Chapter 165 Complaint
Before Wen Wan got home, Lu Donglin chased her back. Carrying a child on his back did not affect his walking and running.
"Did you bring Chuyi back?"
Lu Donglin panted slightly: "Yes, my aunt said she was hungry and had eaten all the food she brought over. She was crying a lot." After saying this, he said "Huh", "Hey, she stopped crying after I ran and shook her like this!"
Wen Wan climbed up the steps and walked into the yard, saying as she walked, "You better be quiet. There's no one to take care of her anyway. My aunt is busy all day long, so how can she have the time to take her out for a walk? Will you take her to school with you from now on?"
Lu Donglin shook his head decisively: "That won't work, unless..." He wanted to say unless it's your and my brother's child, but when he thought about how scary giving birth was, it would be better not to give birth, so he swallowed the words back.
Wen Wan had no idea what he was going to say. She walked into the yard and said, "It's good that you know it's not okay. You can't develop bad habits." Then she glanced at him and said, "How do I do it? Send it back?"
Lu Donglin responded and left. Wen Wan ignored him and opened the door with the key.
In the next yard, Lu Dongcai was at home. He had just come back from picking pig grass. In the sunny place at the doorstep, the quilt covers washed in the morning and the bedding that had been drying in the sun were hung on bamboo poles.
He took a stick and hit it again.
Then he pulled a mat and spread it under the eaves, intending to take it away and try to sew the quilt himself.
Unfortunately, although he has a capable mother and two older sisters, he has never touched needles and thread since he was a child. Holding the small needle in his hand feels worse than using an awl to poke corn in the wheat field.
But when asked to open his mouth and call Li Laiying into the house, he was unwilling to do so.
Li Laiying cried in the house all morning, and Lu Dongcai was so angry that he didn't go in to comfort her. She didn't drink a sip of water in the morning. After Lu Dongcai washed his clothes, he went up the mountain to pick pig grass and locked several doors. She didn't have the key, so she couldn't even go to the kitchen to get something to eat. Once an honest man gets angry, he is really more heartless than anyone else.
Lu Dongcai wasn't one to hold grudges. As they gathered pig grass in the mountains, his anger gradually subsided, and his mind became more rational. He knew in his heart that divorce was impossible. Given the Li family's situation, if Li Laiying went back, she'd have no chance of survival. After all, they'd been married for so long, and she'd given him children. Even feeding a cat or dog for so long would have created feelings for him.
He felt his mother was right. Li Laiying's problems needed to be corrected, and he had to do it. If he wanted to live a normal life, he had to keep her under control.
Thinking about the doors he had locked, he felt that he had done nothing wrong. He was going to starve her and refused to believe that she would not give in.
As a result, when he came back from the mountain, there was no movement in the house, so he simply did not go in. Anyway, this time he had to be tough and absolutely not give in.
What he didn't know was that after he left, Li Laiying had the idea of not wanting to live. She banged her head against the wall, and got a big bump on her head, but she didn't die. She lay on the ground with a buzzing headache and cried again. As she cried, she came up with an idea.
Dying is so annoying, it's better to live than to die. But she's not wrong about this matter, and she will never give in. If she can't really die, she can fake it.
Anyway, she was racking her brain for the whole afternoon, and when she heard some noise outside, she just lay down on the ground with her hair disheveled like a ghost, right at the door, making sure that anyone entering the house would see her. But Lu Dongcai came back, and when she heard the footsteps, he came in and went out again, without even glancing into the house.
Li Laiying waited for a long time, but the earth's energy had completely drained her warmth. She finally got up shivering, and then she heard Lu Donglin's voice from outside: "Hey, Brother Dongcai, what happened to your face?"
Lu Dongcai reacted and felt a little embarrassed: "I didn't pay attention when I was going up the mountain, and I got scratched by a thorn."
Yeah?
Lu Donglin didn't believe it, but he didn't ask any more questions.
Lu Dongcai took Chuyi down from his back. Chuyi told Lu Dongcai, "He cried so hard in the wheat field. My aunt said he must be hungry. I was planning to bring him back, but she wanted to work a little longer. I happened to be passing by, so she asked me to bring him back and let you know so she can mix him with some rice porridge to feed him."
Lu Dongcai has been practicing this for a while now: "Then help me hold it for a while. The kettle is not keeping the heat, and the boiling water is not hot anymore. I'll light a fire and stir it in the pot. The boiling water is not hot enough to make it cooked."
That’s okay!
Lu Donglin would not refuse such an offer of help.
Well, this child is a little hard to hold. Holding a child and carrying a child are two completely different things.
Especially at this moment, Chuyi started crying again. It was so painful for Lu Donglin to hold him in his arms. He sat there obediently and didn't dare to make a sound.
I looked into the main house from time to time, and there was no movement inside, as if no one was there.
A little bit of water boiled quickly, and Lu Dongcai finished it in a short while. Then he took the child over and said, "Okay, let me do it. You go back to write."
"Can you do it on your own? Can I give you a hand? It won't take too long."
