EBE Chapter 321 She and Xiaohua can’t stand it any longer
Chapter 321 She and Xiaohua can’t stand it any longer
When Mrs. Sun saw that her son was about to be beaten to death, Zhou Rong did not stop and repeatedly assured her that they would leave immediately and would never come to steal food again.
The other victims were also stunned by Zhou Rong's violent appearance and took a few steps back.
Zhou Rong stopped only after getting a guarantee from Mrs. Sun, and asked the militia to supervise the departure of all the victims. Anyone who dared to stay would be beaten to death.
In this production team, even the women are so powerful, the men must be even more brutal.
Everyone cherished their lives, and after receiving Zhou Rong's warning, they ran away without looking back...
Unable to get food from Zhoujiawan, the victims moved to other production teams in Shengli Brigade.
If they don't steal food from the villagers' homes, no one will attack them, but will just drive them away. If they dare to steal, they will be beaten.
Everyone’s family is short of food and they can’t even get enough to eat, so how can they have the energy to be kind?
If the food in one's home is stolen, it means the whole family will have to starve, and someone might even die.
No one is willing to give alms to the victims.
The victims encountered setbacks everywhere and had no food to eat, so they gathered together with their rumbling stomachs to discuss countermeasures.
Some people suggested going to the county town or provincial capital, while others said they should visit other production teams, perhaps meeting kind villagers who would give them some food.
Mrs. Sun really didn't have the strength to walk. She glanced at her daughter-in-law Zheng Lan, who was holding her child and huddled at the back of the crowd, and came up with an idea.
After she whispered a few words to Hu Bing, Hu Bing pulled Zheng Lan aside and said in a low voice, "Mom said she is not feeling well and can't stand it any longer. She loves you the most. Now she is in trouble. It's time for you to repay her."
Zheng Lan glanced at Hu Bing, who looked fierce, and subconsciously hugged the child tightly, and asked timidly: "How do you want me to repay her?"
Hu Bing: "You and Xiaohua look so pitiful, it's easy for people to sympathize with you. You carry her to beg for food, and then bring her back to me and my mother.
I will follow you secretly, and if you dare to play tricks, I will beat you to death!"
Zheng Lan: "We have visited all the production teams nearby, and everyone is short of food. No one is willing to give us food. Let's take Mom to the county or provincial capital."
Hu Bing: "You have seen the farmland in Shengli Brigade. The yield per mu is at least 300 catties. With so much millet, if each family gives us one catty, we will no longer have to go hungry. We can bring food back to our hometown, live a peaceful life, and have more sons.
I promise you that if you can get some food, I won’t beat you anymore and will treat you and Xiaohua well.
If you don't obey me, I will sell you and cook Xiaohua to keep me alive."
Zheng Lan was so angry that her teeth were chattering. She said angrily: "Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. Xiaohua is your biological daughter. She is only three years old. How could you treat her like this?
In order to avoid starvation, you and mom have robbed Xiaohua and me of our food many times. She is so thin now that only bones and skin are left. She doesn't even have the strength to speak. I don't know how long she can hold on.
You guys are not planning to let her go? How can there be such cruel people like you in the world? ! "
Hu Bing grabbed Zheng Lan's hair fiercely and said fiercely: "I haven't beaten you for a few days, and you're itching for trouble? How dare you talk back to me?
When your younger brother was getting married, your family had no money and the harvest was poor. If I hadn't spent 30 yuan and 100 kilograms of millet to marry you, your parents would have sold you into the mountains long ago, and you might have starved to death or been beaten to death.
You were not a good conceiver. You followed me for several years, but you only gave birth to a money-losing baby. I didn't drive you away. I even provided you and your daughter with good food and drink.
Now my mother and I are starving to death, and we asked you and your daughter to beg for food to repay our kindness. You are not grateful, but are still nagging here. Do you think your life is too long? ! "
Zheng Lan closed her eyes in pain and said with no desire to live: "Okay, I'll go beg for food."
Hu Bing patted Zheng Lan's skinny cheek and said with a sly smile, "That's right. I'm your man and your heaven. You must obey me. When we get through this difficult time, I won't treat you unfairly."
Zheng Lan did not respond. She held the skinny Hu Xiaohua in her arms and walked silently on the country dirt road.
Life is so tiring and painful!
Because she was a daughter, her parents never liked her since she was young. Almost all the housework fell on her and her sisters. When they grew old enough, they were sold like goods to earn money for their younger brother's marriage.
After marrying into the Hu family, I thought that if I worked hard, I could get by.
Unexpectedly, Hu Bing had a cruel temper and either beat or scolded her. Her mother-in-law also made things difficult for her, especially after she gave birth to her daughter Xiaohua, she scolded her every day for being useless and unable to give birth to a son.
She was incompetent and her child suffered as a result. He was often beaten and scolded at a very young age. The village had suffered from disasters in the past two years and the harvested grain was not enough to eat. This year, there was no harvest at all due to heavy floods.
The production team’s public canteen had been closed, and almost all the wild vegetables she dug and the food she begged for went into the stomachs of Hu Bing and Mrs. Sun.
She and Xiaohua could hardly bear it any longer.
These beasts actually want to eat her child? !
Zheng Lan walked on the road with a dazed look in her eyes. She wanted to cry, but she couldn't. It was as if her body had lost the ability to cry.
She remembered that there was a pond nearby, and the water level seemed deeper than the ponds in other production teams. She decided to end everything there...
Zheng Lan carried Hu Xiaohua to the large pond in front of Zhoujiawan Village. Seeing that there was no one nearby, she dived in without hesitation...
It is now the time to harvest the early rice. Zhou Chuanan is worried that the victims will steal food when no one is paying attention, so he takes a team of militia members to patrol the village entrance.
When Zheng Lan appeared holding the child, he saw her from afar. Just as he was about to scold her to leave, he discovered that Zheng Lan had jumped into the water.
As someone was killed, it was bad for the village's reputation, so Zhou Chuanan quickly asked the militia to go into the water to rescue the person.
Zheng Lan and Hu Xiaohua were already unconscious after being rescued to shore.
The children in Zhoujiawan all like to play in the water, and everyone knows a little about how to rescue someone after drowning.
Zhou Chuan'an and a member of the militia first cleared the foreign objects in the mouths and noses of Zheng Lan and Hu Xiaohua, then held up their waists, made them face up with their backs and heads down, poured water on them, pressed their chests and pinched their Ren Zhong points.
After a while, Zheng Lan and Hu Xiaohua spat out a few mouthfuls of water and resumed breathing.
But Hu Xiaohua's breath was very weak, so Zhou Chuanan asked Zheng Lan to take the child to the health center to see a doctor.
Zheng Lan smiled bitterly and said, "We don't have money to go to the clinic, why would you save us? If we die, it will be over and done with, and we won't have to suffer anymore."
Zhou Chuan'an: "If you want to die, we won't stop you, but you inexplicably dived into our Zhoujiawan pond. What does that mean? Are you trying to blackmail us? Or do you want to turn into a female ghost to scare us?"
Zheng Lan: “…”