Qin Xiaomi raised her head and cried, "Brother, Mom wanted to take me out to enjoy life. I said I wanted to go to school, and they beat me if I didn't go."
Qin Huai immediately turned to Li Lan and asked, "You want to take Xiaomi out? What are you taking her for?"
Li Lan angrily said, "When will it be your turn to make decisions about this family? I gave birth to my own child, so I can do whatever I want. Why do I want a bastard like you to take charge?"
"They are both my sisters. No one can take them away."
Yatou and Qin Xiaomi cried beside them, "Brother, we're not going anywhere. We just want to follow you."
Just as the argument was getting out of hand, a country woman in fancy clothes, smoking a huge pipe, came staggering in from the doorway. She said to Li Lan impatiently, "What's going on? I've been waiting outside for ages, and it's still not done. Hey, which of those two yellow-haired girls is it?"
Li Lan pointed her finger at Qin Xiaomi, and the two sisters hurriedly ran behind Qin Huai. Qin Huai patted their shoulders and said, "Don't be afraid, your brother is here."
The woman came to Qin Huai and said with a smile, "You little brat, you're still trying to be a hero in front of me. Go away." She pushed Qin Huai away with her hand.
Qin Huai didn't expect this woman to be so violent and suffered a loss at her hands.
The villagers watched coldly from a distance. With Li Lan around, it was not convenient for outsiders to speak out.
The woman grabbed Qin Xiaomi and looked at Li Lan. When she saw Li Lan nod, she lifted her chin with one hand and stuffed her pipe into her mouth with her other hand. She roughly pried open her mouth, looked her up and down for a while, and said incoherently, "She has uneven teeth. She's unlucky. But she's okay. I'll take her."
Familiar movements, familiar formula.
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