"Ashi, come here for a moment, I have something to tell you."
The light was dim, with only the half-moon hanging above providing a little light.
Hua Shi raised her eyes, but couldn't quite see the expression or look on her father's face.
"What's the matter?" Hua Shi paused and asked.
For some reason, Hua Shi felt that his father seemed conflicted and nervous.
Hua Ciyuan turned his head and glanced at the dark hall. He slowly exhaled and said, "The thing I told you last time..."
He paused deliberately, staring at Hua Shi without blinking, waiting for her to remember what it was.
Hua Shi's eyebrows moved slightly, and she immediately remembered the thing he mentioned...
Hua's father asked her to go check the results for him before the notice was posted, and then secretly come back to tell him the result...
But it’s not that she doesn’t want to help.
Hua Shi shook her head, remembering that it was dark around them and he might not see her shaking her head, so she said, "I can't help you. Grandma just said today that she won't let me go out without her permission."
Hearing this, Hua Ciyuan remained silent.
Hua Shi waited for a while, and seeing that Hua Ciyuan didn't say anything, he just raised his foot to leave.
Hua's father said again, "Please help Dad. Your grandma will definitely not be home the day after tomorrow... You can go secretly, she won't know."
Hua's father was silent for a while, still thinking of asking Hua Shi to help him.
Hua Shi frowned, not wanting to talk to him about this, and asked, "Why don't you go yourself?"
She couldn't leave any sooner, and sooner or later, Li would know the result.
Why bother making her make another trip?
She couldn't figure out what this father of Hua was thinking. He ignored and didn't care about his own child, and he was bullied at his doorstep.
She didn't believe that the three Li brothers had been cursing for so long without Hua's father, who was hiding in the house, knowing about it.
He knew, he just didn't want to care...it was none of his business, so he just stayed out of it.
Cold and selfish.
The Hua family's children, including the original owner, all had various problems: a selfish older sister; a gloomy and morbid second brother; a sharp-tongued, rumor-mongering third sister; a thief-like fourth brother; and a withdrawn, taciturn fifth brother...
Among these children, the oldest original owner was only sixteen. They were all half-grown children, at the stage when their values were being formed. Yet, they were left alone like this, with no one to care for them...
No mother, no father, no grandma, no abuse...
The longer Hua Shi stayed at the Hua family, the more he understood it, and the more annoyed he became with this place.
Whether it is Hua's father's weakness and selfishness, or Li's harshness and her capricious temper.
She couldn't stand Li's control over her anymore...
After experiencing this incident and the ban that Li imposed on her again, Hua Shi decided to escape from here.
This is not the afterlife. If you want to escape from the control of an elder, you can't just run away from home and never come back.
She thought about it and the best solution she could think of was... getting married.
The village was not as open as she thought. There were many restrictions on women. In addition to the idea of male superiority and female inferiority, there was also the heavy pressure of clan surnames.
Even though she was a man, it was not easy for her to escape from the control of the elders.
If the man could still propose a separation due to a conflict, as far as she knew, the procedures for separation were quite complicated and tedious.
After getting the consent of the head of the family, the village chief must be asked to testify, and finally, the old patriarch of the same surname must be invited out to draw the family tree, divide the houses, divide the land... and so on.
Hua Shi had also inquired about it, and found that in the huge Shoushan Village, there were no women who had established their own households. The village also did not allow women to do so.
If a woman wanted to escape the control of the clan, her surname would be removed and she would be expelled from the village. No one in the village would take her in. After that, she would no longer be a member of the village, without roots or whereabouts, and her fate would be similar to that of a displaced beggar...
To put it bluntly, the village will never allow women to set up their own households. Shoushan Village emphasizes the same clan and family. As long as there are men in the clan, it is impossible for women to set up their own households.
So after much deliberation, Hua Shi decided that the only way to escape from the Hua family and the Li family was to marry...
Hua's father stood up at some point and walked up to her when Hua Shi was distracted.
In the dim night, Hua's father's pair of protruding eyes stared at her intently.
When Hua Shi came to his senses, he heard his father hesitate for a long time and said, "Ah Shi, can you help Daddy? Just help Daddy take a look, okay?"
Hua Shi blinked, and in the darkness, it took a while before she could clearly see the expression on her father's face.
There was pleading, uneasiness, anger... all complexly intertwined on that thin and slightly haggard face.
Hua Shi lowered her eyes, still shaking her head in refusal, "Grandma will be angry."
As she said this, Hua Ciyuan's expression became visibly gloomy, and his face became a little agitated. He reached out to grab Hua Shi's hand.
Hua Shi took two steps back and ruthlessly knocked his hand away.
"Meow!"
The black cat that had been lingering around Hua Shi's feet seemed to sense Hua Shi's unhappy mood.
As Hua Shi knocked Hua Ciyuan's hand away, he suddenly cried out and lunged towards Hua's father's trouser legs...
"Ah! Where did this beast come from!"
Hua's father was startled and staggered back several steps, uttering a burst of sharp curses.
"Xiao Hei!"
Hua Shi saw that the black cat was eager to try and wanted to pounce on people, so he quickly scolded it.
"Meow?"
When Hua Shi called out, the black cat, which had just been hunching its body in an attacking posture, stopped obediently, squatted on the ground, and meowed at her innocently in response.
"Come here." Hua Shi waved, called the cat over and held it in his arms.
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