Chapter 175: Go watch the fun

Chapter 175: Go watch the fun

Chapter 175: Go watch the fun
Li's mother reacted with her eyes wide open, pointed at her nose and cursed, "Bullshit, you came to my house so early in the morning to bring bad luck, I've spoiled you..."

"You stinky bitch with a bad tongue, Ah Shui has been clamoring for a split since early morning, and it was you who instigated it..."

"Mother~" Li Changshui interrupted the quarrel with an angry roar. He ran up breathlessly and grabbed Xu Xianmei, staring at her with bloodshot eyes and shouting:

"If you are so reluctant to leave your family, why did you get married and have children? You don't want to give us a chance to live, right? Yufang took a rope and went to your family's home in Dadao to hang herself. Since there is no way to live, I will go too and hang myself together with you in your family's home."

After saying that, he pushed her to the ground, picked up the rope on the ground, turned around and ran away.

"Ah~" Xu Xianmei blinked a few times before she realized what he said. She quickly got up, cursed loudly and chased after him.

"You damned short-lived ghosts, how could you do such a heinous thing..."

The villagers who were watching were dumbfounded. "Oh my god, how could there be such a mother who forced Ah Shui and Yu Fang to go to their maternal family and hang themselves?"

"If it were me, I would have done the same thing a long time ago. Being born into a family like this is really unlucky for the rest of my life!"

"Let's go and take a look!" The onlookers, not caring about the roofs of their homes, swarmed over and followed.

Father Li said to Li Changle and the others, "Ah Le, Ah Ping, Ah Fang, you guys should go and take a look."

Li Changle and the others were ready to leave, as they all wanted to see how Li Changshui and his sister would return the favor.

Just now those people were watching the excitement in their own home, and of course they were not happy about it. Now they went to the fourth room to see the excitement of Xu Xianmei, and everyone liked it.

"Don't go!" Li's mother stopped them and pointed at Li's father with a sullen face, "You still care? If you care about the fourth room's mess again, you will go with the fourth room! If it weren't for Ah Le and Ah Shui today, I don't know how you would end up like this?"

"What a rotten-hearted bitch! She knew that my family had just approved the land for building a new house, but she came to our house and hanged herself. What was she thinking?"

Father Li was also very angry. "I, I just felt sorry for the child. I didn't expect her to do such a thing!"

Li Changxi hurriedly pulled Li's mother and said, "Mother, don't blame father. If you want to blame someone, blame the evil-hearted Xu family. If you want your daughter to help raise your son, don't marry her off. Instead, marry her off and get a few more to help raise her."

"The fourth aunt in the Xu family is like this. I heard that her sisters cared about it at first, but later they stopped caring when they had their own children."

"Uncle, Fourth Uncle agrees to split the family business. My father wants you to come over." Li Changqing's wife Chen Liping ran over and shouted.

"Hey, hey!" Father Li responded twice in succession, looking at Mother Li with a smile on his face, "Look, the fourth child has agreed to split up the family. If we don't make a scene, who knows how long it will drag on."

Li's mother gave him a look and said unhappily, "You are the only one with a good conscience!"

"It's good to have a good conscience, because you will have a savior when you are in trouble!" Father Li was not angry. He happily climbed onto the tricycle and asked Li Changle to take him to Ah Si's house.

Mrs. Li glanced at Li Changxi, and the two sisters-in-law followed him, "Ah Ping, where are Yufang and Ah Shui?"

Chen Liping curled her lips and said, "They stopped her. Yufang was running and crying while holding the rope, and my fourth uncle was chasing her with a stick. When they passed by my store, my father stopped him from beating Yufang.

He also scolded him, saying that even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, but even a dog knows how to protect its cubs. If you are willing to work like a slave for the Xu family, no one will stop you, but you have to give your two children a chance to survive.

He also asked him if he would go to Dadao Village and look for his brother-in-law's children to take care of him when he got old and couldn't move. The fourth uncle might have agreed to the division of the family because he was afraid that Ah Shui would not support him in the future.

In my opinion, I shouldn't have stopped them. My parents-in-law have been arguing about them for years, which has caused unrest in our family. Only by letting them go to Xu's house and make a scene can we vent our anger."

Mrs. Li and Li Changxi nodded repeatedly, "That's right, the two old people in my family have quarreled about their family affairs many times, so they should go to the Xu family to make a scene, so that others will be careful and never marry a girl from their family."

Li Changle pedaled the tricycle slowly and listened to the aunts and sisters-in-law chattering about Xu Xianmei's glorious deeds over the years, such as jumping into the well, slitting her throat, and drinking medicine. They soon arrived at the Li family's old house behind the brigade headquarters.

The house was a kind of wooden house built with half stones and wooden boards. After the three eldest brothers built their own houses and moved out, only his family was left living here.

At this time, the yard was full of people watching the fun, including Secretary Wang, Accountant Chen, Uncle Li and Uncle Li.

Li Changshui and Li Yufang were squatting against the wall. Xu Xianmei, with clay still stuck on her head and face, sat on a bamboo chair in a half-dead state, glaring gloomily at the villagers who were whispering in the yard with a pair of dead fish eyes.

Uncle Li, who had dark skin, held a pipe in his mouth and smoked it non-stop. The light from the pipe flickered, making his big rosacea look bright red.

Li Changle helped Father Li off the tricycle and walked him to the eaves of the corridor. Li Ashui brought out a chair for him to sit on and apologized to him anxiously, "Second uncle, I'm sorry..."

Father Li raised his hand to interrupt him, "It's okay, she hasn't been hanged yet!"

