"Grandmother, why did Father divorce Mother? My mother has been waiting for Father, taking care of you and me while earning money to support the family. Now that Father has become an official, does he no longer want my mother?" Xiao Tuantuan cried out loudly, her voice trembling with sobs, which was heartbreaking to hear.
"Oh, how pitiful!" The villagers murmured as they looked at the scene.
"That's right. I thought that with Xiao Guangyuan becoming an official, Xiu'er's hard times were finally over. But I never expected... tsk tsk tsk, isn't he an ingrate?"
“Who says otherwise? This Aunt Xiao is really heartless. Xiu’er takes care of her like her own mother and doesn’t let her do anything, and now she’s starting to complain about her.”
"..."
As the murmurs grew louder, Xiao's mother's face flushed red and then paled, her gaze fixed intently on Chen Zhixiu: "It's all your fault! Get out of here right now!"
As she spoke, Xiao's mother pushed Chen Zhixiu out.
Chen Zhixiu bit her lip tightly. She didn't want to leave. She wanted to go and ask Xiao Guangyuan herself, why! On what grounds!
"Oh, right." After watching the show for a while, the newcomer glanced at the people around him and said coldly, "If I hear even the slightest rumor about what happened today, hmph!"
The person suddenly slammed their hand on a nearby tree, causing it to fall over.
The villagers gasped, their faces filled with shock and fear.
“Mrs. Chen, this is the contract my master has signed to sever ties with Xiao Tuantuan. No problem, you can sign it.”
Chen Zhixiu gasped for breath. He... he didn't even recognize his own daughter!
Xiao Tuantuan's eyes lit up: "Mom, please sign it. Father is a high-ranking official now, I'm scared..."
Chen Zhixiu was well aware that a higher-ranking official could easily crush a lower-ranking one.
Chen Zhixiu closed her eyes briefly, her hand trembling as she pressed her fingerprint on the paper. She quickly packed her things, took Xiao Tuantuan's hand, and walked out the door.
Xiao Tuantuan held Chen Zhixiu's hand tightly and said slowly, "Mother, shall we leave here?"
In her previous life, after Xiao Guangyuan divorced her mother, she was resentful and stayed in the village to ask for an explanation. Later, she was killed by Xiao Guangyuan who set fire to the village.
Now, she doesn't want to repeat the same mistakes. She wants to take her mother far away and wait until she has the strength to come back and take revenge.
Chen Zhixiu was just as unwilling as she had been in her previous life: "No, Tuantuan, let's stay here. Mother wants to ask your father why he's treating us like this."
As she spoke, tears began to fall from Chen Zhixiu's eyes.
“Because Father became an official and has a new wife and a new daughter, he naturally doesn’t want us anymore,” Xiao Tuantuan said softly. “Mother knows this, she just doesn’t believe it.”
Xiao Tuantuan's words stunned Chen Zhixiu.
She understood perfectly well, but she just didn't want to believe it.
"Mom, Tuantuan doesn't want to be here, shall we go?" Xiao Tuantuan looked up, tears streaming down her cheeks. "Tuantuan is so sad here..."
Chen Zhixiu felt a pang of pain in her heart, squatted down, and hugged Xiao Tuantuan in her arms.
Yes, she can't just think of herself; she also has to think about Tuantuan.
Here, there is a constant reminder that Tuantuan was abandoned by her own father, which is too cruel for a five-year-old child!
"Okay, let's go, let's go find your maternal grandmother and grandfather."
Maternal grandmother and maternal grandfather?
Xiao Tuantuan was stunned for a moment. In her previous life, she had not had any contact with the two old people for fifteen years.
Fine, let's leave here first and talk about it another day.
Thinking this, Xiao Tuantuan followed Chen Zhixiu toward Fenghua Town.
Just as Xiao Tuantuan was about to rest for a while on the oxcart, she heard a mechanical voice: "[Xiao Tuantuan, please complete the transaction.]"
Xiao Tuantuan suddenly remembered that she had bound herself to a space transaction back then.
"What is it?" Xiao Tuantuan asked silently in her heart.
"A basket of cow dung."
