless, and her tender little face was full of numbness.
Suddenly, a baby's crying sound was heard outside the house. The little girl's body trembled. She hurriedly dropped the spatula, turned off the fire, jumped off the stool and ran out the door.
But she was still a step too late. When she ran out, the baby was already in the arms of a sturdy man, who was patting his back gently and looking at her with unfriendly eyes.
The little girl shrank back and opened her mouth to defend herself, but before she could utter a word, the man raised his palm like a palm-leaf fan and slapped her on the head.
"Snapped--"
The little girl was slapped and flew away. Her small body flew more than two meters in the air and hit the wall with a bang. She almost fainted from the pain. She opened her mouth wide, unable to make a sound for a while.
"You little bitch, you can't even take care of a child. If your brother gets hurt from crying, I'll skin you alive!" Yang Wu cursed, without even looking at her. He sat down on the sofa with his son in his arms, and soon made him giggle.
Xiao Baozhu, no, now her parents have given her a very casual name, Yang Xiaocui.
Yang Xiaocui's small body slid down the wall softly. She collapsed on the ground and groaned in pain twice after a long while. Her tears could not help but fall down. After a while, a small puddle of water gathered on the ground.
At this time, He Chunhua walked in, glanced at her with disgust, curled her lips and cursed: "You are a jinx, you cry all day long. All the blessings of our family have been cried away by you, a bastard!"
She touched her bulging belly, and thinking of the results of the previous examination, she felt a little better. She told the man: "Don't be so heavy-handed next time."
Hearing her speaking for herself, Yang Xiaocui felt no ripples in her heart. Having lived in this family for four years, she had long seen through how vicious and shameless this family was, and no one would be sincere to her.
Sure enough, the next moment, she heard her biological mother's calculating voice: "In a few months, the baby in my belly will be born. This little girl is still useful to me. If she is beaten to death, we will lose a helper."
In order to avoid going to jail, He Chunhua spent a lot of time and effort to coax the man. She got pregnant again before the one-year deadline, and gave birth to a boy safely ten months later.
With her son by her side, her situation in the family finally improved. Her parents-in-law no longer looked down on her, and her husband no longer held a grudge against her for what happened before.
After straightening her back again, He Chunhua looked at Yang Xiaocui even more displeased. All her shame was brought about by this daughter!
If it wasn't for the sake of giving her a good life, how could I have come up with the idea of swapping the child in a moment of confusion?
He Chunhua forgot that it was obviously because she coveted other people's wealth and was thinking of making money from her daughter in the future that she took the risk.
She glorified herself as a good mother who only cared about her daughter, and pushed all the faults onto the child, blaming her for getting herself arrested. Although she did not go to jail, she was under constant supervision, and the police often came to her home to educate her.
Her reputation in the village is terrible. No one is willing to associate with her now. Even her family members from her mother's side dislike her. The cousin who participated in the child exchange and her family also hate her and come to make trouble from time to time.
He Chunhua hated Yang Xiaocui and tried to kill her several times, but the little thing was very clever and escaped the traps she set every time. She didn't dare to do it too obviously for fear of being caught again.
In this way, Yang Xiaocui grew up a little. Once, she was very hungry and actually climbed onto the stove to cook something to eat.
After He Chunhua found out, she beat the man severely, but she also realized the benefits of raising such a child, and she no longer had the thought of killing her, so she just did her best to use her.
From the age of two, Yang Xiaocui began to be responsible for housework, including sweeping, mopping the floor, washing clothes, cooking, raising chickens and feeding pigs...all the housework fell on her alone.
While other children can't even walk steadily and just eat and have fun all day, she is already dragging her little body around the house to do chores.
If she resisted a little, she would be beaten severely. No one in the Yang family regarded her as a relative. In their eyes, she was not even a human being, but just a flesh-and-blood tool of their family.
Every day she had to do labor that was too strenuous for her body, and she was not well fed or clothed. She was beaten to death several times. At the age of four, she was as thin as if she was only two years old, and looked like she would break if touched lightly.
Yang Xiaocui no longer blamed Xiao Shuyi for his hatred towards her in her heart. After experiencing it herself, she finally understood her feelings.
If she was maliciously replaced by someone and suffered so much, she would deeply hate the person who enjoyed the happiness in her place, even if she knew nothing about it.
It’s ridiculous that in her previous life, she thought she was making up for it by telling Xiao Shuyi that she wanted to teach her to dance and play the piano. How is this different from stabbing her in the heart?
No wonder the look in her eyes when she looked at me suddenly became so terrifying. Obviously, all these things should have belonged to her, but I took away her things and showed them off in front of her. In her eyes, wasn't that just showing off?
And those people would target her and hurt her because they felt they had been wronged.
But in fact, the one who was really wronged was Xiao Shuyi, she should be resentful and hated.
I should have cut off contact with my parents and brother in time and stayed away from her instead of constantly reminding her of her past shameful experiences, intentionally or unintentionally.
Xiao Shuyi died so tragically, and she was at least 80% responsible. My parents and brother finally came to their senses, right? That's why they firmly drew a line between themselves and her.
Both they and she did wrong, which is why they suffered retribution. They fell into the hands of the Yang family and lived a life worse than death, while they... lost their loved ones forever and will spend their whole lives in regret.
Yang Xiaocui took a long time to relax before she struggled to stand up and sat against the wall, watching a man and a woman teasing the baby in their arms, her eyes filled with strong hatred.
It was this family that caused the suffering for her, Xiao Shuyi, as well as their parents and brothers in two lifetimes. Why didn't they punish such selfish and vicious people?
People like this don't deserve to live, can they be called human beings?
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