"That's not true." Aunt Liu Wu said, holding a hoe and crossing her legs. "Xie Yan came to the village when he was eight or nine years old. Old Xie didn't have a son. He fled here from famine and was almost starving to death. The village gave him a bite to eat and helped him look after the villagers' cattle."
"You know what it means to watch the cows? It means rounding them up on a hill and blowing the horn."
"Old Xie is so poor and has no special skills, so he just performs operas at home and in the mountains every day, making a lot of noise."
"After adopting Xie Yan, he taught Xie Yan how to sing opera."
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Shen Ruxiao listened to all the things she said, and he was quite curious about the origins of Xie Yan.
After all, if Taozhi is really a member of the Shen family, this Xie Yan... is not worthy of her.
Shen Ruxiao smiled bitterly. Of course, he was just guessing.
After all, for Taozhi, Xie Yan is her closest person, and the Shen family is the real stranger.
"Xie Yan is a very good fighter. Everyone in the surrounding area knows that he is a bully. No one dares to mess with him. I heard earlier that he specializes in debt collection in the city and knows a lot of people."
"After getting married, he settled down. I heard he started working at an electric power company. He seems to be quite successful. He can repair watches and sewing machines."
"After he married Taozhi, everyone saw that he was honest and they were willing to help him with repairs. But the village couldn't afford the electricity, so his family installed it themselves."
Aunt Liu Wu always thought that since she took one dollar from someone, she should say more.
"His family lives right here at the entrance of the village. You see, that small courtyard is their house. Next door is the house the villagers built for Taozhi. The two of them living next to each other make them one family."
"Speaking of Taozhi, this girl is truly pitiful. Luo Cuilian has a dark heart. Taozhi has been a well-behaved child since she was little. She went to work every day and even earned work points by picking up cow dung when she was little."
"I was helping them wash clothes in the dead of winter. I haven't seen Taohua since I started working. Speaking of Taohua, don't blame me for being nosy. She enjoyed more than ten years of happiness. It's a pity that such a kind person is gone..."
Shen Ruxiao frowned when he heard this: “What does it mean that Xia Taohua is gone?”
Aunt Liu Wu sighed and pointed to the bridge pier not far away. "It's rained a lot in Shangluo these past few days, and we need water urgently. Taohua has never worked since she was a child, and Luo Cuilian is reluctant to let her go in the water. She can't float, so if she falls in, she will sink to the bottom."
"When they fished him out, he was stiff. It was yesterday."
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Shen Ruxiao touched the jade ring on his hand and remained silent. He didn't expect Xia Taohua to die like this.
Aunt Liu Wu thought this one dollar was too good to be true, so she quickly continued, "Speaking of Taozhi, she's really amazing this year. Our grain had problems and all died, but she found new seeds. That's how our village secretary agreed to let her start her own family and built her a new house. He said it was me who suggested it, the one next to Xie Yan's."
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Shen Ruxiao listened to her talk for a while and came to two conclusions.
Taozhi was indeed not liked by Luo Cuilin since she was a child.
Xie Yan was indeed not from this village; he had also come here to escape famine.
The auntie got so excited that she told everything, even the fact that Xie Yan almost drowned in the river when he was a child, and Taozhi's hands and feet were bruised by Luo Cuilian when she was a child, as if she had seen it with her own eyes.
He once again demonstrated the power of rural women.
Shen Ruxiao could only smile: "Okay, Auntie, I know everything I want to know, thank you."
"No more questions?" Aunt Liu Wu was a little dissatisfied. She felt that there was still a lot that she had not said.
Shen Ruxiao smiled faintly: “No more.”
She picked up the hoe and smiled as brightly as a flower: "Take it, auntie, and I'll go to work."
I got one dollar, and I can buy a lot of things with it.
Shen Ruxiao stood up: "Goodbye, Tuo."
Finally...liberated.
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