An An could have let Hu Xiaohua get the admission letter and go to college, but as long as the Hu family was still strong, or had the strength, Hu Xiaohua would not be able to escape from their clutches, and would be replaced by a new marriage, or even used more miserably!
Hu Xiaohua's well-behaved face was clearly extinguished, from the initial hesitation to the final firmness, "Since they pretend to be penniless, let them really be penniless!" If her parents were penniless and powerless, she would like to know how they control their lives, and who would be willing to replace their good daughters with their families, just for the Hu family's wealth and power, if all this is gone!
Hu Xiaohua doesn't believe that if they become paupers, there will still be people willing to exchange marriages.
She has great confidence in An An, and she doesn't think An An is bragging.
An An was surprised when Hu Xiaohua agreed so simply. She gritted her teeth and said everything directly, "If the Hu family has no money, it will be difficult for you to go to college!"
A trace of bitterness flashed in Hu Xiaohua's eyes, "An An, they will Even if they are rich, they won't let me go to college!" It would be great if the girls of the Hu family can read and get married when they are old enough. It is best to make profits for the Hu family, or for the idiot brother. This is what Hu Yuanchao and his wife hope most.
I didn't see that her third sister, who was so favored at home, was married to a certain place without even finishing high school, and was directly married to the provincial capital. Logically speaking, she should not have studied long ago, but she is well-behaved, hardworking at home, able to take care of her idiot brother, and can also help her mother.
Only then did she finish high school, but...
Hu Xiaohua knew that her future would be difficult, but she didn't expect it to be so soon. At the moment when she got the score, a bolt from the blue came.
An An, "Don't you regret it?"
"No regrets!" Hu Xiaohua was firm. Since it had come to this, An An would not persuade her. She actually had selfish motives. When Hu Yuanchao and his wife went to Gujia Village, her good relatives almost sold her out.
At that time, the main culprits of the Gu family had been punished, but she had never taken action against Hu Yuanchao and his wife. First, she was not capable enough before, and second, because of Hu Xiaohua. She and Hu Xiaohua had a good relationship and were friends. She couldn't suddenly attack Hu Yuanchao and his wife, but! Now that the couple had chilled Hu Xiaohua's heart, it was easier for her to take action.
An An patted Hu Xiaohua on the shoulder, "What about your college?" She also learned Hu Xiaohua's score from Teacher Sun. Her score was higher than Banxia's, so she had more options.
Hu Xiaohua bit her lip, "My score is enough to go to Beijing, but if I stay in the provincial capital, I will get scholarships and tuition subsidies, so I will go to school in the provincial capital!" With the bulk of the tuition paid, she can also find a job and earn some money, but she will never go hungry.
An An pondered, "If you are sure you want to turn against the Hu family, I suggest you choose to go to Beijing or even farther to go to college, preferably a place where the Hu family can't find you!"
Hu Xiaohua's eyes lit up, "But! I have no money, I only have 135 yuan on me!" This is what she has saved for so many years!
An An smiled and consoled her, "Cheng Cheng and I have some! We can lend it to you when the time comes. You can pay us back when you have money!" She didn't say she would give it to her directly. An An knew Hu Xiaohua's personality and that she was not someone who could easily accept help from others. If she said she would lend it to her, this silly girl would feel better.
Hu Xiaohua bowed to An An solemnly, "An An, thank you!" If she hadn't come here, she would have even thought about dying.
Thinking of this, if she went back, she would definitely be sent to the next county by the Hu family, or even to the bed of that lousy gambler. She bit her lip, "How can I get evidence?"
Hearing this, An An's face flashed with contemplation, "I can be sure that the person behind the black market is your father. Your father must have an account book in his hand, or a real account book. If you can get the account book, it will be very beneficial to us!" This is just one of the items, and she is about to put out the bait, and it depends on whether Hu Yuanchao will take the bait.
Hu Xiaohua murmured, "Account book?" She thought carefully, what was unusual about her father usually? Her father would often go into the study alone, and once he went in, he would stay there for half a day. The study was a forbidden area for everyone in their family, including her mother.
Seeing that Hu Xiaohua was deep in thought, An An did not disturb her.
Instead, she found a set of her own clothes and gave them to Hu Xiaohua, "Go in and change your clothes!" Hu Xiaohua was extremely embarrassed. Her clothes were already dirty and her pants were torn by hooks, revealing her white calves. This was not done intentionally by the tailor. It was obviously caught by accident when she escaped from somewhere.
Hu Xiaohua was embarrassed. She lowered her head and said in a mosquito-like voice, "Thank you, An An!"
An An suddenly had an idea, "What promise did your family make to that rotten gambler's family?" Otherwise, why would they marry a virgin girl to a fool? ? When the Hu family and the Gu family exchanged marriages, they still gave a lot of money!
