Chapter 256: Separation
After Chen Dawang got the promise from Li Xiaoying, he started looking for his valuables after returning home. He found his things, packed them up, and left the house.
Chen Dawang put the bag into the haystack in the cowshed, and then went outside to work as if nothing had happened.
Chen Dawang had made preparations for both scenarios. If he could not divide the family property, he would pack up his belongings and move out with Li Xiaoying.
Li Xiaoying walked out of the door slowly with her cane, and when she got to the yard, she called out, "Sister Yike, are you home?"
Zhang Yuling poked her head out and asked, "What's going on? Xiaoying."
"I have a few words to say to her." Li Xiaoying slowly moved into the house.
"Come in, he should be writing." After saying that, Zhang Yuling went back to the kitchen. She was preparing bone soup for the evening. She boiled it over the fire before going out to work.
"Sister Yike." Li Xiaoying arrived at the door of Yike's room, knocked gently and called out.
"Hey, come in, the door is not locked." Yike replied and continued to write.
"Sister Yike, you are busy." Li Xiaoying said in a low voice, feeling embarrassed to disturb Yike while she was writing.
"It's okay, just sit for a while, it will be fine soon." Yi Ke said without raising his head.
Li Xiaoying sat there anxiously, not knowing whether she had come to the right place.
Yike finished writing quickly, and then put it in the drawer. He looked at Li Xiaoying who was sitting on the stool in a daze, and asked with a smile: "Sister Xiaoying, you seem to be worried about something?"
"Sister Yike, I'm here to ask for your help." Li Xiaoying said with a wry smile.
"Oh, what's the matter? Tell me, I will help if I can." Yi Ke thought to himself that he would not ask her to help him escape.
"Brother Da Wang came to talk to me today and said that his father wanted to arrange a marriage for him." Li Xiaoying's eyes turned red as she spoke.
"So fast? Is there anyone suitable in our mountain? Which family?" Yi Ke was curious.
"It's your sister's cousin. She asked Brother Dawang to choose one." Li Xiaoying's voice was choked with sobs.
"What? Cousin, you still want to choose? Why is he so shameless? Who agreed to this?" Yi Ke stood up suddenly and said angrily.
"He said that your brother-in-law agreed." Li Xiaoying looked at the angry Yike and felt a little scared.
"You are so good, Ma Youcai, you dare to make such a big decision without saying a word. When I come back, I will beat you so hard that your mother won't recognize you. Then I will take your surname." Yi Ke was so angry that he turned around the table for several times. Finally, when he saw Li Xiaoying's frightened expression, he quickly suppressed his anger and sat down again.
"Well, Sister Xiaoying, what are your plans with your brother Dawang?"
"Brother Dawang said that we should divide the family first. If that fails, we will move out of the mountains to live." Li Xiaoying repeated everything the two had agreed on.
Yike looked at Li Xiaoying silently. In just a few days, the girl's sunny eyes were obscured by sadness.
"Sister Yike, if we want to leave the mountain, please help me put in a few words for Brother Ziyi and ask him to help send us to the outskirts of the forest, so that we will be safe. Brother Dawang said he would ask Brother Ziyi for help, but I'm afraid Brother Ziyi will not agree. Can you help me speak for him? Brother Ziyi listens to you the most, and we have no other choice." Li Xiaoying's voice became lower and lower as she spoke, and finally she sobbed softly.
Yike was frightened. Since she knew Li Xiaoying, she had never seen her shed a tear. Even when she helped her change the bandage some time ago, she didn't cry even when it was so painful.
"Damn Chen Shengli!" Yike cursed in his heart.
"Don't cry. If your brother Da Wang finds out, he'll accuse me of bullying you and you'll be in trouble." Yi Ke said jokingly.
Sure enough, Li Xiaoying's tears disappeared after hearing Yi Ke's joke.
"First of all, I promise you that I will help you." Yi Ke said affirmatively.
"Really, thank you! Thank you!" Li Xiaoying said gratefully.
"Sister Xiaoying, I personally think that you should not leave the mountains. First, if you go out without a household registration, you will be arrested as refugees, and without a household registration you will not have any food. Second, everything will cost money after you go out, and you can't buy anything even if you have money but no tickets. Even if you can stay at my house temporarily, it won't last long. The main reason is that you don't have a household registration. I had to take the risk of escaping into the forest because I didn't have a household registration." Yike analyzed carefully.
Li Xiaoying's face turned pale when she heard this. Yike continued, "In fact, your best solution is to separate the family, so that you don't have to go out and take risks."
"But what if Brother Da Wang's father refuses to divide the family business? We're afraid he'll threaten us with death." Li Xiaoying expressed their concerns.
It makes sense, especially since Chen Dawang is the eldest son, which adds to the difficulty.
"What's Aunt Chen's attitude? Do you agree or disagree?"
"Aunt has no objection. She even advised us to be patient and she will persuade us slowly. If she hadn't said that she wanted to arrange a marriage for Brother Da Wang right away, we would have waited for Aunt to persuade us."
"That's easy. As long as Aunt Chen is on your side, things will be simple." Yi Ke said happily.
"What do you mean?"
"Hey, tell your brother Da Wang to let his mother separate him and live on his own. If Chen Shengli disagrees, let his mother ask his father whether he wants a son or a wife. If his father disagrees, let his mother move out and stop living with his father and live separately for the time being."
"What if Uncle Chen doesn't give in? What will I do then?"
"Hehe, you don't understand this. Your uncle Chen would rather leave home and live in the mountains because he couldn't bear to leave your aunt, so he would never let your aunt live separately." Yi Ke laughed in his heart: "Heroes are often tempted by beauty, this is an eternal law. Although Aunt Chen is old, she is still beautiful. It is absolutely impossible for a selfish person like Chen Shengli to give up his wife for his son."
It turned out that Yi Ke's analysis was correct. A day later, Chen Dawang and Chen Shengli had a big argument about dividing the property. Chen Shengli refused to agree no matter what and even threatened that if Chen Dawang dared to go against his wishes and sneak out of the mountain, he would be waited for to collect his body when he came back.
Li Xiaoying's worries became a reality, and Chen Shengli used his own life to suppress Chen Dawang.
Later, it turned out to be Chen Dawang's mother, the even more cruel woman, who put a knife to her neck and asked Chen Shengli to choose between his son or his wife.
At first Chen Shengli thought his daughter-in-law was trying to scare him, until he saw blood flowing from her neck, he was so scared that he immediately agreed to separate the family property.
Chen Dawang was kicked out of the house and had nowhere to live for the time being. Without saying a word, Li Youcai took his son to help Chen Dawang build three rooms next to his own house.
There is a main room and two side rooms on the left and right. The kitchen and bathroom were built behind the main room. Ziyi helped to build the sewage pipe. Chen Dawang was the first person to live in a house where the bathroom was not outside.
After Chen Dawang's house was built, Ziyi immediately built a bathroom indoors for his own house and his godfather's house. From now on, you don’t have to go out to use the toilet in the middle of the night. The previous toilet was built twenty meters away from the house.
Chen Dawang and Li Xiaoying's issues were resolved satisfactorily, and they will hold their wedding after Li Xiaoying recovers from her injury.
Chen Dawang and Li Xiaoying were extremely grateful to Yi Ke. If it wasn't Yi Ke's idea, their final outcome would be predictable. They couldn't even run away, because if they did, they would be shouldering his father's life. Although they suspected that his father was just trying to scare them, they just had to be prepared for the worst.
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