The Lighter and Princess Gown – Book 1: Barren Grasslands

The meeting was held at the base as usual the next day.

Gao Jianhong talked for a while, and felt that Zhu Yun was a little absent-minded.

"What's wrong, there is a problem?"

"Ah?" Zhu Yun looked back and shook her head. "No." She looked to her side. "Where did Li Xue go today?"

Gao Jianhong: "I don't know. He called me this morning and said that something happened today. Today, the base will hold me responsible."

Something?

Is it related to that woman yesterday?

Zhu Yun didn't want to be distracted, but couldn't help thinking.

"Come on, let's go." Gao Jianhong stretched his finger and ticked in front of Zhu Yun.

Today, all the lessons of Li Jiao escaped. After the afternoon class, Zhu Yun came to the base and found that Li Jiao had returned. He still writes the program in the stool, as usual.

Zhu Yun sat down and asked casually, "Where did you go today?"

Li Yao: "Walk around the city center."

Zhu Yun: "City center? What are you doing there?"

Li Yao glanced at Zhu Yun and sarcastically said, "Why, Master Princess's competition project has already been foolproof, and she has started to study the hustle and bustle?"

"..."

Who seldom researches you and owes the champion.

Zhu Yun snorted in his heart and turned to do his own thing. She inadvertently saw a bag at Li's feet, as if it were from the Central Stadium ...

In the evening, Gao Jianhong asked Zhu Yun to go to dinner together, still thinking about the details of the competition project on the way, "It seems that many people have done the analysis of malicious programs in the past few sessions. Do we want to get something new."

Zhu Yun said: "Okay, but there are so many general directions in the security competition, or not from the hardware--" When the speech came, Gao Jianhong asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhu Yun looked at the campus entrance, and there seemed to be a person standing across the road.

"Zhu Yun?"

"Uh ..." Zhu Yun opened his mouth, Gao Jianhong said, "Go, what do you want to eat, go outside?"

Zhu Yun: "No, just eat at school and go back to work."

Gao Jianhong smiled, "Don't be so anxious, relax, I'm not Li Xie."

They walked to the cafeteria, Zhu Yun bowed her head all the way, counted the bluestones on the ground, and did not listen to Gao Jianhong's words. Finally, at the moment when he stepped on the steps, Zhu Yun stopped.

"That ..." Zhu Yun stopped Gao Jianhong, "I think something is wrong, I have to go back to the dormitory."

"What's the matter?"

Zhu Yunxin said, "My mother asked me to send her something, which I accidentally forgot. You don't have to wait for me, eat it first, see you at the base at night."

"OK then."

Gao Jianhong entered the cafeteria himself, and Zhu Yun made two steps to the school entrance.

Are you there?

Are you there?

Are you there?

Zhu Yun searched around and finally found the figure at the door of a dessert shop across the road.

In fact, at this distance, it is really difficult to see a person clearly. Zhu Yun is mainly recognized by her clothes that can't be soiled.

She pretended to pass by, and walked past the woman. When she passed by, she glanced with the afterglow. The woman's face is sallow and her skin is very poor. She was carrying a large pocket and her shoulders were slopping, and she looked very tired.

After Zhu Yun walked over, he turned the bow and walked again.

After walking three or four times in a row like this, Zhu Yun stopped, and finally looked in the direction of the campus, making sure that there was no shadow of Li Yu, then he headed up.

"Ouch!"

Zhu Yun bumped the woman from behind and repeatedly apologized: "I'm sorry, sorry!"

The woman seemed taken aback, but immediately responded, "No, nothing."

Zhu Yun: "I'm so sorry, I think about things in my head, if I'm not careful ..."

The woman shook her head: "It's okay."

She has a strong local accent, but lacks the power to speak, and she is thin and worried.

Zhu Yunzao, like every other family, asked tentatively: "Did you come from a field with so much luggage on your own?"

"What? Oh ... yes, yes, from a foreign country."

"Come here to travel?"

"Not ..."

"What are you doing here?"

The woman responded slowly, and Zhu Yun had to wait a few seconds for each answer to hear the answer.

"... I come to my brother."

Zhu Yun analyzed this sentence in a second, and then fry the pan instantly.

Little brother!

Little brother! !

It turned out to be a younger brother! ! ! ! ! ! !

Zhu Yun looked at the woman's face again.