Hu Xiaohua shook her head, "I don't know!" She only eavesdropped a little bit, and heard it when she got up at night. She was too nervous at the time, afraid of being discovered, and hurried back to her room. However, she didn't expect to be discovered by her cruel parents and locked up.
An An waved her hands, "Go change your clothes first!" As soon as she finished speaking, there was a commotion outside. Her heart skipped a beat, and she looked out through the crack in the window. It turned out to be Hu Yuanchao and his wife making a fuss at the door of their house.
They were obviously looking for trouble.
An An paused, "Don't change yet! You hide in the house and don't go out, I'll go and see!" After she said this, Hu Xiaohua felt even more guilty. It was she who caused so much trouble for An An.
She said, "They must have discovered that I ran away. If that doesn't work, I'll just go back with them. Don't be so stubborn!"
An An nodded.
When she went out, she saw Hu Yuanchao's parents. They were both fat and looked fierce, especially Hu Yuanchao's eyes. An An had dealt with Hu Yuanchao several times and knew that he was not easy to get along with.
Then she looked at Hu Xiaohua's mother. Mother Hu was wearing a loose skirt. Although it was a loose version, you could still see the fat on her body. In this era of hunger, they could still raise three fat people. The reason why I said three was because you could tell with your toes that their stupid son must not be thin.
Not only that, but he was also fat and had big ears. An An was not wrong. The idiot was tall and always ate the good things in the house first. He was not just fat.
Look at Hu Xiaohua, a skinny little thing. Compared with them, if An An didn't know that Xiaohua was the daughter of the Hu family, she might have thought she was an outsider!
Mother Hu spoke first, "Gu An An, right? Hand over our Xiaohua quickly, or I will go to the police station to report you for human trafficking!" After all, she was the wife of the factory director and knew the law. She took the initiative right away.
An An glanced at the worried teacher Sun next to her, and shook her head at him, "What the factory director's wife said is very strange. Xiao Hua and I are classmates and friends. Why would I kidnap her? What's more, today is the time to check the scores. Xiao Hua's grades are good and she will definitely be admitted to university. This is a great joy. You are Xiao Hua's parents, you should know where Xiao Hua is better than me, right?"
After saying this, Mother Hu's face was not good. She retorted, "You have a grudge against my family, so of course you will stir up discord!"
An An laughed instead of getting angry, "What grudge do I have with your Hu family? Tell us so that everyone knows. Xiao Hua's admission to university is a great joy. What can I stir up?"
"With us..." Mother Hu was halfway through her words when her throat got stuck and she swallowed the rest of her words. She knew what to say and what not to say.
Hu Yuanchao looked at the woman who almost said the wrong thing coldly, with a warning in his eyes. But in a moment, when he spoke to An An, a smile suddenly appeared on his face. "Student Gu, we as parents are worried about our children. Xiaohua plays well with you. If you have any news about Xiaohua, please tell us. This way we will feel more at ease!"
"What are you talking about? Are you taking Xiaohua to marry your idiot brother?", An An mocked. She said loudly to the neighbors around her, "It's the couple in front of us. They are taking their own daughter to marry. Do you want to know who the bride is?" Without waiting for everyone to answer, An An took the initiative to say, "The man is a gambler."
The people around were shocked. "If my daughter was admitted to university, I would want to support her. Not to mention marrying her to a gambler, even if there is a good son-in-law, I would not want to marry her. I will wait until my daughter finishes university!"
"That's right, that's right, the Hu family is not short of money! As for selling the daughter like this? Selling the daughter is still good, this is obviously pushing the daughter into the fire pit!"
"Old Hu, you are a factory director after all, you can't be so illiterate! This idea of ​​exchanging marriages is not acceptable. We are a new China now, and this old stuff is not acceptable!" The one who said this was Secretary Ding. He felt a little unwell a few days ago, so he rested at home for a few days. It happened that he felt better today, so he went out for a walk and heard the news that An An broke. According to his
status, Hu Yuanchao had to be respectful when he met Secretary Ding. Now that the matter was so serious, Hu Yuanchao wanted to curse his mother in his heart, but he still had a warm smile on his face. It was just that he had a fierce face, and even when he was smiling, he was still a little scary.
Hu Yuanchao cupped his hands, "Sorry for making a fool of yourself. My little daughter is already nineteen years old, and it is time for marriage. We always say that parents decide and matchmaker decides. Parents will not harm their children, and the conditions of the man's family are certainly not bad, so we will marry her off!" He is really an old and shrewd man. He changed the situation with just a few words.
An An was so angry at this shameless man. It was obviously selling her daughter, but he said it was a good marriage. "If it is a good marriage, why do you want to exchange the bride? Or exchange the bride for a fool?"
When Hu Yuanchao heard An An say the word fool, a haze flashed in his eyes. No matter how stupid his son was, it was not the place for outsiders to say. He said loudly, "That is marrying a wife, not exchanging the bride!" and refused to admit it.
