Chapter 43 Got it
The news that Sister Lu has to be hospitalized for a long time is undoubtedly a further blow to the Lu family.
Lu Xiang said, "Let's call my second sister first." Such a big thing happened at home, I have to tell her.
Mother Lu had no idea what to do, luckily Lu Xiang was there.
Leaving Lu's father alone in the hospital to take care of Lu Ping who was beaten half to death, Lu Xiang and Lu's mother went out to make a phone call.
Phone calls outside the village are really expensive, 50 cents a minute. Mother Lu dialed the number, and it was from their village. In the village, they still called Lu Second Sister!
This back and forth took quite a while, and Mother Lu watched the minutes tick by, feeling incredibly tormented. This phone call was like a money-eating beast, constantly demanding money.
Three minutes passed, and Mother Lu wanted to hang up. She hadn't even found the person yet, and she had already spent one dollar and fifty cents. One dollar and fifty cents! She stamped her feet anxiously and said, "Why hasn't this girl answered the phone yet?"
Finally, Sister Lu's voice came from the other side: "Hello?"
Mother Lu's mouth was like an accelerator: "Come to the county hospital quickly! Your eldest sister is almost beaten to death!" With that, she quickly hung up the phone. She wanted to hang up at the fifty-nine second mark, but she was still a step too late. It had been four minutes and two seconds since she hung up, so she was charged based on five minutes!
The telephone operator asked her for two dollars and a half. Mother Lu felt sorry for her and kept trying to please her: "Sister, can you make it cheaper? Can you charge me two dollars?"
"No, there's no bargaining here. Just pay what you're charged." The toll collector was ruthless.
Lu Xiang paid the money. Two yuan was a lot, almost three days' wages for an average worker.
Mother Lu kept saying in frustration, "If I had known earlier, I would have said a few more words. All the time has been wasted."
Lu Xiang also said: "Mom, you speak so fast, can my second sister understand?"
Mother Lu stood there in a daze, as if she had been struck by lightning.
Lu Xiang asked, "Do you want to call your second sister again?"
Mother Lu felt sorry for the money she had to spend on the phone call and refused to call again.
I went back to the hospital with Mother Lu. Fu Qinhui had already returned. Lu Xiang asked, "How is it?" He had a classmate in the same village as his elder sister. Fu Qinhui had just taken a bus back and then back again. There were always so many people on the bus.
Fu Qinhui's clothes were all wrinkled. "I found out," he said. "It just so happened that my junior high school classmate married a wife who had a good relationship with my eldest sister, so she knew a little more."
My eldest sister's husband, Xue Shengli, was an old bachelor. According to the villagers, he had a bad background and his father was not a decent man. Even if he had a few dirty bucks, no decent family would marry him. They had no choice but to ask a matchmaker to go to another village to arrange a marriage.
Sister Lu was a well-known virtuous and capable woman in Dayu Village, so Xue Shengli had his eye on her. He gave her a lot of money, even Lu's mother didn't know how much. It was the Lu family's old house. They used that money to renovate the house they lived in, so it must have been a lot.
Sister Lu got pregnant a few months after she got married. Xue Shengli was a drunkard and had a bad temper after drinking. Sister Lu didn't know how she had offended him, but with a push, she had a miscarriage. I heard that the baby was a boy.
After this incident, Xue Shengli apologized and bowed, and things were fine for a while. Sister Lu married in another village, and without her family's support, she had no choice but to get by. Perhaps because of her injuries, she hadn't gotten pregnant.
After a long time, Xue Shengli couldn't stand it anymore and started to curse people, saying that their nose was not a nose and their eyes were not eyes. Sister Lu finally got pregnant, but the baby was still a girl. Xue Shengli was very angry and even called her a bitch when registering the child.
This name is really ugly, and the villagers have been laughing at it for years.
I recently heard that Xue Shengli had someone else, and they wanted to force her out. Sister Lu was gentle, but when faced with something like this, she wouldn't just make room for someone else. So, Xue Shengli beat her to death.
Xue Shengli was frightened when he saw that she was breathing out more than breathing in after being beaten. He quickly hired a car to send her back to her parents' home, fearing that if Sister Lu died, her whole land would be ruined!
Fu Qinhui told everyone what he had found out.
Mr. Lu panted and said, "I'm going to fight that bastard."
Mother Lu could no longer hold back her tears. She was such a heartless person. Her daughter had married into that family, and now she was no longer human. "You little bastard, why are you so stubborn? Why don't you come home and tell me? No matter how much of a coward I am, I can't let you live with that beast!"
Crying is contagious. Lu Xiang's little niece was also crying at this moment. No one knew what this child had experienced at home. She didn't even dare to cry loudly. Her voice was as weak as a kitten, very pitiful.
Lu Xiang said to Fu Qinhui, "I'm going to sue them for intentional homicide and torture."
Fu Qinhui said, "Their village is very united. If one person is bullied, the whole village will come together to help. My classmates also said, don't be impulsive, otherwise you will suffer losses."
They were from the same village, and they stood up for their own people, even if the other party was an unforgivable scum.
Otherwise, Xue Shengli would not be so confident.
Lu Xiang wanted to avenge her sister, but she ran into trouble at the very first hurdle. Although the police station had filed a case, Officer Chen explicitly stated they were short-staffed. If their village was shielding Xue Shengli, even if the police arrived and had a legitimate case, they wouldn't be able to take him away.
The village was relatively conservative, and the clans were powerful. If they went there alone, with their limited strength, not only would they not catch anyone, they might even lose some of their own lives.
Lu Xiang said: "They have the support of the villagers, and we also have the support of the villagers!"
Fu Qinhui was stunned and said, "It's not impossible." He didn't say the second half of the sentence.
But it was a huge challenge. Their village chief wasn't one to take on extra responsibilities. He was focused on his fields and hoped to get a first-class village award by delivering enough grain this year. Organizing people to fight in other villages could lead to punishment from higher authorities.
Moreover, Lu Xiang's parents have little presence in the village, and they don't have the face to invite everyone in the village.
Lu Xiang also knew this truth, but as long as there was a glimmer of hope, she would make a hundred times the effort. This kind of scum must not go unpunished.
Lu Xiang has already made a plan.
From a distance, someone could be heard saying, "Mom, little sister." It was so loud that the nurse at the hospital was a little unhappy.
Lu Xiang waved her hand quickly, and Lu Erjie arrived. Although she had married a cripple, the cripple brother-in-law was very kind to her. She had two children, and the cripple brother-in-law was a tailor.
Second Sister Lu hated Grandma Lu and Aunt Lu very much. She was afraid that others would find out that she was living a good life and that Grandma Lu would come up and suck her blood.
Life is pretty good, but I rarely go back to the village.
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