Chapter 25

“Ga Yazi, why are you crying?”

Hearing her little nephew crying, Hao Chunmei hurried out of the house.

When Hao Chunmei saw Wei Fang standing at the door, she immediately became anxious.

“Wei Fang, did you bully Ga Yazi?”

When Wei Fang saw someone in the room, she was startled at first, but then she saw that it was ten-year-old Hao Chunmei and she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

“Who bullied Ga Yazi? Hao Chunmei, stop accusing others!”

Hao Chunmei walked a few steps to Gayazi, looked at her nephew who was sitting on the ground crying, and wanted to pick him up with a look of heartache.

As soon as she lowered her head, she found that the candy in Gayazi’s mouth was gone.

“Where’s the sugar?”

Hao Chunmei saw with her sharp eyes that Wei Fang’s mouth was full and her breath was sweet. She immediately concluded that Wei Fang had snatched the candy from her nephew.

Before Wei Fang had time to cover herself, Hao Chunmei threw her to the ground.

“You even dare to snatch Gayazi’s candy, I will tear your mouth apart.”

Hao Chunmei was born when Deputy Battalion Commander Hao was 38 years old. As soon as she was born, Old Hao was promoted to deputy battalion commander. Two years later, the eldest sister got married and the two brothers went out to serve in the army. Old Hao and Li Yan were left with only this precious daughter.

There were many children in the family compound, and Old Hao was afraid that his precious daughter would be bullied, so he taught Hao Chunmei many tricks in private.

Wei Fang was no match for Hao Chunmei to begin with. She was so furious that she said she wanted to tear Wei Fang’s mouth. Her two small hands were like pliers, digging into the left and right corners of Wei Fang’s mouth and tearing them apart fiercely.

“ah!!!”

Wei Fang’s miserable scream frightened Gayazi so much that he trembled and burst into tears at the top of his lungs.

Bai Hongmei, who heard the noise, walked to the door with a face full of resentment: “Why are you howling? Your grandma went to fetch water. You keep howling all day long. It’s annoying…”

After seeing her daughter being beaten, Bai Hongmei took two steps instead of three, rushed over and pulled Hao Chunmei up.

Seeing Wei Fang’s red, swollen and bleeding mouth, Bai Hongmei’s head buzzed and she subconsciously slapped Hao Hongmei in the face.

Bai Hongmei was an adult after all, and she used all her strength in anger. Hao Chunmei was knocked to the ground, her head buzzing, and she cried at the top of her lungs.

Li Yan was walking home with a bucket on her shoulder when she heard two miserable cries coming from her yard. She was so scared that she dropped her carrying pole.

“What’s the matter? What’s the matter?”

Seeing Li Yan coming back, Hao Chunmei and Gayazi cried and threw themselves into her arms.

Bai Hongmei glared at Li Yan angrily and said like a villain who was the first to complain.

“Sister-in-law, your Chunmei is too unreasonable. Look how she beat Wei Fang? Her mouth is swollen! Tell me, what should we do about this?”

Li Yan looked at Wei Fang’s red, swollen and bleeding mouth, and subconsciously concluded that it was her own daughter who bullied others.

“Chunmei, you child…”

“Mom, Bai Hongmei slapped me. My head hurts, my ears hurt, my face hurts…”

Hao Chunmei hugged her mother and cried loudly. Only then did Li Yan see the red handprint on her daughter’s face.

She scolded him rudely, “Bai Hongmei, are you crazy? Chunmei has grown up so big, and I have never hit her. It is normal for children to fight. How could you, an adult, kill her?”

Bai Hongmei didn’t feel she was in the wrong. She raised her noble head with a stubborn attitude, saying “I’m not wrong.”

“What do you mean by childish? Is your Hao Chunmei a child? She fights better than any boy. If I hadn’t stopped her, Wei Fang would have been beaten to death.”

“Hao Chunmei, let me ask you, why did you hit Wei Fang? Did you bully her because we were an orphan and a widow with no one to rely on?”

Bai Hongmei spoke one sentence after another, accusing Hao Chunmei of bullying the orphans of martyrs without asking any reasons.

Hao Chunmei was not the type to suffer defeat. She struggled out of her mother’s arms, spread out her hands and complained loudly.