Hu Xiaohua, who had been listening to everything in the house, suddenly came out. She hadn't changed her clothes yet and was extremely shabby. "I don't want to exchange marriages, I want to go to school!"
As the person involved, Hu Xiaohua opened her mouth and said "I don't want to exchange marriages!", directly exposing Hu Yuanchao's previous fatherly appearance.
Hu's mother took a step forward and was about to pull Hu Xiaohua's ears. Looking at the familiar look of the action, it was obvious that this happened often, "You shameful dead girl, why don't you go back?"
Hu Xiaohua grinned and resisted for the first time, "If you don't exchange marriages, I will go back!" She kept talking about "exchange marriages", and the people around who were watching the excitement were also skeptical, and obviously doubted what Hu Yuanchao had said before.
An An had to applaud Hu Xiaohua. No matter how much she said, it was not as good as what Xiaohua, the person involved, said. She slapped Hu's mother's hand away and said coldly, "If you don't know, you would think you are a stepmother!" She glanced at Hu Yuanchao.
Hu Yuanchao's face suddenly turned ashen.
An An shouted, "Whether it is a marriage exchange or not, you can find out by talking to the man's family in the neighboring county!" As soon as she said this, Hu's mother's face suddenly changed, "We don't need an outsider like you to interfere in our family affairs!" It would have been fine if she didn't say anything, but now that she did, it felt like she was trying to cover up something.
"Since it's not a marriage exchange, what are you afraid of?" An An said coldly, "If you can publicly admit that it's not a marriage exchange, Xiaohua should go back with you. But if it's really a marriage exchange, there are so many of us here, and dozens of eyes are still watching. You can go to the Women's Federation to report it then. I believe those aunts are willing to help a helpless person like Xiaohua!"
The Women's Federation is newly established, and the aunts in it love family disputes the most. They can apply for mediation and they can also have some reputation. Why not do this kind of thing!
When Hu Yuanchao heard that they were going to make a fuss at the Women's Federation, he wanted to bite his teeth to pieces. That group of gossiping women was so annoying. He smiled with his face but not his eyes, "This is our family affair, and outsiders are not allowed to interfere!" He had emphasized this many times.
An An shrugged helplessly, "If you treat Xiao Hua better, I won't interfere!" After saying this, some people around couldn't help laughing.
Hu Xiao Hua stiffened his neck, "Dad, Mom, I just want to ask you, I don't want to exchange my marriage, do you agree? If not, when the day comes to get married, I will hang myself at the door of my house with a rope. When I die, my family will be unlucky enough, and my stupid brother will never get married in his life."
After she said this, Hu's mother's eyes widened, "I will beat you to death, you dead girl, you curse your brother! We have raised you for nothing for so many years!" She always talked about her son, and didn't care about Hu Xiao Hua's life or death at all.
The light in Hu Xiaohua's eyes gradually dimmed, and An An felt more and more distressed. She looked out from time to time. When she saw someone coming, she breathed a sigh of relief, but when she saw that there were many people following Zhang Xiaowu, she was stunned and a little confused.
Suddenly, a few more people appeared in the yard. This person was none other than Huang Zhiyong, the lousy gambler mentioned by Hu Xiaohua. When An An saw this person, her eyes lit up and she nodded to Zhang Xiaowu. Although Lu Yan was not in Taisong County for the time being, he left Zhang Xiaowu to An An.
Coincidentally, when An An knew the news, she immediately secretly told Zhang Xiaowu to help find out the situation in the gambler's house. However, Zhang Xiaowu just went out and met Huang Zhiyong who was being beaten. There were also several people from the casino following him. It was obvious that he lost the game and was asking for the bill!
Huang Zhiyong hugged Hu Yuanchao's thigh with snot and tears, crying, "Dad, Dad! Please save me! Otherwise, your daughter will be a widow!" When An An saw this scene, she had to say that Huang Zhiyong came at the right time. Hu Yuanchao
frowned, as if he was slapped in public, and he was so angry that he kicked him out, "Get out! Who is your father? Don't claim relatives randomly!"
Now, the leader who followed to ask for the bill refused to agree. He was shirtless and wore a large vest, revealing his strong muscles. He took a step forward and walked in front of Hu Yuanchao. Although he was talking to Huang Zhiyong, his eyes were fixed on Hu Yuanchao, "Don't fool me, didn't you say that the director of the textile factory is your father-in-law? You owe the 800 yuan, and your father-in-law will pay it for you, otherwise..." The leader took out the axe from his waist.
The bright axe frightened Huang Zhiyong so much that he shivered. He didn't care if he was still in pain, and quickly hugged Hu Yuanchao's thigh, "Dad! You went to my house a few days ago and said that my younger sister would marry your silly son, and I would marry your daughter. You can't go back on your word! If something happens to me, your daughter will be a widow!" It is said that gamblers who gamble too much are worse than beasts.
