Dressed As a Farm Boy, He Cheated on His Way Out of the Desert.

Chapter 17 The ungrateful white-eyed wolf

 The journey of two hundred miles is neither close nor far.

The Li family followed the **** team for six or seven days and finally arrived in Junyang County one afternoon.

When they parted, Liu Biaotou insisted on not wanting the ten taels of silver. He kept saying that he wanted to form a good relationship with the Li family and move around more often in the future.

 He hopes that Li Laosi will join the **** agency in the future and run business together.

The Li family had no choice but to accept the money, hoping to return the favor if they had the opportunity in the future.

 Hire two carriages and the family arrived at the small mountain village where uncle Liu Gener lived before sunset.

 The small village is very quiet. No one's chimney is smoking now, and there are even fewer lights.

Old Mrs. Li thought about what her brother had said when she wrote a letter before, and found the door of the second house at the entrance of the village.

 This family is surrounded by adobe walls and a courtyard wall, and the roof is covered with a layer of thatch.

The courtyard gate is only made of branches, and the house only has two or three rooms. It looks very poor and dilapidated.

When Mrs. Li saw her, she felt worried. She slapped the courtyard door and shouted, "Liu Gen'er, come open the door. I'm your sister."

But no one responded for a while. Tao Hongying and the others looked at each other with a bit of worry in their expressions.

 “Here he comes! Who is it? No one is allowed to sleep at night!”

Finally, the door of the room was pushed open with a creaking sound, and a skinny woman with her hair tied back casually came out.

 Seeing so many people standing at the door, the woman's originally dissatisfied expression immediately froze.

She took a few steps back with a look of caution on her face, "Who are you looking for?"

"I am Liu Gen'er's sister. She married outside the Great Wall in her early years. There was a war in our family some time ago, so I brought my family to join us..."

 Old Mrs. Li responded and spoke carefully.

Hearing the words, the woman thought about it for a while before she understood it, and said quickly, "You guys wait a moment."

 After saying that, she turned around and entered the house, and soon helped an old lady out.

Mrs. Li recognized that this was Liu Gener's daughter-in-law, her sister-in-law Guo.

Mr. Guo is several years younger than Mrs. Li, but now she looks extremely old.

His face was wrinkled like dried orange peel, and his body didn’t look very strong.

Mrs. Guo walked to the door of the courtyard and then raised her triangular eyes to look at Old Mrs. Li who was standing in front of her.

"It's my old sister. Why did you come all the way to my house? Come in and talk."

Mrs. Tao recognized Mrs. Li, but her tone was rather cold, not at all eager to see a long-lost relative.

Old Mrs. Li was full of enthusiasm, but suddenly she felt a little cold.

She thought for a while and took her children and grandchildren into the yard.

At this moment, two men and a fat woman came out of the room.

They seemed to have just gotten out of bed, rubbing their eyes and yawning, looking at the Li family with curious and bored eyes.

“Brothers and sisters, why don’t you see Liu Gen’er?”

When Ms. Guo heard Mrs. Li mentioning her husband, her face was a little complicated, "Liu Gen'er died last year."

 “What? How did you die?” Old Mrs. Li swayed and almost fell down. Fortunately, Mr. Li stepped forward to help her.

 “Didn’t I send a letter the year before last saying that I was in good health? How come...”

　　When she heard that her younger brother had passed away unexpectedly, Mrs. Li was completely stunned. She held back her tears and wanted to ask for more information.

Ms. Guo snorted coldly. She was not at all sad, but seemed to be extremely resentful.

"Last summer there was a heavy rain, and the embankment was filled with water. It couldn't reach us. Liu Gen'er, the man who had been stabbed a thousand times, had to save a child who was washed away by the water. As a result, he got caught in it and left us behind. Orphans and widows suffer in the world.”

 As she spoke, she looked at Old Mrs. Li again. The mean eyes were like a scraper, scraping Mrs. Li and other members of the Li family up and down.

