Chapter 110 Family Gossip
"Dad, can I not marry Uncle Chen? I want to go to my younger sister Yike's house." Li Xiaoying did not forget to fight for herself.
"If his health has really improved, his family is a good one. The small number of people is one thing, but the main thing is that Brother Haoran is sensible. But we can't cancel the engagement, otherwise it will implicate your eldest brother. Yue'er is still a good child." Li Youcai said regretfully. For the sake of his son, he could only sacrifice his daughter. However, the two families live close to each other, so he can also look after them.
"Mom, I don't want to marry Fugui! Mom, Fugui is three years younger than me, I don't want him!" Li Xiaoying stopped eating and cried while holding her mother's arm.
"As the saying goes, a woman three years older than a man will bring him wealth. What are you afraid of? Besides, this is an exchange marriage. If you don't agree, his family won't marry Yue'er to him. You can't just take care of yourself. What will happen to your elder brother then? Be good. I will ask your two brothers to look after Fugui in the future. He won't dare to bully you." Shen Hongmei comforted her daughter.
"But I don't like him, mother—"
"Little kid, do you know what love is? Okay, okay, that's it, let go, let go, let me eat, I'm not full yet."
"Mom——" Li Xiaoying burst into tears. This scared the whole family. They thought she was just talking casually, but they didn't expect Li Xiaoying to cry in panic.
"Dad, why don't you consider it?" Li Dashan felt sad when she saw her sister crying. She knew that her sister had never liked this marriage and her parents had arranged this marriage for her.
"Tell me, are you in love with that guy Du Jiankang? Did he seduce you? I knew long ago that the pretty boy had bad intentions and should have told you not to have any contact with him." Li Xiaoshan said angrily.
"Xiaoying, is what your brother said true?" Li Youcai and Shen Hongmei asked in unison.
Li Xiaoying was frightened. She did have a good impression of Du Jiankang. She used to sympathize with him, but now it was really like what her second brother Li Xiaoshan said. She couldn't take her eyes off Du Jiankang's handsome face as soon as she saw it.
"I, I, I..." Li Xiaoying couldn't say anything for a long time.
When Li Youcai and Shen Hongmei saw their daughter like this, they knew very well that she was really into Du Jiankang, and they both looked worried.
"I will teach that kid a lesson tomorrow for daring to bully my sister!" Li Xiaoshan said hatefully.
"Second brother, it's not like that. Brother Jiankang didn't bully me, really. You can't hit him, he can't withstand your punches. If you hurt him, we won't have to pay compensation, right?" Li Xiaoying said hurriedly, anxiously.
"Stop making trouble. You only know how to fight. The person has just recovered. If you hurt him, can you afford to pay for it?" Li Youcai was very disappointed with his son. This son was so stubborn and never used his brain. What should he do in the future?
"Dad, I'll go over tomorrow to see if Ziyi has come back?" said Li Dashan.
"Okay, go and take a look tomorrow, and observe that boy. If he really has that intention, warn him that Xiaoying is engaged, and he is not allowed to do anything rash." Li Youcai instructed.
"Dad, brother, you, you..." Li Xiaoying ran back to the room crying.
"Dad, if Jiankang is really sincere to my sister and my sister likes him, and as long as Jiankang's body is completely well, we should agree to it. The people in Uncle Hu's family are very nice." Li Dashan said in a low voice.
"Then you yourself..." Li Youcai said in embarrassment. "It's okay, Yue'er will marry me. We can only be villains for once. After Yue'er and I are married, I will cancel my sister's marriage. But I have to discuss it with Yue'er first. If she agrees, we will get married. If she doesn't agree, then we will cancel together." Li Dashan said with determination as he looked at his sister's room.
"What if Yue'er doesn't agree? You and Yue'er are so good..." Shen Hongmei looked at her eldest son and didn't know what to say. The palms and backs of her hands are all made of flesh, and she would feel pain if any piece of flesh hurt.
"Mom, if my sister doesn't have a good life in the future, will Yue'er go back to her parents' home and scold her family? Wouldn't that make things even more difficult for my sister? I'm a man, no one can make things difficult for me no matter what, and don't I still have you at home? My sister is going to get married, and when the time comes she will go to someone else's home alone, and we won't be able to take care of her. So please consider my sister first, it's okay with me." Li Dashan said to his mother seriously.
If Yi Ke were here, he would definitely applaud and praise: "What a good man! What a good brother!" He is not a scumbag and he cares for his sister. He is a real man!
Poor Li Xiaoying, she doesn't know yet that her good brother is ready to sacrifice himself to help her. If she knew, she probably wouldn't have shouted about breaking off the engagement.
Hu Haohan's Home——
"Dad, when are we going to see Sister Yike? I miss her so much." Hu Fangfang, Hu Haohan's youngest daughter, was eating sweet potato sprouts and looking at her father with longing eyes.
"You want to go to sister Yike's house to eat meat, right? What do you mean by missing sister Yike? That's just an excuse." Hu Haohan's eldest daughter, Hu Lili, pouted.
"You sound like you don't want to eat meat?" Hu Fangfang pouted.
"Yes! I do, but we can't eat Sister Yi Ke's pork." Hu Lili didn't know why she couldn't eat it, but she felt that it was not good to eat Sister Yi Ke's pork for free.
