chasing the dark

Chapter 15
In the past few years, there have been frequent changes in the family. The old mother-in-law is getting worse and worse.Wu Xiufen was busy with field work and taking care of the whole family, but she never complained because she always felt that she was sorry for her husband and lost her son.

Wu Xiufen swallowed her anger, and this has been going on for several years.

The eldest daughter was not in the mood to continue studying after graduating from primary school, so she went home to help take care of her grandmother and younger sister.

Now this sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl has shared many of the burdens of life for Wu Xiufen.

As for her husband, Wu Xiufen had always hoped that one day he would change his mind, but unexpectedly, what he hoped for was a change of capital.

Men go home less and less, and when they come back, they will make the family restless, and there will be constant beatings and scolding.As a result, as long as he is at home, the whole family dare not even show their pride.

On this day, a man who had not returned home after nearly a month appeared at the door of the house.

The little daughter playing in the yard turned pale when she saw him, opened her mouth a few times, called her dad timidly, and then didn't dare to move.

No wonder the little girl was frightened like this. Once a man came home, she ran away, and was beaten by the man with a stride forward, holding her collar.While beating, she also scolded her for being rude, she couldn't even call people, and said she was a broom star.

It was rare for the man not to curse today, but he ignored her and went straight into the house.

Wu Xiufen was cooking, and when her husband came back, she was at a loss and prepared to cook two more dishes, and told her eldest daughter to go to the small store in the village to buy wine.

The man stopped his daughter, took out a few banknotes from his trouser pocket, and said that he would give her the remaining money for pocket money.

The daughter was bewildered by his sudden action, and she took the money out after a moment of stupefaction.

Wu Xiufen watched, feeling a little inexplicably agitated in her heart. Could it be that her husband is going to change his sex?

The dishes were fried, the beer and liquor were bought, and the man started to eat and drink, and for the first time, invited the family members to come to the table too.

Although the meal was trembling, it was the most peaceful meal the whole family had together in the past few years.

After the man drank most of the bottle of white wine, he opened his mouth.

He said that he had told his eldest daughter about the marriage, and he would go through the door first, and then register when he was old.

The mother-in-law asked who it was.

The man said a name.

Before her mother-in-law could realize who this person was, Wu Xiufen had already firmly said no.

That man was from a neighboring village, and he hadn't begged for a wife in his thirties, but the women around him had never been cut off.Eat, drink, prostitute, and gamble, relying on his brother-in-law to be a leader in the city, and run amok in the surrounding villages.

Although the eldest daughter was not Wu Xiufen's own, after many years of getting along, she was no different from her own mother and daughter. No matter what, she couldn't let her daughter marry such a person.

Besides, how old is the daughter?Marrying so early, and the other party is still so old, it is impossible to say anything.

This is the first time in several years that Wu Xiufen has openly resisted.

This behavior of hers made the man instantly angry, and he slapped him with a slap, cursing uncleanly.

The mother-in-law tried to stop her, but she was pushed off the kang and fell to the ground.The two daughters cried and went to help grandma, and suddenly, the house became a mess.

The man got off the kang, pushed and shoved the grandparents and grandson out of the house, then pushed in the door instead, got on the kang and rode on Wu Xiufen's body to beat him, completely ignoring the knocking on the door.

But no matter how the man beats her, Wu Xiufen just doesn't spit it out.

In a hurry, the man picked up a beer bottle and threw it at her head.

The remaining half bottle of wine splashed as the bottle shattered, Wu Xiufen passed out, but the man was still puzzled, and slapped the fainted woman on the face a few more times before stopping.

When Wu Xiufen woke up, she didn't realize what happened for a long time.

There was no pain anywhere in his body, and his face was even hotter.One eye could not be opened, and the other was also blurred, as if something was glued to it.

She tried to wipe it with her hand, but the sticky feeling and the smell of wine mixed with blood finally woke her up.

Regardless of the pain in her body, she tried to sit up.

Looking around, the house was in a mess, and the husband was sleeping on the kang with his back sprawled and snoring.

Listen carefully, there are still bursts of sobbing in the outer room.

Thinking of what happened before, Wu Xiufen's heart throbbed with pain.

Looking at her sleeping husband, she felt that what was lying there was no longer a human being, but a beast.

In the past few years, he not only went home to ask for money, but also had people come to collect debts from time to time.To marry her daughter to such a scoundrel this time must be a gambling debt to him.

Back then, if it wasn't for money, how could the family marry her to this man.Now, she must not let her daughter go her own way, absolutely not!
Thinking of this, she forgot about the pain in her body, got up and left the house.

As soon as the door opened, her appearance startled the mother-in-law and the two children.

The mother-in-law wiped her tears, fetched water to wipe her face, and the eldest daughter went to grandma's house to find medicine and rub it on her.

After a brief treatment, she said that she was fine, and told them to go to bed quickly, tidy up and go to bed by themselves.

It wasn't the first time she'd been beaten, nor was it the hardest.Seeing her persistence, the person in the room had already snored, and the mother-in-law returned to the room with the two children.

Wu Xiufen sat in the outer room for a while, making sure her mother-in-law and the others had fallen asleep, and took out an ax from the stove...

The hoarse voice narrated the unbearable past with a crying tone. The women in the cell listened and sighed, and some even wept along with them.

"I said you are really stupid. It's not worth paying for this kind of person." Dalin hated him, "Won't you run away with your daughter?"

"Where are you going?" Wu Xiufen raised her handcuffed hands and wiped the tears from her face. "Since I got married, I have cut off contact with my mother's family. We have nowhere to go."

"If you have hands and feet, you can't go anywhere. How can you starve to death?" Dayingzi interjected.

Wu Xiufen shook her head feebly: "My mother-in-law is old and her legs and feet are bad. She has struggled to walk in the past two years. The little girl is too young and her body is weak. She may get sick if she catches a cold. I definitely can't leave them behind, but If you don't run far with... you will be caught. At that time, you may not know what will happen."

"Alas... Another miserable person..."

"Even selling his own daughter, this man really deserves to die, and being alive is a disaster."

"That's how you can be called a human? It's just a beast!"

"This person, you can't get involved in gambling. Once you get involved, your relatives will deny you."

"..."

Women, you and I express my sympathy for Wu Xiufen and my anger towards his man.

"If you want me to say, in the final analysis, the traffickers should die, otherwise her family would become like this!"

I don't know who said such a sentence, the woman in the cell seemed to be awakened by someone, and turned the finger on the traffickers.

Some people even counted the cases where their families were ruined by human traffickers, and some even glanced in Wang Ling's direction, and even gave a "pooh" to the ground to show their hatred for human traffickers.

(End of this chapter)