By evening, Xu Genshan's family was already fast asleep.
Xu Yi rolled over and then perked up his ears. He thought he heard someone knocking on the door in the yard, but it was very brief, making him wonder if he had misheard.
Ever since Grandpa Hu broke his head last time, his family has known that he's been learning martial arts from Grandpa Hu. Generally speaking, learning martial arts isn't such a bad thing.
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After discussing it, Xu Genshan and Liu Fang decided that Xu Yi should formally become Grandpa Hu's apprentice. On the surface, he would still call him Grandpa Hu, but in reality, the two were master and disciple.
To be honest, Old Master Hu is really something. Xu Yi's hearing, vision, and speed have all improved a lot.
"Yi'er, aren't you asleep yet?" Xu Genshu, who was on the opposite bed, asked in a daze when he heard Yi'er tossing and turning.
Just as Xu Yi was about to say he was going to sleep, the sound of light knocking on the door rang out again. This time, he was certain that someone was knocking.
Xu Genshu turned over and fell asleep again. Xu Yi lifted the blanket, gently opened the door, and went out.
Once inside the courtyard, the knocking became clearer, one after another, sounding very urgent.
"Who is it?" Xu Yi asked in a low voice through the door without disturbing the people inside.
A moment later, the adults of the Xu family arrived one after another in the main room.
Liu Fang and Xu Genshan arrived a little late, and the noise they made while getting up disturbed Fu Man'er. The little girl tugged at Liu Fang's hand and whimpered.
After calming Fu Man'er down, the couple rushed over and saw Li Mei kneeling in the middle of the room as soon as they entered.
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The couple had just sat down when they heard Old Mrs. Xu speak up, "Xuexing's wife, get up quickly. Kneeling on the ground makes it seem like we're bullying you."
As soon as Li Mei saw the Xu family, she knelt down. Her eyes were red and swollen, clearly indicating that she had been crying for a long time.
"Uncle, Aunt, please, please, please save my daughter, Lai Di." Li Mei not only refused to get up, but also started kowtowing.
Grandma Xu and Grandpa Xu are elders, so they can handle it, but those of the same generation can't.
Liu Fang and Ma Hong had already gone forward to pull her up, but no matter what they did, Li Mei just wouldn't get up, crying and screaming at the top of her lungs to save Lai Di.
Only after his cries did the Xu family understand what had happened.
After the incident with the prescription, Xu Xuewang behaved himself for a few days, staying at home and not going anywhere. Xu Er got angry just looking at him, beat him up, and then left him alone.
But the good times didn't last long. The family was still in debt when Xu Xuewang went out gambling again. This time, Xu Er, who lived in town, caught him red-handed, and he lost quite a bit.
Xu Er wanted to take Xu Xuewang away, but the people at the gambling den wouldn't allow it. They threatened to either pay him money or break Xu Xuewang's limbs.
Xu Xuewang had seen the gambling den's tricks before. He cried and begged Xu Er to save him. Seeing that his unruly son was incorrigible, Xu Er hardened his heart and ordered the gambling den's men to break Xu Xuewang's limbs.
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He was just saying that in a fit of anger, wanting Xu Xuewang to know that he had to clean up the mess he made.
But as soon as he turned around, Xu Xuewang's screams rang out, a sound that could almost rip your eardrums. When he turned back around, Xu Xuewang's leg had already been broken.
This was his son whom he had spoiled for many years. Xu Er really couldn't bring himself to be cruel. He immediately protected his son, preventing them from hitting people, and promised to send the money over.
The people at the gambling den are much more ruthless than those who make money from money. They won't give you a day or two. Xu Xuewang will leave whenever Xu Er brings the money over.
They would fight every two hours. If Xu Er was not two hours late, he would cripple one of Xu Xuewang's hands.
Later, Xu Er actually took the money to redeem Xu Xuewang and found a barefoot doctor to treat Xu Xuewang's leg. Xu Er is still locking him up in the woodshed.
"Does your family still have money to pay off gambling debts?" Ma Hong asked. This second uncle's family is so rich! They just paid off the eighty-odd taels of money from Qian Shengcai, and they can still come up with money now.
Li Mei wiped away her tears. "I don't know. My father-in-law didn't come home to get the money, and I don't know where it came from." Her mother-in-law manages all the money in the house, and she only gets a few coins.
