Chapter 14: There is no place for you in this house. Shi Meilan is back, so you...
When Wang Yulian heard that Shi Meilan was coming back, she felt a little guilty.
But this feeling of emptiness only lasted for two seconds. Then she sneered and shouted at Zhao Erjie, who was lying on the wall, "She's divorced our old Li. It's no use even if she comes back."
Since she has the ability to enter this door, she has the ability to keep it.
She would never let any other woman take Li Jianye away. This was her victory, her glory, her badge. She would guard Li Jianye tightly. This was the only way she could win over other women.
If Li Jianye broke up with her, she would become a slut again.
So she had to hold on.
Wang Yulian's whole body tensed up, and all the thorns on her body stood up. If anyone approached her at this time, she would stab them without any hesitation.
Taking another look at Zhao Erjie's annoying face, Wang Yulian sneered again, "If you have that in mind, focus more on your own son. He can't even find a partner. Don't stay single and leave your Li family extinct!"
Zhao Erjie was almost angered to death by Wang Yulian's words.
Why didn't she slap Wang Yulian twice more the other day?
In the past, she always thought Shi Meilan was a very annoying sister-in-law, but now compared with Wang Yulian, Shi Meilan can be considered a person with good character.
How can someone be so shameless!
"Ha, don't worry about me. I've never been stripped naked or arrested before," said Zhao Erjie in a sharp voice. "Shi Meilan gave birth to two sons for Li Laoer. A day of marriage is like a hundred days of love, and a hundred days of marriage is as deep as the sea. Shi Meilan will be back soon, and we'll see if there's still a place for you!"
Zhao Erjie cursed so loudly on the wall that she attracted Li Jianye from the front east room.
"What? Shi Meilan is back?"
When Li Jianye came out of the corridor, Wang Yulian suddenly became anxious.
She really wanted Li Jianye to go back and not care about Shi Meilan. Since they had already decided to divorce, whether Shi Meilan was dead or alive had nothing to do with Li Jianye, and Li Jianye shouldn't care!
But when Li Jianye walked out, Wang Yulian forced herself to suppress the curse that was about to burst out of her throat.
She knew that Li Jianye didn't like women making loud noises, so she endured it and didn't shout.
"Yes, Shi Meilan is back."
But Wang Yulian didn't shout, but Zhao Erjie wanted to shout, and she had to shout loudly: "She's riding her bike towards us from the village entrance. Doctor Qian's wife saw her when she came back from buying herbs."
During this period, everyone in the village saw the lively atmosphere between the two families of Li Lao Da and Li Lao Er. When Shi Meilan suddenly turned back, everyone in the village was watching. Of course, some people who were curious came to inform her.
But no one would report the news to Wang Yulian, because Wang Yulian had a terrible reputation and no one would tell her. Although Zhao Erjie's reputation in the village was not very good, it was better than Wang Yulian's. She was considered a tall person among short people, so these people chose to tell Zhao Erjie.
When Zhao Erjie heard that "Shi Meilan is coming back", she hurriedly climbed over the wall to see what Li Laoer's courtyard looked like, but she was discovered unexpectedly.
If she was discovered, she was discovered. She even had to curse openly!
"Li Jianye," Zhao Erjie said loudly, "Your wife is coming back. What are we going to do with this new one?"
Wang Yulian's hands tightened slightly as she held the newly dried clothes.
If you're gone, just leave. Why come back?
When Li Jianye heard this, he couldn't help feeling a little proud.
He just knew it!
What could Shi Meilan do without him? A woman who divorced her husband could only return to her parents' home, and Shi Meilan's parents' home had no place for her, so she would have to return soon.
He is Shi Meilan's only support.
And now, Shi Meilan must have been unable to stay at her parents' home, so she came back to apologize to him.
Li Jianye thought of the harsh words Shi Meilan said when she left. When he thought of Shi Meilan coming back to admit her mistakes, Li Jianye felt very happy.
"Whatever I have to do, I'll do it." Li Jianye felt a little dizzy for a moment. He pulled up his belt, put his hands behind his back, and slowly walked down the stairs and walked into the yard. As he walked, he said, "After all, she was married and gave birth to two children for me. Now that she's back, I can't kick her out."
"Shi Meilan is ignorant and only does things that hurt others' feelings, but I'm not that cruel. I remember the feelings."
Wang Yulian, who was standing by, couldn't help herself this time, but she didn't dare to get angry. Instead, she lowered her voice and said to Li Jianye coquettishly, "Jianye! Won't she beat me when she comes back? I'm scared."
