Chapter 417 Some are light and some are serious
This stupid kid with no brains!
Aunt Gu shook her head helplessly.
She raised her hand and patted Deng's arm. The calluses on her hand rubbed against the back of Deng's hand, and the itchy feeling made Deng smile.
"Okay, stop talking about this and help me clean up. Let's go there early."
Deng's lips moved, but she eventually swallowed back the words that were on the tip of her tongue.
She lowered her head, her fingers unconsciously twisting the apron string. After a while, she responded with a muffled "Hey" and turned to search the corner for Aunt Gu's spare clothes.
The only sound in the room was the rustling of fabric. The drizzle was still falling outside the window, hitting the window frame without making any sound, but when you looked up again, the window sill was covered with rain.
Such scenes are constantly played out in every household in Taohua Village.
But the difference is that some families are unwilling to do so from the bottom of their hearts.
"Mom, I don't want to go!"
The fat boy from the Li family at the west end of the village was lying on the bed, wrapped in a thick quilt, with only his round head exposed, and the flesh on his cheeks was squeezed into a ball because he pursed his lips so hard.
"My child, be obedient. How can you not go when the village chief has spoken?" Wang sat on the edge of the bed, pulling at the quilt with both hands but not exerting any force. "There's no medicine at home, and I don't know any medicine. How can I take care of you?"
Fat Li suddenly threw back the quilt and sat up. The bed, which was not firm to begin with, creaked and shook with his movements, and it was possible that it would break down at any time.
His fat trembled, and his small eyes darted around twice before finally fixing their gaze on Li Kuihua, who was standing at the door. A sly smile played at the corners of his mouth. "Let her go. Let her pretend to be sick and be quarantined at the academy. Then she can bring the medicine back to me!"
The little fat man became more and more proud as he spoke, and he slapped his thighs, and the fat on his thighs shook even more violently.
"What a great idea! This way I can stay home!"
When Wang heard this, her eyes lit up. She really couldn't bear to let her precious son suffer in school.
She turned her head to look at Li Kuihua, her voice tentative. "Kuihua, how about..."
Li Kuihua's eyes widened, her lips trembling slightly as she looked at her mother in disbelief. "Mom, I'm not sick!"
Her voice was a little tense. "My brother is sick at home, and you can't cure him. There are doctors in the school. It would be good for him to go there!"
"But...but I'm worried about your brother going alone!" Wang's voice lowered, and her eyes fell back on Li Xiaopang, full of heartache.
Li Kuihua's heart sank, and a chill ran up from the soles of her feet. She took a deep breath, and her voice was as cold as the rain outside.
"Then just let him die at home!"
The more she learned in the past two years of studying at school, the more clearly she realized that her parents' kindness to her was just lip service.
They favor their younger brother, and their favoritism is blatant.
She gave the delicious food and new clothes to her younger brother first. Even the only chance for learning to read in the family fell on her because her younger brother gave it up.
Yes, when all the children in the village were studying in school, Li Xiaopang also went for two days, but Wang felt sorry for her son having to get up early every day, so she went to the school and said that her son didn't want to study anymore.
But the other children went to school, and Fat Li had no playmates, so he lay in bed eating all day, making his already fat body even fatter.
The New Year pig raised by the aunt next door is not as big as his.
Later I heard that the school was recruiting girls to learn embroidery, and that if they learned it, they could earn money to support their families.
They sent her to school without asking her opinion.
Although she was eager to go to school, her parents' behavior really made her feel disheartened.
She was like a tool in their hands. Now she needed to embroider to earn meat for her brother. When she grew up, she would also need to be exchanged for a dowry to help her brother marry a wife.
She accepted all of this, but now they could actually come up with such a plan just to prevent her brother from going to the school alone to receive treatment.
"You are the same as me. If you are sick, can't you accompany me?" Seeing his mother hesitate, Fat Li started to throw a tantrum on the bed again, twisting his fat body like a maggot leaving shit.
"I want Li Kuihua to go with me. I want her to take care of me. I want it, I want it!"
Wang was so upset by her precious son's troubles that she didn't care about Li Kuihua's expression. She took her hand and persuaded her, "Kuihua, he is your brother. He will be your support and confidence in the future."
She patted the back of Li Kuihua's hand, her tone full of self-righteousness. "With your brother's support, when you get married, you'll have to stand up stronger in your husband's family."
"He's too young. We're really worried about him going to school alone. I heard this disease is contagious. Why don't you let your brother bite you? If you get infected, you can go to school with him and take care of him!"
Li Kuihua suddenly pulled her hand back and took a step back, the shock in her eyes almost overflowing.
She looked at Wang steadily, her lips moving.
Listen, is this something a mother could say?
My brother is her child, but does that mean I am not?
It's the same piece of flesh that fell from her body, how can it be divided into different levels of importance?
"Mom, don't you think your request is unreasonable?"
Li Kuihua's voice trembled, and she cried. "This plague can kill people, you know? What if I die?"
Wang felt a little embarrassed when asked, her eyes avoided, and she raised her hand to tidy up the hair around her ears.
"How is that possible? You're so strong, how could you die?"
"I left you on the mountain for three days and three nights, and you didn't die. How could you die from a minor plague?"
Li Dazhuang, who had been smoking his pipe nearby, was impatient. After hearing the mother and daughter dithering for a long time without any result, he slammed his pipe against the corner of the table and stood up suddenly.
He walked a few steps to Li Kuihua, grabbed her arm with his thick black hand, and pushed it towards Li Xiaopang's mouth. The veins on his wrist throbbed. "Little one, take a bite."
He glared at Li Kuihua, spitting all over her face. "As a sister, you're supposed to take good care of your brother. I'm telling you, if anything happens to my son at school, you'll be buried with him!"
Li Kuihua's arms were squeezed so hard that it hurt, and her bones felt like they were about to be crushed.
She struggled desperately, tears welling in her eyes, and looked at Wang for help. "Mother..."
Wang suddenly turned her head to the side and stared at the yellowed New Year picture on the wall, not even daring to lift her eyelids.
Li Kuihua looked at the beams of the roof, on which were still hanging the cobs of corn left over from last year's autumn harvest.
At this moment, everything in her eyes became blurry.
She remembered what Vanilla had said to her.
"Your mother only has your brother in her heart, not you at all."
"They were just trying to trick you into giving the money for the embroidery to your brother. Just wait and see, when you get married, they'll definitely take a piece of your flesh."
She didn't believe it at the time, but now she feels that every word of it is true.
Her parents really don’t love her!
There was a piercing pain in my arm, which was caused by Li Xiaopang biting it with his teeth.
The ferocity seemed to tear off a piece of flesh.
Li Kuihua bit her lips hard to stop herself from crying out loud, but her tears flowed silently down the corners of her eyes like beads that had broken off the string, soaking her collar.
"Okay, I'll go to the school and take care of him!"
"If I can make it out alive this time, I'll have repaid you for giving me birth!"
"All? What do you want? I gave birth to you and gave you a worthless life. You can never get rid of me in this life!" Li Dazhuang threw Li Kuihua to the ground. Her knees hit the edge of the kang, and the pain made her want to faint.
He turned and glared at Wang, spit flying. "Are you a maggot? I told you to move! Why don't you come over here and help your son pack his things and send him to school?"
Wang was so frightened that she shuddered and immediately stood up, hurriedly packing Li Xiaopang's things.
A large backpack was filled with newly made cotton pants, candied cakes, and even a small copper stove for warming hands.
Li Kuihua didn't even look at anyone.
In their eyes, her role was just a servant to take care of their precious son!
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