Chapter 2068: Chapter 2068: Qin Li (6)
Jiaojiao walked to the front of the courtyard with Duan Xi.
The Li family’s yard had a large sycamore tree, and behind the sycamore tree was a small storeroom where Xiaohei was often tied up before.
Every time Ruan Jiaojiao saw that little storeroom, she felt a bit sentimental.
"Today we’re having garlic sprouts fried with meat, and the mushrooms I picked myself from the hill yesterday," said Jiaojiao as she took out a bowl from the small basket.
Li Boxue did not reach for the bowl but instead looked at Shu Wen and Qin Qiong standing outside the fence. He then turned his gaze back to Jiaojiao and spoke his first words in days: "Are you going to sell me too?"
Ruan Jiaojiao was shocked, her hand trembled, almost dropping the bowl. Duan Xi steadied her hand.
Ruan Jiaojiao asked in surprise, "Why would you say something like that?"
"Isn’t it true? Feeding me well and fattening me up to sell, aren’t those two here to buy me?" Li Boxue sneered, carrying a sarcastic tone that didn’t fit his young age.
"Of course not! How could we possibly sell you!" Jiaojiao was still very shocked. She looked at Li Boxue, noticing his expression didn’t seem fake, and cautiously asked, "Did you... hear someone say that?"
"I don’t need to hear it from anyone, I’ve been sold before." Back then, that woman had tempted him with good food for a few days, and then took him to the city to sell him to a family without a son.
Although the old couple from the Li family brought him back afterwards, however...
Li Boxue lowered his eyelids, touched the scars on his body, concealing the coldness inside.
He thought the people in front of him, who often smiled so nicely and warmly, were different. But it turned out they were all the same.
Li Boxue didn’t speak anymore and turned to walk into the house.
Ruan Jiaojiao was puzzled, she asked Duan Xi to put the bowl on the old, small table on the side, then came out with him.
"How is it, Jiaojiao?" Shu Wen immediately stepped forward to ask.
Ruan Jiaojiao shook her head and went home, recounting what Li Boxue had just said.
The Ruanlin Family immediately slapped her thigh and cursed, "So it’s true, I heard villagers talking about it before but didn’t believe it. How could someone be so cruel to their own blood? Chang Qing really is vicious, selling her own son!"
It turned out that after Li Shu died, Chang Qing received compensation but still had her eyes on this son. Once, when the old couple wasn’t paying attention, she took him to the city, intending to sell him to a family without a son.
Then, when the old couple found out, Chang Qing realized she couldn’t stay in this home anymore and fled with the compensation money immediately.
Afterwards, the old couple also beat Li Boxue severely.
Especially the old woman from the Li family, who was hard to get along with before. This time she was convinced Li Boxue was rejecting them because of poverty. She was angered by Chang Qing running away with the money, coupled with the grief of losing a child in old age, making her mentally unstable, resulting in frequent beatings of Li Boxue.
The village mediated this issue many times, but the old couple from the Li family often put on one face at home and another in public.
If you say the old couple didn’t care for Li Boxue, that’s not true either. When they cared for him, it was as precious as their own eyes, after all, he was the sole heir of the Li family, and their hard work was meant to ensure he could study. Yet, when they beat him, they really used brutal force, to the point of near death.
