Chapter 26: Take me back to my husband’s house?
Xu Zhiyi: "Who are you looking for?"
Grandma Sun and the matchmaker looked at Xu Zhiyi coming out from behind the house and were delighted at first, but when they saw her face clearly, they screamed in fright!
"ah!!"
At this time, Xu Zhiyi also recognized who the two people in front of him were. But how did they find this place so quickly?
Then he thought about it and realized that Old Lady Xu was trying to pass on the blame. She lured people here just to get the deposit from her!
Looking at the two frightened people, she wouldn't mind something more exciting.
Then she pinched her thigh with her hand and burst into tears: "Woo woo, you are here to take me back to my husband's home, right? Great! If I go back with you, will I have money to treat my illness?"
"Wow, my grandma is so cruel. My mother and I were just sick, but the Xu family couldn't wait to kick us out! Wow!"
Grandma Sun looked at Xu Zhiyi's face full of red spots. It was really ugly. She looked skinny to begin with. The only thing that comforted her was that her face looked okay.
Oh, now she has lost all her face! She spent six taels of silver to marry such a wife? Tsk, she is not stupid.
The matchmaker tugged at Grandma Sun's sleeve and whispered, "Sister Sun, this...can you accept it?"
Upon hearing this, Grandma Sun shook her head frantically: "No, no, no, my son may be a little stupid, but he likes to look good. Her face is like this now. Even if it heals, I'm afraid it will leave scars, right?"
Then he looked at Xu Zhiyi and said, "Miss, I'm not here to pick up a daughter-in-law. I'm here to get back my betrothal deposit."
"What deposit?" Su came out from the back of the house holding hay. She just happened to hear the last sentence and was very confused.
Grandma Sun was also shocked when she saw Su's face: "Why are there red spots on your face too?"
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyi looked at Su. Because of the antidote, the blood red didn't look that bad anymore! It seemed to have faded a lot.
Xu Zhiyi: "Dowry deposit? Who did you give it to in the first place? Then who do you want to take it from?"
Matchmaker: "Hey, we just came from your grandma's place, she said the betrothal gift deposit has been given to you, her granddaughter!"
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyi shook her head in disbelief: "Grandma, how could she be like this? She clearly didn't give me anything, how could she lie so much? My mother and I just said that it looked like smallpox on my face, but who knew that the Xu family would chase me away just like that?"
Grandma Sun and the matchmaker: "Girl, what did you just say? Smallpox?"
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyi waved his hands in panic: "No, I don't have smallpox. The doctor just said it's similar. Believe me, it's really not..."
"Ah! Help!"
Before Xu Zhiyi finished speaking, the two of them were so scared that they ran away crawling!
"Ha ha!!!"
Su looked at Xu Zhiyi who was laughing happily and asked, "What's going on with these two people?"
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyi no longer hid it from Su Shi! She told Su Shi about how Old Lady Xu had sold her granddaughter these days!
After hearing this, Su felt extremely guilty. As a mother, she had no idea that her daughter was betrothed to a fool by her mother-in-law.
Thinking of her daughter in front of her, she seemed to be able to solve any problem easily!
If...if her Daya was still alive, with Daya's temper...and with her weak mother, if it was Daya today, she...would really not be able to escape!
Su grabbed Xu Zhiyi's hand, eyes full of regret: "Zhiyi, I'm sorry for you. I'm a burden to you!"
She really couldn't stand on her own feet. Zhiyi was right. In the end, she killed Daya and dragged down her current daughter.
Xu Zhiyi was surprised to hear that Su actually called her by her real name. She had just told the village head about it once. How could Su accept this new name so quickly?
Or...did she discover something?
Oh, never mind her. It’s good that Su is willing to change now. As long as she doesn’t hold him back, since she is now occupying the original owner’s body, she will do her best to protect Su.
After being scared away, Grandma Sun and the matchmaker returned to Xu's house and made a fuss.
The noise was so loud that all the neighbors and villagers came out to watch the fun!
In the end, Old Man Xu was afraid of losing face in the village and afraid that people would know that he sold his granddaughter to a fool as a wife, so he had to quickly ask Old Lady Xu to return the deposit of one or two taels of silver to Grandma Sun.
Seeing that she had lost another tael of silver in vain, Old Mrs. Xu was so angry that she wished a stone would break on her chest.
Xu Zhiyi picked out a chipped clay pot and three chipped bowls from the two collapsed huts.
"Mom, this clay pot can still be used, and there are three bowls that can also be used. We don't have any pots and bowls for cooking right now, so let's just use these today!"
Hearing this, Su quickly took it out and shook off the dust: "Okay, it's just a gap! We just need to be careful with it."
As the two were talking, a sound was heard outside the thatched hut again.
"Su, this is the water that the head of the village asked me to get for you. From now on, you don't have to queue up for your water. The head of the village said he will arrange for someone to deliver it to you."
"When you and your daughter are completely well, it will naturally prove that it is not smallpox! Then you and your daughter can walk around the village freely!"
Upon hearing this, Su hurriedly thanked him and tried to go over to take the water in the wooden barrel, but the man was so scared that he quickly put the barrel down and backed away.
"I...I've delivered it! I won't bother you anymore!"
After saying this, the man suddenly ran away and disappeared in a flash!
In the evening, Xu Zhiyi washed the broken clay pot and bowls, cooked some black flour porridge and simply filled Su's stomach.
Then I wet the towel with a little water, wiped my body and prepared to go to bed!
Go to bed early! I have to get up early tomorrow to go to town to buy some pots, bowls, wooden basins and other daily necessities!
And she also went to the town to see if there was any way to earn money. Before fleeing the famine, she had to earn enough money to prepare food for the escape.
In the middle of the night, Su dreamed of her real daughter Daya.
Su: Daya, is that you?
Daya: Mom, it’s me. Mom, I’m sorry, your daughter can’t stay with you anymore!
Su: Daya, wuwu, please don’t leave me. I was wrong. I didn’t protect you and let you be abused by your own grandmother! I’m sorry, I’m sorry!
Daya: Mother, Daya has never blamed you. Mother, the girl Zhiyi is a good person now. She is very brave and smart.
Mom, my daughter is leaving!
Su: No, Daya, don’t leave your mother.
Daya: Mother, you must remember that the Xu family is not a good person. Mother, the Xu family caused my mother and I to die tragically once!
Mom, remember this, you must remember this!
In the dream, Su looked at Daya who was slowly disappearing, and cried bitterly as she chased in the direction where she disappeared.
Su: Daya, come back, don't abandon me! Woo, Daya...
"Da Ya..."
Xu Zhiyi was startled awake by Su's sudden shout of "Da Ya".
"Mom? What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"
Su slowly came back to reality and replied: "I'm fine, I just had a dream."
Then he lay on his side, crying secretly.
Woohoo... Daya! Her daughter!
At this time, Shen Wuyou, not long after he came back from the toilet and lay down, seemed to hear someone sneaking around outside the yard.
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