Chapter 24 Erhua

When Zangxianjun spoke, it sounded like something from an ancient book. After listening to it, I was shocked.

Because I don’t know much about these things about the Li family, but when I was a child, I saw the second sister of the Li family who was as small as a child. Her name was Li Erhua. She always carried crops taller than her on her back. The old people in the village used her to Warn the children not to eat fruits from other people's fields, otherwise they will not grow taller. When we were children, we thought she really ate fruits from other people's fields. The children in the village would hit her with stones and call her short. Thief, short thief'.

She never defended herself. Even when I came back from school in the fourth grade in the evening, I met her at the entrance of the village. She took out a warm peach and handed it to me. The peach was very sweet. She smiled and asked me: "Xiaocao, are you going to school?" happy?"

"Happy!"

"What's in the book?"

I told her the lessons I learned in school during the day, and she listened with great interest. But not long after, Aunt Li rushed out and scolded her: "Erhua, you are lazy again, you lazy thing, you didn't even cook. Who are you waiting for to cook? Come back quickly!"

As soon as Erhua heard her mother's scolding, she hurriedly ran home. After running a few steps, she turned back to me and said, "Xiaocao, can you tell me about your school tomorrow?"

I nodded.

After that day, Erhua always waited on the path when I was out of school and walked with me for a while. She would ask me what I wanted to do when I grew up. I told her that I wanted to go to school in a big city outside the mountains. There is a lot of traffic and countless high-rise buildings.

Erhua's eyes lit up when she heard this. I asked her what she wanted to do in the future.

She looked down at the backpack in her hand, smiled, and said, "I'm going home to cook!"

After that time, I never saw Erhua again after school. About two months later, I finally couldn't help it and asked my grandma about Erhua's whereabouts. Grandma just sighed and said, "This Erhua, too." She is a miserable child, she should not be miserable anymore in the future!"

"Grandma, is she married?" I asked innocently.

Erhua has reached the age of marriage early. Girls much younger than her in the village have all gotten married, but she has never gotten married.

Perhaps grandma was afraid that I would be sad, so she nodded.

"Where did she get married to?" If it's close, I can still go and play with her in the future.

Grandma looked at the mountains in the distance and said, "Erhua is marrying into the city to enjoy her happiness!"

"Really!"

"Um!"

"Then I will study hard and pass the exam to the city, so that I can go and play with Aunt Erhua!"

Over the years, I really thought Erhua was married, but she had never returned to the village.

It turned out that she had died a long time ago, on a cold night, and her closest relatives didn't even give her a coffin, so they dragged her to the mountain and buried her...

Something surged in my heart, and I heard my own voice asking: "The second son of the Li family, should he die?"

The people in the village were speechless for a moment. Their reaction only proved that they knew all these things, but this kind of thing has long been commonplace. They may be such victims and also such perpetrators.

I am unlucky to be born in such a mountain village and meet such a father.

I was also lucky enough to meet a kind-hearted grandma who didn’t dislike me for being abandoned.

She instilled in me the hope of growing outward in this barren land.

At this time, I heard Lord Zangxian warn: "You all need to remember that from now on, whoever touches You Xiaocao will die without a burial place!"