vrcanaries Chapter 191 Sitting in a well and looking at the sky
Chapter 191 Sitting in a well and looking at the sky
"Liang Mi, were you taken advantage of?"
Liang Mi quickly pulled down her sleeve, saying, "Don't talk nonsense!"
With a turn of his foot, he was about to walk outside.
Hua Lichu grabbed her arm and said seriously:
"Liang Mi, a marriage without a marriage certificate is not protected by law."
The implication is: You can escape!
Liang Mi shook off Hua Lichu, jogged out of the shop, and quickly disappeared from sight.
"what happened?"
Hua Yuansheng turned his head and saw Hua Lichu staring blankly in the direction of the door.
Hua Lichu shook her head: "It's nothing."
At the corner of the mall, Liang Mi was gripping her arm tightly, staring blankly at the ground.
Clearly, what Hua Lichu just said had a great impact on her.
She picked at the scars on her arm, as if she felt no pain at all.
After arriving at the Qian family's house, she did consider running away.
But the Qian family kept a close eye on her. Whenever she managed to run back to her parents' home, her parents would immediately send her back.
What awaited her was only a beating and endless torment.
After going through it again and again, she finally understood and learned her lesson, so she simply stopped struggling.
Soon after, seeing that she was willing to live an honest life, the Qian family came up with a new plan:
“You’re married to my Qian Biao now, you’re adults, it’s not right for you to still eat and drink our food every day, is it? Many people in the village have gone to work outside, why don’t you two go too!”
Liang Mi didn't want to stay at the Qian family's house any longer, so she agreed to go to another province to work with Qian Biao.
She went to no other place than Guangdong Province, the same province where Qian Yingying had worked.
She wanted to leave, but Qian Biao stopped her:
"Where are you going in this unfamiliar place? What if you get kidnapped and sold to some remote mountain village to be someone's wife? You'll be completely helpless then!"
I've heard that many factories outside make people work for free and refuse to pay wages.
So what if it was the factory my sister worked at? You're not even 16 yet, do you think any other factory would hire you? Just stay here! At least we'll get our wages!
She was only 15 years old at the time and had never seen much of the world, so she was easily fooled by Qian Biao!
But life in the factory was really tough!
Endless night shifts, endless assembly line work.
Working 15 hours straight in a 24-hour day leaves not enough time for even sleep.
They eat worse than pigs, but get up earlier than chickens.
Her only hope was that little bit of salary.
After a month of hard work, I looked at my salary and found it was only 160 yuan.
But she earned the money herself through her own labor, and she was very satisfied.
But what she never expected was that as soon as Qian Biao received his salary, he sent it all back to his hometown.
Her daily expenses, including food, clothing, and other necessities, all depend on her.
They would say, "Now that you're my wife, isn't it only natural for you to be filial to your parents?"
Liang Mi did try to resist, but as a woman, how could she possibly match the strength of a big man like Qian Biao?
It was one thing for Qian Biao to eat her food and spend her money, but her parents would call her every time they got paid.
The implication was that her family was struggling financially, and she was being asked to send money home.
She was also confused and puzzled, unable to understand how her kind and gentle parents had become like this.
The worst part was that Qian Biao later became addicted to gambling.
At first, things were fine. I would go to work on time, and the pay wasn't much. I could even earn a few dollars every now and then.
But later, Qian Biao's gambling became increasingly rampant, and he stopped going to work and spent all his time squatting at the card table.
It's said that nine out of ten gamblers lose.
Qian Biao D lost, so he came to rob her of her money.
Fortunately, she lived in the women's dormitory, so Qian Biao couldn't get in.
But who would have thought that D, blinded by greed, couldn't get the money and actually dared to borrow from G at high interest rates!
And then she was used as collateral and given away to other men!
What haven't those people seen?
She resisted, but it was no use.
In just two years, she was beaten and miscarried, and her body was ruined.
If it weren't for having a powerful backer who made Qian Biao think twice, it's a mystery whether he would still be alive today!
She didn't want to live anyway.
