Wu Ju nodded vigorously and rolled up her sleeves, signaling the doctor to draw her blood for a test.
The doctor gave her a prescription and asked her to go to the laboratory for a blood test. She was a little reluctant and complained, "Really? There are so many things to do just to draw blood. It's so troublesome."
So, Wu Ju took Xiao Shuangning and herself to undergo a so-called kinship test. Then came a long wait. The doctor said it would take at least seven or eight days for the results to come back. Wu Ju and Xiao Shuangning returned to "Little Taiwan," and the long wait began.
In the quadrangle...
Three days later, the Li family moved to the county town.
Wencai shamelessly followed him to the county town, repeatedly begging Li Yushu and Li Wenxue to let him go home. But this time, Li Yushu and Li Wenxue were adamant. No matter how much Wencai begged, they would not let him in.
He became a completely homeless person. Even so, after a brief period of excruciating pain, Wencai's true nature was revealed again. Penniless and unwilling to work, he became a beggar begging on the street and officially joined the Beggar Gang.
The young master Li, who used to be very picky and fussy about everything, could now endure a life of eating only coarse food. To fill his stomach, he would even eat the spoiled vegetables and rice that others had thrown away.
In order to grab some food, he even bullied those beggars who were not smart enough and became a bully among beggars.
Sometimes, when they were so hungry, they would even steal food to fill their stomachs, so being beaten up became commonplace.
Sometimes, when a beggar eats too much unclean food and gets a stomach upset, rolling on the ground in pain, no kind-hearted person will help this "poor" beggar. His life and death seem to become so insignificant that even he himself no longer cares about his own life or death.
I live in a daze all day long, living like an ant.
Not having enough to eat and not having warm clothes made Wencai, who was once quite handsome and elegant, become skinny.
He had nightmares every night, dreaming that he was in Yama Palace and met his old aunt, who couldn't recognize him in his current state. But every time he woke up from the nightmare, he was still lying in the dilapidated house, the same tattered things in front of him, and his stomach was still hungry.
After returning home, Zhang Xiaoqin, under the constant pressure from Wang Changxing, began to try every means to persuade her husband to persuade his mother to marry his sister to Wang Changxing.
"Afu, can I discuss something with you?"
Jiang Fu was washing clothes in his yard. Zhang Xiaoqin brought a small stool, grabbed a handful of melon seeds, and sat in front of Jiang Fu. She cracked the seeds and talked to him.
"What's the matter? Do you still need to discuss it with me? Aren't you the one who has the final say on all matters big and small in this family?" Jiang Fu replied coldly without even raising his head, continuing to rub the clothes in his hands.
"Look, Jiang Ling isn't young anymore. She's 22 this year. When I was her age, my eldest child was already born. Isn't it time to find her a husband?"
After Zhang Xiaoqin finished speaking, she bit the melon seeds that had been brought to her mouth with a snap.
Jiang Fu raised his head and glanced at her with his eyes slanted.
"Lingling is well-educated. She can make her own decisions about her own life."
"Look at what you said. No matter how educated she is, she's not supernatural! Marriage is still subject to the will of parents and the words of the matchmaker. This time, I'm going all out and swallowing my pride to act as the matchmaker. I've found her a good family. It's the eldest nephew of our village chief. He's a carpenter and looks like Pan An. Go tell my mother, and we'll get it done."
Once Zhang Xiaoqin starts talking, she will never stop. She has to make the dead look alive.
"That's that lame Wang, right? I told you you've been a nuisance to me, but you're trying to harm my sister. That lame Wang is a whole generation older than Lingling, and he's also lame. Lingling is well-behaved, sensible, and well-educated. Even if you were to marry her, she wouldn't marry someone so lowly, would she?"
Zhang Xiaoqin was already furious, but in order to get things done, she tried her best to suppress her anger and waited until Jiang Fu finished speaking before taking over.
"I've brought disaster upon you. How have I brought disaster upon you? Back then, the people who came to my house to propose marriage could line up from the east end to the west end of the village. I don't know if my mother was bewitched to choose a loser like you. You're taking advantage of me and still acting ungratefully. How can you marry someone down from your level? Do you think your sister is a fairy who has descended to earth? Does she have to marry someone from the royal family? Didn't the Seven Fairies who descended to earth find a cowherd boy? Don't brag about yourself."
Jiang Fu ignored her and took the washed clothes to hang out to dry. Seeing that he ignored her, Zhang Xiaoqin spat out the melon seed shells in her mouth and followed him.
"Did I say you're a piece of shit? Say something! Are you going to tell your mother or not?"
"You go if you want to."
"Okay, you're capable. I, Zhang Xiaoqin, have been married to you for over ten years, yet I never get enough to eat or wear. You always take my kindness for granted. I'm doing this for your Jiang family. If you can become related to the village chief, wouldn't it make things easier for you in the future? I'm telling you, Jiang Fu, this has to happen, whether it succeeds or not."
Zhang Xiaoqin couldn't help it anymore and started to make harsh remarks.
Jiang Fu patted his wrinkled clothes with his hands and replied calmly: "If you want to climb up the social ladder, why don't you go yourself? Why sacrifice Lingling?"
"Okay, okay, okay, I'll go. Jiang Fu, listen carefully. If this doesn't work out, then we'll get divorced, and I'll try to marry someone richer on your sister's behalf. Don't regret it then."
After Zhang Xiaoqin finished speaking, she stormed into the room angrily.
Jiang Fu didn't seem to take her words to heart at all. He continued to hang the clothes in his hands without any expression on his face.
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