Rebirth begins with an arranged marriage

Chapter 29 A Dream That Cannot Be Obtained

"Erni, have you come this month? I'm calculating the days and it should be about time."

Walking to the side, Li Xiufang asked Li Xiujuan in a low voice.

Li Xiujuan nodded.

"Does it hurt again? How bad is it this time?"

"Mmm." Li Xiujuan nodded again, then couldn't help but add, "He bought me painkillers and brown sugar water..."

Li Xiufang was taken aback: "Him? Tang Huaiyi? He's a man, how would he know these things?"

"He saw how much pain I was in."

Li Xiujuan spoke softly, her lips pursed, her eyelashes lowered, and she couldn't help but curl them slightly. Her hands involuntarily gripped the hem of her old clothes that had been washed countless times.

Seeing her second sister slightly twisting her body, talking about Tang Huaiyi, not knowing where to put her hands, and still wanting to say good things about Tang Huaiyi, Li Xiufang couldn't quite describe the feeling in her heart.

From the very beginning, it was indeed the second sister who said she wanted to exchange wives with Tang Huaiyi.

But on the day Tang Huaiyi came to the Li family, she also took a liking to him. He was good-looking and had a manly spirit. He dared to go against the elders of both families and reject the idea of ​​dropping out of school to exchange for a marriage. He made sure that what he wanted to do was done. This man was simply the backbone and pillar of the family.

At the time, I was thinking that if my second sister didn't want to be with Tang Huaiyi, she would be with him instead.

This time, when I came to see my second sister, it wasn't just to bring her pickled vegetables and ask her how severe her period was; I also wanted to see her a little more.

but now……

Don't have any other thoughts, Second Sister has clearly made up her mind about him.

She mumbled something and said, "It's so kind of you to know when to be warm and when to be cold... Erni, you're so lucky."

Li Xiujuan had heard her sister say this before, but hearing it again now, she wholeheartedly agreed.

"Yeah, sis, I'm so lucky!"

Unable to express her feelings to her classmates, and too shy to talk to Tang Huaiyi, Li Xiujuan couldn't help but open up and whisper about how good Tang Huaiyi was when her family arrived, especially her eldest sister who had been close to her since childhood.

"He even changed my meals...so that I could have vegetables and steamed buns for lunch. I said I didn't need them, but he insisted on changing them...so I listened to him..."

It's only been a few days...

The second sister's eyes shone, and all she could say was about Tang Huaiyi.

Having lost her mother early, Li Xiufang, as the eldest sister, treated her like a mother. Suppressing the bitterness in her heart, she looked with affection at her second sister, who had never enjoyed happiness and always bowed her head to everyone, as she talked about her sweetheart with great relish. She watched as her sister spoke, unusually eloquently, as if she could go on and on about all the good things about Tang Huaiyi.

After Li Xiujuan finished speaking, Li Xiufang couldn't help but ask, "Erni, his family isn't well-off either, where did they get the money to change their meals?"

"He took some old silver dollars from home and sold them in the city."

Li Xiufang glanced at Tang Huaiyi not far away and asked in a low voice, "Did he steal it? His family is about to have a marriage exchange; if they had a way to do it sooner, they should have handed it over by now."

"Besides, even if we sell it and get the money, we won't use it to improve your meals."

"They have quite a few family members, and they have many expenses."

Upon hearing Li Xiufang's words, Li Xiujuan also became concerned: "I'll go ask him."

"If that's the case, I can't use his money; I have to make him take it home."

Li Xiufang nodded.

If Tang Huaiyi's claim of "having a way to go to school" refers to stealing old family items to exchange for money, then having enough money for the time being is not the main issue; bigger trouble is yet to come.

If the Tang family finds out, they'll definitely punish him, and he can forget about going to school.

These days, if you steal from your own family, your own father will hang you up and whip you with his belt.

Tang Huaiyi watched as the two sisters whispered to each other for a while not far away. Li Xiujuan, unusually radiant, talked with Li Xiufang for a while, clearly happy, so he watched with a smile.

Suddenly, the two sisters looked a little pale and looked over together.

Li Xiujuan hurried over, her voice low and urgent: "Your silver dollars—did your family know when you brought them?"

Li Xiufang followed, also keeping her voice down, afraid of being overheard.

"Tang Huaiyi, did you take silver dollars from home? Who in your family knows?"

Seeing their anxious expressions, Tang Huaiyi chuckled and said, "Who else could know? I told Teacher Chen that the silver dollar was from my family, but it's actually mine."

"There was no need to tell anyone about this, and you don't need to worry. I didn't steal anything from the house."

Seeing that he spoke with a clear and honest expression and did not flinch, Li Xiufang and Li Xiujuan were relieved.

"That's good. I was worried you might have taken something from home and cause trouble later," Li Xiufang said, then asked, "Where did you get your silver dollars?"

Tang Huaiyi chuckled: "Sister Xiufang, the way you're asking... are you interrogating me like a thief?"

Seeing that he wouldn't say, Li Xiufang thought to herself that if it were Erni, he would probably have told her, and that in the end he still didn't like her.

Feeling slightly agitated, he muttered a few more words, handed the pickled vegetables he had brought to Li Xiujuan, told them to study hard, and then turned to leave.

After walking a few steps, I looked back.

Tang Huaiyi and Li Xiujuan were standing in front of the red brick classroom, looking at him for a moment before quickly leaving.

Tang Huaiyi and Li Xiujuan returned to the classroom, put away the pickled vegetables, and continued reading.

In the afternoon, classes continued. Guan Xiaolin was eager to ask questions about her studies, but unfortunately, there were no exams or practice questions at the beginning of the semester, and most of the knowledge was rote memorization.

I didn't force myself to get closer to them and become friends immediately. I just exchanged a few words with them during dinner and greeted Tang Huaiyi and Li Xiujuan after evening self-study.

"Xiaolin, let's go home together."

Upon hearing Wang Man's voice, Guan Xiaolin smiled, waved to Tang Huaiyi and Li Xiujuan, and walked out of the classroom.

Seeing Zhao Weimin waiting at the classroom door, Guan Xiaolin's smile faded slightly: "Zhao Weimin, you don't need to wait for me to go to and from school every day, do you?"

Zhao Weimin looked somewhat surprised, but still smiled and said, "I'm just making sure you two are safe. After all, there are no lights on the streets at night, which makes me very uneasy."

Guan Xiaolin said calmly, "There are more classmates around when school is over, so you don't have to go through all this trouble every day."

"It's no trouble at all, I go to and from school every day too..." Zhao Weimin said, peeking into the classroom of Class 1, Grade 12. "Is the student who helps you tidy up the classroom last every day the one who sits in the back row?"

"Should we thank him properly tomorrow?"

Guan Xiaolin's face immediately turned cold: "This is my own business, it has nothing to do with you."

Zhao Weimin immediately felt awkward and gave an embarrassed smile: "Okay, okay..."

She glanced into the classroom again: "It's getting late, shall we go home?"

Guan Xiaolin saw that he still insisted on going to and from school with her and Wang Man, so she didn't say anything.

Wang Man chuckled and chimed in, "Yes, that's about enough. Let's head back now."

The three of them joined the students leaving the school and walked into the night.