Mother Chen waved at Xia Yulan.
"Yulan, there's no rush. Didn't your Shuhua and Yuanshan go to the next village? It's not too late to talk about it when he comes back."
What a joke! If it were Li Yuerong, she would be eager to return the betrothal gift, but after meeting Li Wenjing, she was really satisfied. If she were to return the betrothal gift, she would definitely be crazy.
"Look, I've been here for a while now, and it's already evening. I have to go back and cook for them."
Seeing that Xia Yulan was about to finish rolling the second sheet of noodles, it would be a bit ignorant for her not to leave. At this time, everyone was short of food and there was no extra food.
After saying this, Chen's mother left in a hurry without waiting for Xia Yulan to speak.
After Chen's mother left, Li Wenjing felt relieved. She felt a little uncomfortable when Chen's mother stared at her just now, and she almost couldn't help but leave.
The hand-rolled noodles that she had originally thought tasted good suddenly didn't taste as good anymore. She still felt that she should make her position known to Xia Yulan.
"Well, let me make it clear that I absolutely cannot marry Chen Yibin on behalf of Li Yuerong. I don't want anything related to Li Yuerong or anyone else."
"Mom knows, don't worry. If the Chen family wants you to marry the eldest son in place of Yueyue, I won't agree. You deserve better!"
Xia Yulan didn't hear Li Wenjing call her "Mom". Although she felt a little disappointed, she also knew that this kind of thing could not be rushed and had to be done slowly. She believed that one day, Jingjing would definitely call her "Mom".
"Brother Yibin belongs to my sister. No one can marry him in my sister's place!"
Bingzi suddenly put down the chopsticks in his hand and shouted loudly, as if only a loud voice could prove that he was right.
All three of them knew very well that the sister he was talking about was not Li Wenjing but Li Yuerong.
Li Wenjing didn't indulge him and said directly: "Yes, yes, Chen Yibin belongs to your sister Li Yuerong. No one will compete with her for him. Comrade Bingzi, can you find your dear sister and let her marry her brother Yi Bin as soon as possible! Otherwise, we will have to pay the bride price!"
"You're talking nonsense! My sister is not that kind of person! She said she was just going to visit that family and she wouldn't stay away from them. She said she couldn't bear to leave me, her parents, her brother, and everything here!"
"If she's coming back, why did she take all the money from home? She's absconded with the money!"
She heard from her biological mother that when Li Yuerong left, she not only took away the betrothal money given by the Chen family, but also took away the money the brigade earned from selling piglets.
Li Shuhua, Li's father, is the accountant of Qingshan Brigade and is in charge of finance.
Li Shuhua and his second son Li Yuanshan went to their uncle's house next door to borrow money.
The betrothal money was 200 yuan, plus the 300 yuan earned from selling piglets in the brigade, and the family savings of more than 300 yuan. Li Yuerong did not keep a penny and took it all.
Bingzi was furious: "You're talking nonsense! My sister didn't abscond with the money. She just took the money for the trip!"
Li Wenjing sneered, "You're right just because you're loud. Reason doesn't lie in pitch. A train ticket from here to Kyoto is only a little over thirty yuan, but do you know how much she took? The betrothal gift, the family savings, and the brigade's money—nearly a thousand yuan. Do you know how much a thousand yuan is? Do you know what it means for her to take all the family money? If your father pays back the brigade's money, what will happen if he's reported? And what will happen to us, his wife, son, and daughter? Li Yuanbing, are you a pig? You can't even understand such a simple truth?"
Li Yuanbing didn't know how to refute Li Wenjing, so he could only look at Xia Yulan for help: "Mom, please don't bother with her, she's scolding me!"
Xia Yulan looked at her silly son and said helplessly, "Bingzi, you're seven years old now. You can figure things out on your own. Think carefully about what your sister said. Which one was wrong? Did Li Yuerong ask you where the key to my suitcase is? Have you ever thought about whether I would refuse her money if something really happened to her? Think about it again. Of the four of you siblings, your father and I treat her the best! Your eldest brother, your second brother, and you, don't we give her the best things first?"
At this moment, Li Yuanbing fell into self-doubt. Did he really have no brains?
That's his sister, the one he grew up with. How could she possibly lie to him?
Why lie to him?
Is he really that gullible? That he is really that stupid?
Xia Yulan and Li Wenjing ignored Bingzi, leaving him alone in the wind, thinking about life.
Li Wenjing suddenly remembered the place they talked about today at the Youth League Home.
While eating noodles, she casually asked, "I heard there's also a Youth Home to the west of the village. Why is there another Youth Home at the foot of the mountain?"
Xia Yulan looked at her in surprise: "Why are you asking this?"
"I forgot to tell you that I came to Qingshan Brigade as an educated youth. Before coming home, I first went to the educated youth compound at the foot of the mountain."
She simply omitted what happened in the Youth League Home. Her mind was now filled with curiosity about what was at the west end of the village.
Xia Yulan sighed and said, "Alas, the courtyard at the west end of the village used to belong to the Tian family, the landlords of our brigade. It was also the only large blue brick and tiled house here. Later, when the landlord war broke out everywhere, the Tian family got the news first and fled with their entire family. I heard they went abroad, so this house became the property of the brigade."
"Later, the educated youth went to the countryside and started going there. They had nowhere to live, so they gave that place to them and used it as a youth housing complex. But those educated youth were not easy to deal with. There were five of them in total, and two died and one went crazy in one night, leaving only two intact. People said the place was haunted. Those two educated youths' families had some connections, and their families used their connections to arrange for sick leave, allowing them to return directly to the city. Now, there's a crazy educated youth living there."
"The team leader would never dare to place the educated youth who come later there, but we can't let them live on the street. That's why there is a educated youth compound at the foot of the mountain behind."
After hearing this, Li Wenjing finally understood what Wang Fen was thinking. She was hoping for her death. People were really cruel.
She really couldn't understand why Wang Fen was so hostile to her since it was the first time she met her.
There is something called magnetic field in this world, and some people are born with incompatible magnetic fields.
There is also something called jealousy. Li Wenjing is beautiful and dresses well.
In contrast, Wang Fen has been working in the countryside for more than three years. Some of her fellow countrymen have married people from the same village, while others have found ways to return to the city.
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