FSC [QT] Chapter 200.1

“Woo—”

The screams of pain coming from the sack were clearly a woman’s voice.

Could it be that the person who secretly climbed over the wall while the masters of the Xie family were not at home was a woman?

Several men holding hoes looked at each other and then looked at the opening of the sack with vigilant and puzzled eyes.

“Xie Wu… you die…”

Through the sack, the words of the person inside sounded unclear. It seemed that she was saying to Xie Wu, ‘I’m going to kill you’, but it didn’t seem to be the case.

Xie Xiuzhu, who was caught in the sack, felt severe pain all over her body.

Ah Wu had not shown any mercy and hit her with the fire stick more than ten times. One of the hits happened to hit Xie Xiuzhu on the mouth, knocking out one of her front teeth. As a result, Xie Xiuzhu was unable to speak clearly with a leak in her mouth.

Because of the excessive pain, her head was buzzing at the moment. She only realized that the stick that hit her body disappeared, but she didn’t notice that many villagers who heard the news appeared outside the sack.

Xie Xiuzhu wanted to argue with Xie Wu, so she gritted her teeth and struggled to get out of the sack. But when she saw the burly men holding hoes and looking at her warily, she was stunned.

“Is this…Xie Xiuzhu from the Xie family?”

The villagers who were watching were also stunned.

How could the thief be Xie Xiuzhu from the Xie family?

“Little Aunt, why is it you?”

Ah Wu’s expression looked even more surprised than theirs. When she saw that it was Xie Xiuzhu who came out of the sack, she was so shocked that she could hardly close her mouth.

“You, why did you come to my backyard!”

Ah Wu was annoyed at first, probably because she blamed herself for not seeing the person clearly, so she put a sack on the person and called the villagers nearby over. At the same time, there was some doubt on her face, probably because she didn’t know why her little aunt appeared in the backyard out of the blue.

No one suspected that Ah Wu was pretending because everyone present knew how well-behaved and honest the little girl from the third branch of the Xie family was.

Children from poor families have to grow up early. In the countryside, girls have to help adults with work from the age of six or seven.

However, as long as life is okay and the family is not extremely patriarchal, they will only let their daughters do some easy work, such as feeding the chickens and ducks at home, helping to wash vegetables and watch the fire, and taking care of younger brothers and sisters.

But the Xie family was different. In the eyes of the villagers, Xie Wu started to contribute to the family’s income when other children were still running around.

While other girls were picking vegetables at home, she was cutting pig grass at the foot of the mountain and on the riverbank.

A full basket of pig grass could weigh more than ten pounds. Cutting two full baskets was counted as one work point. Xie Wu had to earn two work points a day so that Old Mrs. Miao would not chase her with a fire stick.

In the winter, many women wanted to be lazy and would rather wear dirty clothes than wash clothes by the river with ice chips floating on it.

However, Xie Wu was always very obedient. When Xu Chunxiu was washing the clothes of the whole family, she helped wash some small clothes and pants. Even if her fingers were frozen like radishes, she never complained.

Sometimes, the villagers felt that Xu Chunxiu and Xie Wu, the mother and daughter, were too temperless, but they had to admit that Xie Wu was really a very obedient and sensible child.

She never complained about her mother’s incompetence, always felt sorry for her mother, and helped her mother do many things without saying a word.

If you said that such a sensible girl beat her little aunt on purpose, no one would believe it. If Xie Wu had such a temper, she would not have been bullied by the people in the Xie’s old house in those early years.

They believed that Xie Wu was frightened by the stranger’s voice, so she put a sack on the criminal’s body and shouted for help from her uncles and aunts.

Then again, the door of the Xie family was locked. Why did Xie Xiuzhu sneak over the wall when her Third Brother and Sister-in-law were not at home?

 

 

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