Published at 13th of December 2020 03:20:19 PM
This child was not very young . He looked about thirteen or fourteen years old, and was actually a youth .
He was shabbily dressed . He was wrapped in a thicker garment, which looked like an old shirt from an adult, and he wore a straw garment outside it .
It was made of straw, and looked somewhat like a raincoat . He wore it over himself to help keep out the cold .
The youngster looked at them with cold suspicion, his expression frosty . But when he saw Gu Qingyao and the others, his expression softened .
Li Fangting called out to him when she saw him . “Elder Brother Jiang Xun!”
Jiang Xun nodded with a grunt . Then he looked at Gu Qingyao and said, “The entire Poplar Brigade lives in terror of Li Aiguo . They won’t dare to take you in . But there’s an abandoned house at the foot of the hill . Why don’t you hide there for a while? There’s no one there . ”
Gu Qingyao turned to look at her younger aunt on her back . She knew that she urgently needed to get her younger aunt home to attend to her . There was no point lingering here .
Gu Qingyao said to Jiang Xun, “My younger aunt has had a miscarriage and is still bleeding . It’s no use hiding here . I have to bring her home to treat her . Can you go and get my father and elder brother? I live in the Qing River Brigade . Just follow this road . The brigade at the foot of the mountain is the Qing River Brigade . My family lives halfway up the mountain . ”
Jiang Xun looked at the pallid Gu Yunshuang and nodded . “Alright, I’ll run over and get them . ”
Gu Qingyao hurriedly thanked him . “Thank you . My father’s name is Gu Yunshen . He’s the doctor there . If you ask for Doctor Gu’s family, everyone there will know where he is . Ask them to bring a small cart . My younger aunt needs to lie down . And bring some blankets too!”
Jiang Xun nodded to show that he understood, then he ran down the road .
Gu Qingyao could not move quickly while carrying someone . It was much faster for Jiang Xun to go alone .
Gu Qingyao carried Gu Yunshuang and moved on . As she walked, she comforted Gu Yunshuang . “Younger Aunt, don’t be sad . I’ll bring you home . When we get home, no one will bully you . In the future, you and Tingting can lead a good life . Considering what the Li family is like, it’s best that you leave them . ”
Gu Yunshuang smiled mockingly . “Don’t worry, I won’t be sad . I’ve wanted to get a divorce for a long time, but that Li Aiguo is a very difficult man . And Old Madam Li is absolutely unreasonable . She always brings up the fact that I’m a girl from a landlord family . But she and Li Aiguo are relatives, so I had no choice but to bear with it all these years .
“I’m not sad at all to have finally escaped . ”
Although she said that she was not sad, her tears continued to flow .
She thought of the years she had spent trying to accommodate them in order to get by, how she had lived like a slave in the Li family, waiting on the whole family like a maidservant, and how she had miscarried twice from exhaustion . She had not managed to keep this one either .
As Gu Yunshuang thought about it, her tears flowed and she leaned on Gu Qingyao’s shoulder and sobbed hard .
Gu Qingyao’s heart ached to hear it . “Younger Aunt…”
“Mother…”
When she saw Gu Yunshuang crying so hard, Li Fangting also started to cry . She clutched Gu Qingyao and they kept going but with difficulty .
Gu Qingyao looked at Li Fangting and thought of what she had said just now to the Li family . She hurriedly explained, “Tingting, just now I told the Li family that you didn’t know how to do anything, and asked them to take you back . Please don’t misunderstand me . I purposely said that so that you could be with your mother . Do you understand?”