Traveling through the 1970s: The young wife loves to make trouble

Chapter 16 Wei Jingyuan's Past
Candy, is it for them? Li Zi and Xiao Huai looked at each other in surprise, and then looked at Tao Qiuyi with different expressions.

After my brother went to the army, he would occasionally buy candy when he came home to visit, but they could only eat one piece before grandma put it away and never gave them any more. My parents never bought candy for them.

But she said that she bought the candy for them.

"Don't disbelieve me, I really don't like candy, and I bought that fruit candy for you." Thinking that he would have to ask someone for a favor later, Tao Qiuyi changed the subject. "Today, I can't give you this fruit candy. I'm going to give it to someone else."

Li Zi and Xiao Huai nodded at the same time, and whatever she said was what she meant.

If you give them, they will eat. If you don’t give them, they won’t eat. Anyway, don’t ask too many questions, don’t think too much, just be obedient.

"Be good." Seeing the brother and sister being so obedient, Tao Qiuyi nodded with satisfaction. He picked up a summer dress, tore it into several pieces and put them aside, then picked up a pair of pants and tore them into pieces as well.

It took about a minute, and the two sets of summer clothes turned into rags in her hands.

Seeing that Li Zi and Xiao Huai were still standing there in a daze, Tao Qiuyi urged them, "Why are you two just standing there? We need to hurry up and make shoes. I really don't want to wear straw sandals anymore."

Xiao Huai then realized that she had torn her clothes into rags in order to make shoes.

While arranging the pieces of cloth, Li Zi said that making shoes required boiling water to make a paste and sticking the pieces of cloth together. Xiao Huai went to the kitchen to boil water.

Tao Qiuyi couldn't help Li Zi, so he went to the kitchen to see if Xiao Huai needed help. When he walked into the kitchen, the stove was burning, the water in the pot had not boiled yet, and Xiao Huai was nowhere to be found.

There was a slight sound coming from behind the firewood pile. Tao Qiuyi was curious about what was behind the firewood pile. He went over to take a look. The first thing that caught his eye was an old quilt folded into a tofu block. There were many patches on the quilt, and it didn't look thick.

Below is a straw mat placed against the wall. It is not very wide, but it is definitely enough for two people to sleep on.

Xiao Huai was sitting on the ground, picking out straw.

"You and Wei Jingyuan slept here last night." Tao Qiuyi felt a little sour in her heart and indescribably uncomfortable. She still hadn't figured out why.

"Big brother has always slept here, and Xiaoli and I sleep in the room." Xiaohuai didn't look up at Tao Qiuyi, his voice muffled. "The Wei family was able to build this big yard and so many rooms, all thanks to the money and tickets that big brother sent home when he was in the army. After the house was built, grandma brought my eldest uncle's family and my third uncle's family to live in happily."

"My parents and we were only allocated one room, which is the room we live in now. For several years, my parents worked hard to earn work points and supported everyone in the Wei family except me and my sister."

"Two years ago, my eldest brother recovered from his leg injury. The next day, my parents had an accident. My eldest brother wanted to take them to the hospital, but my grandmother, my eldest uncle, my eldest aunt, and my third aunt stopped him, saying it would cost a lot of money and we didn't have the money."

"My eldest brother couldn't move my parents by himself, so he asked my fourth uncle for help. He arranged for the villagers to help and finally took my parents to the hospital. But it was too late and they couldn't be saved. My grandmother, my eldest uncle and aunt, and my third uncle and aunt all said that my eldest brother didn't save my parents and that he was the one who killed them. Xiaoli and I believed it."

Thinking of the scene at that time, Xiao Huai's hands trembled as he picked up the straw.

He took a deep breath before continuing, "At my parents' funeral, Xiaoli and I beat and scolded my eldest brother in front of everyone. Relatives and neighbors came to persuade us, but we wouldn't listen. We only listened to Grandma at the time. When she told us to kick my eldest brother out, we did."

"Grandma went to the school and told Xiaoli and I that we wouldn't be studying anymore. Orphaned children couldn't afford the tuition and would have to rely on Grandma, my eldest uncle, and my third uncle for support. Then Xiaoli and I went home to work, both in the fields and around the house. Half a month later, my eldest brother came back. He'd become a village doctor."

"Grandma asked Xiaoli and me to bring my eldest brother back to live with us, on the condition that he would hand over the work points he earned as a village doctor to her. My eldest brother came back with us without saying anything. So, Xiaoli and I lived in the house, and my eldest brother had no place to live and had to sleep in the woodshed." "I have never understood it. Our parents passed away, and Xiaoli and I were young and ignorant, so we were easily deceived and persuaded. But my eldest brother is an adult and even served in the army. Why would he prefer to sleep in the woodshed than fight with Grandma and my eldest and third uncles for a house?"

He and Xiaoli were treated like servants, and his eldest brother didn't care. This was the second thing Xiaohuai couldn't understand, but he didn't say it out loud.

He said that he couldn't understand it, but in fact he hated Wei Jingyuan for not protecting them. Tao Qiuyi walked to Xiao Huai, squatted down, and reached out to pat Xiao Huai's thin shoulder gently.

"Because your eldest brother can't figure it out either. He is immersed in his own world and has no time to care about other people and things." Tao Qiuyi felt that Wei Jingyuan must be depressed.

Why not resist?

Because there is no greater sorrow than a dead heart. Returning home to recover from his leg injury was like a wound to his heart. The death of his parents was another wound. His younger siblings believed in slander and beat and scolded him, and even kicked him out of the house, which was another wound. How many wounds can a person's heart withstand?
Everyone can get depressed, but Wei Jingyuan didn't suffer from mental illness because of it. Fortunately, he has a strong mind.

Suddenly looking up, Xiao Huai looked at Tao Qiuyi in disbelief, having never expected her to say that.

"Brother...can't he figure it out too?" Xiao Huai muttered to himself absentmindedly.

"Yes, he couldn't understand why his family treated him like that." Tao Qiuyi said this from a completely objective standpoint.

Wei Jingyuan's gaze was as cold and indifferent as a pool of stagnant water, as if there was no light in his world. His family had abandoned him, and he had abandoned everyone, including himself and his siblings. He lived his life like a cold machine. This was depression.

Damn it, I just fell in love with a man and wanted to spend my whole life with him, but now I tell her that he is mentally ill.

The other members of the Wei family deserve to die even more.

"We must separate the family." Tao Qiu was furious and turned around and walked out of the kitchen angrily.

Xiao Huai lowered his eyes, hiding the light in them, stood up and walked out of the firewood pile. Seeing that the water in the pot had boiled, he filled a small wooden basin with boiling water and brought it back into the house.

Only Xiaoli was in the room arranging pieces of cloth, and Tao Qiuyi was nowhere to be seen.

"Xiao Huai, the water is ready." Seeing him come in, Li Zi looked up at him and asked him to put the wooden basin on the ground. Then she said to him, "I don't know what happened to my sister. She seemed very angry when she came in. I asked her what was wrong, and she said nothing, picked up the sugar on the stone and hurried out."

Xiao Huai's eyes flashed. He put the small wooden basin on the ground, stood up and locked the door.

Hearing the sound of the door being locked, Li Zi looked up at Xiao Huai without saying anything.

Xiao Huai came over to help her arrange the cloth pieces. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Xiao Li, as long as we listen to her in the future, our lives will not be difficult."

"Yeah." Li Zi nodded obediently.

(End of this chapter)