On the way to escape famine, my parents divorced

Chapter 4 Let’s get a divorce.

"Good fellow! Waiting for me here!"

Before Li Shiyue could figure out what to do, a familiar and anxious voice of "sister-in-law" came from the crowd outside.

The call of "sister-in-law" also made Li's mother, who was confronting Li's father, turn her head. She saw that a path was automatically separated among the crowd again. Grandmother Li and Li Wangming, who had been standing behind the crowd for a while, walked over quickly.

When he got closer, Li Wangming glanced at his elder brother, then went to see his mother, who had taken care of him since he was a child. Li Wangming asked with concern, "Sister-in-law, are you okay?"

Mother Li, who had been standing straight and strong like a soldier just now, let out some of the anger in her heart after being asked this by Li Wangming. The tears that had been accumulating in her eyes for a long time finally seemed to have broken their string and kept flowing out.

Li Shiyue pulled Shitou forward. She stretched out her arms and half-hugged Li's mother to give her support.

"Grandma, Uncle, Dad..."

Grandmother Li, who was leaning on a wooden stick as a crutch, raised her hand to stop Li Shiyue from saying anything.

"Shiyue, your grandma and I have been here for a while. We have been standing outside just now."

Li Shiyue opened her eyes wide. She had not expected this.

Without waiting for Li Shiyue to speak again, Grandmother Li walked towards Father Li step by step, leaning on a wooden crutches. She stopped when she was one step away from Father Li.

Before Father Li could even utter the word "mother", Grandmother Li swung her arm and slapped Father Li in the face with a loud slap.

This sudden slap in the face was unexpected by not only the people from Lijia Village who were watching, but even Li's father who was beaten was caught off guard.

"Mother, you hit me?"

Facing Father Li's questioning in astonishment and grievance, Grandmother Li only glanced at Qin Tao who was still kneeling on the ground, then turned her eyes and glared at Father Li and said word by word: "There is no rule in our Li family to take in concubines!
You are my eldest son. You were already grown up when your father was still alive. You know how your father and I were tortured by my wife.

You can do such a thing today, how can I, your mother, not give you a slap in the face? "

It turned out that Grandfather Li's father found a lover when his first wife was seriously ill, and brought her home openly.

The wife, who was already seriously ill, died immediately after such stimulation.

Grandfather Li had no choice but to watch his father marry this lover just over a month after his first wife died, and find a stepmother for him.

Fortunately, the stepmother did not give birth to her own biological children, so Grandfather Li managed to survive. Although life was difficult, he married Grandmother Li with the help of his clansmen when he was old enough.

But less than half a year after Grandmother Li got married, Grandfather Li's father fell seriously ill and died, leaving behind this stepmother.

The stepmother relied on her status as the elder and often bullied Grandfather Li and Grandmother Li. Not only did she ask them to give away all the money they had worked hard to earn, but Grandmother Li also had to go to the frozen river to wash clothes for her in the cold winter. As a result, she fell ill at such a young age.

When Mr. Li was a little older, his stepmother secretly ate eggs at home and choked to death in a hurry.

In this way, Grandfather Li and Grandmother Li could finally live their own lives.

Therefore, Grandfather Li and Grandmother Li hated those concubines who served as mistresses for others.

But now, on the road to escape famine, Father Li and Qin Tao had actually done such a thing. How could Grandmother Li not be angry?

Qin Tao, who had been kneeling on the ground, felt something was wrong when she saw Grandmother Li's posture. She moved her knees towards Father Li.

"Ah! There is no way out!
Let me die with the baby in my belly!"

After shouting these two sentences, Qin Tao slowly got up from the ground at 0.5 times the speed, and then staggered towards the huge rock behind Li's father.

The result is predictable. Qin Tao, who was so slow in action, was grabbed by Li's father, pulled into his arms and asked anxiously about her. If it weren't for the wrong position, Li Shiyue would have applauded Qin Tao's performance, which was really better than the actors in the TV series she watched before she traveled through time.

When Grandmother Li looked at the two people in front of her, she felt so angry that her chest hurt.

And Mr. Li’s next move stunned everyone present.

He half-hugged Qin Tao, who began to sob again, and knelt down in front of Grandmother Li in a "tragic" manner like a hero cutting off his own arm.

"Mother, Tao Niang is pregnant with my child!"

As he spoke, Father Li patted Qin Tao's shoulder gently. Then Father Li suddenly looked up at Shi Tou who was standing next to Li Shiyue. Shi Tou's brain was slow to react and he was still confused. He still felt a little aggrieved about the time when Father Li got so angry that he yelled at him.

Until now, Shitou still doesn't quite understand what happened after Li's mother and Li Shiyue came to find him.

Therefore, he didn't understand why his father was glaring at him angrily again.

But his animal-like instinct was still there, and Shitou quickly hid behind Li Shiyue, as if this way Li's father would not be able to see him.

But Shitou never expected that with his six-foot height, even if he hunched his shoulders and hid behind Li Shiyue, he would still be half a head taller than Li Shiyue. How could Li Shiyue's small body hide such a big man like him?

Shitou's behavior made Father Li more resolute in his heart. He went to see Grandmother Li again and said, "Mother, it's not that Chunniang is bad, but Shitou is a fool and Shiyue is a girl. Chunniang hasn't gotten pregnant in all these years. My family is about to be cut off!
I am the eldest son of our Li family. How can I let our family become extinct?
Mother, Tao Niang is pregnant with my child, so I still have a chance to give birth to a healthy son!
Mother, please allow Tao Niang to come in!

Mother, I can't live without a son!"

Li Shiyue watched his father's performance and felt that the modern saying was so apt - if a person has no shame, he is invincible!
Isn't it?

Just look at the behavior of Li's father. It is obvious that he was the one who disregarded propriety and morality and committed adultery with Qin Tao just for his own inner desires. But he is so good that he now says that he did it to ensure the continuation of the Li family, so he looked for opportunities to have an affair with Qin Tao while fleeing from the famine.

Li Shiyue felt that if she were in modern times and could lower her moral bottom line, she would probably not have so many worries, right?

Look at the look on Li's father's face. This man with no bottom line can really live a happy life.

Father Li's behavior made Grandmother Li so angry that her blood pressure soared and her eyes turned red. Grandmother Li, who was extremely angry, stepped forward and hit Father Li on the back with the crutch in her hand.

"You unfilial son, I'll make you shameless and shameless, I'll beat you to death!"

Although the wooden stick hit Father Li's back with a series of muffled "bang bang bang" sounds, Li Shiyue was watching from behind and knew that Grandmother Li didn't use any real strength.

You know, although Grandmother Li is not young, how can a woman who has been doing farm work for years have such strength in her hands?

"Li Wangguang, let's get divorced!"

"Auntie!"

"Sister-in-law!"

"Chun Niang!"

No one expected that Li's mother would say such words at this moment.

Li Shiyue widened his eyes in surprise, Li Wangming opened his mouth in disbelief, and Li's father almost fell to the ground. He knelt on the ground and turned around to look at Li's mother, with anger, confusion and a hint of regret in his eyes.

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