Why not hang yourself on the southeast tree

Chapter 107: Carrier Pigeon: A child with a mother is a treasure (1)

The further north you go, the stronger the wind and snow.

My vision was blurry and I had trouble telling the direction.

Yes, I am on a mission now, I am a carrier pigeon.

A homing pigeon whose ancestors have been hybridized for who knows how many generations. It has a shiny neck, grayish fur, a strong body, wings that can withstand wind and snow, and an excellent memory.

【Cuckoo~】

There was a rooftop balcony below with several large baskets of corn kernels drying in the sun. Although most of them were covered with snow, they still had an attractive golden color.

Wow, this is a free buffet provided to me. If you don’t take advantage of a good deal, you’d be a bastard!

I flew down, stood on a high place and looked down. Hey, there was no one below, only a big goose poking its head and quacking, but unable to fly. No wonder no one was harvesting vegetables in such a heavy snow.

The corn was dried in the sun and was hard. It felt like swallowing a stone when I swallowed it, one grain at a time.

But I was a little hungry. It was more than 180 kilometers from Baoding, Hebei, all the way north. The fuel consumption was 100 kilometers, and a half-fat and half-lean donkey meat burger was not enough.

Li Pandi always laughs at me for being too straightforward. I eat whatever I am given and don’t know when I am hungry or full.

Who told you to grill the donkey meat so deliciously? If you hadn't assigned me the job, I wouldn't have gotten to eat it...

【Cuckoo~】

I smacked my lips, missing Li Pandi a little, from whom I had just separated less than five hours ago.

If it weren't for this sudden heavy snow, I would have been able to fly to Beijing and arrive in Fangshan District in half an hour.

Oh, what a horrible weather!

I moved my paws and felt the soft snow beneath my feet was already showing signs of freezing. The biting cold went straight from the soles of my feet to the top of my head. The few tufts of hair on the top of my head stood up straight, like the Queen of England's crown.

I don’t know what letter Li Pandi wrote this time, but he forced me to run in such a cold weather to deliver it to Wang Fengying.

The native starlings of Wang Fengying's family are not very friendly to me. Every time we meet, we will fight fiercely and will not stop until they have pecked off seventeen or eighteen hairs.

Well, Li Pandi's stall is doing pretty good business. As far as the money is concerned, there is no difficulty.

Could it be?! Is he thinking about that heartless son whom she asked Wang Fengying to take good care of?!

Speaking of which, Li Pandi's first half of his life was a bit miserable.

She is the eldest in the family, with five younger sisters. Her mother could not stand the nagging of her grandmother and her elder and younger aunts, so she took the risk of having an IVF test tube in her forties and finally got pregnant with a son.

The whole family, except the six sisters who were ordered around to do the work, were ecstatic.

As a result, just after the 33rd week, my father felt too lazy to go out because it was too cold outside, so my mother rode her tricycle to the market to sell goods. On the way home, she fell down and was not discovered for a long time by a passerby in the village. They called their family to take her to the hospital. She was in labor both prematurely and with difficulty.

My younger brother was delivered by cesarean section, and he died in less than half an hour before being sent to the neonatal incubator.

My mother suffered from severe postpartum hemorrhage and also went with me.

At that time, Li Pandi had been married off by her grandfather to the son of Carpenter Guo in the village. They got married at the beginning of the year and gave birth to a big fat boy weighing 8.9 jin at the end of the year, who was born only a dozen days earlier than her biological brother.

The remaining five sisters in the family were not old enough to get married. As soon as the seventh day after their mother's death, my grandmother could no longer wait. She didn't want to keep so many women who were just eating and drinking at home and delay her son's remarriage, so she wanted to send them away one by one, either to work for others or as child brides.

Li Pandi was still in confinement after giving birth. After hearing her second sister's crying, she ran back home and had a fierce conflict with her grandmother. The room full of women, young and old, was in a mess, arguing with each other.

Grandpa was too impatient to deal with these trivial matters, so he pretended to be deaf, walked along the courtyard wall, frowned, and went out with his pipe on his back.

As a result, not long after, Li Pandi accidentally pushed his grandmother, who was holding a shovel and was red-eyed. The old woman fell out and hit her head on the stone bench at the gate, and died on the spot.

When the grandfather was found, he had drunk a few glasses of wine. His rosy face became even more angry when he saw the dead old woman. He locked the six granddaughters, whose faces were pale with fear, in the door and called the police.

Three funerals in one month...

No, it can only be counted as two. According to local customs, a baby who died prematurely cannot have a funeral. They just wrap the little body in the swaddling clothes used when it was born and put it in the mother's coffin...

Even so, the neighbors still complained that it was bad luck and wanted to take a detour rather than pass by Lao Li's house.

What happened afterwards was also unbelievable. Li Pandi was still in confinement after childbirth and was extremely weak. The police caught her like a chicken and threw her into the police station. She was shaking like a sieve and had no strength to resist at all.

Grandpa insisted that Li Pandi was killed intentionally, and accused her of wanting to avenge her mother's unjust death, which was why she beat her grandmother to death.

Grandpa and fellow villagers jointly petitioned for a severe sentence.

Half a month later, Li Pandi was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to fifteen years in prison.

I was twenty when I went in and thirty-five when I came out.

She and Wang Fengying, who has now returned to her mother's home in Beijing, were cellmates in the women's prison for five years.

One charge of manslaughter, fifteen years, and one charge of excessive self-defense, five years.

Fortunately, Li Pandi learned the skill of making donkey meat hotpot from her mother who was from Hejian, Hebei. Otherwise, with her dark history, she would have had no money and nowhere to go, and it would have been difficult for her to survive.

It was only because Wang Fengying, who had been released from prison a month earlier, was waiting at the prison gate that she was given a place to stay.

Not to mention that Li Pandi has a low level of education, just because he had committed murder and spent fifteen years in prison, no housekeeping company would dare to hire him as a cleaner.

The Guo family she married into were also very ruthless. At the time of their wedding, the young couple were not even old enough to get a marriage certificate, so they simply held a wedding banquet in the village.

No one expected that Li Pandi would get into trouble just a few days after the child was born. The two elders of the Guo family felt ashamed and quickly married another girl from the neighboring village.

The eldest girl became a stepmother as soon as she got married. How could she be willing to do that? She was not nice to the child either. In addition, she soon became pregnant, so she disliked the son born to the previous woman even more.

She can still show tenderness and consideration in front of her own man, but secretly she treats the kid like a cat or a dog, feeding him and keeping him from starving to death.

After Li Pandi was released from prison, she got herself ready and the first thing she did was to look for her son. She couldn't even remember what her son looked like, and only remembered his name, Guo Xiaobao.

Fifteen years later, Guo Xiaobao, who was as thin as a monkey, was no longer called Guo Xiaobao. His stepmother's brother was called Guo Tianbao.

His stepmother instigated his father to hastily change his name to Guo Li. The family could only have one treasure, and they hoped that Guo Li could become independent as soon as possible so as not to be an eyesore in front of his family.

There was no trace of Li Pandi's existence in the Guo family. Guo Li only knew that he had a murderer mother who made him ashamed. When he suddenly saw the real person, he didn't want to recognize him at all.

Counting on her fingers, three years have passed and Guo Li still doesn't recognize her.