At the other end of Peach Blossom Village, there is a house near the back mountain on the edge of the village, with mud walls and black clay tiles, similar to other houses in the village, but it looks much older.

The skin of the exterior wall has become very mottled under the wind and sun, and a layer of gray dust is stained with dust when you touch it, gray-black rain marks are hung on the wall one by one, and there are small cracks in the corners of the gray tiles of the eaves.

At this time, there were bursts of fierce beating and scolding from women in the room, and listening carefully to the girl's suppressed cries and begging for mercy, it was heart-wrenching to hear.

Although the house is on the periphery of Peach Blossom Village, it is not very remote, and there are still many farmers who usually pass by, but everyone who walks from this road does not know about this family.

In the eyes of simple people, beating children is a normal educational behavior, and stepmothers are also mothers, and beating children cannot be stopped.

But this kind of beating at two ends for three days, or a stepmother beating for no reason, is very despised, but it can only be looked down upon, roll her eyes, scold a few words, at most when she beats too hard, go up to persuade two sentences, so as not to beat people to death. After all, this is someone else's family matter, and outsiders have no position to say it.

"I'll kill you! I know how to eat every day, and I don't do any work, what's the use of me raising you? I think you are here to restrain us, to kill your own mother and to restrain me, I will give you food, clothing, and shelter, but you are shameless and really think of yourself as a big lady? Do you work every day? You broom star! See if I don't kill you, kill you to save our family money! ”

The thin bamboo strip waved up and caused a gust of wind, and then fell fiercely on the thin girl, and the girl squatting in the corner had weak hands, and she couldn't stop the injury.

"Ahh The bamboo stick hit her arm hard, and the unbearable pain made her tremble, and she couldn't help but scream, but she didn't dare to resist or run away.

"Wow, you're still not convinced? I don't see me in your eyes! I know that if you don't speak, you won't know how to scold me! Then I'll beat you until you're convinced! I don't believe I can't cure you! ”

The mean-looking woman stood in front of the window with a bamboo stick, blocking part of the light, and she was even more angry when she saw that the girl dared to cry out in pain, and her eyes were as wide as dead fish's eyes.

The bamboo strip in his hand swung harder, cutting through the air and landing fiercely on the girl's arms, legs, and shoulders.

The girl gritted her teeth, squatted in place, raised her head slightly, a bright light shone in from the small window of the kitchen, the dust in the air danced in the light, and the stepmother's face was dark in the backlight, but even if she couldn't see it clearly, she could imagine her fierce expression at this time.

The bamboo stick was thrown, she quickly lowered her head, buried her head in her arms, leaned her back against the firewood pile, the firewood torch was in pain, and her body trembled with pain as the bamboo stick fell, but she didn't dare to exhale pain anymore.

"Hit! Beat! Hahahaha~" There was a sound of a little boy clapping and cheering at the kitchen door, and the woman saw it but didn't care, and continued to beat and scold.

The pain stretched the time for a long time, I don't know how long it took, the woman was tired, panting and stopped waving in her hand, threw the bamboo stick to the side, and scolded and said: "I'm angry with the old lady, I'm beating here so much, I'm so angry that my heart, liver, spleen and lungs hurt, you short-lived ghost is like a person, you can't move, don't say a word, are you a dead man?!" Something without a heart or a liver! I don't bother to care about you! ”

glared again: "Wasting my mother's effort to eat will teach you a lesson!" It's going to be almost noon, and don't come back if you don't wash your clothes! ”

After saying that, she pursed her lips in disgust and went out the door.

After a long while, the girl's tense body relaxed, her head hung low, and a tear fell straight from her eyes, smashed into the dust accumulated on the ground, and disappeared in a blink of an eye, as if it had never appeared.

With a sniff, she looked up, felt dizzy as she got up, and waited a while to get back to normal. The wound on her body was hot and painful, but she didn't plan to lift it up to take a look—because it was useless to see it, so she went straight out to work.

Outside the house, the two women gathered together, and when the room finally stopped, they began to talk in a whisper.

"Alas, iniquity! Every day, the stepmother beat her daughter so hard, and no one cared about it. The blue-turbaned woman shook her head and sighed.

"Tube? How? As the saying goes, if you have a stepmother, you will have a stepfather, not to mention that the stepmother also gave birth to a male baby to their family, seeing their baby like that, they are reluctant to put down and learn to walk at the age of three. This has a new person in the back, how can you remember the old people in front of you! The woman next to her was holding a fan and fanning the wind, disapproving, "Besides, you don't know about their family!" ”

"Alas, too. After the previous incident, who in the village would dare to take care of their family's affairs. It's just that this spring flower is only nine years old when it turns over, and it will be several years before getting married, and the days to come will be sad. The blue-turbaned woman sighed again, worried about the days to come.

"Married? I see, this is not easy to say. The fan did not stop, and the woman pursed her lips and shook her head.

"What's wrong? Although she doesn't like this cheap daughter, even if she usually beats and scolds, can she still keep it and not let people get married? Aren't you afraid of being poked and scolded by the villagers in the back? The blue turban was slightly surprised, but also confused.

Peach Blossom Village is a relatively wealthy village, and it may be difficult to eat well, but it is not enough to starve to death in ordinary years, and some people keep their daughters to marry in order to have more labor in the family, and when their daughters stay old, they will marry others to fill the house - after all, how can a woman worry about marrying.

"That's not what I meant. I'll guess, I'll just guess—" The fan in the woman's hand stopped, and with her face in the side, she leaned over to talk to the person beside her.

"You say you say, gossip, I'll listen to it casually." The blue turban was aroused by curiosity and urged again and again.

"I guess - Chunhua may be sold to people by her stepmother!" The voice is so small that it can only be heard by the people around him, but it can be said clearly.

"This ...... No way? Blue Turban was skeptical. Now is not the age of famine, and the family is not in arrears and can't survive, if you sell your daughter to people, you will be ridiculed by others! At that time, I am afraid that people from all over the country will not be with it!

"I just guessed that Chunhua was so ruthless, but even if she wanted to do this, the people in the village should not agree, this is not a good reputation, Tao Li is going to stop it even for his own reputation." After speaking, her body moved a little farther away, and the pu fan in her hand shook again.

"That's the same thing. But then again, although Chunhua died when she was a child, and her stepmother didn't love her mother when she entered the door, her father didn't love her, but the family gave her food to eat, and she usually worked diligently, was beaten less, and when she got married, a good day came. Blue Turban said comfortingly.

"Who doesn't have a scripture that is difficult to read? But—hey, Chunhua's mother is here. As she spoke, the woman suddenly caught a glimpse of the figure of the queen mother of the spring flower, and hurriedly poked the person next to her with her elbow, and whispered a reminder to her not to talk about this topic again.

Since the queen mother of Chunhua married to Peach Blossom Village, she is not very gregarious, she lives in a simple house all day long, and when she gives birth to a son, she is arrogant, her mean and difficult temperament makes ordinary people dare not offend her, and naturally she does not dare to let her hear them gossip about her.

The two women stopped talking, looked up at the sky, and went back.