"Mom," Du Xiaoxue said in a dissatisfied tone, looking at the food on the table with disgust, "Today is New Year's Eve, shall we eat this?"

On the dilapidated wooden table, there were three broken rough porcelain bowls, each of which contained half a bowl of steaming wild vegetable porridge.

The wild vegetables are found and dried in summer. The dried wild vegetables taste not very good, and there is a bitter taste in the mouth.

If you put more dried wild vegetables in the porridge, you can put less cornmeal.

They ate this wild vegetable porridge every day, and Du Xiaoxue was really tired of eating it.

Compared to when she was in the capital, Zhang Yanli, who was too old, stared at her little daughter expressionlessly, and said mockingly, "If you don't eat this, what do you want to eat?"

"Eating meat?" Zhang Yanli sneered, "I don't want to see if I have that fate!"

"You are useless yourself," Zhang Yanli snorted heavily, and said in disgust, "I talked to someone in the capital, but I didn't have the ability to let him marry you."

"As soon as the news of your father's arrest came out, he broke up with you. You are unlucky."

Du Xiaoxue was wronged by what was said, her eyes turned red, and she gasped, "Can this be my fault?"

"If my dad hadn't stolen the wine from the factory to sell, how could we have been driven back?"

"Okay," Zhang Yanli said angrily, "That's your own father, don't say a few words."

"I've already asked someone to match you." Zhang Yanli's face softened a lot when she mentioned this matter, "I'll hear about it after the New Year."

"When you get married, your life will definitely be better than now."

"I don't want to marry!" Du Xiaoxue exploded upon hearing this, staring at Zhang Yanli, "Mom, let me tell you, you don't want to sell me."

"You think I don't know, you whispered to the matchmaker, as long as you can afford 500 yuan in gift money, any fool will do!"

"I'm your own daughter," Du Xiaoxue clutched her chest with a sad expression on her face, "It's not enough for you to harm Eldest Sister for the rest of your life, and you want to harm me?"

"Eldest sister is timid and cowardly," Du Xiaoxue sneered, "I won't listen to everything you say."

"If the marriage does not satisfy me, I will never marry!"

"It's wrong! It's wrong!" Zhang Yanli yelled angrily, "You crawled out of my intestines. I gave birth to you in October and raised you. How dare you not listen to me?"

Du Xiaoxue did not compromise, but said coldly, "I never begged you to give birth to me!"

"Rather than live a miserable life that is not as good as a pig or a dog, I would rather you didn't give birth to me, or, when I was just born, you strangled me to death!"

"You unfilial thing," Zhang Yanli became anxious when she saw Du Xiaoxue's reluctance, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"You are my own daughter, I don't want you to live well?"

"But your brother is so old, he doesn't have a wife yet, he is the only one in our family!"

"If I don't marry him a wife and leave him a child, our old Du's family will lose their incense!"

"Although your father went in, I can't be sorry to Lao Du's family!"

"Hehe," Du Xiaoxue sneered twice, with a look of indifference, "My brother is a fool, it's fine if he doesn't get married."

"No matter who you marry, you are harming innocent girls."

"You?" Zhang Yanli cursed angrily, "You unfilial thing, do you still have the heart?"

"That's your brother, did you say that about your brother?"

"I really want to strangle you right now!"

Du Xiaoxue snorted softly, "Pinch, life is boring anyway, just strangle me to death."

Du Yaozu squatted in the corner from the beginning to the end, his eyes were dull, he didn't know what he was doing?
As for Zhao Lihua?
In order to save firewood, only two rooms in Du's house were burnt down. Du Yaozu was old and lived in one, and Zhang Yanli and Du Xiaoxue lived in one.

Zhao Lihua was thrown in the grocery room. There was a hole in the grocery room, but it was not burned and it was cold.

Zhao Lihua was only covered with a thin quilt, and could only eat a bowl of porridge with wild vegetables every day.

Just like this, she didn't die, she was still alive tenaciously.

"You want to eat meat?" Zhang Yanli had no choice but to talk to Du Xiaoxue calmly.

