Chapter 10: Encounter (II)
I don't know what happened that summer, it was so hot that it made people cry out, and the heat made people feel weird. No matter where you go, no matter how early or late you are, what awaits you is a heat wave.
One afternoon, Gui Fang, who was embroidering at home, was so hot that she couldn't stand it, and she planned to call her sister to go to the village river to wash her hair, but unfortunately Gui Xiang fell asleep.
Seeing that her sister was sleeping soundly, of course Gui Fang couldn't bear to disturb her, she left alone. When she went out, she changed into a new red dress.
She had been thinking about it for many years, and finally saved enough money to buy the cloth that she cut and sewed by hand. As soon as she finished washing her hair, Gui Fang couldn't wait to change into a red dress, she looked left and right at the river, and was overjoyed.
Just as Gui Fang was happily preparing to go ashore, he accidentally stepped on a mossy stone, and then slipped and fell into the water.
This fall turned a living person into a dead person, who would have thought that the place where Gui Fang fell was the place of the undercurrent? The world is impermanent, and she finally left reluctantly......
You did your best to raise me, but you didn't give me a chance to repay the favor, how can such an ending not make me break my liver and intestines?
The origin and extinction of the relationship, the sisterhood is exhausted, and Gui Fang's death hit Gui Xiang very hard.
In order to bury her sister, Gui Xiang bit her lips after thinking about it, and finally ran to Li Meng's house.
Li Meng is a well-known wealthy family in the village, and his ancestors have accumulated a lot of money in business for several generations. However, although he has a lot of money, he has a thin number of people, and he only has a stupid son.
Li Wen's name was taken by Li Meng himself, implying that his son could become a knowledgeable and knowledgeable cultural person. However, creation makes people, and Li Wen is a natural fool.
No matter how stupid his son is, he is his own flesh and blood, and for Li Wen's lifelong event, Li Meng, who has always been domineering and irritable, has to go around begging people to talk to the matchmaker.
The matchmaker found a lot and said a lot of good things, but several years have passed, and Li Wen is still running around the village alone.
Think about it, guarding a fool all her life, which girl is willing?
Besides, Li Meng and his wife Wu Li are both well-known for their poor reputation in Shili Eight Villages, one is arrogant and domineering and the other is narrow-minded, if it weren't for Gui Fang's accident, Gui Xiang would have to fight his sister in order to bury his sister, Li Wen would have to beat him all his life.
Although this marriage is a transaction, Guixiang does not dislike Li Wen, she regards herself as a member of the Li family.
Guixiang not only took good care of Li Wen, but also treated Li Meng and Wu Li as filial piety as biological parents. She knew that Li Meng and his wife liked to drink a little wine every night for dinner, so she always made some delicious snacks.
Every time I saw Guixiang respectfully serving the wine and food to the table, Li Meng could always smile a flower on his face. He was quite satisfied with this beautiful and diligent daughter-in-law, so satisfied that he kept looking at Guixiang.
This kind of look made Guixiang uncomfortable, it was greed that couldn't be concealed.
Compared with Li Meng's strange enthusiasm, Wu Li's attitude towards Guixiang was extremely cold, as if she was his own enemy. It's no wonder, who made Li Meng's eyes always stare at Guixiang?
The very different attitudes of her in-laws made no difference to Guixiang, either one of them made her feel scared, and she had a deep sense of crisis, and she felt that if she continued to stay in this house, it would be dangerous.
She can't die, she swore at Gui Fang's grave that she wants to live well, and she can't let her sister worry about herself after she dies.
There is only one way to get out of danger, get out!
But escaping also needs a chance, Guixiang waited, waited, and finally waited for the opportunity.
On the day she fled, she didn't bring anything, so she changed into a dark red dress.
Everything should have gone well, if it weren't for a little girl who told Wu Li, Guixiang wouldn't have died. The night before Guixiang and Li Wen got married, Li Meng and Wu Li came to a family surnamed Wang at the entrance of the village.
They put a bag of grain at the feet of the man, Wang Cheng, and told him that they would send a bag of grain every month in the future.
Grain is not given away for free, there are conditions for trading, and there is only one condition.
If he found that Guixiang had escaped, Wang Cheng had to report immediately, otherwise, he would have to compensate all the food. What qualifications does Wang Cheng, who is already hungry, have to refuse? He kowtowed like garlic and agreed.
Wang Cheng has a total of three daughters, the youngest daughter is named Wang Fang, which is a clever girl. She knew that her family did not starve to death because of the food sent by Li Meng and his wife, and she also knew that if she was the first to report the news, she would definitely let her family get more food.
In the era of famine, food is precious, and it is life.
Wang Fang stared at the road leading to the entrance of the village all day long, she hoped that the figure would appear soon, and finally one day, her dream came true.
The moment she saw Guixiang, Wang Fang ran desperately towards Li's house.
In order to avoid Li Meng and his wife, Guixiang fell into a dirt pit with a beast trap, which caught her slender neck.
The dirt pit where Xiao Min fell is the place where Guixiang died, and the night they met was Guixiang's death day.
"Wen Ning, why didn't Guixiang hurt me? If it hadn't been for my grandmother's informant, she wouldn't have died, wouldn't she be resentful at all? ”
Xiao Min's question dragged me out of my memory, and when I thought about it again, I said the answer with great certainty.
"It's 'sister', your sister reminds her of Gui Fang. The elder sister is kind, the younger sister is innocent, and the resentment has long since disappeared for them. ”