Chapter 79 Sisters Reunion 2
Han Guihua lowered her head, her hair was dry and yellow, and she was wearing a patched floral dress. There was also a patch on the knee of her pants. She was clutching a cloth bag tightly with both hands. The skin of her hands was like dead tree bark, rough and dry, like the hands of an old man in his seventies or eighties.
Han Guihua seemed to be aware that someone was watching her and raised her head slightly. When she saw the person in front of her clearly, she raised her head all of a sudden, her eyes suddenly widened, with a surprised expression as if she had seen a ghost in broad daylight.
Yike also had an expression as if he had seen a ghost. Han Guihua was completely different now. Han Guihua's face was sallow and swollen, her eyes were deeply sunken in her eye sockets, her eyeballs were also yellow, her lips were bloodless, and her eyes were lifeless.
But after only one year of absence, Han Guihua has become a completely different person. Although her skin used to be dark, it was a shiny black and her eyes were very lively. Her current appearance is simply incredible.
"Sister...sister...sister, is that you? Sister?" Han Guihua was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but ask stutteringly.
"It's me, sister." Yike walked forward and held Han Guihua's rough hands and said.
Without any warning, tears rolled out of Han Guihua's eyes, rolling more and more, pouring out like a burst dam.
Yike smiled helplessly in his heart, knowing this would happen, and looked at Ziyi with a look for help.
"Let's go to the guesthouse and talk." Ziyi said.
"Sister, look, I'm fine. Don't cry. It's not good if someone sees you." Yike took out a handkerchief and wiped the tears from her sister's face.
"I thought, I would never see you again." Han Guihua said with sobs.
"Look, I'm standing right in front of you. Let's find a place to talk. It's not convenient here."
So the four of them went to the guesthouse together and booked two rooms.
Yike took Han Guihua to the guesthouse room.
"I'll go buy some food." Ziyi said.
"Go ahead and buy more." Yike closed the door and asked Han Guihua, "Isn't your sister studying? Why is your health so bad? Where are your clothes? Your clothes were not damaged before, what's wrong with them now? Where did your old clothes go?"
When Han Guihua heard her sister's caring words, she couldn't control her tears from flowing out again.
"Hey! Don't cry, let's talk, okay? What should I do if you act like this and I feel like crying too?" Yi Ke had no choice but to use his secret weapon. "Haha, if you want to cry, let's cry together. The elder sister who loves her younger sister always fails at this trick."
“???” Han Guihua looked at Yike with her mouth open, not knowing whether to cry or not, and her tears really stopped.
"Sister, don't get excited. It's rare for us sisters to meet, so just have a good chat. Are you in a hurry to go home? If you're not in a hurry to go home, you can cry slowly. You have plenty of time."
"You are still as good at making me happy as before. I thought you were gone. Seeing you are still alive and well makes me happy. Even if you die soon, I will be at peace."
"Pfft! What are you talking about? Since we sisters have met, it means that we have a long-lasting bond. Don't talk about life and death, it's unlucky. Tell me what's going on?"
"Sister, tell me first, where are you now? Are you doing well? Who was that man just now?"
"Do I look like someone who is having a bad time?"
Only then did Han Guihua notice that her sister had completely changed. She had grown taller, and her face had become rosy and radiant. It seemed that she was living a good life. Seeing that the clothes and pants my sister is wearing are all new, she should not be short of money.
"Well, did you see it?"
"It seems that my sister is doing well, so I feel relieved."
"Then can you tell me what happened to you?"
"I stopped studying." Han Huaihua said sadly, "Since you left, no one in the family has earned work points. At the end of the year, we got very little grain. That was based on the work points you earned when you were at home. Plus, the harvest was not good, so we got even less."
"Hmph! A bunch of lazy bones. I knew it would be like this." Yi Ke cursed.
"Yes! After the Chinese New Year, Dad didn't want me to go to school anymore and wanted me to earn work points at home. I didn't work on the land before, so I couldn't earn many work points. I wanted to go to school, so I told Mom and asked her to help me negotiate with Dad. But before Mom could tell Dad, my eldest brother stopped her. You know Mom listens to my eldest brother the most."
"Isn't that woman usually nice to you? I thought she was so nice." Yi Ke felt very indignant when he thought about the suffering his original body had endured in that family.
"Okay? That's because you have someone to help you with the work at home. After you left, all the work you did before was handed over to me. I'm a little better off than you, because I can still have enough food to eat. Last winter, my hands got frostbite, but she didn't help me at all. She still went to wash clothes in the cold river." Han Guihua said as tears flowed down her face again.
Yike silently helped her wipe away her tears, and the room became quiet for a while.
"I'm sorry, sister. I used to think that you were too extreme. It's okay to get beaten, but why run away? I was sad and hated you at the time. Later, I gradually understood that the old people once said this: Don't advise others to be kind without experiencing their suffering. I can understand it now."
