FSC [QT] Chapter 191.4

“Does Ah Wu like Dad?”

Xu Chunxiu did not want to go to the old house, so she stayed in the new house and hugged her daughter to sleep together.

Because Xie Changzheng had not returned yet and the candle in the bedroom had not been extinguished, Xu Chunxiu could not sleep and chatted softly with her daughter beside her.

“I like it, Mom. Do we really not have to live with Grandpa and Grandma anymore?”

Life these past few days was like a dream. Ah Wu was so happy that she almost suspected that she had hurt her brain and that all the good things now were just her fantasies.

“Yeah.”

Xu Chunxiu hugged her daughter tightly and nodded heavily.

“Hehe, I like my current mother too.”

Ah Wu got into her mother’s arms and said coquettishly.

“Then, what about the mother from before?”

Xu Chunxiu’s throat tightened. There was a slight tremor in her voice.

“I liked my mother before, but my mother now is better.”

Ah Wu liked her previous mother because she would always leave the few good things she had for her, and when she was bullied by her grandmother and her eldest and second uncles’ families, she would block most of the beatings and scoldings for her.

But her mother at that time would not resist and would only teach her to be patient.

Ah Wu didn’t think that there was anything wrong with this before because that was what her mother taught her when she was a child. But ever since she fell and injured her head, thinking back on those things, Ah Wu felt that her mother was wrong.

For some people and some things, patience is not the solution. On the contrary, it will increase those people’s hostility and make their lives gradually move toward another tragedy.

But her mother now has changed. She left that home like her father, and she would not say that grandparents are elders and she, as a younger generation, must be filial.

Moreover, her mother now has become tough. When she fell and hurt her head, she was not completely unconscious. She heard her mother’s words when she confronted her grandmother so that she could see a doctor.

If her previous mother made her feel distressed and sigh at the same time, she liked her current mother without any dissatisfaction.

“Mom will be better in the future.”

Xu Chunxiu hugged her daughter tightly, tears flashing in her eyes.

Even a child could see things clearly, but she didn’t understand it until so long later.

When her daughter died in the previous life, was her daughter blaming heaven for her mother’s incompetence?

Xu Chunxiu felt that she should be tougher. In this life, she wanted to be a tigress. If anyone dared to hurt her cub, she would tear a piece of flesh from that person.

She used to be a coward and incompetent person, so she let her daughter die in the previous life.

When Xie Changzheng returned home, Ah Wu had fallen asleep.

Xu Chunxiu, for the first time ever, prepared hot water for him to soak his feet.

Xie Changzheng glanced at his wife who had softened her attitude. He didn’t know what role his daughter played in this, but he felt that his efforts these days were not in vain.

Xu Chunxiu’s change gave Xie Changzheng hope and he was full of energy for the future.

***

“Uncle Sanqiang, what prey did you catch this time?”

Two men came down from the mountain. People who saw them greeted them enthusiastically.

Xu Sanqiang’s real name is no longer traceable. The name Sanqiang comes from his heroic deeds of killing a Japanese soldier who tried to humiliate the women in the village with a shotgun.

Xu Sanqiang has always been proud of this nickname and has since tacitly accepted this nickname as his name.

Everything is state-owned these days, and the prey in the back mountain is no exception.

Xu Sanqiang and his son went up the mountain to hunt all year round. Ninety percent of the game they caught was handed over to the team and then distributed to the members, and the remaining ten percent was their reward.

Therefore, every time Xu Sanqiang took his son to the mountain, the villagers would look forward to it. Most of their few meat supplies came from Xu Sanqiang, the old hunter.

“Tsk, why is it a child?”

Everyone ran to the backpack of the father and son and saw that it was a little boy tied up with ropes. There was no cloth covering his body, and the dirt on his body was almost like armor, so his original appearance could not be seen.

Didn’t Xu Sanqiang and his son go hunting in the mountains?

Why did they bring back a child?

“Stop talking. We didn’t catch any prey this time. I didn’t have time to explain in detail. I have to take this child to the captain’s house first.”

Xu Sanqiang waved his hand.

Every time he took his son into the mountains, he would not come out for three or five days. But because of the thing in the backpack, not only did he not catch any prey, but he might also get into big trouble. How could Xu Sanqiang be in the mood to greet the villagers?

Seeing that he looked unhappy, those people did not bother him and just watched Xu Sanqiang leave.

At night, the brigade’s horn sounded, and all families had to appoint two or three representatives to gather at the threshing ground in front of the brigade.

Xie Changzheng and Xu Chunxiu were worried about leaving their daughter alone at home, so they simply brought her along.

***

“What, draw lots to raise a child?”

After hearing what the captain said and looking at the boy who looked like a human but was tied with chains like a little wild beast, the threshing ground suddenly burst into laughter.

 

 

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