Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 11950

"That's enough, isn't it? If the girls are hungry and want something to eat, then let them eat. If you really kill them, you'll feel bad for them!"

The moment their father's fist came down, the sisters, Mai Sui'er and Mai Li'er, instinctively hugged each other in fear.

In the years that followed, the two sisters had long been used to this. Whenever their father beat one of them, the other would rush up and hug him to take the beating.

The two sisters were being beaten together, so it seemed that they could help each other share half of the pain, right?
This time is no exception.

However, something unusual happened: the stepmother, Tie, who used to love stirring up trouble, actually stopped their father this time and even spoke up for them.

The two sisters stared wide-eyed, unable to believe it.

Tie pushed the furious Mai Lao Er towards the kitchen door: "Don't beat and scold the girls anymore. They are still your own flesh and blood. If the marriage is ruined, so be it. It's not meant to be. When Mai Sui'er is older, we will help her find a good family. Then the villagers will stop gossiping about us."

"If you're tired, go and rest. The girls are hungry, I'll get them something to eat. As a mother, even if you don't care about the girls, I do!"

Mai Lao Er muttered a few curses at the door before turning around and going back into the main room.

In the kitchen, Tie turned around and came to Mai Sui'er and her sister. Although her face was full of seemingly loving and friendly smiles, she even bent down to try to pull the two sisters up from the ground.

However, both sisters shrank back at the same time, their eyes filled with wariness and fear of Tie Shi.

"You bad woman, get away from me!"

Six-year-old Mai Li'er even bared her claws at Tie Shi like a terrified little beast, but in her mind, she could only picture Tie Shi randomly stabbing her and her sister with an embroidery needle...

When Tie saw that the two sisters were so wary and resistant to her kindness, and that Mai Li'er even dared to scold her, she was shocked.

Tie instinctively reached out to grab Mai Li'er's ear, but then pulled her hand back halfway.

Hold it in, hold it in! You can't lose your temper, or your plans will be ruined!
Instead of forcibly helping the two maids up, Madam Tie stood up, patted her thigh, and said, "Although I am your stepmother, after these past few years, I have come to regard you as my own children!"

"It breaks my heart to see you all starving like this. Get up, I'll get you something good to eat!"

After saying that, Tie called out to Mai Lao Er outside the house: "Bring over the cured meat that I brought back from my mother's home. I'm going to give the two girls a treat."

Soon, Mai Lao Er entered the kitchen, cursing and swearing, carrying a string of cured meat.

When the Mai sisters saw the half-fat, half-lean cured meat hanging in Old Mai's hand, they both subconsciously swallowed, unable to believe what they were seeing.

In the past, whenever my father and stepmother came back from my younger brother's grandma's house, no matter what delicious food they brought, they would never give it to them.

Will they really give us food this time?
Tie took the cured meat, placed it on the cutting board to cut, and started rinsing and cooking rice in the pot.

The sliced ​​cured meat was laid out on the rice bowl. Tie Shi then instructed the Mai Sui'er sisters, "Dinner will be served soon. Go to the main room and clear the table."

The two sisters had been standing in a corner of the kitchen without permission from Tie Shi and Mai Lao Er.

Upon hearing Tie tell them to clear the table, the two sisters immediately joined hands and fled from the kitchen to the main room.

"Little sister, stepmother has changed for the better!" Mai Sui'er's face was full of surprise, eager to share her joy with Mai Li'er.

Unlike the wheat ears, the wheat grains were not excited or surprised; instead, their little faces were filled with confusion.

"She's awful, I don't believe her at all!"

In the kitchen, Tie Shi and Mai Lao Er had already served rice to the two maids and placed cured meat on the rice.

Looking at the cured meat, Mai Lao Er's facial muscles twitched with heartache.

"Feeding these two good-for-nothings is such a waste! Save it for my son, isn't that better!"

Tie rolled her eyes at Mai Lao Er, "If we don't let them eat something good, how can we let them fall into our trap?"

As they were talking, Tie took out a packet of medicine powder from her pocket and sprinkled it into the two girls' food.

"When we get to the main room, don't scold them anymore. Help me coax them to eat the food," said Madam Tie.

"As long as they eat this food, they'll be asleep for six hours without any problem. By then, Mai Sui'er will have already arrived at the Li family, and that good-for-nothing Mai Li'er won't be able to cause any trouble! Let's see how she makes a fuss then!" Tie said with a sneer as she stirred the food in her bowl.

Mai Lao Er stood to the side, a sinister smile on his face. "It's all agreed with the Li family. As long as Mai Sui'er is delivered, it'll be six taels of silver, cash on delivery!"

