Xiaoyue sat on the rock and looked down. "Hmm, it's not bad. Some of the bean pods are already swollen."
Li Qianqian's tears flowed again. Xiaoyue felt that this girl was so prone to crying, but since she had already sat down with her, she couldn't leave halfway. So she could only suppress her temper and offer a fake comfort: "With such a good brother, why are you still crying?"
It would have been better if she hadn't mentioned it, because the mention of it made Li Qianqian cry even harder. Between sobs, Li Qianqian said intermittently, "My brother was beaten by my father so badly that he can't get out of bed."
Xiaoyue was surprised and blurted out, "Why?" As soon as the words left her mouth, Xiaoyue regretted it. She shouldn't have interfered in other people's affairs.
Li Qianqian sobbed, "Because of me, you saw me in Uncle Liang's car that day, when I went to town with my father. Actually, my father took me to a blind date. To pay off his gambling debts, he betrothed me to a friend of the gambling den owner's third concubine's brother-in-law."
That day, he took me to meet that friend. He was short and fat, with a face full of pimples and lecherous eyes. Just looking at him made me feel nauseous. I ran out of his house right then and there.
My dad grabbed me and pulled me back, giving me a severe beating. Finally, that person pulled my dad's hand away and told him to go back and think it over before I was allowed to leave.
Xiaoyue sighed. In her past life, she hadn't paid attention to Li Shuanshu's family; she was too busy working as an ox for Old Man Ge's family. Then she remembered something: "No wonder you looked unwell and your eyes were swollen when you rode the oxcart."
"You've been holding my hand the whole way, were you in a lot of pain too? It's all my fault for not knowing." Xiaoyue thought of how Li Qianqian had been holding her hand the whole way in the oxcart, and a feeling of gratitude inexplicably welled up inside her.
Xiaoyue asked with genuine concern, "And then what happened?"
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