Chapter 40 I am the one who can be in charge of this family!
There are very few people like Zhou Lanhua who trust and admire Li Shiyue. Most people would never part with their belongings, which they had carried with them even on the road to escape famine.
"Let's just throw this millstone away; it's too heavy."
"Where can you throw this away?"
These little millstones aren't something just any stonemason can make. We can't throw them away, we can't throw them away! I'll put them in the basket and carry them on my back.”
"Then let's just leave this wooden bed as is. We can build a new one when we get to the new place."
"No, no, this is top-quality walnut wood. My father searched for it for a long time before finding it. We have to keep it."
"It's alright, just put it at the bottom, I can move it."
However, there were still some people like Zhou Lanhua, such as Dog Lao San and his third aunt, who were the ones who listened to advice.
Originally, because his aunt was old and couldn't walk very far by herself, Dog Lao San had been pushing the cart with his aunt most of the time.
Besides the necessary grain sacks and two wooden buckets for water, the cart only contained some clothes, shoes, socks, cooking utensils, and two baskets with various odds and ends.
Just then, Dog Lao San started rummaging through the things on the cart. When Third Aunt saw Dog Lao San unload the two baskets, she got up anxiously and went over to check on him.
"Third brother, these are all useful, we can't throw them away."
Dog Lao San shook his head. "Auntie, we should just throw it away. Judging from what they're saying, we need to run fast. If we're too slow, we'll fall behind and we'll be in big trouble."
The third dog rummaged through the pile, looking for needles, thread, scraps of cloth, and even the bowls and chopsticks. He kept only two sets of them, and planned to throw the water ladle into the pile.
Having lived a frugal life for almost her entire life, the third aunt couldn't stand such a wasteful way of treating things, and the old lady stood by watching with a pain in her chest.
Dog Lao San was also heartbroken, but he knew in his heart that Li Shiyue was right. If they wanted to escape far away quickly, they could run faster if they had less stuff and less burden.
Looking at the two piles of belongings on the ground, Dog Lao San smiled bitterly and said to his third aunt, who was already in tears, "Auntie, these things are gone, but once we're settled, I'll work hard to earn them back."
But if we were to lose our lives because of these things, it would be far too wasteful.
At this point, Dog Lao San suddenly knelt down before his third aunt. The eldest brother's man was almost as tall as his third aunt when he knelt down.
With tears in his eyes, Dog Lao San smiled and said to his third aunt, "Aunt, you're the only family I have left in this life. It's more important for you to live well than anything else!"
"As long as you're alive, I have a home, Auntie. Don't worry, I'll definitely make sure you live a good life from now on!"
The old woman looked at the third dog kneeling in front of her, and tears streamed down her face.
"Hey! Good child, get up quickly!"
My aunt understands, so let's throw it away. Nothing is more important than ourselves!
"Get up, third brother, get up!"
Third Aunt, an old woman, could recognize the current situation, but Li Shiyue's own family was being blocked.
Grandma Li squatted on the ground, holding onto the cabinet tightly and refusing to let go, no matter how much Li Wangming pleaded with her, she wouldn't let him throw it away.
"Mother, once we settle down in the new place, I will immediately go up the mountain to find a good piece of wood and a good carpenter to make you a cabinet exactly like this, okay?"
This is way too heavy; how can our car go fast with this on?"
"No, we can't throw this away!"
This was made by my father himself when I got married!
This is my only keepsake! I can't throw it away!
Having no other choice, Li Wangming had to abandon the cabinet and instead went to the heavy vegetable jar on the cart. The jar originally contained pickled vegetables, but they had all been eaten on the way and were later used as a container for water.
But along the way, the water in the jar had long been drunk up, so what use was the jar now?
But when Grandma Li saw Li Wangming carrying out the vegetable jar, she became unhappy again. She stood up and still used the wooden stick as a cane. "Wangming, this jar cannot be thrown away!"
