Liu Xiumei brought people to Shen Huanxi's place today to propose marriage. This mother and son are from the city and their family conditions are very good.

Liu Xiumei started working as a matchmaker in her twenties, but her fame was not as great as that of Zhou the matchmaker from the neighboring Xinglin Village.

She thought that if she could make this marriage happen, and everyone knew that she could help the divorced Shen Huanxi find such a good marriage, then all the families with daughters in the area would come to her instead of looking for that matchmaker Zhou.

However, Su Chaoyang and Jiang Shufen, whom she brought with her, frowned when they looked at the shabby little courtyard of Shen Huanxi's parents' home.

"Didn't you say you were good at making money? Why does your place of residence remain so shabby?" Jiang Shufen looked worried.

Liu Xiumei quickly apologized with a smile.

"Hey, you came to me because you heard Huanxi's conditions. Could it be that what so many people said outside was all false? She made money and built a two-story house at her ex-husband's house. Just ask anyone and you will know.

This yard belongs to her mother's family. She lost her parents when she was young and has no brothers or sisters. After she got married, no one lived in this yard and it naturally fell into disrepair over time.

But you see, although the yard is shabby, it is kept clean. I am glad that she knows how to live well. "

As he was speaking, he saw Shen Huanxi coming out of the kitchen.

Shen Huanxi was wearing a light green Dacron long-sleeved shirt with the hem tucked into her black trousers. She tied an apron around her waist, which made her waist look even more slender.

Her long black hair was casually pinned at the back of her head with a clip, revealing her slender swan neck, with a few strands of hair lazily floating down.

Her skin was very white, almost transparent, and very delicate, without a trace of wrinkles on her face or body.

She doesn't look like someone who has given birth to two children.

Su Chaoyang immediately took Jiang Shufen's hand and said, "Mom, I want her."

Jiang Shufen looked Shen Huanxi up and down, with a satisfied look on her face, and nodded at Su Chaoyang.

"Okay, our family is well-off, she will definitely marry, and the marriage is done today."

Shen Huanxi walked over with a frown on his face.

Today in her previous life, she had already left Chang'an and Changning in the village and went to the city alone to make money.

Later she heard that when she was not at home, there was a constant stream of people proposing marriage to her, and that someone came the day after her divorce. She thought they were exaggerating, but she never thought it was true.

Moreover, the first person who came to propose marriage was Su Chaoyang, the person she never wanted to see again in her life.

Seeing that she had a stern face, Liu Xiumei thought she was in a bad mood because she had just divorced, so she came towards her with a smile.

"Happy! Did you hear the magpie singing at home today? Look, your good match is here. This is Su Chaoyang, one year younger than you. He is from the city and his family is in the furniture business..."

"I won't marry." Shen Huanxi interrupted Liu Xiumei.

Liu Xiumei was stunned.

Su Chaoyang and his mother were also stunned. They were absolutely sure that Shen Huanxi would agree, but they didn't expect Shen Huanxi to do something unexpected.

Seeing that Su Chaoyang and his mother were frowning, Liu Xiumei became a little anxious and hurriedly grabbed Jiang Shufen who wanted to speak.

"Huanxi, you are still young, you can't live like this for the rest of your life, right? I just told you about their family's conditions. Even if you marry a virgin girl, it would be marrying up, not to mention you..."

Liu Xiumei didn't say it too directly, but everyone knew what she meant.

Shen Huanxi didn't say anything this time, but suddenly turned around and went into the house.

Su Chaoyang and his mother felt that she was a little ignorant, and Jiang Shufen looked at Liu Xiumei.

"Is this Nacho?"

Liu Xiumei smiled with a guilty conscience.

"Wait a minute, she's not stupid."

"Mom, let's wait." Su Chaoyang said hurriedly, fearing that Jiang Shufen was about to leave.

Jiang Shufen was furious, but she could only wait.

Shen Huanxi's divorce has become big news in the village. Everyone always talks about her when they have a casual chat after tea. Any movement around her always attracts attention.

It was dinner time, a rare leisure time during the autumn harvest season. After Liu Xiumei brought Su Chaoyang and his mother for a while, villagers began to arrive one after another with their bowls in hand to watch the excitement.

"Why is there someone here, Huanxi? Is he matchmaking?" Wang Dazhu asked while eating a few slices of salted vegetables and a steamed bun.

"Of course it is. Feng Shenghui got his divorce certificate right after he got his marriage certificate. This is known to everyone. Didn't the news of Huanxi's divorce spread as well? She is so pretty and can make money. There are many people who would like her. If you don't come earlier, it will be too late."

“That’s true.”

Jiang Shufen looked at the villagers who came to see the excitement.

"We are from the city, we are in the furniture business, we have a small house and a car, but we don't mind Shen Huanxi being divorced and coming to propose marriage."

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Shen Huanxi suddenly come out of the kitchen with a basin of pot-washing water in her hand. With a "splash", all the water splashed at her and Su Chaoyang's feet.

