Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 11855

The next day, at the crack of dawn, Sixi, carrying all his belongings—the two hundred coins Sanxi had given him—along with two sets of clothes, quietly left home and Changping Village while his family was still fast asleep, heading straight towards Qingshui Town.

Si Xi's mother cooked breakfast and prepared to wake Si Xi up. "You've been lying in bed like a corpse for days, it's time to get up and stretch your muscles..."

When they looked inside, there wasn't a single human figure to be seen. The bedding was piled up at the foot of the bed, and the pillows were overturned on the floor.

"That brat, he ran away again! Damn it, if he's got the guts, he should just die out there and never come back!"

Si Xi's mother, furious, slapped herself twice, jumped and cursed as she rushed into the yard. Then she sat down on the cold ground and began to curse and cry incoherently with her eyes closed.

The noise in the courtyard immediately woke up everyone in the other rooms.

Si Xi's father came out looking unhappy, his face dark. Da Xi and Er Xi also came into the yard, rubbing their sleepy eyes, and asked Si Xi's mother what had happened.

After Si Xi's mother finished crying and cursing, everyone finally understood what was going on. Although they all knew that no one was in the house, they still rushed into Si Xi's house as if by conditioned reflex to see what was going on.

Even though this procedure is clearly redundant, people still instinctively waste time going through it instead of immediately rushing out to chase after the person...

After looking at it for a while, Sixi's father's face darkened even more. Daxi was worried and was about to go back to the house to change his shoes and go find Sixi.

Erxi's eyes darted around, but he didn't say anything.

Sanxi remained silent, as he was one of only two people in the courtyard who knew the truth; the other was naturally Sanxi's wife.

Da Xi's wife quietly tugged at Da Xi's sleeve, shook her head at him, and signaled him not to make decisions on his own, as everything was to be decided by his father and mother!

To search or not to search? And how to search? These are all decisions that our parents must make.

After all, the previous group of Sixi disappeared, and their parents' attitude was very clear. They kept saying: "You good-for-nothing, you've been bewitched by a woman and don't want your family anymore. Then don't come back!"
Sure enough, Sixi's father was very angry. He scolded Sixi's mother, who was sitting on the ground wiping away tears, "Stop crying. You can lock her up today, but you can't lock her up tomorrow. If you want to leave, then leave. We have many sons and many grandsons. Just consider it as having one less child!"

Da Xi said, "Father, you can't say that. Fourth Brother is young and it's understandable that he's easily swayed by matters of love and romance."

"The most urgent thing is for us to go and inquire at the second branch of the Yang family. Maybe Fourth Brother has gone to town to find Xiu Hong!"

“Instead of asking around, we’ll go and find out. Then the Yang family will think we’ve chickened out and are afraid, and we’ll have to bow down to them!” said Sixi’s father.

“Our family broke ties with the Yang family from the very beginning, so there’s no need to go through all that trouble.”

After crying for a while, Sixi's mother calmed down a bit. She got up from the ground and said, "I don't care anymore, I don't care anymore. A son grows up and no longer listens to his mother. I raised a thankless wretch!"

Erxi grinned and said, "It's fine if we don't look for her. Fourth Brother is a man. In these kinds of things, it's always the women who suffer and the men who always win."

Erxi's wife echoed Erxi's words, saying, "Father and Mother, don't worry. Maybe in a year or two, Fourth Brother will come back with the big and small children. At that time, Father and Mother can just become grandparents, and we won't have to take care of Fourth Brother's wife during her postpartum period!"

“I don’t acknowledge it. I have no official status or recognition. I don’t want her back even if she wants to!” said Sixi Niang.

Sixi's father waved his hand: "Alright, alright, go about your business. Keep your tempers down. This is our son, and sons don't suffer losses!"

"Let's disperse!" And just like that, the whole family really did disperse, as if the whole thing had never happened.

However, secrets can't be kept forever. The neighbors all heard everything that happened in Sixi's mother's yard that morning.

Then, the news spread throughout the village in the time it takes to eat breakfast, and of course it reached the ears of Old Yang's family as well.

"Where's Eighth Sister? I need to hurry and tell her. Maybe Sixi went to town to look for Xiuhong." Liu Shi had just come to the Luo family to tell Yang Ruoqing the news she had just heard in the village, and the next second she was going to the second room.

Yang Ruoqing called out to her, "Don't go, it's too late. Second sister-in-law took Xiao Sanzi and Yongxiao to town early this morning, and went with your Kang boy."

"Oh no? That's terrible," Liu said. "Xiuhong is going to be kidnapped again. It's only been a few days since things calmed down."

Yang Ruoqing said, "It's not certain that she can be abducted today. Xiu Hong has quite a few people around her."

"Besides, we'll send a message to my second brother and sister-in-law in town later, so they can be on guard."

"As for Xiu Hong, it's best not to let her know that Sixi went to see her."

Liu understood Yang Ruoqing's intention, and Liu happened to think the same way.

Before long, Old Yang and Yang Huazhong arrived at the Luo family's house after hearing the news and told them about it.

Yang Huazhong said, "The Si Xi family is really carefree. Their fifteen or sixteen-year-old son has run away and the whole family, father, son and brothers, are still eating meat and drinking wine, doing whatever they want, without showing the slightest intention of looking for him!"

Of course, Yang Huazhong couldn't go to Sixi's house to ask in person; he learned about these things from other people in the village.

Liu pouted: "Isn't that right? Now the whole village is talking behind Sixi's back, saying that the whole family is heartless and that if something happens to Sixi outside, they'll have nowhere to cry!"

Old Yang sighed, "It's not that they're heartless; they're just taking advantage of having a son so they won't suffer losses when they're out there."

“As for our family, we are the daughters, so we are the ones who suffer. That’s why they deliberately didn’t look for us. When they saw that we were anxious, they went to look for us and naturally found their family as well.”

Liu snorted: "Then we'll keep a close eye on our daughter, make sure she doesn't have a chance to run off with Sixi, and that'll be fine! We won't fall into Sixi's trap!"

Old Yang glanced at Liu Shi and said, "If Xiu Hong doesn't live up to her own potential, we can't control her no matter what we do. A son is beyond our control once he grows up. Alas, what a tragedy!"

That day, Yang Huazhong was still worried, so he went to the restaurant in Qingshui Town to find Yang Yongjin and Cao Bamei and secretly told them about Sixi running away, so that they would be aware of the situation.

This matter was originally intended to be kept from Xiu Hong, so that she wouldn't know, but Xiu Hong accidentally overheard it.

Suddenly, Xiu Hong's heart, which had been dormant for several days, was rekindled. She craned her neck, pricked up her ears, and paid close attention to this customer in the restaurant.

Of course, she didn't have a chance to sneak out on her own, because her older sister Xiuxiu and her younger brother Xiaosanzi were watching her from behind.

However, the thought that Sixi had also arrived in town and might be lingering near the restaurant made Xiuhong restless, and she kept looking for an opportunity to sneak away...