Xiao Tuantuan: ...
Xiao Tuantuan never imagined that cow dung could be traded!
With no other option, Xiao Tuantuan could only pick up cow dung and throw it into her spatial storage during her breaks.
"Good ox, give me more dung." Xiao Tuantuan secretly glanced at Chen Zhixiu, and seeing her sitting under the tree talking to the old woman driving the oxcart, she stroked the ox and muttered softly, "I'll rub your belly, will you give me all your dung..."
Old Niu took a step to the side, glanced at Xiao Tuantuan with his big eyes, and exhaled through his nose. Immediately afterward, Xiao Tuantuan smelled a foul odor.
"Wow!" A smile appeared on Xiao Tuantuan's face. She quickly squatted down and wrapped the cow dung with leaves.
"Transaction successful."
As the mechanical sound rang out, Xiao Tuantuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Just as Xiao Tuantuan was about to go to Chen Zhixiu's side, Lao Niu blocked her way.
With a "plop," another pile of excrement landed at Xiao Tuantuan's feet.
Then, it looked at Xiao Tuantuan with an arrogant air and touched its belly with its front hoof.
Xiao Tuantuan: ...
This cow really knows how to enjoy life!
Two hours later, we finally arrived at Fenghua Town.
Chenjia Village is located to the east of Fenghua Town, and Xiaojia Village is located to the south of Fenghua Town. They are at opposite ends of the town and require six hours to reach each other.
Over the years, Chen Zhixiu has had to take care of Xiao's mother and Xiao Tuantuan, so she has never had time to go home.
There was no response to her letter. When she was about to marry Xiao Guangyuan, her parents disagreed. Just as she was about to find an inn to stay in, she turned around and saw a familiar face.
"Father... Mother..." The murmured voice made Xiao Tuantuan look over.
Looking at the two elderly people who got off the carriage, she guessed that they must be her maternal grandparents.
"What are you still standing there for? Pack your things and go home!" Chen's father's powerful voice rang out. Looking at Chen Zhixiu's lowered head, he looked at her with a face full of disappointment and frustration. "I've taught you since you were little to be tough. Everyone else can suffer, but you can't!"
Chen's mother looked at Chen Zhixiu with affection and said slowly, "Xiu'er, your father and mother have come to take you home."
Chen Zhixiu's tears fell.
"Father...Mother...I thought, I thought you were still angry with me..."
"So what if I'm angry? You're still my daughter!" Mr. Chen frowned, turned around, and hugged Xiao Tuantuan. "Come on, let's go home!"
Xiao Tuantuan snapped out of her daze, wrapped her arms around Chen's father's neck, and whispered, "Grandfather... why haven't you come to see me and my mother..."
Mr. Chen's body stiffened, and he tightened his grip on Xiao Tuantuan's arm: "I've come to see you every year."
Xiao Tuantuan opened her eyes wide and looked at Chen's father in disbelief.
"Father?" Chen Zhixiu was also stunned, then quickly looked at her mother, "Mother?"
Chen's mother patted Chen Zhixiu's hand: "Your father is stubborn but soft-hearted. When has he ever been angry with you for more than three days? Every year after the Mid-Autumn Festival, your father and I would go to Xiao Family Village to see you, but your father is a stubborn person and does not want to see you, so we always do it secretly."
Chen Zhixiu's tears became even more uncontrollable: "I've made my parents worry."
"Alright, it's all in the past now, and our family is finally reunited."
After leaving the inn and boarding the carriage, Xiao Tuantuan nestled between Mr. and Mrs. Chen, blinking her large, clear eyes, and slowly said, "Grandfather, Grandmother, my mother writes letters, she writes every month!"
"But Mother didn't receive a reply, so she thought you hadn't forgiven her."
Mr. and Mrs. Chen exchanged a glance; clearly, they had not received the letter.
Xiao Tuantuan sneered inwardly. The Xiao family members were indeed all selfish and self-serving!
She only now realized that her mother's letters had all been intercepted by her grandmother!
Grandmother was afraid that if Mother reconnected with her maternal grandparents, she would be less able to exploit her mother, so she...
Absolutely shameless!
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