"I said I won't marry and I look down on you, why are you guys so reluctant to leave?"

After saying that, Shen Huanxi threw the enamel basin in his hand aside, and it bounced up and fell down with two "dang" sounds.

Jiang Shufen and her son were stunned for a moment.

Jiang Shufen said those words just now because she wanted Shen Huanxi to stop showing off in front of so many people. She never thought that she would lose face in the end.

Liu Xiumei was also stunned, and the villagers who were talking a moment ago now shut up.

Shen Huanxi still had a stern face.

"What? You're not leaving yet? What? I just look down on you. Can you force me?"

"Okay, don't regret it." Jiang Shufen was so annoyed that she wanted to say something, but with so many eyes staring at her, she couldn't afford to lose face anymore, so she pulled Su Chaoyang away.

Liu Xiumei was disappointed that she failed to succeed in this matchmaking, and she felt a little disappointed when she looked at Shen Huanxi.

"You, you, what are your conditions? What are the Su family's conditions? If you look down on the Su family, what kind of family can you marry into? Hey, wait for me..."

Liu Xiumei was afraid that Su Chaoyang and his mother would be angry, so she hurried after them.

Changan and Changning sat on the doorstep, somewhat frightened. Although their mother was seldom at home, she was always gentle and kind, not as fierce as she was today.

Shen Huanxi looked at the eyes of the two children and realized that he had scared them, so he hurried over and hugged the two children.

"Don't be afraid, Chang'an and Changning. Mom won't hurt you. Mom was just beating up the bad guys."

Listening to Shen Huanxi's gentle voice, Chang'an Changning smiled and nodded.

"We are not afraid. We are not afraid of our mother. Our mother is the best."

Shen Huanxi's heart softened as she listened to the two children's soft and sweet voices, and she became more determined to protect them throughout her life.

In her previous life, she chose to remarry, and the man she remarried was Su Chaoyang, but she didn't expect that the rest of her life would be pushed into an abyss of no return by this man.

After marriage, Su Chaoyang wanted to have a child, and she agreed because she thought she was still young.

But who would have thought that Su Chaoyang was in poor health and suffered from asthenospermia, and she couldn't get pregnant for three years after marriage.

Two years later, they finally got pregnant, but because of problems with Su Chaoyang's "seed", they lost the child, and then they had several miscarriages in succession.

After finally bringing the baby to full term, she had a difficult delivery.

Su Chaoyang, who was extremely obsessed with continuing the family line, learned that she was pregnant with a boy. Regardless of the fact that she was lying on the hospital bed with her life hanging by a thread, he knelt down and begged the doctor to save the baby, saying that the older one was not important.

Fortunately, she was lucky enough to survive, but she lost the child and her health was completely ruined. She could no longer keep it to herself and she was left with a lot of illnesses.

Su Chaoyang and his mother pushed all the blame onto her, saying that she was in poor health and could not have children, and that she was too strong and did not care about her family. She always put Su Chaoyang above her and was not fit to live with them.

After the mother and son secretly transferred her property, they forced her to divorce and leave the house, leaving her penniless and cursed.

And this mother and son, relying on the money she earned, lived a comfortable and wealthy life.

These alone were enough to make Shen Huanxi hate them to the core, not to mention that they had done much more than that.

Su Chaoyang and his mother are both people who say one thing and do another.

In front of her, they were very nice to Chang'an and Changning, but they always beat and scolded Chang'an and Changning when she was not around, and also tried to sow discord between them as mother and daughter, saying that she went out to do business and was not at home because she did not want to face these two burdens.

In the Feng family, Chang'an Changning was beaten and scolded by her father and grandmother for a long time, which had caused severe psychological trauma. Because of Su Chaoyang and his mother, the trauma was infinitely magnified, and the gap between them became deeper, so that later, the mother and daughter had no contact with each other until they died.

Thinking of this, Shen Huanxi shivered with cold all over. She could not let herself and Chang'an and Changning's lives repeat the same mistakes again. Su Chaoyang's crimes were too numerous to list. In this life, she would never let him appear in their lives again.

It was getting late, so after tidying up and washing up, she took her two daughters to sleep on a makeshift bed made of straw mats in the room.

My two daughters were sleeping next to me. The bed was not as comfortable as a Simmune mattress, but it was more peaceful than any comfortable big bed.

She hasn't had a good night's sleep since the death of Chang'an and Changning in her previous life.

Holding my two lost and found daughters now is like holding a life that was lost and found again.

…

The next day, Shen Huanxi slept until noon, made mustard dumplings with the wild vegetables he had dug in Chang'an and Changning yesterday, and ate them with his two daughters. Then he took the clothes he had changed yesterday to the creek, washed them carefully, and brought them back to the yard to dry them.

My mother's small courtyard is in the middle of a hill, with a fairly wide view. I can see farmers working in the fields, women returning from the river carrying washed clothes, and villagers rushing to gather at the gathering place early in the morning.

