When Liu Sisi got up, she saw that it was almost dark, so it seemed she would have to wait another day to buy rice seeds.
She asked Wang Dani and Wang Erni to get her some food, and after eating, she went back to sleep...
In Tianshan Village, Li Ergou lay on the bed calling out to Yang Shi, asking her to get him some food.
"You wretched woman, aren't you going to get me anything to eat? Are you trying to starve me to death?!"
"Yes, I'm here!" Madam Yang replied, but her eyes were full of disgust.
Ever since Li Ergou's family arranged a ghost marriage for Li Guifen, things have been going increasingly badly for his family.
I thought that having 50 taels of silver in my family meant I would live better than most people in the village.
He also got wives for both of his sons.
Who knew that just a few days after her wedding, the eldest daughter-in-law ran off with a man from Lishu Village.
It turned out that the eldest daughter-in-law looked down on Li Guifu. She already had a lover, but he was too poor for her family to accept, so her parents sold her to Li Ergou's family for 5 taels of silver.
A few days after their wedding, the eldest daughter-in-law said she was going up the mountain to chop firewood, and she never came back.
The second daughter-in-law was a good, honest and dutiful woman, but Li Ergou's family always harassed her, treating her the same way they treated Li Guifen. The girl couldn't stand their family anymore and ran back to her parents' home.
Li Ergou and Li Guiquan wanted to go to their second daughter-in-law's family home to demand her return, but when her brothers heard that their sister had been mistreated at their house, they beat the two of them up, and they still couldn't get their second daughter-in-law back.
Li Ergou's leg, which had been chopped off by Li Guifen before, would often ache on rainy or cloudy days. This time, he was beaten so badly that both of his legs were ruined, leaving him paralyzed. Li Guiquan was also severely beaten.
When Yang saw this, she wanted to take her two sons to the government office to report the incident, but they were stopped halfway there by her second daughter-in-law's family and were beaten again.
They threatened them not to report the matter to the authorities, or they would beat their entire family to death.
Li Guiquan and Yang sought out Zhou Lizheng and the clan chief, hoping the village would help them report the matter to the authorities.
But Zhou Lizheng had no evidence, neither witnesses nor physical evidence.
He himself hadn't seen the real situation, and if he went to report it to the authorities with empty words, the government wouldn't care. Besides, Li Ergou's reputation in the village was really notorious.
Everyone was just watching the show, and nobody wanted to get involved.
Yang and her two sons pleaded with several families, but no one was willing to help.
Having no other option, Yang had to give up on reporting the matter to the authorities and return home to live a peaceful life.
At first, Li Ergou still had money, and she served him well, calling him "master" affectionately.
But as time went on, the few dozen taels of silver were quickly used up because they had to pay for Li Ergou's medicine and for other living expenses.
Yang was disgusted by Li Ergou's paralysis, his fierceness, and his gluttony.
One day, Yang went to the market to buy vegetables and met an old bachelor from the next village. The two were quickly aroused and got together.
Anyway, Li Ergou can't do anything about it, so even if he finds out, there's nothing he can do.
Li Guifu and Li Guiquan both knew what their mother was doing, but since the old bachelor could provide them with food, the two brothers didn't care; as long as they had food, that was enough.
Both of their wives ran away, and they didn't go out to find work. They would only occasionally go to the fields to work. If it weren't for the fact that Li Ergou still had some land, they probably wouldn't have cared about Li Ergou at all.
Li Ergou would also have nightmares from time to time, dreaming that Li Guifen was coming to take his life, and dreaming that his house was full of blood.
A once happy family is now torn apart. When the villagers see this, they just spit on it and think the family deserves it. A perfectly good girl married into their family and they tormented her relentlessly. Now that she's run away, they deserve it.
"This is truly retribution! The Li Ergou family has never done a single good deed."
Two women from the village saw the dilapidated state of his house and said something at the door.
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