Chapter 112: Division (I)
Thinking that he would have to go back to the mountains after lunch, he walked to the kitchen and said to the little girl, "I will go back to the mountains after lunch. I will send the processed meat here every Sunday morning. Please stew it and put it in the kitchen. I will come to get it in the evening."
Hearing him say that, I nodded and continued to make lunch.
After lunch, Zhang Xu left in a hurry. Now he was alone in the yard. The feeling of freedom was wonderful. He didn't have to worry about his secret being discovered all the time.
I went to cut grass for pigs as usual this morning, but when I got to the foot of the mountain, I found that my second sister was not there. According to my second sister's situation, it is impossible for her not to come to cut grass for the pigs. It seems that I have to go to my second sister's house after delivering the pig grass. She is the first friend I made in this village.
After asking several people, I finally found my second sister's house. When I saw two children playing in the yard, I walked up to them and asked, "Did you know my second sister is home?"
When the two children saw them, they shouted, "Grandma, someone is looking for our second sister."
As soon as the two children finished speaking, they saw an old lady with bound feet walking out of the house. She looked them up and down with her triangular eyes for a while before she said, "The second sister is in that room. Go in and find her."
He nodded politely to the old lady and walked towards the house she pointed to, carrying the basket on his back.
She knocked on the door, but there was no sound. So she knocked on the door again and said, "Second sister, I'm Xiaoxiao. Are you in the room?"
Just as I finished speaking, I heard the door open. However, I was shocked to see the condition of my second sister. My second sister, who usually kept herself neat and tidy, now had disheveled hair and one of her cheeks was swollen like a bun. Her already thin body was even thinner now, as if she would fall down with a gust of wind.
After she opened the door and let herself in, she hugged herself and cried bitterly, but her crying was very quiet, as if she was afraid that people would notice her crying.
After more than ten minutes, the second sister finally stopped crying, and then smiled at herself embarrassedly, but that smile was filled with too much bitterness and helplessness.
Seeing the second sister like this, he didn't know how to comfort her, so he asked, "Second sister, can you tell me what happened?"
"Xiao Xiao, I'm getting married. My grandma wants to marry me to a fool as a child bride. If I don't agree, she will divorce my mother and send her home, because my mother, as a daughter-in-law, didn't give birth to a son and can't carry on the family line for the Liu family. This is a great act of unfilial piety.
In fact, I know that what she said was just an excuse. She just wanted to use me to exchange for the betrothal money for her eldest cousin to get married. What do you think I should do? I am so unwilling to accept this."
After hearing what the second sister said, I felt sorry for her, but I still asked: "What do your parents think? Do they agree with your grandma doing this?"
"No, my parents didn't agree from the beginning. My dad even said he wanted to separate the family, but my grandma refused to agree. She said they were still thinking about separating the family and they were trying to curse them to death. So the situation has been at a stalemate, and they didn't let me go out since yesterday to prevent me from running away."
"Don't worry, second sister. Things are not irreversible yet. Give me a few minutes to think about it. There must be a way to solve this problem."
(End of this chapter)
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