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Chapter 54
Chapter 54
Chapter 54
"Elder Sister, why are you here alone?" Xiao Qiao walked over and asked.
Da Qiao looked back and saw Younger Sister walking towards her. She softly replied, "I'm waiting for my elder cousins to go home together."
She eyed Younger Sister as she spoke.
In the past, she thought that Younger Sister was very pretty. Fair skin and big round eyes. When she wasn't smiling, she appeared well-behaved. When she smiled, it made people feel that she was very sweet.
But now, that feeling seem to be gone.
Younger Sister was wearing old clothes from last year. The clothes weren't clean. It can even considered to be dirty. Especially the cuffs, which were dark and hadn't been washed for a long time.
Her face was no longer as rosy and tender as before. Instead, it was a little sallow. And there were actually dark circles under her eyes!
What happened to Younger Sister?
Xiao Qiao was certainly not living well!
Not only did she have to attend school now, but every morning before dawn, she had to get up to make breakfast, sweep the floor, and feed the chickens. If she didn't do this, she can only go to school hungry.
After returning from school, she still had no time off. She must continue to do housework. If she didn't do it, she could only wait to be scolded!
Her mom said, if she didn't do housework, then don't go to school. Anyway, girls didn't need to read so many books. Sooner or later they will get married!
She almost exploded when she heard it!
She couldn't understand. Her mom used to treasure her, 'the child prodigy'. But now, even if she took the initiative to bring it up, her mom wouldn't take it seriously!
Xiao Qiao didn't understand that child prodigy was just the icing on the cake. In the age when one can't get enough to eat, a child prodigy was just like a fart and can't play any role especially when it came to self interest!
Unfortunately she didn't understand this.
In her last life, when Xiao Qiao transmigrated over, she was only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old junior high school student. Although she lived to be in her thirties, she had been 'confined' in that fool's body for more than ten years. So whether it was her IQ or emotional intelligence, she didn't make any progress at all.
On the contrary, because she couldn't communicate with anyone for more than ten years and she often had to face the fact that she was getting ridiculed by others. Her personality and psychology had already been distorted.
"Elder Sister, we haven't been together for a long time. Will you go back with me today?"
At this moment, Xiao Qiao looked at Da Qiao, who had red lips and white teeth and was dressed in new clothes. Her eyes were red with envy. Still, she had to try her best to pretend to be a close sister.
Da Qiao glanced at her and shook her head without hesitation: "No, I made arrangement with my cousins. If they don't see me, they will definitely be anxious!"
Though Xiao Qiao gritted her teeth in anger, she spoke with a smile on her face: "There are a lot of wild fruits growing on the back mountain. While elder cousins haven't come back, why don't you go pick some with me, Elder Sister?"
There were indeed some wild fruits growing on the back mountain. However, the mountain road was rough and steep. Adults generally don't let children go there.
She wanted to lead Da Qiao over and then take the opportunity to push her off the cliff. If there was no way, then she will use a stone to smash her to death!
Every man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost!
Don't blame her for being cruel. There can only be one heroine in a book and that was her, Xiao Qiao!
Da Qiao eyed her vigilantly and shook her head again: "I'm not going!"
Xiao Qiao secretly gnashed her teeth as hate brewed in her heart: "Elder Sister, you weren't like this before. I just want to stay with you for a while and you don't want to. Do you despise me, your younger sister so much?"
Da Qiao looked at her and replied, "Younger Sister, I got a question to ask. When you told me to go to the West Wood with you to dig out the eggs, why did you disappear shortly after entering? Also, why didn't you tell everyone, I entered the West Wood?"
Back then, she fell into West Wood's trap because Younger Sister told her that her mom felt her mouth was bland and wanted to eat some bird eggs. If she could find some bird eggs and bring them back, her mom would definitely change her view of her.
At that time, she didn't understand anything. She just wanted to please her mom. So when Xiao Qiao said that West Wood had bird eggs, she followed without thinking.
Not long after she entered, she fell into the trap, while Xiao Qiao disappeared. By the time everyone found her, it was already half a day later.
If Xiao Qiao went to the adults immediately, she wouldn't have been frozen to the point of breathlessness. Nor would she needed to be hospitalized. In this way, her dad wouldn't become paralyzed from saving her.
Although her dad was now able to walk, the pain and despair he suffered during the process can't be written off in a stroke!
She had never doubted Younger Sister before. After that incident, she still liked Younger Sister.
