pjbooks Chapter 150 To Manage
Chapter 150 To Manage
"Here?" Lin Xilei turned around and glanced at Lin Dachun.
Lin Dachun understood immediately and hurriedly said, "I'll go out, I'll go out."
Lin Dachun didn't want to embarrass Lin Xilei.
He didn't go out much when Li Ruoxue was taking a shower.
They saw Li Ruoxue's body completely naked; it was incredibly beautiful.
"You're still going out? Didn't you shower with us when you were little?" Li Ruoxue interjected.
"How can you compare? Now that you're all grown up, really." Lin Dachun said as he left the cave dwelling.
Night fell outside.
Lin Dachun left the cave dwelling, intending to take a stroll around the village.
At that moment, a woman stood on the edge of a cliff on the Loess Plateau, dark and frightening to behold.
It's Sun Taohua.
Lin Dachun rushed over and grabbed Sun Taohua.
"Peach Blossom? What are you doing? It's dangerous standing here," Lin Dachun said.
Lin Dachun saw that Sun Taohua's face was covered in bruises.
Sun Taohua knelt down with a thud, her knees hitting the hard yellow earth with a dull thud.
She grabbed Lin Dachun's trouser leg, her voice trembling uncontrollably: "Uncle Dachun...save me...save me..."
"Get up quickly, let's talk this out." Lin Dachun hurriedly bent down to help her up.
But Sun Taohua was rooted to the ground, refusing to get up, and just kept crying, with big tears falling down her face.
"Peach Blossom? What's wrong with you?"
Sun Taohua raised her head and cried even harder: "My parents... my parents are going to marry me off..."
"Married?" Lin Dachun was stunned. "Married to whom?"
"The east end of the village... Old Ma's family... that cripple..." Sun Taohua sobbed, almost unable to breathe, "Over fifty... old and lame... my parents accepted... three hundred yuan as a bride price..."
Lin Dachun's face darkened.
He knew the lame man from Old Ma's family at the east end of the village.
He broke his leg in a mine when he was young, leaving him with a limp. He also had a strange temper and never managed to get married.
He's over fifty and suddenly wants to marry Sun Taohua, who's in her early twenties—this isn't marrying off a daughter, it's selling her.
"Your parents...agreed?" Lin Dachun asked, his voice deep.
"He agreed..." Sun Taohua cried, her whole body trembling. "He said I'm already twenty-three... if I don't get married soon, no one will want me... he said that although the cripple is old, he has a house... if I marry him... I won't suffer..."
"Bullshit!" Lin Dachun suddenly cursed, his voice so loud it startled Sun Taohua.
He squatted down and looked into Sun Taohua's eyes: "Taohua, listen to your uncle. I can't agree to this marriage. I know that cripple; he's no good. If you marry him, you'll be jumping into a fire pit. His family has nothing but poverty; he's a lazy bum with a terrible temper. If you marry him, your life will be over."
"I know...I know..." Sun Taohua nodded repeatedly, "But I have no choice...My parents took the money...They said if I don't marry, they'll kick me out of the house...They also said...They also said if I dare to run away, they'll break my legs..."
As she spoke, she suddenly unbuttoned her jacket.
Li Ruoxue exclaimed in shock—Sun Taohua's arms and chest were covered with purplish-blue bruises, new ones overlapping old ones, a shocking sight.
"This is what my father did to me..." Sun Taohua cried, "I told him I wouldn't marry him, and he beat me... with a rolling pin... beat me to death..."
Li Ruoxue's tears also fell.
She stepped forward and hugged Sun Taohua, her voice choked with emotion: "Taohua...you've suffered so much..."
Lin Dachun looked at the injuries, his fists clenched so tightly they cracked.
He thought of Su Wanrong, Lin Jie, and all the women on this loess slope who were driven to despair by life and their loved ones.
This world is too cruel for women.
"Uncle Dachun," Sun Taohua grabbed Lin Dachun's hand, her nails digging into his flesh, "Please help me... You know a lot of people... Please talk to that cripple... Tell him not to marry me... Get the money back... I... I'll do anything for you..."
"Silly child, what nonsense are you talking about?" Lin Dachun patted her hand. "I'll take care of this."
Sun Taohua's tragic end was also related to her nephew, Lin Liang.
He was the one who stopped people from lighting sky lanterns back then, so he has to take charge of this matter.