Chapter 31 Forced Divorce
It was already noon when I rushed back from the commune canteen.
Lu Xingchen was not there. The few dishes on the table were probably just taken a few bites and covered with a red plastic lid.
This guy might have gone out suddenly for something.
Sure enough, not long after sitting down, Lu Xingchen came back with an anxious look on his face.
"My grandma is critically ill. I just received a telegram asking me to go back and see her for the last time." Lu Xingchen said with a little red eyes.
It was the first time that Su Qing knew that he had a grandmother.
"Can you go back with me? My grandma wants to see you." Lu Xingchen's eyes were full of desire, fearing that Su Qing would not agree, after all, they were a fake couple.
Su Qing was still angry, so she turned around and ignored him.
Lu Xingchen thought she disagreed, and suddenly became anxious, "I was raised by my grandma since I was a child. She is the closest person in my life. Please come with me, okay?"
His eyes were clear and his face was full of sincerity, so Su Qing had no choice but to nod.
Seeing that he was anxious, she started to clean up the leftovers on the table.
Su Qing put all the brown sugar and malted milk sent by her parents into the luggage bag. Since she had agreed to go to her husband's house, she would not neglect these etiquettes.
At the same time, medicines and gauze were also prepared because Lu Xingchen's wound had not yet healed completely and needed regular dressing changes.
After packing the luggage, Su Qing went to call Su Yu and asked him to drive her to Niuling Town and then take a minibus.
Lu Xingchen's injury had not yet fully healed, so he was not very mobile. The two of them placed their luggage in the waiting room, and Lu Xingchen looked after it.
Su Qing squeezed into the queue to buy a ticket.
While waiting in line, Su Qing met an acquaintance.
It was Aunt Zhang, the matchmaker who came last time to propose marriage to Su Yao.
"Aunt Zhang, why are you also queuing up to buy tickets? Where are you going?" Su Qing recognized her and asked casually as a greeting.
Aunt Zhang looked back and recognized who it was. "Su Qing, I'm glad you're here. I was in a hurry to go to the bathroom. You happened to be behind me. Please save a seat for me. I'll be back soon."
When Aunt Zhang came back, Su Qing had just stood in front of the ticket window and gave her seat to Aunt Zhang.
Seeing that Aunt Ji also bought a ticket to Lingxi County, "What a coincidence, you are going to Lingxi County too?"
There were too many people and it was too crowded, so Aunt Zhang had already flown to the front with the crowd.
Su Qing bought two tickets.
Su Qing boarded the bus twenty minutes in advance and found that there was no seat number on the ticket. She saw that passengers on the previous train were all scrambling to get on the bus, so she said a few words to Lu Xingchen.
She squeezed into the line alone. Although she was a girl, she was 1.68 meters tall and had practiced judo. She thought it should not be difficult to get a seat.
As everyone was scrambling to get on the bus, Su Qing noticed a young man with curly hair. He was wearing a hat and a mask in broad daylight and his movements were furtive, which caught Su Qing's attention.
Just as Su Qing guessed, this curly-haired young man was a thief.
Judging from his attire and actions, he must be a repeat offender.
She saw him using a blade and tweezers to work on the backpack of a woman in front of him, and then he left quickly after succeeding.
Because it was far away and the scene was too noisy, Su Qing could only let the curly-haired guy slip away.
Su Qing moved quickly and found two seats in the middle part of the minibus.
There was a passenger standing next to him who wanted to squeeze over and sit in the empty seat, but was rejected by Su Qing.
Not long after, with the help of the driver, Lu Xingchen put his luggage under the car, got in the car and took his seat.
Seeing Lu Xingchen leaning on crutches, the person who wanted to take the seat just now took the initiative to make way to the side to make it easier for Lu Xingchen to pass.
The weather today is very hot, and there is no air conditioning in the car. We only rely on a few small fans above our heads. At two o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun is the hottest, so many people are crowded in a small space. It is really uncomfortable.
From Niuling Town to Lingxi County, you pass Xiping Mountain, then go south and cross Yingling Peak before you reach Lingxi County.
After nearly two hours of bumpy ride, the car finally reached the territory of Lingxi County.