Whether they can control Mai Sui'er once she wakes up depends on the abilities of the Li family father and son; Mai Lao Er doesn't need to worry about that.

If Mai Sui'er really does run away, hehe, Mai Lao Er will go after the Li family father and son and make them compensate him for his daughter and pay him back!

As for the little wheat grain at home, as long as she's kept asleep, she won't cause any trouble.

What? It woke up and started making a fuss?

Let her go and cause trouble in Lijia Village. The father and son there won't tolerate a six-year-old girl like her. Just make sure she doesn't cause trouble in Changping Village and doesn't provoke the village head, Yang Huazhong, and his gang!

Soon, Mai Lao Er and his wife Tie brought the fragrant food to the main room. At this time, the snow was still falling outside, and the snow in the yard was knee-deep when you stepped in it.

This is exactly why Mai Lao Er shouted for the two girls to go out earlier; the cart couldn't easily get in, and the snow on the main road outside wasn't as thick as it was in the courtyard.

Because the villagers were shoveling the snow on the main road outside, but the two of them were so lazy that they hadn't even used a shovel to clear the snow from their yard, which was why the snow was piled up really thick.

"Oh my god, this road is so hard to walk on. After we finish this business, you'll have to clear a road for us!" Tie Shi instructed Mai Lao Er as they walked.

Mai Lao Er nodded repeatedly: "Don't worry, as long as I get rid of those two money-losing bastards, I'll be in a great mood and have all the energy to work!"

In the main room, Tie placed two bowls of food in front of the sisters, Mai Sui'er and Mai Li'er, and said with a smile, "Are you starving? Eat quickly, while it's hot."

The two sisters looked at the fragrant food in their bowls, their stomachs rumbled, and they couldn't help but drool.

However, neither of the sisters dared to pick up their chopsticks. Mai Sui'er looked timidly at Mai Lao Er and Tie Shi, biting her lip gently, unsure of what her father and stepmother were up to.

"Your mother loves you dearly, why aren't you eating?" Old Mai glared at the two sisters from the side, urging them on.

Mai Sui'er was frightened by Mai Lao Er's gaze, and picked up her chopsticks with trembling hands.

Mai Li'er grabbed Mai Sui'er's hand, looking at Tie Shi warily: "A weasel offering New Year's greetings to a chicken, it's up to no good! We won't eat it, save it for your most beloved son!" "Sister, let's go back to the room and sleep!" With that, Mai Li'er took Mai Sui'er's hand and turned to head towards the woodshed.

Yes, you read that right, we are indeed heading towards the woodshed.

The Mai family had four main rooms: one for the main hall, one for the Mai family and their spouses, one for the two daughters that the wife of the deceased had brought from her previous marriage, and one for their youngest son to live in alone.

Although his youngest son is only three years old and sleeps with Mai Lao Er and Tie Shi, his own room is empty. Even if it is empty, it is reserved for his youngest son and no one else is allowed to touch it.

There was one empty room left, which Tie used as a guest room to accommodate her family members.

Look, the five rooms are clearly allocated, so that relatives can have a place to settle down comfortably when they come. Only the sisters Mai Sui'er and Mai Li'er have nowhere to live. The two sisters have long been driven to sleep in the woodshed. They set up a bed in the corner of the woodshed and threw two old quilts that never see the sun twice a year.

"Stop!" Old Mai shouted, blocking the sisters' path.

"You can leave, but eat the food first!" he said, pointing to the food on the table.

"We won't eat it! You're trying to poison us!" Mai Li'er blurted out.

Tie's eyes darted around, clearly showing some panic, and she grew increasingly resentful of Mai Li'er.

The eldest daughter was timid and cowardly, while the younger daughter was sharp-tongued and not to be trifled with. Tie gave Mai Lao Er a meaningful look.

Mai Lao Er rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward, tearing the two sisters apart by their interlocked fingers. He threw Mai Sui'er to the ground, then grabbed Mai Li'er like a chick, picked her up, and carried her back to the table.

"Your mother kindly gave you meat to eat, how dare you not eat it?"

"Eat it all up, eat it to death!"

With one hand, Mai Lao Er grabbed Mai Li'er's hair at the back of her head, making her tilt her head back. With the other hand, he grabbed a handful of food and stuffed it into Mai Li'er's mouth, stuffing it in forcefully.

Mai Li waved her hands frantically, shook her head vigorously, gritted her teeth and kept her mouth shut, refusing to open her mouth or eat no matter what.

Mai Lao Er slapped Mai Li'er twice across the face, and the little girl's face immediately swelled up like a steamed bun in a steamer.

