22. The Bad Men of the 1990s (2)
Yi Zhilan returned home. When her aunt saw her, she hurriedly greeted her, "Lanlan, why do you look so bad?"
Looking at the girl's pale face, Aunt Yi quietly looked around. When she saw no one there, she asked softly, "Is that the one coming?"
Yi Zhilan's pale face turned slightly red, she lowered her head and whispered, "No, I just didn't sleep well yesterday."
"Next time, don't go to town to make up lessons. You live in a girl's house. Even if there are only women in the house, it's not safe. Your uncle and aunt are rich and can provide for you."
Seeing the early wrinkles on her aunt's face due to poverty, Yi Zhilan felt sour in her heart and comforted her softly, "It's okay. If I stay at Aunt Qin's house at night, nothing will happen."
Yi Zhilan's parents died young, and when she was one year old, her uncle took her home to raise her. Aunt Yi didn't object and she really loved this poor niece as if she were her own daughter.
When she was a child, she was too weak to eat the chaff, so Aunt Yi had no choice but to exchange the eggs laid by the only hen in the family with those women who had milk.
Just like that, the illness lasted three days and a minor illness every two days. The couple gritted their teeth and worked hard to bear the medical expenses, and brought up their niece safely.
Uncle Yi is an ordinary farmer. He goes out early and comes home late. He is just in his early forties and is very tired. Aunt Yi also has wrinkles on her face. Just like that, they still gritted their teeth and provided for Yi Zhilan to go to school, and they forced themselves to provide a college student. Come.
When her uncle and aunt reached this point, no one in the village could say anything bad about them. Yi Zhilan even regarded her uncle and aunt as her closest relatives. She studied hard because she wanted to find a good job with her academic qualifications after graduation and show her filial piety. Uncle and aunt, let them enjoy happiness. Now seeing the concerned look on aunt's face, the pain in her body, and the grievance and confusion she felt when she woke up all came to her.
No, we can't make aunt worry.
Yi Zhilan blinked to cover up the tears in her eyes, smiled at Aunt Yi and asked, "Where is Qingqing?"
"That lazy girl is still asleep. Really, let her go to the town to find a job and she won't do it. She wants to take the college entrance examination. If she has that ability, your uncle and I will pay for it even if we sell it, but she doesn't. !”
Yi Zhilan's eyes dimmed slightly, but there was no clue on her face, "I'll go see her."
She entered the house, and in the innermost small room was the kang where the sisters slept together. On top, there was a girl lying with her back to her, it was Yi Qingqing.
"Qingqing, Qingqing..."
Yi Qingqing handed over her drunk cousin to the gangster yesterday. It was the first time she had done this. She couldn't sleep well all night. She just squinted her eyes for a while when she heard her cousin's voice calling her. She felt all over her body. Trembling, his body stiffened.
But soon, she recalled what the bastard had taught her. Trying to calm down her racing heart, she rubbed her eyes and replied in a sleepy voice, "What are you doing?"
Seeing that her reaction was normal, Yi Zhilan bit her lip and asked softly, "Didn't you make me drink last night?"
"Yeah." Yi Qingqing closed her eyes and pretended to be confused.
"Then I got drunk, where did you go?"
"I'm going home..." Yi Qingqing said according to the gangster's instructions, "I was also drunk and went home in a daze. Who did you say you were going to find? I don't know where you were going. …”
There were many loopholes in her words, but Yi Zhilan couldn't hold back her guilty conscience.
Yi Zhilan and the gangster were in a relationship. No one knew about it. The two of them would meet quietly occasionally. It was really not ruled out that she would get drunk and run off to find her lover.
The doubts in her mind were cleared, and Yi Zhilan stopped asking any more questions, "Then you can continue to sleep. I'll go out and help auntie first."
After the girl left, Yi Qingqing opened her eyes and looked at Yi Zhilan's back in shock.
Things shouldn't be like this!
Didn't the bastard say that he would let the whole village know that Yi Zhilan was with him, and that he would let people see the two of them in bed?
Why did she come back so safely? There was no big movement outside.
Yi Qingqing was anxious and wanted to get out of bed to ask the gangster what was going on, but she was afraid that Yi Zhilan would be suspicious if she ran out, so she could only stay in bed struggling, feeling as uncomfortable as ten thousand ants crawling around.
She hates her cousin, and only the bastard knows this.
