The big thing that Li Xiangdong forgot was his fourth sister's wedding!

In his past life, he was so busy playing around that he didn't notice the undercurrents in his family, his father's sleepless nights and sighs, his mother's secret tears and always swollen eyes, or his fourth sister's suddenly blank stares. He really didn't notice anything.

By the time he came to his senses, his fourth sister's wedding date had already been set.

The old man was so happy when he married the old woman.

In a few days, it will be the wedding day of my fourth sister and my aunt's lame older brother.

One night, in the middle of the night, with a loud crash, the stool fell to the ground, and Fourth Sister hanged herself!

After Fourth Sister was rescued, Grandma Li Wanshi brought her ten eggs the size of quail eggs. Her phoenix eyes swept lightly over Fourth Sister's ashen face, as if sweeping over an inconspicuous speck of dust.

My aunt and uncle also came. My uncle, Li Song, looked completely indifferent, while my aunt, Shi Fengfeng, looked very concerned.

"Speaking of the Li Song dynasty, I'll presume to call you my niece. But once you marry my brother, I'll have to call you sister-in-law."

“Our Shi family is waiting for you to come and carry on the family line. My brother has a little inconvenience in his legs, but he’s sharp-minded. You’ll be living a life of luxury if you go!” She said, covering her mouth and giggling a few times.

Li Xiangdong, carrying cans of oranges he had obtained by collecting scraps, ran home covered in sweat. Before he even entered the house, he heard his aunt clucking like a hen, and he was so angry that he wanted to slap her out of the house.

Then I heard my aunt Shi Fengfeng say, "The big day is in seven days. I'm going back to Wulipu first to help my brother prepare the wedding room. I'll come back after my niece is married."

After Shi Fengfeng finished speaking, she swept her gloomy gaze over Zhao Sufang and Li Zhen with a look that didn't match her smiling face at all. She pursed her lips, turned around, and left.

These words were meant for Zhao Sufang and Li Zhen, but even more so for Li Song and Li Wanshi.

Listen carefully to the meaning behind words, and listen to the sound of drums and gongs.

These words were a clear message to Li Wanshi and her son: if Li Zhen didn't marry her brother, she wouldn't come back!

Li Song hurriedly called out "Hey, hey!" twice and rushed after his wife, "I'll go with you to help my brother tidy up the house, honey! Wait for me!"

Li Wanshi stared blankly at Li Zhen, her voice flat and monotone, "The wedding date has been set for the Shi family, and your aunt has married your uncle. Our Li family is a respectable family, and we must keep our promises! There's no turning back now. Even if you die, you'll die right here in the Shi family! You were born a member of the Shi family, and you'll die a member of the Shi family! Don't overthink it! Just take good care of yourself and wait for the Shi family to take you in!"

Zhao Sufang had almost cried all her tears these past few days, and in her heart she cursed her mother-in-law fiercely, "Pah! What a respectable family!"

Would a respectable family allow their niece to be married off to their uncle in a marriage exchange? And to a sibling? How would the family hierarchy be determined afterward?

Shi Fengfeng calls her "sister-in-law" and also calls her daughter "sister-in-law"!

But she was too timid. Decades of habit made her subconsciously afraid to contradict her mother-in-law, even though she knew it would be useless to do so, because Li Jin had agreed.

Li Xiangdong handed the opened can of oranges to his fourth sister. The fresh scent of oranges filled the air, but his fourth sister didn't move.

Li Xiangdong tenderly fed his fourth sister sweet orange juice with a small spoon, but she still wouldn't open her mouth when he brought the spoon to her lips.

Fourth Sister is trying to starve herself to death!

If you can't hang yourself, you'll starve to death!

She just wanted to die now and be a clean ghost. She didn't want to be a ghost of the Shi family or the Li family!

But then again, it's better to live a miserable life than to die a good death. Who would want to die if they could live?

Li Zhen considered running away, but in this society where you need a letter of introduction to go out, where could a seventeen-year-old girl like her run to?

Li Zhen even considered going to the government to sue her father and grandmother for arranging her marriage, but after the initial anger subsided, she thought to herself, what if I don't get married this time?

The government will only criticize and educate his grandmother and father, without causing any real harm. After a while, when things have calmed down, his grandmother will definitely find other ways to marry her off.

Die!

When a person dies, all things cease!

Li Xiangdong was so anxious that tears streamed down his face. "Mother, please go and beg Father!"

His mother cried without saying a word.

“I’ll beg my dad, I’ll kneel down before him! I’m not going to school anymore, I’ll collect scraps and earn money to help my aunt’s older brother get married!”

In the countless nights that followed, Li Xiangdong would wonder, why?

Li Song has parents and hands and feet, so why should his fourth sister be sacrificed to fulfill his wishes?

Why does everyone take this absurd thing so seriously?

Li Xiangdong was about to run outside when he bumped into Li Jin, who was entering the room.

"Dad~"

Li Xiangdong called out "Dad" in a wronged tone and was about to kneel down.

Before he could even kneel down, his father knelt down before him.

No!

His father, Li Jin, knelt down before his fourth sister, who was sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed).

"My daughter! Zhenzhen! I'm so sorry! I'm really at my wit's end! If you don't marry, your grandmother will die! I'm sorry for what I did wrong in this life, but I'll repay you by being your servant in the next!"

"Then let her die!" Zhao Sufang roared in a low voice.

"Shut up!"

"Father, I'll marry him!"

Two voices rang out simultaneously.

Fourth Sister resigned herself to her fate.

The fourth sister, resigned to her fate, got up quickly and sewed clothes for her two younger brothers and two younger sisters, altering the new clothes that the Shi family had sent for their weddings.

Fourth Sister's face was expressionless, devoid of joy or sorrow. On the day of her wedding, she left the house in old clothes.

Aunt Shi Fengfeng's brother, Shi Longlong, never works in the fields. He spends his days idly, teasing cats and dogs, gambling and playing around. When he was young, he relied on his parents, and after marrying his fourth sister, he relied on her.

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