Chapter 268 Sheltering
Someone asked, "Bought?"
Zhou's wife: "Bought what?"
She revealed.
"When Xiang Si brought her back, it was during the famine years, and every household was hungry. Where would the money come from?"
It was another famine year.
Yu Tingwan frowned subconsciously.
Standing at the gate, Wei Zhao, who looked indifferent, narrowed his eyes.
Zhou's wife looked around and whispered, "Picked it up."
"Picked it up from Ze County."
"When Xiang Si brought her back, you didn't see it. She was in a mess, but the clothes she wore were bright."
Yu Tingwan's heart skipped a beat for no reason.
From what Zhou's wife said just now, it can be seen that the woman must not be from an ordinary peasant family.
Yu Tingwan pursed her lips: "Hasn't her family come to look for her in these years?"
"What family?"
Zhou's wife: "During the famine, many people abandoned their daughters to save food, and many fled and separated. Later, when life got better, I didn't see this crazy woman visit her family, let alone relatives coming to visit her."
"Either they don't want her anymore, or she probably died because of the famine."
"Xiang Si is old enough to be her father. But it's her blessing to bring her back and give her a bite to eat."
People who have experienced famine nodded repeatedly.
"Yes, at that time, in order to survive, people were so hungry that they had to eat human flesh."
"Without Xiang Si, she would have died long ago."
"Besides, it's not that easy to find someone."
"Even if you really find someone, Xiang Si won't be willing to give her back, right? Bringing her back is just because you need a wife to warm the bed? If it were me, even if someone came to my house, I would hide her."
Yu Tingwan felt more and more uncomfortable the more she listened.
But sometimes, human nature is like this.
"I remember that when the nobles came to Beijing, there was a lost child. They almost turned Ze County upside down. Even here, people came."
Someone tried to think.
"Yes, yes, yes, someone came to my house to ask."
"I know! That was a high-ranking official, and now he is the imperial tutor of the dynasty. The lost child is his daughter. I heard that she was only a few days old."
"Only such a powerful person could find the child later. How could ordinary people have this ability."
The real child, Yu Tingwan listened to it with a very calm mood.
Seeing that the woman was thin, trembling and couldn't even speak clearly, she was indeed unconscious. Yu Tingwan's eyes flashed with pity. He endured the discomfort between his legs and slowly moved forward, preparing to give her the coat to keep her warm.
"Don't go forward."
Someone stopped him.
"It's not good to go crazy and hurt you later."
Yu Tingwan said lightly: "No."
The last time the woman knocked over the stall, the stall owner held her down and scolded her harshly. She was so scared that she wanted to run away, but she didn't mean to do it at all.
Even if she really would.
Do you really think that Wei Zhao behind you is just a decoration?
She walked closer.
The woman trembled even more.
Yu Tingwan bent down, took off her coat and covered her with it.
The girl's approach was not malicious, and the woman did not respond at all, only her lips moved and she whispered softly.
"Child."
"Child."
Someone said: "Listen, although she is crazy, she also knows that she has a child."
"That's not right."
Zhou's wife pursed her lips: "She ignored her son and daughter when she saw them. People who don't know would think she was calling someone else."
She was trying to think of something.
Suddenly, she slapped her thigh: "Now that you mention it, I remember that Xiang Si was the one who brought her back when the noble lost her child."
Famine lasted for many years.
But this crazy woman stayed at Xiang Si's house...
"It's been seventeen years."
"Back then, she chased after anyone holding a child and snatched it."
"I thought she loved it so much. But after the crazy woman gave birth, her son and daughter didn't even look at her, and she cried and made a fuss. She said she didn't look like this."
No one cared.
Including Zhou's wife who told everyone about it as a joke.
After all, she was a lunatic.
It was nothing if she acted abnormally.
But Yu Tingwan's eyelids twitched violently.
Not to mention her, even Wei Zhao's gaze on the woman was more inquiring.
At this moment, Xiang Si finally came over.
He ran over.
"Why are you running around again!"
Xiang Si's forehead was sweating, and he scolded.
He was so angry that he raised his hand to hit the woman, but just as his hand fell into the air, he took it back.
He gritted his teeth and pulled her up.
The woman was stunned.
Xiang Si was helpless: "Da Lang, help your mother go back quickly. Your little sister doesn't see anyone at home, I'm afraid she will cry again."
It was his son who was called.
He came with Xiang Si. Looking at the woman's expression, he didn't feel any pity, only disgust.
He didn't care that there were outsiders here.
"I said, don't care about her! Why didn't Dad listen?"
"Everyone knows that my mother is a lunatic. I feel ashamed when I go out. I'm sixteen years old, and no one is willing to marry me."
"You shouldn't come to find me!"
"She should die outside."
The woman still didn't react at all.
When Zhou's wife heard this, she felt chilled.
"You kid."
"If anything happens to her, you'll be motherless."
"Even if your mother is bad, she gave birth to you."
Xiang's eldest son had a cold face.
"She didn't want to give birth to me."
"Auntie, you don't know. She didn't recognize me when she was awake."
"Da Lang!"
Xiang Si's face sank.
The expression on Xiang's eldest son's face showed his dissatisfaction.
"I'm not wrong."
Xiang Si looked at the coat on the woman and was about to take it off.
"Which kind-hearted person gave this to you?"
Yu Tingwan didn't respond, but suddenly asked, "What's her name?"
Xiang Si was stunned.
Yu Tingwan: "How old are you?"
Xiang Si's face was kind and honest as always.
"This...?"
He quickly apologized to the people who gathered around him.
"I'm really sorry."
"I guess I woke everyone up at this hour."
"I went to set up the stall today, and originally asked Dalang to stay at home to look after his sister. I was afraid that my wife would be restless, so I brought her with me. But I was busy with business and didn't pay attention for a while, and she..."
"I thought she ran back, but when I went back, I couldn't find her. Fortunately, I found her."
The Zhou family's daughter-in-law was moved.
Yu Tingwan had a blank expression: "As her husband, you don't even know her name and age?"
She said in a very light tone: "Is it reasonable?"
Yu Tingwan: "Don't say how difficult it is for you. Your difficulties are caused by yourself. It has nothing to do with us. No one owes you."
She stepped forward and blocked the way of several people.
"Since she has no household registration, no matchmaker and no engagement, she is not your wife. Without an identity, she must not be registered by the government."
"You will go to jail for trafficking, don't you know?"
Xiangsi's face suddenly sank.
"Why are you meddling in other people's business!"
"I entered your home seventeen years ago, but the child is sixteen now, and the pregnancy took nine months."
Yu Tingwan: "I'm afraid you forced her that night."
"Don't say you felt sorry for her, she was lost and had nowhere to go. It's not a sale, it's not kidnapping, I gave her food and drink."
Yu Tingwan sneered, and said word by word.
"I took her in for seventeen years out of kindness."
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