Courtyard House: Starting by inheriting the tradition and suppressing the barbarians.

The night rain was bitter and torrential.

In the backyard, the lights in the main house of the Li family were still on.

Li Xuan was reading in his study.

"Knock knock knock".

A series of urgent and suppressed knocks sounded on the door.

Along with this came faint sobs.

Li Xuan frowned slightly, put down the brush in his hand, and got up to open the door.

The door opened.

Two figures, soaking wet, knelt directly in front of Li Xuan.

"Uncle Li! Please, please save us!"

It was Xiaodang and Huaihua.

The two were in a sorry state, with blood still on Xiao Dang's lips.

Huaihua's collar was also torn, and her face was full of terror and despair.

"Get up first, let's go inside and talk."

Seeing this, Li Xuan stepped aside to let them in and grabbed two dry towels.

The warmth of the heating and the hot tea in the room finally stopped the two sisters from shivering.

"What happened?"

Li Xuan sat in the armchair and asked calmly.

Xiao Dang held the hot tea, tears falling into the cup one after another.

"Uncle Li, we really can't stay in this house anymore."

"Bang Geng...he's a madman!"

"It's one thing for him to steal our wages, but he actually... he actually wants to sell us to Wang the Cripple in the next village..."

"Mom doesn't care, she just tells us to put up with it..."

"Uncle Li, we don't want to be sold, we don't want to live like Mom!"

"Please show us a way to survive!"

Huaihua cried so hard she was almost breathless: "Uncle Li, please lend us some money."

"We have to run, run far, far away!"

"We will never forget your kindness in this lifetime."

Li Xuan looked at the small dang tree and locust flowers in front of him and sighed slightly.

Li Xuan knew everything about what had happened to the two women.

Those stick-shaped idiots are absolutely awful!

It's quite good that the two of them came to their senses in time and sought his help.

After a brief moment of contemplation, Li Xuan slowly spoke, "Run? You have no letters of introduction, no household registration, where can you run to?"

"If you run away to another place, you'll be considered a vagrant, and you'll still be caught and brought back."

"Borrow money? The moment you take the money, the Koreans will search and steal it."

Xiao Dang raised her head in despair: "Then... what should we do?"

"Is there really nothing we can do but wait to die?"

Li Xuan put down his teacup, his gaze sharpening like a knife. "If you want to live, sever ties with your family."

"Sever...sever ties?" The two sisters were stunned.

In this era where the saying "parents are never wrong" is prevalent, these two words are simply outrageous.

"Yes, completely sever all legal ties."

Li Xuan said firmly, "The current policy allows for separate households."

"You are all adults and have jobs."

"As long as you move your household registration out of the Jia family and establish your own household."

"Or you can move to a collective household registration, then legally you will be an independent household."

"At that time, the money you earn will be yours, and you can make your own decisions about your marriage."

"If the 'banggeng' dares to come and rob us again, that's robbery!"

"Call the police and have him arrested!"

"But... what if Mom doesn't give us the household registration booklet?" Xiao Dang asked worriedly.

Li Xuan sneered, "Heh, she won't give it to me?"

"I'll take care of this for you."

……

The next morning, the household registration department of the subdistrict office.

Qin Huairu rushed in with her hair disheveled.

As soon as I entered, I saw Xiao Dang and Huaihua filling out forms.

Standing beside her was Li Xuan, the man she both hated and feared.

"No! I disagree!"

Qin Huairu lunged forward to snatch the forms, shouting, "I'm their mother!"

"If I don't give my approval, who would dare to grant them separate households!"

The clerk frowned, about to speak, when Li Xuan stepped forward and blocked Qin Huairu's way.

"Qin Huairu, look carefully."

Li Xuan pointed to the injuries on Xiao Dang's face and said coldly, "This is evidence of domestic violence."

"According to the latest laws and relevant public order regulations."

"If a family member faces a serious threat to their personal safety, they have the right to apply for separate household protection."

"Moreover, both children are adults and are full-time employees of the textile factory."

"They have the right to decide their own household registration."

"you..."

Qin Huairu looked at Li Xuan, and her momentum immediately weakened.

He then began to appeal to his daughter's emotions.

"Xiao Dang, Huaihua! What are you doing?"

"Are you going to rip out Mom's heart?"

Qin Huairu plopped down on the ground, slapping her thigh and wailing.

"Your mother raised you all with so much care and attention, was it easy for her?"

"Now that you're all grown up, you want to abandon your mother?"

"Your disabled brother is still starving at home, how can you be so heartless!"

"If you leave, who will support the family? Who will support that family?"

This familiar moral blackmail would have softened the sisters' hearts in the past.

But today, when I think of Bang Geng's hideous face last night, and the threat to sell them to old bachelors, I remember...

Xiao Dang took a deep breath and stepped forward.

She looked at her mother, who was throwing a tantrum on the ground, and her eyes no longer held the timidity they once had.

There was only a deathly, resolute silence.

"Mom, stop acting."

Xiao Dang's voice wasn't loud, but it stopped Qin Huairu's crying abruptly.

"To support a family?"

"Do you want us to support the family, or do you want us to support that vampire, the Stick Terrier?"

"From childhood to adulthood, whenever there was good food at home, it was always from the 'banggeng' (a type of glutinous rice ball)."

"There are nice clothes, they're great."

"We're like the maids in that room, completely superfluous!"

"Now that Bang Geng is going to sell us off to pay for alcohol, not only are you not stopping us, but you're telling us to put up with it!"

"And you expect us to sacrifice ourselves for our brother!"

Xiao Dang became more and more emotional as she spoke, and tears welled up in her eyes.

She pointed at Qin Huairu and shouted out the words that had been buried in her heart for many years:

"Qin Huairu! Search your conscience! Is this really love for us?"

"You're treating us like livestock!"

"You only have your precious son in your heart! Only Bang Geng!"

"You want us dead! You want to force us to our deaths to make room for him!"

"Since you only want your son, then we'll grant your wish!"

"From today onwards, we are no longer members of the Jia family! You can guard that den of iniquity yourself!"

After saying that, Xiao Dang pulled Huaihua along and pressed her red handprint heavily on the household registration application form.

"Snapped!"

The sound was like a broken chain.

The clerk quickly stamped the form: "Alright, the paperwork is done."

"This is your new household registration page. From now on, you will be registered under the collective household registration of the textile factory."

Qin Huairu looked at the thin piece of paper and felt dizzy.

It’s over.

It's all over.

The money tree is gone, and now she's truly left with only her crippled, devilish son.

"Walk!"

Xiao Dang, holding the household registration page, didn't even glance at Qin Huairu, and pulled Huaihua to bow to Li Xuan.

Then, without looking back, he walked out the door...

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