"I really can't control you, huh? Give me some!" Old Mai continued to act aggressively.

He grabbed Mai Li'er's head and shoved her entire face into the rice bowl in front of her...

Mai Sui'er, standing to the side, turned pale with fright. Trembling, she scrambled to her feet, rushed over, and hugged Mai Lao Er's leg, crying and begging for mercy, "Dad, please don't hit my sister anymore..."

Mai Lao Er kicked Mai Sui'er away; all his anger was now directed at Mai Li'er.

If it weren't for Mai Li'er's tantrum ruining the good thing between the Mai and Li families today, he would have already received the six taels of silver and been drinking some wine. Why did he have to do this?

Mai Lao Er continued to wreak havoc on the wheat grains, knocking the wheat ears to the ground and drawing blood from his palms.

Ignoring her pain, she went to the side and knelt down to kowtow to Tie Shi, who was standing by with her arms crossed, watching the show with indifference.

"Mother, please, please save Mai Li'er..."

Tie rolled her eyes at the ears of wheat at her feet, and said, "I left your younger siblings at my parents' house, and I was worried that you sisters hadn't eaten, so I came back to cook for you out of kindness, and you still wouldn't eat. It's really heartbreaking. No wonder your father is unhappy..."

Seeing that Tie Shi remained unmoved, Mai Sui'er cried as she got up from the ground and went to Mai Lao Er, pleading in a choked voice, "Father, please don't hit my sister anymore, I'll eat it, I'll eat it for her..."

After saying that, Mai Sui picked up the rice bowl on the table, and instead of using chopsticks, she grabbed the food with her hands and tried to put it in her mouth.

Mai Li'er, who had been having her head held down and buried in her rice bowl by Mai Lao Er, suddenly raised her face, which was covered in rice grains, and bit her father Mai Lao Er's hand hard when she heard her sister's words.

That bite brought out the full force of eating milk, leaving a deep ring of teeth marks that bled.

"Ouch!" Old Mai cried out, pushing aside the wheat grains and shivering as he exhaled a cold breath.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Mai Li'er knocked over the rice bowl in Mai Sui'er's hand.

Seeing this, Tie was furious and cursed, "You good-for-nothing Mai Lao Er, you can't even handle two girls!"

She rolled up her sleeves and rushed over, slapping Mai Li'er across the face.

Mai Li spun around twice on the spot, then fell headfirst to the ground, hitting her forehead on the corner of a chair, and blood immediately streamed down her face.

Still not satisfied, Tie grabbed a rattan cane hanging on the wall and began whipping Mai Li'er.

Mai Sui'er cried and rushed forward, using her back to shield her younger sister, but she was also a frail child and couldn't block much. Instantly, the two sisters huddled together under Tie Shi's rattan cane, enduring the storm of family wrath together...

"Stop!" The door to the main room was suddenly kicked open, and a figure rushed in.

The figure rushed towards Tie Shi, snatched the rattan cane from her hand, and kicked her in the stomach, sending her flying from the main room to the outside, where she fell into knee-deep snow. She screamed and couldn't get up for a long time.

"It's okay, it's okay, don't be afraid!"

Yang Ruoqing dropped the rattan cane in her hand and stepped forward to help the Mai Sui'er and Mai Li'er sisters up from the ground.

The two children were so frightened that they flinched away as soon as Yang Ruoqing touched them.

“Don’t be afraid, I am Tuan Tuan Yuan Yuan’s mother,” Yang Ruoqing quickly added.

Only after hearing Yang Ruoqing's voice did the two children dare to raise their heads.

“Aunt Qing’er.” Mai Li’er looked up, her little face bruised and swollen, with two lines of tears streaming down her cheeks.

Mai Sui'er's hair was disheveled, and her face was covered in bruises.

Yang Ruoqing felt a pang of heartache. She helped the two children up from the ground. At this moment, Mai Lao Er had already pulled Tie Shi out of the snow. Mai Lao Er helped Tie Shi back to the main room. Tie Shi had a stomachache and a backache. She supported her lower back with one hand and rubbed her stomach with the other. With Mai Lao Er's help, she walked back to the room, walking with a bent back and unable to straighten up. She kept groaning and crying out, "Ouch, ouch."

When Mai Lao Er entered the house and saw that the person who came in was Yang Ruoqing, he was so angry that he blew his beard and glared at her.

"Yang Ruoqing, what do you mean by this? I'm disciplining my daughter, what business is it of yours to interfere?"

When the two children saw this, they were so frightened that they hid behind Yang Ruoqing.

Yang Ruoqing gently patted the children's shoulders to reassure them.