Three Women in the Cage

After the Chinese New Year, the three sisters went back to school. Only Yang Yu was busy at home. In order to reduce the burden on their mother, the three sisters got up in the morning, fed the livestock at home, cut grass for the pigs, threw it into the big pot, and slowly cooked it on the fire.

Another pot was also placed on low heat, the rice was boiled and put into the pot, the lid was closed, the heat was controlled, and then they went to school.

After Yang Yu came back from farm work, she could eat the rice in the pot. When she was alone at home, she would eat simple meals, mixing rice with rice soup scooped from the side, and she would slurp it up a few times for breakfast and lunch.

At this time, the newly bought piglets in the pigpen were crying out of hunger. Yang Yu looked at the pig food that was slowly cooking in the big pot that the three children had built in advance, and sighed with relief. He knew that he could do less work now that he was back.

She quickly scooped the pig feed from the pot and fed it to the two piglets. After cleaning up the house, Yang Yu lay down peacefully and prepared to rest in the bedroom.

Suddenly, it started to drizzle outside. Yang Yu listened to the noise, went to the window, and watched the rain getting heavier outside. He thought that he didn't have to do farm work in the afternoon. The weather was just right for a good sleep at home.

So she closed the broken window, turned back to the bed, lay down gently on it, and was about to close her eyes when suddenly there was a "click" sound on the roof, and something fell vertically onto the roof.

Before Yang Yu had time to think about what that thing was, another "click" sound came from another place on the roof.

Yang Yu sat up and listened to the noises above. There were occasional noises from the kitchen and bedroom near the house behind, but there was no sound from the roof towards the door.

As she was listening carefully, suddenly a drop of water dripped onto her forehead with a "pop". Yang Yu raised her head and looked above her head, only to see a tiny gap in the tiles on the roof, through which a little light shone.

The raindrops were getting bigger and bigger, falling through the gaps in the tiles onto the bed in the bedroom. When Yang Yu raised her head, two or three drops of rain had already fallen on her cheek.

When she realized that a gap had been created in the tiles above the bedroom, she hurriedly stood up, quickly found a piece of tape, and spread it on the thin bed.

With this piece of tape, the sheets and quilt inside will not get wet easily. However, the rain is getting heavier and heavier, and it is unknown how long this tape can hold up. Yang Yu is afraid that the rain will seep in from the edge of the tape.

Before he could think too much, he heard a sound of something falling from the roof in the kitchen. Yang Yu hurried to the kitchen and looked up. There were cracks here and there on the tiles in the kitchen.

The raindrops that flowed down the cracks fell all over the kitchen. The dry firewood piled next to the stove was already wet. Because the rain was so heavy, the dripping water droplets became more and more dense. From the wet firewood pile, patches of water stains flowed out, winding all the way to the center of the room.

The pots and pans on the stove were covered with dripping raindrops, stained with black stuff on the tiles, and fell into a mess on the stove.

The raindrops on the stove slowly flowed down the stove and fell to the ground. The earthen ground, mixed with rainwater, was soaked and covered with a layer of mud. If you stepped on it lightly, you would fall if you were not careful.

Looking at the messy kitchen, Yang Yu felt angry. She hurriedly grabbed her cloak and headed towards the back room in the heavy rain outside.

When I got to the back room, I saw that the gutter was filled with all kinds of garbage, and there were several smashed ripe oranges scattered in the gutter full of water.

Yang Yu looked up and saw a row of orange trees planted next to the gutter behind her house. The branches of the trees were full of oranges, and every branch of the tree was blooming above the roof of her house.

The branches blooming above the roof were all hung with precarious oranges. These oranges were ripe, and would fall down fragilely with a little wind and rain. The oranges, as big as two fists, fell from the branches with such force that they hit the already old tiles, and with a "bang", the tiles were cracked.

As oranges fell one by one, the tiles that already had cracks began to break faster and faster, and the cracks became larger and larger. Finally, when the rain became heavier, they could no longer withstand the erosion of the rain and were soaked bit by bit until they could no longer shelter the room from the wind and rain.

The fallen oranges rolled down the roof tiles and into the gutter at the back of the house, mixing with the garbage and blocking the rainwater from flowing to a smooth place.

The house made of earth and stones was gradually soaked in the part that was close to the ground. Under the attack of wind and rain, it looked shaky, as if it would collapse at any moment.

Since this family moved in, they have always bullied Yang Yu intentionally or unintentionally. They had quarreled with her family countless times before because the gutter was blocked by her family's garbage, but the woman didn't take Yang Yu seriously at all.

She still swept the garbage in the yard into her ditch, and later planted a row of orange trees just to annoy Yang Yu. The orange trees dropped leaves all year round and scattered them in the ditch. Later, Yang Yu was too lazy to argue with the woman.

Whenever it rains, I clean the gutters myself in the rain, and occasionally a few children also help to clean. I can tolerate all of this.

But now the woman has planted a row of orange trees, which not only block the light to her house, but she also refuses to pick the ripe oranges, allowing them to smash the tiles on her roof. Now even her house has to endure the ravages of wind and rain.

This has seriously affected my life. My private space in a corner has been seriously invaded. If that woman continues to force me, I will not be able to live anymore.

Yang Yu finally lost his patience and yelled at the woman, "Your orange tree smashed my tiles to pieces, and now the rainwater on the tiles has soaked my kitchen and bedroom. If you don't cut down the branches on my roof, don't blame me for cutting down your orange tree!"

The woman pretended to be deaf and did not come out to respond. No matter how Yang Yu tried to appeal to her emotions and reason with her, the woman never came out and was not moved at all.

Yang Yu hated the scoundrels of this kind of people so much that she sneered, "God is watching what you do. Sooner or later, you will get your retribution and be punished by God!"

Hearing this cursed remark, the woman couldn't help but run out and yelled at Yang Yu, "Capture your mother! Capture! If I have to capture someone, I'll capture you, a worthless person! Capture you, a vicious and vicious woman!"

Yang Yu didn't expect that this woman would be so fierce when she scolded him. Seeing her fierce and rogue appearance, Yang Yu was so angry that he started to scold her without any hesitation.