Su Xueli realized that her grandfather was faking illness, because his loud voice, filled with curses, scared away the chickens pecking at the door.
The old man was truly ill. He was already weak, and then his father beat him up. On top of that, he was angry, and his face turned ashen as he lay in bed.
Su Xueli comforted the old man for a few words and then came out with her mother.
Her mother asked her to go to town to see her aunt, but Su Xueli said, "No need, I'll be back in a bit."
Liu Fengying asked, "How did you know?"
Su Xueli said, "I knew it. Let's go home."
Sure enough, Su Guojun returned from the hospital a while later. He said that his sister-in-law was fine and had been brought home, but she was making a fuss about why they saved her, saying she didn't want to live anymore.
Liu Fengying panicked and said, "Then I'll stay at her house tonight and keep an eye on her, so she doesn't do anything rash and hang herself again."
Su Xueli said to her mother, "Mother, don't take it seriously. If my aunt really wanted to die, she wouldn't have been saved by hanging herself. She's just trying to scare Yunfeng so he'll hear about it and come home."
Liu Fengying said honestly, "You silly girl, you're just talking nonsense. Who would joke about hanging themselves? Come with me to see her."
Since she had come to her mother's home, Su Xueli decided to visit her aunt's house again with her mother.
Actually, the old lady was a good person, but she liked to play dead, and every time she did it was by hanging herself, without ever changing the method.
When my cousin was looking for a husband, she didn't like the man and refused to get engaged. The man threatened to hang himself, and my cousin got scared and agreed to the engagement.
That year, she argued with the old man and lost the argument, so she tried to hang herself. The old man honestly admitted his mistake.
She argued with her neighbor over a patch of wild castor beans, and when she lost, she attempted suicide by hanging. Her neighbor quickly gave her the patch of wild castor beans.
Anyway, whenever something happens, people just hang themselves, and it never fails.
This time, she suffered a major setback, falling victim to her son.
When Su Xueli and Liu Fengying arrived at her house, she was crying and shouting inside, "Leave me alone, I don't want to live anymore, I don't want to live anymore..."
A group of aunties and older women surrounded her bed, trying to persuade her one after another. The more they tried to persuade her, the stronger her desire to perform became. She simply jumped up, picked up the rope she had used at noon, and tried to hang herself again.
Su Xueli stood quietly at the door, watching with a wry smile and saying nothing.
"Sister-in-law, what are you doing? Let's talk things out. You can't risk your life like this. Look, our daughter has come to see you. Sit down and let's have a good talk." Liu Fengying went over and pulled her aside.
The old lady's surname was Bai, and everyone called her Sister Bai.
Sister Bai knew that her son was close to his cousin, Su Xueli, and the two siblings talked about everything. So she pinned her hopes on her niece.
He stopped threatening to hang himself and grabbed Su Xueli's hand, crying, "Oh, my daughter, you've finally come! You have no idea what your brat brother has done to our family these past two days..."
Su Xueli listened patiently as she embellished the story of the past two days, then pretended to be a good person and said, "Auntie, I know. My brother Yunfeng is such a scoundrel. How could he not listen to you?"
But you can't risk your life for a child who doesn't understand. Let's take it slow and talk about it after you've recovered."
After rambling on for a while, Su Xueli pulled her mother out.
She lied to her mother, saying, "It's still early, and it's warm today. It's market day at Matou. I'll go to the market to look for Yan Yan."
Liu Fengying said, "Then go ahead, I'll give you some money, buy whatever you want."
"Mother, I have money." She pushed her mother's money back.
Taohuawu is very close to Matou Town, only three or four miles away. Su Xueli arrived by bicycle in about ten minutes.
But she lied to her mother; she hadn't come to the market to find Yan Yan, but to see her cousin and He Yulan, the young couple.
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