But since she drank the melted jade bead water, her mind became more and more clear. She suddenly understood many things that she couldn't grasp before.
Xiao Qiao's face instantly changed. Her palms were sweaty: "Elder Sister, didn't I explain this to you at the time? I notice that you were gone, I thought you ran out. I was sad for a long time. Never thought that you fell into a trap. If I knew, I would have gone back and told Dad and Mom earlier!"
Da Qiao stared at her with a pair of dark eyes. The bottom of her eyes was clear and bright, as if she could see the bottom of people's hearts.
Xiao Qiao got goosebump from her gaze. Her voice became sharp at once: "Elder Sister, what are you doing? Are you doubting me? But why would I do that? What's good would it do for me if you have an accident?"
This was what Da Qiao couldn't understand.
She and Xiao Qiao were twin sisters. She had doted Xiao Qiao a lot since young. They should have been the closest sisters. But now she thought about it, whenever she was with Younger Sister, she was always the one who gets scolded.
This point was worrisome to her.
And her grandmother had warned her before to stay away from Younger Sister. So even if Younger Sister's words reached wild exaggeration, she wouldn't go with her.
Seeing that Da Qiao didn't speak, Xiao Qiao's hatred expanded within her!
She was worried that Qiao Dong He and others were coming and she hadn't taken Da Qiao away. With a vicious gleam in her eyes, she reached out and grabbed Da Qiao's hand. She tried to pull her to the back mountain.
However...
Before her hand could touch Da Qiao, she was grasped by Da Qiao.
Da Qiao pulled with force and twisted Xiao Qiao's arm behind her!
Xiao Qiao screamed: "Ah...it hurts so much. Elder Sister, it hurts so much. Can you let go... sniff sniff..."
The passers-by didn't understand the situation. They only saw Da Qiao twisting Xiao Qiao's arm and assumed she was hitting and criticzed her.
"This classmate, let go! If you don't let go, I will report to it to the teacher!"
"Isn't this the new transfer student? I thought she was cute. Didn't expect her to be so rude!"
"I heard that girl call her Elder Sister just now. How she be like this? Bullying her own younger sister!"
"Hey, isn't that the school's little prodigy Qiao Jiao Jiao?"
"It's really her! This classmate, let go of Classmate Qiao or you see what'll happen!"
Facing everyone's accusations, Da Qiao felt aggrieved and let go of Younger Sister's hand.
In fact, when she realized that Younger Sister was reaching to grabbing her, she subconsciously counter-react.
She had pay attention though. That little strength wouldn't hurt anyone at all. She didn't understand why Younger Sister would scream like that.
"Elder Sister, I never thought of dirtying your new clothes. I really just wanted to stay with you for a while. I didn't expect you to hate me so much, sniff sniff..."
Xiao Qiao was internally smug to see everyone criticizing Da Qiao. While on the surface, she pretended to be a white lotus.
After listening to Xiao Qiao's words, everyone noticed the two sisters' clothes.
Da Qiao was wearing new clothes, which were clean and beautiful with flowers and small animals embroidered on them. Although Xiao Qiao had no patches, it was definitely not new. And it was a little dirty.
At one glance, Xiao Qiao was the least favored of the two sisters at home.
No one knew about their parents' divorce. Now that the little prodigy they admired was living so miserably at home, they felt even more injustice.
"How can an elder sister be like this? What's wrong with touching? Will you die?"
"That's right. Nothing will happen just by touching! As elder sister, you dresses so beautifully. Wouldn't your conscience hurt when younger sister wears the old clothes you don't want?"
Da Qiao frowned as she looked at crying Younger Sister.
She suddenly understood why her grandmother told her to stay away from Younger Sister!
"Don't scold my elder sister. I'm sure she didn't mean it." Xiao Qiao admired enough and pretended to generously help Da Qiao.
Seeing her like this, everyone felt that she was beautiful and kind-hearted.
"Little prodigy, go back with us."
"Yeah. Don't be with your elder sister, lest she beat you again later!"
Xiao Qiao looked at these classmates and observed how decently dressed they were. So she nodded and said, "Okay. But you don't call me little prodigy. Just call me Xiao Qiao or Jiao Jiao!"
"Then let's call you Xiao Qiao."
"Okay!"
Xiao Qiao passed by Da Qiao proudly and pretended to bump into her unintentionally.
Da Qiao didn't stand firmly and stumbled two steps back. Qiao Dong Ying, who was approaching, supported her.
