Chapter 206: Sense of Crisis
It was quite a coincidence; after raising Li Guangyuan and enduring the tough years, Old Mrs. Li suddenly became pregnant and gave birth to Li Hongmei and Li Dongmei consecutively.
There was this belief among the older generation that these two children were brought forth by Li Guangyuan, so Old Mrs. Li never gave up on him, keeping him by her side all along.
Besides, she had given birth to two daughters in a row. Had there been even one son, it’s likely that Li Guangyuan wouldn’t carry the Li surname any longer.
These were things she later learned by chance. Old Mrs. Li had always valued the two daughters even more than the son, which was quite unreasonable in the rural setting.
Lin Chuxia didn’t linger, cutting through the crowd and heading straight for the Bun Shop.
Lin Jiayi didn’t even notice Lin Chuxia behind the crowd. She was angrily pointing at the woman next to Li Guangyuan, questioning their relationship.
She had specially made stewed meat to deliver to him today, only to find their own stand deserted, while Li Guangyuan was busy helping that woman.
She knew that woman—a widow not yet thirty, raising a child on her own by selling vegetables for a living.
Last year, when they were selling vegetables, she had seen men courting that woman, and even heard that one man was caught by his wife knocking on the woman’s door in the middle of the night and got a thrashing.
At that time, she had mocked the man for his lack of ambition. The young widow, though not old, had dark, sun-and-wind-battered skin from selling vegetables every day.