Chapter 117 Crying on the Phone
As dusk fell, the entire Yunwu Village fell into silence. On the narrow path, Liang Jingxuan tore open the package of spicy strips, took a big bite of the strips, and chewed quickly. Lu Sui looked down at him, his eyes were a little deep, and he opened his mouth a few times, wanting to speak.
Liang Jingxuan licked his lips with the tip of his tongue and reluctantly handed the spicy strips over, "Hubby, you can eat one piece, but only one piece..."
Lu Sui's cold eyes suddenly softened, and he rubbed his head with a smile, "Eat it quickly, I don't want to eat it."
Liang Jingxuan slowed down his chewing, "I was a little reluctant just now, but now I am willing to give it up. You are my husband, I should not be so stingy. Just have one piece. This appetizer is delicious!"
Lu Sui's mouth widened again, "I really don't want to eat, you eat quickly, and then we'll go home. If you don't go home for such a long time, Second Aunt will get suspicious."
There was no soy sauce at home, so Song Huizi asked Lu Sui to go to the grocery store to buy two bags of soy sauce. Liang Jingxuan was swinging on the swing with a little rabbit under the osmanthus tree. When she heard that Lu Sui was going to the grocery store, she wanted to go too with tears in her eyes.
Lu Sui was so stubborn that he almost pulled his pants off when he was not allowed to go. When he was allowed to go, he cried all the way from home to the grocery store and bought two bags of spicy noodles before he stopped crying.
The canteen was full of people, so Liang Jingxuan lifted his clothes and hid the spicy strips inside. Passing a fork in the road, he dragged Lu Sui along a narrow path, looked around, and only dared to take the spicy strips out of his clothes when there was no one around. Even so, he was still worried and let Lu Sui block him tightly.
Clusters of bushes swayed from time to time.
Liang Jingxuan took longer and longer to eat. After finishing this pack, she would have to wait until next week to eat the next one. After finishing the last piece of spicy strips, she sobbed and cried, "Hubby... I can't bear to give up the spicy strips, I want to eat more..."
Lu Sui pinched the fat on his belly, "Eat it up even though you're reluctant to do so! Get up and go home."
She tightened her arms and pulled him up. Liang Jingxuan pouted and said sullenly, "You don't give me a baby, and you don't let me eat spicy noodles. You are a bad husband!"
Lu Sui clenched his hand tightly, and the furrow between his brows became even deeper.
He would never want a child in his life. The shadow of that year when he was seven years old tormented him until now. Every time he woke up from a dream at midnight, the baby's crying was like countless needles piercing into his head. The pain made him sweat profusely and wake up from the nightmare.
Before he joined Team B, he always went to the Feng family's backyard late at night to pay tribute to his younger brother, whom he had only held for less than a minute.
The wind was howling, and the graves were very low. Children who died young could not be buried. Every time he went there, he would bring an apple and place it in front of the grave. Without saying anything, he would just stand there stiffly for half the night and then go back.
I didn't have nightmares for a long time afterwards.
In the past, he was selfish and mean, only thinking about himself and never thinking about what would happen if Liang Jingxuan had...
"Husband, husband!" Liang Jingxuan shouted in fear, "There is a ghost!"
Lu Sui suddenly came back to his senses and looked in the direction Liang Jingxuan was pointing with gloomy eyes. A "female ghost" was approaching them in a strange and terrifying manner. The light was very dim, and when the "female ghost" came closer, he could see clearly that it was not a "female ghost" at all, but Liu Li.
His hair was disheveled, and he was wearing a white shirt. His face was covered in bruises, and blood was flowing from his forehead like a snake down his neck. As soon as it got dark in Yunwu Village, fog would rise. If you didn't look carefully, you would think it was a real ghost...
Lu Sui frowned, and after a moment of discomfort, he carried Liang Jingxuan back to the main road. Liang Jingxuan lay on Lu Sui's shoulder, staring at Liu Li with his misty little eyes, "Hubby... she looks like a ghost... and also like a human."
Lu Sui tightened his arms and quickened his pace, "Don't look at her."
Liang Jingxuan's eyes moved slightly, he shrank his neck, and buried his head in his neck, "Okay..."
Liu Li went to Jin Jiu again and begged him to remarry her, but Jin Jiu would rather look at the pigs in the pigpen than look at her. Liu Li cried and tried to pull him away, but he beat and scolded her and drove her away.
Liu Li went home crying. She didn't want to get a divorce. But if she didn't, Jin Jiu would sue her for cheating.
Looking at the gloomy sky, she hated herself for being spineless and cowardly. She could only endure it even though she knew he was having an affair with her sister.
But when he thought about the fact that Liu Mei was married, Jin Jiu would probably give up and would definitely remarry her.
