Almost instantly, lights turned on in all the rooms of the Kang family, as well as in the hos of the neighbors to the left and right.
"Xu Chunxia, if you’re sick, hurry up and go to the hospital. Why the hell are you wailing like a ghost in my yard?"
Kang Li ca out from the main room, her expression cold. She stepped forward, lifted Xu Chunxia up, and slapped her twice across the face. Then she asked, "Are you awake now? Do you even know what ti it is?"
Crying out with a "wah," Xu Chunxia looked at Kang Li in disbelief, "Li Bao... Li Bao, why did you hit ?"
"You ask why I’m hitting you?"
Kang Li stared into Xu Chunxia’s eyes. "Running into soone else’s house and going insane in the middle of the night, anyone would slap you for this!"
"But I really had no other choice! Li Bao, please help !" Xu Chunxia reached out to grab Kang Li’s arm, but Kang Li casually let go, letting her fall to the ground, and said coldly, "I told you I can’t help you. Do you have the mory of a goldfish?"
Cai Xiufen: "I’ll take Chunxia back ho. Everyone else go back to sleep!" She grabbed Xu Chunxia and, with a grim expression on her face, began to drag her out of the yard.
"Auntie... Auntie, let go. Only Li Bao can help . If I go back, my parents will sell !" Xu Chunxia struggled, not wanting to return to that ho, not wanting to be sold. She wanted to go to North City, to live in the big city.
"My Li Bao has no way to help you. Whatever your plans are, speak directly to your own parents."
Cai Xiufen, pulling Xu Chunxia along in front, and Captain Kang, with a dark expression and hands clasped behind him, followed behind.
anwhile, at the entrance to the Kang family’s courtyard, a crowd had gathered, discussing Xu Chunxia’s mad behavior.
"What the hell was Chunxia doing in Team Leader’s House’s courtyard just now?"
"Begging Li Bao for help."
"Help? What kind of help did she want from Li Bao?"
"I guess she wanted Li Bao to take her to North City."
"What? Who does she think she is, to have the audacity to ask Li Bao to take her to North City? Tsk, tsk, tsk, she’s got so nerve!"
"I heard soone banging on the gates of Team Leader’s House like crazy, so I ca out from my yard. I heard Chunxia’s conversation with the Team Leader. It seems like Chunxia’s mother and father want to marry her off to a la man, and Chunxia doesn’t want to, so she hoped Li Bao would take her away from our village to find a way to make a living in North City."
"Is there more to it?"
"There is. Chunxia’s real plan... is to have Li Bao find her a match in North City!"
"That’s quite a sche!"
"Would Li Bao agree to it?"
"If she had agreed, Li Bao wouldn’t have given those two slaps just now."
"True. It’s her parents who are heartless, wanting to marry her off to a la man... No, actually, the Xu family is planning to sell their daughter, that’s why Chunxia ca up with this idea at Li Bao’s place."
"As parents themselves, the Xu family is incredibly cruel. They betrothed Chunyue to an old bachelor just for a three-hundred-yuan bride price, and now they want to sell Chunxia. They simply don’t treat their daughters as humans; they’re treating them like livestock, selling them off!"
"I was coming back from the town the other day when I ran into a relative of mine from the Elm Bay brigade. As soon as she saw , she told Chunyue gets beaten and scolded by her husband every day, especially when he drinks. He practically beats Chunyue to death. To date, Chunyue has been beaten into miscarrying three tis."
"Hasn’t anyone tried to intervene?"
"How can they intervene? Chunyue’s husband says he bought his wife for three hundred yuan. He ntioned that Chunyue’s parents gave their word—once she beca his wife, they wouldn’t care whether she lived or died."
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