Li Yufang said angrily: "She won't really hang herself. The Xu family is still relying on her for blood!"

"Yufang, shut up!" Uncle Li shouted, "Do you still want to have a good reputation?"

"What reputation do I need?" Li Yufang looked up and pointed at herself. "People like me can't get married anyway. I will just keep an eye on her at home. If she dares to ask my brother for money, I will go to the Xu family and hang myself."

Xu Xianmei immediately became alert, pointing at her and cursing, "You short-lived ghost, how dare you!" Li Yufang also risked her life, took a step forward and looked at her sinisterly, "Do you think I dare? I'm only fifteen, and you're over forty. Can you still watch over me for the rest of my life?"

Xu Xianmei was frightened by her appearance. Her legs went limp and she fell to the ground, crying out loudly, "God damn it..."

"Okay, stop howling. You have no shame, but we still have some! The Li family is so unlucky to have a spendthrift like you."

Uncle Li San angrily stepped forward and kicked Uncle Li Si, "Everyone is here, divide it quickly."

Fourth Uncle Li took two long puffs of his cigarette, then stood up and said, "I can't make the decision, so they can divide it however they want."

"Useless thing!" Uncle Li glared at him angrily. "Each family gets half of the food, each family gets one set of fishing gear, the house is divided in the middle, two rooms per family, and each family gets one wing room. As for the money..."

Li Changshui stepped forward and said, "Uncle, second uncle, third uncle, Secretary Wang, Accountant Chen, my family only has two sacks of millet and a few bags of shredded sweet potatoes left."

Mr. Li and the others were stunned after hearing this. The early rice had only been harvested for over a month, and the late rice was still two months away. And they only had two bags of millet left?

"Where's your family's food?"

Li Yufang pointed at Xu Xianmei angrily and said, "She was asked to deliver food to the Xu family. Every time she went, she brought big bags and small bags, but she came back empty-handed, without even a vegetable."

Li Changshui took over and said, "In addition to my father who gave us white rice every now and then, my younger sister and I had sweet potato porridge every day. We drooled so much that we didn't even have the energy to pull the nets on the boat."

"Oh my god, this is not my real mother at all. Even the landlords in the old days were not as mean as her, right?"

"Sisters Ashui and Yufang have a miserable life. They were born into Li Asi's family and met such a mother. She is even worse than a stepmother."

"Yes, no wonder Yu'e and Yulian don't even go back to their parents' home."

Uncle Li heard the villagers' discussions and his face turned as black as the bottom of a pot. He said to Li Ah Si, "You and Ah Shui will each get one bag of millet, and each family will get half of the shredded sweet potatoes. Give them a set of fishing tools as well."

"Uncle, the hand-cast net and scoop net were woven by my elder and second sisters for me and Yufang. We want to share them. I want ten ground traps..."

"God damn it!" Xu Xianmei beat her chest and shouted at him, "You took half of the food and you still want to share the fishing gear. You might as well just kill me with a knife..."

"You don't need my brother to chop you. Don't you like that big well the most? I will jump into the well with you. As long as you die, everyone will be at peace."

Li Yufang rushed forward, grabbed her and walked towards the backyard. The big well in the village was behind the house. Xu Xianmei jumped several times desperately.

Seeing her fierce expression, Xu Xianmei was so frightened that she quickly grabbed the door frame and said, "Ah Si, look at this disobedient and unfilial person..."

"It's better to die, so as to avoid suffering in life!" Li Asi had an indifferent look on his face, as if they were not his wife and children.

"That's right. The chickens in the chicken coop still have a full meal to eat. Now that grandma is gone, I can't even have a full meal. I am living worse than the chickens in the coop."

Li Yufang angrily dragged her towards the backyard. The onlookers looked at her with complicated expressions, and no one reached out to help or persuade her.

Xu Xianmei was so frightened that she kicked Li Yufang, "You damned girl, if you want to die, go and die by yourself, let me go..."

Li Changle hurriedly pulled Li Yufang away when he saw this, "Xiaofang, we're going to split up soon, and good days are still to come. How much of a loss would it be if you died?"

Li Yufang let go, wiped the tears from her face, and looked at Xu Xianmei who was slumped on the ground. "No one was holding you back this time, why didn't you die?"

The nosy people took the opportunity to add fuel to the fire, "Xu Xianmei, you have jumped into that well several times. This time it's up to you, why don't you go?"

The older one said, "Don't jump. This is the only well with water during this drought. We will depend on it to survive in the future!"

Secretary Wang waved his hand at everyone and said, "Okay, stop talking. Before the typhoon comes, go back and check if there are any leaks. Otherwise, when the typhoon comes, the house will be filled with pots and pans again."

"A Shui, where are the fishing gear and food? We will help you distribute them, and you should also quickly repair the roof." Uncle Li took over and said.

"It's in the wing. I'll move it."

Li Changle also went up to help. The bucket was filled with tools for mining and the backpack was filled with fishing nets. Everything was neatly packed inside.

In the corner there is a bamboo warehouse filled with millet and sweet potato shreds.

The two men sorted the things and carried out the millet and sweet potato shreds in the sacks. Witnessed by Secretary Wang, Accountant Chen, and the three Li brothers, Li Changshui and his sister were finally separated.

Uncle Li generously gave them all the pots, pans, and small dining table that the old lady had used when she lived in the cottage.

Li's father and Uncle Li gave them ten yuan each, and Li Changle's three brothers and Li Shuiqing pooled twenty yuan for them. The brother and sister bought some oil and salt and officially lived alone.

(End of this chapter)