“Mom, Wei Fang stole Gayazi’s candy and beat him up until he cried. I took the candy out of Wei Fang’s mouth and Bai Hongmei beat me up.”

“They eat at our house, live at our house, and beat me and Ga Yazi. Get them out! Get them out!”

Li Yan lowered her head and saw the candy with teeth marks on it in her daughter’s hand. She turned around and glared at Bai Hongmei with gritted teeth.

Bai Hongmei pursed her lips, feeling a sudden sense of panic in her heart.

“Sister-in-law, I know I was wrong. I shouldn’t have pushed Chunmei. I was just too impatient. You don’t know what happened just now. When I came out, I saw Wei Fang was beaten by Chunmei with blood all over her face.”

“I’m totally confused. Yan Da is gone. If something happens to Wei Fang, I won’t be able to survive.”

As she spoke, Bai Hongmei’s waist softened, and she sat on the ground, hugged Wei Fang and started crying: “Yanda, it’s all my fault for being useless and failing to educate the child well. Wuuuuuu, Yanda…”

Wei Fang also howled at the top of her lungs: “Dad! How could you be so cruel to abandon us? Why do others have fathers who love them, but not us?”

Seeing the mother and daughter crying in unison, Li Yan’s face became increasingly gloomy.

Here they go again. It’s been several months, and these women do this every few days.

Li Yan was furious and asked Hao Chunmei, “Where did you get the candy? Did your father secretly give you money again?”

Hao Chunmei pouted and said aggrievedly, “It was given by Uncle Shen’s bride. Her family hosted a dinner in the courtyard, and Zhang Cuilian, Wu Meili and the others all went. Mom, why didn’t you go?”

Li Yan’s face froze, and she couldn’t help but glance at Bai Hongmei guiltily. Facing Bai Hongmei’s resentful eyes, Li Yan felt relieved.

She touched Hao Chunmei’s head and asked in surprise.

“Ah, the bride gave it to you? Oh, it seems that your uncle Shen has good taste. The bride he married is both generous and virtuous.”

Li Yan helped her daughter up, holding her daughter’s hand with one hand and her grandson with the other. She ignored Bai Hongmei who was sitting on the ground and walked into the house while explaining to her daughter.

“Your Uncle Shen is on a mission today. He will treat us to a feast when he comes back.”

Hao Chunmei still didn’t understand: “Then why can Wu Meili and the others have a feast now?”

“They helped pick up the bride, so the bride treated us to a meal.”

“Uncle Shen has the best relationship with us at home, so why doesn’t he let us help pick up the bride?”

Hao Chunmei asked the key question in childish words. Li Yan smiled coldly when she heard it.

“Your Uncle Shen is a good man. He has many people to help him, so he doesn’t need us. I just need to stay at home and look after the ignorant children.”

Li Yan’s words were double entendres, which the children could not understand, but Bai Hongmei understood.

Bai Hongmei, who was sitting on the ground, had a pale face and eyes like a devil, thinking secretly in her heart.

“It turns out that they knew everything and ganged up on me. Those people helped Shen Xiao pick up his bride, leaving Li Yan to watch over me. They were just jealous that I was prettier than them, so they tried every means to stop me from being with Shen Xiao.”

“Haha, jealousy really makes people crazy. They really do whatever it takes to put me down.”

Bai Hongmei stood up from the ground, ignoring her daughter who was sitting there with her mouth torn. She turned around and went back to the house, and when she came out she had changed her clothes.

She was wearing a red woolen coat, a black turtleneck sweater underneath, and black velvet pants.

“Go inside and see Wei Hong for a while. I’ll be back soon.”

After saying this, Bai Hongmei walked out of the house wearing black high-heeled leather shoes and twisting her waist.

“Mom, please come back soon, I’m hungry!”

Bai Hongmei hurried towards Yard No. 28, as if she could not hear her daughter’s calls.

She just saw how Qiao Baozhu was dressed.

Qiao Baozhu was wearing a red sweetheart-neck sweater, so Bai Hongmei took out her bright red woolen coat; Qiao Baozhu was wearing black pants, so she wore black corduroy pants; Qiao Baozhu had her hair tied up, so she braided it into a fishbone braid; Qiao Baozhu was wearing black leather shoes, so she wore black high-heeled leather shoes.

Bai Hongmei sneered as she walked. She wanted to compete with Qiao Baozhu to see who was prettier.