Chapter 212 I Want to Sever Ties

"What's all the commotion about? Make way, make way!"

When the captain pushed through the crowd and ran over, he immediately saw Xu Laidi acting like a madwoman. She was grabbing her mother Xu Hong's hair with one hand, kicking Xu Laosan, who was holding her with one leg, with one leg, pressing her elbow firmly against Xu Baoqiang's neck, and pressing the sickle in her hand against Xu Baoqiang's face.

The family of four were fighting on the ground.

The captain gasped in shock. In the blink of an eye, Xu Laidi kicked away Xu Laosan, who was clinging to her leg, and pushed Xu Hong over with both hands.

Ouch!

Xu Hong was pushed by Xu Laidi, and her lower back hit a rock the size of a fist. She was in so much pain that she broke out in a cold sweat. She turned her head and saw the captain. Just as she was about to get up and howl, a loud cry suddenly rang in her ears.

"Uncle Wei, please save me! I really can't go on living!" Xu Laidi stood up abruptly before her mother and ran to the door. She collapsed to the ground, looking disheveled and with bright scratches on her face. She was already the one who ate the least and did the most work in the family, and now she looked even more pitiful.

"Uncle Wei, for the past month or so, I've been running back and forth between my home and the county every day, and I also have to work in the fields every day. You know I have to get all my work points every day, otherwise I won't have anything to eat when I get back."

Before my mom went to the county, she locked the kitchen door, so I didn't get a single grain of rice all day. If it weren't for the fact that she wanted me to cook for her every day and bring the food to the hospital, she would never have given me the key. Even then, she stipulated how much I could cook each day, and she didn't even take my share with her. I had to go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables to eat after I came back from the county every day. Several times, I almost rolled down the mountain because it was too dark.

My second brother-in-law was unwilling to support them. After my brother was discharged from the hospital, he stayed at my second brother-in-law's house for more than half a month. I ran back and forth every day to cook for them. I cooked all the meals for the family. In the end, there was no food for me. I still had to walk back every day to eat wild vegetables. For several days, I couldn't even eat a bite of coarse grains.

Let alone the eggs at home, they wouldn't even let me eat the coarse grains. My mother even said that if she found out I had secretly eaten the family's grains when she came back, she would beat me to death. If it weren't for a few aunties in the village taking pity on me and giving me a few coarse flour buns and sweet potatoes, I would have starved to death at home in the past month or so.

As a result, they just got back today and secretly planned to take me to the Pi family to sell while I was asleep. If I hadn't overheard them, my life would have been ruined, completely ruined.

Xu Laidi's accusations, though heartbreaking, were made clear despite his tears. The people around him frowned and looked at Xu Laosan and his wife with complicated expressions.

“I’ve always known that Xu Laosan and his wife are inhuman, but I never thought they were even worse than animals. No matter what, their daughter is still their own flesh and blood. How can they act as if Xu Laidi wasn’t born from Xu Hong’s womb?”

"That's right. If I dared to treat my daughter like that, my mother-in-law would be the first to come after me."

Xu Hong raised her hand tremblingly and pointed at Xu Laidi in shock. She never expected that Xu Laidi would dare to say those threatening words she had said.

They originally wanted to play the victim first, but this brat beat them to it and now dares to talk about them like that.

"I'm your own mother! I went through so much trouble to give birth to you and raise you to adulthood, and this is how you talk to me, you wretched thing? I shouldn't have given birth to you in the first place! Why didn't I strangle you to death!" Xu Hong glared at Xu Laidi with a ferocious and resentful expression. Looking at Xu Laidi like this, who could still call her their mother?

Even a stepmother might not be as good as her!

Xu Laidi chuckled softly, her face filled with sorrow and grief as she turned to look at Xu Hong. Her hoarse voice was numb and desperate: "I wish you weren't my biological mother. Even if I were abandoned, it would be better than being your biological daughter. Don't talk to me about filial piety. Even wolves in the mountains know to protect their cubs. What about you? Besides giving birth to me, have you ever really raised me?"

When I was born, my eldest sister carried me to the fields every day, and she fed me mouthfuls of rice porridge by scooping it out of her own mouth. After I turned three, I started earning work points to support myself. Even one work point a day would have been enough for me to eat, right? I was only ten years old, and you were already forcing me to earn the maximum number of work points every day. Are you supporting me, or am I supporting your whole family of three?

Xu Laidi was panting heavily, his whole body trembling uncontrollably. His eyes were filled with madness as he looked at Xu Hong, and he roared in a low voice, like a lone beast driven to the brink of despair.

"Now that none of you want me to live, what's the point of me being filial?"

He let out a roar, as if to vent all the endless grievances he had accumulated over the years. The people who had been discussing the matter fell silent instantly. Who among them could bear to stand up and accuse Xu Laidi of being unfilial?

It's ridiculous that her parents still cling to that bullshit filial piety when they don't care whether she lives or dies.

Wei Zhongping sighed softly, bent down and helped Xu Laidi up: "Girl, tell your uncle, what do you want to do?"

"I want to sever ties with them, Uncle. I want to cut all ties with them. Otherwise, I'm really afraid that one day I'll wake up and find something that's either human or animal lying next to me."

"No, I don't agree!" Xu Hong jumped up immediately upon hearing this, pointing at Xu Laidi and roaring angrily.

"If you don't agree, that's fine too. Then none of us should live. Let's see if you sell me out faster, or if I can take your whole family down with me. Perfect, if we're all dead, my eldest sister won't be implicated by you anymore. Just because you always give things to my eldest sister, my eldest sister is always beaten by her husband. If we're all dead, it'll be clean, and no one will be implicated."

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