Three Women in the Cage

She looked up and saw a room full of women, all looking at her in such a state of disarray with a smile on their faces.

She knew that these people had bad intentions and wanted to make fun of her.

But she was pregnant now, so it was inconvenient for her to argue with them.

So she endured it again and again, looking past the group of women watching the show and at the couple sitting in the back with a bored look on their faces.

In a negotiating tone, he asked, "Mr. and Mrs. Liu, could you please not throw your garbage into the ditch behind my house next time?"

But the person sitting at the back turned around and started talking and laughing with a woman, as if he didn't hear anything.

The other women in front chuckled and then laughed softly.

They looked at Yang Yu standing in the rain with a smile.

Yang Yu felt uncomfortable with being ignored and treated with contempt, but they were outnumbered and there was nothing they could do to them.

Others are bullying you blatantly!

Yang Yu had to turn around and head home.

Walking into the house, I saw Zhang Erfa looking at the rain as if nothing had happened. He was so leisurely and carefree. I didn't know why he was so carefree.

Yang Yu walked around him, went to the utility room, took a hoe and a tattered hat, and went out again.

She had to clean out the garbage in the gutter first, otherwise if the rain continued, the whole kitchen would be soaked in water, and even basic cooking would become a problem.

Bending over, with his feet in the ditch, he used a hoe to move the garbage bit by bit to the shore on his side. Raindrops fell through the cracks in his tattered hat.

It dripped onto Yang Yu's face and then flowed down into her clothes. Soon, her body was soaked.

The women who were watching the show watched the whole thing with a different kind of feeling, sometimes chattering, sometimes making shrill laughs.

Sometimes he would say something indirect and sometimes he would make a joke with a hint of meaning.

Yang Yu told herself not to pay attention to it, she had to endure it and take care of the baby in her belly.

But the laughter grew sharper and sharper, and she could hardly contain the emotions surging within her.

She hated being laughed at by others, and she hated such unscrupulous and blatant ridicule even more.

Finally, she raised her eyes and looked into the group of women, glaring at them fiercely and cursing in her heart, "You damn bitches, you ugly faces, sooner or later I will tear your mouths apart and make you laugh until you can't stop!"

She just stared at them in the rain, her heart in turmoil, even though her face was covered in rain and her body was soaked, and from a distance she looked disheveled.

She stared at them without showing any weakness, cursing them a thousand times in her heart.

A chill came over him, and the water at his ankles had spread. Yang Yu had to look away.

She quickly cleaned up the garbage under her feet. She couldn't catch a cold. If she fell ill, it would not be satisfactory to them.

It will also hurt the baby in the belly.

Although she was very angry, Yang Yu still gave in. She just wanted to escape from here as soon as possible.

So, amid their increasingly arrogant ridicule, Yang Yu, full of anger, cleaned up the garbage and returned home angrily.

Since then, Yang Yu's auditory hallucinations have worsened, and every night she can hear the laughter from the house behind.

She could no longer tell the difference between day and night.

I can't tell whether it's real or hallucination.

Because their house is indeed filled with noisy talking, laughing, and playing cards all day and night.

Even when the noise stopped in the middle of the night and everyone went to sleep, Yang Yu could still hear the endless sounds coming towards him.

She had a terrible headache, but no one gave her an antidote.

Several months passed, and Yang Yu's belly became bigger and bigger. She could no longer wear ordinary clothes and dared not go out.

So she found some pieces of cloth and wrapped them around her belly in three layers, inside and outside, until she was covered until no one could see it.

Even Zhang Erfa thought she had gained weight, and he didn't care much about her and didn't notice anything unusual.

But it was different for those idle women. They always stared at Yang Yu, as if they wanted to see through her and see if she had really gained weight under her clothes.

Gradually, there was more gossip outside.

Faced with their malicious gazes, Yang Yu was afraid of being exposed, so she went out less and less.

I locked myself in the house every day and was very nervous.

Zhang Erfa saw that she was becoming more listless day by day and thought she was sick.

And the most common thing he said to Yang Yu every day was "I took the eggs."

"My sister-in-law and her husband are doing very well."

"Mom said there will probably be two grandchildren this time."

But Yang Yu didn't want to listen to him at all. It had nothing to do with her. She just wanted to give birth to a son before them.

Every time Zhang Erfa just talked to himself, not caring whether Yang Yu was listening or not.

It was the same this time. Looking at the listless Yang Yu, he continued to talk to himself, while Yang Yu remained silent the whole time.

Later, Zhang Erfa was too lazy to care about her.

He now visits Zhang's mother and his sister-in-law more and more frequently every day.

Instead, Yang Yu didn't have to worry at home all the time, and Zhang Erfa accidentally discovered something.

But the family behind has been like this since Yang Yu locked himself at home every day and didn't go out.

Instead, more and more women came to their house. At one point, Yang Yu could hear their complaints while sitting in the kitchen.

"Do you think she is pregnant? Her belly doesn't look like she has gained weight," a shrill voice said.

"I think so too. I asked Zhang Erfa, and he insisted that she had gained weight. He holds his wife in his arms every day, but he doesn't know whether she is fat or pregnant. What an idiot," another voice mocked.

"Hahahaha"

Waves of laughter came

"How about we report it and get a reward?"

"What if it's not me? I'll get scolded. I won't go!"

In this way, these people chattered about the matter without caring whether Yang Yu could hear them or not.

Yang Yu was still a little scared. She had endured until now, and the baby would be born in a few months.

She couldn't be caught, she couldn't, she wouldn't be able to bear it.

Even though she had already hidden at home, they still wouldn't let her go. Yang Yu wanted to go to her parents' home to hide away.

But now that I'm pregnant, I'm sure it will be discovered. Besides, Father Yang is the village chief, so he can't cover up for me.

She was at a loss as to what to do.

When night came, she lay in bed and the voice behind her came again.

"Catch her and send her to the village chief!"

"She gave birth to a child secretly, so she should be fined!"

"How dare you hide? Catch her out now!"

For a moment, there were sounds of people grabbing her everywhere. She held her head and shouted in pain, "Don't grab me, don't grab me..."

She ran desperately, ran desperately, even if she fell, she would continue to stand up and run, all she could hear were those voices shouting to catch her.

She was extremely scared and had only one thought in her mind: she must not be caught and she had to run for her life.