Du Xiaoxue lowered her head and sighed, "Who doesn't want to eat meat?"

"I heard that Du Ruo is back," Zhang Yanli said to Du Xiaoxue, "You can go find her."

Du Xiaoxue raised her head, frowned and said, "She herself went to the countryside to become an educated youth, how can she be rich?"

Zhang Yanli said in a calm tone, "I heard that girl Du Ruo bought a hundred catties of white noodles and a hundred catties of yellow noodles as soon as she came back. She is very rich."

"I also heard that the village where she went to the countryside built a factory and she became a worker again."

"What?" Du Xiaoxue couldn't believe it, "She has already gone to the countryside, how could she be a worker?"

"Many people say that," Zhang Yanli said in disbelief, "If she hadn't been a worker, how could she be so rich?"

"Besides, I also heard that her skin is still so white, she doesn't look like she is suffering at all."

Du Xiaoxue was suspicious and asked Zhang Yanli, "Mom, who did you listen to?"

"It's Niudan's old aunt who married into Daliu Village. She came back yesterday and said."

Du Xiaoxue nodded, but she still didn't believe it.

"Believe it or not," Zhang Yanli said, "I plan to take Yaozu to Daliu Village tomorrow."

"You can't just point at our family to provide for the elderly, right?"

"That old thing is also Du Ruo's own grandma."

Du Xiaoxue shook her head, "Du Ruo is hard-hearted, she said long ago that she won't care about that old thing."

Zhang Yanli snorted softly, "It's okay for her to ignore her. This is the countryside. People who are not filial should be careful not to be stabbed in the back."

Du Xiaoxue thought about it too, "Then let's try."

It would be best if you can get money, but if you don’t get it.?

They have nothing to lose.

The mother and daughter discussed, what should they say to Du Ruo tomorrow?

The atmosphere was not so tense for a while.

After talking for a while, both of them felt a little hungry.

Holding her growling stomach, Du Xiaoxue had no choice but to hold back her disgust and drank the half bowl of wild vegetable porridge.

I can't do without drinking, it's even more uncomfortable to be hungry.

Zhang Yanli brought her son who was playing in the corner to the table and sat down, and fed the half bowl of wild vegetable porridge to Du Yaozu.

"Mom," Du Xiaoxue said, "today is New Year's Eve, don't forget to give that old thing something to eat, so she doesn't starve to death."

When Zhao Lihua was mentioned, Zhang Yanli looked disgusted, "I know, there are places where she can be used, and I won't starve her to death."

After Zhang Yanli finished feeding her son, she wiped her mouth again, touched Du Yaozu's head with tender eyes, and said softly,

"Good boy, let's go play."

"You don't have to worry, even if Mom dies, she will definitely find a way to marry you a daughter-in-law to carry on the family line."

Du Yaozu didn't understand this, so after eating, he squatted in the corner to play again.

Zhang Yanli also quickly finished a bowl of porridge herself. After finishing the porridge, Zhang Yanli went to the kitchen. In the iron pot in the kitchen, there was only the last bit of wild vegetable porridge left.

Zhang Yanli scooped wild vegetable porridge into the bowl, only half of the bowl was missing, just covering the bottom of one bowl.

Zhang Yanli frowned, feeling that this was too little, but she was too lazy or reluctant to cook for Zhao Lihua again.

So, Zhang Yanli looked around the kitchen, walked to a water tank, scooped up half a ladle of water, and poured it into a bowl.

The wild vegetable porridge was already thin, but after adding more than half a bowl of water, the large bowl of vegetable porridge immediately became clear, with some wild vegetables dotted in it, and the yellow noodles floated on the bowl, floating in a layer.

Satisfied, Zhang Yanli went to the utility room with a 'big bowl of vegetable porridge'.

Zhao Lihua was lying on it half dead, when she heard the door knock, she turned her head and saw that Zhang Yanli had come.

In Zhao Lihua's cloudy eyes, a hint of fear subconsciously appeared, and her body trembled instinctively.

