Chapter 192 It’s the Path You Choose
In the Chen family courtyard, Chen Changshui limped into the house with the help of a crutch.
Chen Xiaojuan stood in the main room, not knowing whether to go in or back out.
Zhou Cuihua didn't know why the Wang family suddenly came to cancel the engagement, but she had a vague guess.
The Wang family had a falling out with the Yun family because of the incident with General Hei. Unexpectedly, the matter escalated into a conflict between the two villages.
Just a few days after this incident, Nanny Li suddenly brought people to her house to cancel the engagement. Her heart was pounding, and she vaguely guessed that Nanny Li or Master Wang had discovered that she was hiding behind the tree and giving orders to General Hei that day.
So when Nanny Li and the others came looking for her in such a threatening manner just now, she hid as quickly as possible, fearing that she would be caught and questioned.
Fortunately, Nanny Li didn't want to pull her out, nor did she reveal what she did that day. She just came to cancel the engagement and, by the way, ask Zhou Cuihua to return the bracelet and necklace from the previous engagement, as well as the ten taels of silver.
"What are you doing outside? Go get me some water!"
Chen Changshui's muffled voice came from the room.
"Oh!" Chen Xiaojuan responded and turned around quickly to go out to fetch water.
After a while, she brought a basin of cold water into the east room.
Chen Changshui was sitting on the kang, his injured leg hanging limply.
He signaled Chen Xiaojuan with his eyes to put the basin on the ground, then walked over to him, and Chen Xiaojuan did as he asked.
However, as soon as she stood in front of Chen Changshui, she was suddenly slapped in the face.
This time, Chen Changshui hit him particularly hard.
Chen Xiaojuan's dark red little face became red and swollen at a speed visible to the naked eye. She suddenly widened her eyes, and her eyelids, which were already red from crying, looked even more swollen with tears.
"Do you know why I hit you?" Chen Changshui's skinny face drooped.
Chen Xiaojuan bit her lips tightly, stared at him stubbornly, and said nothing.
She originally thought that Chen Changshui was willing to have her because of their father-daughter relationship and he couldn't bear to see her living on the streets, helpless and homeless. She originally thought that Chen Changshui was different from Zhou Cuihua.
But perhaps he was wrong. Chen Changshui kept her just to find a servant who would not cost him money and would serve him, since he was not able to walk well now.
Seeing Chen Xiaojuan glaring at him like that, Chen Changshui frowned tightly. "I slapped you with this slap, hoping you'll learn a lesson! Don't think I don't know how you got in touch with the Wang family in the first place!"
"Now that it's just the two of us, you'd better not have any evil thoughts at your young age. If I find out one day that you've done something harmful to yourself or others, don't blame me for kicking you out without mercy!"
Chen Xiaojuan pursed her lips, lowered her head and said nothing.
"Did you hear that?" Chen Changshui growled impatiently.
Chen Xiaojuan was startled and said, "I heard it."
"Go and see if there is anything to eat at home and make some food." Chen Changshui's face looked very ugly. He had not had a drop of water since he got up in the morning.
"Yeah." Chen Xiaojuan responded, lowered her head, hunched her shoulders and walked out.
But as soon as she walked out of the east wing, the shrinking and fear on her face disappeared completely.
Compared to Zhou Cuihua who either beat or scolded her, Chen Xiaojuan was really not afraid of Chen Changshui. Not only was she not afraid of him, she also particularly hated him.
After divorcing Zhou Cuihua, the family became quiet and she no longer had to endure Zhou Cuihua's beatings and scolding and Chen Chengcai's bullying.
But she has such a disabled father, and the Wang family has broken off the engagement with her. How is she going to live in the future?
Chen Changshui couldn't do heavy work and was sick all day long, yet he still relied on her to take care of him. Where did the family get the money? Did they expect a five or six-year-old to earn money?!
The more she thought about Baoya being all alone and finally finding such a good family like the Yun family, the more hatred she felt.
If it weren't for Chen Changshui, would Liu Lizheng have arranged for her to be raised by a family? Would she have finally been able to escape from this miserable home?
Zhou Cuihua didn’t care at all whether she was divorced or the family broke up. She just wanted to leave here and leave these people who disgusted her.
She caught a glimpse of a piece of firewood next to the stove in the main room out of the corner of her eye. She held her breath and kicked it.
Unexpectedly, her toes slipped and she kicked the stove. The excruciating pain made her burst into tears.
I don’t know if these tears brought back the pain, but Chen Xiaojuan collapsed to the ground and burst into tears.
On the other side, Nanny Li left Feishui Village with a group of thugs.
She folded the indenture contract with Zhou Cuihua's fingerprints on it and stuffed it into the front of her clothes, sneering with a twitch of her lips.
Chen Xiaojuan is such a clever girl with lots of ideas that she managed to fool all the adults!
If she hadn't happened to see the young master playing with a piece of red hairband in his hand that day and asked where it came from, he probably wouldn't have known that General Hei's abnormal attack on the Yun family children that day was because of that little bitch Chen Xiaojuan!
"Hmph, she's so calculating at such a young age. I'm afraid she'll suffer a lot in the future!" Nanny Li muttered with a cold face.
If it weren't for Chen Xiaojuan controlling General Black to cause trouble that day, how could their Wang family have clashed with the Yun family? If there had been no conflict, there would have been no breakup with the entire Feishui Village.
The result was that the entire village had to either spend money to buy water from Feishui Village or walk a long way to Dawang Village to fetch water!
Therefore, after watching the farce of the Chen family today, she not only did not feel any sympathy, but instead felt quite happy.
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At this time, Zhou Cuihua, who was left at the door of Chen's house, looked at the door that was so familiar to her and sighed sadly.
She really never dreamed that one day when she left here, she would be divorced by Chen Changshui, that coward and loser.
Chen Chengcai's mind was also in a mess at the moment. He actually didn't want to follow Zhou Cuihua.
His mother has a very bad reputation, and now she has been divorced. How is he supposed to face his classmates in the future?
However, he had no choice but to choose Zhou Cuihua, as he could not follow Chen Changshui.
This cowardly father of his has only been tough for this one time in his life, and now he is still a disabled person who can only walk with the help of a cane.
If he followed him, he would not be able to go to school, and would definitely have to do farm work every day, and might even have to go out to work to earn money. He didn't want that.
Since Zhou Cuihua just cried and promised to support his education, he naturally had to choose this mother who doted on him.
"Chengcai, let's go," Zhou Cuihua, who had been in a daze for a long time, wiped away her tears. "If that coward Chen Changshui won't keep us, we'll have somewhere else to go!"
"From now on, study hard and pass the imperial examination. Then you can slap him in the face!"
Zhou Cuihua gritted her teeth and spoke viciously, as if only in this way could she vent the anger that was pent up in her heart.
"Well, mother, I will definitely study hard."
Chen Chengcai didn't start, and his response didn't have any confidence.
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