Li Jianye couldn't stand women showing weakness. When Wang Yulian softened her voice, he sighed and said, "Can I still kick you out? Isn't your yard empty? Just pity her and let her live next door."
He is a kind-hearted man and will not let Shi Meilan live on the streets. He will give Shi Meilan a place to live and let Shi Meilan live next door, regretting it day and night.
Wang Yulian stamped her feet anxiously.
How can this be possible? What the hell is going on?
"That house is for Xinran." Wang Yulian whispered, "You can't give it to her even if Shi Meilan comes back. You two are divorced, how can you still be related? Can't you just kick her out? Besides, this house was bought with money. We pay for it every year."
She and her husband were both educated youth. When they came to the village, they had no place to live. The village chief allocated a house to them, but asked them to pay a few dollars every year as rent. This house is only her own house, not the village's residential land, so why should it be given to others to live in?
As soon as Wang Yulian finished speaking, Zhao Erjie fanned the flames: "Hey, you've only been here for two days, and you've already forgotten how you got here? You even dare to meddle in the affairs of the master! Do you really think you were married in a formal way? If you don't want to give your house to Shi Meilan, then move out of the Li family and make room for them!"
"That's enough! What are you arguing about?"
Li Jianye was unwilling to say harsh words to Wang Yulian, but he was also unwilling to respond to Zhao Erjie's words. He just wanted to see Shi Meilan come to beg him and experience what it means to "change things over time, don't bully the poor middle-aged people."
So he ignored the two women and walked quickly towards the door.
Shi Meilan will come back on her bike soon, and he must be the first to see her!
Li Jianye stood at the door, and only Wang Yulian and Zhao Erjie were left in the yard, staring at each other.
Wang Yulian hated Zhao Erjie so much that she almost died. She had never seen such an annoying woman. How did her living with □□ hinder Zhao Erjie?
As she walked towards the door, she thought viciously, today she would mix a pool of yellow mud and a row of broken glass, and paste them on the wall, and see how Zhao Erjie would climb up this wall!
While she was thinking, Wang Yulian had already walked to the door.
She deliberately stood next to Li Jianye, very close to him - let's talk about Zhao Erjie later, she has to deal with Shi Meilan first!
Coincidentally, just as Wang Yulian walked to the door and stood next to Li Jianye, she saw Shi Meilan riding a bicycle coming from the village entrance.
——
Only a few days had passed, but Shi Meilan had completely changed.
Her hair was carefully groomed. Unlike when she was in the countryside and had her hair casually braided and hung down, or tied up casually, it was now permed.
The permed hair hung down on the sides of her cheeks, making her look brighter and her face look several years younger, a bit like a movie star.
She was wearing a fashionable pair of jeans, a black and white spotted shirt, a pair of red low-heeled shoes, and a small red bag in her hand. She didn't look like a country girl at all. At first glance, Wang Yulian hardly recognized her.
Not to mention Wang Yulian, even Li Jianye, who had been Shi Meilan's husband for more than ten years, didn't recognize her!
When did Shi Meilan become so beautiful?
Shi Meilan pedaled the bike, the wheels turning rapidly, and she whizzed towards the end of the village, as if she had no intention of stopping. Li Jianye and Wang Yulian looked at her eagerly, but she didn't even turn her head.
"Meilan!" Shi Meilan didn't stop, and Zhao Erjie was the first to stop. She quickly raised her voice and shouted, "What are you doing back here? Why don't you call me sister-in-law?"
Shi Meilan didn't even turn her head, but just replied from her bike: "Come back to pick up Hu Honghua and take her to town - Second Sister Zhao, I'm divorced, don't mention sister-in-law or not."
Her bicycle never stopped and she rode past Lao Li's house without even turning her head, which made the three people present stunned.
Oh! I didn’t come back to steal a man!
Zhao Erjie felt a little indescribable regret. She glanced at the next door and thought to herself, she couldn't let Shi Meilan leave like this.
She had to find a way to bring Shi Meilan back and cause trouble for the two people next door - if these three people started fighting, that would be even better, she could watch the fun again.
So Zhao Erjie shouted, "Meilan, wait for your sister-in-law," pushed open the door, and chased after Shi Meilan.
She didn't believe that Shi Meilan could just leave so easily - if she were Shi Meilan, she would hate this pair of dogs/man/woman to the bone, how could she just ignore them?