In the past few months, Zhang Yanli has often vented her grievances on Zhao Lihua.

He resented Zhao Lihua for beating and scolding her frequently when she was a mother-in-law.

I hate Zhao Lihua for being a useless person, why don't I hurry up and die, and live to do evil and drag her down!

Zhang Yanli vented all the crimes she had suffered in the past.

It even went so far as to beat Zhao Lihua until she was afraid to see her.

Zhao Lihua can almost speak clearly now, but her body is paralyzed and she can't move.

"It's gorgeous." Zhao Lihua trembled her lips, looking fearfully at Zhang Yanli who was slowly approaching her.

"Why are you here?" Zhao Lihua had a flattering expression, "It's cold in this room, don't freeze you to death."

"Hmph," Zhang Yanli walked up to Zhao Lihua, condescendingly looked down at Zhao Lihua who lay motionless on the bed, her eyes showed disdain and sarcasm, "Why did I come?"

"You think I'm willing to come?" Zhang Yanli raised the bowl in her hand, "I'm afraid that you will starve to death, so I came to bring you food."

"Ah, thank you," Zhao Lihua smiled gratefully, "Yanli is such a good daughter-in-law. She still remembers me as a dead old woman. I am so touched."

Zhang Yanli looked at Zhao Lihua's flattery and fawning face when she faced her, and felt very happy in her heart.

Think about when I first entered the door, this dead old woman set rules for herself at every turn, and slapped herself if she didn't do things the slightest way she wanted.

The first child gave birth to a daughter, and scolded herself for several days. She didn't even give her a good bowl of rice, and asked her to go to work in the fields within a week after giving birth.

Thinking about all the hardships she had suffered, Zhang Yanli tortured Zhao Lihua without any sense of guilt in her heart.

"The old man opens his mouth, it's time to eat!"

Zhao Lihua immediately raised her head in cooperation and opened her mouth.

Zhang Yanli brought the bowl to Zhao Lihua's mouth and poured it vigorously.

As soon as the food was eaten, the cold Zhao Lihua shivered.

It's winter now, Zhang Yanli poured half a bowl of cold water into the wild vegetable porridge. The wild vegetable porridge wasn't too hot, but after pouring half a bowl of cold water, it was freezing cold.

Zhao Lihua cursed Zhang Yanli in her heart, wishing that Zhang Yanli would die sooner.

But in front of Zhang Yanli, she dared not show any dissatisfaction.

In the past, she also proposed to make Zhang Yanli winter, and give her some warm food, but in exchange for Zhang Yanli's severe beatings.

In order to avoid being beaten, Zhao Lihua had no choice but to suffer.

Zhang Yanli drank in a hurry, Zhao Lihua could only eat the vegetable porridge into her mouth by swallowing, otherwise the vegetable porridge would flow down the corner of her mouth onto her clothes and bed.

At that time, she will only have to go hungry.

The bowl has the taste of cornmeal and wild vegetables, but it is too little. Drinking this bowl of vegetable porridge is not too different from drinking a bowl of cold water.

Therefore, Zhao Lihua has become extremely thin in the past few months, leaving only a layer of skin tightly wrapping her bones.

She was lying on the bed like a skeleton, frighteningly tight.

Although Zhao Lihua tried her best to swallow, a lot of porridge still flowed out from the corner of her mouth, staining her clothes and bed.

Zhao Lihua's whole body was pitch black, her hair was already knotted, and the bed sheet under her body was so black that she couldn't see its original color.

There were even faint signs of smell and decay on his body.

Zhang Yanli poured a large bowl of wild vegetable porridge into Zhao Lihua's mouth in one go.

After pouring, Zhang Yanli looked at her wet hands and slapped Zhao Lihua backhandedly.

"Useless old stuff, got my hands wet."

Zhao Lihua immediately instinctively said flattering and flattering words.

"Yes, it's all my fault, it's my old thing that's useless."

Zhang Yanli snorted coldly, turned and left the utility room.

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