Chapter 16: Crooked Brains
The woman fell to the ground and said in fear: "Go to the crop field to block the water, and hope that the master of the owner will forgive the sin." β
The family laughed evilly and shouted to the young Li Xuewei: "Girl, come out, hurry up and find your father to come back to entertain the owner, it is difficult for the owner to get your village, but your family is going to be happy." β
After all, the tenant's wife is a woman in the countryside, and how do she know that these people are uneasy and kind, so she also believed it and hurriedly said to her daughter: "Go, tell your father and brother to come back quickly......"
When the little girl Li Xuewei was being bound to her feet, it was unbearable pain to walk a few steps on her two feet, and the ridges of the country roads in the lightning and thunder and storm were simply muddy and unwalkable.
But the mother's order did not dare to disobey, the owner really wanted to blame the father and mother for not being able to afford it, Li Xuewei stumbled and suffered, in the storm, she couldn't tell which place her father planted?
Just when Li Xuewei didn't know how many falls she had fallen, and she couldn't tell the difference between rain and tears all over her body, she saw her father who was covered in rain running towards her with a shovel in his hand and his brother shouting.
When the father and son helped their daughter stumble back home, they saw Master Li sitting on their kang and smoking a hookah slowly, while Li Xuewei's mother was pale and trembling and kneeling beside her.
The tenant only thinks that his wife is a country woman and does not know it, and he is scared like this when he sees the nobleman, although he feels a little uncomfortable when he sees his woman surrounded by such men, but the owner of the house is a different matter.
Because the owner can't afford to offend, let alone a woman, her net worth and life are held in the palm of someone's hand, and this dumb person has to eat it.
In today's world, offending the rich and powerful owner means that the whole family will not only have no food and clothing, but will also be very likely to be driven out of the grange and become one of the homeless people who have no place to live, and there is no place to raise children.
Mr. Li refused the tenants' courteous stay, and after the rain stopped, he took his leave and returned to the city.
Unexpectedly, the next day, a second housekeeper of the Li Mansion came to the tenant's house with a plate of snow-bright silk silver, saying that Master Li would use one hundred taels of silver, and ten acres of fertile land somewhere to marry the tenant's eleven-year-old daughter.
The tenant looked at the plate of white silver in the butler's hand, thinking of the ten acres of fertile land that he would never earn in his life, and he usually only dared to look at it from a distance, and his legs were weak, and he almost didn't catch his breath.
This little common man couldn't believe that he had given birth to such a valuable girl.
The tenants were so happy that they were about to lose their minds, and they were even more frightened than Fan Jinzhongju, for fear that it was just a dream of being teased by the master.
He didn't care about comforting his wife who was quietly wiping her tears, and hurriedly asked the gentleman who taught the private school in the village to give his daughter a name.
Even he and his son don't have a decent name until now, and they are screaming together, but their daughter can't be a lady and be called a second girl, a big girl, and a third girl, right?
The gentleman with a goatee chewed the words for a long time, and then he had the name of Li Xuewei, who has a preaching, preaching and a boudoir.
After eleven-year-old Li Xuewei entered the Li Mansion, she learned that she was sold by her father to the owner to be a little wife, and Master Li's eldest wife was much older than her mother, and she could be her grandmother.
But the eldest lady is a real lady.
This real lady never glanced at Li Xuewei with her eyes, and every time she saw Li Xuewei, she either frowned or smiled sarcastically and disdainfully.
Li Xuewei didn't know what she was doing well enough for a long time, even if her birth was really low, and she didn't know anything at a young age, but in the future, they will both be in front of Master Li's bedside, won't the eldest lady deceive people too much?
Until one day, Master Li walked into her room again and said to her, "Send someone to call your mother tomorrow." β
The naΓ―ve Li Xuewei immediately said strangely: "Master, didn't my mother go back just a few days ago?" Why do you want to call her over again? I don't have any more needlework for her here. β
Master Li was suddenly furious, and even raised his hand to "snap" and slapped Li Xuewei in the face, scolding: "If you call you, slut dares to talk nonsense with Master Ben?" Are you getting impatient? β
Li Xuewei was broken up and grabbed by a woman, and since then, Li Xuewei has known that this illustrious Li Mansion is dirty, and she suddenly hated her own mother to the core.
Li Xuewei's entire teenage years have been living in a nightmare-like tossing and turning.
Li Xuewei's silent and helpless life in the Li Mansion was uncared for, and finally she was not bandaged into a pair of delicate and perfect little feet like her mother.
Later, one day Master Li actually said to Li Xuewei: "I have asked you to cover up your mother for nothing all these years, I just like your mother, and I see that you are also well-behaved and sensible, so let's do it, I don't want to disappoint you too much, you can choose someone to come in with you." β
Master Li finally said coldly, "However, you can tell me clearly, you are not allowed to have your own children." β
Li Xuewei couldn't believe her ears at that time, there was such a straightforward and terrible shameless man in the world, not only doing despicable things that were not afraid of thunder and thunder, but also finding a shiny green hat for herself to wear?
But looking at the look on Master Li's face, it didn't seem to be a joke.
At that time, Li Xuewei had no tears, because she had long known that even if she hated her shameless mother, it didn't mean much.
In fact, her mother is the same as her, she is a fish that is slaughtered and enjoyed by the owner of the family.
It turned out that in those granges that belonged to Master Li, women were actually the same as Master Li's fields, as long as Master Li took a fancy to them, the tenants had no choice but to give them away.
And Master Li still has some "conscience and shame", and he is somewhat covered, because Master Li has been an official after all; Even if it is shameless and makes some hypocritical gimmicks, even if it is more despicable, it has to be under the guise of sanctimony.
In some landlords, even those who are in charge of the open fire, even the first night before the tenant's daughter gets married must be the owner.
The endless shame in Li Xuewei's heart to her parents is already a kind of resigned numbness, as long as there are warm and stable days, in such a chaotic world full of soldiers and bandits, isn't it a very cost-effective exchange?
Knowing Li Gang is purely fate playing tricks on Li Xuewei again.
It was the annual Qingming Festival in Wuzhou City.
There is a local custom that during the three days of Qingming, a man can follow the woman of any powerful family to watch and figure out, as long as the woman of that family is willing to show her head and come out.
Li Xuewei has never returned to her parents' house since she entered the Li Mansion, because her mother has almost always lived in the Li Mansion, and she is called accompanying her daughter, but she is actually the pillow person that Master Li can't give up every night.
Li Xuewei didn't know how to interpret the bad relationship between Master Li and her mother, and she never ridiculously asked her mother which man she preferred as a mother between her father and husband.
She knew that her mother would not answer her, and the scars and tears in her mother's heart should be much deeper than hers.
Master Li didn't allow her to be so presumptuous, in the heart of that absolutely powerful man, little Li Xuewei was just a fig leaf for him and another woman's ugly affairs.
I don't know if it's because of the apricot blossoms that fly in from time to time outside the Li Mansion and the fluttering bird shadows in the sky, the young Li Xuewei suddenly wants to go back to the village outside the city to see her father.
At that time, it was the spring season of Qingming Festival, which was chosen by Li Xuewei.
The reason why she chose this time is because she knows that when Li Fu usually goes out, even the pomp and circumstance of wives and concubines are very great, but in the Qingming season, everything can be simple, even if you only bring two girls to walk out of the city.
So Li Xuewei took Cui'er out of the city alone.
At that time, Cui'er was only the same age as her when she entered the Li Mansion, but fortunately, she was loyal to her, after all, Li Xuewei was her first master.
When the young and beautiful Li Xuewei left Wuzhou City, she attracted a few followers who had been waiting at the gate of the city for a long time, waiting to play and comment on women.
Li Xuewei, who has gone through the ups and downs of the Li Mansion in the past few years, does not feel much fear, men in this world are just like this, but when she sees a woman with a bit of beauty, she is like a fly chasing blood, and the camp is endless, ignoring it.
Fortunately, at this time, the grass grows and the warbler flies in the sunny countryside, the scholars and wandering girls come and go, and the shepherd boy in the distance plays the shepherd flute made of red willow twigs, and the whining sound that does not form a tune can be heard clearly.
Li Xuewei, who had never had contact with a young man, saw that she was surrounded by several frivolous and prodigal disciples when she came out of the city, and there was still some kind of snickering joy in her heart.
The deep mansion compound of the Li Mansion could not completely restrain the wild nature of a peasant woman longing for free grazing in her heart.
There was even a twisted thrill of revenge in her heart.
Over the years, she has nominally been a woman in the Li Mansion, following the rules and swallowing her anger, and being a fig leaf for Master Li's well-dressed and bestial behavior. Now that she, as Master Li's woman, she is also being criticized by other floating men, which is really understanding!
Out of Wuzhou City, to the east is the rolling hills, and to the west along a winding river is the sometimes dense mangrove forest and the scattered crops of the farmhouse.
Li Xuewei took Cui'er slowly along the river bank into the red willow forest, although she had been in the city for a few years, she still remembered where her few grass houses were.
Young Li Xuewei didn't know that she was a young and beautiful woman, and she only brought a little girl when she went out, so she was simply intent on recruiting people to commit crimes.
Li Xuewei was young after all, even if she was full of resentment and humiliation, she only stayed at YY's revenge against Master Li, and didn't really want to bring physical humiliation to herself.
Originally, the gang just wanted to watch and comment, but as they followed Li Xuewei's master and servant farther and farther, they could no longer hear the jokes of other tourists nearby, and the gang immediately started to think crookedly.