The little village girl dressed as a disaster star led the whole village astray

Before Li Xi could figure out a solution, something big happened at home.

She had gone to the mountains to collect medicinal herbs early that day. She was collecting them not to sell them for money, but to prepare for harvesting them later.

To most people, the medicinal herbs on the mountain are just weeds, and they cannot distinguish the difference between medicinal herbs and weeds, so Li Xi has to prepare a batch of medicinal herb samples for them to find.

Her body had fallen into water and caught a cold. Although it was nothing serious, if she didn't take it seriously, she would have trouble when she got older. So Li Xi recently prescribed some medicine for herself.

Of course, she also secretly added some private ingredients to the medicine for Gu Yin. After all, he had paid enough medical fees. However, she did not expect that although this guy was not very old, he had serious hidden injuries.

On the way down the mountain, Li Xi felt that her body was lighter than usual. It seemed that the effects of recuperation and exercise were quite good. Today, she had picked a few new herbs, which were just right for making the prescription.

Li Xi hadn't reached home yet, but she saw Hu Zi sitting on the doorstep from a distance, his small body curled up into a ball, looking extremely pitiful.

Li Xi couldn't help but quicken his pace and walked over, "Hu Zi!"

Hu Zi, who was standing on the threshold, raised his head when he heard Li Xi's voice. His little eyes were already red and swollen, and it looked like he had been crying very hard.

Hu Zi looked at his sister's concerned eyes and tried hard to purse his lips to hold back his tears, but he was still a child after all. He had just been wronged and now he saw his sister who had always loved him. How could he hold back?

“Wow—sister—sister—wuwuwuwu…” Hu Zi stood up and hugged Li Xi’s legs and cried loudly.

Li Xi panicked when she saw Hu Zi looking so aggrieved. Hu Zi was an obedient and sensible child, and she had never seen him cry like this before. How much aggrieved he must have been.

Li Xi squatted down and pulled Hu Zi away from her legs. She looked into Hu Zi's eyes and said seriously, "Tell me, who bullied you?

Mrs. Li or Aunt Ma?"

Looking at Hu Zi's appearance, the names of these two people came to her mind. After all, they were not on bad terms with others.

“No… no, it’s mother – mother she – wuwuwu…” Hu Zi was crying so hard that he could hardly breathe, and his speech was also stammering.

Li Xi frowned, Mother?

Li Xi wiped his face with a handkerchief and said, "Okay, Huzi, stop crying. Let's go inside and talk."

Li Xi stood up and took the still sobbing Hu Zi into the yard. There was no sign of Madam Liu in the yard. Li Xi frowned. Hu Zi cried so loudly just now, it was impossible for her mother not to have heard it.

If she didn't come out after hearing it, it means she is guilty.

Based on Li Xi's observations of Liu Niang over the past few days, although she is cautious and has ideological conflicts with her in many aspects, her maternal love is unquestionable. Of course, she ranks behind Hu Zi.

Li Xi didn't feel anything about this. She was already past the age where she needed maternal love. Moreover, even in modern times there is a preference for boys over girls, let alone in ancient times.

So Li Xi couldn't figure out what Madam Liu had done to make her feel so guilty that she ignored Hu Zi who was crying.

After crying for a while, Hu Zi's emotions gradually stabilized, but he was still sobbing a little.

Li Xi did not go to Liu Niangzi to ask immediately, but took Hu Zi to the kitchen, and the two sat on small stools.

"Tiger, what happened?"

When Hu Zi heard her ask this, his nose felt sore and he almost cried again. However, even if he didn't cry, tears were still welling up in his eyes.

"Sister, mother gave all the money in the house to grandma."

It turned out that not long after Li Xi left today, Liu Niangzi's mother, Liu, came with a basket.

Hu Zi had never been to the Liu family, so naturally he didn't know Liu, but he didn't like this person who came in and said with a smile that she was his grandmother, because he knew that she didn't like him, even though she had a smile on her face.

Don’t say that children don’t understand anything. In fact, sometimes children can better feel other people’s emotions.

The Liu family was a typical family that favored boys over girls. Liu gave birth to six daughters before she had a boy, whom she named Liu Yaozu.

Liu had given birth to six daughters in a row and was often scolded and beaten at home. When she was beaten, she would vent her anger on her daughters, thinking that it was all their fault that these money-losing girls had blocked her son's way to be reborn.

She usually let Liu Niangzi's sisters do all the hard work at home, and these good girls became five or six years older than their peers.

Liu Niangzi's father, Liu Gen, was not a good person either. He was ambitious but incompetent. He only knew how to beat his wife and daughters and drink alcohol every day. As soon as his daughters reached a certain age, he sold them at a high price. As for what kind of person the man was, he didn't care at all. He only cared about the money he got.

The daughters of the Liu family didn't care either. They had been taught since childhood that they were girls with a low status, and that as older sisters they should be good to their younger brothers at all costs. In their opinion, earning a dowry for their younger brothers was a normal thing.

Compared with the other daughters of the Liu family, Madam Liu was lucky. She and Liu Yaozu were twins. Liu felt that it was she who brought her younger brother along, and since there were already five laborers, she was usually nice to Madam Liu.

Liu Gen thought that Niangzi Liu was the best looking of his daughters and wanted to raise her well so that he could earn more money in the future.

At least when the other sisters were working in the fields, she only had to sweep the floor at home.

As for Liu Yaozu, he was naturally the one who lived the best in the Liu family. The Liu couple never dared to speak loudly to him.

The Liu family has only one male child, and they pamper him to the utmost. The whole family eats wild vegetables and cuts back on their own food to provide Liu Yaozu with good food. Naturally, the child raised in this way is not a good child. He hangs out with the village hooligans all day long, and all he does is to attract cats and dogs.

At the beginning, Li Tiezhu fell in love with Liu Niangzi and thought that their family was a big trouble, but he felt that he could control it. After giving the Liu family a large sum of money as a betrothal gift, he secretly threatened them and never took Liu Niangzi back to her parents' home.

The Liu family also knew that Li Tiezhu was not someone to be trifled with, and that he was usually very quiet, so they treated it as a one-time deal and never came to Lijiazhuang on weekdays.

This time, Liu Gen sent Liu over because he knew that Li Tiezhu was dead. The Liu family all knew that Li Tiezhu was a capable person, and when they heard that he was dead, they took notice of the Li family.

Before, they were afraid to ask for money because of Li Tiezhu, but now Li Tiezhu is gone, the Li family has split up, and now Lady Liu is in charge, so what do they have to be afraid of?

Early this morning, Liu came to Li's house carrying five eggs.