“This woman can’t even keep a pregnancy but needs an old woman like me to serve her? Useless thing. Isn’t it just a miscarriage? What’s the big deal? Other people give birth in the fields and immediately go back to work. Look at her, how pampered could she get?”
“Hurry up and go!”
Li Dahai recalled the women who gave birth while working in the fields, and thought that his mother had a point. Most importantly, his mother was furious right now. He could not possibly disobey his mother.
“Yunshuang, hurry and get up. Mother is old and cannot wait on you… Get up and come home!”
“No, she’s not allowed to come back. Li Dahai, I said that you must immediately get rid of that woman. It’s very bad luck to bleed during the new year. If you dare to let her cross the threshold, I will never forgive you. Hurry up and divorce her.”
When Li Aiguo saw Old Madam Li’s attitude, he said bluntly, “Since Dahai has already divorced you, you had better hurry up and go home. Don’t die on someone’s doorstep during the new year. Now people are free to marry as they please, do you understand? Are you going to refuse to leave the Li Family?”
Gu Qingyao was extremely despondent. This was the result that she was hoping for. She had hoped to get her Younger Aunt to leave the Li Family as soon as possible, but the way they treated her…
Gu Qingyao cried and wailed, “Younger Uncle, you mustn’t do this! My Younger Aunt only needs to recuperate for a while before she can have a son. Now men and women are equals. You cannot abandon her just because she hasn’t had a son wu wu wu!”
“Hurry up and divorce. Dahai, say something!” Old Madam Li bellowed.
Li Aiguo said, “Dahai, just get a divorce! Girls from landlord families are no good. She can’t even have a son. What do you want her for?”
Li Dahai could not stand up against the combined pressure of Old Madam Li and Li Aiguo. He shrank back and said, “Then… then we’ll get a divorce! Divorce! Divorce…”
The moment Li Dahai said these words, Old Madam Li dragged him into the yard and shut the door with a clang.
Gu Qingyao immediately shouted, “Younger Uncle, Li Fangting is your daughter. Hurry up and bring her home. She’s so small, she won’t do much except eat. Bring her home and raise her. My younger aunt can’t afford to raise her anymore. Give us my younger aunt’s share of grain.”
Old Madam Li poked her head out. “We don’t want a useless object like that. Get lost!”
“Younger Uncle… Younger Uncle… Tingting is your daughter…”
Old Madam roared, “Li Dahai, quickly break off your relationship with that useless object. If you dare to take her, I’ll kill myself right now.”
Then they heard Li Dahai’s frightened voice. “Mother, Mother, be careful, don’t hurt yourself. I don’t want her, I don’t want Tingting. Don’t kill yourself! Mother…”
Li Dahai opened the door and poked his head out. “I don’t want her. I have nothing to do with the two of them. You had better leave!”
Li Aiguo said, “Did you hear that? Get lost!”
When Li Dahai shouted those words, Gu Qingyao knew that they would never have any more entanglements with this family.
In these times, severing relationships were very effective.
For the sake of their future, many descendants of capitalist families announced that they were severing their relationship with their parents. This was acknowledged by the society.
Now Li Dahai had done the same.
As long as he said it in front of many witnesses, the words were effective.
Gu Qingyao cried piteously for a while more before she carried Gu Yunshuang and left.
Gu Yunshuang was still conscious, but Gu Qingyao had secretly given her a pill just now. Although she was still in agony, she still had some strength left and could remain conscious.
Divorced!
She had managed to get a divorce without any trouble from Li Aiguo!
Her daughter would follow her and have a clean break from the Li family.
That was pretty good!
Li Aiguo told the Poplar Brigade that they were not to take Gu Yunshuang in. No one dared to take them in, so Gu Qingyao had no choice but to carry her younger aunt and leave.
They left the area where most of the people from the Poplar Brigade lived. As they turned the corner, a child who was behind some shrubs approached them.
