I became a cannon fodder and watched the drama in the period novels.

Chapter 38: Women Bravely Stand Up

Shen Yaoyang ran up to them in the blink of an eye, and Hao Xiaofeng on the opposite side also came over. The two looked at each other awkwardly. Shen Yaoyang saw the person opposite and shouted, "Sister-in-law..." Before he finished speaking, Song Qingfei covered his mouth.

He didn't know that the two had broken up and was about to call the other sister-in-law. Fortunately, Song Qingfei stopped him, otherwise everyone would be very embarrassed, because the man next to Hao Xiaofeng was her blind date today.

Hao Xiaofeng looked at them with a smile: "Are you guys coming to play today too?"

Song Qingfei and Shen Feifei smiled and nodded. Song Qingfei said, "Have fun, we are going to eat. We are leaving first."

The man who was on a blind date with Hao Xiaofeng politely invited: "Why don't we all go together?"

Shen Feifei replied: "No, we have something else to do, so we'll leave first. We'll talk again when we get back and have time." The two sides said goodbye.

After leaving there, Shen Feifei and Song Qingfei both breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, only Shen Yaoyang came over and nothing was exposed.

Shen Yaoyang's eyes rolled around after he was released. He asked Song Qingfei, "Brother, why didn't you let me call for help? Did you have a fight with your sister-in-law?"

Song Qingfei gave him a slap on the face: "Don't call me that. I have a name, call me sister. And we've broken up. If you keep calling me sister-in-law, I'll show you how I'll deal with you."

Rubbing his beaten head, Shen Yaoyang nodded in agreement, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Brother, why did you break up?"

"Don't meddle in the adults' affairs." After saying that, he saw other people waiting at the gate, and he and Shen Feifei quickened their pace and walked over.

After they left, Zhuang Jianguo, the man Hao Xiaofeng was dating, asked her, "Who are they?"

"He is my brother's friend. I didn't expect to meet him by chance." Looking at the direction where Song Qingfei left, Hao Xiaofeng felt a sense of loss. The man in front of him was introduced by his family. He worked in the Real Estate Bureau and his family was well-off.

This was the first time they met today. He looked pretty good, but he looked terrible when he stood next to Song Qingfei just now. People are most afraid of comparison. Hao Xiaofeng was in no mood to chat with men anymore. When Zhuang Jianguo suggested having dinner together, she refused on the grounds that she had something to do at home.

Shen Feifei has no time to care about other people's affairs. She has been very busy recently because the Chinese New Year is approaching and she has to purchase New Year's goods for the shopping mall, leaving home early and returning late every day.

Today, she and Jia Guimei were going to the countryside to buy local specialties. When they got on the bus, Shen Feifei took out a newspaper and handed it to Jia Guimei: "Master, we have to take the bus for more than two hours. This is the new newspaper today. I bought two. Let's read it on the way."

Two copies of the Dongfanghong newspaper were bought by Shen Feifei on her way to work this morning. They contained a new article she had just submitted.

Some time ago, a newspaper invited her to write an article. Thinking it would be good to make some money, she wrote a story on the theme of domestic violence. This time she changed her pen name to Snowman, because she and Shen Yaoyang built a snowman at home on the day of writing the article, and she planned to use this pen name in the future.

Jia Guimei opened the newspaper and saw an article titled Women Bravely Stand Up. The title was quite special, so she started reading it.

The protagonist of the story is a female comrade named An Xin. She is a clerk in a cotton mill. She does an excellent job and is very popular in the factory. In the eyes of outsiders, her life is very happy, but only she knows the hardships in her life.

Her husband has fallen in love with drinking in recent years, and he would beat her every time after drinking, and each time was more severe than the last. It's not that she hasn't thought about resisting, but a woman is no match for a man. In addition, there is no one around to help her, so she can only swallow her suffering.

Once again, she was beaten by her husband and fell unconscious. She spent a whole month in the hospital before she recovered. Her husband knelt at her feet to apologize, and said that he slapped her in the face in excitement, but An Xin did not forgive him.

Because this was not the first time he apologized like this, and he would do it again every time after apologizing, An Xin decided to teach him a lesson this time. She packed her bags and went home. The man begged her to stay, but she did not turn back. She thought that this time, the man would learn a lesson and change his ways.

However, it didn't happen. At the beginning of her stay at her mother's house, her younger brothers and sisters welcomed her very much and said they would help her vent her anger. Her younger brother also found a man, who sincerely apologized and promised that he would not do it again.

Later, she learned in an accident that the man had loved someone before. The woman's husband had died and she became a widow. She was raising a two-year-old child alone and her life was very unhappy. So the man began to find ways to support the woman. She saw the two of them flirting on the street.

She found the man to argue, and they had an argument. The man beat her again, and the trigger for the fight was that she called the woman a vixen.

After the younger brother found out, he ran to find the man, but he turned the tables on him, saying that An Xin was just overthinking and that she was going to frame someone else and he accidentally did it because he wanted to stop her.

What an accidental fight, what a false accusation. An Xin stayed at her parents' home for another month to recuperate. Her family, who had initially welcomed her, began to persuade her to leave, saying that couples fight at the head of the bed but make up at the foot of the bed, and life must go on.

An Xin knew that this was no longer her home. She could go back to her parents' home, but she couldn't stay there for too long, otherwise she would be disliked.

Being a woman, it is so difficult! Her parents’ home is not her home, her husband’s home is not her home, so where is her home?

After reading this, Jia Guimei started crying. Yes, that was her home.

Shen Feifei quickly handed her a piece of paper to wipe her tears, and Jia Guimei continued reading:

An Xin didn't sleep a wink the night before she left her parents' home. The next morning, she packed her luggage and returned home, where she saw her mother-in-law, father-in-law, children, and the man eating around the table.

Of the two children, only the daughter ran over to hug her and said she missed her after seeing her, while the son and the man looked at her without moving.

An Xin became more resolute in her decision. She began to play the role of a good daughter-in-law and a good mother, and her life returned to normal.

But this time, when the man was drunk and beat her, she called the police. Although the police treated it as an internal family conflict mediation, it made her husband's family, who always cared about their reputation, feel ashamed, and her father-in-law got even more angry. An Xin said nothing, but just kept crying. She wanted to cry for the neighbors to see, for people outside to see, so that everyone would know how pitiful she was.

In the past, she was just too stupid, she swallowed all the hardships, looked good on the surface, and endured everything for the sake of face. Now, she can't do that, she has no face, no substance, what face is there for her.

People tend to side with the weak. Look, Aunt Hu, who always disliked her and loved to make sarcastic remarks in the alley, no longer said anything sarcastic to her. Instead, she would sympathize with her and say a few words to help her.

Then, the next day after being beaten, An Xin went to the hospital to get a list of injuries. With the medical records, she went to the man's unit and found the factory leader to cry and complain. The man was scolded by the people in the unit, and many female comrades looked at him with contempt.

This made the man, who always cared about his reputation, unbearable. He wanted to beat her when he got home. His father-in-law stopped him in time: "What do you want to do! Don't you know how people look at our family now?" The man looked at the woman angrily, and the other people in the family turned their heads away from looking at An Xin. There was not even any food for her at home.

An Xin was not angry. She took her daughter out and pretended to be cowardly and scared. The neighbors asked her where she was going. She said she hadn't eaten for a day and was very hungry, so she took her daughter out to eat.

This action further confirmed that her mother-in-law's family was bullying her, and now they don't even give her food to eat.

Humph, wait and see, this is just the beginning, the best is yet to come. Thinking of this, she hummed a little tune happily in her heart.

(End of this chapter)