Xu Zhizhou left with a flick of his sleeves, leaving the main house in silence. But this was not the end, because Huo Yang, who had been silent all this time, spoke up, "I have already bought the foundation from the village chief, and I will move out next month."
After saying this, Huo Yang stood up and went back to the house without caring about the reactions of the people present. He Jiefang and the others also stood up after seeing this. Seeing the backs of the people leaving one by one, Du Jiang also stood up and went back to the house. She had not eaten dinner and just wanted to have a good sleep at this moment because too many things happened today.
After they left one by one, the main room felt empty. Qian Meili, whose body was itchy from being bitten, no longer had the heart to comfort Chen Xiaozhen, and immediately followed Du Jiang back to the room.
Although he wanted to wash up, it was already dark. The days are long in summer, and if it was completely dark, it should be eight or even nine o'clock. Du Jiang really didn't have the heart to wash up, so he just lay down on the bed. Maybe it was because of the quarrel during the day or because he had exhausted his energy from climbing the mountain, Du Jiang basically fell asleep as soon as he lay down, and didn't even know when Chen Xiaozhen came into the room.
In the brightly lit prime minister's residence, a little maid with her hair tied up in knots carried a lantern and walked through the archways to the backyard.
Miss Yingying of the Cui family, with her bright eyes, white teeth and lively look, was leaning on the couch with a book in her hand. However, she seemed to have no intention of reading and just let the hand holding the book hang down in front of the couch.
Hongniang happened to see this scene when she came in. She immediately extinguished the lantern in her hand, tiptoed in, and gently pulled up the blanket that had fallen on the lady's ankles to cover her.
When the blanket reached her waist, Yingying came to her senses and said, "Hongniang, you are back. Have you seen Zhang Sheng?"
Hongniang lowered her head and shook it, without saying a word, but continued with her movements until the blanket covered her chest. Then she withdrew her hands and stood up respectfully to touch the end of the blanket.
"Yes, how could you possibly meet him? It's a pity for him, a scholar with a clean family background. I don't know how he's going to live with my mother treating him like this," Cui Yingying muttered to herself. "I wonder if I'll meet him at the poetry gathering tomorrow."
Cui Yingying murmured a lot, but Hongniang beside her did not say a word, just listened. Occasionally, when Cui Yingying urged her anxiously, she would respond with words like "Yes" or "Miss".
Perhaps she was tired of talking, and the weak young lady from the prime minister's mansion fell asleep on the small couch. As a maid, Hongniang could only ask a nanny to carry her to the bed, and then curled up beside the bed to keep her company all night.
The little girl witnessed Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying's heroic rescue of the beauty, their secret love, their engagement, their wives' regret, and the lovers' painful separation.
It was obviously just a courtyard wall, but it seemed as if there was a distant galaxy between them. Looking at the girl who was weeping and becoming thinner day by day, Hongniang truly became a matchmaker just as her name suggested. With a handful of kindness and a few lines of poetry, she shuttled between the boudoir and the back door of the prime minister's mansion every night.
When Hongniang was discovered, she was pressed on a bench and beaten with a thick board one after another. Fortunately, thanks to the young lady's plea, she was not sold or expelled from the prime minister's residence, but was only deducted a few months' salary.
Later, the news transmitted became more and more secretive, and the relationship between the young lady and Zhang Sheng became better and better. Later, Zhang Sheng even became the top scorer in the imperial examination. The reluctant lady finally nodded and agreed to the young lady's marriage. The red silk order filled the whole house, which was very festive. As the young lady's maid, Hongniang finally stopped worrying about her own butt.
After marriage, Hongniang and Zhang Sheng lived a very happy life. However, there were still some twists and turns. That year, Zhang Sheng was sent out to a distant place and encountered rebels and refugees. Hongniang went all the way to find the general who was suppressing the rebellion. Later, she was married to the general as the goddaughter of the prime minister. After marriage, Hongniang became an army wife. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. The general encountered a powerful enemy in Mobei. Hongniang, who became a widow without children, returned to the prime minister's mansion again. Perhaps she missed him too much and died of depression a few years later.
When Hongniang opened her eyes again, she became Du Jiang from the orphanage. After another illness, she woke up again and became Du Jiang from the Du family in Cangzhou.
After a night of dreaming, Du Jiang woke up the next day with a confused head. She had absorbed too much information that night. She also understood why Aunt Du and the others were so disgusted when they asked her to introduce something. It was because the beatings were too painful. What was even more painful was that she had to get up and serve soon after each beating, and the next beating was on the way.
This is her third life now, but Du Jiang counted on her fingers and found that she had never lived past the age of 25. This discovery made Du Jiang very depressed, and she became even more repulsed by the identity of Hongniang. Although she didn't understand why the memories of modern times came back again, it did not affect Du Jiang's rejection at all.
But no matter how much I reject him, why does the figure of the general in the dream look so similar to Huo Yang? If it weren't for the beard on his face, he would definitely be Huo Yang.
The lost memories came back, and Du Jiang's little head was like an explosion scene. Obviously, the memory of the modern times had almost disappeared some time ago, but perhaps because the scenes he saw yesterday were so devastating, they came back again.
Du Jiang pounded her head in distress. She had no other options now so she could only go to work first. As for the rest, she would just take it one step at a time.
When she walked out of the door, Du Yingying from next door happened to be coming out as well. Looking at the face that was 70% similar to the one in her dream, Du Jiang was a little dazed, but she quickly gathered her thoughts. In order to prevent her eyes from overflowing with emotion, she lowered her head slightly to prevent the other person from touching her eyes, "Sister Du, you should go to work too."
"Yes, my father asked me to raise pigs with you and Tianniu." Perhaps thinking of the smell of the pigpen, Du Yingying covered her nose with some disgust, "Forget it, Du Jiang, let's go, Tianniu has already gone."
"Oh, okay."
Du Jiang was very silent the whole way, which Du Yingying didn't find strange at all. After all, she knew from Tianniu that Du Jiang was not a talkative girl, and her interactions over the past two days showed that she was indeed not talkative. Perhaps it was because she was too silent the whole way, so Du Yingying couldn't help but speak, "Du Jiang, did that female comrade say anything when she went back last night?"
"Ah, no, Sister Chen didn't say anything."
Du Jiang answered too quickly and too quickly, which made Du Yingying feel that he was lying or trying to evade her. However, it was not her style to keep asking, so the atmosphere between the two became awkward again. When they arrived at the pigsty, Tianniu had already started cooking pig food. Looking at the empty water tank, Du Jiang resignedly picked up the shoulder pole to fetch water. As for Du Yingying, she didn't expect anything from her at all. Didn't she see that he sat on the bed with his hands covering his mouth and nose to rest as soon as he came in?
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