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Chapter 85: Lotus Fragrance, My Mother's Family

Shen Zian woke up at dawn. He felt the warmth in his arms. He lowered his head and looked at the person in his arms through the dim light shining through the paper. The corners of his mouth curled up like a crescent moon. He did not move because he knew Su Zhi was light-headed and would wake up with just the slightest movement. Thinking of how tired he was yesterday, he wanted to let his wife sleep a little longer.

"What time is it?"

Su Zhi's voice was hoarse as if she had just woken up, like a kitten gurgling. She curled up in his arms again. When her nose touched Shen Zian's hard chest, she rubbed it. Then she suddenly opened her eyes and found that she had run into Shen Zian's quilt again.

These days, Su Zhi has gotten used to waking up in Shen Zian's bed in the morning, as if no matter how far away she is, she will always be in his arms when she wakes up the next day. From the initial panic and shyness to the calmness and composure later, it was a process that didn't take much time. Su Zhi has gotten used to waking up in Shen Zian's arms. The two of them still sleep separately now, which is just a situation, although this situation will always be destroyed when she wakes up the next morning.

Shen Zian felt Su Zhi nestle in his arms again, and his heart warmed. He gently placed his hands on her waist, feeling the softness of her body. He thought his wife was too thin, and he must fatten her up this winter. He smelled her breath, thinking that his wife had a very strange fragrance. If he was not close to her, he might not be able to smell it, but once he got close, he could smell it.

"Wife, you smell so good, like the scent of flowers."

Shen Zian put his nose close to Su Zhi's hair, sniffed it deeply, and finally confirmed it. He also smelled it a few days ago, but it was always faint. Today, he could smell it clearly.

Su Zhi opened her eyes, which had been closed, and was surprised. She had boiled water for a bath last night. She put some lotus pollen in the water, and maybe she put too much, so the smell was stronger.

"Really? It seems like I have a smell sometimes. It comes and goes. Fortunately, it's not bad smell. If it was like those people who have bad smell, it would be troublesome."

Su Zhi did not say that Shen Zian smelled it wrong. Since he smelled it, if you said he didn't smell it, he would be more confused. It would be better to just say that sometimes there is a fragrance on her body. Although he would find it very strange, it would be over in the past. Su Zhi believed that Shen Zian was not the kind of person who would think too much about this little fragrance on her body.

Shen Zian thought that he was right. He felt that his wife was really unusual. Just think about it, how many people in this world can emit fragrance on their own?

"Wife, your fragrance won't get any stronger, will it?"

"What's wrong?"

Su Zhi raised her head and asked Shen Zian, wondering why he was asking this?

Shen Zian said: "If your fragrance is too strong and others smell it, it will attract their attention. There are many people with bad smells, and no one likes them, but there are very few people with good fragrance, so many people must like them. And if others spread rumors and mistake you for a fairy, that would be bad."

Su Zhi looked into his eyes and asked, "If a bad guy comes, will you protect me?"

Shen Zian nodded, pressed down the corner of the quilt to prevent the cold air from entering the quilt and freezing Su Zhi, and said, "You are my wife, of course I will protect you."

Su Zhi buried her face in Shen Zian's neck and said with a smile, "Don't worry. It won't be stronger. You and I have been together for such a long time, and you can only smell it when we are close. Just say I put on powder, right? There are many women in the world who put on powder, not just me. My husband, don't worry, the secret that your wife's fragrance is not the fragrance of powder is only known to you, my husband."

Shen Zian was so moved when Su Zhi called him "husband" so affectionately and called herself "your wife". He could smell her warm breath on his neck, mixed with a faint fragrance. He sniffed for a long time before he could tell that it was the fragrance of lotus. Hebian Village is next to a river, and there are lotus flowers in the river. When the lotus flowers are in full bloom, there will be such a faint fragrance when the wind blows over. He thought to himself that his wife has the fragrance of lotus flowers on her body. Was she a lotus flower in her previous life?

"Wife, we will be together forever."

Shen Zian hugged Su Zhi tightly, thinking that no matter what his wife looked like, whether she was ugly without a single piece of good skin on her body, or had a fragrant body, she was still his wife.

Su Zhi hummed, smelling the scent of Shen Zian, and wanted to stay together like this until the end of time.

However, ideals are beautiful and reality is helpless. The couple stayed in the warm bed for another quarter of an hour, and finally got up after the window paper became brighter.

On normal days, the couple could be lazy, but not today, because Su Zhi's family was coming. The rule of the warm house here was that the bride's family had to come the next day after inviting the groom's family and relatives and friends.

Ever since Su Zhi met her mother Zhao Yang and sister Zhao Lianhua in their current bodies at Xiu Zhuang, her mother brought her family to Hebian Village not long after.

