Chapter 4: , Sisters

Late evening.

Li Lan came back with a basket of pig grass on her shoulder.

No surprise, she didn't escape the destruction of this sudden rainstorm. Her wet clothes stuck to her graceful figure, showing the round contours of her upper body and the perfect shape of her lower body to the fullest.

Zhang Zhiyong only had time to steal two glances before he was keenly captured by Li Lan.

Only to see her standing still, her right hand holding a sickle for cutting pig grass, the blade still dripping with rain, staring at him with the eyes of death.

This idiot claimed to be fearless, daring to fight jackals on the mountain and biting dogs in the field, but he was uniquely afraid of beautiful girls.

And the better the woman looked, the more he feared. This is truly strange.

Because of this defect, this idiot suffered a great loss in the hands of women in his previous life.

Unable to withstand Li Lan's sharp aura, Zhang Zhiyong, who had been beaten by her since childhood, still couldn't walk out of the childhood shadow of terror, felt guilty in his heart, and chose to run away.

Li Heng shouted from behind: "Old Yong, it's almost time for dinner, have dinner before you go."

Zhang Zhiyong fled in a panic, trembling and not looking back: "Eat dinner my ass, life is important, roar!"

Zhang Zhiyong fled, and the main room was instantly left with only the sister and brother looking at each other.

Speaking of which, Li Heng and Li Lan were biological siblings, but their relationship in childhood was not harmonious.

Living under the same roof, they often didn't speak to each other.

The reason was very simple. She felt since childhood that her mother, Tian Run'e, favored boys over girls and favored her younger brother, always giving the best food to her brother first.

It was fine if there was a lot of food; if Li Heng didn't finish eating, she could pick up a leftover bite at the end; if there was little food, she could only stare the whole time.

After a long time, her small universe completely exploded.

If Tian Run'e was at home, Li Lan would deliberately provoke Li Heng when she was in a bad mood, wait for him to curse, and then logically beat him up.

If her parents weren't at home, heh! She didn't even bother to pretend, just found an excuse and started beating him.

Li Heng wasn't a person who would take it either, and naturally fought back after being beaten, but it was useless.

Because girls grow fast since childhood and Li Lan was older, both sides always had a height gap, and he was cruelly suppressed every time, feeling very bitter in his heart!

Such days lasted for several years, until she was in junior high school, when it converged slightly.

But due to the weak foundation of the sister-brother relationship in the early years, the two were relatively strange throughout the junior high school stage.

At that time, he didn't understand why his second sister always bullied him?

Later, when he grew up, he realized: leaving Shangwan Village, his second sister was always generous and smooth in dealing with outsiders. But with her mother, her greatest wish was to get a share of maternal love equal to his.

But in this era of feudal thinking, in this poor mountain ditch, how difficult is it to get a share of equal love?

So much so that even when she was over fifty in later generations, she would occasionally bring this up to nag.

Speaking of which, the turning point of the siblings' relationship happened after graduating from university, around 1996.

At that time, Li Heng, who was working in a big city, wanted to buy a house in the city to settle down, but he was tight on money and couldn't do it.

Later, when Li Lan learned of this news, she carried a black bag and took the train to send him 80,000 yuan.

This was 80,000 yuan in 1996! For most families, it was definitely a huge sum!

And this huge sum was sent by his second sister!

While solving his urgent need, it also had a great impact on his heart.

Li Heng had always wanted to find an opportunity to pay back this 80,000 yuan in his previous life, but she never accepted it.

It wasn't until her 35th birthday that she said her heart's words to Li Heng when she was drunk: I'm sorry for you when you were young, it's Second Sister's fault.

Past events flashed through his mind like a movie, and Li Heng, who had already untied the knot, took the initiative to talk:

"Second Sister, go change your clothes, it's cold today, don't catch a cold."

???

Rows of question marks appeared on Li Lan's forehead. She stared blankly at Li Heng, secretly pondering:

Which nerve of this brat is wrong today, daring to take the initiative to talk to me?

Was he beaten stupid by me?

Or did the persistent beating beat out some feelings?

Didn't he always turn his head and pretend not to see me when he saw me before? How did he learn to care about people today?

This scene is truly iron trees blooming, the first time in history. Li Lan always felt something was wrong, but couldn't find out what was wrong.

Observing for a while, seeing that the expression on his face didn't seem to be faking, she relaxed, lost her previous coldness, and asked him: "Why did Mom and Dad run to the opposite door?"

Li Heng replied: "Uncle Chen came to the door personally to call them."

Li Lan turned her head and looked at him with eyes like looking at a fool, "Mom suffered so much anger from the Chen family for you, and you still call him Uncle Chen?"

Whoa, look at this strong aggressiveness!

This is truly the second sister in his impression, hating evil like an enemy, loving and hating clearly, as long as someone had a grudge with the Li family, she could remember it for a lifetime.

However, Chen Gaoyuan had always had a good attitude toward him in his previous life, and he really couldn't open his mouth to call people by their names like his second sister.

Seeing his brother didn't say anything, Li Lan curled her lips and cursed sharply: "A useless person giving birth to a useless person, a species without backbone!"

Li Heng was speechless. This time it was good, even his own father and mother were scolded.

By the time Li Lan came out after taking a bath, he had already set the rice and started cooking.

Taking advantage of the fact that the two elders weren't at home and no one was blocking him, Li Heng, who hadn't touched meat for a long time, gritted his teeth and cut half a jin of fat and lean bacon.

It was really because he had been eating sweet potato rice and corn every day for the past few days, and his throat hurt from eating, and the key was that there was no nutrition and it wasn't filling, and he was so hungry that he had no strength every three days.

He washed the half jin of bacon, cut it into thin, crystal-clear slices, and stir-fried it with smoked bamboo shoots and garlic leaves into a full bowl.

This bacon was something Tian Run'e used to trade for money; it was a treasure, a lifeblood, and she couldn't bear to eat it on weekdays! She couldn't eat it a few times a year. Seeing his brother wasting it like this, Li Lan subconsciously wanted to stop him.

But she couldn't stand the fact that she was a foodie herself, and she was more jealous of the bacon on the beam than anyone else, so she finally swallowed her saliva and surrendered to the fragrant meat smell.

She was more ruthless than Li Heng, simply bending down to dig a handful of pitch-black pot ash from the bottom of the pot and smearing it on the white, fresh cut.

This way it wouldn't be noticeable.

Not at ease later, she climbed onto the stove, moved the bacon that was a section shorter to a different position, moved it to a corner with relatively dark light, and replaced it with a large piece of bacon in front.

"The Chen family killed a pig, they have meat to eat there, it's not too much for us to eat some for our brains."

She muttered to herself, jumped off the stove, and these words seemed to be comforting herself, or to Li Heng.

Li Heng understood that this sister didn't have a single word of nonsense, and the purpose was to unify the front and not reveal the secret.

According to her meaning, no matter what, she had to drag it until school started.

By then, drilling into the school, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, even if Comrade Tian Run'e knew they stole food, she couldn't do anything about them.

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