The thatched house in front of me was very old. The large yellow earth bricks mixed with goat horn grass were uneven, and many of them were chipped and broken into powder. Weeds grew along the wall, and there were many fallen soil blocks and hay on the roof.
Jiang He covered the precarious and dilapidated wooden door with his young hands, took down the straw rope hanging on the door hook, and carefully pushed the door open.
"Squeak—ah—"
There was a teeth-grinding squeak, and Jiang Henian looked back warily at the direction he came from.
No one.
Looking at the dim light coming through the crack in the door, her heart began to beat faster for no apparent reason.
Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, I’ll just take a look.
She bit her lip, closed her eyes and pushed the door open.
A strong smell of blood rushed into the room, and Jiang Henian wrinkled his nose.
The empty and dilapidated thatched house was gray and almost empty, with only a cracked old kang in the corner.
There was a person lying on top of him. He was very tall and slender, with his legs sticking out from the end of the bed.
Just a glance could see that his body was covered in blood and his clothes were stained brown. It was obvious that he had not received effective treatment.
This scene was too much of a challenge to Jiang Henian's psychological endurance, and he was a little scared.
She hesitated at the door for a long time, and finally mustered up the courage to step in.
The man was lying flat on his back, as if he had stopped breathing. Jiang Henian walked closer and closer, his throat rising higher and higher.
Her raised hand trembled slightly, and her toes touched the foot of the kang. Just as she was about to touch his shoulder, she finally saw the face of her "stepbrother-in-law".
How could this happen? ! ! !
Jiang Henian's eyes suddenly widened, a breath of cold air rushed up, his chest felt empty, and he almost choked to death.
This person, this person...
This person is clearly the gentleman with the surname He!!!
Her face turned pale and she staggered.
Suddenly, she felt her heart pumping violently and her blood rushing. Her whole body went numb and she lost control of her body. She fell straight towards the bloody man on the bed!
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“Rustle…”
“Rustle…bang!”
Jiang Henian ran too fast on the grass, tripped and fell.
"Hiss—what a piece of shit."
She threw away the big bamboo basket that was in the way, hugged her aching knee, sat up, and glared angrily at the two toes sticking out of her tattered black cloth shoes.
The chest wrapped in the blue cloth shirt rose and fell rapidly, the eardrums were filled with the sound of heartbeats, the face turned pale, and cold sweat was pouring down.
She was terrified.
I suddenly fainted in the thatched house for no apparent reason. I didn't know how long it took for me to wake up. When I opened my eyes, I saw the face of the creditor, whom I would recognize even if he turned into ashes.
His eyes were closed, and his face was so pale that it was almost bloodless, like a dead person's face.
She was so frightened that she jumped up from the other person and ran away, not remembering that she came here with the intention of "dividing the family property to make money and killing her husband".
How could that person be here?
She wasn't mistaken, it was exactly the same.
Jiang Yanqiu's fiancé looks exactly like him.
Jiang Henian looked down at the large bloodstains on his body, his fingers shaking.
Something was wrong. From the moment she saw that man, something was wrong with him.
After she woke up from Jiang's house, she had been injured, hungry and weak, but suddenly she felt like she was injected with new blood, and the blood in her body rushed and she felt numb.
Jiang Henian's mind was in a panic. He couldn't figure out what was going on. Did he travel through time with him?
No, no, no, no!
This is outrageous! She had finally escaped from debt and came here, how could he follow her?
With his blood-stained hands, he pressed them into the grass and rubbed them hard. After a long time, Jiang Henian finally calmed down.
“Click.”
There was a crisp sound of a branch breaking behind him, which scared Jiang Henian so much that all the hair on his body stood on end.
"Who!" She pursed her face and turned back fiercely.
But he was met with a young and timid face.
"...Are you...hurt?"
The person who came was a very thin little girl with messy hair that covered half of her eyes. She was carrying a bamboo basket taller than herself, which was full of green pig grass.
He looked completely harmless, and seemed to be frightened by himself.
Jiang Henian relaxed all over and leaned back against the tree trunk as if exhausted. He raised his hand and waved it with a wry smile: "No, it's not my blood."
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be mean to you just now."
Lin Shuangxi quietly looked at the third sister of the Jiang family who was sitting on the ground. When she saw her smile, she walked a few steps away, bent down and picked up the sickle that had fallen on the side of the road.
Jiang Henian took the sickle, and the smile on his face became gentler and more sincere. "Thank you."
She pretended to reach into her pocket, preparing to take out a White Rabbit candy from the space.
"Please have some candy, uh, this is not it."
She was not proficient in space usage technology, so she took out the remaining half of the dried egg.
Lin Shuangxi stood there, awkwardly grasping the shoulder straps of the backpack, without moving.
The two feet in tattered straw sandals rubbed against each other nervously.
Jiang Henian was inexplicably touched by her timid, dull, yet clear and bright eyes. He peeled off the candy wrapper and put the candy into the little girl's mouth without saying a word.
"Try it, it's sweet."
Lin Shuangxi's sunken cheeks were puffed up by the sugar, and his eyes gradually widened.
It seemed as if he was surprised by the sweetness.
Jiang Henian smiled so hard that his eyes curved. He stuffed one into his own mouth as well, and used his tongue to flexibly push the candy to the left and right cheeks.
The sweet taste of milk can buffer the panic of the whole day.
Seeing Lin Shuangxi still curiously looking at the dried egg in her hand, Jiang Henian tossed it and explained with a laugh, "It's burnt. It's become a dried egg and can't be eaten."
"Then, you, you don't want to eat anymore?"
"Yes, it smells very mushy, no..."
Jiang Henian met the child's hopeful eyes, was taken aback, and changed the subject to ask, "Do you need it?"
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The sun set, and Jiang Henian walked back in the sunset, carrying a bamboo basket full of pig feed.
It’s a bit embarrassing to say that she exchanged a piece of milk candy and half a mushy egg for a full basket of fresh pig grass.
The little girl named Lin Shuangxi was so well-behaved. After taking her things, she insisted on helping her cut grass for the pigs.
It was so small that when it stood it was not even as tall as the bushes. But it cut the grass so fast that Jiang Henian was stunned.
Little sister, this is.
However, this full basket was really heavy. Jiang Henian began to breathe heavily as he walked. It seemed that the original owner's physical strength was not as sufficient as he had imagined.
When she returned to the Jiang family's gate, Jiang Henian's back and waist ached slightly. She pushed open the gate, but before she could even breathe a sigh of relief, she was stunned by the barrage of scolding.
"You still remember to come back?! Did you steal money from home again to buy food and eat it?"
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