Chapter 8 — You Waited For Me Two Lives

He used the back of his hand to wipe his eyes, his hands were covered in mud, making his face dirty. Seeing me, it stood up. A piece of skin was torn on his forehead, blood flowed down his temple.
“Mother.”
It doesn't cry. I hold its hand. The small hand trembled slightly in my palm. Ma Ma chased after him and stopped him. I pushed her away and went straight forward. Ta Canh stood behind and shouted. Ta Yeu used a high-pitched voice to tell me to stop. I don't stop walking. The lobby door was kicked open. Ta Tuy Ngoc put down the tea cup and frowned.
“It's truly unbearably vulgar.”
My hair is messy, my clothes are muddy, the child in my arms is still bleeding from my forehead.
“I'm so vulgar, do you still want me?”
I looked straight into his eyes.
“You want an unbearably vulgar woman to be your concubine, Master Ta, don't you think you're ridiculous?”
The space was quiet for a long time. My eyes are steadfast:
“As long as I am in the Ta family's mansion, my son is not allowed to be bullied.”
Ta Tuy Ngoc called Ta Canh over and slapped him squarely in the face. Ta Canh covered his face and ran out. Ta Giac ran after. Before going out the door, he turned to look at me once. Ta Yeu's eyes were filled with tears.
“Father, you beat your third brother again!”
The lobby became quiet. The tea has cooled, a layer of scum is floating on the surface. Ta Tuy Ngoc looked at me with a complicated expression.
"Do A Chau, are you satisfied? Tieu Canh is also your son."
I carried A Bao out.
“I only have one child.”
Pomegranate flowers fell all over the yard, exposed to the sun until their edges curled. A Bao leaned on my shoulder. The small hand holding my collar gradually relaxed. Ta Tuy Ngoc hates my lowly background. A village girl was bought but did not understand poetry and chess. But he couldn't let go of this body. At night, he sat on the edge of the bed looking at me, his eyes burning hot. From the eyebrow bone down to the chin, it's like looking at a piece of porcelain that you can't bear to break and criticize it for not being valuable enough. His love is as thin as a layer of paper, even a look cannot cover it. Facing my hateful eyes, Ta Tuy Ngoc raised his hand to cover my eyes.
“Don't look at me with those eyes.”
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I said:
“Unless you gouge out my eyes.”
Ta Tuy Ngoc clenched his fists, anger rising to the sky.
“Do you have to make me angry?”
I turned away and calmly lay down on the bed. He sat on the corner of the bed for a long time, angrily climbing up. I kicked him down to the ground.
“Do A Chau!”
The sarcasm at the corner of my lips deepened.
"Ta Tuy Ngoc, you are so despicable! Even more despicable than a vile person like me!"
Being treated coldly by me, Ta Tuy Ngoc not only did not punish me, but on the contrary tried even harder to please me. I'm too lazy to give him even a smile. The servants in the palace all widened their eyes and opened their mouths. The lady said coldly:
"Men are all despicable. The one who rushes to the door doesn't even look at him, the one who doesn't even look at him, he quickly chases after him."
Half a month later, when news of Ta Tuy Ngoc's arrest spread, I was drying clothes in the yard. Lady told me that Ly Tan Bach has not died. He went to Nha Mon Phu Doan to beat a drum to complain, accusing Ta Tuy Ngoc of hiring people to kill people, forging contracts and raping other people's wives. The government received the complaint and immediately sent people to the Ta family's house to arrest the person. I went to the prison to meet him. Behind bars, he wore a gray prison shirt, with a few tangled strands of hair falling forward forehead. Cracks appeared on that always cold face for the first time. He was silent for a long time, his voice hoarse.
“A Chau, I am sorry for you.”
"You are truly hateful! This time you almost destroyed my life!"
"I didn't mean to treat you like that. I'm just angry because you've always been stubborn and never been gentle with me even a little bit."
In my heart, I laughed coldly. What a noble reason.
"Ta Tuy Ngoc, in people's eyes, the wrong person is always someone else, and you have never been at fault."
"I was the one who gave birth to my children, gave birth to three children, and fulfilled my duty. Yet you still determined to destroy my happiness."
“She was originally mine!”
Ta Tuy Ngoc's eyes were cold.
"The one who took you away from me, I absolutely will not let go."
"Don't say you're so deeply in love. If the person you remarried was someone with immense power, would you dare to continuously target him?"
Ta Tuy Ngoc pursed his lips. His attitude said it all.
"You're just a coward who bullies the weak. It's truly something people despise."
I turned around and left. Behind him, iron chains clashed madly against the bars.
"I'm not a coward! Do A Chau, come back to me!"
The lady was determined to make peace, nothing could shake her. She took Thu Truc and left the Ta family's palace. When she left, she left me a letter with only one sentence written on it:
"A Chau, you must be happy. I'm going to find my wide sky and sea."
I looked at the letter in bewilderment. In her previous life, at this time, the lady was separated. I often think, if my wife hadn't left, maybe I wouldn't have ended up in the wilderness. The day the three lost children arrived at my door, I was building a fire in the kitchen, Ly Tan Bach was stir-frying food, and A Bao was feeding the chickens. A Bao saw the person coming and immediately stared warily: