Chapter 4, Sisters
In the evening.
Li Lan returned with a basket of pigweed on his shoulders.
There was no accident, and she did not escape the devastation of this sudden rainstorm. Her wet clothes clung to her graceful figure, fully displaying the rounded contours of her upper body and the perfect shape of her lower body.
Zhang Zhiyong only had time to steal a few glances before Li Lan keenly captured him.
I saw her standing still, holding a sickle for cutting pigweed in her right hand, with raindrops still dripping from the blade, staring at him with death eyes.
This short-sighted man is said to be fearless of heaven and earth. He dares to go up the mountain to fight jackals and go down to the ground to bite dogs, but he is only afraid of beautiful girls.
And the more relatable a woman is, the more he is afraid of her. This is really strange.
It is precisely because of this flaw that this idiot suffered a big loss at the hands of women in his previous life.
Zhang Zhiyong, who couldn't stand Li Lan's aggressive aura and had been beaten severely by her since he was a child, was still unable to get over the horror of his childhood. He felt frightened and chose to run away.
Li Heng shouted from behind: "Lao Yong, it's almost time for dinner. Let's have dinner before leaving."
Zhang Zhiyong went out in a panic, trembling without looking back: "You're still eating shit, your life is at stake!"
Zhang Zhiyong escaped, and in an instant only the two siblings were left in the main room, looking at each other.
Speaking of which, although Li Heng and Li Lan are biological siblings, their childhood relationship was not harmonious.
Living under the same roof, they often don't talk to each other.
The reason is very simple. Since she was a child, she felt that her biological mother Tian Run'e was patriarchal and favored her younger brother. Whenever there was delicious food, she would eat it first.
It was okay if there were a lot of things, and Li Heng didn't finish them all, so she could pick up a bite of what was left in the end; if there were not a lot of things, she could only stare blankly the whole time.
As time passed, her little universe completely exploded.
If Tian Run'e is at home and Li Lan is in a bad mood, she will deliberately irritate Li Heng, wait until he can't help swearing, and then beat him up as a matter of course.
If her parents are not at home, hey! She doesn't even pretend, she just finds an excuse and starts beating her up.
Li Heng was not one to take offense. He naturally fought back when he was beaten, but it was of no use.
Because girls grow up quickly and Li Lan is older, there is always a height gap between them. He was brutally suppressed every time, which made him feel miserable!
This situation lasted for several years until she was in junior high school when she stopped.
However, due to the weak foundation of the relationship between siblings in the early years, the two were relatively strangers throughout middle school.
At that time, he didn't understand why his second sister always bullied him?
Later, when I grew up, I realized that after leaving Shangwan Village, the second sister was always generous, smooth and full of emotional intelligence when facing outsiders. But with her mother, her biggest wish was to get a maternal love equal to her own.
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But in this era of feudal thinking, in this remote rural area, how difficult is it to get an equal love?
So much so that when later generations were over fifty, she would still occasionally nag about this matter.
Speaking of which, the turning point in the relationship between the two siblings occurred after graduating from college, around 1996.
At that time, Li Heng, who was working in a big city, wanted to buy a house and settle down in the city, but he was too nervous and was unable to do so.
Later, Li Lan learned the news and took a train with a black bag to give him 80,000 yuan.
This was 80,000 yuan in 1996, which was definitely a huge sum of money for most families!
And this huge sum of money was actually sent by the second sister!
While it solved his urgent need, it also had a great impact on his heart.
Li Heng always wanted to find an opportunity to return the 80,000 yuan in her previous life, but she never confiscated it.
It wasn't until her 35th birthday that she drunkenly confessed her true feelings to Li Heng: It was my second sister's fault that I was sorry for you when I was a child.
The future and the past flashed through his mind quickly like a movie. Li Heng, who had already relieved himself, took the initiative to talk:
"Second sister, go and change your clothes quickly. It's cold out here, so don't catch a cold."
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Rows of question marks appeared on Li Lan's forehead. She glanced sideways at Li Heng blankly, thinking secretly:
What kind of nerve did this kid have to go wrong today to dare to take the initiative to talk to me?
Did you make yourself stupid?
Or is he beating him up so hard that his feelings are revealed?
Didn't you just turn around and pretend not to see yourself when you saw yourself in the past? How can you learn to care about others today?
This scene was truly the first time the iron tree was blooming. Li Lan always felt that something was wrong, but could not find anything wrong.
After observing for a while, she saw that the expression on his face did not seem to be fake. She calmed down, lost her previous indifference, and asked him: "Why did your parents run to the opposite door?"
Li Heng replied: "Uncle Chen came to the door in person and shouted."
Li Lan turned her head and looked at him as if she were looking at a fool, "Our mother was so angry with the Chen family because of you, and you still call him Uncle Chen?"
Oh, look at this aggressive one!
This is really the second sister in my impression. She hates evil as much as she hates hatred, and has a clear sense of love and hate. As long as she has a quarrel with the Li family, she will remember it for the rest of her life.
However, his previous life, Chen Gaoyuan, had always had a good attitude towards him. If he was asked to imitate his second sister in calling people by their first names, he really couldn't do it.
Seeing that his younger brother remained silent, Li Lan curled his lips and cursed angrily: "Cowards give birth to cowards, every one of them is spineless!"
Li Heng was speechless, this time it was better, even his own parents scolded him.
When Li Lan came out from the bath, he had already beaten the rice and started cooking.
While the two elders were not at home and there was no one to stop him, Li Heng, who had not eaten meat for a long time, gritted his teeth and cut half a catty of fat and thin bacon.
In fact, these days I eat sweet potato rice and corn every day. Not only does my throat hurt from eating it, but more importantly, I don’t have much nutrition and I can’t resist hunger. I’m so hungry that I lose all my energy every day.
Wash half a pound of bacon, cut it into crystal clear slices, add smoked dried bamboo shoots and garlic leaves, and stir-fry a large bowl full of it.
This bacon was used by Tian Run'e in exchange for money. It was a treasure and a lifeblood. How could he be willing to eat it on weekdays? He couldn't eat it only a few times throughout the year. Seeing his brother wasting such a waste, Li Lan subconsciously wanted to stop it.
But she couldn't help it. She was a foodie, and she was more enticed by the bacon on the beam than anyone else. In the end, she swallowed and succumbed to the fragrant smell of meat.
Her heart was even more ruthless than that of Li Heng, so she simply refused to do anything. She bent down and took out a handful of pitch black pot ashes from the bottom of the pot, and smeared it on the pale fresh cut.
This way it won't stand out.
Later, she felt uneasy, so she climbed onto the stove again, adjusted the position of the bacon that was a little shorter, moved it to a darker corner, and replaced it with a larger piece of bacon to block the front.
"The Chen family has killed pigs. They have meat to eat there. It's not too much for us to study and use our brains to eat."
Talking to herself, she jumped off the stove. These words seemed to comfort herself, and they also seemed to be said to Li Heng.
Li Heng understood that this girl didn't say any nonsense, and her purpose was to unite the front and not reveal her secrets.
According to her, it would have to be postponed until school starts no matter what.
When the time comes, when we get into the school, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. Even if Comrade Tian Run'e knows that they are stealing food, there is nothing they can do about it.
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