When she arrived at the front door, the door was open. As soon as she reached the foot of the eaves, she heard her mother say to Liu Mei in the house, "You will enjoy a good life if you marry into his family. You should not work if you can avoid it. You are a college student and he is just a mobile phone seller. It is a great honor for his family to marry you."
Liu Mei snuggled in Qiu Cuiyun's arms affectionately, "Mom, I know, but I'm going to be a daughter-in-law after all, and I still have to do the work I'm supposed to do..."
Liu Li grabbed the door frame, eyes full of envy. She was also her daughter, why didn't she like her? Was it because she was fat? Or was it because she was embarrassing?
Qiu Cuiyun took off the two gold bracelets on her hands, wrapped them in red silk and put them into Liu Mei's hands, "This is what your mother gave you. It is not included in your trousseau. It belongs to you. Keep it well. A girl needs to have confidence."
"Okay, thank you, Mom." Liu Mei continued with red eyes, "Mom, I don't want to get married..."
Qiu Cuiyun felt a sharp pain in her heart and hugged her. "I don't want you to get married, but what woman doesn't want to get married? Time flies so fast. In a blink of an eye, you will get married tomorrow..."
Liu Mei's face turned pale when she thought about tomorrow, "Mom, my sister, I'm mainly afraid of my sister..."
Qiu Cuiyun's face turned cold, "What are you afraid of? She's divorced from Jin Jiu. That beast Jin Jiu not only raped you, but also wanted to harm your reputation. You're getting married tomorrow, don't worry, your father and I won't let him go."
Liu Li held on to the door frame with both hands to steady herself. Her fingers were shaking as if in spasm, and the blue veins on her neck were bulging. It turned out that her parents knew that her sister was having an affair with her man, and instead of venting their anger, they were trying to cover it up.
The daughter inside is their daughter, so what is she, this daughter?
Did you pick it up?
But they look so similar...
"But my sister has been acting crazy lately, and I'm afraid she will say something nonsense tomorrow..." Liu Mei was still worried, and her delicate brows were tightly knitted in worry.
Qiu Cuiyun patted her shoulder gently to comfort her, "Don't be afraid, your father gave 100,000 yuan to Jin Jiu, he will take good care of your sister. I think he was too impulsive to find a strange man for your sister. He should have discussed it with us before finding one, in case your sister finds out..."
Liu Li didn't listen to the rest of the conversation and stumbled towards the front door. Her stomach felt like it had been cut open by a sharp butcher knife. After the smelly blood had flowed out, her dirty internal organs fell to the ground...
Her biological parents plotted against her...
The man she loved the most and her sister framed her...
Why?
She didn't know what she did wrong, she was so obedient. She did whatever her father told her to do, she had forgotten how many evil things she had done, she had angered Aunt Zhang and her father-in-law to death, she had thrown stones at the idiot of the Lu family, she had taken the land of the Mu family...
She did all these things one by one at the behest of Liu Guoqing. Now they have kicked her away. What do they think of her?
She suddenly stopped, her body torn inch by inch, and walked towards the kitchen like a madman...
The thick night is the best place to breed desire. Lu Sui came out of the shower and pressed Liang Jingxuan down, kissing her fiercely and urgently like a bandit. Liang Jingxuan was almost suffocated by his kisses and had no choice but to raise his hands in surrender.
The Nokia on the bedside table rang. Lu Sui's eyes were fierce. She stretched out a hand and picked up the Nokia.
After the call was connected, there was no sound on the other end. Lu Sui narrowed his eyes vigilantly. It was an unfamiliar number. People who came to buy bricks and sand usually called the office landline. Few people knew his private number.
"May I ask who you are?"
Liang Jingxuan wanted to sit up, "Husband..."
Lu Sui covered his mouth. He choked for a moment and stared at him weakly, "Bad husband..."
There was a long silence on the other end of the phone. Lu Sui was a little irritable and was about to hang up when the suppressed crying sounded like a bolt of lightning, fiercely striking his mind with a white light...
The phone fell to the ground and the battery popped out.
It seemed as if all of Lu Sui's souls and spirits had run away. He bent over and tried to pick up the phone on the ground. He felt disgusted and his face turned pale.
"Hubby...hubby!" Liang Jingxuan sat up and grabbed his arm tightly, "Hubby, what's wrong with you...don't scare me, I'm scared...let's go find Second Aunt..."
Lu Sui struggled to hold him in his arms, and tried to shake his head, but suddenly stopped and said in a hoarse voice, "I'm fine, let me hold you, don't move... don't move..."
Liang Jingxuan looked up in surprise when she heard his crying voice. The man who was always as strong as steel could actually be fragile at times. His eagle-like eyes were no longer sharp and pointed, but misty and wet, with a faint blood red color.