"This jar was bought the year your father and I got married. It was made by Cai Laosi from the Xi Cai family. It's completely waterproof and works very well."
"Mother!"
This jar is too heavy, you can't keep it. I'll buy you another one just like it when we get there.
"Wangming, no, this is different, this..."
Li Shiyue was sorting through grain bags with her mother and Shi Tou. She was getting annoyed by the constant chatter of her grandmother and Li Wangming.
Enough is enough; there's no need to endure it any longer.
After tying the bag of grain tightly, Li Shiyue turned and headed towards the donkey cart. She walked over in a few steps, and Li Wangming, who was still arguing with his grandmother about the vegetable jar, looked at Li Shiyue with some confusion: "Shiyue?"
Li Shiyue glanced at her grandmother, and without responding to Li Wangming, stepped forward and snatched the vegetable jar from their hands.
Under the incredulous gaze of Grandmother Li, Li Shiyue, in front of the two of them, raised the vegetable jar high above her head and slammed it hard onto the ground beside her.
Goodness, this jar is really sturdy; it's not broken at all.
The vegetable jar lying on its side on the ground seemed to be mocking Li Shiyue's overestimation of his abilities, leaving Li Shiyue feeling utterly overwhelmed.
Along the way, Li Wangming had already learned that Li Shiyue was strong enough to rival a man at such a young age. The wood-chopping knife was like a game to her. Not to mention that Li Shiyue had also spent time with Li Qiutian, who inherited her family's strength, and learned some knife-wielding techniques from Zheng Meiniang.
However, Li Wangming really didn't expect that Li Shiyue was strong enough to lift the jar over his shoulder.
Therefore, he stared in disbelief as Li Shiyue turned around and drew the wood-chopping knife from his waist, gripped it with both hands, and chopped down on the side of the vegetable jar lying on the ground, as if he were chopping wood.
The jar developed a crack on the first touch.
Li Shiyue was truly angry. In his rage, his fighting power doubled, and with his second blow, the jar finally proved that she could overcome any force with sheer strength; the jar shattered.
The ground was littered with large and small pieces of debris. Looking at the fragments, Li Shiyue finally felt relieved.
She turned around to go back and continue tying the grain sacks, but Grandma Li didn't count them as hers anymore.
"Li Shiyue!"
This is outrageous!
I told you to keep this jar, not throw it away, but you just smashed it to pieces!
Don't think that just because you have strength and can kill someone, you can be in charge of this family.
I'm telling you, I'm not dead yet!
Would Li Shiyue be afraid of what her grandmother said right now?
She's not afraid of anything.
That's just how people are. When Li's father was alive, Li's grandmother couldn't even afford to ride in a donkey cart.
After Li's father left, Li's mother and Li Wangming put Li's grandmother on a donkey cart. In the days that followed, Li's grandmother had been so "spoiled" that she seemed to have forgotten the days when she had struggled to escape famine with the help of a wooden stick. She had even forgotten when her feet were blistered and her legs were swollen from walking.
Li Shiyue turned around and looked at her grandmother with a smile on her lips. The torches hanging on the donkey cart emitted a dim, yellowish light that could not illuminate a person's face.
Looking at Li Shiyue's face from her grandmother's perspective, it was difficult to make out clearly in the flickering firelight.
With his arms crossed, Li Shiyue looked at his grandmother with an air of nonchalance and said, "Grandma, you know I can kill people."
So you knew that you were protected by us sisters all this way?
The prefectural city is on the verge of chaos. We must travel light and risk our lives. Does the fate of the jar matter?
Li Shiyue raised an eyebrow and continued to say to her grandmother, "Haha, so what if the useless broken jar is broken? Grandma, do you want the jar or your life?"
At this point, Li Shiyue's expression turned serious, and all the smile on her face disappeared. She said sternly to her grandmother, "I am the one who makes the decisions in this family!"
Grandma can listen whether she wants to or not!
"Anyone who gets in the way of this family's livelihood, I, Li Shiyue, will chop off their head!"
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