Three Women in the Cage

Ever since Xu's mother started to reclaim the land, the living room of their home has been piled with either a pile of freshly unearthed sweet potatoes or a pile of potatoes. These crops, covered in mud, have made the living room dirty and messy. At one point, there was even no place to stand.

Seeing the clean living room turned into a mess by Xu's mother, Xinxin's already irritable temper suddenly flew into a rage: "Who told you to bring these back home? This is not the countryside, this is the city, how could you bring these things back home?"

Xu's mother said disapprovingly, "I have nothing to do at home, so what's wrong with me growing some crops? Besides, you're going to eat these things anyway, so if I grow them, you don't have to go out and buy them. What's wrong with that?"

Xu's mother felt that she was not wrong and that it would actually reduce the burden on the family.

But that was just her idea. There were so many sweet potatoes and potatoes, and they were not fed to livestock in the countryside. City people could not eat so much.

Later, in order to finish eating all these things and avoid waste, Xu's mother cooked sweet potato rice and potato rice almost every day. However, eating the same thing every day would always make people tired of it.

But Xu's mother was enjoying the meal so much that she forced everyone to eat together.

Xinxin didn't want to eat anymore and said sarcastically: "I grew up in a poor family and often ate sweet potato rice. I've had enough of it. I'm capable now and don't want to suffer the same hardships as before. I'm fed up with your sweet potato rice every day..."

Xu's mother sarcastically said, "Oh, this is unbelievable. You can't eat sweet potato rice? Didn't we eat it when we were little? How come you can't eat it now when you could eat it when you were little?"

Xu's mother didn't understand at all. She didn't understand Xinxin's thoughts. She just didn't want to eat things that represented suffering. There was no need for her to eat those things now.

In short, the two generations cannot communicate with each other and they cannot understand each other.

Later, their conflicts became more and more serious.

Xu's mother not only covered the living room with her crops, but also the bedroom. There were traces of crops everywhere in the house.

There were hoes everywhere, backpacks, burlap bags, piles of sweet potatoes, vegetable leaves covered in mud, and the house was in a mess.

Even the refrigerator was filled with unwashed vegetable leaves and dirt was everywhere.

Xinxin looked at the house, the refrigerator, and the kitchen. There was mud everywhere. Her mild obsession with cleanliness made her whole body numb, as if she was in a garbage dump.

In particular, every time Duoduo got up and came out of Xu's mother's bedroom, she would first step on the muddy sweet potatoes and potatoes, then kick away the cardboard boxes picked up nearby, and squeeze out of the room full of various waste. Her whole body looked like it had rolled in the mud, giving people a dirty feeling.

She really couldn't imagine how they could sleep peacefully in such an environment.

Because of all these things, Xinxin quarreled with Xu's mother every day. However, no matter how Xinxin quarreled or expressed her dissatisfaction, Xu's mother did not take Xinxin's words seriously, but instead became even more aggressive.

In the end, they had a small quarrel every three days and a big quarrel every two days, turning the house upside down.

In such an environment, Duoduo became even more silent. Influenced by Xu's mother every day, her hatred for Xinxin grew deeper and deeper.

Later, Xu's mother may have been tired, and finally one day, she ignored Xu Fei's attempts to keep her and insisted on returning to her hometown.

Before returning to her hometown, she had said intentionally or unintentionally: "You torture me, but one day, someone will torture you..."

At that time, Xinxin thought that what Xu's mother was talking about was that her daughter-in-law would trouble her in the future, but she didn't expect that the person who would trouble her would come so quickly, so quickly that she would be caught off guard.

That year, Xu's mother finally returned to her hometown. Xinxin immediately felt much more relaxed, and the bad atmosphere in the house finally dissipated for the most part.

Since Xu's mother left, there have been fewer conflicts in the family. Perhaps for the sake of his son, Xu Fei has become more tolerant of Xinxin and has slowly begun to treat her as a family member.

I thought that after getting rid of Xu's mother, Xinxin's life would be much more comfortable in the future.

However, some deep-rooted things will become more and more subtle imperceptibly, and one day, they will finally break out of the ground.

When Duoduo was fourteen years old, her biological mother came again, four years after her last visit.

Xinxin always felt that this woman was weird and couldn't understand her thoughts. In short, when Xinxin was about to forget her, she would suddenly appear.

This year, Xinxin didn't allow Xu Fei to meet her, and forcibly snatched the phone away and said: "Hello, is this Duoduo's mother? Don't call my husband from now on, call Duoduo..."

The woman immediately argued: "I don't know Duoduo's phone number. Xu Fei didn't tell me. Otherwise, I wouldn't have disturbed him..."

Xinxin went to Duoduo's room angrily and asked Duoduo to call the woman.

Later, they talked on the phone for the first time in the room. Xinxin had no idea what they talked about.

Xinxin just thought that by cutting off the direct communication between the woman and Xu Fei, she could keep the woman away from her life.

However, there was a time when she might have underestimated the allure of women.

On the day of the meeting, Xinxin did not give Xu Fei and the woman a chance to talk, and let Duoduo communicate with the woman on her own throughout the whole process.

That day, the woman felt that Duoduo was too aloof and introverted. She walked towards Xu Fei angrily and said frankly: "I think I need to communicate with you. This kid is too aloof and a little abnormal. I need to understand her better."

Haha, when the woman first met the child, she didn’t think about the child’s personality, but now she cares about the child.

The woman still wanted to talk to Xu Fei, but she didn't want her wish to go as she wished. She squeezed in between them and said, "The child's problems weren't caused by us alone. They were caused by this complicated family environment. You don't have to question us and think we've done something terrible. Even if we don't have any credit, we've also worked hard."

"It's you, who never cared before, who suddenly showed up to show concern, and you don't even know the child's personality!"

"Do you know that your sudden visit is very abrupt?"

The woman didn't expect Xinxin to interrupt suddenly. Maybe she felt that she was in the wrong, or that she had revealed her worries. She said embarrassedly: "It's not abrupt. It's not too late to care about the child now..."

Look! How dare she say that? If it's not too late, why are you questioning her?

If you had come to greet and show concern every year in the past, Duoduo's personality would not have become like this.

After being abandoned by her biological mother, Duoduo grew up in the mutual resentment and hatred between her stepmother and mother-in-law. She was stuck in the middle, and no matter which side she chose, she would be scolded and ignored.

Later, when she had a younger brother, she watched her stepmother care for him meticulously every day. Her father, who had previously favored her, gradually began to favor her younger brother. Even her grandparents, who had always indulged her, gradually became obedient to her younger brother.

She felt abandoned one by one by the people she once loved, and there was no place for her to go. She had nowhere to vent her feelings, so she locked herself in a closed world all day and night, feeling unwilling and in pain.

She became a child who resented everyone, especially her stepmother.

Because Xinxin would criticize Duoduo harshly when she did something wrong, and would also scold her harshly when she had conflicts with her brother.

In fact, Xinxin is strict with her because she hopes she can change some bad habits and gradually become a better person.

Xinxin may not have much patience, and all Duoduo saw was malice in her eyes.

Xu Fei and his mother may really favor Junjun, and most of the time, they choose to turn a blind eye.

So, under this situation, Duoduo became more and more extreme and hid her hatred deeper and deeper.