Chapter 8: A murder caused by a toffee
"Whoa..."
A burst of passionate **** crowing woke up Tian Shao, who was soundly asleep. She felt someone get up and barely opened her eyes, only to find that the outside was still gray: "What are you doing before dawn?"
Sanya said with a good temper: "Sister, you are not feeling well, go to sleep, I will make breakfast."
Tian Shao hummed and turned around and continued to sleep. When she woke up, she found that she was the only one left on the bed. Stretching, Tian Shao put on a patched dress and went out.
Walking out of the house, she saw Wuya sweeping the floor, Tian Shao asked, "Where are your parents?"
Wuya pointed to the mountain behind her and said, "Dad and mother took the second sister to the mountain to cut firewood before dawn."
Hearing this, Tian Shao felt very uncomfortable. Li Guihua gave birth to a child seven years ago with massive bleeding, and it took more than a year for her to get better. The same is true for her family who fell into a huge deficit.
In order to support the family, Tian Dalin went to the mountains to cut firewood every day before dawn and after work. After drying, he cut off the wood and sent it to his cousin's house in the county. Of course, it’s actually a sale, and the cousin will give money or take something in return. But this cousin is too shrewd, knowing that Tian Dalin's family has no other way to only pay half of the market price. Just like this, she felt that she had taken care of Tian Dalin's family.
Tian Dalin and Li Guihua also knew that the other side had oppressed them, but they had no choice. This was the only way they found.
When Sanya was making breakfast, Tian Dalin specially asked her to cook an extra egg for Tian Shao.
Si Ya stared at the egg in Tian Shao's hand and swallowed her saliva. Seeing that Tian Shao was about to eat it by herself, she asked for it: "Sister, I want to eat eggs too."
Tian Shao looked at her and asked, "Tell me, Sanya gets up in the morning to cook and wash clothes, and Wuya picks vegetables and sweeps the floor. What about you? What did you do in the morning?"
Siya was speechless.
Tian Shao gave half of the eggs to Wu Ya, and said, "Wu Ya can eat eggs if she does work today, but you don't have eggs to eat if you don't work."
Siya hurriedly said: "Sister, I will definitely work tomorrow, so give me eggs first!"
"From today onwards, if you don't work, you won't have any good things." Li Guihua beat her up many times because she was too lazy to eat, but it didn't work. Tian Shao felt that if she wanted to change, she had to start with eating.
Seeing Wu Ya enter the kitchen and take out a piece of oil paper, Tian Shao asked strangely: "I asked you to take the bowl, what are you doing with it?"
Wu Ya whispered: "Breakfast is coming soon, I will save up these eggs and eat them when I am hungry."
After she finished speaking, she carefully put the half of the egg into oiled paper, and then gently wrapped it up and put it in her pocket. The attitude of the godly city seemed to be doing a particularly sacred thing.
Siya was so sad that she couldn't eat the eggs and cried.
Comparing the two little girls, Tian Shao suddenly felt ashamed when she thought that her grandmother had to find ways to coax her to eat eggs and milk when she was young.
After a while, Tian Dalin, Li Guihua and Erya came back. The three quickly washed their faces and ate quickly. Because they were about to go to work soon, Tian Shao felt very uncomfortable watching the three gobble up.
As soon as the whistle sounded outside, the husband and wife immediately put down the bowls and chopsticks, picked up the farm tools and went out, Erya and Sanya followed closely behind.
Tian Shao was too embarrassed to be idle, so he washed the sheets and mats in the house and dried them, and then cleaned the kitchen.
Wu Ya came back from herding cattle, and saw cabinets, pots and pans, etc. placed at the door of the house. Wuya rubbed the back of her head and asked with a puzzled look, "Elder Sister, what are you doing?"
Tian Shao wiped off the sweat from his head, and said with a smile: "The kitchen is too dirty, I cleaned it up. I'll take a break first, you cook!"
Tian Daya has always been diligent, and Wu Ya didn't suspect anything.
Near noon, the two started cooking. Tian Shao was preparing to cook, when suddenly there was a burst of crying outside. Wu Ya threw away the tongs, got up and said, "Eldest Sister, it's Fourth Sister who is crying."
When the two walked out of the kitchen, they saw Erya dragging the crying Siya into the yard. One of the two had messy hair and bloodstains on his face, while the other had clear five-fingerprints on his face.
Tian Shao was about to speak, but Erya pushed Siya to the ground and scolded angrily: "Are you a reincarnation of a starving ghost? How many times have I told you not to steal food from other people's houses, but you just don't listen, They deserve to be beaten to death.”
Tian Shao's expression turned ugly when he heard this. If it's just a fight between children, Siya can only admit that Si Ya made a mistake before the other party hit hard, but adults can't do it. If you don't pursue it, the other party will bully her family in the future!
Erya saw that she was still crying, so she kicked her in anger: "Cry, cry, cry, you still have face, your family's face has been completely humiliated by you."
Tian Shao pulled her up and said, "Siya is at fault, but if she is like this, you should stop beating her."
Erya shook off Tian Shao's hand, and said with red eyes, "It's all your fault. If you treat yourself to marriage instead of throwing yourself into the river suddenly, with the support of historians, they wouldn't dare to bully us like this."
She couldn't mention how happy she was when the marriage was settled. With such a powerful brother-in-law, not only can the family live in a big brick house and live a good life, but no one in the village dares to bully them anymore. As a result, the marriage ended two days before I was happy, and the family fell into a more difficult situation than before. Whenever she thinks of this incident, she feels very resentful.
Tian Shao said with unfriendly eyes: "The historian is a pit of fire, you want to jump your own sister into the pit of fire in order to live a good life?"
Erya didn't think so, pointed at Tian Shao's nose and cursed: "What kind of fire pit, the historian is obviously a nest of blessings. If someone provokes a few words, just believe them. Just forget about being stupid, and you'll hurt your parents and us."
Erya didn't know about the process of retiring yesterday, neither did Tian Dalin and Li Guihua, so she thought Shi Tiesheng was a good person.
Tian Shao ignored her, walked over to help Si Ya up, then fetched water to wash her face and hands: "Who hit her?"
Si Ya choked and said: "Little fat lady beat me. Eldest sister, I don't want to, but the big white rabbit toffee is so delicious that I couldn't hold it back for a while."
Tian Shao thought about it for a while, and asked, "Xiao Pang, Peng Nianqiu's second brother?"
"yes."
Peng Nianqiu's family has three daughters and two sons. Peng's father and Peng's mother are not hardworking people. Life is more difficult than their family's. How can they have money to buy toffee? Thinking of this, Tian Shao's heart skipped a beat, and he asked, "Is the milk candy from Tian Lingling's family?"
Si Ya choked up and said, "Yes. Sister, Sister Lingling's family not only sent big white rabbit milk candy and a large piece of meat, but also sent two cans of malted milk to Nianqiu's body. By the way, they also sent several Put some clothes on for Sister Nianqiu to wear."
She was still waiting for Tian Lingling to tell everyone that it was Da Ya who saved the life, so the rumors would be self-defeating, and now it seems that the worst situation has emerged.
Siya's eyes showed yearning: "Elder sister, I heard that malted milk is delicious. They are so happy, big and small."
Tian Shao didn't even know what to say. Just crying so sadly, and forgetting about being beaten as soon as you talk about eating, this level is really beyond the reach of ordinary people.
(end of this chapter)