My Sister Doesn't Want to Marry You, but I Do!
Yinggu knelt down on the ground and said, "Fugui, I'm sorry, you're the one I love the most, sob sob... I can't live without you."
She saw a tree nearby and rushed straight towards it.
But the tree was so frightened that it quickly dodged to the side. "Oh dear! This wretched woman is trying to harm me! If her heart is so filthy, how filthy must her blood be?"
Yinggu originally intended to scare Liu Fugui, so she chose a small tree.
But to my surprise, when I rushed to the sapling, it was gone...
She fell to the ground with a thud.
"Fugui... Brother Fugui, did you see that?"
There was a tree here just now, how did it suddenly disappear? Am I hallucinating?
Liu Fugui looked at her and said:
"You don't need to try to kill yourself anymore; it won't do any good."
I'll take you down the mountain first thing tomorrow morning. You should get your cousin ready!
His older cousin rolled his eyes at him and said:
"What's so great about it? You think it's so great up here?"
There aren't even any women here. If there were a brothel, would I need to look for her?
It's better down in the mountains, humph!
Early the next morning, Zhou Wanwan, along with the Old Scholar Tree, saw the two off out of the mountain.
The two people were hanging upside down from the tree branch when they fainted.
Because everything on the mountain is kept secret from outsiders, these people came up the mountain in a daze and came back down in a daze as well.
When they woke up, Zhou Wanwan had already arrived at Jujube Grove Hamlet with more than ten people.
Liu Fugui went directly to Yinggu's house. Yinggu's parents were quite happy to see him. Yinggu greeted him loudly:
"Oh my, isn't this my son-in-law? Are you and Yinggu married yet? Did you come back to see me?"
"Does Yinggu miss us terribly? That brat is finally living a good life now."
Liu Fugui pointed to Yinggu on the ground and said, "I'm returning your daughter to you. I don't plan to marry her. Now, give me back my family's money!"
Yinggu glared and said:
What do you mean by that?
"You were the one who gave me the money and wanted to take Yinggu away. Why are you taking the money back now?"
Yinggu opened her eyes and, finding herself back home, immediately knelt on the ground, pleading bitterly:
"Fugui, I was wrong, please don't send me back."
You know, my dad has always wanted to sell me to one of the old bachelors in the village. If you send me back home, I'll have no way to survive!
Please forgive me, for the sake of our childhood friendship! I really know I was wrong, and I promise I'll listen to you for the rest of my life.
Liu Fugui shook his head and said:
"Yinggu, it's impossible for us to be together anymore. I would never marry someone like you."
"You should have known this day would come when you were with your cousin."
The Yinggu looked at the man on the ground and said:
"What did you say? Yinggu, you're with Tang Hao? You brat!"
Don't you know what kind of person Tang Hao is? He's just a scoundrel. What good can come of hanging out with him?
Are you really that clueless?
Yinggu cried and sobbed:
"Father and Mother, I was confused for a moment and was deceived by my cousin."
My cousin said he'd treat me well if he became the top scorer in the college entrance exam.
The Yinggu rolled her eyes and said:
"How could someone like him possibly become the top scholar? He's taken the preliminary examination more than ten times already."
You believed him? Now it's all over, isn't it?
All that money is gone, you brat! How are we supposed to live now?
Yinggu was definitely unwilling to take out the money, but a girl who had been working nearby suddenly stopped and said, "Mother, if my sister doesn't want to marry, I do! Brother Fugui, why don't I marry you instead?"
Zhou Wanwan looked at the girl. Although she was only a little over ten years old and very thin, she was indeed quite pretty.
Moreover, she looks like a very capable person, and has a very cheerful personality.
Zhou Wanwan circled around the doorway, spotted the wild vegetables nearby, and asked directly, "How's this little girl in your family who's talking right now? Is she reliable?"
The wild vegetable turned its head, looked at it for a while, and then said, "You... you're talking to me?"
Zhou Wanwan chuckled and said:
"Of course I'm talking to you."
I just want to ask, what kind of person is this little girl in your family who's talking right now?
The wild vegetable chuckled and said, "This little girl is so pitiful, she's always living a life of hardship."
A lychee grass plant nearby chimed in:
"This little girl has had the hardest time. She's the sixth of eight children in her family, and her older sisters are all married."
When it was her turn, she had two younger brothers who she had raised single-handedly.
The little girl can do everything: chopping wood, cooking, feeding pigs and chickens, washing clothes—she's good at everything.
Moreover, she's very hardworking, much better than this Yinggu.
Her name is Xiugu, and she's much prettier than Yinggu. That Yinggu is a piece of trash; she's just a lazy bum at home.
Yinggu had already been having an affair with this cousin.
A nearby ula plant also nodded in agreement:
"Isn't that right? Xiugu is such a good girl! Why did they have to choose someone like Yinggu?"
That Liu Fugui is a fool too, tsk tsk tsk..."
"Oh dear! If Xiugu can't marry Liu Fugui, she'll have to marry an old cripple who's already in his forties."
"They're willing to pay two taels of silver," Lychee Grass said helplessly.
Liu Fugui was so angry he gritted his teeth.
"No, your family is in business?"
Xiugu, I've always treated her like a younger sister. Besides, if I can't marry the older sister, what kind of relationship would it be if I married the younger sister?
It would be so awful if people talked about it.
Xiugu wiped away her tears, staring blankly at Liu Fugui without saying a word.
Ula grass next to him shook its head:
"Hmph! This Xiugu has always had a crush on Liu Fugui."
Hey brat, say something! Open your mouth! Fight for yourself!
He's quite talkative when he chats with us!
The jujube tree beside it also sighed:
"This little girl can argue with us quite a bit, but when Liu Fugui actually came, she didn't say a word. She's liked Liu Fugui since she was little."
Why is Liu Fugui so good to Yinggu? It's because he thinks Yinggu saved him when he was a child, but it was Xiugu who saved him when he was a child.
Just as the jujube tree finished speaking, Yinggu looked at Liu Fugui and said, "Liu Fugui, do you remember when I saved you when you were little?"
Liu Fugui was taken aback, then pursed his lips and remained silent.
When Liu Fugui was a child, he went up the mountain with the adults to collect firewood. He was playing and ran far away. He lost his footing and fell into a trap dug by a hunter.
The trap was deep and steep, and the walls were frozen solid, making it impossible to climb out.
He was in pain all over from the fall, cold and scared, and no one heard him when he cried.
It was getting dark, and the snow was falling heavier and heavier. People were almost frozen to death; if they weren't rescued soon, they would surely die.
At that time, I heard a little girl passing by on her way up the mountain to dig for wild vegetables. She heard crying from below, and when she looked over the edge of the pit, she saw a child.
Unable to pull herself up, she quickly ran towards the village and called for adults.
It took a lot of effort to finally pull him out of the trap.
Liu Fugui closed his eyes. If it weren't for Yinggu, he would have died long ago. Why had he always been so good to Yinggu?
Isn't it because they remember Yinggu's life-saving grace?