The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor

 Chapter 402 Begging to sell oneself (2)

Mo Yan picked up a piece of peanut candy and took a bite, then poked Xin'er with her elbow, who was silently comforting her good sister. Seeing her look over, she pointed at the plate on the small table and then at Tang Xin.

Xin'er understood immediately, picked up the largest sugar melon and stuffed it into Tang Xin's hand: "This is the sugar melon my sister just made. Please try it quickly to see if it tastes good."

 Speaking, he took one himself, opened his mouth and took a big bite, making a crisp sound. Although she was full, in order to take into account her sisters' self-esteem, she still pretended to eat deliciously.

 “I want to eat too, I haven’t had enough yet!”

Zhen'er shouted happily, and quickly took several pieces of peanut candy as if she was afraid that Mo Yan would stop her. The Yun Zhao brothers and sisters are young and they like to eat sweets. Now they still have to eat, so naturally they won't let it go.

Tang Xin stared blankly at the sugar melon in her hand. Her breath was full of strong sweetness. When she came back to her senses, she had already eaten it in her mouth. It was sweeter and more delicious than she imagined.

 After eating a sugar melon and a few pieces of peanut candy, Tang Xin gradually relaxed. Under Xin'er's soft-spoken concern, she recounted intermittently the two or three severe beatings she had suffered not long ago.

Today is the New Year, and every household is busy dusting and offering sacrifices to the stove, and the Tang family is no exception. Tang Xin got up early in the morning and dusted herself off with her father, Tang Zhutou. And her stepmother Tang Yushi, two stepsisters and half-brother were still sleeping in the warm quilt.

By the time the house is clean inside and out, it’s time to have breakfast. It's better to call it breakfast than breakfast. The Tang family, like most families in the village, only eats two meals a day.

Because he was delayed for a while cleaning the house, before the meal was cooked, Tang Bao started to cry from hunger. Although he is only two or three years old, he has already been spoiled by Tang Yushi and Tang Zhutou. Once he starts crying, no one can coax him to death.

Tang Yushi was not a good-tempered person in the first place. She was very upset when her son cried, so she blamed all the faults on Tang Xin, who she had always regarded as a thorn in her side. She blamed her for being slow and didn't have time to cook, so she picked up the food in the corner. Teng Tiao rushed to the kitchen and beat Tang Xin severely, who was making porridge.

Ever since Tang Yushi married into the Tang family, it has become a common occurrence for Tang Xin to suffer such severe beatings. Normally she would find an opportunity to escape, but this time with the obstruction of Tang Daya and Tang Erya, she didn't even have the chance to escape. No, it wasn't until the cane was broken and Tang Yushi was tired that she let go of the scarred Tang Xin.

Tang Zhutou was holding his youngest son in the room and coaxing him, listening to his biological daughter's suppressed sobs, but never came out to stop him, or even glanced at him.

However, Tang Xin still had to drag out her life-long injuries and continued to add fire to cook the porridge. When the porridge was ready, Tang Yushi took her bowl away and locked her out, leaving her hungry in the wind and snow. She was trembling and wouldn't even give her a sip of rice soup.

This was not the first time that she was not given food. Tang Xin was used to it. She originally thought that Tang Yushi would let her go after she calmed down, but when she was boiling sugar and frying corn kernels to make sugar melons in the afternoon, Tang Yushi found another excuse and She beat him severely. This time there was no rattan, so he went straight to it, took off the cotton-padded clothes that Xiner gave her, and twisted and pinched her body.

Tang Xin couldn't bear it anymore, so he grabbed Tang Yushi's hand and bit him hard. But she was small and weak, so the enraged Tang Yushi slapped her hard several times. Not only was her face so swollen that she couldn't see, several of her teeth were also loose, and a lot of blood flowed from her mouth.

“You little **** who is suffering from the plague, someone will come to deal with you tomorrow. I want to see if you dare to be so arrogant in a place like that.”

Tang Yushi looked at the bitten and bleeding hand, and her hatred for her stepdaughter deepened. She lost control and said these words indiscriminately. She wanted to hide it, but it was too late.

 “No, no, my dad won’t let you do this, you vicious woman!”

Tang Xin was stunned for a moment, and then she screamed in disbelief, but there was a voice in her heart telling her that this was true. She got rid of Tang Yushi's beating and rushed into the house to question Tang Zhutou, but Tang Zhutou's silence made her, who originally had a glimmer of hope, completely despair.

She has endured so many years of hardship and suffered so many years of sin, but she has not been able to get there. If she could, even if she was working as a cow or a horse for others, she would not want to fall into that dirty quagmire and be unable to turn around for the rest of her life. So when Tang Yushi and others were not paying attention, she secretly ran to Mo's house.

After hearing what happened to Tang Xin, there was silence in the small room. No one spoke. They just listened to her repeating those words: "I don't want to go to that place, don't go, even if it means death..."

Xin'er held Tang Xin's hand tightly, tears streaming down her face: "Tang Xin, there will be a way, there will be a way..."

She knew that her good sisters had a very bad life at the hands of her stepmother, but she still underestimated the harm she had suffered and developed a deep fear of the word "stepmother". She was suddenly glad that her father had passed away after her mother eloped. , there is no need to find a stepmother for her.

Zhen'er thought the same way. He held his father's arm nervously, and even wanted to get a promise, a promise not to find a stepmother for him.

Yun Zhao had an expressionless face, but he softly comforted Yun Sheng, who was sobbing constantly. The two brothers and sisters also made a living under their stepmother, but even if their stepmother Song wanted to get rid of them, she didn't dare to abuse them so blatantly. This Tang Xin was really miserable, and she didn't want such a vicious family member. !

Aunt and nephew Li Xiu also sympathized with Tang Xin's experience. They originally wanted to step forward to comfort her, but they didn't know how to speak, for fear of saying the wrong thing and making her even more sad.

 Mo Yan felt equally uncomfortable. Tang Xin looked about the same age as Xin'er, but she grew up in a family with no family ties, and her temperament was much more mature than Xin'er's. She felt that once the little girl fell into a place like the Goulan Courtyard, she might really commit suicide for the sake of her innocence.

She really wanted to go to the Tang family to seek justice for Tang Xin, but she had no relationship with Tang Xin and was in no position to do so. Tang Yushi is not a good person. If she is angered, there is no telling what trouble will happen. Even if she wants to help, she has to think of a safe way...

At this moment, Tang Xin stood up suddenly, knelt in front of Mo Qingze again, touched his head to the ground and kowtowed, then raised his head again with a decisive look on his face: "Mr. Mo, you are a good man, please save me." Save my little girl, even if I spend the rest of my life working as a cow to repay your kindness, my little girl will never regret it!"

 (End of this chapter)