mtl008 Chapter 288 The Little Deaf-Mute of the Era 4
Chapter 288 The Little Deaf-Mute of the Era 4
To avoid being caught red-handed, her husband learned Rong Momo's special skills.
The original owner and her daughter had an even harder time in this family. Before, only she was beaten, but later it became that both of them were beaten.
After discovering that pricking someone with a needle left no mark, the family had another idea. They figured that having another child secretly still carried the risk of being discovered, so if the child died, wouldn't it be perfectly legitimate to have another one?
So this heartless family, behind the original owner's back, stuck more than a dozen sewing needles into the original owner's daughter's small body. Then the child cried day and night. She cried whenever someone held her, and she cried even when being breastfed. Later, she developed a high fever, and then she died.
To outsiders and the original owner, the child had died of illness. The original owner was saddened, but she only saw the child crying when she was breastfeeding. She thought the child was hungry. At other times, she couldn't see the child and had no idea that the child was crying all the time.
Two years later, she became pregnant again, and it was another girl. Again, the child didn't survive. Then she had her third child, which was also a girl.
Over the years, with her husband constantly pricking her with needles and the deaths of her two daughters, she had begun to have some doubts. So this time, when her mother-in-law was taking care of the children, she ran over to peek and saw the old woman pricking the children's bodies with needles.
The original owner went crazy and went straight into the house to fight with her mother-in-law. Because she was worried about the child in her mother-in-law's arms, the original owner suffered a lot. Then her husband heard the noise and rushed over. Then the mother and son beat her up. However, both of them were experienced and hit her in hidden places.
Later, that was the end of it. Fearing she would report them, the mother and daughter went all out and also stuck many needles into the original owner's body. It's unknown which internal organ they hit, but the original owner died that day. The mother and daughter were probably too panicked at the time and forgot that the original owner couldn't speak or read.
When the first two children died, that family complained to the Liu family that the original owner was in poor health and couldn't keep any of her children. So when they went to the Liu family to report the death of the original owner and that the children were not doing well, the Liu family didn't think much of it.
After all, the original owner didn't have any obvious injuries in the following years. People at that time didn't have that much knowledge, and normal people wouldn't think of murder to cover it up. Plus, the first two children really did die from illness.
So, after the funeral, the Liu family went home, but they would feel sad again occasionally when they thought of their poor daughter.
Having received all the information about the original owner's entire life, Liu Yuxi now wanted to skin that family of three, who were worse than animals, alive! No wonder the original owner didn't want to go through it all again.
Nobody wants to come back here. There's no way to speak up, no way to complain if you're wronged. And if you move to another family, who knows if you'll just escape one danger only to fall into another? The Liu family's intentions were good; that family was truly the best they could find at the time.
It's so frustrating! Not to mention all the inconveniences in life before marriage, just the experiences after marriage... those people deserve to go to hell.
Although the original owner didn't make any demands and rushed off to be reincarnated, Liu Yuxi still decided that none of those three people would have an easy time.
Judging that the villagers looking for her would soon find her in this area, she hurriedly left the space, sat on the ground and cried loudly, "Ah! Ah! Mom! I want to go home!" In this life, even if she was deaf, she still needed to speak, and she needed to find a way to go to school. She could think about the specifics later; her priority now was to go home.
The crying quickly attracted the villager who had found her in her previous life. Seeing her disheveled appearance, he picked her up and carried her back while shouting for the others.
She encountered other villagers on the road, then turned back to call for others, and then she saw her grandmother and her aunt (elder aunt) helping her mother rush over.
As soon as her mother saw her, she broke free from her grandmother and aunt, stumbled over, took her in her arms, and cried as she examined her repeatedly.
"Little Stream! Little Stream! Are you hurt? Did you scrape your knees?" Although she knew her daughter couldn't hear her, Niu Xiaolan couldn't help but keep calling out to her.
"Mom! Mom!" Liu Yuxi cried out as she called for her mother.
The third grandmother, who was standing nearby, said to Liu Yuxi, "He's not injured, he's not injured. I just checked. Don't worry, Erzhu's family, the child is probably just frightened." Then she leaned closer to Niu Xiaolan and whispered, "Call the baby back later, so he won't get a fever tonight."
Yes, the person who found Liu Yuxi was a daughter-in-law of the Liu family. According to seniority, Liu Yuxi should call her Third Aunt. "Third Aunt, thank you, thank you!" If it weren't for the current campaign to destroy the Four Olds, Niu Xiaolan would have kowtowed to Third Aunt. Why is her daughter's life so miserable!
Thinking about it, Niu Xiaolan couldn't help but hug Liu Yuxi and start crying again. "Alright, stop crying. Let's go home now. Don't let Er Yatou stay outside any longer," Zhang Dani said to Niu Xiaolan, secretly relieved that the little girl was alright, otherwise the house would have been in chaos.
"Yes, yes, don't be afraid, daughter. Mom will take you home, let's go home." Niu Xiaolan was still a little weak from shock, but she didn't want anyone else to carry Liu Yuxi, so she insisted on carrying Liu Yuxi home.
The family thanked the villagers and said they would visit them another day to express their gratitude. Although most of them shared the same surname, it was still necessary to show proper courtesy. Otherwise, would you still want others to help you next time you encounter a problem?
Back home, aside from Liu Yuxi being carried back to her room by her mother to have her soul called back in order to prevent her from having seizures and fevers at night, it was unclear whether this soul-calling ritual would still be effective if the child couldn't hear it.
Everyone else stayed in the yard. Zhang Dani and the children recounted what had happened. Then, two groups of men's singles and one group of women's singles were set up in the yard.
Her aunt was beating her eldest sister, her uncle and father were beating her two older brothers, and her grandfather, Liu Laogen, was standing by, smoking his pipe and saying in a deep voice, "Give them a good beating! How old are you? Don't you know what's wrong with your little sister? How can you be such good older brothers and sisters?"
Liu Laogen was indeed very angry. If it weren't for the difficulty of seeing a doctor now and the fear of hurting the children, he would have wanted to discipline them!
Having endured 42 years of famine and the hardships of the past few years, the Liu family places great importance on the safety and education of their children. Children are the hope of a family, and the pain of losing a child is something that can never be healed.
That little granddaughter suffered a lot last year. If something had happened to her again today, the family would never have had a peaceful life. Fortunately, the child was found. Even if things get tougher in the future, at least the family is still intact.