"The money has already been paid back, why would you still want to sell your daughter Lai Di?" Xu Genzhu couldn't understand.
Li Mei's throat tightened, and she sobbed uncontrollably, "They say... they say it's because of the bad luck brought by my daughter, Lai Di, that our family has become like this."
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This is utterly an undeserved disaster. It was clearly Xu Xuewang who caused this trouble, but in the end, the blame was placed on his own daughter.
Thinking back to the afternoon when she had listened to her mother-in-law and sent food to her brother-in-law, she realized that if she had known it would turn out like this, she should have put some rat poison in the food and killed that scourge.
Li Mei's eyes were filled with hatred and regret. She was originally a cowardly person, but for her daughter, she dared to do it!
The Xu family members were furious when they heard this. "What does this have to do with Lai Di? She's the one who stole the things, she's the one who gambled!"
The two sisters, Lai Di and Lai Di, have visited the Xu family's place several times. Sometimes, when they see someone working in the yard, they go up and help. Although they don't talk much, they seem like very well-behaved little girls.
Sometimes when we give the kids snacks or fruit, these two little girls will obediently run outside; the Xu family isn't stingy.
Thinking that it was a matter between adults and shouldn't involve the children, he insisted on giving food to the two little girls, who blushed and kept thanking him.
"I think your in-laws are really senile. They're so old, yet they do all sorts of bad things. They deserve to end up like this." With Fuman'er, their little lucky star, in the family, Old Mrs. Xu is not as mean as before.
She utterly despised the things that the Xu couple had done.
“A fortune teller came to our house and said it was a problem with Lai Di. He said that the family’s fortune would only change after we sent Lai Di away.”
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In the afternoon, she saw a man with an air of otherworldly wisdom come to her house, but she usually didn't stand in the presence of outsiders when they were talking, and she didn't know what he said to her parents-in-law.
At first, my father-in-law had a worried look on his face when he went out. It took him a while to come back, and when he did, his steps were much lighter.
Lai Di is seven years old this year. She is a good worker and a girl. Li Mei can't imagine where her daughter will be sold.
"Uncle, Aunt, Eldest Brother, Sister-in-law, Genzhu, Sister-in-law, Third Brother, I beg you, I beg you, I really don't know who else to turn to, please save Lai Di."
Every time Li Mei called out to someone, she would kowtow once, saying, "Please save Laidi! If you can save Laidi, I'll do anything for you, even be your slave."
Helpless cries echoed in the main room of the Xu family. Everyone present, except for Xu Genshu, was a parent. Seeing Li Mei's appearance, their hearts ached.
"Li Mei, it's not that we don't want to help you, but as you know, our two families have never had a good relationship and we no longer keep in touch. I'm afraid there's nothing we can do to help you."
Old Xu glanced helplessly at his niece-in-law, knowing that she had been forced into a corner, otherwise she wouldn't have come to his house for help.
"Uncle, uncle, please, please! If you can save Lai Di, our whole family will do anything to repay you!" Li Mei knelt down and moved toward Old Man Xu, her voice hoarse from crying.
She felt really bad that the Xu family was kneeling like that, so Ma Hong and Liu Fang pulled her up and made her sit in a chair.
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"What did your husband say? Did he agree to sell Lai Di?" Old Mrs. Xu asked.
Li Mei shook her head. "He doesn't know about this yet. Xuexing listens to his mother so much, and he has that kind of personality. If his parents really sell Lai Di, there's nothing he can do."
She had figured out what kind of person her husband was over the years; otherwise, why would their family have had such a difficult time at home?
"Coward, he can't even protect his own child." Xu Genshan cursed. Everyone knew Xu Xuewang's temperament; he might actually be as Li Mei said.
After an unknown amount of time, Li Mei finally came out of the Xu family's house. Liu Fang and Ma Hong saw her to the door. "Go back quickly, it will be terrible if they find out you're not home."
Li Mei overheard her in-laws' conversation by accident, which is why she ran away while everyone was asleep. She didn't dare to knock on the door too hard, for fear of disturbing the other neighbors and letting them know she had been there.
"Mm." Li Mei nodded, walked out of the Xu family's courtyard gate, and soon her figure disappeared into the night.
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