After the first day of the New Year, everyone started visiting relatives. Originally, according to Niu Cuihua, it would be embarrassing not to visit relatives during the New Year, so she asked Erni and her siblings to go and visit them. However, Li Aimin opposed it and said that he would not let them go to see Liu Zhaodi no matter what. Niu Cuihua tried to persuade her several times, but it didn't work, so she had to give up.
The New Year passed and Liu Zhaodi didn't come back. The people in Dongfeng Brigade thought that Li Aimin was going to get a divorce because Liu Zhaodi had not returned since she last went back to her parents' home.
Therefore, during this period of time, some people have been looking for Niu Cuihua to find out the situation, and it seems that they want to be a matchmaker for Li Aimin, but they were all rejected by Li Aimin!
That afternoon, Li Mingxi was on vacation at home. While reading a book, he heard someone outside shouting that Liu Zhaodi was back and asked everyone to go and watch the fun.
Li Mingxi was also a little curious. Didn't this person go back to her parents' home? Why is he back again? So he went back to the old house. Before he even got there, he saw his third aunt's wife tugging at his third uncle's arm, desperately seeking his forgiveness.
Liu Zhaodi was so thin she looked like a skeleton, as if she would fall over if the wind blew. The onlookers looked at her with sympathy. She was wearing a tattered, thin jacket, the cotton peeking through. She hadn't brought back any of the clothes she had taken from her parents' home.
Liu Zhaodi looked at Li Aimin standing in front of her and fell into deep regret. She had originally thought that she would go back to her parents' home in anger this time with good intentions. She knew that the man would definitely come to pick her up in a few days, and then she would be able to come back.
What Liu Zhaodi didn't expect was that Li Aimin didn't play by the rules at all and didn't even mention picking her up. In the first few days when she returned to her parents' home, her parents, brother and sister-in-law were indeed very nice to her. She didn't have to do any work every day and the food was good. But after a few days, when they saw that Li Aimin still didn't go back to pick her up, their attitude changed, especially Mrs. Zhao, who looked at her as if she was not a nose or a face.
At first, he ordered her to work every day and asked her to serve his brother's wife Zhao Ying, because people said that this baby was most likely to be a son, so the Liu family wanted to worship Zhao Ying.
At the beginning, Liu Zhaodi was willing to serve her, thinking that she was doing this for her nephew from her mother's side. When the child grew up, there would be someone to support him. Then she would see if the Li family dared to say anything to her!
But as the days passed, she found that the amount of food in her bowl was getting less and less, and the work she had to do every day was indeed getting more and more. Liu Zhaodi was a little overwhelmed.
She had never suffered this kind of suffering since she married Li Aimin. Even during the famine years, she was not like this! So she began to look forward to Li Aimin coming to take her home.
Mrs. Zhao originally just wanted her to do some work, but when she saw that such a long time had passed and no one came to pick her up, she took the initiative and asked Liu Zhaodi to take off her clothes and give them to her so that she could wear her own clothes. She said that she was working anyway and it would be easy for her to get her clothes dirty. Liu Zhaodi believed her and gave her the clothes!
In this way, Liu Zhaodi wore tattered clothes every day, went to the river to wash clothes in the cold wind, and served the whole family. Her hands were chapped and her face was frozen. In this environment, she looked forward to someone taking her home more and more.
But what she didn't expect was that the Li family seemed to have forgotten her. No one even came to pick her up during the Chinese New Year, and none of the children even looked for her. She felt a little disheartened.
Because she had to do so much work every day, she began to complain to Mrs. Zhao, but Mrs. Zhao always said that she was just sitting at home eating for free and not working, so what could she do? Liu Zhaodi could only endure it.
At some point, rumors spread that Li Aimin no longer wanted her and had started dating again. At that moment, Liu Zhaodi felt like the sky was falling and she couldn't accept it.
Just at this time, her mother, Mrs. Zhao, persuaded her that if Li Aimin could remarry, she could also remarry, and that she would definitely find a good one for her. Thinking that Li Aimin didn't want her anyway, Liu Zhaodi nodded.
Who knew that when she came home from work, she happened to hear her mother, Mrs. Zhao, and her brother, Liu Duofu, talking, so she stood in the corner and listened for a while.
Only to hear her brother Liu Duofu speak first, "Mom, is this a bad idea?"
Mrs. Zhao continued, "What's wrong with that? Now she's eating free meals at home every day. How can I keep her alive? Before, I could still get her food back, but now there's no hope at all!"
"She's old now anyway, and probably won't be able to have children. Where will I get the money then? I might as well marry her to that old man in the village!"
When Liu Zhaodi heard this, she felt like someone had poured a bucket of cold water on her!
Then she heard her brother say, "Mom, what if the Li family finds out about this?"
"It's okay. By the time he finds out, it will be too late. Besides, looking at the current situation, he definitely doesn't want your sister anymore. And that old woman Niu Cuihua might not agree either. If your sister marries another man, what does it have to do with the Li family?"
"Mom, you're right. With her current condition, I don't think Li Aimin would even want her! By the way, how much can the old man give?"
"That old man's family is very rich! They can afford a betrothal gift of 60 yuan! Besides, you forgot that his ancestors were landlords, so they must have hidden gold. When the old man dies, the gold will be yours!"
"Mom, if you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten. When that old man dies, we have to find her another family! We'll even collect the betrothal gift then. Tsk tsk, I didn't expect she's so valuable!"
Mrs. Zhao smiled and said, "These days, old bachelors like women like her. Don't worry, when the old man dies, we'll find her another one like this. Then everything will be ours!"
"Mom, you're so kind! But what if Third Sister doesn't want to do it?"
Mrs. Zhao gritted her teeth and said, "Even if she doesn't want to, she has to agree. That fool will believe us if we lie to her. Don't you think I am your mother?"
Liu Duofu flattered, "That's right, I don't obey anyone but my mother!"
Liu Zhaodi was so angry after hearing this that her body trembled uncontrollably. In that moment, she felt like a joke all those years. She'd been thinking about being nice to her family, giving them everything she could, but all they thought about was squeezing her dry. What else could she be but a fool? In that moment, she just wanted to get out of that hellhole and never go back. So, she ran back.
Thinking of this, Liu Zhaodi looked at the man in front of her with tears in her eyes. She felt that she was a big fool. She didn't love her own child, but loved a bunch of heartless people!
Li Aimin turned his head away, not looking at her. "What are you doing back?"
Liu Zhaodi wiped her tears and said, "I've figured it out, Aimin. I'll never go back to my parents' home again. Not only do my mother and her family not let me eat, they also keep forcing me to work. You're the only one who treats me best! I'll listen to you from now on!"
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