Zanthoxylum bungeanum

Chapter 6
Li Yan's mother suffered a broken calf and spent half a month in the county hospital before returning home to take care of her.

The father ran out every day with an excuse, leaving the housework to Li Yan.

Now every day at dawn, she carries a basket on her back to look for wild vegetables to feed the pigs at home, and then she has to do the work in the field.

In order not to delay the review, she took the book and read it while walking up the mountain.

"Look, her mother is lying on the bed, and she is still pretending to read..."

"Isn't it? With such a life, you should cut your hair and become a sister-in-law. Why do you stay in the village and harm people!"

"Have you heard that she is Baihuming, most of what happened in the village recently was caused by her..."

Every day, when Li Yan walks up the mountain from the village, she can hear the gossip of her mother-in-law in the village.

Niu Gunpo wanted to blame her. The chickens he raised would come to her when they got sick, and her cold and cough were also related to her. If it wasn't for her mother lying on the bed and needing care, Li Yan would have left here long ago.

In the afternoon, Li Yan went down the mountain with a basket full of wild vegetables on her back, and she saw her younger sister Li Ling in the distance.

Li Ling waited at the end of the village for a long time. If she was not worried that she would go astray with her sister when she went up the mountain, she would have gone to her a long time ago.

"sister……"

Seeing the little girl running up to pick her up, Li Yan showed a smile on her face.

"Lingling, you're back."

"Sister, I... have been waiting for you... for about an hour." Li Ling ran in a hurry, out of breath, and stumbled while speaking.

Li Yan wiped her chest and said, "It's a waste of time, it's better to memorize English vocabulary at home. How is your English score recently?"

"Sister, these are all small things. I have something big to tell you. Come on, put down the pannier first." When she heard her question about learning, Li Juan interrupted with a dry smile.

Seeing her playful smile, Li Yan knew that she didn't study hard, "Hey, I don't even know what to say about you, let's go while talking."

"Sister, when I got home, I found Grandma Wang sitting in the main room, so I eavesdropped quietly." Li Ling hurriedly told what she knew.

Li Yan's face darkened, Grandma Wang was a matchmaker in a nearby village, and she must have come to do something good.

"I'm going to take the college entrance examination this year!"

Li Ling wiped the sweat from her forehead, "Grandma Wang is talking about the short and fat man who opened a noodle shop near No. [-] Middle School in the county."

Li Yan frowned. She knew the details of the family. The two brothers, Zhao Hongwei and Zhao Hongwen, were already married.

"Impossible, did you hear wrong?"

Li Ling's face was flushed, and she looked anxious and angry, "I heard correctly, Zhao Hongwen's wife gave birth to a daughter last year, and he was so angry that he beat his wife after drinking too much, and she was beaten away."

Li Yan passed by his store before, and found that he often took a peek at him. Such a scumbag wanted to marry him, it was wishful thinking, Li Yan sneered, "I won't agree, if Dad still makes it up this time without authorization, I will run away from home."

"Oh, Grandma Wang said that Zhao Hongwen was willing to give a gift money of [-] yuan. I saw that my father was moved, but my mother refused and made a fuss in the house. Grandma Wang left. Before she left, she said that she would come back tomorrow. " Li Ling angrily tore off a ponytail grass from the side of the road.

Sixty-eight thousand is not a small amount, Li Yan felt bad, maybe his father was blinded by money again.

"Lingling, you find a way to get the key to my sister, I took my ID card and went out to work."

The ID card was locked in the closet by his father, and he carried the key with him.

(End of this chapter)