There are many reasons why I hate Yi Zhilan.
She is beautiful, has a good personality, and studies well. Even her parents like her the most.
Every time people in the village talk about her, they always praise Yi Zhilan. When talking about Yi Qingqing, they only praise her by saying, "She looks like her sister."
Yi Qingqing's appearance is indeed good. In this shabby mountain village, Qingxiu is already a great beauty, but who makes Yi Zhilan look better than her?
They all say that she is not as studious as Yi Zhilan, nor as diligent as Yi Zhilan, but no one thinks about it. Those are her parents. If it is not Yi Zhilan, then they belong to her alone. She lives in someone else's house, so of course she has to. Be diligent.
What finally made Yi Qingqing decide to take action was because of the man.
Brother Long in the town, in the eyes of others, is a little gangster who does nothing serious all day long, but in Yi Qingqing's view, he has so many brothers under his command at such a young age. Who dares to rush into the house when he is away from home? What does he do.
A heart is just hanging on Brother Long.
But what did she hear?
"Who is worthy of our Brother Long? Of course it is Yi Zhilan. She is a college student and she is so beautiful. Brother Long always said that she is good-looking."
Yi Zhilan, Yi Zhilan again!
Then, she discovered that Yi Zhilan had quietly fallen in love with a gangster.
When she found out, Yi Qingqing almost laughed out loud.
In her mind, if Brother Long is a dragon, then the bastard is a worm crawling on the ground. Yi Zhilan is so ignorant that she would do anything if she likes that person. She hangs around the house every day and nods and bows to Brother Long. A bastard who is close to you.
A poisonous plan quietly emerged from her heart.
Let the bastard and Yi Zhilan be together, and let this cousin, who has been better than her in every aspect since childhood, marry a loser who has accomplished nothing.
It would be best if she could not go to college and stay in this small mountain village all her life, while she would go to the big city with Brother Long and become a city dweller.
Everything was planned well, he got her cousin drunk, handed her over to the gangster, and watched the man leave with a smile on his arms. Yi Qingqing was scared and nervous, and ran back home in a panic.
She thought that by the next day, she would be able to see Yi Zhilan being spurned by everyone.
But why, nothing happened?
At the same time, Wei Mingyan counted the money in his pocket, thirty-two.
How can I get a wife with so little money?
What's more, the wife still has one in her belly.
He thought for a moment and knocked on Lao Chentou's door next door.
Ten minutes later, he was enthusiastically sent out again, with a fishing net in his hand.
Lao Chen closed the door with his head, walked back to the house on crutches, and said to his wife who was choosing vegetables, "This kid even said he caught fish and gave it to me to eat. What kind of fish can I catch with my broken fishing net?"
"Young people like to brag. It's rare for this kid to kiss you like this. Just agree to come down and coax him."
Old Chentou smiled proudly, "That's right, I agreed immediately and said that I would cook fish for him to eat. Seeing that boy leaving happily, I felt happy in my heart. Although I couldn't catch it, I still had the heart to do it. Nothing better than nothing.”
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Yi Zhilan helped sweep the floor and fed the chickens. She was choosing vegetables when she saw her uncle walking in carrying a big fat fish with a smile on his face.
Aunt Yi was boiling water and preparing to cook. When she looked up, she saw her husband carrying a fish. A happy smile suddenly appeared on her face, "Why did you catch a fish?"
It's been a long time since her family had eaten meat. Now that she saw this fish, she couldn't blame her for being happy.
"I didn't catch it." Uncle Yi smiled even bigger on his face, handed the fish to his wife, and said happily as if he had picked up a big bargain, "The bastard went to the back mountain to catch fish, I don't know how he caught so many. , too much to take back, I happened to be passing by, he borrowed my sack and gave me this fish. "
"Let's pick the fattest one. Look, hurry up and cook this fish. Lanlan and Qingqing haven't eaten fish for such a long time."
Aunt Yi was also happy. While muttering about how generous the gangster was, she quickly started to handle the fish in her hands.
Only Yi Zhilan, looking at the fat fish, blushed quietly.
On the other side, Wei Mingyan dragged a sack of fish back, took one and knocked on the door of Old Chen's house.
As soon as Old Chen opened the door, he saw the child he had looked up to since childhood smiling and mentioning a big fish.
"Uncle, I'm here to give you fish to eat."