When getting off the bus, the crowd was still extremely crowded. In this situation, Su Qing learned from her previous experience and paid more attention.
Just as she expected, someone attacked a young woman in front of Su Qing.
Su Qing squeezed through with all her strength.
While the pickpocket was stealing, Su Qing took action at the critical moment, caught the pickpocket red-handed, grabbed the man's left thumb, and twisted it hard.
The man was in pain and twisted his body. Seeing that the other person was a woman, he wanted to fight back, but Su Qing twisted him even harder.
The man screamed in pain.
"Take it out." Su Qing exerted force with her hands, and the man took out the wallet that he had stolen from the girl's backpack in front of him.
"Miss, this is yours." Su Qing took the wallet and patted the girl in front of her with her hand.
The girl took a closer look and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, it's mine. There's some money and food coupons in it. There's also a key to our house."
Su Qing flipped through the wallet and found that there was indeed a key in it, just as she said, so she returned the wallet to its original owner.
"Thank you." The girl said only two words and walked away with the crowded crowd.
Out of the station.
Su Qing saw that Lu Xingchen had walked a long distance, but asked him if he wanted to take a rest. Lu Xingchen replied that he didn't need it for the time being.
I stopped a tricycle at the station entrance and it took nearly half an hour to finally reach Kengkou Village.
Under the banyan tree at the entrance to the village, several women were washing clothes.
"This must be Lu Xingchen, right? The woman behind him should be his new country girl. But you know what, she's pretty."
"These days, being pretty is enough to make a living! I heard she is a lazy and greedy person.
"It is said that this woman used her beauty to seduce Lu Xingchen, and he fell into her trap."
"They have been at odds for a long time and have not yet consummated their marriage. Not long ago, they even had a fake marriage in public in the village."
"They faked the marriage just to silence the whole village."
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The villagers were talking about it, and some even made sarcastic remarks.
Su Qing ignored these rumors. As soon as she arrived, she followed Lu Xingchen into the house to visit her grandmother.
Lu Xingchen's grandmother is the sixth among her peers and is respectfully called "Sixth Grandma" by outsiders.
At this time, Liu Po was lying quietly on the bed with her eyes closed. Only the rhythmic rise and fall of her body due to her breathing showed that she was a living being.
Su Qing looked at Liu Po's symptoms and touched her forehead. It was burning hot. The patient was having a fever. It felt very similar to the malaria that her father had described in his early years.
As if she sensed someone coming, Grandma Liu opened her eyes and struggled to be helped to sit up. "Xingchen, are you back? Come here, let grandma touch your face."
Perhaps the old man is only thinking about this grandson in his heart at this moment.
Could it be a last burst of energy? Su Qing felt inexplicably worried.
Sure enough, a few words came out of Liu Po's mouth intermittently, "You must divorce, otherwise I will die with my eyes open." The old woman was talking nonsense, as if she was possessed by a ghost.
Judging from her age, this old woman Su Qing is probably over seventy years old. She is skinny and pale, as if she could be blown away by the wind.
Bai Lanfang, the wife of Li Tiejun's eldest son Li Weimin, pointed at her son Li Jianhua, who had just returned from fooling around early in the morning, and scolded him harshly, "I told you to come back now, where have you been all day? You've been idle all day, lazy and gluttonous, and you don't contribute anything to the family. You just eat and eat!"
Su Qing could tell that the woman was blaming someone else.
Forcing a divorce and fabricating bad things about Su Qing in front of the old man must have been done by this woman surnamed Bai.
When Su Qing entered the house, she didn't have a good impression of Bai Lanfang at all.
It is estimated that this Bai guy used the fact that grandma is seriously ill as bait to lure Lu Xingchen to bring his wife home. Perhaps he has an ulterior motive.
Just as Su Qing was thinking about how to deal with it, Lu Xingchen discovered that something was wrong with his grandmother.
"Grandma, grandma!" Ji Xingchen shouted repeatedly.
As he was speaking, the old man's condition suddenly worsened, his body convulsed, and he curled up into a ball. It looked like the situation was not good and he was in imminent danger!