FH Chapter 27:
纯属扯淡
[It’s pure bullshit]
Li Haitang saw that Xiao Ling Chuan had not touched the chicken and gave him a piece instead, which was her habit in her previous life for many years.
When doing surgery, in the busiest time, forty-eight hours in a row, she could fall asleep while eating. She and her colleagues are clipping food for each other and care for each other.
“I was at the bottom of the hill and heard the villagers talking about the Li family.”
Xiao Ling Chuan rarely speaks, and before he says a long sentence, he has to break off several times to clearly express his meaning.
When the Sun Widow proclaimed it, the villagers all knew that Li Haitang had run away with Sun Xing, and they talked behind her back that she had already Sun Xing’s person, and was afraid that her wedding would be exposed, so she ran away from the arranged marriage.
The slanderous gossip in the village, he was hesitant to tell her, since a bad reputation would be a deadly blow to any woman.
“How about the scum from the Li family?”
Li Haitang put down her chopsticks, her eyes looked straight at Xiao Ling Chuan and asked, “Just be straightforward, I can actually guess.”
Old Madam Li had taken so much silver from Constable (Landlord Qin). Once she (Li Haitang) ran away, the hen had flown away and the eggs in the coop were broken.—all is lost, the Li family would have to face the wrath of the Qin family, and the village’s peasant family, who couldn’t fight to win against the rich Constable anyway, would have enough to drink!
What Li Haitang was more interested in was how the Li family would settle the matter, the stingy nature of Old Venerable Madam Li, who would not spit out the meat that was in her mouth, no matter what.
“The Qin family went to Yamen’s office to sue, saying that the Li family had touched the porcelain.” [Literal ‘touch the porcelain’ meaning: to scam sb by setting up an “accident” in which one appears to have sustained damage or injury caused by the scam victim, then demanding compensation (variations include putting “expensive” porcelain in a place where it is likely to be knocked over by passers-by, and stepping into the path of a slow-moving car)
Xiao Ling Chuan said what he knew, the Li family launched all their relatives to look for Li Haitang, and someone had gone over to the shallow forest yesterday. Deep in the forest mountains, they didn’t dare to go there.
The old Madam Li acted shamelessly and was unreasonable, insisted emphatically and said that the silver was all on Li Haitang and that she had given it all to her as dowry, and the two parties were unclearly torn apart.
“A dowry?”
Li Haitang laughed sarcastically, even the clothes she was wearing were still tailor-made by the Qin family, and she hardly could even take a cloud with her, except for the silver she had taken from her eldest aunt Liu.
Old Mrs. Li was telling lies with her eyes open and the town could not refuse to accept it!
As she looked at it, the Counselor Qin hadn’t given up (drop the matter yet), otherwise it would not be as simple as sending people to the village to scare people, but directly have the official come and arrest the people.
Therefore, at this critical moment, Li Haitang definitely must not show her face, and her little brother Li Jinhu, who is on her mind, must be kept safe.
If her little brother was caught by the Qin family and used to blackmail her, Li Haitang did not know how she would choose, and she did not want the other side to catch her weak spot.
“I came out of the house with only five taels of silver.”
The corners of Li Haitang’s mouth hooked and she didn’t hide it, telling the details of her escape from the marriage, it was too hasty and she had only one purpose, to escape first then think about next later.
If she didn’t meet him, she might be starving and freezing at this moment, sickness would be inevitable.
“Between the Widow Sun and the Li family, there may be disagreements, so…”
The latter half of the sentence, Xiao Ling Chuan swallowed back into his stomach, both she and Sun Xing love each other, so she should be feeling sad in her heart, even if she married him, also helpless.
“It seems that the Sun widow butt in, following the Li family to slander me together.”
Li Haitang is not stupid and quickly figured out the key. Sun Xing proposed that the two of them conspire together and pit Counselor Qin. If the original body did not comply, the love between the two would come to an end.
As for the two lovers being in love, it was pure bullshit. In Li Haitang’s eyes, Sun Xing is the kind of person she hates the most, scum of the literati, living off a woman, effeminate young man (little white face), a snob, a scum, and the kind of person who will inevitably abandon his (糟糠妻: wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband) when he has a chance to climb up the ladder (seek personal advancement or be a social climber).