"Hey, Secretary, he's a fool. Anyway, I'm not to blame. My father originally ordered it for my second brother, and my second brother... Look, you're back now, so you're the only one who can take over this matter." Shi Weiqiang, the third son of the Shi family, retorted hastily.
He was afraid that the silly girl would blame him.
Shi De glared at him: "Your second brother is a soldier."
"What's wrong? Now that you know the second son is a soldier, what were you thinking when you got engaged?" Yang Dahua immediately stood up to protect her son. After all, the second son was not her biological son. As long as this burden was not placed on her biological son, it would be fine.
This move made the village party secretary and villagers feel helpless. Although Yang Dahua was selfish, no one would be willing to do this.
Just think about that silly girl who just now lay on the wolf's back and refused to let go.
Tsk tsk... he's really stupid.
There was no choice but to turn everyone's eyes to the silent Shi Zhentang.
Poor thing, it's so hard for him to get home from the army.
But as soon as he entered the door, he found out that he had a silly fiancée. Now everyone looked at his handsome face, which was as cold as ice and he said nothing. No one dared to step forward and ask him what he was thinking.
After a while, a deep and powerful voice sounded slowly: "The secretary is right. No matter what, the Tian family has done the Shi family a favor. If it weren't for Tian's father saving us, my father wouldn't be alive now. He is the pillar of the family. Without him, my grandmother and I would have starved to death. So I'm here to repay this favor."
Everyone hadn't expected him to agree so readily. They all knew how huge the burden was, and they were choked up, not knowing what to say: "..."
Only Shi De, feeling guilty and distressed, trembled in his voice: "This child, you don't know how stupid she is. Life is so long, and the burden is not light."
"Then we can't push it out."
Indeed, he couldn't. Shi Zhentang just wanted to take on this responsibility.
The Tian family could abandon Tian Yuzhu and run away, and if they send her back she would definitely die.
As a soldier, he couldn't turn a blind eye when faced with a life in danger.
At worst, I can just consider it as saving her life and treat her as my sister from now on.
Seeing Shi Zhentang's firm attitude, Yang Dahua finally breathed a sigh of relief.
That’s a good thing, as long as it doesn’t happen to her own son.
When Tian Yuzhu, who was sitting on the earthen kang in the hut, heard the magnetic male voice, she saw a look of worry on the face of the old lady next to her.
However, she didn't pay attention to what was said in the big house next. Her weak body made it impossible for her to keep her eyelids open, and she fell into a deep sleep again.
…
Tian Yuzhu woke up again in the late night. She was awakened by hunger and didn't know when the original owner had last eaten. She was so hungry that her stomach was sour.
No, the prerequisite for living is to have a full stomach.
Glancing at the old lady sleeping beside her, Tian Yuzhu quietly got up from the kang. When she put her feet into the pair of wet, cold, and tattered cloth shoes, she shivered with cold.
After adjusting for a moment, he tiptoed out of the cabin.
The outer room was a large house with a long kang (kang bed) on which several people slept. The original owner was not very familiar with the population of the Shi family and did not know who they were.
And it didn't matter at all, she walked across the house without caring, groped for the door and went out.
The sudden cold wind made her tighten her tattered clothes.
The Shi family's kitchen was on the left side of the courtyard. Fortunately, she had taken a look at it before it got dark, so it was easy for her to find her way there. After entering the kitchen, she groped her way to the stove in the dark, opened the lid of the pot, and grabbed half a hard steamed bun.
I stuffed it into my mouth quickly, but the bun was frozen like a stone and crackled so hard that it almost knocked out half of my teeth.
What kind of crappy era is this?
Tian Yuzhu was furious.
She has always had a strong mental state and never showed her joy or anger on her face, but now she was really hungry.
who?
Suddenly, Tian Yuzhu, relying on her professional instinct, felt someone approaching from behind.
But she didn't move, nor did she ask.
In this life, she is just a silly girl who is despised by both the Tian and Shi families. In order to survive, she must never reveal her normal self.
"Don't be afraid, are you hungry?"
A deep voice sounded behind him, sounding familiar.
In fact, Shi Zhentang had tried his best to make his voice sound gentler. Although there was no expression on his handsome face, he didn't want to scare the silly girl.
While speaking, in order to reassure the other party, he lit the kerosene lamp hanging on the wall.
The flickering orange light outlined a handsome face, and his deep eyes were fixed on the thin little girl who turned around with a frightened look on her face. His clear eyes were like a frightened elk, looking very pitiful.
"I'll do it for you."
After a brief eye contact, Shi Zhentang walked past her with his eyes lowered, and took half of the hard bun from her hand.
The slender figure in the green military coat is about 1.85 meters tall, with a clear and cold temperament and perfect facial features as if they were cut by a knife and an axe. He is a rare handsome man in the world!
Tian Yuzhu pretended to be afraid of him and quickly moved to the side, her slender fingers tightly grasping the corner of her clothes.
She felt very calm in her heart. Could this be the soldier that the Shi family had been clamoring for to take in her, a burden?
Shi Zhentang didn't look at her anymore. With a serious and somewhat clumsy look on his face, he lit the stove fire and added water to the pot, intending to steam the only remaining bun for her to eat.
Just as he was busy, the little girl suddenly ran over, pushed him aside, and stretched her hands in front of the stove.
Damn, this is too cold!
"..." Shi Zhentang, who was squatting and warming the fire, was squeezed so hard that he almost fell to the ground. He steadied himself and looked at the silly girl. He frowned slightly and turned sideways, suppressing his emotions and letting her warm herself by the fire. He also brought her a stool and said, "Sit down and warm yourself."
Tian Yuzhu immediately grabbed the stool and sat down, continuing to warm herself by the fire. Haha, who wouldn't warm themselves by the fire? The key point is that fools are good at this: they can do whatever they want.
Shi Zhentang: “…”
After a while, he turned around and used a bamboo sheet to prop up the pot, and put a few steamed buns in it, one whole and one half-opened, with a small crescent bitten out of it.
He didn't say another word during this time, and only the crackling sound of burning wood in the stove broke the silence.
Soon the steaming was done. Shi Zhentang put the buns into a bowl and handed it to Tian Yuzhu with a pair of chopsticks: "Be careful..."
Before she could even utter the word "hot", the bowl and chopsticks were snatched away, and Tian Yuzhu couldn't wait to stuff the steamed bun into her mouth.
She was very hungry, so hungry that her chest was sticking to her back, and she didn't care whether it was hot or not. Although it was a coarse grain steamed bun, it tasted surprisingly delicious at this time.
This move made Shi Zhentang frown again: "..."
He began to have a headache. Looking at the dark face and the way she was eating voraciously, he began to doubt whether he really had the ability to give her a safe haven.
After eating the steamed buns, Tian Yuzhu wiped her mouth, put down her bowl and chopsticks and left. Although she was still hungry, it was better to eat than not to eat. Now that she had some food in her stomach, she should go back and have a good sleep to nourish her body.
The original owner's health was really too poor. If she wanted to survive, she had to find a way to rest.
Shi Zhentang walked to the door in surprise, and saw the silly girl leaving and pushed the door open and went back into the house: "..."
Even though he was stupid, he didn't recognize the wrong door, and he even knew the way back to the house?!
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