Zanthoxylum bungeanum

Chapter 4 Accident
Time passed quickly during the tedious divorce process, and it was the spring of the next year in a blink of an eye.

At noon that day, Li Yan was sitting at the desk reviewing her homework as usual, when she heard the door clanging, and after a while, her father called out, "Swallow, where is your mother?"

"Mom went to find pork dishes. There are boiled sweet potatoes in the pot. You can serve them yourself." Li Yan agreed and continued to study.

"When I was playing poker just now, I heard Yang Da say that several of his girls are working in Shenzhen, and they can earn three or four thousand a month. You can only earn so much after four years of college. According to me, going to college is a waste of time. It's better to go to college. It’s better to go directly to work,” said the father, who came to his daughter’s room with sweet potatoes in a bowl, and said while eating.

The Zhu family took the initiative to withdraw the engagement, and his father didn't return all the dowry money. He couldn't say he didn't have any money now, but he was wasting his time.

Li Yan didn't make a sound, just read the book.

"Li Xiangming." A man shouted outside!
Father agreed and went out.

Li Yan sighed softly. Ever since her mother gave birth to a little girl, her patriarchal father was disheartened. Most of the work in the field was handed over to her mother. She and a few players who loved to play cards gathered together every day to draw cards. Not long after I came back, I called again.

"What! Where is it?" The father's voice suddenly changed.

Li Yan was startled, and heard her father yell, "Swallow, come out, your mother fell down on the mountain and can't get up."

"Oops." Li Yan stood up abruptly, the desk was shaken, the water glass on it was knocked down, and all the water poured on the books.

Li Xiangming called again, "Come out quickly, what are you dawdling about!"

"Ah! What a bad luck." Li Yan hurriedly picked up the book and put it on the stool, then ran out the door.

The person who came was Uncle Li who lived at the end of the village. He saw Li Yan and said again, "Yanzi, your mother rolled down from the rocky slope and lay on the ground unable to move. Aunt Lu who was looking for pig vegetables with her ran over. Report the letter and run to my door so tired that I can’t breathe, let me hurry over and tell you.”

Li Xiangming was terrified, "Yanzi, let's go to the slope to find your mother, we probably fell hard."

"Okay." Li Yan ran a few steps behind her father, and shouted after thinking about it, "Dad, we can't just go like this, Mom can't move, it must be a broken bone, you go and remove the door panel of the woodshed, I will Go and ask Uncle to come and lift the door with you, and go pick up Mom back together."

"Yes yes yes, I'll unload the door." Li Xiangming stopped in his tracks.

Li Yan also turned back and went home to find some things that might be useful, put them in her schoolbag and carried them on her back, and then hurried out the door.

Panting, he ran to his uncle's house, and as soon as he told about his mother's injury, his uncle went home immediately.

My aunt was also very worried, "Yanzi, let's go up to the chaotic slope to find someone, but I don't know how the injury is, is it serious?"

Not long ago, a cow rolled down a rocky slope and broke its legs and feet. The owner of the cow had to send the cow to the vegetable market in the county town to sell it to a beef shop.

Although it was still a bit cold in the early spring, Li Yan's hands were sweaty, "Auntie, I will go to Luanshipo alone first, and you can go to the village head's house to see if their truck is there. If it is, ask him to help you." Help take my mother to the county hospital, if not, go to Uncle Liu's house to borrow his family's ox cart."

"Okay, I'll go." My aunt agreed and ran away.

When Li Yan came, my aunt was probably cooking pig food, she still had a spatula in her hand, and hurriedly called her, "Auntie, spatula, spatula, the door is still open!"

Aunt Li Yan came to her senses, took the spatula home, closed the door, and saw that Li Yan had run away, she sighed, "Oh, such a smart girl, how can she have a bad life?"

(End of this chapter)