allonlinenovel Chapter 6 A Terrifying Experience on the Cliff!
Chapter 6 A Terrifying Experience on the Cliff!
Shen Qingchuan was jolted, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar!
Is marrying into the family a thorn in my father's side?
Is his existence a disgrace to his father?
Shen Qingchuan could hardly believe what his eldest daughter had said, and he couldn't believe that his most respected father would do such a thing. But his eldest daughter's analysis was not entirely without reason. He felt powerless and slowly squatted down on the edge of the field, holding his head and crying silently.
Young Xiaoyu, with her short legs, walked around to her father, reached out and tugged at his sleeve, shaking it, her eyes reddening and brimming with tears.
My older sister said a lot, but she was too young to understand much. However, she understood that her grandfather and stepmother treated her father badly, only making him work and not letting him study or learn to read. Her grandfather and stepmother also disliked her father and mother.
“Dad, what’s wrong? Please don’t cry. Grandpa and stepmother are not good to you. My sister and I will be filial to you. Mother also feels sorry for you. Stepmother doesn’t like my sister and me either. She often beats and scolds me when you’re not home. My sister and I also make sarcastic remarks to Mother.”
Shen Xiaotang secretly praised her sister for being good at delivering the finishing blow.
Xiaoyu is too young to lie. It would be more appropriate for her younger sister to tell the story of her stepmother bullying the eldest son's family than for her to tell her mother. This way, the story would take root in her father's heart.
Sure enough, Shen Qingchuan stiffened, slowly raised his head, and hastily wiped his face.
"Yu'er, did your stepmother beat or scold you? Why didn't you tell your father before?"
Xiaoyu pouted, as if she was about to cry, "You...you've always listened to Grandpa and been filial to your stepmother. I...I'm afraid you'll be in a difficult position, and you've always felt...that your stepmother is a good person."
Shen Qingchuan slapped himself hard on the forehead, feeling guilty and annoyed.
"It's because your father is stupid, it's because your father is useless, it's because your father has made you three suffer."
Seeing her husband in such distress, Liu felt uneasy as well.
“Dad, I used to be like you, I didn’t have any problems with you and stepmother, but ever since Yu’er started talking, her stuttering has gotten worse. I think it’s all because she was scared by stepmother. This morning you weren’t back yet, I was cutting pig feed and came in when I saw stepmother about to hit Yu’er. If I hadn’t just happened to be there, the slap would have landed on Yu’er. There are more than a dozen people in our Shen family, and Yu’er is the youngest. She’s been feeding chickens for half a year. Yinxiu is a year older than Tang’er, she’s seven years old but she hasn’t even been to the chicken coop yet.”
Yes, his father and stepmother not only favored their son and daughter-in-law, but also their grandchildren. He never thought it was abnormal before!
Shen Qingchuan's face darkened, and he slowly stood up. "I will never let you three suffer oppression because of me again!"
Finally, he let his wife and daughter sit under a tree at the foot of the mountain to cool off, while he worked alone in the field, as if venting his anger, his work becoming much rougher than usual.
Liu felt heartbroken, but she didn't try to persuade him; she believed her husband needed to come to terms with it himself.
"Tang'er, you've grown up. You're even more insightful than your mother when it comes to things."
How could it not be transparent?
She's not really six years old. She's an orphan who went to school, went to university, and worked her way up in the cutthroat workplace. If she can't see through all this, wouldn't she have wasted two lives?
“Mother, you and Father are just too honest. You work hard every day without complaint and have gotten used to suffering losses.”
Liu sighed, "This time, I don't know if your father will agree to divide the family property."
"Don't worry, after Dad goes to town tomorrow and asks Mr. Lu, he will definitely agree!"
This was Liu's first time in the fields, but she didn't go down to work. Sitting under the tree, she started to feel uneasy again. "Tang'er, why don't you stay here with your sister? I'll go down to the fields and help your father for a while."
"Mom, just sit here and rest. Grandma scolds us for being lazy and shirking our duties every day. Today, you can take a break and rest properly. Besides, it's Dad who told you to rest, so what are you afraid of?"
Liu felt a little relieved, but her stomach started rumbling at an inopportune moment.
Hearing her mother's stomach rumble, Shen Xiaotang said indignantly, "Mom, you must not have eaten enough this morning. You and my sister wait here, I'll go to the mountains to find some wild fruits for you and Dad to eat."
Upon hearing this, Liu's expression immediately changed. "Tang'er, no! There are many snakes on the mountain, and there are large insects in the depths. It's too dangerous."
“Mother, I know what I'm doing, don’t worry. I’ll find a stick to tap along the way, and I definitely won’t go too deep. You stay here and watch over my sister. I’ll be back as soon as I find some wild fruit.”
Before her mother could reply, Shen Xiaotang got up and ran down the mountain.
Once Shen Xiaotang entered the mountain, she followed a path that someone had trodden, found a stick about the thickness of a thumb, and tapped on the withered branches and fallen leaves as she walked forward.
After walking quite a distance, we finally found a wild jujube tree on the edge of a cliff. It was covered with green jujubes the size of a baby's fist. Perhaps because it grew so close to the edge of the cliff, it was difficult and dangerous to pick, which is why it was able to grow so big safely. These green jujubes looked a lot like the ones sold in supermarkets in my previous life. They must be crisp, sweet and delicious.
Hehe, today's trip was worthwhile, a great harvest!
She ran over excitedly, but when she reached out, she couldn't reach it!
Oh dear, in my moment of joy, I completely forgot that I'm only six years old, pale and thin, and underdeveloped.
She had no choice but to use the branches on the stick to hook a branch over backwards and painstakingly pick seven or eight green dates.
It's such a waste that this tree has so many green jujubes, but she can only look at them and can't reach them. She was a little unwilling, so she went to find a thicker and longer stick elsewhere, hooked it onto the nearest jujube branch, and shook it vigorously a few times.
Because they were small and not very strong, the shaking was not enough, and the green dates fell off the cliff one after another, with only three or five landing on the edge.
Although she regretted not being able to pick more, she wasn't greedy. Being able to share some with her parents and sister was already enough.
She carefully picked up the green dates from the edge of the cliff. There was one right at the edge, about to fall, which made her heart itch with desire.
Shen Xiaotang took a deep breath, slowly moved over, and used a small stick to gently push the green dates back.
"what--"
Shen Xiaotang gasped and abruptly squatted down behind her, her face turning deathly pale and her heart nearly leaping out of her throat.
Behind the green date was a gray snake, its tongue flicking as it stared straight at her!
Ignoring her fear, Shen Xiaotang immediately grabbed a thick stick beside her, rolled up her clothes, hurriedly picked up a few green dates, and ran back in a panic.
My goodness!
After running quite a distance, she realized that she hadn't taken the same route she had come from!
I had originally planned to collect more than ten green dates before heading down the mountain, but now, looking at the pitifully few five or six green dates tucked into my clothes, I felt a pang of heartache.
It took a lot of effort to get them down, but we only managed to bring out six, and it was a terrifying ordeal on the edge of the cliff.
That's such a bad deal!
Well, we're already here, and it's still early. Maybe we can find something else to take back. Thieves never leave empty-handed, especially since this is a deserted mountain no one cares about.
So, Shen Xiaotang continued walking forward, tapping on the withered branches and fallen leaves.