Her family only cares about the little money she has, and her husband's family is a complete mess. For someone like her, a fallen woman, every day she lives is a bonus.
But for some reason, lately she keeps having that conversation with the Hua Li Chu sisters in her mind.
So, when I saw the two of them today, I couldn't help but walk up to them.
She understood what Hua Lichu meant by her last words.
Not getting a marriage certificate with Qian Biao means that as long as she can escape to a place where no one knows her without anyone noticing, she can start over.
But can she start over?
Liang Mi stared blankly at the scars on her arm. After a while, she leaned against the wall and slowly stood up from the ground.
How will you know if you don't try?
Maybe?
……
Although winter vacation has started, Hua Lichu has not stopped studying.
After handing over the business to Hua Antao, he threw himself back into the sea of exam questions.
When she encountered a science problem she didn't understand, she would circle it in red and ask Hua Antao about it when Hua Antao had time.
Hua Antao, having undergone specialized training, is no longer the same as before.
Just looking at her understanding of those science problems, she's miles ahead of what she used to be.
With such a background, it was natural for her to teach Hua Lichu with ease.
Not only that, she also specially collected a thick stack of materials from the capital and, through Qiu Lao's connections, obtained the training test papers of the affiliated high schools of Tsinghua University and Yenching University.
Throughout the entire winter break, Hua Lichu only bought a new outfit and didn't touch anything else.
I spend all day in my rented room, frantically doing practice tests.
There's no other way but to give it our all!
Fortunately, her sister brought her back a "martial arts manual," otherwise, she would have truly been "a frog in a well."
Throughout the first semester of her senior year, she experienced a total of 5 or 6 joint entrance examinations with other schools.
In every joint examination, he achieved the best results in the entire grade, and even won the top few places in the joint examinations of the entire school on many occasions.
A perfect score of 750 points.
No matter how difficult the test is, she can consistently score above 710.
However, when she started working on the test paper her sister brought back, she discovered that many of the more advanced questions were ones she had never seen before.
It's important to understand that for top students to get high scores, the first thing they need to do is master the basics, and the second is tackle the more advanced questions.
Especially in years when the exam questions are easy, the questions that are specifically designed to be more challenging will naturally differentiate scores.
After realizing that she had been "short-sighted" in the past, Hua Lichu felt an even greater sense of urgency.
Even when going to the toilet, he doesn't forget to take an English dictionary to memorize words.
The school was very strict. Although the winter vacation was supposed to start after the Lunar New Year, all the senior high school students were recalled to school before the eighth day of the Lunar New Year.
The first thing Hua Lichu did upon returning to school was to go to the office.
Zhu Yong looked at the test paper in Hua Lichu's hand and exclaimed in surprise:
"You're saying this is an exam paper that Hua Antao specifically found from a prestigious university?"
"Correct!"
Before Hua Antao returned to the capital on the sixth day of the lunar month, Hua Lichu specifically asked her if she could take these test papers to school and give them to the homeroom teacher for the entire grade to refer to.
Zhu Yong suddenly jumped up from his chair, praising repeatedly:
"Hua Lichu, you are wonderful! Absolutely wonderful! On behalf of the school, I thank you! On behalf of all the teachers and students of the senior year, thank you!"
Hua Lichu shook her head: "One tree cannot support a forest!"
Teacher, I've done these tests and learned a lot. Please give them to the other students to try!
A short while later, the head of the grade specifically sought out Hua Lichu to express his gratitude.
After Hua Antao returned to the capital, she sent back several more exam papers.
Not only her, Pei Yi'an also sent a large stack of documents.
In short, Hua Lichu only regretted not having enough time, but was not worried about not having enough exam papers to write.
As the saying goes, it's better to share happiness than to enjoy it alone.
Hua Lichu simply pulled Xu Yaozu, Zhang Xinran, and An Yining together to write the exam paper.
Amidst such intense training, Hua Lichu's senior year of high school gradually came to an end.
As the numbers on the blackboard grew smaller each day, it was three days before the college entrance examination.
Zhu Yong waved his hand and said, "There are only three days left until the exam! Today is a holiday!"