After she said this, Zhu Yun found that the woman was actually very tall. Zhu Yun's standard height was one meter six or eight, but she was still half short in front of the woman. If you look closely, this woman's face is actually okay. Although the temperament is very earthy and the skin is poorly maintained, the foundation is still ok ...

Moreover, the pair of phoenix eyes ...

Zhu Yun was a bit stunned.

I don't know why, she didn't feel that way before facing Li Yao's various fashionable girlfriends, Bo Pa's predecessor.

But in front of this, is Li Jie's sister.

She is his relative.

Zhu Yun's memory is not bad, she still remembers clearly how Zhang Xiaobe threatened Li Diao. His hukou is rural, but the school cannot reach his family ...

He didn't go home during the New Year.

Seeing Li Dong's attitude towards this woman last night, the relationship with his family must be very poor. If you mess up, it is known to Li Qiu that it is not a joke.

Zhu Yun thought about whether to retreat as if she had never seen her.

The woman still lowered her head. She was surrounded by old and worn cloth bags, covered with dust, and carrying a big bag in her hand. Although she is tall, she is really thin, standing alone on the side of the road, exhausted.

Zhu Yun was a little unbearable. This was his sister anyway. She pointed to the cafe next to her and asked, "How about sitting there for a while?"

The woman quickly waved her hand, "No more."

Zhu Yun: "I happen to be waiting for someone. Let's wait inside."

"Really not."

Zhu Yun used all his powers, put on the kindest and most sincere smile of his life, and finally his face became stiff, and finally persuaded the woman into the cafe.

This cafe is not inferior on College Street. The waiter is a part-time student. His vision is snobbish. He sees the woman's dress and a pile of luggage.

"We have the lowest consumption here."

Zhu Yun has never heard anyone speak to her in this tone in his life. He was almost surprised to pour coffee from the next table on her face.

The woman bowed her head: "Forget it ... I'll wait outside."

"Don't stop, come on, you sit down first." Zhu Yun pressed the woman into the seat and called for two cups of coffee.

The coffee came up, and the woman did not drink. She kept her head down and dared not touch anything.

Zhu Yun tried to find something.

"That ... what's your name?"

"Li Lan."

Also surnamed Li.

"You and your brother are biological?"

Li Lan shook his head.

"Cousin?"

Still shaking his head.

...

Zhu Yun changed his mind: "How long have you been with him?"

Li Lan's voice is very quiet, "For a long time."

Zhu Yun asked a few more words, and found that Li Lan's movements were getting smaller and smaller. At the end, she was silent. She carefully observed that Li Lan's shoulders were shaking, and she seemed to cry.

"Are you OK."

Li Lan: "It's fine."

She looks so sad.

Zhu Yun hesitated and took out his phone. "Is your brother from our school? What is his name? Maybe I know. I will find him for you."

"No." Li Lan refused immediately. She looked up, and her eyes turned red. "Don't look for him, he doesn't want to see me ..."

He didn't want much, how could everything go along with him.

"It's okay, just meet."

"No, really not, he will be angry!"

Zhu Yun looked at Li Lanwei's promise, and was very upset. She frowned, and did not plan to make any more foreshadowing.

"Aren't you sisters, what hatred do you have, why can't you meet, so he hates you so much?"

Li Lan's complexion instantly turned white.

Yeah ...

Broken broken! Zhu Yun then reacted and remedied: "I don't mean that, that is, I think--"

"He should hate us," Li Lan murmured, covering her face with her hand. "He doesn't want to see us right ..."

what's the situation?

Zhu Yun slowly stirs her emotions and guides her to let her down.

It seems that Li Lan usually has few people who can talk about these topics. Facing Zhu Yun, a kind stranger, she relaxes a little bit.

Zhu Yun listened to Li Lan's previous story and was thrilled. It's not that the content of the story is magnificent, it's just that the protagonist in it is Li Yi.

She had watched his secret without his permission.

She also wanted to stop, but could not stop.

*

The hometown of Li Lan and Li Diao is in a land of fish and rice. Zhu Yun has heard there, there is a very famous lake, looking at the scenery of mountains and rivers, although it is rural, it is beautiful.

Zhu Yun thought that nourishing people with water and soil is no wonder that his skin is so delicate.

Li Lan has a low level of education, and many words can't be expressed clearly.

