ebookland Chapter 675 The Past of the Mute Woman
Chapter 675 The Past of the Mute Woman
Chapter 675 The Past of the Mute Woman
Ye Rou helped the mute woman sit down and signaled her to calm down.
The mute woman covered her chest with her hands, hunched over in a chair, and cried silently.
Ye Rou didn't say anything and just stayed quietly by his side.
After a while, a strange hoarse voice suddenly sounded.
"Ms. Ye Rou."
Ye Rou was startled and quickly turned to look at the mute woman.
The dumb woman can speak?!
The mute woman lowered her eyes, staring at the floor tiles, and said slowly: "Ms. Ye Rou, let me tell you my story."
The mute woman's original name was Gao Xiaofeng. She was beautiful and straightforward, and was very popular among the boys in the village.
In that era, if you were not married at the age of 19, you were considered an old maid, but Xiaofeng had no choice.
She is the only daughter of her parents, who are old, but she is capable and keeps the whole family moving forward.
The situation at home meant that she could not abandon her parents and get married early.
Xiaofeng is an open-minded person and never gets stuck in a rut. Since it is destined to be like this, why bother herself with troubles?
The boys who had pursued her gradually got married and started their own families, and she kept putting it off until she got older. Just when Xiaofeng thought that this was how her life would be, at the age of 22, a matchmaker suddenly came to her house.
She knew the man the matchmaker was talking about, or rather, everyone in the village knew him - Li Cheng.
At such a young age, he has become a senior military officer with a bright future. He is tall and handsome, and is the admired man of all the girls in their village.
Xiaofeng didn't understand.
With Li Cheng's conditions, if he wanted to get married, he could marry a girl who is younger than her and has a better family background than her. After all, she is older.
Her parents were very satisfied with this marriage. They didn't want to burden their daughter for the rest of her life. Women have to get married sooner or later, and Li Cheng's conditions were so good that they would never be able to get married again.
The betrothal money given by Li Chengjia was very generous.
Xiaofeng's parents agreed, and Xiaofeng married to the next village without knowing why.
Only after entering the Li family did Xiaofeng understand why the Li family chose her.
Li Cheng is disabled.
During a mission, his teammate stepped on a bomb secretly buried by the enemy and he was hit. Shrapnel shot into his thigh. It was unknown where he was injured, but Li Cheng could not stand up.
He became disabled and retired from the army. He lost his coveted job and became a useless man.
Li Cheng felt so disappointed that he locked himself in the room all day and did not allow anyone else to enter.
His parents were superstitious and secretly asked someone to see him. The people said that Li Cheng was haunted by a ghost and needed to find a woman with a strong life to bring good luck.
Xiaofeng was selected.
Of course, she didn't know these things at that time.
She didn't think disability was a big deal. Since she was married, Li Cheng was her man.
Xiaofeng was just like she was at home, taking care of all the big and small chores around the house, taking care of Li Cheng's excrement and urination, and massaging his legs all day long.
Xiaofeng lived like this for three years.
Li Cheng also went from resisting and rejecting her at first to acquiescing to her existence.
Three years later, suddenly one day, a stranger came to the house. Xiaofeng came back from the mountain to chop firewood, but the stranger had already left. She only saw his back.
Having said this, the mute woman paused, her eyes filled with deep hatred.
Ye Rou felt her pain and patted the back of her hand gently.
The mute woman said she was fine, but she felt sick whenever she thought about the past.
Although she didn't know who the strange guest was, Xiaofeng felt that Li Cheng's family was in a very good mood, even Li Cheng, who had a gloomy face all day, actually had a smile on his face.
He was sitting in the wheelchair that Xiaofeng had made and polished himself, wearing a white shirt and looking handsome.
Xiaofeng remembered this scene for a long time.
She came in carrying a heavy load of firewood and asked them why they were so happy and if there was any good news.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she asked, the Li family members immediately stopped smiling and looked at her with sullen faces.
The look was full of scrutiny, criticism and rejection. It was extremely strange and piercing. Xiaofeng was so frightened that she stood there, not knowing why.
It was not until Li Cheng's father tapped his pipe and said in a muffled voice, asking her not to ask any questions, that the family turned their eyes away from her.
