System: The Path of a Mortal Being Stronger Through Being a Mother

Zhang Erzhuang was so scared that he ran outside, but he couldn't get out of his house.

Qiu also woke up, and she also saw the child with the pale face and rosy lips. Wasn’t this Zhang Lai Jin from her eldest uncle’s family?

She trembled and hid behind Zhang Erzhuang, but Zhang Erzhuang pulled her in front of him.

He said in a trembling voice, "My dear nephew, aren't you in the circus? Why, why are you back?"

The child grinned and said, "I wanted to escape back and find my mother, but the class owner found me and beat me to death."

The cold wind blew so hard that the window paper made a rustling sound.

The child laughed and said, "The boss threw my body into the river. I'm so cold. Uncle and Aunt, can you come and keep me company?"

Zhang Erzhuang was scared to death. His nephew had died a long time ago, and now he was here to take his life?

He asked tremblingly, "Lai Jin, don't scare my uncle. It's been so many years. Why did you come to see me just now?"

The child was slow to respond after a while, then he slowly said, "I...I couldn't find my way home. Fortunately, someone from our village passed by that river, and I followed him back."

"Uncle, why are there only you and Auntie and Grandma in this family? Where are my mother and the others?"

Zhang Erzhuang's eyes lit up: "My child, look, your mother and the others have moved away from here, why don't you go find your mother?"

Qiu nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, go find your mother."

The child's eyes narrowed, his face clouded over, "No, you sent me away, you killed me."

"My death was so tragic that I came to find you. I want you, Second Aunt, and Brother Laiyin to accompany me. Come, come quickly..."

The child chased Zhang Erzhuang and Qiu all over the house, asking them to go and accompany him.

Zhang Erzhuang and Qiu were both scared to death.

Their legs felt like they were filled with lead and they couldn't run at all.

Qiu suddenly broke down and cried, "It's not me, it's not me, it has nothing to do with me. It was your second uncle who tricked you away and sold you, don't look for me, go find him, wuwuwu..."

Zhang Erzhuang was furious when he saw his wife betrayed him. He went up to Qiu and beat her: "You damned woman, wasn't it you who came up with the idea that if the eldest wife's Lai Jin was sold, not only would we get some money, but we could also let our son Lai Yin go to school, which is better than working like a slave to support someone else's child. Why are you blaming me now?"

Qiu was not to be outdone and also scratched his face: "Zhang Erzhuang, you bastard, am I wrong? How can you be like this? You don't support your own son, but you support your nephew's education. You idiot, you dare to hit me..."

The two men cursed and fought each other, neither of them giving in.

Outside the door, old man and old lady Zhang were standing dumbfounded. With such a loud noise in the room, they should have been unconscious. The door was ajar, so they stood at the door and listened to the whole process.

When their eldest grandson went missing, they were heartbroken and suspected their second son.

However, they couldn't find their grandson anywhere, and they had no choice but to turn a blind eye and pretend nothing had happened. After all, they only had this one son left.

The grandson from the eldest wife’s side is too young, he is less than 4 years old.

Not to mention whether they can be supported or not, the old family has only two daughters and a young son left. How can they support the family? Will they have to rely on the second son for their retirement in the future?

In this way, they completely turned their attention to the second child.

Today, they heard a lot of noise coming from the second brother's place, so they came over to check it out. They didn't expect to hear these things. How could they cope with this?

Lin Miao stood in the shadows, looking at the family of four. She had already called back the paper figures.

The little paper man crawled into Lin Miao's sleeve and looked out through the cuffs with its two little hands.

Lin Miao nodded its head and said, "You are so curious, aren't you afraid that the wind will blow you away?"

Everything was clear now, so she didn't need to show mercy anymore, but she wanted to hear what the two old men had to say.

Their different attitudes determine the treatment they will receive.

There is no statement.

Old man Zhang thought to himself: If you are not deaf and dumb, you are not qualified to be a patriarch. The eldest grandson is dead, so what is the point of pursuing the second one?

Old Mrs. Zhang has always loved her youngest son the most and did not want to pursue the matter. However, she could not tolerate Qiu's audacity to attack her son.

So she took off her shoes and slapped Qiu in the face.

When Qiu saw that the ghost of the little kid had disappeared and just breathed a sigh of relief, he was beaten with the sole of a shoe.

She thought about what she had just said, and she was not confident enough to confront her mother-in-law anymore. She stammered, "Mom, look at you. Why are you so angry? We are husband and wife, and we fight at the head of the bed and make up at the foot of the bed. I won't do that again in the future."

Mrs. Zhang's eyes were filled with threats: "Watch your mouth from now on. If you dare to talk nonsense again, I won't be afraid to poison you and make you mute. If you dare to fight with my son next time, I will chop off your fingers."

Qiu curled his lips and said nothing.

Zhang Erzhuang had just been chased by a child ghost and was so scared that he peed his pants. He was also scratched several times by Qiu and his face was covered in blood. In addition, he had been unlucky these past two days, so he looked so terrible.

Old man Zhang looked at his second son coldly and could only sigh in his heart.

Doesn’t he feel sorry for his eldest grandson?

Of course he felt bad, because that was his most precious child, the one he pinned all his hopes on, but...

As an old man, what can he do? The dead must give way to the living.