But the most important thing in storytelling is love. Zhu Yun heard from Li Lan's stumbling narration that he heard too many feelings buried in that plain time.

The sister-in-law, half-brother, came to Li Lan's house when he was six years old. Before that, no one knew of his existence.

Li Lan's father, Li Chengbo, was a farmer. Later, he caught up with the tide of the times and started foreign trade business. After a while, he opened a factory. At that time, the scale of the factory was not small, and there were many employees. Li's mother was one of them.

According to Li Lan, Li Qiao's mother is very beautiful, which is a kind of beautiful beauty that is different from the surrounding factory workers. Although she is also very poor, she lives very fashionable, making the most beautiful clothes herself and listening to the most popular band tapes.

She was criticized in the factory, she said nothing, she didn't care.

Li Chengbo soon noticed this particular woman. He concealed that he had a family and started tossing rosettes to Li's mother.

Judging from Li's appearance, Li Chengbo is very handsome, tall, young and full of spirit.

She fell in love with him easily and became pregnant with Li Diao.

Li Chengbo has a very common mentality of the older generation in the countryside, and he values ​​men more than women. At that time, Li Yao's mother was judged to be a girl by the doctor in the small clinic. Li Chengbo asked her to do it. Li Yao's mother refused to say anything.

Later, Li Chengbo's business failed and he returned to his hometown without any return, and his temper became moody.

At that time, Li Lan was only five years old and he was the oldest member of the family. There were three older brothers on it. Li Chengbo doesn't like her and often scolds her. Her mother fears her father and dare not be too intimate with her. Li Lan has done the heaviest work since he was a child, and everything is left to his brothers.

Later, Li Chengbo contracted the problems of playing alcohol and drinking. Every day at home, he was dying of smoke. Everyone had a great temper. Except for Li Lan, there was no one who could lose her temper because of this family.

When she was ten years old, Li Dong's mother brought Li Dong to the house.

Li Lan was still young at the time, and it was unclear what their mother and son's arrival meant. She was just very happy, because she was not the youngest in the family, and maybe she could get angry with Li Xiao in the future. But the reality is cruel, Li Lan soon realized that this new brother is more powerful than the three older brothers together.

Not to mention bullying, just walked near him, he will be violently returned.

But Li's arrival also has a benefit for Li Lan, that is, she is no longer the punching bag of her brothers and mothers, they have new goals. They even pulled Li Lan into a camp, unanimously outside.

In the past, the whole family was tortured by Li Chengbo, an alcoholic. Suddenly, the food chain extended down a section. Li Lan ’s mother took out the tough air that she had never had in her life and treated the pair of uninvited guests with taunts and scorns every day. In front of everyone, she accused Li Deng ’s mother of being a **** who seduce someone else ’s man and called Li Diao a wild seed.

Since the arrival of Li and his mother, Li Lan's mother has done things every day, and her life is much more vivid than before.

Even with such days, Li Yao's mother insisted on staying. At that time, she was seriously ill. She had no family to rely on. She would not come here. Six-year-old Li Yu had no way to live in the future.

In order to obey Li Lan's mother's heart, Li Deng's mother no longer takes care of herself, unkempt, stunned, and speaks with care. She desperately wanted her son to be integrated into this family, but it turned out to be counterproductive. Li Yi never looked at them with his right eye, so he was bullied by his three elder brothers.

Li Lan does laundry and cleaning every day until late, and often everyone else falls asleep and her work is not finished. She had seen it several times. Li Yao's mother persuaded her children under the moonlight to let him follow their heart and get along well with her brothers. Li Dong never said anything. When the mother said that she was anxious, she beat him. He cried in grievance, but he refused to agree.

Li Lan's heart softened, she always felt that they were not as abominable as her family said, and she sympathized with them.

Li Lan began to help them quietly. At that time, Li Yao's mother was seriously ill and had a painful sleep at night. Li Lan took advantage of her family's sleep and secretly cooked porridge for her and took care of her rest.

She began to like Li Dong ’s mother gradually. Li Dong ’s mother made her a skirt with the simplest fabric, which was the first skirt in her life. She also gave her the tape of the band. Li Lan was not obsessed with this trendy thing, and went to them almost whenever he was free.

Li Dao is not very good at taking care of people and is at a loss for his mother's illness. Li Lan took the posture of her sister and criticized him: "You have to listen to your mother." She knows the three elder brothers best, and they like to bully As long as they follow them, they will soon get tired.

