"I won't be able to carry the meat back if I carry you on my back. I'm not strong enough, and you won't be able to go far if you walk by yourself..." Li Danyang continued to negotiate with Zhou Jianfang in a low voice.
"I won't leave! Don't even think about leaving me. I'll tell my grandma that you bullied me..." Zhou Jianfang raised her chin, put her hands on her hips, and said to Li Danyang fiercely.
"Stepmother, are you going to be lazy again? If you refuse to carry your sister, I will go back and tell grandma to beat you to death!" Zhou Jianzhan said vicious words in a childish tone.
The brother and sister spoke very logically. If they wanted to complain to their grandmother, they would win.
Li Danyang tried to carry Zhou Jianfang on his back, and then lifted the basket of meat, and was sure that he really couldn't carry two children weighing nearly 70 kilograms in total, and also carry a basket of meat weighing seven or eight kilograms.
She explained to the brother and sister over and over again, but it was of no use. Not only did they not listen to her, they also beat and kicked her.
Don't think that a three-year-old child has no strength and doesn't feel pain when he hits someone. In fact, a three-year-old child in the countryside can run up mountains and down rivers and run around everywhere. His hands and feet are very strong and it hurts when he hits someone. What's more, there is a saying that "a random punch can kill a master." Li Danyang was beaten by the brother and sister, and he didn't dare to fight back. He just dodged and didn't know how many times he was hit by them.
The aunt who was watching said to the two children, "Stop it! You two are too arrogant. Although she is only your stepmother, she is still your elder. How can you hit her?"
"What's it got to do with you, you old bitch! My stepmother deserves a beating. If I don't beat her, she will beat me..." Zhou Jianzhan bared his teeth at the old lady and cursed her with confidence.
The old lady got so angry when he said that that her face turned blue: "You're so vicious at such a young age. You're really a bastard born by a mother but not raised by her! I think he'll be a thief in the future!" After saying that, she left angrily.
Seeing the arrogant look of the brother and sister, another sister-in-law from the Zhou family could not help but say to Li Danyang, who did not say a word when being beaten by her stepchildren: "Although you are a stepmother, you are still a mother after all. How can you just follow their temper? You have to discipline them. Which child dares to beat their biological mother like this? It would be strange if the biological mother didn't beat them until their buttocks were bruised! How can you not even control two three-year-old children? You are too useless!"
Li Danyang could only grit her teeth and hold back the tears in her eyes, saying, "I can't control them. If I do, they will cry and make a scene in front of my mother-in-law, saying that I beat them. My mother-in-law will indiscriminately call me vicious and cruel and say that I want to torture the children to death."
Upon hearing this, Zhou's sister-in-law immediately sympathized with Li Danyang. She knew Zhou's mother's character too well. She was not someone who could be easily provoked. So she could only say awkwardly, "You can't just let them beat you. Alas, if you don't discipline a child, he will be ruined."
"Sister! What's wrong with you?!" Li Danyang's eldest brother had just arrived when he saw his sister being beaten and kicked by Zhou Weiguo's two children. She just kept dodging in embarrassment while people around her were watching the fun.
Brother Li angrily picked up the two children and threw them aside, saying to them fiercely: "You two little bastards! You dare to hit my sister, you want to die, right?"
After saying that, he slapped them on their butts: "If you dare to hit my sister, I will beat you up!"
Both children were bullies who only bullied the weak and feared the strong. They dared to beat Li Danyang arrogantly because they knew that Li Danyang would not dare to do anything to them, and they had their grandmother at home to support them. But now they were facing the tall and strong Big Brother Li with a fierce look on his face. They were immediately discouraged, and after being beaten, they did not dare to fight back, so they could only start crying immediately.
Big Brother Li ignored the two crying kids and said to Li Danyang with a look of disappointment: "What's wrong with you? Why did you let these two kids beat you up? Weren't you fearless when you were at your mother's house? Why are you so patient now when facing these two kids?"
Li Danyang was speechless when asked by her eldest brother. She had something to ask of the Zhou family, but she put herself in a low position and felt inferior to all the members of the Zhou family.
Moreover, her heart is no longer the 18-year-old girl who was once loved by her family, but the old woman who was tortured beyond recognition, numb and humble by life forty or fifty years later.
She wanted to take advantage of the Zhou family, but how could she be tough with the Zhou family
"Brother! How could you hit them?" Li Danyang didn't care about her brother's questioning at all. She only cared about Zhou Jianzhan and Zhou Jianfang being beaten and crying. She questioned her brother instead, "They are still children, and you are an adult. How can you bother with them? Now they are crying, and I will be scolded by my mother-in-law when I go back!"
Brother Li looked at her in disbelief. He simply couldn't believe that his sister would say such a thing. He beat the two naughty kids for her, but she blamed himself instead.
But she was his sister after all, so he held back his anger and said, "It's the two children who are at fault in this matter. Isn't it unreasonable for your mother-in-law to scold you? I have to ask her for you, how did she teach her children? You didn't marry into the family to suffer..."
"Brother! Forget it, it's just that children don't understand..." Li Danyang just wanted to keep things quiet.
"Look at how arrogant they were to you just now. They must be even more excessive at other times, right? No, I can't let them torture you like this. If it really doesn't work, then just let it go. Anyway, you don't have children yet, so you can marry a good one the second time..." But Brother Li didn't want to let it go.
When Li Danyang heard him talking about remarriage, she was so scared that she immediately persuaded Brother Li to give up the idea of going to Zhou's mother to settle the score. However, Brother Li loved her very much before, so how could he bear to let his sister suffer in the Zhou family? So he was determined to go home and take his family to the Zhou family to settle the score.
Li Danyang couldn't stop them, so she had to go back to Zhou's house to find a solution. Fortunately, after being beaten up by Brother Li, the two naughty kids didn't dare to insist on her carrying them on her back, so the three of them slowly walked back.
After returning home, Brother Li took his family to Zhou's house to seek justice for his sister. When Li's mother learned from her son that her daughter was bullied by Zhou's stepchildren, she was so angry that she had a fierce fight with Zhou's mother.
Big Brother Li and Second Brother Li also beat up Zhou Weiguo's big brother and little brother respectively. Unfortunately Zhou Weiguo was still working in the city and had not returned home, otherwise they would have beaten him first.
Finally, the Li family and the Zhou family reached an agreement that the Zhou family members were not allowed to beat or scold Li Danyang, especially the four stepchildren and Zhou's mother, and Li Danyang was not allowed to abuse the children (of course, she had never abused them before).
After that, Li Danyang's situation in Zhou's family was indeed better. At least the children and Zhou's mother didn't dare to hit her casually. Although they would still curse at her, Li Danyang was already very satisfied. However, she was a little worried that the four children would become distant from her.
Will she still be able to benefit from them in the future? Li Danyang was in a dilemma.