1959Siheyuan, a Turnaround

Chapter 170 Li Weilan Knows the Truth

The village chief stood in the middle of the yard, surrounded by noisy villagers, but at this moment everything seemed to have quieted down.

His voice was filled with disappointment and anger: "If there is a conflict between you brothers, it can always be resolved. Once the conflict is resolved, I want you brothers to reconcile. But you are so stubborn that you don't repent!"

"Li Quanzhen, I'm going to ask you one last time, can you return the things you stole? And apologize?"

Li Quanzhen stiffened his neck and argued, "Village Chief, I've already said that this matter is not your business. I can't afford to lose face. Besides, this is our family's internal affairs, so please don't get involved, okay!"

The village chief laughed in anger: "Okay, Li Quanzhen, you are really stubborn! I am doing this for your own good, for the harmony of our village, but you think I am meddling in other people's business. Fine, you guys take care of yourself!"

After saying that, the village chief flicked his sleeves and turned away.

The villagers were pointing and talking.

"The Li Quanzhen couple really don't know what's good for them!"

"The village chief had good intentions, but they didn't appreciate it, and they still had this attitude."

"Hmph, let's see how they can hold their heads up in the village in the future!"

"Alas! Another blind person! Let's go! What's so good about an ungrateful person..."

"Yes! Let's go! We might as well go home and do some work instead of wasting time!"

At this time, the villagers left in groups of three or five, leaving only Li Quanzhen and his partner standing in the yard like fools.

The summer sun was hot and strong. On the small road in Lijia Village, Li Weilan was walking home with a basket full of wild vegetables on her back.

Her forehead was covered with sweat and her little face was sunburned, but she didn't feel tired at all.

Ever since her family received those ten chicks, a burning flame of hope seemed to be burning in Li Weilan's heart.

Every morning, Li Weilan gets up early, cleans the chicken coop, and picks wild vegetables to feed the chickens.

There was determination and persistence in her eyes, and she knew in her heart that these chickens were extremely precious and were the hope for changing her family's plight.

Every day she carried a bamboo basket and went into the fields to find fresh grass for her chickens, never complaining about being tired.

She knew that her father's illness required money to buy medicine, and her two younger brothers would need money to go to school.

She made up her mind that she must cure her father's illness, send her younger brothers to school, and hope that they would be as successful as her cousin Li Weiguo in the future.

That’s right, in Li Weilan’s heart, her cousin Li Weiguo is the most powerful person.

Even though her clothes were soaked with sweat every day, and even though her back and waist ached from long hours of work, she never slacked off.

One day, Li Weilan came back from picking wild vegetables. When she passed by her grandfather's house, she saw a group of people gathered at the door.

Moreover, the fierce quarrels in her grandfather's house and the discussions of the villagers came into her ears.

She stopped and hid in the corner and listened clearly to what happened in her grandfather's house.

The villagers' words were like needles piercing Li Weilan's heart.

"Li Quanzhen and Qin Xinghua are too much. Li Dahu is so seriously ill, but not only do they not help him, they also embezzle the money and food given by Li Quanfu."

"This isn't something that a real parent would do!"

"Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. I've never seen such a cold-blooded person..."

Upon hearing this, Li Weilan widened her eyes, her face full of disbelief.

She could never have imagined that her own grandparents could do such a thing.

At this moment, she felt like a huge stone was pressing on her heart, so heavy that she couldn't breathe.

"They are obviously my own grandparents, so why can't they even compare to the little finger of my great-grandparents?"

She muttered to herself and walked home with heavy steps, unable to believe that this was true.

When she returned home, Li Weilan saw her two younger brothers happily feeding the chickens beside the chicken fence. When they saw her come in, they ran towards her with smiles on their faces.

"Sister, you are finally back. Here is some candy for you!"

The two younger brothers handed over the candies in their hands at the same time.

Li Weilan saw the candy in her brother's hand and was stunned at first. Then she asked in surprise: "Wei Qiang, Wei Bang, where did this candy come from?"

So the two younger brothers happily told Li Weilan what happened at home today: "Sister, it was sent by Brother Weiguo. Grandma asked him to bring medicine to our father's illness. He gave us the candy before he left."

After hearing what her brother said, Li Weilan felt mixed emotions.

Great-grandmother's family treated them so well, but their own grandmother actually did such a thing. The huge gap made her nose sore and she almost shed tears.

She did not take the candy from her brother's hand, but told them to keep it for themselves. After all, given her family's situation, it was simply impossible for her to have candy.

Li Weilan silently put down the basket of wild vegetables and walked into the house.

Seeing Chen Suzhi in the main room, she couldn't hold back any longer and cried into her mother's arms: "Mom, why do grandpa and grandma treat us like this? Isn't my dad their son? Why do they treat us like that?"

Chen Suzhi didn't understand what was going on. She patted her daughter's back and asked, "Don't cry, Weilan. Tell me what happened."

Li Weilan sobbed and told her mother everything she had heard and seen.

After hearing this, Chen Suzhi was stunned, with tears welling up in her eyes.

In recent years, life at home has been very difficult because of her husband Li Dahu's illness.

She gets up early and goes to bed late every day to take care of the household, but she never complains.

She always thought that no matter how hard or difficult the life was, as long as the family was together, they could always get through it.

But now, knowing what her parents-in-law had done, her heart felt like it was stabbed by a knife.

She once thought that it was not easy for her parents-in-law to raise three sons and one daughter, and it was normal for them to be unable to take care of their own family due to financial difficulties. However, she never expected that her own parents-in-law would be so heartless.

Not only did they not help, they also did this behind the scenes, and took Li Dahu's illness to his uncle and pretended to be pitiful and begged for help.

However, he secretly stole those things, leaving her family in the dark and making them unpopular.

"Wow, wow, wow..." Chen Suzhi hugged her daughter, tears streaming down her face.

Li Dahu, who was lying on the kang in the room, also heard what his daughter said.

His face turned pale instantly, his hands clenched into fists, and tears flowed out of the corners of his eyes involuntarily.

His eyes burned with anger and despair, and he swore secretly: "From now on, they are no longer my parents!"

At the same time, he also made up his mind to listen to Li Weiguo, take medicine well, exercise well, and get better as soon as possible.

He wants to use the rest of his life to repay the kindness of his uncle and aunt.

Li Weiguo returned to the courtyard and did not tell his family that he had seen his second grandmother throwing a tantrum.

His grandparents had finally moved out of the village, and he was reluctant to leave because those people made them angry and upset.

He has been more diligent these two days and has made two more trips to the village to deliver more things to Uncle Dahu's house.

What's more, the transaction time he agreed with the black market is about to arrive, and he will go to the village often in the next two days.