Chapter 4

Early the next morning, Gu Liubai sat in the yard early and waited.

After the cock crowed three times, Li Jinfu swayed out of the straw sandals unhurriedly, and yawned twice from time to time.

Seeing Gu Liubai sitting in the yard, the remaining fear from last night crept into his heart again, and he came out after he collected himself.

"You...why haven't you gone to the field yet?" Li Jinfu's eyes were flustered, wandering around, but he refused to put them on Gu Liubai's body.

"Oh, when I woke up early today, I felt very uncomfortable, dizzy and nauseous." Putting down the soup bowl in his hand, he squinted at him from the bottom up: "By the way, give me a big unity."

"What do you want money for?!" Li Jinfu's voice suddenly became a little colder.

"What else can I do?" Gu Liubai sat up straight from the stool, and the rough pottery bowl slammed on the table: "I'm so uncomfortable, of course I have to see a doctor."

A trace of contempt flashed at the end of his eyes, which vaguely reminded Li Jinfu of the ghost from last night.

He took it out of his pocket, took out a sheet of unity and threw it on Gu Liubai's body.

"Give me the rest of the money after seeing the doctor!" After speaking, Li Jinfu walked out quickly, as if being chased by a ghost behind him.

When Li Mingrong got up, he found that Gu Liubai was smiling, staring at the Great Unity in his hands without blinking his eyes.

"Mom, where did you get the money?" She knew that all the money in the family was in Li Jinfu's hands, and he was a pickpocket, so why did he suddenly become so rich?

"Your father gave it to you." Gu Liubai handed the money to Li Mingrong, and nodded to her.

"Give it to me? Really give it to me?" Li Mingrong's voice was a little trembling, sharp and thin, like a chicken, jumping happily.

She held this ten yuan bill as if she was holding a big golden ingot, and she was extremely careful.

That's right, in this world, the purchasing power of ten yuan is quite a lot.

After hearing Gu Liubai say that it was given by Li Jinfu, he was a little surprised.

"Dad, when did he become so generous?" When I asked him for some money to buy the book when I went to school, he was so sloppy and refused to give it to her. Gu Fen bought it for her with the money he earned as a helper.

When Gu Liubai heard this, the smile on his face became more and more weird, with an inscrutable expression on his face, looking inexplicably a little creepy.

Li Mingrong shook her body, Gu Liubai with such an expression made her a little scared.

"Mom, then... I'm going into the room." Li Mingrong turned and left, took two steps and looked back, Gu Liubai was still leaning on the recliner, revealing an indescribable sense of comfort.

"Go, but don't let your father know about the money Mom gave you." Gu Liubai instructed a few words.

When the money was in her hands, she would give it to whomever she wanted, but there was no reason for it to be returned to the other party.

"Well, thank you Mom!"

Looking at the innocent Li Mingrong, Gu Liubai couldn't help but also smiled.

Such a good child, how could Li Jinfu have the heart to push her into the pit of fire!

She actually thought about it all night last night, and she couldn't keep being passive like this.

Finally, at dawn, they found a way to have the best of both worlds, which could allow her to escape with Li Mingrong, and at the same time make Li Jinfu vomit blood.

Doesn't Li Jinfu love money?

She just gave it!
Getting up from the recliner, she saw that the sun had already set to the west, and it was time to get ready.

No one knew what Gu Liubai did when he went into the city that day, all he knew was that when she came back at night, she was in a good mood.

Facing Li Jinfu's provocation, she also smiled without saying a word.

Three days later, a couple wearing gold and silver stood at the entrance of the village hand in hand, looking at this desolate and backward mountain village with disgust.

"Why is this place so dirty? There's cow dung on the road. It's disgusting! If I knew it, I would have called, and I wouldn't come!" The middle-aged woman frowned, clutching her chest and retching uncontrollably.

"Okay, okay, drink some water first." The man patted the woman on the back: "It's like this in the countryside, it's dirty and smelly, let's finish our work, and we won't come to this place again, just bear with it."

The man's good voice fueled the woman's arrogance, and she pushed the man away: "What did I say at the beginning, don't let her marry, don't let her marry, look, what is this! I can't stand it anymore , I really can't wait for a moment!"

The woman's yelling and yelling attracted the villagers to watch, and the jeweled couple was surrounded by everyone.

The oldest old man among them stood up: "Big sister, are you here to find someone in the village?"

"What a big girl! Don't casually associate with me, I'm from the city, I'm different from you country bumpkins!" The disdain on the woman's face was ready to come out, her voice was like a starling whose tongue had just been cut off, ugly and noisy.

She was not afraid of being outraged by the public, so she kept yelling non-stop.

The man quietly tugged at the woman's sleeve, but she waved her away, and turned her head to stare at him fiercely: "What are you doing, what are you doing?! Am I wrong? This place is a poor country, how come you are still here?" Don't let me say it?!"

"No, no, but we are here to find someone, so we need to prioritize." The man was still good-tempered, and took out a pack of cigarettes from his trousers pocket.

The woman roared bitterly: "Who are they? They deserve to smoke the Yellow Crane Tower! I'm afraid they don't know, this one is worth a month of hard work for them!"

"Shut up!" The man's patience was exhausted again and again, and after sternly yelling, he turned to look at the old man with a smile on his face: "Uncle, is there anyone named Gu Fen in our village?"

"Gu Fen?" It looked like a woman's name.

The old man shook his head while thinking. In his memory, no one seemed to be called by this name. The women in the village were either called by nicknames, or they belonged to so-and-so.

"Isn't this from Jin Fu's family?" Someone in the crowd shouted loudly.

The onlookers gave way spontaneously, and the man who spoke out stood up: "I remember... Li Jinfu's wife seems to be called Gu Fen. In the early years, she was an educated youth who came to the countryside like us."

Many people remembered this reminder and commented, "Yes, it's her."

"Old Li's wife is not the one you are looking for!"

After hearing this, the middle-aged man hurriedly nodded and bowed his head: "May I ask if any of you can show me the way."

Fortunately, the man had a good attitude, he was still the man who just spoke, he wiped the sweat from his face: "Let's go, I'll take you there."

The man thanked him again, and hurriedly handed over the whole pack of cigarettes: "Thank you, there are still a lot of cigarettes left, let's smoke and have fun."

The man was not polite, he put it in his pocket, and led the two of them to the depths of the village.

The woman followed behind the man, tugging and pulling, with a face full of reluctance and a slumped face, and the black leather shoes under her feet thumped on the stone road.

"Wan'er, be obedient, as soon as we receive our daughter, we will leave immediately, okay?" The man said in a good voice, and finally coaxed the woman's attitude to improve slightly.

"Okay. Anyway, take that dead girl back to me anyway!"

"Okay, take it back..."

After walking for about 10 minutes, the man brought the two of them to a dilapidated yard, pointed at the wooden fence at the door, and said, "Live here."

"Gu Fen! Is Gu Fen there? It's from Jin Fu's house! Someone's looking for it!" The man leaned on the wooden fence and shouted towards the open gate.

"Here we come." Gu Liubai stood up from the low earthen house and looked out through the gap: "It's Brother Li, are you looking for Jin Fu? He's not here."

Gu Liubai walked a few steps quickly, pushed aside the wooden fence in the yard, and when he saw the person behind Sange Li, tears came down like rain, and he couldn't breathe.

"...Mom? Dad? Is it you?"

(End of this chapter)

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