Chapter 8 Almost Called Li Yueyuan
Zhao Suying glared at her and said, "Shut up, Yueyue won't go back."
Li Wanyue nodded: "Yes, sister-in-law, I have divorced Gao Zhiyuan."
"Divorce?" Sun Xiuqin exclaimed in surprise.
She looked Li Wanyue up and down. This little sister used to have her heart and eyes full of Gao Zhiyuan, so why was she so calm when talking about divorce?
If you get divorced, you'll have to live at home, with one extra mouth to feed, and the others will have to eat less.
The family can barely make ends meet and they are still in debt, so how can they have any spare money to feed another mouth?
Sun Xiuqin's face suddenly turned ugly.
"Little sister, you are so confused. You are about to live a good life, but you give up your position. If Gao Zhiyuan becomes an official in the future, you won't be able to enjoy any happiness at all."
Li Wanyue smiled: "Second sister-in-law, regardless of whether Gao Zhiyuan really has such talent, if we are not happy together, I don't care even if he is the top scholar. Since we are divorced, second sister-in-law, please don't mention that family anymore."
Seeing Zhao Suying staring at her with a sullen face, Sun Xiuqin closed her mouth unwillingly.
Soon, Li Erhu invited the village barefoot doctor. Doctor Zhang took the patient's pulse and said that there was no serious problem with his body, but that his qi and blood were a little deficient. He asked Li Erhu to go back with him to get medicine.
Li Wanyue then remembered that someone seemed to be missing, and asked, "Mom, where is my eldest brother?"
Zhao Suying: "He's working in the county. We've almost finished cultivating our land. Your father and the second and third sons can do the rest. He can earn 25 cents a day carrying bags in the county. Take advantage of these two days to earn some money. We can plant rice later and carry water to the fields. We can't go out anymore."
Li Wanyue understood that since her family was in debt, she couldn't afford to waste a single day.
Wang Guixiang came out of the kitchen and asked, "Mom, Xiao An and Xiao Kang are now living in my old room. Ask them to move out and let me go and have a rest.
Dachuan and I will live with Xiaoan, and Xiaokang will live with Laoer and his family. That’s enough.”
There are three rooms in the middle, one is the main room, which is equivalent to the living room. On the left live Li's father and mother, on the right live the eldest brother and his wife, the second brother and his wife live in the first room in the east wing, Li Kang and Li An live in the second room, the three girls live in the third room, Li Sandong lives in the first room on the west side, the other room is a storage room, and next to it is the kitchen.
Li Dachuan, the eldest son of the Li family, has three children. The eldest, Li Xiaolan, is ten years old; the second, Li Xiaotao, is eight years old; and the youngest, Li An, is six years old.
Li Erhu, the second son of the Li family, has two children. The eldest, Li Kang, is nine years old, and the second, Li Xiaohe, is seven years old.
The youngest son, Li Sandong, is seventeen and unmarried. He had planned to get married this year, but because Li Youshan was injured and in debt, there is no chance this year.
From this perspective, Li Wanyue's name is quite elegant.
She thought about it and remembered that Li Wanyue had asked her mother who gave her such a nice name.
Zhao Suying said that she was born at night and the moon was particularly round that night, so she gave her this name.
Well, it was almost called Li Yueyuan.
Sun Xiuqin was unhappy when she heard this. Their bed was not big to begin with, and Xiaokang was already nine years old. It would be impossible for him to live in it if he squeezed with them.
Li Sandong said, "Sister-in-law, Xiao An, Xiao Kang and I should squeeze in together, and let my sister stay in my room. I don't have much stuff, so I don't have to pack much."
"Your room is right next to the kitchen, and behind it are the pigsty and chicken coop. The smell is too strong. How can I get used to living there?"
Li Wanyue was touched to see that her family cared about her. In this era, in the eyes of outsiders, there was no difference between divorce and being divorced, and both women were abandoned.
Most people think that it is because the woman is not a good person that she is disliked by her husband’s family and sent back to her parents’ home.
Returning to my mother's home will also affect my niece's future marriage.
Therefore, most women will tolerate it as much as they can in their husband’s family. When they have a quarrel, people around them will try to persuade them to reconcile rather than to separate.
But the Li family didn't care about all this. They didn't try to persuade her to be tolerant. Instead, they supported her divorce and took her home.
Thinking of this, Li Wanyue said, "Mom, just do as I say."
"Okay, I'll go clean it up for you right away."
Li Sandong responded, moved the wardrobe he brought back from Gao's house into the house, and then packed his own things.
Actually, there is nothing much to pack, just take out the spare clothes and straw sandals.
Zhao Suying walked into the kitchen and took a bowl, then went into the main house, opened the locked cabinet, took out a small paper bag, and then took out a cloth bag, grabbed two handfuls of rice from it, shook the bowl, and grabbed another handful of rice.
Farmers’ families were not well off, and few of them were willing to buy white rice or flour. They just mixed brown rice, black flour, and coarse flour together.
This little bit of white rice was bought last year when Li Youshan was injured, to nourish his body.
But Li Youshan stopped eating it after a few days. There were so many people in the family, and he was the only one eating rice porridge, which he couldn't eat.
Most elderly people would lock up all their food in their houses.
Zhao Suying just locked up the rice, and kept the brown rice and coarse flour in the kitchen.
She walked out of the yard, handed the bowl to Wang Guixiang, and said, "Guixiang, cook this rice into porridge, make it thick, and boil an egg. Yueyue is weak and needs to be nourished."
"Yeah." Wang Guixiang responded, took the bowl and went to the kitchen.
Zhao Suying went to the kitchen again and opened the torn little paper bag, which contained some brown sugar that someone had given her during the Chinese New Year.
She poured some into a bowl, and the rest was enough for her daughter to drink for a few more days.
He walked to the yard with the brown sugar water and said, "Yueyue, drink it while it's hot to warm your body. Don't get sick after soaking in the water."
Li Wanyue took the stoneware bowl and smelled the sweet fragrance of brown sugar inside, her eyes felt a little sore.
Her own mother was also a gentle person. She was very good to her and worked hard to raise her. Her dream was to be filial to her mother after she started working. Unfortunately, her mother passed away due to illness just after she graduated from college, and she never had the chance to fulfill her filial duties.
As far as memory goes, before Li's father fell and got injured, the Gao family not only asked her to work harder, but also did not dare to mistreat her in terms of food. After all, the original owner was chubby when she married into the Gao family, and it was obvious whether she ate well or not.
After she fell and got injured, perhaps because they felt that she was no longer of any use, the Gao family never let her eat enough. She couldn't even have thick brown rice porridge, let alone brown sugar water. As a result, she lost weight rapidly. But the original owner felt that water was enough to satisfy her.
And Li Wan never mistreats her stomach. Even if she is very busy, she will eat something to fill her stomach.
Now, for the first time, she experienced what it felt like to be hungry.
But faced with such a precious thing, she was embarrassed to drink it herself.
Li Wanyue said, "Mom, I can't drink so much. Please bring another bowl and we can each drink half."
"Mom, I don't want to drink it. I don't like sweet things. Drink it quickly or it will get cold."
Li Wanyue knew clearly that it was not that she didn't like drinking it, but the brown sugar was too precious at that time and she couldn't bear to spend it.
He stopped talking and drank the sugar water from the bowl. In this day and age, catching a cold could easily cost one's life.
Sun Xiuqin glared at Li Wanyue secretly. As expected, her mother-in-law favored this daughter and even her own grandson could not drink the sugar water. As soon as Li Wanyue came, she gave it to her.
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