Chapter 17

As soon as Su Ying entered the house, Hongye followed her home. Even though she had bound feet and was using a cane, she walked quite fast.

As soon as Hongye came in, she started to scold, “Tian Cuifen, you should at least take care of Su Ying. She hasn’t even married yet and she’s already been flirting with a wild man. If this gets out, the villagers will definitely laugh at her.

You have a foxy face, but you still don’t know how to behave yourself. Next time I see you flirting with others, I’ll break your legs.”

Su Ying pursed her lips, turned her back to Hongye, rolled her eyes and stuck out her tongue.

She is old, but she still takes advantage of her age. Since she was a child, she would either scold or pinch her whenever she saw her. If she wasn’t old, she would have wanted to snatch the cane from her hand, break it, and put it in the stove to burn it clean.

Su Ying sat down on the steps beside her, stretched out her legs, and patted her legs.

“Come on, come on, hit me hard here, it would be better if I break my leg. I have worked like a slave for you for more than ten years, earned a lot of work points, but I have not had enough to eat or clothes to wear. I wish you could beat me to a pulp so that someone can take care of my shit and urine.”

Seeing that this vixen dared to talk back to her, Hongye said viciously, “When you are really disabled, I will throw you into the backyard and bury you alive.

What do I need you for, a money-loser? If I had known you would be disobedient when you grew up, I would have just thrown you to the dogs as soon as you were born, so as to save you from causing trouble for others.”

These words made Su Ying feel very uncomfortable. The life of rural women these days is really miserable. If they don’t marry well, they will be scolded for the rest of their lives even after they die.

Look at the character of this family. No matter what, we must escape from their clutches.

“You are old and can’t do anything. Why don’t you let your son bury you first?”

What a bad karma!

Hongye was so angry that he staggered forward a few steps, raised his cane and was about to hit Suying. Suying quickly got up and dodged, ran to the gate of the yard and shouted: “Help, help, my grandma is going to kill me.”

Hongye was so angry after hearing this shout that she almost couldn’t stand.

Oh my, what a misfortune for the family, what a misfortune for the family. They gave birth to a shrew in the Su family.

The villagers often said that their family was abusing the little vixen. If passers-by saw it, they would definitely talk about them again.

When did this money-losing guy become a different person?

Hongye couldn’t catch up with him, nor could he hit him. After chasing for a long time, he was out of breath.

She paused for a long time before admonishing Tian Cuifen: “Look after her from now on. If you can’t take good care of her, it will be your fault.”

Tian Cuifen rolled her eyes, pretended she saw nothing, and snorted coldly.

She also wished the old woman would die sooner.

When she first got married, she was tortured by this old woman. Fortunately, she gave birth to a son, otherwise she would not have had a good life.

The good thing is that this old woman is always loyal to her youngest son and now lives with him.

Hongye cursed and left after she caught her breath.

Su Ying frowned. No matter what, she had to leave here as soon as possible.

*

After Lu Dongsheng returned to the commune on his bicycle, he did not go home but went directly to the supply and marketing cooperative.

As soon as he entered, he looked around, saw the vanishing cream in the glass cabinet, and walked straight over.

The salesperson was so stunned by his upright, tall and mighty appearance that her eyes widened. It was only when a colleague next to her saw stars in her eyes and nudged her lightly with his elbow that she came to her senses and stopped looking up at him.

“Hello comrade, what do you want to buy?”

“My hands are frozen and cracked. What should I apply to them?”

The salesperson was thinking of waiting for him to finish shopping and then asking him if he had a girlfriend, but after hearing what he said, she probably had no chance.

But she still plucked up the courage to ask: “Comrade, are you buying this for your partner?”

“Buy it for my wife.”

There was a flash of disappointment in the salesperson’s eyes. Which girl from a good family is so lucky?

This man is very pleasing to the eyes. I don’t know what his family conditions are like, but he looks noble all over. You can tell at a glance that he is blessed.

It’s a pity that such a good man doesn’t belong to me.

Alas, I missed it after all.

In a short moment, the salesperson almost imagined a tragic story in his mind.

“That should be frostbite. If it is frostbite, you should apply snake oil ointment first. This snake oil ointment is very effective. One bottle is enough.”

Lu Dongsheng glanced at the items on the counter and said, “Then I’ll give you two bottles of snake oil cream and two bottles of vanishing cream.”

“Okay, a bottle of snake oil is eighty cents, and a box of vanishing cream is one dollar, a total of three dollars and sixty cents.”

Lu Dongsheng nodded, paid the money, took the things, and turned to go to the clothing area.

He fell in love with a red and white plaid jacket at first sight, and when he thought of the jacket she always wore, Lu Dongsheng felt uncomfortable.

He said, “Comrade, my wife is so tall and she is very thin. What size of this dress will fit her?”

Lu Dongsheng measured Su Ying’s height on his chest. In the clothing section was a woman in her thirties. She looked at Lu Dongsheng and said with a smile, “Young man, you have good taste. This dress is new from Hai City. According to your measurement, your wife can wear the smallest size.”

“If it’s too small, can I change it?”

“OK.”

“Then please pack it for me, I want the yellow, white and black plaid one, and also get me two pairs of pants.”

Seeing that he was not stingy with his money and seemed to be in good condition, the saleswoman smiled and said, “Young man, you have to think carefully. The things in the store can be exchanged but not returned. You bought so much at one time, it will cost more than twenty yuan.”

“No, just wrap it up for me.”

The salesperson smiled and said, “The coat is eight dollars, and the pants are five dollars, a total of twenty-six dollars.”

Lu Dongsheng didn’t even blink, his eyes fell on the nutritional supplements, and after thinking about it, he decided to give up.

Just like her stepmother, she may not be able to eat the food she brings back.

What Lu Dongsheng didn’t know was that the matchmaker went to his house first when she came back in the afternoon. Zhao Yulan already knew what kind of person Tian Cuifen was.

As soon as Lu Dongsheng walked in, Zhao Yulan’s face turned gloomy.

“Why did you just come back?”

Noticing that his mother was in a bad mood, Lu Dongsheng smiled and said, “Mom, who has offended you again? Why are you so angry?”

“You are really pretending to be ignorant, isn’t it because of you? The matchmaker told me that she didn’t see the girl you want to marry today, but she saw her mother with her own eyes. She is rude and has no manners. She likes to take advantage of others and looks like she has never seen the world. A child raised by such a woman will not be suitable for life even if you marry her.

Dongsheng, can you please listen to me? I think this is really unreliable. Let’s forget about it while it’s still early.”

“Mom, that’s her stepmother. She’s really different from her stepmother.”

When Zhao Yulan heard that it was Su Ying’s stepmother, she felt a little uncomfortable as she was also a mother.