Xiaofeng always felt that something had happened that she didn't know about.
Three days later, a beautiful girl came to the house. She was young and pretty, wearing a white dress. She stood at the door and asked her with a smile: Is Brother Li Cheng here?
Xiaofeng had never seen such a beautiful woman before and was stunned on the spot.
It was not until Li Cheng came out pushing a wheelchair that the girl threw herself into Li Cheng's arms. Li Cheng, who was always indifferent, hugged the girl with his backhand, and the two of them hugged each other very intimately.
Xiaofeng sensed something was wrong and was about to stop it, but was stopped by her mother-in-law.
She said that the girl was Li Cheng's cousin, and that she was staying at home for a while because of some family matters. She had a good relationship with Li Cheng since childhood, so she asked her not to think too much about it.
Xiaofeng then let down her guard and took care of her cousin wholeheartedly.
She was like a servant of the Li family, doing the hardest and most tiring work, planting rice in the fields, chopping wood in the mountains, washing clothes, cooking...
Xiaofeng was very busy. Every time she went home, she would see Li Cheng sitting in a wheelchair with his cousin sitting next to him. The two of them were holding books and discussing something that was completely unfamiliar to her.
She tried to fit in, but was rudely driven away by Li Cheng every time.
Xiaofeng didn't want to make him unhappy, so she didn't go over to him and make himself unhappy.
At that time, Xiaofeng thought that if she was more diligent and obedient, Li Cheng would sooner or later see her good side and truly accept her.
It's so stupid and ridiculous.
She was a joke from beginning to end.
Suddenly one day, Li Cheng wanted her.
That day was Li Cheng's mother's birthday, and Xiaofeng was busy running around. Her mother-in-law praised Xiaofeng to everyone she met, saying that she was diligent and sensible, and was a good daughter-in-law.
When the villagers saw that the mother-in-law and Xiaofeng got along so happily, they all praised them and said that they were just like real mother and daughter.
Xiaofeng was also very excited.
This was the first time her mother-in-law praised her in three years.
After a tiring whole day, Xiaofeng was able to have a meal only after seeing off the villagers in the evening.
The mother-in-law said that her life was not easy and asked her to stop working. She left a lot of meat for her and drank with her and said many heartfelt words.
Xiaofeng came back to the room drunk and was pinned down by the man as soon as she got on the bed.
She was startled at first, but when she smelled the bitter smell of medicine - Li Cheng's leg injury needed medicine, she knew it was Li Cheng, so she did not resist and acquiesced to the man's actions.
The next morning, she was awakened by a scream. She opened her eyes in a daze, but before she was fully awake, the broom hit her.
Her mother-in-law cursed and threatened to beat her to death as a bitch.
Xiaofeng was startled and completely awake. She then saw clearly the face of the man sleeping next to her. He was the second-rate guy in the village who liked to flirt with widows.
She was covered in marks and naked, and it was clear what had happened.
The village chief came and brought people to tie up her and the scoundrel.
The second-rate guy actually slandered Li Cheng, saying that his legs were disabled and he hadn't touched Xiaofeng for three years. She couldn't bear the loneliness and took the initiative to seduce the second-rate guy.
When the mother-in-law heard the scoundrel slandering her son, she became so angry that she started cursing.
Li Cheng also looked at her with disappointment.
Xiaofeng tried her best to explain, but no one believed her.
She was sent back to her parents' home with a stigma on her body.
The villagers believed it, cursed and insulted him...
Xiaofeng's parents were old and could not bear the blow. Her father died of suffocation and her mother hanged herself.
She fell into complete despair, her sanity was in jeopardy, and she stayed at home all day, telling herself that she did not seduce anyone, and she really did not.
If her childhood friend hadn't come to wake her up, she might have lived her whole life in a daze.
The friend told her everything that happened to the Li family after she left.
Li Cheng was deeply hurt by her cuckolding behavior, but with his cousin's careful care and companionship, he actually recovered and even his leg healed.
He has now returned to the army and is going to marry my little cousin.
Xiaofeng felt heartbroken when she heard this, but she was also genuinely happy for Li Cheng.
Until a friend said, "How can there be such a coincidence in the world!"