SCT-Novel Chapter 617
Chapter 617
Chapter 617: Chapter 609: Poison Her to Death Chapter 617: Chapter 609: Poison Her to Death As for other people’s gossip, she never took it to heart.
She was firm in her stance that she knew nothing, regardless of what others said.
Seeing her dim-witted son happily walking around with five yuan made the smile on Old Lady Song’s face disappear, replaced with a long, cranky face.
“Come clean the table now.”
Old Lady Song ordered in a deep voice to the kitchen.
What was she thinking, eating for free without working?
There’s no such thing in this world as getting food without lifting a finger.
If she couldn’t even do this, she might as well stop eating.
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But she had been scolding for a while and still, no one came out.
It wasn’t until she pushed open the kitchen door that she found Tang Yuxin half-dead in a corner, and it reminded her of what she had almost forgotten.
She had beaten this woman, almost to death.
Now she wondered, could this be more serious than she thought?
Was she really dying?
Lying there on the floor, Yuxin’s face was horrifyingly injured.
Her eyes remained fixated, giving off a unexplainably cold feeling, which instantly reminded her of Sun Family’s daughter-in-law who had just been smothered.
She was present the moment the daughter-in-law of the Sun Family stopped breathing, and also when she resumed.
Turns out, she too can be scared.
She was afraid.
Afraid of a lot of things.
Afraid of death.
And afraid of killing.
Old Lady Song couldn’t bear the sight, so she fetched a pile of firewood and placed it in front of Yuxin, using it to block the sight of her.
If it weren’t for the fact that she had to cook and wash dishes, she would rather not have been in the kitchen.
After hastily washing the dishes, she pulled the kitchen door shut and fled, releasing a sigh of relief.
But she didn’t have a moment to relax.
Old Master Song was already shouting to change his clothes.
For ordinary people, changing clothes is just that—changing clothes.
But for him, changing clothes wasn’t just a simple task.
She had never been scared of a person like this before.
This powerless woman somehow seemed like a cold venomous snake to her.
Whenever she laid her eyes on her, she was filled with an inexplicable fear.
She used to yell at and beat her, but now she’d avoid the kitchen if she could.
That night, she was startled awake by a nightmare.
Upon touching her soaked clothes, she discovered she was drenched in cold sweat.
After wiping the cold sweat off her forehead, she found it impossible to fall back asleep.
Old Lady Song found some comfort and courage in the presence of others.
Although she was still feeling uneasy, she constantly felt a chilling presence in the kitchen that unsettled her.
She now regretted beating Yuxin so hard.
Not only was she half-dead, but she also wasn’t able to do any work, and she had that ominous look on her face.
If things didn’t change soon, she might need to resort to using rat poison to solve her predicament.
She thought about it for a couple of days before finally gritting her teeth and retrieving a packet of rat poison from a small container.
Clenching the packet in her sweaty palm nearly soaked through the paper wrapping.
“Eat!”
She emotionlessly placed a chipped coarse porcelain bowl full of noodles on the ground.
Yuxin lowered her head, eying the bowl of noodles.
Old Lady Song had never been generous, and Yuxin was just a useless woman bought into the house.
Her status in the household was no better than that of a pet dog.
There was no difference.
A pet dog could guard the door.
And she could sweep the yard.
Old Lady Song had never thought about giving her good food.
Her meals were the leftover scraps of the Song family.
The sudden offering of noodles was out of the blue, and it was clear there was no good intention behind it.
Some people, in their whole life, might never be capable of kindness.
Yuxin lifted the bowl, but she did not eat.
She knew that strange behavior equated abnormality.