"Okay, I was reckless that day, please don't blame me, Big Girl."
The village chief really apologized to all the villagers, and for a moment no one reacted.
"I'd like to take this opportunity to tell everyone that life is not easy for our family of five. Everything we do is just for a living. You can gossip about us, but don't let me hear it. I won't let you get away with framing us, but we in the Xia family will remember those who treat us well."
Xia Manni did not directly accept the village chief's apology. What she wanted was his attitude.
The village chief apologized simply because he was afraid that she would discover something. What she had to do was to take advantage of the situation so that she could truly gain a foothold in the village.
If she wanted to offend their family, she had to think about the scene where the village chief apologized to her today.
After Xia Manni finished speaking, no one spoke for a while. The courtyard was clearly surrounded by three layers of people, but it was so quiet that it was frightening.
"You all heard what Da Wa's mother said, right? Life is not easy for anyone, so don't make others uncomfortable for no reason." Not to mention that 'Li's' voice was loud to begin with, and it seemed especially abrupt in such silence.
"Manier has helped us a lot in the ten years since she came to our village. Just take pity on these children."
Aunt Qiao wiped her tears as she spoke. If there were adults in the family, how could they let a teenage girl suffer so much?
"Yeah yeah……"
Gradually, voices began to rise in the crowd. If it weren't for those who didn't mention "Li" and Qiao Niang taking the lead, they really wouldn't have dared to speak.
The village chief saw everything in front of him, and he felt as if something was quietly disappearing.
"Okay, let's all go." The village chief drove people away again, and finally took a few people to carry out Cui Yanzi, who looked as pale as death.
The crowd gradually dispersed, not because the excitement was over but because more and more things were falling from the sky.
"What is this? Why does it look like a flower?"
"Oh, is this what the North calls snow?"
"It's snow. My mother told me about it when she was in the north."
"This is the snowflake mentioned in the book."
"It never snows here, how could it snow?"
"Hey, isn't there anything weird going on this year?"
"That's right, but luckily I didn't listen to the village chief, otherwise I would have frozen to death in this weather."
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These people were talking loudly as they walked, their excitement no less than that of the Chinese New Year.
But they didn't go far, and everyone could hear them.
Including the village chief who led people to throw Cui Yanzi away. The village chief walked in front with a grim expression on his face and no one dared to approach him.
Even so, it can't stop people from complaining.
Because they realized that this winter was really cold, and what Xia Manni said was actually right.
"You guys go back." After reaching the village entrance and walking another two hundred meters, the village chief had people drop Cui Yanzi off and let them go back.
They didn't think about why the village chief was still there, and they all hurried home with their arms folded.
Why is the weather suddenly so cold?
"The village chief is really good at this." After everyone left, Cui Yanzi half sat up and said.
"What does it have to do with me? It's all your fault."
"Haha, it's not time for you to take the money."
"I only paid him to go up the mountain to chop wood, not to burn it! If he had burned it, I would have been the sinner of Shizai Village."
"Haha, cough cough cough..."
"Take care of yourself. Don't forget that I saved you."
"You saved me? Hahaha, aren't you afraid that I'll tell anyone about you? Cough cough cough..."
The village chief didn't want to bother with this woman anymore. It was snowing and there was no telling when it would stop. This woman could just wait to freeze to death.
Is she still thinking about that man and coming to see her? What a joke.
After the village chief left, just as Cui Yanzi was struggling to get up, a pair of men's shoes appeared in front of her.
"You're here." Cui Yanzi's voice showed no emotion, as if she was talking to an old friend.
"You know I can't take you home, so you can take care of yourself."
"Hehehe... cough cough cough..." Cui Yanzi's laughter seemed very creepy in such weather.
But the only one who was leaking was the man in front of him, Daxiu's man, Zhao Ziming.
"If I had known this would happen, why would we have recognized each other back then? Are you really after those ten taels of silver? Isn't it Xia Manni and the pension given to the Xia family that you're after? ... cough cough cough..."
At this time, Zhao Ziming had already decided to kill her, but then he thought that he did have some old feelings for her, so he decided to let her fend for herself.
"It's strange that God let us meet again, but we can't be together."
"It's already this time, stop acting."
Zhao Ziming didn't say anything else. After all, she was his childhood sweetheart. They had spent some sweet time together since they met.
He pushed the bag for Cui Yanzi towards her again, then turned and left.
After Zhao Ziming left, no one appeared within a ten-mile radius.
Not far away, the road that Zhao Ziming had walked on was covered in white snow.
Cui Yanzi staggered to her feet, her face covered in tears and dirt, making her look unrecognizable.
She looked at Shizai Village not far away and said bitterly, "Xia Manni, Zhao Ziming, Shizai Village, sooner or later I will take revenge."
At first she would fall down after walking a few steps, but later she found a stick to support her and walked a long way.
It was at this time that Xia Manni came out. It turned out that it was not only the village chief but also Xia Manni who came out of the Xia family and came to the village entrance.
"Tsk tsk tsk, what a melodramatic plot." Xia Manni clapped her hands in amazement. It is said that drama comes from life.
She thought for a moment and said, "So the man Cui Yanzi was talking about is actually Zhao Ziming. But what about the pension she just mentioned?"
"Mom, why don't we find some time to go to the town and ask?"
Xia Manni discovered Da Wa quite late. The village chief had just left and she didn't even realize that Da Wa was following her.
So the mother and daughter hid behind a mound of earth and listened to everything. Perhaps because the weather was too cold, no one suspected that someone was following them.
"Big Wa, you actually predicted what happened to Cui Yanzi." Cui Yanzi was actually cheating on a man, and it looked like it was her old lover.
"Mom, it wasn't Da Wa who predicted it."
Xia Manni couldn't help but feel a little surprised. If it wasn't a prophecy, could it be that someone told him?
"That day when Xia Daxiu and Zhao Ziming came to our house to steal things, I noticed that there seemed to be something wrong between Zhao Ziming and Cui Yanzi."
"Then the village chief locked them up in the woodshed. In the early morning, I heard Ergou say he saw Cui Yanzi coming out of there."
Xia Manni looked at Da Wa in surprise. Da Wa's observation skills were so strong.
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