When Shi Longlong woke up, he felt cold all over, and his body was aching and swollen. Every bone in his body ached.
Where am I? How come it's already daylight? The bed beneath me is hard and doesn't feel like my own. His bed is covered with the only new cotton mattress in the house, which is quite soft.
"ah!"
A loud female voice brought Shi Longlong back to his senses; he wasn't in his own bed.
This, this, this is a main road!
"You pervert! Lying naked in the middle of the road in broad daylight!"
A middle-aged woman who was going to work at the brick kiln early in the morning saw Shi Longlong lying naked on the road and immediately started cursing.
"Oh dear, maybe she's a lunatic, let's get away from her!" Another girl pulled the middle-aged woman away.
"What a terrible sight! Lying down in the middle of the street sleeping without even wearing clothes! Where did this idiot come from?"
Another woman sighed and carefully examined Shi Longlong's face with great interest, trying to see if she recognized him.
The woman who had just been cursing muttered to herself as she walked away, "Why does she look so familiar?"
"His face was all blue and purple, and he didn't even have eyebrows. How could you recognize him, Sister Wang?" another person asked doubtfully.
Who is it? Do you know them?
“I have a sharp eye! I can’t mistake someone after just one look. That’s Li Zhen’s boyfriend,” Sister Wang said with absolute certainty.
"Really?"
"It's absolutely true! I thought Li Zhen's boyfriend was a good-for-nothing, but I didn't expect him to be a lunatic as well."
Shi Longlong's face was contorted with pain as he moved into the bramble bushes to hide.
Oh shit!
Who on earth hit me, stripped me naked, and threw me in the middle of the road? If there are a lot of people on the street later, they'll definitely think I'm a pervert and send me to a mental hospital!
Feeling refreshed after beating up Shi Longlong, Li Xiangdong sat lazily by the canal, a blade of grass dangling from his mouth, tossing pebbles into the water one by one.
Thinking that Shi Longlong didn't have a single piece of clothing, and wondering how he would get back to Wulipu, Li Xiangdong chuckled mischievously again.
It's estimated that Shi Longlong will have to stay in bed for a few days. That bastard's face has been slapped into a hairless pig's head. Let's see if he can still harass Fourth Sister!
Li Guoqing, who was swimming in the water, was hit several times and said unhappily, "Come swimming, can you please not throw pebbles at me? It hurts so much."
Li Xiangdong didn't respond. Two days had passed, and he still hadn't come up with a good way to get Shi Longlong and Li Zhen to break off their engagement.
Like in the previous life, should we hire some gangsters to intimidate Shi Longlong?
No, there are no organized crime groups now.
Give Shi Longlong a sum of money so he can marry someone else?
He's penniless now!
I estimate the whole family wouldn't even have a hundred yuan after cleaning up their belongings.
Past and present lives, the tearful face of Fourth Sister, the sorrowful and numb face, appeared in Li Xiangdong's mind like scenes from a movie. His heart was in turmoil, and a sense of powerlessness arose spontaneously.
He was too young, his hands were empty, and he had no strength at all.
Fortunately, he was reborn at the age of fourteen, before the tragedy of his fourth sister's arranged marriage occurred, and he still had time to prevent it from happening.
"Hey, second brother, look at Aunt Chunhua at the east end, who's that man next to her?"
Li Guoqing swam ashore and whispered in Li Xiangdong's ear.
Li Xiangdong squinted and looked into the distance. Sure enough, he saw Aunt Chunhua walking towards the river, with a man about 1.7 meters tall wearing a straw hat following beside her.
"Second brother, my mother said that Aunt Chunhua is going to remarry. The man is an old man from Dongxiang."
"Laodongxiang" is a nickname used in Huichuan County to refer to people from the eastern rural areas of the county.
Old Dongxiang had a lot of land, but the people suffered. However, in this day and age, more land means more grain production.
The old Dongxiang not only meant suffering and hardship, but also meant being able to eat your fill.
Aunt Chunhua is actually going to marry Lao Dongxiang?
How could he remember that Aunt Chunhua had never married? Even after he got married, Aunt Chunhua was still single.
There's another joke: his aunt Shi Fengfeng once got into a fight with Aunt Chunhua. The two of them pulled out each other's hair and their faces were covered in bloody scratches.
The next day was his wedding day, and according to their custom, the aunts and grandmothers would represent the groom's family to fetch the bride.
Li Xiangdong disliked Shi Fengfeng, but he couldn't go against the wishes of his elders and the rules of the village.
Just then, Shi Fengfeng was beaten so badly by Aunt Chunhua that she was too ashamed to show her face in public, which suited Li Xiangdong's wishes perfectly. He immediately asked his sister-in-law from his own clan to help with the wedding procession.
A sudden thought flashed through Li Xiangdong's mind. Before he could react, Li Guoqing pulled him into the water.
We could see that Aunt Chunhua and the man were almost inside the river embankment.
This river flows directly to the sea, and its embankment is very high, with a height of about 24 or 25 meters from the water surface to the embankment.
The slope from the riverbank to the water is sloping. Because it is close to the water, the wild grass grows more lushly than in other places, interspersed with small, deep red trumpet flowers that resemble chickens drinking and star-like blue flowers of Veronica persica.
At noon, everyone finished work and took a break, so no one came to the riverbank.
Of course, this excludes idle, half-grown boys like Li Xiangdong and Li Guoqing.
The two hid behind the reeds, straining their ears to listen to Aunt Chunhua and the man talking.
"Hua'er, have you thought it through? Give me a definite answer, and I'll immediately find someone to act as matchmaker."
The man in the straw hat eagerly grabbed Aunt Chunhua's hand.
Aunt Chunhua looked a little dejected, pulled her hand away, and said lazily, "Does your mother know you came to see me today?"
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