20 years of teaching

Chapter 161 Elopement
Jinhua's natal family lives in the Xiawan Group of Taohua Village, Fengliang Town, Lingnan Township, while Lin Feifan's grandmother lives in the Shangwan Group of Taohua Village. The distance between the two village groups is less than 100 meters.

Jinhua and Lin Feifan's mother, Wu Xiulan, have known each other since they were girls, and their relationship is still very good.

Later, the two married into the Jinghu group together and became the daughter-in-law of the Jinghu group, so Jinhua knew the stories of Wu Xiulan, Lin Youde and Fan Tong clearly.

Fan Tong's father, Fan Zhongjing, and Wu Xiulan's father, Wu Shugui, were brothers who studied stonemasonry.

One day when returning home from work, Wu Shugui was bitten by a poisonous snake, and his ankle was instantly swollen. After emergency treatment, Fan Zhongjing was very worried, and even sucked the wound of his junior brother with his mouth to completely remove the snake's venom.

Proud of his brother's desperate efforts to suck the poisonous blood, Wu Shugui saved his life, but Fan Zhongjing's mouth was so swollen that he couldn't eat for seven days, and he relied on soup to maintain his life.

After being treated and recovered by the local ancestral doctor who specializes in treating snakebite, Fan Zhongjing fell into the problem of speaking poorly.

That year, Fan Tong was just three years old, and Wu Xiulan was still in her mother's womb.

In order to repay his life-saving grace, Wu Shugui said that if his wife gave birth to a son, the son would worship Fan Zhongjing as his godfather and Fan Tong as his brother.

If it is a daughter, then the daughter will be Fan Tong's wife.

Therefore, Fan Tong and Wu Xiulan were half-married.

In the first month of the second year, Wu Xiulan was born. On the day of Wu Xiulan's full moon wine, Fan Zhongjing brought his three-year-old Fan Tong, carrying meat and wine, to Wu Shugui's house.

On that day, Fan Tong changed his name to Wu Shugui as his maternal father and Wu Xiulan's mother as his maternal grandmother.

Since Fan Tong was a child, during the three important festivals of Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival every year, Fan Zhongjing would take Fan Tong to Wu Shugui's house to visit relatives, carrying a large bag of things every time.

This walk has lasted 18 years, and Wu Xiulan has become more and more beautiful every year, and she has become a well-known beautiful girl with a radius of hundreds of miles.

But Fan Tong is relatively short, with dark skin, and his facial features don't look well coordinated, so he doesn't match Wu Xiulan at all.

Since Wu Xiulan was a child, Wu Shugui often told her to be loyal to the Fan family when she grew up, and she was destined to be Fan Tong's wife.

In order to let the two children have more time to spend together, under Fan Zhongjing's arrangement, Fan Tong worshiped Wu Shugui as his teacher, and lived and ate at Wu Xiulan's house.

In the same year, that is, the year of Wu Xiulan, Wu Shugui also accepted another apprentice, Lin Youde.

Lin Youde also lived with Fan Tong at Wu Xiulan's house.

In those days, it took three years to learn stonemasonry from a master, and it took three years to become a teacher.

The apprentice stayed at the master's house for three years, and also served the master's house for three years. The wages of going out to work belonged to the master, and when he returned to the master's house, he had to do housework.

Standing together with the handsome Lin Youde, Fan Tong was incomparable, and suddenly paled in comparison.

Moreover, Lin Youde is very smart and knows how to make Wu Xiulan happy. Within three months of getting along, Wu Xiulan fell in love with Lin Youde with all her heart.

At that time, Lin Youde's family was very good, and he was very courageous. He didn't care that Wu Xiulan and Fan Tong were engaged. He boldly pursued Wu Xiulan, and he didn't shy away from Fan Tong. good.

Fan Tong soon discovered the abnormality, and he immediately complained to his master.

Wu Shugui was shocked when he heard this, and he asked his daughter Fan Tong in private if what he said was true.

Unexpectedly, Wu Xiulan admitted it generously, and said that she didn't like Fan Tong at all, and she would not marry Lin Youde.