In the threshing ground just below Shen Huanxi's house, the men in the village were threshing sorghum, and the women were picking out the good-growing sorghum stalks to make brooms. The bad sorghum stalks were piled up next to the threshing ground, forming several small hills.

The children in the village were rolling around on the sorghum stalks piled up into a small hill.

I don’t know if it was because they were itchy from the sorghum stalks or because they were too noisy and hot, but the children’s faces were all red and their bodies were covered with a lot of grass debris. However, that didn’t stop them from playing.

Uncle Chen saw the children making a lot of noise and shouted at them.

"Move to the side so we don't hit you."

The children shouted a few times, "I know, Uncle Chen", and then laughed and made noises as they went back into the pile of sorghum stalks.

This is one of the few, but very popular, entertainment options for rural children in this era.

Chang'an Changning was not interested at all when he saw other children of his age fighting. He surrounded Shen Huanxi and wanted to help her, but when he realized he could not reach the clothesline, Shen Huanxi called him to play somewhere else.

Shen Huanxi had just hung up the last piece of clothing when she saw Changning running towards her, clutching a small bunch of wild chrysanthemums.

There were only seven or eight wild chrysanthemums, but Changning arranged them very beautifully, embellishing them with just the right amount of green leaves. This small bouquet of flowers had an indescribable artistic beauty.

"Mom, give the flowers to you!" The little girl held up the bunch of yellow wild chrysanthemums.

As soon as Shen Huanxi bent down, she put a bouquet of flowers in the pocket on his chest.

Shen Huanxi was wearing a grey Dacron long-sleeved shirt today, which looked old-fashioned and rigid, but with the bouquet of flowers, he looked a little more fresh and lively.

"Changning is really good at dressing up mom. She looks so beautiful." Shen Huanxi said with a smile.

Changning was praised and looked very proud. Changan on the side spoke up.

"Mom, Changning said that it is autumn now and there are only chrysanthemums. When spring comes and there are more flowers, she will pick more beautiful flowers and bring them back to dress up mom."

"Yeah!" Changning nodded.

"Changning will design clothes in the future to dress up her mother beautifully. Xiaohua, the sister from the village chief's family, said that people who design clothes are called fashion designers. If Changning becomes a designer, she will make clothes for her mother every day.

Then I'll wait for Changning to design clothes for my mother." Shen Huanxi touched Changning's head and looked at Changan again.

"What about Changan? What does Changan want to do?"

"Mom likes flowers, but there are no flowers when it snows. Changan wants to grow flowers that can bloom in the snow, and also wants to grow vegetables that can grow in the snow."

When talking about what they want to do, the two girls are very excited.

Shen Huanxi's eyes were a little red. In her previous life, she neglected to care for her two daughters. Only after her rebirth did she know for the first time what they wanted to do.

A strong wind accompanied by dust suddenly blew up, accompanied by a whistling sound, blocking the view three or four meters away.

Taolin Town is located in the north and is affected by sandstorms all year round.

The sandstorm always came without warning, and the villagers hurried home for fear of having to move the clothes, corn and beans hung outside into the air.

Shen Huanxi ignored the clothes that were still dripping with water and hung on the clothesline. She picked up her two daughters and ran into the house, closing the door tightly.

In her previous life, both of her daughters developed lung disease due to living in a dusty environment for a long time.

After all, she was still sorry to Chang'an and Changning.

She was too confused in her previous life. She always thought about making more money so that she could come back to be with her children tomorrow. Tomorrow after tomorrow, she just worked day and night and had no idea that her daughter had fallen ill due to the sand and dust.

In her previous life, she was plagued by illness, fell to the bottom of society and lived a life of wandering. She also died early. But now, Chang'an Changning is still alive in her arms, calling her mother.

They are still healthy, they have no psychological trauma, they are still little dreamers, one wants to be a fashion designer, the other wants to grow vegetables and flowers in the snow...

This gust of sandstorm did not last long. When the wind stopped, Shen Huanxi opened the door of the stove room again. The clothes hanging outside were covered with a layer of dirt. The villagers who had just hidden back home like them also came out and complained about the strong wind.

A burly, dusty woman was walking towards this side from the foot of the mountain. I guess she was also affected by the sandstorm just now.

When he got closer, Shen Huanxi realized that it was Zhou the matchmaker from the next village.

Shen Huanxi looked around. Apart from Chang'an and Changning, she was the only woman here. She thought to herself, could it be that Matchmaker Zhou was here to look for her?

She was still confused when she saw Matchmaker Zhou standing in front of her with a smile on her face.

"Huanxi, I've seen you before. Do you remember me? I'm Zhou the matchmaker from Xinglin Village. Your good match is here."

Shen Huanxi frowned.

Just as matchmaker Liu left, another matchmaker Zhou came.

"Matchmaker Zhou, I won't marry."

Matchmaker Zhou was still smiling.

"Huanxi, don't be so hasty to reject me. At least you should know who the other person is first..."