This time we were on the road in the village. There were several villagers standing around the father and daughter whose faces could not be seen clearly. It must be summer now, so they were all dressed very coolly. The men wore short skirts that exposed their arms, and the women also wore thin clothes.
No one seemed to notice that the two strange father and daughter were around. To be precise, no one looked at them at all.
They were like outsiders, watching the events unfold.
"Ouch, Li Xiucai is still a scholar, and his wife is used as a loan to others. It is true that our ancestors' face has been completely lost by their family."
"No, I used to think that the talented lady was so amazing. Look, look, she's worse off than alive."
"You can't say that. Aren't they all forced by Mr. Wang's family?"
"What are you talking about? People have no sympathy at all, okay?"
"How do you know that you didn't agree? Why did Mr. Wang send something to Li Xiucai's family so coquettishly?"
"you···"
A bunch of gossipy bitches, you say something and she yells. The father and daughter poked at each other for a while, and even Qi Kangan roughly understood what was going on.
This story is very cliché and very sad.
This village has only produced a scholar in decades, his surname is Li.
It turns out that the Li family is one of the largest families in the village. The Sanjin Courtyard was originally owned by the Li family. It is said that the Li family still has some connections in Beijing. From time to time, there will be servants in Beijing bringing carriages to the Li family.
Send things.
However, after Li Xiucai was born, carriages from Beijing never appeared in the village again.
Li's father was originally a lazy person, but later he became addicted to gambling. Not only was his family's land sold out, but also Sanjinyuan was sold. The whole family could only live in a broken thatched hut at the end of the village.
This made my father angry to death, and my mother ran away with a salesman not long after.
After this incident, Li's father grew up and began to work hard. From time to time he would go out to do part-time work. He bought the land of the broken thatched hut and built a small yard.
That is the house at the end of the village.
Qi Kang'an: Isn't it the one where the bones were unearthed?
The story continues——
——In the year when Li Xiucai became a scholar, he married the young daughter of his mentor’s family in Yong’an City.
At this point, everything seems to be developing in a good direction.
Who knew that the real misfortune of the Li family would begin this year.
Father Li is ill.
Not only did the family have all their money, but they also owed a lot of debt to outsiders, and even the Yue family cut off contact with them.
But he still couldn't save Li's father's life.
Shortly after Li's father left, Li's mother fell ill again.
At this time, even the money for medical treatment is gone, so I can't even borrow it.
Li's mother waited less than a month and followed Li's father.
The person who originally bought the Li family's yard was a family named Wang. They were originally from Jiuchang Town and settled in the village for some unknown reason.
Mr. Wang has a wife and two concubines, but even though he is already in his forties, his wife and two concubines still have not given him a son or a half.
The scholar's wife was good-looking. Although her family was poor, Li Xiucai was a responsible person. After winning the scholarship, he worked as a teacher in Yaopan Village, a big village next door. In addition to paying off debts, the money he earned was used to feed and drink his wife.
good.
The scholarly lady is doing her best again. It's amazing that people have had two babies in three years, but she has had four babies in three years, and all of them are boys.
They look good and they give birth.
This gave Mr. Wang, who was in his forties and still childless, an idea... to lend a hand.
Li Xiucai and his wife were naturally unwilling.
The father and daughter didn't hear anything else from the villagers about what happened after that, but it was just like the rich and powerful Wang family coercing the poor Li Xiucai family.
The scene changed again, from day to night again.
But this time, the father and daughter were still on the roadside where they had just stood. There was no one around them, and only the occasional sound of insects could be heard.
With his daughter here, Qi Kang'an shouldn't be too bold. At this moment, he didn't have any fear at all. He hugged his daughter and walked towards Sanjin Courtyard.
Because he heard faint crying coming from over there.
The closer you get, the clearer the sound becomes.
However, the source of the sound was not in Sanjin Courtyard, but from a big tree on the roadside in that direction.
This tree no longer exists in reality, including the well under the tree.
The father and daughter saw through the crowd, the vaguely familiar figures of a man and a woman sitting paralyzed by the well, both crying loudly.
"It's so tragic. Why did both children fall into the well?"
"I heard that they were playing hide-and-seek by the well, and the second treasure accidentally fell down first. Then Dabao went to pull the second treasure, but he failed to catch it and also fell down."
"Oh, how can Li Xiucai and Xiu Cai's wife bear the loss of both of them at once?"
The father and daughter looked at each other solemnly. Both children were gone?
Just like a TV series that was cut short, the father and daughter continued to watch it scene by scene.
Li Xiucai and his wife felt like they had offended the god of plague.
First, the eldest son and the second son both slipped and fell into a well, and then Yaopan Village dismissed Li Xiucai, saying that there was a candidate in their village who was going to return home, and they wanted to invite the candidate.
Then the two younger children disappeared after just going out to play. After searching for a long time, the couple found the swollen bodies of the two children in the river.
The scholar lady was so upset that one night she took a rope and hung herself at the gate of the third courtyard.
Li Xiucai went crazy. He hugged his wife's body and jumped into the well where his eldest son and second son had stumbled.
Real family destruction.
The father and daughter were standing by the well. Just now, Li Xiucai held the body of the scholar's wife and jumped into the well through them.
Qi Kang'an originally wanted to stop him. He saw the look in Li Xiucai's eyes, which showed that he was desperate and no longer wanted to live. So when he saw him rushing towards the well, he instinctively wanted to stop him.
Unexpectedly, Li Xiucai and the others actually passed through them, and then there was a loud "plop" sound of falling into the water behind them.
Immediately afterwards, there was a lot of noise and a group of people watching or trying to persuade others, but there was silence again.
At this moment, the village seemed to be 'dead' again.
Qi Kang'an still turned his back to the well, feeling a dull pain in his heart.
Suddenly, Qi Baoer said: "The Wang family killed your whole family, and no one in the whole village reached out to help, no one even spoke for you, and many people even added insult to injury.
Therefore, after your death, you became a ghost with deep grievances and took revenge on the Wang family and the whole village."
Qi Kang'an knew what his daughter was talking to. As someone who couldn't help at this time, he put away the sympathy that he shouldn't have at the moment, straightened his back and hugged his daughter tightly.
If it can't help, it can't hold it back.
"They deserve to die. The man surnamed Wang took a look at my beauty. Mr. Ye was incompetent but jealous that I had four sons. The couple first harmed my eldest and second treasures, and then my third and fourth treasures. How could my son deserve it?"
The woman's shrill voice came from nowhere, and it contained such desolation and sadness that even a grown man wanted to cry when he heard it.
His daughter's face showed no emotion, and her soft voice was even more ruthless: "Your son is innocent, you are innocent, and you are innocent, but after you took revenge on the person who deserved revenge, why did you harm others?