Xia Taohua knelt down and interrupted them loudly: "It's my fault. I am with my brother. It's my fault, Xia Taohua. I will take the responsibility alone!"
"I'm going to marry Brother Qi. I don't want any of the four major household items anymore. I'll even return the sewing machine to you!"
Luo Cuilian was so angry and heartbroken that she couldn't utter a word, while Xia Youde, Xia Changgui and Xia Changchun who had just entered the room were stunned.
Xia Taohua looked at her mother Xia Taozhi and said, "Sister, please, save us."
Taozhi shed tears and said, "Okay, but Liu Shuqi owes me a total of thirty yuan, and he has to pay me back."
"When did I owe you money?!" Liu Shuqi thought, but without any evidence, he certainly would not admit it.
Taozhi took out three pieces of paper and said, "You won't give it to me? I have the IOU. If you don't give it to me, we'll go find the village party secretary and argue with him!"
The aunties outside the door started talking again.
"So this peach branch lent him thirty."
"No wonder Taozhi hasn't worn good clothes in three years."
"He goes to work every day and doesn't even have shoes. He's supporting this college student."
…
Liu Shuqi wanted to refute, but he saw the IOU, which was written by him.
But he knew that Xia Taozhi could not read, so he wrote two poems.
When Xia Taohua saw the love poem, she clenched her fists and said, "Sister, he will return the money to you." She didn't want her future man to have anything to do with her.
Xia Taohua looked up at her, stood up, went to her room, and took out thirty yuan.
These were the things she stole from her mother, and now she gave them all to Xia Taozhi, as long as she was willing to give them all up.
Taozhi stopped there and accepted the money: "This is the marriage certificate you gave me."
She threw the marriage certificate to him and happened to see the village chief and the party secretary coming.
She then said to everyone, "From now on, I, Xia Taozhi, and Liu Shuqi will have no relationship anymore!!"
Li Dongmei quickly tore up the marriage certificate and also tore up her copy.
She beckoned her son: "Let's go home."
"Brother." Xia Taohua looked at him and said, "I am already yours. You can't leave me, or I will sue you."
Liu Shu looked at Xia Taohua and could only be taken home by her mother.
The village chief was his father, who was standing at the door and staring at him gloomily. Liu Shuqi was a little scared.
"Okay, since there's nothing left, let's go." The Party Secretary quickly told them to get back to work: "I have a big announcement to make in a few days, so everyone should work hard."
"yes."
The villagers dispersed after talking about it.
Someone else called out to Luo Cuilian twice, "Cuilian, you don't have to pay me back for the soybeans I gave you. Your daughter Taohua is getting married anyway."
Luo Cuilian felt a black screen in front of her eyes and fainted.
Xia Youde quickly carried her into the room. Xia Taohua looked at her two brothers, stood up and went upstairs.
Xia Changgui looked at Xia Changchun looking at his sister with disgust in his eyes.
The two followed their mother into her room, not knowing whether she was angry or not. They didn't know what to do if something happened.
Only after watching them leave did Taozhi leave the room.
She can't leave this family now unless she can get married.
Otherwise, she would not be able to leave the village.
The inspection in the city is very strict, and you can only hide like a rat. Taking the bus is also very strict, let alone leaving the province.
She can only start a family, and the family must have their own house.
She doesn't have the qualifications to build a house—
Taozhi sat on the bed, holding the thirty yuan. She needed money very badly at that time, and she needed a ticket to buy anything.
She put it into the space and thought about what to do next.
Suddenly, someone knocked on her window.
Taozhi knew who it was without thinking. She opened the window and saw Xie Yan outside.
He threw her a bag of green dates: "No bananas, only green dates, they are sweet."
Taozhi looked at the pound of green dates and stared at Xie Yan: "You want to buy some?"
"No." Xie Yan said in a somewhat aggressive tone: "I stole it."
Taozhi: "...Xie Yan, can you please speak nicely? If you care about others, you should say nice things instead of always making them angry!"
She packed the green dates and said, "I don't want to eat them. You can eat them yourself."
His tone was a little bad: "If you don't eat it, throw it in the toilet."
After saying that, he walked away quickly.
"Hey, Xie Yan, what's wrong with you again?" Taozhi looked at his back. This guy really has a big problem!
Why is he not angry? !
I didn't say anything about him.
Taozhi looked at the bag of green dates. She also had some in the fruit and vegetable section of her space supermarket.
However, getting green dates in this era is harder than getting gold.
She remembered that she had only seen what green dates looked like in paintings.
The green dates had been washed. She picked one up and tasted it. It was really sweet.
Taozhi exclaimed, feeling that she had some problems with Xie Yan's views.
He was indeed a notorious bully in the village. No matter whether they were men or women, young or old, they all looked down on Xie Yan.
But she seemed to know the reason why Xie Yan had changed like this.
Xie Yan was a wanderer who had no parents or relatives. He used to eat rotten sweet potatoes and corn from the fields in the village, and he was very skinny.
Later, he was adopted by Xie Bo, a cattle herder at the village entrance. Xie Bo was an elderly widower who was too poor to marry. He was responsible for herding cattle for the team. Every day when he blew the horn, the cattle would follow him up the mountain.
When he blew the horn again at mealtime, the cows would follow him into the village.
In this way, he also earns eight kilograms every day.
It was he who gave Xie Yan his name. He said that only by taking a name that can suppress evil can one have a strong life.
So the King of Hell gave the character "Yan" to Xie Yan.
Less than a year after Uncle Xie adopted Xie Yan, he was beaten by bullies from the neighboring village. No one dared to stand up for him at that time. It was the 1960s, and those people were very brutal.
That winter, Xie Bo was pushed into the river by them and froze to death.
Xie Yan was the one who became a bully at that time. I heard that those bullies died not long after. Their heads were smashed with bricks and their brains were exposed.
Everyone in the village guessed that it was Xie Yangan, but there was no evidence.
Xie Yan inherited Uncle Xie's house. Now Xie Yan's house is the only slate house in the village.
He built them all himself. There is a small courtyard in front of and behind the house, and there is a river at the door.
It's just at the entrance of the village, where the unlucky guy always goes, so no one lives next to his house.
Xie Yan's family is the only one in the village with electricity.
Everyone said that Xie Yan built his house by robbing and looting, and that his money came from an unknown source, so they were very disgusted with him.
Taozhi was eating green dates when she suddenly thought of something and was stunned for a moment.
"Xie Yan can't be because..."
Taozhi recalled that December when she was washing clothes by the river. The water was icy cold and she saw Xie Yan lying beside a small hill not far from his home, next to Uncle Xie's grave.
He was covered with snow, his face was frostbitten, he had no shoes, and he was wearing patched summer clothes wrapped in several layers.
Then……
She gave him the hot potato that was still in her arms.
"Please don't die. If you die, I will be the most pitiful person in this village."
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