Now, Cheng Shanshan not only couldn't do anything, but she also lowered her voice and tried to soften herself: "Mother, don't be afraid of them, I can take you away."
Bai shook her head: "I won't go with you."
"Why?"
Bai didn't say anything, she just cried.
This sight made Cheng Shanshan feel like a joke, and she was instantly utterly disappointed, storming out of the door.
At this moment, it was completely dark outside.
As gusts of cold wind blew in her face, Cheng Shanshan felt a burning sensation on her face and a chill in her heart.
As she was wandering aimlessly, she suddenly heard a familiar voice: "Didn't I tell you, a little girl like you shouldn't wander around at night?"
Cheng Shanshan turned around and saw Huo Mingchen, who was as tall as a mountain.
He was still disheveled and his clothes were tattered, yet he gave her a strange sense of security.
Huo Mingchen frowned slightly when he saw Cheng Shanshan's swollen face: "Who hit you?"
Cheng Shanshan bit her lip.
Seeing that she didn't answer, Huo Mingchen asked again, "That Lin guy?"
"no."
Cheng Shanshan's face started to hurt as soon as she opened her mouth.
The pulling pain caused her eyes to instantly well up with tears.
Then, for some reason, she told Huo Mingchen the whole story, and felt even more wronged and frustrated: "I've always known that my mother is too soft-hearted and easy to fool, so I've been trying to persuade her to be patient and that we'll have better days in a while. But I don't understand why she wants to go back!"
"yes."
Huo Mingchen responded before asking, "But why did the Cheng family let your mother go back?"
"What else could it be!" Cheng Shanshan said, her eyes blazing with anger. "When I went back there just now, it was a complete mess. The food on the table was obviously cooked by my mother. Those three girls have been spoiled by my mother and now they're all useless!"
Huo Mingchen asked again in a calm tone, "Then why do you think your mother went back?"
"..."
This was a question that Cheng Shanshan couldn't answer.
After all, she was perfectly fine when she left home this morning, so she didn't understand why she suddenly returned to the Cheng family home. Was there some reason that made her change?
Once she calmed down, she realized that she had been led astray by her impulsive emotions. She quickly cupped her hands and thanked Huo Mingchen, saying, "Thank you for reminding me, Brother Huo."
Huo Mingchen looked at him with an air of optimism: "Do you need my help?"
"No need, I can handle it myself."
After saying this, Cheng Shanshan went straight to the Cheng family home.
However, this time she did not go in directly, but instead went around to the backyard wall.
From inside came Bai's sobbing: "Please, please, let Shanshan go this time!"
Old Mrs. Cheng said quietly, "It's not us who are not letting her go now, it's the Chu family. They have the contract you signed yourself, which says that she is determined to enter the Chu family no matter what!"
Cheng Xiulan sneered: "Shanshan was sold to the Chu family anyway, so it's reasonable for them to ask to be her second wife."
Their words made Bai tremble uncontrollably: "Shanshan is still surnamed Cheng. You forced me to put my fingerprint on a ghost marriage back then, and now you're making her marry an old man. How can you be so heartless?"
How dare you speak to me like that?
Cheng Xiulan smashed the teacup in her hand at Bai Shi: "Let me tell you, even if you take this to the authorities, they will only recognize the sales contract!"
Bai was hit on the head and blood gushed out. She fell to the ground and began to cry incessantly.
Cheng Shanshan, who was outside, wanted to rush in and beat someone up several times, but her remaining rationality told her that while hitting someone might feel good in the moment, the trouble that would follow would be dire.
According to what they've said, the root of this problem lies with the Chu family. They have a contract for her to become a concubine in the Chu family. However, she doesn't quite understand why the Chu family took so long to make a fuss.
Cheng Shanshan arrived at the Chu family early the next morning.
After the death of Chu's son, Chu's mother also followed him in grief.
Now only the gluttonous and lazy old man Chu is left, but instead of being depressed because he lost his son and wife in middle age, he is overjoyed because no one is there to discipline him anymore.
As soon as Cheng Shanshan entered the courtyard, she saw him holding a wine jar and drinking, his face flushed: "Who are you? What are you doing in my house?"
Cheng Shanshan looked at him with mockery in her eyes: "You want me to be your second wife, and you don't even recognize me?"
"You're from the Cheng family? My soon-to-be bride?" Old Man Chu's eyes immediately turned greedy as he said this: "She seems even prettier than that person said. Come, come closer and let me take a good look."
These words made Cheng Shanshan grasp the key point: "So who told you?"
Old Man Chu looked Cheng Shanshan up and down, then chuckled, "That's not important. You just need to know that I'm the one you're going to marry. Don't worry, I don't have any other redeeming qualities, but I love to pamper my little wife. Come here, let me give you a kiss." As he spoke, he made a move to pounce on Cheng Shanshan.
"Don't come any closer!"
After Cheng Shanshan dodged away, she coldly rebuked, "Your son and your wife's bodies are barely cold, aren't you afraid of breaking their hearts by acting like this?"
"What son? That sickly son wouldn't even talk to me when he was alive. Does he expect to take care of me now that he's dead? And that tigress has been hitting and yelling at me all these years. I've had enough of that while she was alive. Why should I be afraid of her now that she's dead?"
Old Man Chu spat at the two memorial tablets in the inner room, then looked at Cheng Shanshan with a vicious glint in his eyes: "I know you're definitely unwilling, but since your family has accepted the Chu family's money, it's no different for you to marry me or my son, since you'll both be surnamed Chu!"
"I know."
Cheng Shanshan responded.
She clearly remembered that when the natural disaster struck, the first to die were the elderly people in the village.
The frail old man in front of me, who looked like a chick, would certainly not escape unscathed.
Since he's already a dying man, it would be a waste of time for her to confront him head-on. It would be better to appease him: "I suppose you've heard about what my mother and I have gone through. We're living in a dilapidated house that doesn't even keep out the wind and rain. If you could take me in, it would be a good thing for me. Would you agree to let me bring my mother here?"
"Of course I agree!"
Old Man Chu originally thought he would have to put in a lot of effort, but now he was overjoyed to hear her words: "Now you see, my family is all dead, it's more lively with your mother around!" As he spoke, he reached out his hand to Cheng Shanshan.
Cheng Shanshan quickly dodged and said seriously, "I'm not a casual person. It's fine for me to join your Chu family, but I absolutely can't come here with nothing. You should at least prepare a grand wedding procession for me to be your principal wife, right?"
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