As he spoke, he looked at the mat spread beside him and said, "Brother Dongcai, are you still sewing your own quilt?"
Lu Dongcai blew the rice porridge to feed Chu and said, "How can we do it if we don't sew?"
"Isn't Sister Laiying here? Ask her to sew it for you. It's already been a week since the confinement period ended, and she can come out on the first day of the new year, but she can't come out? Is she made of flour and can't be exposed to the wind? Will it be blown away by the wind?"
Lu Dongcai said nothing.
Lu Donglin glanced into the room, then continued, looking at the crack in the window that had been opened: "Brother Dongcai, you and your uncle and aunt are just too good-tempered. If my aunt was the kind of wicked mother-in-law who would hit or scold her daughter-in-law, she would have been completely subdued long ago. She didn't even leave the house after her confinement. Ask her to ask around in the team. Who didn't go to work when they were about to give birth, or go back to work within three or five days after giving birth?"
Lu Dongcai was amused by his serious look: "You are not very old, but you know a lot. I don't need your help here, go back and do your work!"
Lu Donglin said, "Okay, I'll go back. If you're too busy, just give me a shout and I'll help you."
After saying that, he slipped away, but he didn't go into the yard. Instead, he ran straight from the millstone and ran to the wheat field in one breath.
From a distance, she was shouting, "Auntie, Auntie!"
Gao Xiulan was frightened by his soul-stirring cry and almost got her hand pierced by the awl in her hand.
Zhang Hongying called out to Lu Donglin, "What are you doing? What are you doing? You're in such a hurry. You're already an adult, can you please be more calm?"
Lu Donglin breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Okay, be calm."
Then he pulled Gao Xiulan and said, "Aunt, come here. I want to tell you something."
Gao Xiulan was completely confused by him. She stood up and followed him to the edge of the wheat field, saying as she walked, "You kid, you're making so much noise and talking nonsense. What's going on?"
Lu Donglin said, "I told you not to get excited. I just sent Chuyi home and I saw that Brother Dongcai was disfigured. There were several marks on his face, as if he had been scratched by a cat, and there was blood. He said he was stabbed while going up the mountain, but I don't think that's the case. I feel like he got into a fight with someone."
Gao Xiulan hissed, "I'll go back and take a look."
Lu Donglin said: "Don't blame me. By the way, I saw Brother Dongcai sewing a quilt by himself. Can he do it?"
Well, I wanted to do more, but now I can't do more. Gao Xiulan turned around and said something to the scorer, and then said to Zhang Hongying: "Something happened at home, I have to go back. There is still a little left. I will ask Dongfu to come over to rub it after school."
Zhang Hongying asked, "What's going on?"
The people around also pricked up their ears to listen.
Gao Xiulan laughed and said, "What's going on? It's just that Dongcai's kid is so picky. He took apart the quilt this morning and wanted to wash it. Now that it's washed and dried, I can't sew it up myself. And you know, his wife can't sew. I have to go back and sew it before daybreak, otherwise what am I going to do with the quilt at night?"
"That's true. Okay, then leave it there for now. Go back and do your thing."
Gao Xiulan followed Lu Donglin away with quick steps.
Wen Wan didn't know that the couple next door had a fight, and she didn't know that Lu Donglin had run to the wheat field to complain in just a short while.
The door of her room was open, and she was correcting homework in the room. Not long after, Gao Xiulan's high-pitched voice came from next door, and the sound was getting louder and louder.
Shouldn't everyone be in the wheat field by now? Chuyi was brought back, so why is she back too?
The sound sounded a little strange, so she put down the pen in her hand and got up to leave the room.
Lu Donglin was rarely so obedient as to lie down at the door of the main hall and do his homework.
"Hey, when did you come back? Why is there no movement at all?"
Lu Donglin said: "I came back after giving Chuyi to Brother Dongcai. I knew you were working, so I didn't disturb you!"
Wen Wan pointed next door and asked, "What is my uncle's family doing?" Then she was about to walk out of the yard.
Lu Donglin pretended to know nothing and followed her out of the yard. The closer he got, the clearer it became.
Gao Xiulan's cursing and Li Laiying's crying were extremely clear.
Li Laiying, who was pretending to be dead in the house, was dragged out by Gao Xiulan by her hair and thrown into the yard.
She cried and shouted: "Someone was beaten to death, someone was beaten to death! Oh my God, the old woman beat her daughter-in-law, and the whole family bullied me——"
Gao Xiulan spat in front of her, "Pah! Hitting you is a waste of my energy. How have we treated you unfairly in the past few years since you came to our house? You pretended to be honest and looked like a good person at the beginning, but it hasn't been long since you showed your true colors. Let me tell you, I, Gao Xiulan, am not made of mud, so you can do whatever you want to me. I've been too easy to talk to these past two years, so you figured me out and now you want to control me too? I tell you, dream on! The son I gave birth to with so much effort is not for you to abuse. If you can live a good life, then don't complain and live well. If you can't, then get out of here! Even if Lu Dongcai is a bachelor for the rest of his life, it's better than having a wife like you!"
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