She must chase after him and ask.
Seeing that Zhao Erjie had caught up, Old Lady Li, who had been lying by the wall, also stood up, but she didn't feel comfortable chasing after her. Instead, she quietly returned to the door.
These people left, but Li Jianye and Wang Yulian did not go back.
Li Jianye was still staring at Shi Meilan's departing back with a longing look on his face, as if he had not yet recovered from the amazement - this man is so mean. When Shi Meilan was still his wife, he was not willing to look at her, but now that Shi Meilan is not his wife anymore, he stretched his neck to look at her.
Wang Yulian, who was standing by, felt annoyed and a little embarrassed when she saw Li Jianye peeking around.
You're already with her, why are you still staring at Shi Meilan?
Wang Yulian was a little annoyed, but she didn't say it directly. Instead, she changed the subject and said, "It's too hot. Go back and rest for a while. I'll cut you a watermelon."
Li Jianye responded vaguely and went back into the house, looking back every few steps.
You don't even have to guess, you can see a line of words on his face: Oh, why doesn't Shi Meilan come back to see me?
He felt quite regretful!
Wang Yulian became even angrier and closed the door of Lao Li's house. When she went to the back kitchen to cut melons, the watermelon knife made a loud banging sound.
——At the same time, in the ancestral hall at the end of the village.
The midday sun shone in from outside the ancestral hall door and onto the kitchen floor. The tiny dust in the air gradually danced with the beam of light. In the silence, Yuan Yao slowly woke up.
He seemed to have had a very long dream, dreaming of his mother whom he had not seen for a long time.
My mother has a faint warm scent that is unique to women. It feels so comfortable when I touch her, as if I have been planning with others outside all day and can finally come home and hide in the comfort of the quilt.
The hatred accumulated in my heart, the spine that is always tense, the goal that I have to climb with gritted teeth, the enemy that I have always kept in my heart - so many annoying things seem to have been gradually forgotten, and only my mother is left.
In the dream, his mother was talking to him and touching his head gently. As soon as his mother touched him, a tingling sensation ran down his spine. He couldn't help but move closer, hugged his mother tightly, and fell into a deep sleep.
He can still remember what his mother said.
His mother coaxed him to drink the medicine, saying that there was a widow named Wang in the village.
Hmm? Village?
Young Master Yuan, who was lying on the window panel, suddenly opened his eyes.
What caught his eye was the suspended ceiling above the ancestral hall, the beams of the old-style bungalow, and the spider webs on the beams fluttering back and forth in the wind. He was lying on a simple and rough door panel with something stuffed in his arms. When he stretched out his hand, he could feel the feeling of being held in his arms and being able to control it with one hand.
Yuan Yao turned his head to look over.
In his arms lay a woman, wrapped around him like an octopus, her face buried in his suit, her hair entangled in his neck. He could almost feel the warm breath of the other person spraying on his neck.
This is the country man from yesterday.
Yuan Yao's head suddenly exploded.
The floor was dirty, the bed was crawling with bugs, and there was someone who hadn't showered in who knows how many days.
Bacteria, bacteria, bacteria, bacteria!
It's over, he is dirty and can't be washed clean.
What is more terrifying than bacteria is his memory.
He remembered that he hugged his mother tightly when he was in a state of confusion - he actually hugged a rural person and called out "Mom"!
A completely unknown, poor rural person actually dared to touch his head!
Yuan Yao: Oh my god! I'm a city dweller. I never thought I'd come to a small place like Chunfeng Town, let alone be touched on the head by a country boy. If this gets out, where will he put his face?
A feeling of shame surged into his head. Yuan Yao was so angry that he almost jumped up and ran out of the ancestral hall as if escaping.
As he ran out, his leather shoes hit the door sill heavily, but he didn't even look back and staggered all the way out.
The tip of the leather shoe hit the door sill with a "bang" sound. Hu Honghua, who was lying on the door panel, heard the noise, woke up vaguely, and turned over in a daze.
The hard door panel hit her back, waking her up from her sleep.
Hu Honghua opened her eyes blankly, looking at the unfamiliar ancestral hall, and belatedly remembered what happened yesterday.
On the way to send her uncle to the mountains, she rescued a person and brought him to the ancestral hall. The village chief asked her to watch him, but she fell asleep while watching him. When she woke up - eh?
Hu Honghua suddenly sat up from the wooden board.
When I woke up, where was this person?
Hu Honghua walked around the bed and thought, I’m done for. How can I explain this to the village chief?
