"Hmm..."
Xiaobao on the kang was sleeping uncomfortably. He twisted his body, sucked his fingers and fell asleep again.
"Are you taking the children with you?"
"child..."
Xiaofeng gently patted the blanket on the doll, tears welling in her eyes. "I want to take her away too, but she's too young. I, I can't take her away. Fortunately, she's the Zhao family's child. They won't treat her badly."
"Then when do you plan to leave?" Su Man asked tentatively.
"tonight."
Xiaofeng's answer was firm, "Every time there's a wedding in the village, the village chief will show a movie at the entrance of the village, and the villagers will all go to watch. We can wait until dark and sneak out."
"What if we get discovered?"
"If they find out, the worst that can happen is a beating."
Xiao Feng placed her hand on the back of Su Man's hand. "Although it's risky, at least there's a glimmer of hope. Do you want to stay in a place like this for the rest of your life?"
Su Man was persuaded by Xiao Feng and said, "But I'm tied up, how can I leave?"
"I've thought of it a long time ago. This is for you."
Xiao Feng put a pencil sharpener in Su Man's hand and said, "At night, you can use this to cut the rope and sneak out."
Su Man took it, but before she could say anything, there was another noise from the door lock, and Su Man held the knife in her hand.
This time, it was Li Xiang who came in. Seeing that there were outsiders present, he didn't say much, but just looked at Su Man deeply and said, "Sister-in-law, Mom asked me to take you out."
Xiao Feng stood up with a guilty conscience, her laughter dry. "Look, I was so busy talking to my sister-in-law that I forgot she was going out to toast. Sister-in-law, go quickly, I'm here."
Under Li Xiang's gaze, Su Man walked past him without looking at him, as if she couldn't see him.
When Suman went out, the meal was almost over. The women had all left the table, leaving only the men drinking at the table.
Seeing Su Man come out, someone started to make noises, "Hey, the bride is out!"
Someone else pushed Li Zhuang and said, "Your wife is here."
Li Zhuang, who had a sour face from beginning to end, didn't even give Su Man a straight look. He drank alone. It was only after Zhao Chunhua pulled him twice that he stood up and stood with Su Man.
The next step was to toast each table. The men looked at Su Man with their eyes wide open, their faces flushed, and they spoke in dialect.
Although Su Man didn't understand, she had guessed something from their naked gazes.
When toasting to one of the tables, someone took advantage of the chaos and pinched Su Man's waist.
Su Man turned around and saw that it was Uncle Li Xiang whom she met when she entered the village that day.
He was still shirtless like last time, his face flushed the color of liver from drinking too much, and his eyes seemed to be glued to Suman.
Zhao Chunhua, who witnessed all this, stepped forward to stop him and filled everyone's glasses with a smile.
After the last table was toasted, Su Man was locked up again.
The noise outside lasted until the afternoon. By the time the mess was cleaned up, it was almost dark. Zhao Chunhua and Li Pozi were happily counting money outside, and they were so happy that they couldn't even see.
But Li Zhuang still looked angry and walked out straight away.
"Hey, where are you going?"
Li Pozi put the money into his waistband and grabbed him.
"I'm going to the movies."
"You are the groom today, you are not allowed to go."
"Whoever the groom wants can be the bridegroom."
"You bastard, believe it or not, I will beat you up."
Li Pozi picked up a carrying pole and was about to hit someone, but was stopped by Zhao Chunhua, "Okay, okay, our village hasn't shown a movie in a long time, let's go and watch it."
"You silly old woman, if we all leave, who will look after the house?"
"Well, the second one stays."
Li Xiang had been busy all day and hadn't left. Right now, he was sitting on a long bench helping them keep accounts so that he would have a rough idea of how much he would have to pay back when he had to.
Hearing Zhao Chunhua's suggestion, Li Xiang did not refuse. After all, he could watch movies every day in the city. So he said, "You guys go ahead, I'll look after the house."
Seeing that he didn't take the movie seriously, Li Gang became even angrier and slammed the door open and left.
After everyone left, Li Xiang put away the account book. He walked around the outer room a few times and lingered at Su Man's door for a while.
He was leaving tomorrow, and there were some things he hadn't figured out yet. But he felt he couldn't face Su Man, and it was neither right to go in nor not to go in.
Li Xiang turned around a few more times, finally gritted his teeth, and opened the door with the key.
He had imagined all the expressions Su Man would show when she saw him, but what he didn't expect was that Su Man was actually asleep in there.
At this moment, she had changed back into her own clothes, a T-shirt and jeans, with half of her long hair draped over the pillow and the other half sliding onto the bedding.
Li Xiang was about to go out when he saw traces of tears dried by the wind on her face, which were particularly obvious when the light from the outer room flashed.
It seemed that she cried herself to sleep.
Li Xiang couldn't help but think of what Su Man asked him last night, Li Xiang, do you really not want me?
If he had said yes...
Li Xiang realized what he was thinking and shook his head, trying to shake off those ridiculous thoughts.
You can't blame him, he has no other choice.
In order to allow him to go to college in the city, his parents borrowed everything they could, and his second and third uncles even took out all the money for building a house.
And there is his elder brother. Although he is full of resentment towards him now, Li Zhuang sent him money many times when he was studying in college in the city.
The family was not well-off, and all this money was saved by Li Zhuang through hard work.
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