Ye Changhui's words became the last straw for her, and she ran out of the house crying.
This brother of hers is a fool, with poor grades. He is lucky to be able to graduate from junior high school. Just because he is a boy, there is unconditional favoritism in the family. Even the school she got into based on her ability is not good enough. How could she bear it if she could be deprived of it.
But she is a sixteen-year-old girl after all, and she does not have the courage to escape from this home. But this time she wants to fight, so she hides in the dilapidated ancestral hall, hoping that her parents will find out and come to see her. She promised to let her continue studying. As long as her parents agreed, she would find a way to earn the tuition fees, but she was disappointed in the end.
After night fell, smoke rose from every house, and the smell of rice spread to the surroundings. Ye Changan felt hungry, but she gritted her teeth and held back. She felt that her family would eat dinner. If he finds that she hasn't come home, he will come to find her.
But until the moon was at its peak, no one from her family came to look for her, and no one in the village knew she had run away from home. In the end, she was so hungry that she slowly returned home.
Seeing that the lights at home were on, she comforted herself that her family was worried about her and had left the lights on waiting for her. When she walked under the eaves of her house, she heard her parents talking.
“That damn girl from Chang’an thought her wings were hardened after studying for two years, so she dared to run out. I want to see how far she can run, and she came back after being hungry for two days.”
"Okay, it's hard to raise her up. It doesn't matter if you drive her out now. I think she is too ambitious in Shunian.
I will find her back tomorrow and lock her up. In a few days, you go find a matchmaker and find her a partner. It’s her business to make noises after she gets married. Her mother-in-law will take care of it. It will be fine when she has children.”
This is a man’s voice. .
Ye Changan's heart was completely cold after hearing this. These are her parents who are unwilling to let her study and improve. They say that her mother-in-law will take care of her after she gets married, but anyone who is not a fool knows that they will use her in exchange for betrothal gifts.
Ye Changan returned to the ancestral hall with tears streaming down her face. She no longer felt hungry. She just wanted to die now, at least she would not live such a miserable life.
Looking at the dusty ancestral tablets, Ye Changan knelt on the ground and began to kowtow. While kowtowing, he cried:
"Ancestors of the Ye family, if you really protect your descendants, , just show it! I don’t want to live such a miserable life, I can do anything to change it. I want to leave Yejiacun, I want to leave that eccentric home, and I want to live like a human being.”
Ye Changan. She didn't know how long she cried or how long she knelt until she completely fainted.
When she wasn't paying attention, the blood from her knocking her head got into the gap under the altar table, flowed into the space under the altar table, and stained a dark red stone.
When Ye Changan woke up the next day, she found that she was holding a dark red stone the size of a baby's fist in her hand, and her forehead was intact, with no trace of blood on the ground.
She was both surprised and happy. What was surprising was that she really almost died last night. What was happy was that if that dream was true, then she could really get away from that home and go to school.
Looking at the red stone in her hand, she decided to give it a try according to the prompts in her dream. Whether it was true or false, she had nothing to lose, and she had nothing to lose.
Then she got up from the ground and ran home quickly. While everyone in the family was eating in the main room, she placed the dark red stone in the rooms of her brothers at home. She casually placed it in the corner, then took the hoe standing in the corner and returned to the dilapidated ancestral hall.
Following the prompts in her dream, she found the movable stone slab under the altar table, spent a lot of effort to pry open the stone slab with a hoe, and then dug out the gold ingot underneath.
Ye Changan was not greedy. She only took two gold ingots and covered the stone slab back as it was. After restoring the altar table to its original state, she knelt on the ground to thank her ancestors. After doing all this, she left Yejia Village with the gold ingot in her pocket. She had been to the town with her family and knew that the value of these two ingots could support her education until she graduated from high school. As long as she worked hard enough, Maybe she can still get into college, so her future will be bright, and she can completely get rid of that patriarchal family.
Ye Changan was hungry, so he took the ingots to the county bank and exchanged them for cash. He then deposited the money in the bank and returned to the town with enough tuition and living expenses for his first year of high school. She reported to the school in advance, paid the tuition, food and accommodation fees, and applied for residence on campus. Then she returned to Yejiacun.
After returning home, she was scolded by her parents and brothers, who mocked her for not having the ability and had to go home obediently.
Ye Changan was not angry either, and just said to his parents:
“I went to the school in the town and asked the principal if I didn’t go to school if my brother could go to school in my place. The principal said no, who got into the exam? Who knows, if I don’t go to school, I can recruit other students. It is absolutely impossible for relatives to replace me. If I am found out, I will be held accountable.”
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the Ye family was silent. , and then Ye Changhui said arrogantly:
"If you don't want to read, I won't read. I don't care! If I can't read, my family will not support you in studying. You just wait to get married!"
Ye Changan took a deep look at the other party, and when the other party was about to explode, he said:
"I won't read it anymore."
Then, with everyone's doubtful eyes, he returned to the two sisters' room.
My sister looked at Ye Changan and whispered:
"Sister, they have already shown you your husband's family. I overheard it when the matchmaker came that day. The bride price they asked for was quite high. I want to use the bride price to give my second brother a wife.”
Ye Changan touched his sister’s hair and said softly:
"I understand. Don't eavesdrop on their conversations in the future, lest they find out and beat you up."
Chang Ping nodded obediently, and then continued:
"Sister, you are married. , I am the only one left in the family, are they going to marry me off too in exchange for a bride price?"
After hearing this, Ye Changan felt bitter in his heart, and could only comfort his sister:
"No. Yes, as long as you study hard, you can leave this home, and then you can do whatever you want.”
The younger sister looked at Chang'an with a pair of ignorant eyes and said:
"Sister, are you telling the truth? Then why are you forced to get married? You obviously have such good academic performance and have passed the exam. The town’s school, why still?”
Chang Ping didn’t dare to say the rest of the words, because at this time, there was a low pressure surrounding her sister, so she swallowed the rest of the words wisely.
“As long as you don’t give up, you will always have a chance.”
Ye Changan murmured to himself.
Starting from the next day, the adult children of the Ye family started to have accidents one after another. Some were stoned to death, some rolled into traps and were stabbed to death by sharp bamboos. In short, their family was like memorizing words in the next month, everything went wrong. , in the end four children died in a good family, leaving only the two youngest daughters.
While the Ye family couple was weeping and wiping away their tears, they were still cursing their two daughters, saying why they didn’t die and let their four sons meet with accidents. As a result, when they were buried the next day, they Something happened to both of them. (End of this chapter)