Spring scenery in the fields

Chapter 327 Zhao Xiaoxi

"That's good. I'm going out to herd the geese."

“Hey.” Amelia Su nodded.

I drove the geese and ducks into the creek, and looked for pig grass and wild vegetables nearby with a sickle.

"sister in law."

I was squatting on the ground cutting wild vegetables when I was startled by a sudden sound behind me.

Ji Wenhe quickly turned around and looked at the person in front of him in surprise: "You, Miss Zhao, didn't you leave a long time ago? Why are you back again?"

Without waiting for her answer, he continued, "Were you caught by them?"

She looked disheveled. When you got close to her, you could smell the stench of sweat. Her hair was disheveled and her clothes were covered in dirt. She didn't look like a normal person.

Zhao Xiaoxi sat down against the tree: "No, I came back by myself."

"What!" She was even more confused now. "We finally sent you away, and now you're running back. All our efforts were in vain."

"Sister-in-law, don't get me wrong. I'm not returning to their house. I'm returning the money to them. I don't want to be their daughter-in-law."

Ji Wenhe put down his sickle, sat not far from her, and asked patiently: "If you are willing, can you tell me what happened after you returned?"

She nodded: "My home is in the west, very far away. I was afraid that they would come to my house to look for me, so I hid all the way and it took me several days to go home."

"I heard from my family that they wanted to look for me at home and return the money, but my parents didn't want to. When they saw that I had returned, they wanted to send me back and said that they had sold me and I was no longer their daughter."

"I pretended to agree, and at night, while they were asleep, I stole three taels of silver and returned the money to their family. From then on, I had no relationship with their family, let alone their daughter-in-law."

I thought her parents would agree to return the money after knowing what kind of people Zhang Shuanzi's family was, but I didn't expect that they actually wanted to tie her up and send her back again.

"Did Zhang Shuanzi's family say anything after receiving the money?" Ji Wenhe asked.

"She scolded me and said I was a jinx. If she hadn't bought me back, her son wouldn't have been beaten like that. She also wanted me to pay compensation."

"You paid?"

"Of course not." Zhao Xiaoxi picked up the stone on the ground and played with it in her hand. "I told them that my parents no longer recognize me as their daughter. I am alone now. If they make me angry, I will kill their whole family."

"She was frightened by me, so she chased me away and told me never to appear in front of her again in my life."

She was just threatening them and wouldn't really do it. She hadn't lived enough.

Ji Wenhe looked at her: "So what are you going to do in the future?"

"do not know."

The world is so big, where is her home?

She didn't know where she could go. After coming out of Zhangjia Village, she saw her from afar and wanted to come over and talk to her.

"Thank you, sister-in-law." Zhao Xiaoxi took out a small rag from her bosom, "This is a hundred coins, I don't need it."

Throw the money into her arms.

Ji Wenhe looked worried: "Do you have any money?"

"Yes, I did. Actually, I stole four taels. Anyway, they don't want me anymore. I won't have them as my parents anymore."

The two were silent for a long time.

"Miss Zhao, have you ever thought about what to do in the future? To be honest, it's easy for a girl to be noticed when walking on the street."

"The second-rate people in the village are not good people. They exist not only in the villages around us, but also in other villages."

Zhao Xiaoxi replied sullenly: "I know, but I really don't know where to go. Who would be willing to take me in?"

Ji Wenhe thought about it, hesitated for a moment, and asked tentatively: "You don't want to marry a second-rate guy, what about a good family?"

"Good family? Who are you talking about, sister-in-law?"

Is it the family that helped her last time?

“For example, the family that helped you last time, Brother Liang, he is now twenty years old. Because his father broke his leg in an accident, his family borrowed a lot of money to pay it back.”

"Because of this incident, the family has not had the money to marry a wife, so it has been delayed until now, but he is a good person."

"He is a good man, and my aunt and uncle are also good people, but... won't they dislike me? I am a daughter-in-law who was bought back by someone."

In fact, she had already had a good impression of that man.

"Miss Zhao, I can't make the decision on this matter. I just want to ask your opinion. It also depends on their family's attitude."

Zhao Xiaoxi raised her head with anticipation in her eyes: "Sister-in-law, can you help me ask? Actually, I came to see you, I..."

She lowered her head embarrassedly: "Actually, I...he is a good man. If it's him, I'm willing."

Ji Wenhe raised his eyebrows, seeing through her thoughts, it seemed that she was not just here to talk to her: "Miss Zhao, don't hold out too much hope, I'm afraid they may not..."

"Sister-in-law, I understand. If he doesn't want me, I won't stay with him. Please go and ask for me. I'll wait here."

"Okay, I'll go back and ask. You wait here for me. I'll be here soon."

Drive the geese and ducks back.

I took a look around the pigpen, but Shen Liang was not there.

He turned to look at the three people who had returned from the vegetable field: "Has anyone seen Brother Liang?"

Shen Wenshan replied: "Brother Liang just went back."

She nodded and trotted over to their house.

Shen Liang came back to drink water and was about to go to the pigpen: "Sister-in-law, what's wrong?"

"Brother Liang, I have something to tell you."

Miao Zhaodi came out from the house: "Wen He, come in and sit down and talk."

"Hey." When he entered the room, he saw Shen Shuzhuan there, "Uncle Zhuan, Aunt Miao, Brother Liang, I want to ask, what do you think of Miss Zhao Xiaoxi?"

The three of them looked at each other.

Shen Liang asked: "Sister-in-law, why are you asking this? Didn't the girl leave a long time ago?"

"Yes, she left, but she came back again."

"She's back?" Miao Zhaodi asked in surprise, "Could it be that Zhang Shuanzi and his family found her and brought her back?"

Ji Wenhe shook her head: "No, Miss Zhao returned the three taels of silver. Now they have no relationship. It's just because of this incident that her family no longer recognizes her as their daughter."

She looked at Shen Liang: "Brother Liang, what do you think of Miss Zhao? I want to hear your true feelings."

He scratched the back of his head sheepishly: "Miss Zhao is a very nice person. Although we haven't known each other for long, I believe she is not a bad person."

"Gone?"

"Gone."

Miao Zhaodi saw what she meant, pulled her aside, and asked quietly, "Wen He, is Miss Zhao at your house?"

"No, outside the village."

"She asked you to ask, is she interested in our Shen Liang?"

Ji Wenhe nodded gently: "Yes, so I came to ask Brother Liang's opinion, but she was bought back by Zhang Shuanzi before, you..."

The rest of the words were not said, but she understood that Miao Zhaodi knew what it meant.