Chapter 011: Exposing Their True Faces
Li Mumu was so angry that she laughed when she heard it. According to what she said, a married girl should just break off the relationship with her parents, right?
She couldn't help herself, "Aunt, we're not family anymore. Will grandpa and grandma still give us delicious food? Oh, aunt, I'm spilled like water from the past. I'm no longer a family with Mumu. What should I do?"
Gu Yuru is a rich lady who has been familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics since childhood. She used to be disdainful of arguing with her unreasonable and stupid sister-in-law, but after hearing what her youngest daughter said, she actually felt that it was a good idea to fight back.
"You..." Li Rong glared at Li Mumu hatefully.
Li Mumu was not afraid at all. Not only that, she even showed her little teeth and smiled happily.
"Third sister-in-law, isn't this for your own good? Can you bear to let the children starve?" Li Rong advised again.
Gu Yuru shook her head. "I am their mother, but I am also their daughter. I can't just focus on the children I gave birth to and forget about the ones who gave birth to me. Besides, the children say they are not hungry. Rongrong, please stop trying to persuade them."
Li Rong snorted, and seeing that she couldn't persuade Gu Yuru, she ran to Li Yuan to complain. Looking at the way she was spitting and gesticulating, you could tell that she definitely didn't say anything nice.
Li Yuan frowned and looked in their direction with an unhappy expression, but the yamen runners were watching closely, so he didn't come over.
After it got dark, Zhang Xiang told everyone to stop and prepare for bed.
The Li family, who usually live a life of luxury and have to eat four or five meals a day, are so hungry that their stomachs are rumbling. How can they sleep?
What's more, in the wilderness, with the sky as a blanket and the ground as a bed, who knows when snakes, insects, rats and ants will appear?
The three members of the Li family's main branch gathered together. Zhao only gave birth to a daughter, Li Fengzhu, and then she was unable to get pregnant again because of her injuries. She was hated by Mrs. Li and had no sense of presence in the family.
"I don't get any benefits, but I can't escape the bad luck. I'm so unlucky." Zhao complained, and she felt even more uncomfortable when she saw her beautiful daughter.
Li Sheng rolled his eyes at her and said, "Shut up. Why are you talking about this now?"
"Why shouldn't I say it?" Zhao, who seemed to have been holding a grudge for a long time and was usually submissive, spoke in an unusually loud voice. "I want to say it, Third Brother, this family is ruined by you. If I had known, we would not have come to the countryside."
Li Mumu was speechless. This aunt was indeed bullied by her mother-in-law at home, but she had also enjoyed the benefits of fine clothes and delicious food in the capital. In short, she was an ungrateful person.
She broke free from Li Sheng's hand and said, "Even if you try to stop me, I'm still going to say this. We can't even afford to eat enough, and nothing good can happen to our family. Third brother, who else can I blame if not you?"
Sun glanced at her and said nothing. Usually, she was the best at pleasing the old lady, and she often gossiped about them behind their backs and bullied her two sisters-in-law. Her silence at this moment meant that she also thought so.
Seeing her unconscious son, she sighed heavily.
"Uncle San, I'm hungry. I want to eat meat buns." Li Fenghua, the eldest daughter of the second wife, also shouted.
Faced with complaints from the whole family, Li Yuan, who always cared about his reputation, could not hold back his face.
"I understand. I'll find a solution right away."
What Li Yuan meant by finding a solution was to come to Gu Yuru who was applying medicine to her eldest son.
He turned a blind eye to the scars all over his son's body, and his mind was full of urging his wife to beg for food from others.
Li Mumu thought to herself, go ahead and do it as much as you can. As long as I'm here, I don't believe my mother will still be obsessed with love.
"Dad, are you here to see big brother?"
Thinking of his eldest son's disobedience to him, Li Yuan's eyes flashed with disgust. "He talked back to me and disobeyed his father's orders. If he were in the military camp, he should be dragged out and beheaded."
Li Mumu acted very scared, and Gu Yuru quickly hugged her in her arms, "This is not your military camp."
"Oh, Daddy is not the general anymore?" Li Mumu exclaimed.
Li Yuan's face instantly turned the color of liver, and Li Mumu looked very unhappy.
"Yuru, you heard what everyone said just now, right? Can you bear to make me a sinner?" Li Yuan seemed to have thought of something and his tone softened.
Gu Yuru was not yet thirty, and her ears and eyes were not blurry, so she could hear it clearly. But she also knew that there was only a little food, and her parents were reluctant to eat it, and now they were starving. How could she have the face to go back and ask for more?
Besides, is it her fault that she became a sinner?
At this moment, a shout came from the Gu family, "There's a snake! Why is there still a snake? Yu'er, come to daddy quickly."
"Dad...I...I think I was bitten by a snake?"
"What?" Gu Yuru's face changed drastically.
Li Mumu took a deep breath. What is coming will come.
"You guys be careful. Li Yuan, go get the medicine." Gu Yuru said.
Li Yuan nodded and turned to go back, but he was grabbed when he passed by Lin Siyan.
Li Mumu watched from a distance and guessed what they were talking about without having to eavesdrop.
The Gu family hadn't received the antidote yet, so Gu Mingtang, worried about his son, ran over and asked, "Where's the medicine? Where's the antidote I gave you this day?"
Li Yuan walked over slowly, with a look of regret on his face, "Second brother..."
"Where's the medicine? Brother-in-law, bring it quickly. Yu'er has also been bitten by a snake. We can't delay any longer." Gu Mingtang's voice trembled and he was about to cry.
"Brother... I'm so sorry, the medicine... the medicine is lost."
"What?" Mrs. Gu fainted on the spot after hearing this, and someone was quickly sent over to take care of her.
"The medicine... the medicine is really lost."
Even though Old Man Gu was wearing heavy shackles, he still came here in the blink of an eye. "So many grains, not a single one left?"
Even if there is only one, it can protect my grandson's life.
Li Yuan lowered his head and said, "We've come so far, I don't know where it went. Why don't we think of another way?"
Gu Jian looked at his son-in-law with hatred, gritting his teeth, "You...you killed Yu'er."
Gu Mingtang didn't dare to delay and turned back. The couple competed to suck out the poisonous blood from their son.
At this moment, Li Mumu suddenly shouted, "I know where I lost it."
"You picked it up? Mumu? Give it to grandpa quickly." Gu Jian looked at his little granddaughter excitedly.
Li Mumu shook her head. Just as everyone was about to show disappointment, she pointed at Lin Siyan and said, "Mumu didn't pick it up, but Aunt Lin did."
"Nonsense, I didn't do that." Lin Siyan's words were obviously lacking in confidence.
"You have some. You just told Dad that there will be many more poisonous snakes in the future. You were afraid that something might happen to the baby in your belly, so you had to be careful and hide the antidote on your body."
Li Mumu looked at everyone and said seriously, "Dad said you and the child are the most important. I'll listen to you."
In an instant, the air was so cold that it seemed to freeze.
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