It turned out that when Zhao Yang brought Lianhua back to the village that day, she began to worry about her daughter's recovery, especially when she thought of the cart of things and the purse she embroidered. She was a little unhappy that she didn't get it. She told her family about it, and old man Zhao told her not to think about it. Her son and daughter-in-law thought about what others had said about their sister and brother-in-law being almost clean and didn't want to have any contact with them now, as they were afraid of being asked to borrow money and things. It was quiet for two days, but then someone came and said that Shen Zian's family had made a fortune!

Zhao Yang found out that although her daughter and son-in-law did not get any property in the division of the family property, they were lucky enough to kill two tigers. She heard that the two tigers were sold for a lot of silver. She immediately brought her family to settle accounts with her daughter. As a result, as soon as she arrived at Hebian Village, she asked people about her daughter and son-in-law's address. When they heard that she was the fourth daughter-in-law of the Shen family, they immediately praised them for having a good daughter and talked about the holy beast and ginseng. Now the Zhao family was even more anxious to settle accounts with Su Zhi. When they saw Su Zhi, they scolded her, saying that she obviously had a lot of money but still lied to her mother that her family was poor and had no money.

Su Zhi's impression of this family immediately dropped to the lowest point. She thought that this family was just as bad as the Shen family. She was still polite to the Shen family, but she didn't even want to be polite to the Zhao family. After they scolded her, she told them directly that a daughter who is married off is like water spilled out, and that they dumped her to Shen Zian as a burden when they saw that she was sick, so she had nothing to do with them. She warned them that if they still wanted to marry her, they should not think about money. If they didn't want to leave, it was just a good break. She didn't want a family that had abandoned her.

Shen Zian didn't treat the Zhao family well either. Although he loved Su Zhi very much now, he still hated the Zhao family. They were Su Zhi's family members, and if Su Zhi cared about them, he would let them in. If Su Zhi annoyed them, he would not be polite and would just kick them out.

The Zhao family was successfully frightened by the cold words of the young couple, and immediately became obedient, promising that they would never ignore Su Zhi again. In fact, they just wanted to get along well with them first and then think about how to get the benefits.

In order to show off, the Zhao family actually came several times when Shen Zian and his wife were building the house, but they always came early and left late, always saying they had something to do.

Su Zhi treated this family as her own relatives. Who made her the daughter of this family now? She couldn't just break off the marriage, but thinking about how cruel they were to the original Zhao Xiaomei, Su Zhi thought that if she didn't show her filial piety, the original Zhao Xiaomei wouldn't say anything. Now it was up to her to decide how she wanted to treat this family, whether to be affectionate or cold.

Because the bride was going to marry on foot, the bride's family was also invited after the house was built.

Su Zhi felt a little annoyed when she thought about the background of this family. She took most of the gifts given by the villagers yesterday and locked them up. She was glad that she had installed a lock on the cabinet. It was a wise move. She didn't care about these things, but no one liked to be robbed, especially by a group of greedy people.

Su Zhi's relatives came to visit several times, and every time they came, something was missing from the house. It would have been fine if they had just asked her for it, but they actually stole it, which was really infuriating. Su Zhi knew that it was her stepbrother and sister-in-law who did it, but they wouldn't admit it when she asked, which made her want to search them. In the end, she could only try her best to prevent them, and the result was that Su Zhi put locks on all the cabinets and boxes when she made furniture, because she didn't believe she couldn't prevent them!

Su Zhi put away the things and Shen Zian fed the cows and chickens. The two were busy for a while before the Zhao family arrived.

There are five people in the Zhao family now: the old man Zhao Daxi, the old woman Zhao Yang, a son named Zhao Yuanbao who married a wife named Zhang, and a daughter-in-law named Zhao Lianhua.

"Su Zhi, we are here! Quickly pour us a glass of water, we are so thirsty!"

As soon as Zhao Yang entered the courtyard, she started to chatter, as if she was very tired from this visit. She now knew that her daughter asked others to call her Su Zhi, and she changed her name quickly. Not only her, but all the Zhao family members changed their names quickly. This made Su Zhi and them more distant. In Su Zhi's heart, their daughter was Zhao Xiaomei, and she was Su Zhi.

Su Zhi brought a pot of tea on a tray and poured a cup for everyone.

The Zhao family looked at the blue and white tea bowl and thought that Shen Zian's family was really rich. Look, the tea leaves looked good, and there were also the teapot and tea bowl. Ordinary people in their family didn't drink tea. They just drank a big bowl of water, and hot water was considered good!

The Zhao family sat in the main room with their eyes rolling around, their minds full of random thoughts.