"Qing'er is indeed capable. She is the only one among our women." Yang Huamei raised her thumbs up with a look of pride on her face.
Hongmei smiled.
Before meeting Yang Ruoqing, she asked herself whether she was capable among women. Every time she thinks back to her previous twenty years of experience, she feels infinite emotion in her heart.
Just after she was born, her mother died.
My father soon married his stepmother, who was a widow from the same village. She brought a fat son and asked her to call him brother.
Her stepmother was not good to her, hitting or scolding her, but her father ignored her.
When she was older, she heard gossip from the chattering women in the village that her father had stolen from the widow when her biological mother was still alive.
My mother was mad to death by her father. Before her mother was even cold, her father married the widow and asked her, the stepdaughter, to serve tea.
Hatred grows in my heart day by day.
Along with the hatred growing day by day, it was her body and appearance.
People in the village praised her for being a beauty, like her mother who was the beauty of the village.
She found that the stupid brother her stepmother brought who was three years older than her looked at her more and more differently. Although she was only eight years old that summer and he was only eleven years old, he was already dissatisfied when she took a bath in the evening. Yu lay down in the crack of the door and peeped.
He broke into her house openly and did some disgusting and dirty things to her. Although he had not grown into a man and could not accomplish anything, those superficial actions horrified her.
She overheard the conversation between her stepmother and her father while sleeping at night. Her father wanted to sell her to a landowner in a neighboring village who was fifty years old as a concubine. The other party promised to give her two acres of land and a piglet. Her father was moved.
But the stepmother wanted to leave her as a child bride to that stupid brother.
That night she was so frightened that she didn't even take any clothes with her and wanted to run away all night long.
The silly brother came out of nowhere and blocked her way.
She didn't know where she got the courage and resourcefulness, so she lied and coaxed her stupid brother into going to her house.
When she got to the house, she took out the leftover medicine she had used to treat mice at home, secretly put it in the tea and coaxed her silly brother to drink it.
Watching him die from the poison, watching him foaming at the mouth and struggling on the ground, watching the blood pouring into his eyes, watching him point at her, kicking his feet and trying to scream but couldn't.
When he just died, she still didn't understand her hatred, so she used scissors to cut off his dirty penis that made her sick just thinking about it, and then ran away from home that night.
She wandered outside, fought for food with wild dogs, was chased and beaten by beggars, and finally fainted outside the back door of a wealthy family.
The owner of that family was kind-hearted and asked her to be a maid cleaning the outer courtyard.
One day she saw the young master of the house, such a quiet and delicate young man. She tried every means to get close to him, hoping to gain his favor and use it to climb up the ladder.
But the young master reacted coldly to her initiative, and this matter even reached the ears of the mistress.
She was beaten up and sold to a man.
Renyazi was a pervert, and he defiled her as soon as he got it. She was just ten years old that year.
After changing hands several times, she was sold to an opera troupe, where she learned to keep a low profile, but also worked harder to learn to sing.
She was very favored by the class leader, taught him a lot, and even became a disciple.
In the eyes of outsiders, she was undoubtedly lucky, but she was the only one who knew that the class leader, who seemed honest and kind in front of others, was just an old beast in human skin when he sneaked into her house at night, an old dog!
She traveled around the country with the troupe, not only had to serve the troupe leader Lao Gou, but also set up a stage to sing in various places. If someone was willing to pay, Lao Gou would pimp her and let her wine and entertain guests.
As she got dirty little by little, she became better than anyone else in making fun of herself.
It wasn't until that year that she came to Qingshui Town to sing opera, and she met the then shopkeeper of Zhang Ji Baozi Shop.
That day he was watching a play in the audience, with his child sitting on his shoulders and his wife clinging to his side. The whole family was talking and laughing, so loving.
She was jealous and jealous, and she had never wanted to stop and find a shoulder to lean on like that moment.
She used tricks to make the shopkeeper fall in love with her. Not only did he redeem her life, he even divorced his wife and children to marry her and give her dignity by making her the proprietress of Zhang Ji's steamed stuffed bun shop.
On weekdays, she stood at the front desk in a beautiful way, settling accounts for others. When the makeup shop in town put in new rouge and gouache, she was always the first to buy it.
The new clothes of the four seasons have never stopped.
When she was at home, what she longed for most was that her father could look at her one more time and her stepmother would stop beating her so frequently. That would be the happiest thing.
Later, when she arrived at that wealthy family, what she longed for was to serve the young master, even if she was willing to be his concubine.
Later in the troupe, she felt that it would be better if the old troupe leader didn't climb into her bed and let her sing well and make enough money to redeem her life. Then she could run a small business anonymously and live out her life.
Later, she expected to marry a man like Shopkeeper Zhang who had some financial resources and was not too old.
All her previous wishes came true, but the last wish came true.
She got her wish and squeezed away shopkeeper Zhang's first wife and children, and married him as his stepmother. The first two years were really smooth.
She also thought about having a few children for Shopkeeper Zhang, so that she could live a prosperous life like this.
But who knows, shopkeeper Zhang fell ill, and after recovering from the illness, the man's ability in that area was insufficient.
In addition, at Bensi's age, he is not as fierce as young people.
And she was only in her early twenties, so how could she endure it for a long time?
Thus, she had her first 'love'. When shopkeeper Zhang got up in the middle of the night and went to work kneading dough in the backyard, the wild man came to her secretly for a private meeting.
There is such a thing as "love", there is the first, there is the second and the third...
Later, she got tired of those oily-haired and pink-faced men who only went after her skin and flesh, which was so boring.
Until he met Dabai, this boy not only had a handsome face, but also had a sweet mouth and a smart person.
She originally thought that he was just a little brother who was teasing her, but she didn't expect that this boy would actually get serious with her.
He protected her overtly and covertly. Shopkeeper Zhang sent her to the county town several times to do shopping, and even secretly brought her some small gifts and surprises.
People often say that a martyr girl is afraid of pestering her husband, not to mention that she is not a martyr girl in the first place. After going back and forth, the two of them naturally became passionate.
Dabai worked hard for her, but due to bad luck, the boat capsized in the gutter.
Now I can only live in the countryside. I originally wanted to give birth to the baby first, be patient, and wait until Dabai makes money and has a future.
But today, when I went from the town to the county seat and saw the grandeur of this restaurant and the layout of the guest room, Hongmei's heart was once again uneasy and unbalanced.
"Mom, why do you think cousin Qing'er is so capable? A woman's family earns so much money that she can't spend it all in her lifetime..."
Yang Huamei's hair was completely dry and she was about to drink herbal tea and go to bed.
Hearing this, she laughed, "She is indeed capable, but the reason why her business can be so big is probably because of Tang Yazi's help."
