Chapter 1 No one can save you .

The spring is chilly, and the plum blossoms are trembling on the branches.

In Xilin Village, a thousand miles away from the capital, smoke is curling up.

The sky had just brightened when Yu Tingwan went into the kitchen.

She was fair-skinned and dressed like a country girl. She wore a triangular headscarf on her head and kept her eyes down all day, trying to hide her beauty and not wanting to go out, but her appearance was rare in the surrounding area. Her eyes were like autumn water, her lips were delicate, and a teardrop mole at the end of her eyes made her look more charming. Grain

was precious these days, so she didn't dare to put too much in. She grabbed a few handfuls of broken rice, washed them clean, and started a fire to cook porridge.

Behind her, Wang had a sullen face and a picky look, and was extremely mean to her niece.

She said with disgust: "The Hu family took you in, not to let you get entangled with Erlang. If you want to marry him, you have to consider whether you are worthy of him."

Yu Tingwan paused slightly, her face full of absurdity: "Why do you say that, aunt?"

Wang straightened her back proudly: "My Erlang is a precious scholar, valued by the teacher, and will surely achieve something in the future. It's not surprising that you want to climb up the social ladder."

She glanced at Yu Tingwan sharply and contemptuously, and spat: "Give up on this idea."

What's the use of being beautiful, she is so weird. At first glance, she looks like her mother who died early, not a serious person.

The coldness penetrated into her clothes through the seams, and Yu Tingwan shivered with cold.

If her parents hadn't died early, she would have thought that the world was in chaos and there were evil people everywhere. She had no money and was too beautiful. How could she come to the Hu family to rely on her uncle and suffer Wang's contempt?

She chuckled, "The last time my second cousin went to college, he said he had decided on me."

Upon hearing this, Wang was furious and put her hands on her hips, "You must have seduced him! Shameless little bitch."

"He said he had been in love with me for a long time and wanted to marry me."

Wang's eyes widened with anger, and she screamed, "I will never agree."

She was so angry that she picked up the broom in the kitchen and was about to hit her.

Yu Tingwan was not panicked at all, and did not even hide. She hid the compassion in her eyes, opened her red lips slightly, and uttered four words.

"I refused."

Wang's ferocious face hesitated, and the broom stopped in mid-air.

"What?"

"But he didn't give up."

"Take care of him."

Yu Tingwan looked at Wang with her watery deer eyes, and her attitude was sincere: "This is really annoying."

Wang's throat surged with a fishy sweetness, and she almost vomited blood in anger. She understood everything Yu Tingwan said, but it seemed that she didn't understand a word.

She actually looked down on Erlang. How dare she?

Wang was breathing rapidly, her chest was heaving violently, and two cold smiles came out of her mouth: "You are just being stubborn!"

"Mom!"

The pregnant Xiao Xu hurried in from outside: "I heard from the aunt next door that the heavy snow blocked the road ahead. I am afraid that Dalang, Erlang and Dad who are on the road will not be able to come back in the next few days."

Wang was so anxious that she turned around.

"What should I do?"

"It's so cold, and it's even worse at night. Not to mention that the farmland may be damaged, are there not many people who have been frozen to death? The head of the family and Dalang are thick-skinned, and it's nothing to freeze. But Erlang is precious, how can his body stand it?"

This old pious woman!

Xiao Xu was so angry.

Only you, Erlang, are a gold nugget! Everyone else is grass!

If Shushulang hadn't returned home from the town school, Wang couldn't bear to let him walk, and insisted that Dad and Dalang drive the ox cart to pick him up. Could her man endure such suffering!

But she didn't dare to reveal her emotions at all. Who doesn't want to take advantage of Shushulang?

"Dad has his own ideas. Seeing that the situation is not right, it is impossible for him to stay here overnight. I am afraid he will go back to town to wait for news."

Wang felt relieved: "Yes, yes, you are right."

She walked back and forth, frowning: "But the expenses in town are high. Which one doesn't cost money for accommodation and food? They didn't bring money specially."

It's almost the New Year, and the school is closed, so they can't go in.

If they have to sleep in the open..., how can her Erlang endure such hardship!

Xiao Xu's eyes flickered, and she didn't say anything.

The weather was cold, and she had frostbite on her face. When the man went out, Xiao Xu gritted her teeth and stuffed the private money she had secretly hidden for half a year into his pocket, so that he could buy facial cream.

Dalang, this fool, should not turn around and give it to his father-in-law to collect the accommodation money.

Just when the two of them were at a loss, Yu Tingwan, who was burning firewood, said lightly.

"I brought it."

Wang looked at her fiercely.

"How did you know?"

Because she reminded him.

Yu Tingwan had known that the mountain would be closed for a month. Before her uncle left, she suggested that he should bring more silver in case of accidents when he was away from home, and there were no relatives in the town.

She also knew...

Yu Tingwan slowly raised her eyes and looked at Wang.

She also knew that Wang was greedy for money and would take advantage of her uncle's absence to force her to marry her to the sixty-year-old Mr. Dong.

It's better to say it's selling than marrying.

Xilin Village is located in a remote and extremely poor place, and there are not so many rules.

As long as the betrothal gifts are received and a few tables of banquets are prepared, the man can take the girl away.

Sure enough, Wang's eyes moved shrewdly and greedily.

She was fed up with the head of the family's protection of Yu Tingwan.

How about...

Wang suppressed her madly beating heart, gritted her teeth and took out two eggs from the locked cabinet. When she passed by Yu Tingwan, she pushed her hard because she was an eyesore.

Unexpectedly, Yu Tingwan seemed to have noticed it and dodged to the side.

She pushed in vain and almost twisted her waist.

"You!"

Yu Tingwan: "Oh, I was wrong."

She said she had a good attitude, but her tone was perfunctory. She said she had a bad attitude, but she apologized actively.

The embarrassed Wang held her breath in her throat, unable to spit it out or swallow it, and her whole face turned red. She glared at Yu Tingwan fiercely and strode out.

When she left, Yu Tingwan and Xiao Xu were the only ones left in the kitchen.

Such a stingy person actually went out with eggs in his pocket!

Xiao Xu was a bully who only bullied the weak and feared the strong. She changed her submissive attitude in front of Wang and arrogantly stuck out her round belly: "Do you know where mother went?"

Yu Tingwan looked at the flickering fire in the stove.

As soon as she closed her eyes, she saw the scene of her kneeling in front of Wang in panic and begging.

["Aunt, please love me. I won't marry. I won't marry him."]

She was humble, but the latter put on a condescending face and tried to destroy her hope.

["I am doing this for your own good. How can I hurt you? Why don't you appreciate it? Yes, Mr. Dong's grandson is the same age as you, but older people are more caring."]

And Xiao Xu touched the gold hairpin given by the Dong family in her hair and laughed heartily.

["It's good that the snow is falling. Dad can't come back if the mountain is sealed. No one can save you. You have to marry even if you don't want to." [

"So what if you look good? You are like your mother, you deserve to be abused by men."]

Neither of these two people is good.

She felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar, her whole body numb and stiff from the cold. Her arm was grabbed, and the sparse-haired Dong, a villager, threw a bag of silver to Wang and dragged her away.

She struggled madly, but her fierce resistance angered Dong, who raised his hand and slapped her hard.

[“Believe it or not, I’ll kill you here.”]

The new book is here, let me see, is anyone else reading it?

(End of this chapter)