She twisted her aching back, walked out of the ancestral hall, and looked around for the big black bear from yesterday. Although she couldn't see what it looked like, it was the only one in the whole village wearing a suit.
But Hu Honghua had just stepped out of the ancestral hall and had not had time to find the big black bear when she ran into Shi Meilan head-on.
Shi Meilan was riding a bicycle towards the end of the village.
The ancestral hall was at the end of the village, and the old Hu family lived at the foot of the mountain, even further back than the end of the village. Shi Meilan rode her bike past the ancestral hall and saw Hu Honghua in it.
She stopped the car with a cry of "Hey" and asked, "Honghua, why are you in the ancestral hall?"
Hu Honghua opened her mouth dryly, but her explanation seemed unclear. Shi Meilan didn't ask any more questions, but continued, "Have you packed your things? Auntie said she would take you to the town."
Hu Honghua walked towards Aunt Shi and said, "I've packed everything, but my uncle hasn't come back yet."
Her uncle said that he would also take her to the town today, and go up the mountain to see if there were any prey. If there were, they would take them to the town to sell.
It usually takes a day and a night to go up the mountain, so her uncle won’t be back until the afternoon at the latest.
"Don't worry." Shi Meilan grinned at Hu Honghua with a sly smile: "Auntie also needs to stay in this village for a while."
Hu Honghua, who was standing by, felt her heart tighten when she saw Shi Meilan smiling like that.
Aunt Shi's smile was so naughty. The last time Aunt Shi smiled like this was when I took her to steal money at night.
Just as she was thinking this, a figure suddenly came running over from a distance, shouting, "Hey Meilan, why didn't you tell me you were back?"
When Shi Meilan and Hu Honghua turned around, they saw Zhao Erjie running towards them happily.
Zhao Erjie and Shi Meilan had a bad relationship to begin with. Whenever they met, they were always at odds with each other and never looked at each other well. As a result, Shi Meilan divorced Lao Li's family, and Zhao Erjie suddenly became friends with Shi Meilan. Every time she saw Shi Meilan, she would come up to greet her warmly.
No sooner had Shi Meilan arrived than Zhao Erjie hurried over, saying repeatedly, "Hurry up and go sit with your sister-in-law. We've just harvested some fresh cucumbers from the fields. Why don't you stay home for a meal?"
Seeing how friendly Zhao Erjie was, if you didn’t know them, you would think they were real sisters.
"I have something to do here and I'm busy." Shi Meilan didn't want to go to Zhao Erjie's house for dinner. No one could eat Zhao Erjie's food for free. Whoever went there would be skinned by her.
Judging from Zhao Erjie's personality, she didn't want to invite her to dinner at all, but wanted to watch her have fun. As soon as she entered the house, Zhao Erjie would invite the two people next door and let the three of them sit at the same table and have a meal - Zhao Erjie just likes to do such disgusting things, and she can be happy for a long time when other people's families are unlucky.
As she spoke, Shi Meilan nodded at Hu Honghua with her chin and said, "Come on, get in the car. We'll go back to your house and wait for your uncle."
Hu Honghua nodded repeatedly and got into the back seat of Shi Meilan's car.
"Oh my!" Zhao Erjie was getting anxious: "Why don't you go have a meal? A lot of things have happened at home recently. I want to tell you something."
Shi Meilan got on her bicycle and rode towards Old Hu's yard with Hu Honghua, ignoring Zhao Erjie. Zhao Erjie said several words in a row but got no response, so she walked back angrily.
She really couldn't understand it!
How could Shi Meilan not be curious about the affairs of the Li family?
Divorce is not something you can do easily. You were married and had children together! As the old saying goes, even if the bones are broken, the tendons are still connected between husband and wife!
If Zhao Erjie was Shi Meilan, she would be so angry that she would come to Li Laoer's house in the middle of the night to see how the people inside were living!
So Zhao Erjie couldn't understand why Shi Meilan could just leave without asking anything?
The emperor is not anxious, but her eunuchs are almost dying of anxiety!
Isn’t Shi Meilan curious?
But Shi Meilan was not curious, and Zhao Erjie could not chase after her and say, "Wang Yulian brought her daughter to Li Laoer's house." She could only suppress her dissatisfaction and walk towards Li Laoda's yard by herself.
It was not far from the end of the village to Li Laoer's house. It would only take about ten minutes if she walked slowly. As Zhao Erjie walked, she stopped at the door of every house and chatted with others, which delayed her for a while. By the time she got home, it was almost one o'clock in the afternoon.
