Chapter 819: Substitute Bride Sister 34

Chapter 819: Chapter 819: Substitute Bride Sister 34

One day, it was just her and Xiao Yan washing clothes by the riverside.

She finished first, picked up her basin and left, but halfway down the path she sneaked back, and while Xiao Yan wasn’t paying attention, she pushed Xiao Yan into the river.

Then she ran.

Not long after, she heard that Xiao Yan had drowned.

Back then she was terrified, and a little guilty, but the moment she thought that from then on no one would fight her over Wu Hongwei, something deep in her heart felt secretly glad.

At Xiao Yan’s funeral, she even ran over and cried a good long while, hoping that seeing her cry in such pain, Xiao Yan wouldn’t hold it against her.

But she never imagined, not in a thousand years, that after Xiao Yan had been dead so many years, she would still come looking for her to take revenge.

Wuu wuu...

If she’d known Wu Hongwei was such a scumbag, she should’ve just given him to Xiao Yan back then, let Xiao Yan marry into the Wu Family and be ground down by that whole bunch.

But now it was all too late.

She’d been caught by Xiao Yan’s ghost.

Li Hongchun was scared, but she didn’t dare tell her aunt, afraid that if her aunt knew she’d brought something dirty into the house, she’d be furious.

Now, besides her aunt’s place, she no longer knew where in the world she had a place to stay.

Whenever she thought that the world was so big, yet there was nowhere for her to belong, she felt her life was so bitter.

And the reason she’d ended up like this was all that little slut Yuan Chun’s fault. If she’d just obediently handed Meng Fei over to her, would she have had to risk everything to go do a deal with human traffickers and sell her off?

This was all that little slut Yuan Chun’s fault.

Once she got through this ordeal, she definitely wouldn’t let that little slut off.

When they were kids, she’d compete with her for affection in front of Grandpa, Grandma, Dad, Mom, and the brothers; then when they got married she fought with her over the dowry. She was clearly the Li Family’s eldest daughter; her dowry ought to have been more than Yuan Chun’s. So why the hell was Yuan Chun’s dowry just as much as hers?

Her parents were biased.

Grandpa and Grandma were biased.

Both older brothers and their wives were biased.

Wasn’t it just because Wu Hongwei was useless, not as capable as Meng Fei? Hmph. Once she married Meng Fei, she’d make them pay. When she became the boss’s wife of Meng’s Construction, she wouldn’t let those two brothers and their wives take the tiniest advantage of her.

They looked down on her.

She didn’t care for their so?called family affection either.

In her heart, Li Hongchun cursed everyone in the Li Family viciously, one by one.

Because the female ghost had chased her all the way to her aunt’s house, Li Hongchun didn’t dare stay there anymore. That afternoon, while her aunt and her aunt’s daughter?in?law were out working the fields and no one was home, she stole all the money in the house, then packed up a few of her cousin?in?law’s clothes and some snacks, and hurriedly fled her aunt’s home.

When her aunt and the daughter?in?law came back after working the whole afternoon, they saw the house had been turned completely upside down. Her aunt wiped off the dust from the money chest; the little cloth pouch where she kept the cash was already gone.

Her aunt collapsed to the floor, wailing, "That’s the money my son worked his fingers to the bone for three years to earn. That’s my son’s money for building a new house, and it’s just gone like that. How am I supposed to face my son?"

"Mom, my clothes were stolen too, and the pastries my husband bought for the child are gone as well. Wuu wuu, Mom, Hongchun is missing too—did she steal all our things?"

Only then did her aunt realize Li Hongchun was gone as well.

Her aunt scrambled to her feet. "Come on, let’s send Xiao Bao to the village head’s place for the night; we’re going to your eldest aunt’s house to take a look."

With Li Hongchun missing, the house a complete mess, the money gone, and her daughter?in?law’s clothes stolen, her aunt was basically certain it was Li Hongchun who’d taken everything.

She sent her little grandson to the village head’s house, and the two women didn’t even bother eating dinner. Wiping the tears from their faces, they hurried along the dark road to Tufang Village.

When they learned that Li Hongchun had gone to her younger sister’s place the previous night and stolen the money her younger sister had scrimped and saved for three years, Mrs. Li’s eyes rolled back in rage and she fainted on the spot.