"Look, back when you were dating Shen Qingming, she was able to seduce him like that towards you."

Now, after she went to the countryside to get married, someone even died.

Tell me, if you and Shen Qingming hadn't broken up so quickly, you might have been killed by Zhao Xiuyun too!

"..."

Ruan Miaomiao was startled when she heard Chen Juan's words: Sure enough, Chen Juan had hit the nail on the head.

In the story, Ruan Miaomiao didn't break up with Shen Qingming and continued to support Shen Qingming and Zhao Xiuyun, right?

However, Zhao Xiuyun was still dissatisfied with this. She plotted to have Erlaizi publicly defile Ruan Miaomiao's innocence, and cut off everyone's comfort to Ruan Miaomiao. Together with Shen Qingming, she kept manipulating Ruan Miaomiao, forcing her to jump into the river and commit suicide.

Seeing Chen Juan's worry, Ruan Miaomiao took her arm and said coquettishly, "Mom, I know. I've known for a long time that Zhao Xiuyun is no good. So, after I went to the countryside, I cut off all contact with them. No matter how they came to beg me, I didn't agree."

Hearing her daughter's words, Chen Juan felt somewhat comforted, but was still a little uneasy: "Miaomiao, that Zhao Xiuyun can kill two men without a word, she must be a very extreme person. She hasn't been caught yet, and I'm worried that she'll come back to take revenge on you. Why don't you come back to Haicheng with me this time?"

Although she knew that Zhao Xiuyun's matter had nothing to do with her daughter, Chen Juan still wanted to keep her daughter by her side to protect her.

Ruan Miaomiao thought about it and decided that since Sun Deming and the others had already been exonerated and returned home, she might as well go back to Haicheng with Chen Juan and the others first, and then come back in the spring.

"Okay, Mom, let's go get our things ready to go back."

"Really? You really agreed?"

Chen Juan was overjoyed that her daughter would agree, and she started packing her things as soon as she entered the yard.

"Ah Yun, there's something I want to tell you."

In the Ruan family courtyard, Zhou Jingyun was busy building a washbasin for Ruan Miaomiao. Hearing Ruan Miaomiao's words, he put down the blue bricks he was holding. His thick, dark eyebrows relaxed on his handsome face, and he smiled, revealing his white teeth.

"What's wrong, Miaomiao?"

For some reason, Zhou Jingyun had a bad feeling when he heard Ruan Miaomiao's voice.

Sure enough, the next second, he heard the news that Ruan Miaomiao was going back to Haicheng.

In an instant, the blue brick slipped from his hand and landed on his foot.

However, the owner of the foot did not react much, only his eyes were filled with a faint sorrow: he worked so hard, staying up all night in the provincial capital, just to come back and be with Miaomiao as soon as possible.

But now, Miaomiao is leaving him behind and going back to Haicheng.

Zhou Jingyun felt a pang of pain in her heart, but she couldn't bring herself to forbid Ruan Miaomiao from going back; after all, that was her home.

He concealed his disappointment and smiled at Ruan Miaomiao, "Is there anything I can help you with?"

After saying that, he laughed self-deprecatingly: "The daughter of a division commander, why would I need to do anything?"

I've already tried my best, striving to get closer to Miaomiao.

However, he discovered that his Miaomiao was like a fairy floating in the clouds, and no matter how hard he tried to reach her, he could not touch her.

"Your smile is so ugly, you don't have to smile if you don't want to!"

Seeing Zhou Jingyun's miserable smile, Ruan Miaomiao comforted him, "Just wait for me. I'll be back after the New Year."

"Will you come back?"

Upon hearing Ruan Miaomiao's words, Zhou Jingyun's eyes lit up instantly.

Seeing the man's excited expression, Ruan Miaomiao gently patted his hand and said coquettishly, "My boyfriend is here, my comrades-in-arms are here, why wouldn't I come back?"

"Comrade Zhou Jingyun, what you just said means you don't want to keep your promises to me, you don't want to love and pamper me, and you don't want to hand over all the money you earn to me?"

Seeing the woman's delicate, porcelain-white face pouting with anger, Zhou Jingyun quickly denied it: "No, it's all yours, all of mine is yours!"

"That's more like it. While I'm away, you need to remember my requirements for you: you're not allowed to get close to other women."

If I find out, I won't want you.

Ruan Miaomiao raised her neck, like a proud swan, and spoke to Zhou Jingyun.

Ruan Miaomiao knew in her heart how powerless her threat was.

Threatening to leave a man will only work if he truly loves you.

When a man doesn't have feelings for you, if you threaten to leave him, he'll just immediately go and buy firecrackers to celebrate.

However, Zhou Jingyun stubbornly accepted this threat.

Far from feeling humiliated by the threat, he beamed with happiness and cheerfully promised Ruan Miaomiao:

"I know that chastity is a man's best dowry, and I will guard my dowry, oh no, my chastity..."

"That's more like it..."

Ruan Miaomiao gently poked Zhou Jingyun's broad and sturdy chest with her index finger, a look of joy flashing across her face...

"Look at your daughter, she's just like you!"

Inside the house, Ruan Minqiang overheard the conversation between the two young people in the courtyard and said he was too ashamed to listen.

Chen Juan straightened her back proudly and looked at Ruan Minqiang teasingly: "Back then, I don't know who fell for this kind of thing..."

A single sentence stirred up memories of the past for both of them.

"Dad, Mom, why are you blushing? Is it because it's too cold here and your faces are frozen?"

When Ruan Miaomiao entered the room and saw the two of them, she immediately asked them anxiously.

"Cough cough..."

Ruan Minqiang coughed awkwardly twice, turned around and left the room to talk to his future son-in-law, leaving Chen Juan in an awkward situation...

When the Zhou family heard that Ruan Miaomiao was going to go back to Haicheng with Chen Juan and her husband, the eyes of the two younger sisters in the Zhou family turned red.

Before she even left, while they were still getting things ready, Zhou Taohua had already started wiping away tears. By the time she was discovered, her eyes were swollen and bulging like light bulbs from crying.

"You silly girl, it's not like I'm not coming back. I'll be back after the New Year, and I'll bring you crab roe pastries from Haicheng."

As Ruan Miaomiao hugged and comforted Zhou Taohua, she noticed Zhou Dujuan behind her, who was silently sobbing and clearly crying as well, and added, "Bring some for you too."

Beside her, Zhao Cuihong's eyes were also red, but she scolded her two daughters: "Stop crying. Your sister Miaomiao is going home. It's bad luck for you to be crying like this."

Upon hearing that it would affect their beloved Sister Miaomiao, Zhou Taohua and Zhou Dujuan immediately stopped crying, picked up brooms and rags, and began to help Ruan Miaomiao clean up, trying to alleviate their grief through labor.

"Ruan Zhiqing, I heard you're going back to Haicheng. I don't have much to give you, but these are goose eggs sent from my family home. Take them back and eat them."

Aunt Wang walked in carrying a basket and said to Ruan Miaomiao.

Er Ya, who was following behind, handed a wicker basket to Ruan Miaomiao: "Sister Miaomiao, this is full of dried prickly pears that I cleaned. Take it back and soak it in water to drink."

What Er Ya didn't say was: When you drink the water you make with this, you'll think of me...