Oh, I haven’t cooked yet.
Zhao Erjie quickened her pace, thinking not to delay the two old people's meal. It didn't matter if Mr. Li went hungry, but if Mrs. Li went hungry, she would go around the village and tell other old ladies that she was abusing the elderly.
But as Zhao Erjie was walking, she suddenly saw a group of people coming from the village entrance in the distance. There were about five or six of them, all middle-aged men. The middle-aged man walking in front was wearing a sweatshirt and looked a bit like a gangster. He ran straight to Li Laoer's house with a ferocious look on his face, which made Zhao Erjie's eyes widen.
Who is this?
This person is not from their Lijia Village!
Zhao Erjie went through the names in her head, but she really couldn't remember who the other person was - although she was a human troublemaker, the scope of her troublemaking was limited to Lijia Village. Outside of Lijia Village, she didn't know who was who.
The leading man obviously had a direction in mind. He ignored others and went straight to Li Laoer. After standing at Li Laoer's door, he raised his hand and started banging on the door.
——
The "bang bang" knocking sound quickly reached Old Li's yard, startling Wang Yulian and Li Jianye who were in the house.
When the knocking sound reached the yard, Wang Yulian and Li Jianye were both awakened.
At that time, Wang Yulian was cutting watermelon in the back kitchen.
It took her more than half an hour to cut the watermelon - it was not because she was not good at cutting the watermelon, but because she was angry. She got angry when she thought about what Li Jianye said just now about letting Shi Meilan live in Wang's courtyard.
She and Li Jianye hadn't even held a wedding, not even a banquet, but Li Jianye had already started arranging her family business!
The house she left behind must belong to her daughter! No one else can snatch it away, not even Li Jianye!
What made Wang Yulian even more angry was that Li Jianye was so tolerant of Shi Meilan - why? A divorced woman should be told to get out of here! Li Jianye still wanted to keep Shi Meilan, so how would these people in the village view her?
She had finally gotten rid of her widowhood, but now it was all thrown back on her, even more embarrassing than being a widow. Shi Meilan was back, so was she going to be forced to be a mistress? Or was she going to sleep with two women openly?
Did he think he was the old chairman of Chunfeng Garment Factory? Did he have the ability to do that?
Li Jianye doesn't have much money, but he has good ideas!
Wang Yulian became even angrier and was only angry at the watermelon. She almost chopped the sweet watermelon into pieces, and the juice was flowing on the board. Every time she chopped it with a knife, the juice splashed onto her face.
She was so angry that when she heard the knock on the door, she subconsciously tightened the knife in her hand.
If Shi Meilan really came back, she would chop her out with a knife! Now that she was in, she couldn't leave no matter what!
People used to say that Shi Meilan was a shrew, and now that Wang Yulian is here, she is almost becoming a shrew too.
Old Li's house is just like that. Anyone who comes here will be treated as a shrew. If you don't act like a shrew, you will have to suffer from bullying for the rest of your life. Compared to this, it is better to be a shrew.
When Wang Yulian clenched the knife in her hand, Li Jianye suddenly rushed out from the east room.
He seemed to be waiting for Shi Meilan to knock on the door, so he kept listening with his ears perked up. Finally, he heard something and rushed out like a monkey, and Wang Yulian couldn't catch up with him!
Wang Yulian became even angrier!
Is this guy really that cheap? He has to flirt with Shi Meilan. Isn't he clear about the implications?
She slammed the knife down on the chopping board, quickly followed him out of the kitchen, walked along the long corridor, passed the main room and the front east room, and ran into the yard.
She came out a little slowly, and just as she reached the door, she saw that Li Jianye had already opened the courtyard door.
"Shi Mei——"
When Li Jianye opened the door, he thought it was Shi Meilan standing outside. He opened the door with a smile that was hard to conceal his pride. But when he opened the door, he saw five farmers standing outside, each of them as strong as an ox. They were blocking his door and staring at him fiercely, shouting, "You are the only one called Li Jianye?"
Li Jianye was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "It's me."
"The principal of Lijia Village School?" the strong man asked again.
Li Jianye nodded again: "It's me."
"That's right! You took the 200 yuan textbook fee from the school, right?" The burly man angrily grabbed the man by the collar and dragged him out of the yard, roaring, "The college entrance examination is about to start, where are my son's books? If you don't pay me back today, I'll break your legs!"
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