She kindly persuaded, but unfortunately Li Diao ignored her, Li Lan said angrily: "This is your mother's wish!"

Li Xiao glared at her, "Not really!"

Unable to communicate, Li Lan ignored him.

Later, Li Yao's mother died.

When she left, she was very miserable. She was so sick that she was humanoid and shrunk into a ball. She was so horrible that Li Lan's mother didn't bother them.

It was late at night when she left, and Li Lan was also present. Li Yao probably knew that her mother was going to die, and she was crying with pain.

As he died, his mother took his hand and mechanically told him to integrate into the new family and get along well with them. Looking at such a mother, Li Qiao broke into tears and finally nodded, whispering to her last request.

This was her long-cherished wish, but somehow, at the moment when he really said "good", his mother raised her dry hands like a huge stimulus. Her face was grisly, like a ghost returning to the world, with unlimited resentment and unwillingness, she grabbed Li Diao ——

"No!" Her eyes narrowed, and she exhausted the last effort of her life to say to her son: "Li Diao, you must not be like them!"

At that moment, his cry was resounding in the world, as if to shout out all the wrongs, he shouted, "Got it!"

After listening to her mother, Enron left.

Li Lan stood aside and watched, she shuddered.

She didn't know how to describe the mood at that time, it was the first time she received another emotional relationship different from this family.

Like a fiery flame, pure and incomparable, burning nowhere to escape.

She began to do everything possible to help this younger brother who never called her sister.

Later, Li Qio started to go to school. They had very few schools in their hometown. They were all in elementary and junior high schools. Li Lan ’s eldest brother had graduated, and his second and third brothers were all in junior high school. live.

From the time Li Qiu started to go to school, Li Lan discovered that his brothers bullied Li Yio even more ruthlessly. She didn't know where they got angry, as if Li Qiu was an enemy who didn't share the sky.

Li Yao never complained, but he was just a child after all, but he could not bear to fight, and it didn't take long before his body was covered with bruises.

The brothers secretly tore his books, tossed his schoolbags, and created every opportunity to prevent him from going to school. However, no matter how many injuries Li Qiu suffered, no matter what the books deteriorated, Li Yi never delayed a day of class. And he also learned to not read while his brothers were around.

Therefore, when night fell, under the tile lamp of the small courtyard, in addition to Li Lan who washes clothes, there was another Wen Li.

His attitude towards her is still as bad as ever, or he has strong hostility towards the whole family. But Li Lan didn't care anymore, there were many people who were bad to her, and she felt that Li Deng's murder was not real.

She took care of him silently, washed and prepared him, and helped him distract his brothers.

Days passed by, and one night, Li Lan was surprised to find that Li Deng did not come out to read. She found Li Diao in the debris pile in the backyard, where he kept covering his ribs, Li Lan asked him what was wrong, he also Not answering.

Later, Li Lan learned that Li Yao was admitted to the only "key class" in the broken school. This class is in the North Building, a certain distance away from where Li Lan's brothers go to school.

But the key class needs to pay an additional part of the tuition fee. Li Lan's mother cannot give Li Diao money, so Li Diao did not succeed in that class, and he returned to the previous place.

The elder brothers were very happy, as if he was like them again, they happily beat him, and his ribs were cracked.

Li Dao did not go to the hospital, Li Lan did a simple treatment for him, secretly saved money to buy ribs stew for him to drink.

When Li Yao could stand up, he took the initiative to speak to Li Lan for the first time-he borrowed money from her.

Li Lan had no money of his own, but Li Yao didn't care. He yelled at her, and Li Lan cried out anxiously, and finally lied to ask her mother for some money.

Li Yao got the money and went to the county alone. When he returned, everyone, including Li Lan, was startled. He dyed his hair into pure gold.

Hair dyeing was not popular in those days, especially with such exaggerated colors.

Because of this maverick hair color, Li Yao suffered more bullying, and even Li Chengbo was furious. When Li Chengbo got angry, the whole family shrank in the corner, and no one dared to step forward.

Several times Li Lan felt that his father seemed to be about to kill Li Dao ...

But till the end, Li Yu refused to admit his mistakes, nor would he dye his hair back.

Over time, everyone was tired, scolded, and used to it.

So, that little boy at that time, in this simple and naive way, proved that he was different from others.