Qiao Dong Ying stared at Xiao Qiao's back. She rolled up her sleeves: "Did that Xiao Qiao bully you again?"
Da Qiao didn't want to cause trouble. She shook her head and softly replied: "No, she didn't bully me. She wanted to go back with me, but I didn't promise her."
Anyway, she had clearly seen what kind of person Younger Sister was. She will stay away from her in the future.
She didn't want to make things worse, because she didn't want her dad to be sad.
The hand's palm and back were full of flesh. If she had a big conflict with Younger Sister, her dad will definitely be on the spot.
Qiao Dong Ying pinched her fair and tender face and said, "If she bullies you, you can't hold back. Understand?"
"Understood, Elder Sister Ying." Da Qiao replied softly.
...
On the way back, Xiao Qiao chatted happily with the few new classmates.
She especially get along with a female classmate named Lin Bao Zhu.
Lin Bao Zhu was the daughter of neighboring Hongtaiyang production leader. She was the only girl in the family, so she was very favored.
More importantly, her mom was the deputy head of the community's women association and her third uncle was the mayor's secretary. She was a veritable official's second-generation!
Xiao Qiao intended to curry favor with her and maintain a good relationship with her.
Suddenly, a mad cow rushed out of nowhere and was charging toward the few children.
The children were stunned. The few stood dumbfounded, while some cried.
Xiao Qiao also turned pale with fright. However, she was very rational and quickly reacted. She pulled Lin Bao Zhu away and ran.
Lin Bao Zhu was so frightened that her legs went weak. But when Xiao Qiao pulled her to run, she was very moved.
But soon she couldn't be moved!
Because something was up with that mad cow. It surpassed the dazed children and furiously chased them instead!
Lin Bao Zhu was about to cry to death!
She had never encountered such unfortunate things since she was young!
Xiao Qiao was also frightened out of her wits. If she was hit by the mad cow, she would lose half of her life: "Let's... let's run separately!"
By running separately, she had at least 50% chance of escaping. But for some reason, she had a bad premonition in her heart.
Lin Bao Zhu nodded. The two let go of their hands and ran away in different directions.
Then Lin Bao Zhu saw that the mad cow showed no hesitation at all and ran after Xiao Qiao, as if Xiao Qiao had killed its entire family!
Xiao Qiao heard the sound of running behind her. Finally knew why she had an ominous premonition!
She shouldn't have gone to Da Qiao. How did she forget that that person had a system to steal luck!
In front, there was no road ahead. Only a stinky ditch. Between being charged at to death and jumping into the stinky ditch, Xiao Qiao heroically chose the latter.
As soon as she jumped in, a foul stench hit her nostrils. She vomited on the spot!
What made her even more devastated was that there were actually a lot of white maggots in the stinky ditch!
"Ugh"
The mad cow saw her jumping into the stinky ditch, but it didn't leave. Just wandered on the edge.
Because there was a mad cow present, Xiao Qiao had to stay in the stinky ditch no matter how disgusting and intolerable it was!
After half an hour, the mad cow finally left.
Lin Bao Zhu and the others ran over. When they saw Xiao Qiao's appearance, they couldn't help but vomit.
Da Qiao didn't know that Xiao Qiao's misfortune. Halfway home, she suddenly heard the sound of chickens calling.
Immediately, she ran over, pushed aside the weeds, and saw two wild chickens squatting in the weeds!
"Elder Cousin Sisters, Elder Cousin Brother, there are chickens here!"
The three siblings ran over to take a look. Their eyes lit up at once!
My, what plump chickens!
An Ping moved quickly. He immediately took off his clothes, tied the mouth of the chicken with weeds, and then wrapped them with clothes: "Go. Let's go home and eat chicken!"
They got back to Qiao's old house.
Wan Chun Ju saw her son with his clothes off and immediately scolded: "Dong He, Dong Ying, are you two dead? When you saw your younger brother take off his clothes, why didn't you tell him off? What if he freezes?"
Qiao Dong Ying rolled her eyes: "A child got three fires their body, how can he freeze so easily? If you feel distressed, stay with An Ping in the future!"
Wan Chun Ju scolded: "How dare you talk back!"
Qiao Dong Ying avoided her mom's hand: "Mom, if you really hit me, don't think about eating the wild chicken tonight!"
Wan Chun Ju was stunned: "What wild chicken?"
At this time, Qiao Xiu Zhi and the others came back from work.
Da Qiao flew over. She raised her fair and tender face and softly spoke, "Grandmother, Grandfather, we caught two wild chickens!"