An An, if Xiao Hua really married this rotten gambler, sooner or later she would be beaten by this rotten gambler.
"Dad! This is what you call a good marriage!" Hu Xiaohua asked loudly with red eyes. When Hu's mother saw this helpless A Dou, she didn't dare to look up at her daughter for a while.
Huang Zhiyong's words were like rubbing Hu Yuanchao's face on the ground, and Hu Xiaohua's questioning was like rubbing salt into the wound. Hu Yuanchao was a man who cared a lot about his face. You have to know that he was the director of a textile factory and a person of status in Taisong County. Now that he was stopped at the door by the people from the casino and asked for the bill, he was really embarrassed. "I don't know you!" After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave. Looking at his appearance, even Hu Xiaohua didn't want to take him back.
Take advantage of his weakness to kill him. An An has always understood this principle. She said loudly, "I know Uncle Hu is not such a heartless person, and he will not push his daughter to such a gambler. Xiaohua, you can go back without worry! Now your father said that he doesn't know this man, and it is even more impossible for him to change your marriage!" After hearing this roundabout insulting words, Hu Yuanchao's head was throbbing violently.
However, he couldn't refute it. If he refuted it, it would be equivalent to admitting the marriage exchange, and he would have to pay the gambler back, which was 800 yuan. If he got involved with such a son-in-law, he didn't know how many times he would have to clean up his ass for him in the future.
Hu Xiaohua looked at An An who was looking at her meaningfully. She took a deep breath and said, "Mom and Dad, as long as you don't take me to exchange for a bride, I will go home!" Now, neither Hu Yuanchao nor his mother could refute them, because the one they wanted to exchange for a bride was now like a dead dog, lying on the ground after being beaten and unable to get up.
The smart people around them understood what had happened at a glance. It seemed that Hu Yuanchao and his wife were not as noble as they usually thought. Pushing their own daughter into the fire pit was something that most people would not do.
For a moment, everyone looked at Hu Yuanchao and his wife with some ambiguous eyes.
An An sneered, "Uncle Hu, if you are looking for a son-in-law in the future, you must keep your eyes open, otherwise if these cats and dogs come to your door, you can't get rid of them!!" As soon as she finished speaking, Huang Zhiyong, who was lying on the ground howling, shouted again with great force, "Dad! Don't ignore me! I am your son-in-law!" When he shouted, Hu Yuanchao's steps became faster and he wished he had never come here.
Hu Xiaohua followed behind, looked back at An An, blinked, and signaled that she understood.
But Hu Yuanchao wanted to leave, but the leader was unwilling to let him go. He directly took out a piece of paper with black words from his pocket, "Director Hu, Huang Zhiyong, your future son-in-law, now owes our casino 800 yuan. If he doesn't pay it back, we will chop off his hands and stomp his feet!"
Hu Yuanchao was furious, "What does chopping off Huang Zhiyong's hands have to do with me? What's more, his surname is Huang and mine is Hu. Are you blind? Go ask his family for the gambling account of Huang Zhiyong!"
The leader's face turned black, "Director Hu, I don't like what you said. Take a look, is this your autograph?" At that time, the Hu family and the Huang family had agreed on the marriage exchange. In order to prevent the other party from going back on their word and asking for more money, they were on guard against each other! I specially signed a contract, but I didn't expect that the contract would end up in Huang Zhiyong's hands, and he even pawned it and put it in the hands of the casino.
Hu Yuanchao looked back, and it was hard to back down. If he admitted it, the 800 yuan bill would fall on his head, and he had previously vowed to tell everyone that their family did not exchange marriages, which was quite a slap in the face! If he
didn't admit it! It was clearly written in black and white, which would be a disaster sooner or later, especially with the bad gamblers around, who knows where the contract would end up the day after tomorrow. Obviously, the latter has a greater risk of uncertainty.
Hu Yuanchao gritted his teeth and said, "The marriage between our Hu family and the Huang family is cancelled! I have nothing to do with Huang Zhiyong!" This sentence was equivalent to admitting that he had been married before, but now he cancelled the marriage in public in order to sever the relationship. It was like a heroic act.
When An An heard this, her eyes flashed with sarcasm. This old fox finally showed his tail. She kicked Huang Zhiyong on the ground and said, "Did you hear that? The Hu family doesn't like this marriage at all!"
An An had to admit that she didn't want the couple to have an easy life. Looking at Huang Zhiyong's miserly appearance, she still had time to persuade him. It was obvious that it was easier to invite a god than to send him away.
Huang Zhiyong yelled, "Hu Yuanchao, you little bastard, your stupid son slept with my sister! Now you want to walk away with nothing, dream on!"
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