Putting his father to sleep, Liu Dongfeng and his sister came outside the house together, and the yard was starry and breezy.

In the hazy night, Liu Dongfeng looked at Liu Mianmian in front of him, this sister who was only born twenty minutes earlier than him was half a head shorter than himself, and he was unwilling to call her sister so subordinated to her.

However, she has always asked for herself as the eldest sister, taking care of him, loving him, and giving him any good things.

She looks so delicate, but this time, she has to pay everything a girl can for the sake of her family and herself, Liu Dongfeng suddenly felt that her throat was a little spicy, and her eyes were a little sour.

"Sister, if you marry someone else's family for money, people will look down on you, how can you live this long life? You go to school, I have the strength, I go to earn money, tomorrow I will go to the foreman and go out with them to do waterproofing. I earn money for you to study, don't get married, how can you get married without a little affection? ”

"Dongfeng, don't talk nonsense, if you don't go to school, won't our mother go crazy with anger?" Mianmian pretended to say lightly.

"You listen to me, I'll go and say that I'm a man, and I should have done these things. Don't worry about it, I don't agree with you marrying that person from Wei Village. That family is not kind and doesn't trust you at all. ”

“……”

Looking at his younger brother who grew up suddenly, Mianmian felt a sour sweetness in her heart, how could she make him make such a big sacrifice?

If Dongfeng really gave up the opportunity to go to college for himself, he was afraid that he would have a disturbed conscience in this life, and his younger brother has always been all the hope of his mother in this difficult life, so why not his father's hope?

"Dongfeng, let's work together, and we will all get better."

Listening to Liu Mianmian's words without a beginning or an end, Liu Dongfeng was a little confused, and he couldn't see his sister's expression clearly in the night, but he felt that her tone was indifferent and had a certain tenacity, and she seemed to have good expectations for the future.

After the sister and brother chatted, Liu Mianmian simply washed up and returned to her room.

The night is really quiet, the chirping of crickets outside the window is crisp and pleasant, and one or two dog barks from time to time make the night even more lonely.

As if remembering something, Mianmian sat up suddenly.

She turned on the light, and the dim light bulb glowed faintly. A large envelope was pulled out of the drawer, and Zhen Bao rubbed it gently.

She pulled out the paper from the envelope, looked at it over and over again, and then slowly folded it back.

Gently and slowly it tore apart, again and again, and finally the piece of paper was torn into fingernail-sized pieces.

Under the light, Liumian's pale little face was as stiff and resolute as a sculpture, but tears slid down her pointed chin, dripping on her chest, drenched.

In the middle of the night, she dragged out the trolley case from under the bed, simply packed up her clothes, put her ID card and graduation certificate in the innermost layer of her backpack, and then took out her diary to write something, and after tearing it off, she put it under the alarm clock on the table and pressed it.

The 1,000 yuan gift received in the morning was not taken away by the mother, thinking that in the past two days, she would let Mianmian go to the city to buy a few decent clothes.

Mianmian smiled bitterly in her heart, the gift given by the Wei family had become the cost of her escape from marriage, if they knew, she didn't know how to toss?

While she was busy working, her mother pushed the door open and came in and asked, "Why haven't you slept yet?" Tomorrow, let's go to the bean field by the South River to catch the old bean worms, and the bean leaves are almost gone. ”

"Okay, I'll write something, and I'll go to sleep in a while."

The mother yawned and left.

Thinking of leaving his loved ones, he faced the future alone. Mianmian was very apprehensive.

For the first time in 18 years, Liu Mianmian is so disobedient to her parents, in addition to being sad, she is more uneasy!

If he escapes from marriage, how will the Wei family make trouble?

The mother is very partial to the younger brother, but this is also caused by the customs of her hometown.

If the family has money for her to go to college, her mother is still willing to let her go to school, and although her mother seems to be unkind to her in marriage, the marriage is a particularly happy destination in the eyes of her mother and the villagers.

If you put on a hat of escaping marriage, and if you want to return to Liuzhuang to live in the future, I am afraid that even the saliva of the people in the village will drown you.

After he leaves, how much criticism his younger brother and parents have to endure!

Thinking of this, Liu Mianmian's tears burst out of her eyes and slipped silently.

She set the alarm for 4:30 in the morning.

After everything was cleaned up, Mianmian lay down in her clothes, but she didn't feel sleepy, and occasionally heard the coughing sound from her parents' room, and she almost couldn't sleep all night.

Without waiting for the alarm to ring, she got up and quietly opened the door with the luggage she had already packed.

Taking advantage of the moonlight to touch the gate, Mianmian was quietly like an underground party carrying out a mission.

When the courtyard door was opened, the iron door was made a "clang" sound, she was startled, she didn't dare to move for a long time, and listened to the movement, her parents and younger brother were probably still asleep. Gently closed the door and trotted all the way to the county road.

Occasionally, one or two roosters crow to signal that dawn is coming.

The morning air smells of fresh grass mixed with the cool smell of dew. In the fields, the singing of weavers and grasshoppers was intermittent.

Not caring to appreciate the natural sound of nature, Liu Mianmian rushed to the county road, and the stinging pain of the rough leaves of the corn on her skin did not slow her pace.

Suddenly, there was a rustle of footsteps behind her, and Mianmian stopped softly, hiding herself in the cornfield and looking back.

"Sister, sister, it's me, Dongfeng! I see you! ”

Liu Dongfeng's voice sounded behind him, buzzing Liu Mianmian's brain like a thunderbolt on the ground.

She straightened up awkwardly and looked at Liu Dongfeng, who was wearing a shorts vest, looking left and right not far from her. It turned out to be a fraud! This scoundrel!

"Why are you going?" Liu Dongfeng snatched the box in her hand, was very emotional, and asked sharply.

"Let it go......" Liu Mianmian pulled back his box.

"Dongfeng, I'll go to City B to find my classmate Ai Lian, she works in a supermarket, she can help me find a job, so that our mother won't worry so much about our schooling."

"If you want to work, I'll go out! Sister, I want to have strength and strength, I want to have a body, what can you do when you go out? Liu Dongfeng's eyes were almost red.

"Dongfeng, listen to your sister." Mianmian let go of the hand that grabbed the box, "You have always been the hope of our mother, and also the hope of our family, you must go to college." I will work hard when I go to City B, although I don't know what I can do now, but I feel that everyone is a human being, I can do what others can do, and I can also suffer what others can endure, so I don't believe that I can't do anything myself. ”

"You're a girl, it's not convenient to go out and do anything, so I'll go to work." Liu Dongfeng was almost pleading.

"I've torn up my college acceptance letter and can't go to school. Dongfeng, you ...... Don't stop me, just like you said yesterday, if I marry Wei Wei like this, I will not be able to hold my head up for the rest of my life, and I will be aggrieved for the rest of my life. I don't want to live like that! ”