An Ping quickly released the wild chickens from his clothes. The two wild chickens were suffocated all the way. Now their eyes rolled back.
Wan Chun Ju saw the two fat wild chickens and her face instantly bloomed into a chrysanthemum flower: "Oh my son is so lucky. He can casually catch wild chickens!"
Qiao Dong Ying corrected her: "Da Qiao caught the wild chicken. If you have the guts, Mom, don't touch any of the chickens tonight!"
Wan Chun Ju was so steaming mad that she cursed and complained to Qiao Zhen Guo: "Zhen Guo, look at your daughter. She is getting more and more lawless!"
Qiao Zhen Guo looked at his daughter proudly and said, "Dong Ying, your temper is more and more like your grandmother. However, about the guts you said just now, your mom doesn't have any."
Wan Chun Ju was so infuriated that she almost vomited blood: "..."
That night, Qiao's old house quietly killed both wild chickens.
One was used in a soup, the other turned braised chicken with fried mushrooms. It was so fragrant that Qiao Family almost swallow their tongues!
Except for one person.
That person was a big butt chrysanthemum .
Of course, it wasn't the matter of guts.
Her morning sickness had been cured for half a month. However, tonight for some unknown reasons, she started to feel sick as soon as she smelled the chicken.
When she got to the dinner table, she still didn't believe in heresy. She endured nausea and forced herself to eat two pieces of chicken. Still, she vomited. At the end, she vomited out the yellow bile water!
In the end, she hadn't eaten half of the chicken on the table!
What's even more irritating was that the whole family was happily eating away, while she can only hide in the room and drink plain congee alone!
Simply vexing!
On Xiao Qiao's side, she was even worse off than Wan Chun Ju!
After she came up from the stinky ditch, all the children made excuses and ran away without a trace. Even Lin Bao Zhu couldn't stand the smell of her and ran away.
She limped towards the village. When she reached the village, she happened to encountered the villagers getting off work.
Seeing Xiao Qiao like this, everyone gathered around curiously: "Xiao Qiao, how did you become like this?"
The people who had just surrounded her quickly retreated due to the stench.
"Wow, what's this smell? Why is it so smelly?"
"Xiao Qiao, didn't you fall into the feces hole?"
"My god, it looks like it. Stinks to death. I have to leave quickly!"
The crowd dispersed as like alarmed birds and beasts, leaving Xiao Qiao with internal injuries!
When she got home, Fang Xiao Juan saw her like this and scolded her fiercely. Fang Xiao Juan didn't stop even she went to sleep!
Xiao Qiao gritted her teeth in anger!
She felt that the whole world was against her!
...
The day after eating the wild chicken, Qiao Zhen Guo and his fifth younger brother, Qiao Zhen Min set out on the search.
When everyone saw the two brothers, there were sympathy, empathy, and even more gloating at misfortune.
"So what if they know a high official? They still have to search in person?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? It's better than you, who don't even know an high official!"
"That's right. It's already sad enough for them to lose their child. If you continue to say something like this, be careful when Auntie Xiu Zhi punches you all over the place later!"
The person who spoke sarcastically was none other than Xing Hua, whose love turned into hate.
Like Fang Xiao Juan, she was looking forward to Qiao Family's misfortune.
Last time, they thought that Qiao Family had offended some high-ranking official. Unexpectedly, Qiao Family was so lucky. They actually saved the son of the deputy chief!
How vexing!
But thinking how Qiao Zhen Min lost his daughter, she felt happy again.
It was best not to find her in this life. Then the couple can become enemies and ended up divorcing!
Of course, she didn't want to get divorced like Fang Xiao Juan and then marry Qiao Zhen Min. She just couldn't let it go. So she hoped that the other party would be miserable than her!
In short, there was a character problem!
At Fang Family's side. They couldn't stand the Cai Family's undying four. Finally, they cut their flesh and compensated Cai Family 50 yuan before sending the four gods of plague out of the house.
As soon as the four elderly left, Fang You Liang and Fang You Rou were also sent back.
But soon, Fang Family met with mishap again!
Fang Fu Gui received criticism!
Last time, the production team's head of the women association, Song Chun Hua reported to the community's women association about Fang Fu Gui's wife being abused, suffering domestic violence, and finally died of exhaustion.
The community women association attached great importance to this matter.
The slogan that women can hold up half the sky had been chanted for so many years, but it was still just a slogan. There had been no progress!
