"Sister Sui Sui, you've heard it, right? Others call me a little trouble, saying that my family has been unlucky since I was born, that my mother almost died giving birth to me, and that my father was killed..."

Song Yuxue said this with a sad look on her face. Jiang Suishun couldn't help but feel nervous. She quickly hugged Song Yuxue and comforted her, "Don't listen to other people's nonsense! I remember I also said that people are born and die every day in this world. Birth, aging, sickness and death, accidents and disasters are all unpredictable. Besides, your family definitely doesn't want you to think this way."

Song Yuxue nodded: "Yeah, my brother said so too."

Jiang Suisui touched her head and said, "So, Xiaoxue, be obedient. Children don't need to think so much. Just be happy. All the worries and troubles have nothing to do with you."

"Come, let's make a snowman." Jiang Suisui pulled her into the yard, leaned over and scooped up a handful of snow, "Make a gentle Auntie Lan, a lovely Xiaoxue, and... reluctantly make a nasty Song Weizheng."

Song Yuxue asked in confusion: "Why is my brother so annoying?"

Jiang Sui Sui: "He loves to play tricks on people, isn't he annoying?"

Song Yuxue looked bewildered: "Brother never plays tricks on others. Sister, have you heard others say bad things about brother? Don't believe it."

Jiang Suisui couldn't help but laugh and said, "Don't worry, I didn't hear anyone say bad things about you. Okay, let's add Song Weizheng who is not that annoying."

Song Yuxue smiled sweetly and said, "We also need a beautiful sister named Suishun."

"Wow!" Jiang Suishun said happily, "Xiaoxue is really sweet, but in my opinion, Xiaoxue is still the prettiest. When you grow up, there will definitely be a lot of people who like you."

Song Yuxue: "Sister Sunshun is just very beautiful. I am not good-looking, so no one wants to play with me. The children in the village only bully me."

"Hmm? How did they bully you? Did they scold you like they did last time? Tell your sister and I'll help you beat them up next time."

Song Yuxue tilted her head and thought for a while, "Besides scolding me, they sometimes pull my braid, sometimes suddenly jump out to scare me, and secretly take my basket away so that I can't find it. Someone even forced me to call him brother, which is annoying. I won't call anyone brother."

Jiang Suisui: The tricks this little boy uses to tease girls to get their attention have remained the same over the past few decades... But the little boy will probably never understand that this method will only make girls disgusted.

Jiang Suisui: "Just ignore them. If someone comes to cause trouble, just call your brother, or come to me and we will help you."

Song Yuxue nodded: "My brother said the same thing. Now when I see someone, I stay away from them. No one bothers me anymore."

"That's good." Jiang Suisui said, "But if someone says something unpleasant or makes you uncomfortable, remember to tell us, don't bear it yourself."

Song Yuxue nodded obediently: "Yes!"

The two of them were chatting and laughing as they happily made snowmen in the yard. After a while, four snowmen, three big and one small, were built.

Jiang Sui Sui stood up, put his hands on his hips, and admired his own work: "Well, not bad. But it's still missing a nose and eyes."

At this time, Song Wei Zheng came out of the kitchen, took out some walnut pits and carrots, and inlaid them on the snowman.

After finishing, Song Yuxue clapped her hands and jumped up and down: "It's done! I'll go call mom out to see it."

Song Weizheng walked over to Jiang Suishun, lowered his head to look at her red, frozen hands, and asked, "Are you cold?"

Jiang Suishun raised his hands and rubbed them: "Hmm... I didn't feel anything when I first put them together, but now I feel a little bit."

Song Weizheng: "Come on, let's go into the kitchen. I'll make you some ginger sugar water. I'll pour you a bowl."

Jiang Suinsui followed him into the kitchen. As soon as she entered, she felt warm all over. She saw firewood burning in the stove, something was cooking on it, and white steam was rising.

Song Wei Zheng scooped a bowl of ginger sugar water from the pot and handed it to Jiang Suisui: "It's freshly cooked, it's hot, sit down and cover yourself with it before drinking." After saying that, he moved a small stool next to the stove for her.

Jiang Suinsui sat down with the bowl in her hands. While warming her hands, she looked up at Song Weizheng busying himself at the stove.

She joked, "I didn't realize you're so virtuous. Can you do anything?"

Song Wei Zheng was washing vegetables with his back to her. He smiled and said, "Well, I can do anything you can think of."

Jiang Sui Sui: "You can sew clothes too?"

Song Weizheng: "Yes, my mother was not in good health before, so I sewed all her clothes myself. When Xiaoxue was little, she made her diapers and clothes by patching together cloth."

"Wow!" Jiang Suisui exclaimed sincerely, "Amazing!"

After thinking for a while, she said, "No, there is one thing you definitely won't do."

Song Weizheng: “What?”

"Giving birth to a child." Jiang Suisui couldn't help laughing after she finished speaking. "You don't have this ability, there's nothing you can do."

Song Wei Zheng turned around to look at her, suddenly smiled, and said, "Well, I can't do this, so you have to do it."

Jiang Suinsui stopped laughing instantly when she heard this, and her face turned slightly red, not sure if it was because of the fire or because she was shy.

