"What are you trying? What's so fun about that? We'll talk about it when you're older. Hurry up and eat. After you're done, you two can clean up the table."
Qian Xiao is always the last to finish eating every day; it's because she has a big appetite.
Qian Xiao, like a little mouse, eavesdropped every day and finally found out most of what happened after Cao Xing, including information about Gouzi.
Perhaps because of that confession-like document, Cao Xing's family actually sent the money over that very night. The second grandmother's family didn't go too far either; they packed up Cao Xing's clothes and other belongings and let her family take them back.
Although those things were all bought by the family, Cao Xing didn't bring any dowry, which shows how much Cao Xing's family loved money.
In the words of the second grandmother, keeping those things is bad luck, and her family would never keep them; just looking at them makes her feel disgusted.
As expected, Cao Xing was sent away less than three days after returning to her parents' home. No one knew exactly where she was sent, only that she was married off. However, Qian Xiao guessed that she was probably sold by her family again.
Do I feel sorry for Cao Xing? I can't say I feel sorry for her. She brought this on herself. Her family isn't very good. Maybe finding her a good family to marry into is already a good thing for her. If she could settle down and live a peaceful life, her life wouldn't be too bad.
Her second grandmother was not a bad person. She was not particularly good to her daughters-in-law, but she was definitely not bad either. She would never scold or hit them. She treated all her daughters-in-law with similar attitudes and did not show favoritism to any of them. She was not the kind of old lady who tormented her daughters-in-law.
I just can't quite figure out Cao Xing's thought process. If you really like that guy Xiangzi so much, why don't you just insist on marrying him? That way, Qian Xiao might look at her with more respect.
Her own uncle didn't insist on marrying her, so it was excessive for her to treat him like this after she married into the family. It was a matter of character, and she couldn't blame herself for being incompetent. She didn't dare to blame her parents, so she could only take her anger out on the innocent second grandmother's family.
In May, the midday sun was scorching. Qian Xiao wiped the sweat from her face with a cloth draped around her neck. Ignoring the adults in her family, she still went to work in the fields with them.
After her second and third uncles finished farming here, they still had to go to the mountains to work. She would help out as much as she could, otherwise all her strength would be wasted, and she would still be eating so much.
"Oh my, how old is your Erdan? He's already being treated like an adult!" The old lady from the neighboring field said sourly when she saw that Qian Xiao's child was already as strong as a laborer.
Li Guizhi's husband is away from home most of the year, and she's afraid of being bullied if she doesn't stand up for herself, so she's become increasingly shrewish over the years.
“What? This child is unhappy if she is not allowed to do chores. Your children are not young anymore, why don’t they come and do chores? I’m telling you, you can’t just spoil the children like this.”
"As the old saying goes, spoiling a child is like killing a child. If he grows up to be a good-for-nothing, you'll regret it. Just look at Wang Xuewen who got arrested; that's a perfect lesson."
A woman would definitely be unhappy if someone spoke ill of her child like that: "Hey, how can you talk like that? I'm praising your child, why are you cursing my child? My child is perfectly fine."
Li Guizhi looked completely innocent: "Sister Chunhua, it's not that I'm criticizing you, but how come you can't tell right from wrong? If it weren't for the fact that we're neighbors, and our fields are even adjacent, I wouldn't be saying these heartfelt things to you. How could you misunderstand me?"
"Tell me, what's a serious job for us country folk? It's farming. Look around, which family's child isn't already working in the fields with the adults when they're six or seven? If you don't let the children understand the hardships of farmers, how can they possibly work diligently?"
Chunhua was completely bewildered. How did this turn out to be her fault? Her own child was left at home by her mother-in-law, who said that the boy was precious and still young, so there was no rush to put him to work. But what Li Guizhi said seemed to make a lot of sense, yet something was still strange, though she couldn't quite put her finger on it.
"Well, I misunderstood you. Okay, let's not talk anymore and get back to work." After saying that, Chunhua quickly moved away from Li Guizhi, feeling that Li Guizhi's mouth was getting more and more unforgiving.
Qian Xiao almost burst out laughing when she heard this. Her mother had automatically leveled up; she no longer needed to stand with her hands on her hips and argue with people. She could defeat the other party with just a few words. Awesome.
Farming is really hard work these days. There's only one cow in the village, and that cow is so precious that it lives better than most people in the village. Qian Xiao feels like she's not even worth as much as that cow's leg.
How could they bear to let such a precious ox work in the fields? Plowing and turning the soil were all done by manpower. Their second and third uncles were the main force, and their shoulders were almost red and swollen all day long at this time.
She was strong enough to want to relieve her second and third uncles, but they disagreed. They would never let a child do such strenuous work. Qian Xiao could only exert force when holding the plow to try to reduce the weight of the two people in front of her.
And you know what? With Qian Xiao joining in, their land was cleared a day or two earlier than others this year. The newly plowed land needs to be dried for a few days before planting, and Qian Xiao took advantage of these two days to go up the mountain.
Of course, she didn't bring any of the little tails with her. She planned to go into the deep mountains today to take a look. She was fine on her own; if she encountered danger, escaping wouldn't be a problem. But if she brought several little tails with her, none of them might come back.
"Host, you've gone into the mountains? Didn't you say you were going to help your family with the farming this year?"
"Double eggs? The soil has been turned over, but it needs to dry for a few days before planting. Wait, what have you been doing? I've felt like you're never around lately." This thing acts like it has several other hosts, busier than her. Wasn't she supposed to be its only host?
"I...I went out to find a gift for you."
It wouldn't tell you it went out to work. The owner of that space said they were making some kind of preparation, and kept it busy all day long, having it invade their system to download data.
"Oh~ a gift? You found it?" Thinking of that so-called superpower awakening potion, although its use wasn't that magical, her strength had indeed increased, so it couldn't be said to be completely useless.
"Of course I found it. You kept saying this place was really boring and there was no entertainment at all. I found you a tablet with lots of movies and study materials downloaded on it. You can watch some when you have free time."
Qian Xiao's eyes lit up: "Really? You can watch it without internet?"
"With me here, what do we need the internet for? When have I ever lied to you? You'll be able to see it when we get home tonight."
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