Siheyuan: No One Can Be Left Behind

When he woke up again, Li Dongfang felt a splitting headache, which he thought was the aftereffects of a hangover. He opened his eyes and saw the roof supported by reed stalks. A dim light bulb of low wattage was hung on the rotten beams. He blinked a few times before he came to his senses. He realized that he had bumped his head into someone else's door.

I propped myself up and saw myself lying on the kang with a quilt covering me. The kang was not hot, but just barely not too cold. Combined with the roof and the dilapidated walls I saw when I opened my eyes, it was obvious that this family was reluctant to burn charcoal.

The kang was not small, a bit bigger than the one in my own home. The quilt next to it was made neatly, but it was empty. I slept at the head of the kang, and there was a thin figure in the quilt at the end of the kang. I turned my head and looked around the room, and saw that the whole house could be described as bare. Apart from a shabby cabinet with mottled red paint, there was only a square table. A person wearing a tattered cotton jacket was lying on the table. Judging from the scattered long black hair, it was a woman.

Li Dongfang sat up and looked outside. It was still pitch black and he didn't know what time it was. His dry throat felt hot and he cleared his throat with a grunt. The woman lying on the table was suddenly awakened.

"You...you're awake." The voice was gentle and pleasant.

Following the voice, he was greeted by a pair of watery eyes. What a classical beauty, with an oval face, willow-shaped eyebrows, and fair skin. However, her chapped lips and faint crow's feet at the corners of her eyes showed the hardships of life and the ruthlessness of time. Li Dongfang couldn't judge the woman's age from her face. If he said she was in her early twenties, she seemed too young, and if she was in her early thirties, she seemed too old. The key was the charm of the woman, which made Li Dongfang feel comfortable. She must be a well-educated girl from a decent family.

"Thank you, I'm already drunk, sorry to bother you."

Li Dongfang said as he got down from the kang and tightened his cotton jacket.

"It's so cold, drink less next time. You scared me when you opened the door just now." The woman filled a teacup with electric hot water and handed it to Li Dongfang.

Li Dongfang took a sip, moistened his throat, and felt much better. "Big sister, thanks to you, otherwise I would be in big trouble this day."

When the woman heard Li Dongfang calling her "big sister", she tilted her head slightly, glanced at him with some reproach and said, "Hey kid, my daughter is almost as old as you, you have to call me aunt."

"Ah?!" Li Dongfang was really surprised. He said in disbelief, "No, it's not Big Sister. You look no more than 25 or 26 years old. Your daughter is about the same age as me? You are not kidding me, are you?"

The woman covered her mouth and chuckled when she heard what Li Dongfang said. She said in a low and pleasant voice, "The boy is good-looking, but he is not good at talking. I am almost 40 years old."

"Stop it, sister. You are over 30 years old now. How can you let a girl in her twenties survive?" Li Dongfang firmly refused to believe it.

"My daughter." The woman pointed at the figure at the end of the kang with her chin.

Li Dongfang followed the woman's gaze and saw a girl with only a small head showing. She looked familiar and was looking at him with big eyes. She was another beauty, even more stunning than the older woman. If the woman was a dignified classical beauty, this girl was a charming little goblin. Her lively and watery peach blossom eyes made people unforgettable at first sight.

Looking at the two people, one big and one small, with faces that are 70% similar, Li Dongfang seems to believe it a little. He looks at the two of them left and right, sighing at the Creator's preference. The girl's figure cannot be seen, but from the undulating curves revealed by the quilt, it is obvious that her figure is also curvy. Looking at the woman in front of him, she is actually comparable to Qin Huairu in overall appearance, and even slightly superior to Qin Huairu in temperament.

After confirming the mother-daughter relationship, Li Dongfang coughed twice awkwardly and said, "Ahem, what's the name of that aunt?"

The woman hesitated for a moment and said, "My surname is... my husband's surname is You. You can call me Aunt You. This is my daughter Fengxia."

Li Dongfang almost couldn't breathe. Fengxia, You Fengxia. No wonder this girl looked familiar. She was somewhat similar to You Fengxia in the TV series, but she was more beautiful and her eyes were more charming.

"Aunt You, Uncle You is not at home today?" Li Dongfang asked casually.

"He passed away many years ago." Aunt You said calmly.

"Ah~~I'm sorry, Aunt You, I didn't know, I didn't mean to bring it up..."

"It's okay, my mother and I are used to it, you..." Aunt You smiled and showed that she didn't care.

Li Dongfang quickly said in a serious tone: "Aunt You, my name is Li Dongfang, I work in a steel rolling mill, I am 20 years old and unmarried."

Aunt You and You Fengxia were both stunned when they heard this. You Fengxia was the first to react and spat, "Rogue!"

Aunt You also covered her mouth and laughed: "I didn't realize that you are also a little frivolous."

That's right, Li Dongfang did have some thoughts. After all, people in later generations evaluated You Fengxia as the most beautiful woman in the play. He didn't agree with that at first. But now, looking at those charming peach blossom eyes, how could Li Dongfang not have some thoughts?