Chapter 76: The Evil Stepmother is Ready to Be Evil to the End (8)
Ever since Li Da saw the injury on Liu Lan's ear that day, he had been worried for several days, fearing that Mu Yan would call them for questioning.
Half a month passed, and Li Da finally felt relieved when he saw that Liu Lan had no new wounds and Zhi Muyan had not looked for her again.
That day, after Li Da finished his meal and was about to go to the kitchen to chop firewood, he saw Mu Yan coming to the backyard.
Li Da's heart suddenly became alarmed. In the past few years, every time she came to the backyard, the three of them would be beaten. He had a premonition that today's beating was probably related to the woman at the door.
Mu Yan saw Li Da's defensive look and smiled slightly, "I didn't bring a whip with me, don't be afraid, I won't beat you today."
When Li Da heard her say that, he became even more nervous. She had broken sticks as thick as her arms before.
"I came here to ask what you think should be done with the woman at the door. She stays at the door every day, and the villagers are likely to gossip about her," Mu Yan said seriously.
Maruzai: ...What are you talking about...drunk talk.
After Liu Lan was warned by Mu Yan not to leave the village, she could only beg for food in the village.
The households in the village were not rich to begin with, and at first they deliberately humiliated her by throwing things at her. But as time went on, the villagers found it boring and didn't want to waste food anymore, so few people gave her food anymore.
Liu Lan could only eat until she was two or three parts full every day. She didn't have the energy to argue with passers-by. Except for meal times, she spent the rest of the time huddled in the corner like a piece of wood.
When Li Da heard her mention Liu Lan, his back suddenly stiffened. After a while, he spoke, "Should I go and drive her away?" He tested her cautiously.
Mu Yan frowned slightly, "That's not good. If the villagers see me, they will think I'm a vicious woman."
Li Da:......
Li Da thought for a moment and then said, "I'll take her away quietly at night without letting the villagers see her, okay?"
"Okay, when you do this to her, be gentle and don't hurt her. It's not easy for her. I don't know if she has any children. If her children knew she was like this, they would be so heartbroken."
"If a woman with a child is forced to beg for food, then her child is truly heartless and worse than an animal."
Mu Yan seemed to be really distressed and frowned slightly, "Isn't it, Li Da?"
Li Da's hands, hanging by his sides, clenched until they creaked, veins throbbing on his forehead. He gritted his teeth and replied, "Probably."
"Let's go tonight, and go far away to avoid gossip." The distressed look on Mu Yan's face had not yet faded. When she said this, it seemed as if she was saying, "Give her some food, she looks so pitiful."
"Yes," Li Da agreed, looking at Mu Yan's leaving back, with ferocity in his black eyes.
The moment Muyan stepped out of the backyard threshold, she heard Wanzai say, "You sounded a little teay just now, but I quite like it," followed by a few nasty laughs.
Muyan walked to the front yard and sat on the stone bench in front of the stone table in the yard. "You like this," she said in an unfathomable tone.
Wanzi xxxxxx, then asked, "Where do you think they will send her? Will they just kill her?"
Mu Yan picked up the teapot on the table and poured herself a cup of tea. "It's not impossible."
After all, these people are not good people.
At night,
Muyan was lying on the bed, looking at the scene in front of her. In the scene, Li Da was carrying Liu Lan on his back, followed by Li Er and Li San, and they had already walked out of the village.
"Brother, is it really okay to throw her into the river?" Li San asked worriedly.
He had limited memories of his biological mother, and Liu Lan was no different from a stranger to him. His attitude towards her depended on how his two brothers treated her.
Li Er patted Li San's shoulder and said, "Don't worry. The river at the east end of the village has a fast current. If we follow the river, we will be out of the town tomorrow morning. Where she will drift to after leaving the town depends on her fate."
What Li Er didn't say was that there was a steep slope not far from the town, and people would most likely die if they went down it.
When he was a child, he went out to play with a group of scoundrels in the village and had seen that slope.
In the evening, when Li Da asked where to send her, the steep slope immediately came to his mind.
Her existence was like a sword hanging over the heads of the three of them. One day, they might suffer because of her.
They have had a hard enough life these years, there is no need to make things worse for themselves because of her.
Li Er thought that this was her fate today, it was just retribution for abandoning them back then!
Soon, the three of them reached the shore.
Li San and Li Er stepped on a few bamboos on the shore and tied a simple bamboo raft. Li Da put Liu Lan on the raft. Then the three of them waited on the shore for half an hour before returning to the village.
Maruzai closed the screen and said, "I predict she might become fish food."
Muyan lay flat on the bed with her legs crossed. The moonlight came into the room through the gauze, and one could vaguely see the indifferent expression on her face.
When Wanzai didn't get a response, he asked again, "What are you going to do with those three? Let them keep picking herbs?"
Mu Yan's indifferent expression softened after hearing this. "How about letting them have a dream?"
Maruzai: “?”
It was not until the next night that Maruzai understood what she meant by dreaming.
In the quiet woodshed, overlapping laughter could be heard from the big bunk bed from time to time. Looking closer, Li Dazheng had his eyes closed, grinning with a simple smile on his face. The two people beside him also seemed to have had a sweet dream, and their smiles were almost the same as Li Dazheng's.
Maruzai once again gave the boss a thumbs up, and it was she who had to pay it back.
The next day, on the way to the mountain to pick herbs, the three of them were silent all the way, with the corners of their mouths raised never falling.
Li Da's mind was filled with the scenes of his success in the imperial examination and his wedding night last night. Although he couldn't see his wife's appearance clearly, he could tell from her outline that she was a beauty.
"Brother,"
"Brother?"
Li Da heard someone calling him and suddenly came back to his senses. He looked at Li Er and Li San with a confused look in his eyes, "What's wrong?"
Li Er and Li San looked at each other helplessly, "Brother, you are just picking herbs, what's the matter?" Li Er looked at him like a fool.
Li Da's heart was suddenly filled with cold water. He had to pick herbs.
Passing the imperial examination and having a wedding night, that was a dream, but the dream was too real. Last night, he could vaguely feel the body temperature of the woman in his dream.
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