She lowered her head to take a sip of the ginger syrup as if to cover up the problem, and changed the subject by saying, "This ginger syrup is really delicious. I thought it would be very spicy!"

Song Wei Zheng followed her words and said, "Well, I boiled it for a little longer and added a little more sugar. If you like it, drink more."

Jiang Sui Sui held the bowl and sighed, "That's great, Xiao Song. Sugar isn't cheap. Have you been doing well recently?"

Song Wei Zheng was amused by her sophisticated tone, and he curled his lips and said, "Well, you did a good job. The betrothal gifts are no problem. How about it, are you considering marrying me?"

Jiang Suinsui suddenly felt like she had hit her feet. She lowered her head and buried her face in the bowl, whispering, "It depends on your performance..."

"What?" Song Wei Zheng didn't hear clearly.

Jiang Suisui shook her head repeatedly: "Nothing, nothing!"

After drinking a few sips, she put the bowl down and said, "I'm going to go out and see Aunt Lan!" Then she ran away again.

In the yard, Song Rulan, wrapped in a thick cotton jacket, stood in front of the four snowmen, with Song Yuxue standing beside her.

Jiang Suisui walked over and asked, "Auntie Lan, how are you feeling?"

Perhaps it was because the weather was too cold, Song Rulan's face turned pale: "It's OK, I just feel tired easily."

Jiang Sui Sui reached out and helped her back to the main room to sit down: "Auntie Lan, you sit here with the door open and watch. It's the same. It's warmer."

Song Rulan nodded with a relieved smile on her face.

Then she suddenly asked, "Sui Sui, I heard from Zheng that you decided to postpone the wedding date?"

Jiang Suisui: "Yes... I'm sorry, Aunt Lan, it was my request. Actually, I..."

"I understand." Auntie Lan patted her hands and said softly, "You are young and afraid of getting married. Auntie Lan can completely understand this."

She recalled: "When I married Xiaoxue's father, I was also confused and uneasy."

"Auntie Lan..." Jiang Suisui looked at her and asked tentatively, "How did you get to know Xiaoxue's father back then?"

She had heard from Zhang Wenfang before that Aunt Lan was brought back to the village by Song Dashun with her amnesia. Jiang Suishun had some bad guesses in her heart, but she never dared to ask.

Song Rulan looked at her and smiled: "You must have heard something about it, and we will be a family in the future, so I won't hide it from you. I have no memory of what happened before I came here. I only remember seeing Dashun when I woke up. He said that I fainted by a small river at the foot of the mountain next to the town, and half of my body was submerged in the river. He almost thought I drowned."

Jiang Suinsui felt a little nervous when she heard this: "And then? Did he take you back to the village?"

Song Rulan shook her head. "When he saw that I didn't remember anything, he took me to the town to ask around, but he found that no one knew me. He reported me to the police and filed a case, but after waiting for a few days, there was no follow-up. There was no place in the town to take me in, so he took me back to the village to settle me down first."

Jiang Suinsui nodded thoughtfully: "So that's how it is..." It sounded like Song Dashun was not the trafficker she thought he was, but a kind-hearted person instead.

Song Rulan continued, "Our original plan was to settle down first, wait for him to raise some money, and then take me to a nearby city to look for it. Because I have an orchid jade pendant on me, maybe it can be used as a clue. But this was discovered by his family, and they all disapproved of it. And at this time, I suddenly found that I seemed to be pregnant."

Jiang Suisui was shocked: "Pregnant?!"

Song Rulan nodded: "Sui Sui, since we are going to be a family, we must be honest, and I can't be afraid of losing face. In fact, A Zheng's father is not Song Dashun, he existed before I lost my memory."

Jiang Suishun is so confused, this... this plot is not mentioned at all in the original novel!

Song Rulan: "I don't know what I went through before, or why I fainted in this place. Anyway, I was helpless at that time. Fortunately, I met Dashun, who took me in despite my family's objection. He was really kind-hearted and respected me. He also really wanted to raise money to take me to find my family. But I suddenly got pregnant, which disrupted all the plans."

"It was even more severe then than it is now. If someone had found out that I was pregnant before marriage, I probably wouldn't be alive today. I would have been drowned in spit first."

"Finally, Dashun said that we should get married first, and then the child would be his. We would have a legal relationship, and no matter what others said, they couldn't do anything about it."

"So..." Jiang Suishun continued, "So you got married, gave birth to Song Weizheng, and stayed in the village..."

Song Rulan nodded: "Yes. But this matter also implicated Dashun. His family was extremely opposed to our marriage because I was a woman of unknown origin. For me, he broke up with his family and moved out directly."

When talking about this, Song Rulan was still full of guilt. She owed Song Dashun too much in this life.

"Because I had no money and no introduction, I couldn't go to the city to look for my family. Gradually, I stopped thinking about it. I always felt that if my family valued me, they would definitely come to look for me. If they couldn't find me, maybe it was because we were not destined to be together."

"Later, the jade pendant on me was taken away by someone, which implicated Dashun and caused Xiaoxue to be without a father when she was born."

"Mom..." Song Yuxue burst into tears as she listened. This was the first time she knew the whole story of her parents' past.