Mrs. Li acted cautiously. Before disembarking, she asked her family to change out of the clothes Mrs. Sun had given her and put on the previously patched clothes.

Coupled with the dusty road, their clothes were dirty and they looked very embarrassed now.

 So, Tao's eyes were full of disgust and disappointment.

"My father is dead, why do you come here to seek refuge? With our family like this, how can we take you in? We can't live our own lives!"

Liu Gen'er's eldest son Liu Tiezhu was very sleepy. Seeing that the Li family didn't look like a wealthy family, he kicked him out.

Mrs. Guo didn’t say a word after hearing her son’s words, obviously agreeing with them.

“We just want to have a place to stay temporarily. We don’t need you for food, clothing or anything like that…”

Li Laoer was dissatisfied with their attitude and stood up to explain.

 But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by another man.

“Who are you kidding? What if you, poor fellows, really live in my house and refuse to leave?”

 The second son of the Liu family, Liu Laifu, was also dissatisfied, curling his lips and staring.

　　But Mrs. Guo finally looked at the face of the dead Liu Gener, waved her hand to stop her son, and said.

“Okay, okay, if you don’t have a place to live, you can live in our yard first, but don’t even think about entering the house. Leave as soon as dawn tomorrow, our family can’t help you!”

Mrs. Li was so angry that her whole body was trembling. Jiayin was heartbroken. She tried her best to endure it and didn't move the rocks out of the space and throw them on the Liu family's house!

 Selfish and ungrateful!

With such a family, she would rather let the Li family sleep on the street than have anything to do with them.

She stretched out her little hand and gave her grandma a squeeze, making two bleating sounds.

Liu Laifu stood very close. When he heard the movement, he stretched his head and took a look, which made him even more disgusted.

“The poor are all fleeing, and they still have so many babies!”

Li Laosi was furious when he heard this and wanted to arrest Liu Laifu.

Liu Laifu was also slippery and was so frightened that he quickly hid behind Guo.

"What's going on? If I don't take you in, you're going to beat them up? Come on, beat them! If you have the ability, beat our whole family to death and take over our house!"

Old Mrs. Li, who had been silent all this time, raised her hand and held her son's hand, "Fourth, don't make trouble."

After saying that, she turned to Mrs. Guo and said, "Brother and sister, it's my fault for not thinking carefully. Don't worry, if Liu Gen'er is gone, our two families will no longer be related. Even if we starve to death, we won't bother you."

Ms. Guo snorted coldly, "That's fine. You can't go back on what you said."

 After saying that, she took her son and daughter-in-law back to the house.

 There was silence in the yard.

"Mom, how could they do this? A few years ago, my uncle sent a message that he wanted to marry his son, but the family couldn't afford the dowry gift. You even sold your own dowry jewelry. Our family was hungry for more than half a year, so we collected money for them. Come!"

Li Laoer was so angry that he gasped, "But now, they have turned against each other just because their uncle passed away!"

Tao Hongying, Zhao Yuru and others were also full of disappointment and indignation. Only Wu Ergou stood behind everyone and watched the excitement indifferently.

Old Mrs. Li sighed longly, held her granddaughter upright in her arms, and pressed her soft and warm face against her, until the chill in her heart finally dissipated.

“Fu Niuer, grandma will take you to sleep outside instead of staying here, okay?” Mrs. Li asked the good news softly.

Jiayin grinned and rubbed Old Mrs. Li's face with a smile.

 “Fu Niu’er is so good!” Mrs. Li finally showed a faint smile, turned around and led her family out of the yard.

At the entrance of the village, there was a century-old tree with lush branches that could not be contained even if several people hugged it. The Li family lit a fire there and settled down temporarily.

 Fortunately it is still late summer and the nights are not too cold.

But everyone was worried and confused, and they rushed all the way here. Who knew what the result would be.

 (End of this chapter)