"Didn't that woman want to sell me to that idiot? Didn't that family come to make a fuss after I left?"
"Yes, my mother took someone's betrothal money, but the other party didn't want the money but only the person. My eldest brother asked me to take his place. I was scared when I heard that, so I ran to school and hid in my teacher's house for more than a month. I didn't dare to go home. Later, Xiaohua secretly told me that the matter had been resolved. The team leaders of the two production teams discussed and solved it. They asked my mother to return the betrothal money and the other party was not allowed to come to ask for the person again. They said that it was a new society and marriage was free. If my mother returned the betrothal money, the other party would have to let it go. I dared to go back. After I went back, my mother beat me so hard that I couldn't get out of bed for three days. Sister, when I knew that my mother had promised you to that fool, I was really glad that you escaped." Han Guihua looked like she had survived a calamity.
"It almost hurt my sister. But luckily it's all over. What about your clothes? Even if you didn't make new clothes last year, you can still wear your old ones for a few years, right?" Yi Ke asked doubtfully.
"My eldest brother told me about a family. The girl in that family had a younger sister who was about my age. My eldest brother used all my clothes to please that girl."
"What a traitor! That woman doesn't care?"
"Care? She was the one who helped me take out all the clothes from my closet and gave them to my eldest brother. She also scolded me for trying to please my sister-in-law, and that if I get married and get bullied by my in-laws, my sister-in-law from my natal family will help me deal with them." Han Guihua's eyes turned red with anger when she thought of her mother.
"Bang, bang, bang! Yike, Yike!" Ziyi shouted at the door.
"You bought it back so quickly." Yike saw Ziyi carrying a basket with a few bowls of food in it.
Ziyi just said "hmm" softly. He put the basket on the table and squeezed Yi Ke's little hand tightly, his eyes full of love.
"Did you hear that?"
"Yeah! I was worried, so I asked my godfather to buy it." The implication is that he heard everything, haha! It's shameless for a grown man to imitate a little girl eavesdropping.
"Sister, this is..." Han Guihua asked curiously when she saw her sister flirting with this man.
"This is Ziyi, my man."
"This is my sister, the only person who cares about me."
"I care about you too, I care about you the most!" Ziyi stared at Yike's eyes, and it looked like he would not give up until she changed her words. Yike was really drunk.
"Okay! You care about me too, childish boy. Why don't you call for help?" Yi Ke glared at him in embarrassment.
"Hello, sister! I am Yi Ke's man, the one who cares about her the most. My name is Ziyi."
"Sister, hello, brother-in-law!" Han Guihua's mind was a little confused. Within a year, her sister got married. She was only fourteen years old.
"Sister, come with me," Han Guihua pulled Yi Ke to a corner of the room and asked, "Did he force you? You are only fourteen years old, how can you get married? You are still young? The director of the Women's Department said at a meeting that girls who get married too early will hurt their health and affect their lifespan. Why did you..."
"Sister, what are you thinking? We are just married and husband and wife in name, but we don't do anything that husband and wife do. He is very nice and said that he will wait until I grow up before..." Yi Ke was really touched by this sister. A sister who cares about her sister's health all the time must be the best sister in the world.
Although Han Guihua spoke very quietly, Ziyi still heard their conversation, so he decided to help his sister-in-law to the best of his ability.
"Yike, let's eat first. Let's talk after we're full, otherwise the food will get cold." Ziyi interrupted the sisters' conversation.
"Sister, let's eat first."
There was only one stool, so the two sisters sat on it while Ziyi ate with his bowl in his hand.
"Has Godfather eaten yet?"
"I just came back after eating at the restaurant."
"Who is that godfather?" Han Guihua asked.
"I just met my godparents not long ago. I have a godmother and a godbrother." So Yike gave a brief account of his situation while eating, of course only talking about the good things. Yike also knew that her sister wanted to buy some vegetable seeds to plant at home.
In the past, the family's vegetable garden was always cultivated by one person, and that woman would not enter the vegetable garden. As a result, the original person had to secretly eat lettuce leaves when he was extremely hungry.
Ziyi took out several easy-to-grow vegetable seeds from the seed bag, packed them up and gave them to Yike, who put them into his sister's cloth bag. Before Han Guihua left, Yike gave her another ten yuan and some cloth coupons and asked her to buy cloth to make a set of clothes. At first she refused to accept it, but later Ziyi couldn't stand it anymore, so he took out more than 100 yuan and gave it to Yike in front of her, and asked Yike to accompany her sister to buy things. Only then did she finally accept it.
It turned out that she was afraid that her sister would be embarrassed afterwards. What a worrisome person she was. Such a caring sister originally wanted to give more money, but the sister said that she was afraid she wouldn't be able to keep too much money, so ten yuan was enough. She doesn't make clothes, and even if she makes new clothes she can't keep them.
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