That night, Shen Siyue had been waiting for revenge from everyone in the Shen family, but in the end, only Li Xiang returned to the small east room at night, and even Shen Xiashu did not come back.
Shen Siyue squinted her eyes and stared at Li Xiang, only to see that she kept her head down, as if she didn’t dare to look at her.
This gave Shen Siyue an ominous feeling that they were all holding back something bad.
When she went to bed at night, she didn't dare sleep too deeply, and she was always half asleep and half awake, paying attention to the movements outside.
However, in the next few days, the Shen family was peaceful, as if what happened that day had never happened.
From that day on, Chen Xiashu never went back to the east room to sleep. At night, Chen Siyue, Li Xiang and Old Lady Wang stayed in the same room with the three women.
Shen Siyue's tense heart also relaxed. After all, the worst outcome would be death!
Her current situation is no better than death.
Ever since she came here, she has been thinking about how to get out of this quagmire that is the Shen family, but the general environment restricts her from going out to work and starting her own business.
The only way to leave the Shen family is to get married.
But even in the 21st century, there are still many people who favor boys over girls and think that women are just appendages of the family, not to mention in the closed rural areas of the 1960s.
Just look at Li Xiang and Wang Huilian.
She didn't want to jump from one mud pit to another. It was meaningless.
What's more, once she gets married, her innocence will be lost, so it's better for her to stay in the Shen family!
Gradually, she discovered that the food Li Xiang brought from the east room was getting less and less, from the original portion for her and Old Lady Wang to the portion for one person.
People in the countryside only have two meals a day. The cornmeal porridge they usually eat is already very thin, and now it can barely cover the bottom of the bowl.
Looking at Li Xiang, who lowered her head in silence and dared not look at her, Shen Siyue finally understood what the Shen family's revenge on her was.
Isn't this just an attempt to starve her to death quietly?
She has a reputation for being crazy, so this way she won't be able to give anyone any evidence against her and she can also solve her troubles. It's really killing two birds with one stone!
And this sculpture should also include Old Lady Wang who is paralyzed in bed!
Ha!!!
Were they so sure that she would accept it silently?
Shen Siyue snatched the porridge that Li Xiang was about to feed to Old Lady Wang, and regardless of her surprised expression, poured it all into her own bowl, then drank it all in a few mouthfuls without using chopsticks.
As for whether Old Mrs. Wang will starve to death, that is her own business!
Even if Shen Siyue ate all of Old Lady Wang’s portion, she still felt like she had filled her stomach.
After thinking about it, she realized that the food that Li Xiang brought to her and Old Lady Wang every day was the leftovers from the food in the east room, and there must be none left now.
Shen Siyue planned to go directly over next time she ate, and no longer wait for Li Xiang to bring it over.
The reason she waited before was because she didn't want to eat with the Shen family. But now, since she was about to starve to death, she couldn't care less.
So the next day, Shen Siyue calculated that the time was almost up, and went directly to the east room.
Seeing Shen Siyue appear in the room, everyone in the Shen family was stunned for a moment, and then they collectively retreated a long distance behind each other.
They thought Shen Siyue was crazy again and was going to hurt people.
Shen Siyue ignored them and directly picked up the bowl on the table, filled herself with a full bowl of porridge, and started eating it with the pickled cabbage on the table.
Everyone in the Shen family watched her eat.
The others turned to look at Old Man Shen, looking at him inquiringly: People come here to eat on their own, what should we do?
Old man Shen looked at Shen Siyue, who was eating as if she was in an empty space, and his face looked very bad.
If he could, he really wanted to kill her with a stick.
But someone died suddenly in the family, and there was no excuse to make it up. If someone reported it to the town, I would probably have my life paid for.
Until Shen Siyue finished a bowl of porridge, wiped her mouth with her hand, glanced at the others, turned around and walked away leisurely, leaving a group of people looking at each other in bewilderment.
During the Shen family’s meal, only Shen Siyue was satisfied, and the others waited for her to leave, then gathered at the table again and ate their own portions in silence.
In the following days, the Shen family almost formed a tacit understanding. No one ate at the same table with Shen Siyue. They waited until she finished her meal before others ate.
This abnormal situation continued until Old Man Shen shifted his attention to the matter of marrying Shen Qiushu.
Old man Shen looked for several people in the village who liked to act as matchmakers, but only Liu Qingshan's wife was willing to take the job.
Liu Qingshan's old wife was called Zhang Yun when she was a girl. Now that she is old, people in the village call her Grandma Qing. She always smiles when she talks to people, loves gossip, and is talkative. She can chat with anyone.
Mrs. Qing has a younger sister who was a girl and married to Lijiazhuang. She is now a grandmother and the two of them still visit each other occasionally.
After taking on the job from the Shen family, Mrs. Qing dressed warmly, put her hands in her pockets, and went to her old sister's house first, braving the northwest wind.
When Granny Qing arrived at a courtyard, she happened to see an old sister coming out to pour water. She quickly greeted her, "Xianglan?"
Tian Xianglan squinted her eyes and looked at the person standing outside the courtyard gate. After seeing who it was, she slapped her thigh and said, "Hey, come in quickly, come in quickly, why did you think of looking for me today?"
Mother Qing entered the yard and took Tian Xianglan's arm: "Haha, I came to your village for something, and I came to chat with you on the way."
Two old ladies in their fifties sat cross-legged on the kang. Tian Xianglan poured two bowls of hot water and handed one to Mother Qing: "What are you doing in our village?"
Mother Qing held the bowl and said with a smile, "I'm here to make a match. The Shen family in our village has taken a fancy to Li Xiaoqin from your village. Let me mediate between them."
"Originally they had a lot of family matters to attend to, so no one else wanted to answer the call. But I thought I could come here and chat with you, so I answered the call. After all, it can give me something to eat, right?"
When Tian Xianglan heard that they were here to act as matchmakers, she immediately became interested: "What about Xiaoqin? She's a good girl, but her mother is a little difficult to deal with!"
"That old woman is unreasonable. There are not many people in our village who can get close to her."
Mother Qing didn't care at all. She approached Tian Xianglan and whispered, "That's perfect. The Shen family in our village is just so-so in terms of popularity. Isn't it just like a donkey looking for a donkey, a shrimp looking for a shrimp, and a turtle looking for a turtle?"
Tian Xianglan raised her finger and pointed at her: "You, you, why don't you do your job as a matchmaker?"
Mother Qing sipped the hot water and said, "Haha, this marriage was not arranged by me. They had already seen each other for a long time. They just asked me to come now, just to go through the motions. So what do I have to worry about? Are you worried that they will not live well in the future, so you come to me?"
The reason why Mrs. Qing was willing to do this was just to get a bite to eat, and she just had to act as a middleman between the two parties.
The two chatted for a while, and then, under the guidance of Tian Xianglan, Mrs. Qing came to Li Xiaoqin's house.
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