Chapter 1564: Sneaking Away

Li Yungui was startled, “What’s the matter?”

“Second Uncle, why didn’t I study well back then? Look, out of all the brothers, it’s just the four of us from the Li Family who stayed in the hometown.”

Li Yungui sighed deeply, thinking it was something serious.

“Where in the world do you find regret pills?”

“Second Uncle, in the future, the brothers will all achieve great things, while the two of us will stay at home farming.”

“Shuxin, any job done well is good. Don’t get stuck in a dead-end.”

“Second Uncle, I’m not satisfied with this. My elder brother and second brother have jobs, and the work of Brother Hong Lin is good too. Brother Manjiang will surely become a cadre in the future. All the remaining brothers are college students, only the two of us amount to nothing. Second Uncle, I’m truly dissatisfied. Really dissatisfied.”

Qu Xiaoli listened on the side, hearing Shuxin say twice he’s dissatisfied. She was quite displeased but, seeing her nephew, a grown man, cry like this, felt she couldn’t say anything.

The sons have skills because they’ve truly made a lot of effort.

While everyone else was sleeping, these kids held books in the yard memorizing, afraid to stay indoor for fear of falling asleep, even in the cold outside.

In times of play, they were still reviewing books and doing exercises.

Now they say they are dissatisfied. Back in those days when playing carefree, why didn’t they consider the consequences?

Just as Xinyu said, don’t indulge yourself in hardships.

“Shuxin, alright. That was your own choice.”

“Second Uncle, I want to follow Uncle Lv to the South, I want to see the world outside.”

Li Yungui frowned, “Shuxin, what can you do if you go there? There’s no work from our village over there, and if you go to the South, what can you do? The most important thing is what about your wife? Are both of you planning to go?”

“I don’t want her anymore.”

Li Yungui’s eyebrows raised sharply, “Nonsense, how can you just say you don’t want her? The family didn’t agree before, but you insisted on marrying her, and now you say lightly that you don’t want her? What do you take marriage for? child’s play?”

Shuxin pursed his lips, stubbornly refusing to speak.

Li Yungui truly didn’t know what to do, he never even worried this much for his own son.

“Shuxin. You should have a proper talk with your dad, and as for your wife, it can’t just end like this. You know your parents divorced, do you want to live that kind of life?”

In Shuxin’s heart, it didn’t matter. That’s also why he’s always refused to have children. Though some would say he can’t have kids, he couldn’t care less.

“Second Uncle, I want to go out and see.” He stubbornly looked at Li Yungui.

“Would you even listen to anything I say?”

Shuxin nodded.

“Then I hope you don’t go.”

“Why?”

“Because now is not the right time.”

Right now Shuxin was determined to leave, unwilling to listen to anyone’s advice, so he stormed off in anger. In his mind, he even believed Li Yungui was afraid of him being successful, overshadowing his own sons.

As Shuxin left angrily, Li Yungui sighed.

“Why worry, he’s no longer a child, he’s married now. Who knows, he might hold a grudge against you later, haven’t you noticed Old Fourth doesn’t care about him anymore?”

Li Yungui sighed again. He locked the door and went back to sleep.

Forget nephews, even if it’s your own sons acting like this, what can you do?

Shuxin stood for quite some time at his father’s door because he knew his dad wouldn’t agree, so he decided to find Lv Beiguang first.

He felt suffocated living in the village, if others brothers were all home, he’d be fine, but hearing others praise his brothers recently in a drinking session made him feel genuinely uncomfortable.

Everyone praised the brothers of the Li Family for being successful.

He just felt everyone looked down on him. That’s why he wanted to go out, prove himself, show he’s not a fool. But why does no one support him?

The more he thought, the angrier he became, and finally, courage surged and he dared to knock on the door.

Li Yunqiang had just lain down, his wife cleans up every night so he waits for her.

Hearing the knocking, he was puzzled. Who would come so late?

“Third?”

“Dad. There’s something I want to tell you.”

“Come inside.”

The father and son sat directly in the main room.

“What’s wrong? Having more conflicts with your wife?”

“Dad, I want to go out, follow Uncle Lv to the South and see.”

Li Yunqiang frowned at his son. “To the South? Do you even know what’s going on there? And what can you do if you go to the South?”

Hearing this question, Shuxin got worked up. He truly felt looked down upon.

“Dad, even if you don’t agree, I still want to go out and see. I don’t want to live in the village my whole life. Maybe the outside world is more suitable for me.”

Now Li Yunqiang no longer gets angry with them, the family had split and each has their own household now. They’re all adults, why should he care?

“Since you’ve decided, why ask me?”

Now Shuxin said nothing.

“Do whatever you want then.”

Shuxin hung his head as he left, hesitated, but still returned home.

Zhang Aiping saw her husband come in, she didn’t dare ask anything either.

In the middle of the night, Li Shuxin left a letter, its meaning was about divorcing Zhang Aiping, and his plan to go out and make a living.

The next day Zhang Aiping brought the letter to Li Yunqiang.

Reading his son’s letter, Li Yunqiang was trembling with anger.

He had Jiushang drive him around everywhere looking for Shuxin.

Yet after searching a day, they still couldn’t find Shuxin.

He had greeted Xiang Dong, telling him to keep Shuxin if he saw him.

This troublesome guy just refuses to stay home. He could at least leave with Lv Beiguang.

Never been anywhere, outside he’ll be groping in the dark.

No matter how anxious the family was, finding him was impossible.

After three days of searching, those from the city such as Hong Lin and Xiang Dong joined in, yet no trace of him.

Now Zhang Aiping was truly stirred up. In the end, the Zhang family came to take all the furniture, grains from home, and naturally took their own daughter too.

However, Li Yungui stopped them, “Xiao Ping, are you really planning to leave like this?”

“Second Uncle, Li Shuxin doesn’t want me anymore, what am I holding on for?”

“Xiao Ping, I have no objection to you taking everything from the house, but since you want to leave, make it official, so it won’t delay you in finding someone new.”

Li Yungui just feared future troubles, using this chance to solve it once and for all, easing concerns.

Li Yunqiang also came, he felt sorry for this daughter-in-law. With his irresponsible son, he couldn’t do anything.

Finally, the Zhang family agreed. Li Yungui’s proposal was clear, this way future remarriage avoids bother.

Just like that, Li Shuxin left alone, with over four hundred yuan in his pocket.