He took a deep breath and whispered, "Hubby, why don't you bully me? You'll feel better if you bully me..."
Lu Sui's cloudy pupils darkened instantly, his heart beat wildly, and fire burned in his throat. He was about to forget her, but just hearing her voice, so briefly, he remembered her again...
Liang Jingxuan knelt beside the bed, held his face, and touched his nose. "Hubby...if you want to cry, just cry. I won't tell anyone."
Lu Sui's eyes were filled with a chaotic mist. He didn't like crying, and he had never liked crying since he was a child. No matter how hard he cried, his parents still got divorced. No matter how heartbreaking his tears were, his brother still died. Crying was useless, he knew this since he was a child.
So he never cries, but he is also a human being, he also feels pain...
Liang Jingxuan hugged his neck, his voice soft, "Husband, can you tell me what's wrong? I'm your wife, you have to tell me what's wrong with you? I can comfort you..."
Lu Sui's eyes narrowed, tears falling from his eyes. He kissed the corner of Liang Jingxuan's lips and murmured softly, "Wait, okay? I'll slowly..."
He rested his head on Liang Jingxuan's shoulders and held him tightly with his arms, as if only in this way would Liang Jingxuan never leave him.
His mother has always been a thorn in his side. He would go crazy whenever her name was mentioned. No one in the village dared to mention her in front of him. Even Army soldier Song Huizi seldom mentioned her. If he did not bring her up on his own initiative, they would not say a word. They were all trying their best to protect his ridiculous dignity.
His mother just ran away, because she despised his father for being poor, boring, and old-fashioned. Lu Sui didn't quite remember her features, but he remembered that she was very pretty, loved beauty, and always held a small mirror in her hand.
After she ran away, he could remember that the villagers had been cursing her as harshly as they could. The bold ones even said it to his face. For a while, there was a rumor that his father was killed by his mother and a strange man. He hated her so much.
He studied hard, was admitted to university, joined Team B, and later quit Team W to open a brick factory. He wanted to stand out and become a superior person, all for the sake of revenge on her!
But now...
He thought he was ridiculous...
Maybe she has long forgotten that she has a son...
But tonight, she called, and even though she didn't say a word, he could hear it...
"It's my mom. She called. She seemed to be crying..."
Liang Jingxuan was a little confused. She clenched his trembling fingers and asked in a low voice, "Do you miss her?"
"I thought about it before, but not anymore..." Lu Sui pulled the corners of his mouth to try to smile, but it looked ugly and a little bit creepy.
Liang Jingxuan's nose was a little bit red, "Hubby, if you think she is very sad, then don't think about it, you think about me!"
He hurriedly unbuttoned the rabbit's pajamas, "You miss me...you, you can do whatever you want, I won't run, I won't shout!"
Lu Sui laughed softly, and the wound on his back no longer festered and healed. "Wife, why are you so stupid?"
Liang Jingxuan exclaimed, "Ah!" "Am I stupid?"
Lu Sui kissed the corner of his eye, "Not stupid, I said something wrong..."
Outside, heavy raindrops fell violently, making the quiet night tremble...
Because of the phone call last night, Lu Sui was in a trance the whole day. The phone was not broken, so he plugged in the battery and turned it on. His finger unconsciously pressed the call record, and looking at the number, he dialed it as if possessed.
He called three times but no one answered, so he stopped calling.
Song Huizi stood aside, hesitant to speak. He was not her son, but she understood him best and just wanted to let him take a break.
Aunt Zhang yelled, "Huizi, the Liu family has murdered someone!"
"What?" Except for Lu Sui and the Lu Jun, everyone present was stunned.
Song Huizi held her and asked, "Who killed who?"
Aunt Zhang gasped, "Liu Li...she...she killed Qiu Cuiyun and Jin Jiu. Liu Guoqing was stabbed twice, and Liu Mei went crazy!"
Song Huizi subconsciously looked at Lu Jun, who was playing chicken wrestling with Liang Jingxuan with his legs apart. A worker who was taking a break came up to him and asked, "Why did he kill someone? Isn't today Liu Mei's wedding day?"
"It was said that Jin Jiu and Liu Mei had been together for a long time, and Liu Li knew about it. The police came and Liu Guoqing was sent to the hospital! Liu Li was arrested..." Aunt Zhang finished speaking in one breath, exhausted. She found a chair and just sat down when the village party secretary came and called Lu Sui over.
Song Huizi was worried. The village party secretary took out a thick file bag from his black briefcase and handed it to him. "This is something someone sent to you. It's an international long-distance letter with the village committee's address written on it."
Lu Sui tore open the seal, took out the things inside, and flipped through them one by one. His eyes became darker and darker until he saw the photo at the bottom...
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