"It's all because of Chen Shengli, otherwise we would still be living with Ziyi and the others, and we would definitely have meat to eat. We wouldn't eat for free, we could help them with their work." Hu Haohan's son Hu Xiangdong also expressed his dissatisfaction.
"Yes, the food cooked by Yuling is especially delicious. I wanted to learn from her for a few more days, but after Chen Shengli messed it up, everything is gone." Sun Meili was also very angry.
"Yes, we only produced a little bit of coarse grains during that time, but Yi Ke gave us meat and fine grains every day. People like Chen Shengli didn't think about these things at all. Instead, they felt that they were given the grains, so they had the right to eat them. They didn't even think about whether the grains were enough to eat? There is such a big difference between coarse grains and fine grains, and he has no shame at all. He even wants to get Yi Ke's sweet potato seedlings for free. No wonder big brother was angry and drove us all here to live on our own. Du Qingcang is smart. He follows big brother Haoran. He does whatever big brother says and doesn't fight or compete. This is the smartest way to do it. Look at Du Jiankang. He was so weak before, but now he is almost as strong as Xiangdong." Hu Haohan said as he drank the kudzu root soup in the bowl.
"I heard from Cuihua that Yike has asked us to cook meat for every meal for our health, and she also has to stew wild ginseng soup from time to time." Sun Meili was extremely envious.
"I want to be Sister Yike's younger sister, like Brother Jiankang, so that I can eat meat every day. I don't want to eat sweet potato sprouts every day. Mom, is that okay?" Hu Fangfang acted coquettishly in front of her mother Sun Meili.
"Just do what you want. It's a nice thought. But I'm your sister and I won't accept just anyone as my sister." Hu Lili poured cold water on her sister.
"Huh! I'm so cute, Sister Yike must like me." Hu Fangfang said with her head held high.
"I like it, I like it. Your sister will like you." Sun Meili coaxed her.
The conversation at Hu Haohan's dinner table is similar to what is said at other people's homes. Although people were talking at the dining table in Chen Shengli's house, the atmosphere was not so harmonious.
Chen Shengli's home——
"If it weren't for our father, I could also eat meat every day like my brother Jiankang." Chen Shengli's youngest son Chen Fugui was also talking about meat, and he was complaining to his father.
"Eat meat, eat meat. I'll let you eat meat every day." Chen Shengli slapped Chen Fugui hard, and the vegetables in Chen Fugui's mouth popped out.
"Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow!..." Chen Fugui burst into tears.
"Why are you hitting the child? The child did nothing wrong. Fugui, be good and don't cry. Tomorrow, ask your brother to go to the trap to see if there are any rabbits. If there are, we can eat rabbit meat." Chen Shengli's wife Tao Xiu'e quickly hugged her son and coaxed him.
Chen Shengli felt bad after beating his son. I had no choice but to concentrate on eating, and I regretted it so much. Why did I let my heart be blinded by greed in the first place?
In fact, he knew in his heart that he just looked down on Ziyi's wife. She was just a girl, so why should he listen to her in everything?
Chen Shengli knew that the food and sweet potato fields were prepared by Ziyi's wife last year. He thought that they had nothing to do with Brother Haoran, so he wanted to take advantage of them.
But he didn’t expect that Brother Haoran would be so angry. If he had known, he would not have taken advantage of him. Otherwise, they would still be having dinner together at Brother Haoran’s house. Thinking about eating meat and fine grains every day, I hated Ziyi's wife so much. I didn't expect that Ziyi's wife was quite good at complaining, otherwise why wouldn't my brother be so angry. If Yi Ke knew what was going on in Chen Shengli's mind, he would definitely sneer at him, saying that ugly people are prone to do weird things.
Chen Dawang saw his father's expression changing from time to time and knew that his father was unhappy. He still didn't realize his mistakes and sighed helplessly in his heart. My father is not only fond of taking advantage of others, but also narrow-minded and cowardly. He really couldn't imagine how he had the courage to live in this forest at that time. Perhaps it was all thanks to his mother.
…"Yike, do you think it's time to release these chicks and ducklings into the bamboo forest?" Early in the morning, Wang Cuihua cleaned up the chicken and duck manure. When I went there, all I saw were clean chicken and duck pens, and the chicks and ducklings happily eating chicken feed.
"Godmother, why are you up so early? Did you get up before dawn? Lack of sleep is bad for your health." Yi Ke asked with concern.
"No, I also get up at dawn. I'm used to it. Now I don't feel tired at all when I work. It's all easy work." Wang Cuihua replied with a smile.
"You don't have to get up so early. At least get up when it's daybreak."
"I just get up to help your mother. Your mother is the first one to get up. Everyone has to eat breakfast and go to work at dawn, so your mother gets up before dawn every day."
"What? My mother gets up before dawn to cook breakfast. No wonder we have breakfast so early every day. Godmother, you guys work so hard! Thank you so much!" Yi Ke said with emotion.
"Now I eat so well every day and my body is in good health. I don't feel tired at all, so I don't feel hard. But do you think we should let these chicks and ducklings out? They are so big now, and they need to eat a lot of food if they are locked up." Wang Cuihua raised the same question again.
Yike looked at these chicks and ducklings that were bigger than his fist and fell into deep thought...
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