Therefore, after holding a meeting, the community's women association decided to hold a major event and take the opportunity to educate the men who commit domestic violence and the mother-in-laws who act up at home!
When Song Chun Hua took the militia to Fang's house to arrest people, Fang Fu Gui and old woman Fang resisted.
Old woman Fang jumped her feet and spat, "My daughter-in-law married into our Fang Family, so she is our Fang's family member. Whatever we do to her, she must take it! She didn't say anything when she was alive. Now she's dead, who needs you people to nosily meddle in our business!"
Song Chun Hua looked at her with a sneer: "So you are admitting that you and your son beat your daughter-in-law?"
Only then did old woman Fang realize that she had slipped her tongue and immediately shook her head in denial: "I didn't say anything! I didn't say anything! Don't wrongly accuse the poor peasants!"
Their Fang Family was eighteenth generation of poor peasants. Who would dare to touch her?
Song Chun Hua asked everyone, "Did you all hear it just now? Let me tell you, you'd better tell the truth. See these militia? If any of you dare to cover up, they'll arrest you immediately!"
Everyone didn't have a good impression of Fang Family. What's more, they also sympathized with Fang Fu Gui's wife who died pitifully. How could they risk being arrested to speak for them now?
"I heard that old woman Fang confessed to beating her daughter-in-law!"
"I heard that too!"
"Yes, we can all testify!"
Old woman Fang was so infuriated that she almost vomited blood: "Pah! You dogs can't spit out any decent tooth. Are you not afraid of lightning striking when you talk nonsense like this?"
A woman immediately retorted back: "If Heaven have eyes, you mother and son would have been struck to death long ago!"
"That's right. So vicious. No wonder Fang Family's misfortune happened one after another during this period. I think this is retribution!"
No matter how much old woman Fang exploded it, she was no match for everyone.
Song Chun Hua had no intention of wasting time. She raised her hand and stated, "Hurry up, take the person away!"
Those who could enter the militia were all young and tall men. The few surrounded them and soon pressed the mother and son to the ground.
Old woman Fang made a sound of slaughtered pig's screech: "Aiya! Injustice. Murder!"
Song Chun Hua took the opportunity to educate the members of the production team: "You have all seen it. Whoever dares to beat their wife in the future will end up like this!"
Someone shouted weakly in the crowd: "Why can't one beat their their wife when they aren't obedient?"
Song Chun Hua said loudly: "Before she became your wife, she was first the country's citizen and receive protection by our country. If you hurt her, then that is hurting our country's labor and asset! To put it in the simplest way, Fang Fu Gui's death cause our production team to have one less labor force. This resulting in directly affecting the production team's harvest! If there are more of such things, can our country develop? So do you think is it illegal to beat wives? "
When everyone heard it, it really makes sense.
Whether it was Qili Village or other production teams, there were a lot of people who beat their wives. Neither the men or women took it to heart.
But now that they heard this, they realized that beating wives had such a big impact!
Moreover, it was illegal and will get criticized. Some people's heart immediately cowardly and planned to stop beating their wife in the future.
In the end, after Song Chun Hua denounced the mother and son in Qili Village, she only took Fang Fu Gui to go to other production teams for a denounce parade.
It wasn't that she intended to let old woman Fang go. Old woman Fang fainted before the first criticism parade was over.
She was also afraid of causing death. So she only took Fang Fu Gui away.
While rejoicing that she didn't have to be criticized, old woman Fang felt sorry for her son: "Song Chun Hua, when will you let my son come back?"
Song Chun Hua: "Our community has a total of 18 production teams. Each production team needed to be visited. Of course, with so many production teams, it cannot be completed in one day. Whenever the trip is over, your son will come back. !"
Old woman Fang felt so distressed that her heart twitched: "My poor son..."
Fang Fu Gui was taken to the next production team with his hands tied and a cloth stuffed in his mouth.
Eighteen production teams! It'll take ten days in total.
When Fang Fu Gui returned ten days later, he was so thin that he was completely out of shape!
After such a round of propaganda, the number of people who beat their wives in the community had dropped significantly.
Although it was impossible to put an end to it, at least it had a certain curb effect.
Because of her contribution, Song Chun Hua happened to gain a position in the community's women association. The head of the community's women association proposed to Song Chun Hua to work in the community's women association.
Song Chun Hua was naturally delighted. She was so overjoyed that she wept.
But as soon as Song Chun Hua left, the position of the production team's women association head.
After some consideration, Song Chun Hua recommended a person's name. That person was... Qiao Xiu Zhi.