It’s all because of that useless Lin. She can’t even protect her own son.

He said to his wife with a cold face: "Buy some paper money tomorrow and burn it on the roadside, so that the child can go to heaven as soon as possible."

Old Mrs. Zhang nodded.

The two of them left without saying anything more.

Lin Miao just watched everything in the house coldly from a distance.

Why should she hold back against such an inhumane family?

She observed that the astrology palaces of her own children's brothers and sisters were full and without defects, but a little dark, which meant that some of the brothers and sisters were damaged but not dead.

What kind of paper are you two old fools burning?

But Zhang Jinyan’s imperial examination was just a few months away, and the two old men could not die, otherwise Jinyan would have to wait for three years.

Who says revenge must end with death? The best revenge is to live a life worse than death.

The next morning, Zhang Erzhuang went to the toilet. He accidentally twisted his foot and fell into the pit.

When his family found him and fished him out, he was breathing out more than breathing in.

Old man Zhang was helpless. He couldn’t find his grandson Zhang Laiyin. He didn’t know where he had gone so early in the morning.

He asked a young man from the neighboring family to call a doctor to treat his son.

The old doctor entered the house and smelled a particularly disgusting smell. He thought to himself, "Did this family fall into the toilet?"

But the doctor is a caring person, so he pinched his nose and treated Zhang Erzhuang. He gasped: "This, this is serious."

Qiu was puzzled: "It's just falling into the toilet, how serious can it be?"

When the old doctor heard this, he suppressed his nausea and said, "Oh, that's it. The tendons and bones in his hands and feet seemed to be fine, but they are all broken and can't be used."

After saying that, he didn't ask for the consultation fee and just said that he couldn't cure the disease. He quickly ran out of Zhang's house and started retching as soon as he came out.

Old Mrs. Zhang didn't believe that her son would be like this just because of a fall, so she hired a car to take him to the county town. She went to several clinics, but they all refused to accept him, so she had to bring him back.

Zhang Erzhuang knew everything clearly in his mind, but he couldn't speak and his hands and feet couldn't move, as if he was tied up by something.

Lin Miao sneered: The little devil has tied you up, how can you move?

Qiu could only wipe Zhang Erzhuang's shit and urine, and cursed him while working every day.

The old couple of the Zhang family are several years old, but they no longer dare to teach their daughter-in-law a lesson.

After a few busy days, they realized that Zhang Laiyin had not appeared for several days.

Several people's hearts skipped a beat and they were at a loss as to what to do.

Old man Zhang stumbled over to the teacher where Zhang Laiyin was studying.

The teacher was also very angry and scolded him, "Zhang Laiyin doesn't study hard every day. He often goes out with others to drink and gamble. He misses classes for no reason. You family members, why don't you do anything about it? If he continues like this, he should not come here in the future. Anyway, he is not cut out for studying. Look, there is no one older than him in this academy, but he comes here every day to waste time."

Old man Zhang fell down all of a sudden.

The gentleman was also shocked. No way, this money has been like this for several years, and his family doesn’t even know about it?

Don’t his family members usually check on his studies?

Helpless, the gentleman begged someone to hire a car to take Old Man Zhang back home.

Lin Miao was also shocked when she heard this. Old man Zhang must not die, and Zhang Jinyan’s imperial examination cannot be delayed.

She had no choice but to go to his house, secretly check his pulse, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

It’s okay, the old man can still live for a few more years.

This time, both men in the Zhang family are bedridden.

Zhang Laiyin was finally found.

In a dry well in a village, Zhang Laiyin, whose hands and feet were broken, managed to survive by eating mice and insects, but his hands and feet were useless.

Zhang Laiyin shouted that it must be Zhang Jinyan who harmed him.

But if he were asked to say it, there was no basis for it, and he couldn't say that he suspected him because he had harmed Zhang Jinyan.

Besides, ever since that incident, Lin Miao has hired Wang Er's ox cart in the village to pick up and drop off Zhang Jinyan. She just said that because the exam was coming up, she was afraid that Zhang Jinyan would be too tired and hurt his body.

This also makes him a strong witness that it is impossible for Zhang Jinyan to harm Zhang Laiyin.

When Wang Er heard that Zhang Laiyin had framed Zhang Jinyan, he sneered at the villagers: "What nonsense! I pick up and drop off Jinyan every day. He is always at home, except for school. He rides on a bullock cart on the road. How can I have the time to harm him?"

The villagers also said: "That's right, Jinyan doesn't need to harm him, is Zhang Laiyin crazy?"

Old Mrs. Zhang had no sympathy at all for her second son and was full of resentment.

If it weren't for this useless son he raised, who was always teasing cats and dogs and didn't learn his lesson, how could he have been harmed by others and caused his grandfather to be angry and heartbroken?

Day after day, the Zhang family's house was filled with smoke and foul smells.

Qiu didn't want to serve the man. Not only was this man dirty and smelly, but he also became more and more sinister day by day, which scared her.

But she couldn't bear to leave her son, as she had a daughter who was already married.

If I leave and remarry, who will take care of my son and how will my daughter live?

If she doesn't get married again, she will have nothing and can't survive without the Zhang family.

Lin Miao no longer cared about the Zhang family's messy life. She gave them pension money on time anyway, so let them linger on together. Isn't this better than death?

She had more important things to deal with.