Wu Shugui imprisoned Wu Xiulan and beat her up, and drove Lin Youde home that day, and declared that the relationship with Lin Youde was completely severed, and there was no longer any relationship between a teacher and an apprentice.

To Fan Tong's surprise, on the night Wu Xiulan was beaten by her father, Wu Xiulan and Lin Youde eloped.

Fan Tong and Wu Shugui went to the Jinghu team to look for Wu Xiulan, but Lin Youde was not at home, and Lin Zhongting didn't know where his son had gone.

At that time, Fan Zhongjing was seriously ill in bed. After hearing the bad news, he was so angry that he didn't eat or drink, and sighed all day long. Within a week, he died.

Fan Tong gritted his teeth with hatred, and he vowed to kill Lin Youde and Wu Xiulan.

After Wu Xiulan and Lin Youde hadn't heard from each other for a month, Fan Tong heard that they had returned to the Jinghu group.

Fan Tong immediately picked up the specially bought machete and rushed to the Jinghu group.

Fan Tong, holding a knife, found his rival Lin Youde and his fiancée Wu Xiulan who had known each other for 18 years in Luanfengang.

At that time, Lin Youde and Wu Xiulan were surrounded by people. Fan Tong stuck the machete in his waist, covered the machete with his clothes, and got into the crowd.

After reaching the innermost layer, Fan Tong found Lin Youde and Wu Xiulan both kneeling on the ground. Lin Youde's heart-piercing cry was hoarse and miserable, and Wu Xiulan, who was crying into tears, hugged Lin Youde tightly to prevent him from hitting the grave.

Only then did Fan Tong know that Lin Youde's parents and younger brother had drowned...

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Desperate Fan Tong looked up to the sky and wailed. He pulled out the knife from his waist and slashed at a fir tree. Half of the knife fell into the tree. He dropped the knife and ran wildly, roaring...

Later, Wu Xiulan lived with Lin Youde in the Jinghu group and did not return to the Xiawan group of Taohua Village in Fengliang Town.

Wu Shugui also didn't want Wu Xiulan to go back, and kept saying that he wanted to sever the father-daughter relationship with Wu Xiulan.

And Fan Tong hasn't found a girl for many years, and he drives her out when the matchmaker comes to make a match.

Until he met Liu Peifen, Fan Tong killed chickens for Liu Peifen and got married.

In the year of Fan Tong's marriage, Wu Shugui forgave his daughter and asked someone to write a letter to Wu Xiulan, asking Wu Xiulan to take Lin Youde and the child back to her mother's house for a walk.

Wu Xiulan returned to her natal home with her daughter Lin Yuefan and her husband.

As soon as they entered the house, Wu Xiulan and Lin Youde knelt down in front of their father.

Wu Shugui, who was trembling with excitement, lifted his daughter and son-in-law, and hugged his niece, weeping uncontrollably...

Since then, the Fan family and the Wu family have had no contact with each other.

From then on, Lin Youde did everything possible to avoid any intersection with Fan Tong.

At that time, the story of Lin Youde and Wu Xiulan's elopement, the tragic death of the three members of the Lin family, and Fan Tong's revenge with a machete spread throughout the two towns, and almost all women and children knew about it.

Time will dilute everything, more than 20 years have passed, the past is like smoke, and the wind is gone, and now no one mentions the grievances and hatreds of those years.

Today, Jinhua brings up the old story again, her purpose is to give her son confidence.

If Fan Feilin is in a relationship with another boy, it may be successful.

But now she is actually with Lin Youde's son!
Will Fan Tong, who is seen as very backbone by outsiders, agree?
Jinhua finally said to her son: "Maybe this is a good thing. In order to prevent my daughter from marrying Lin Youde's son, maybe Fan Tong will betroth Fan Feilin to you soon!"

Huang Jinhua also said that she concluded that Fan Tong would rather marry her daughter to an old man, or let her daughter stay alone in the empty house, and would not let her marry the son of the enemy Lin Youde.

(End of this chapter)