Chapter 207 Dalang, it’s time to take medicine (17)
Wei Er Niang followed the village girls up the mountain with her head down. She had previously gone with her second brother and his wife to her second brother's parents' home and stayed there for two days. She was mocked several times in a sarcastic manner and was treated like a little girl. She couldn't stand it anymore, so she ran back and would rather live in the shabby house with her parents.
Now she has to go to the mountains with everyone to collect firewood, otherwise she won’t be able to light a fire to cook at night. But in the past, these rough work were done by her two sisters-in-law. She only needed to do housework at home and take care of her nephews and nieces, and it wasn’t so hard.
But her happy girlhood came to an end when her family's large house burned down.
"Er Niang, you pick it up here by yourself. We will go somewhere else." Si Ya from the same village said to Wei Er Niang.
Wei Erniang felt very uncomfortable when she saw the girls who used to envy her but now wished to stay ten miles away from her. She knew that it was because after her family was struck by lightning, the way the villagers looked at her family changed, and they unconsciously excluded and isolated them.
Seeing that no one wanted to take her with them, Wei Erniang could only suppress the bitterness in her heart and nodded, "Okay."
The other girls left her and ran away quickly. Occasionally, some whispers reached Wei Erniang's ears: "Let's not get too close to her. If she is struck by lightning again, it will implicate us..."
"Yes, her family isn't a good family. My mother told me not to play with her!"
Wei Erniang's tears fell all of a sudden. Although she knew that her family's reputation might be bad after being struck by lightning, she didn't know how painful it would be until she really had to face the reality of losing her reputation. But what could she do? She was just a weak and helpless little woman who had never done anything bad...
Wei Er Niang was extremely sad. She wiped her tears and hid in a dense bush crying.
After she had been crying for quarter of an hour, she finally stopped and suddenly heard a man's faint moan and seemed to smell a faint smell of blood.
She was immediately frightened, her face turned pale, and her whole body began to tremble. She was just a weak woman with little strength. What would she do if she met a gangster?
Wei Erniang was so frightened that her teeth were chattering. She was very timid and her legs were weak. She couldn't escape even if she wanted to.
After a long while, she finally regained her strength and dragged her still weak feet to leave. However, she had only taken a few steps when she saw a bloody man lying on the ground. He was obviously not dead yet because he could still move.
Wei Er Niang screamed in fear, but she quickly covered her mouth, tears streaming down her face, and fell to the ground, thinking that she had no way to escape this time and would definitely be killed by this man or his accomplices.
However, she waited for a long time, but no one came to kill her, so she carefully observed the man lying on the ground. When she saw the man's face clearly, she was stunned, and suddenly blushed. She looked away shyly, but seemed reluctant to look, so she turned back.
This man is really good-looking. Even though there is a lot of blood on his face, you can still see his well-defined and handsome face.
Wei Erniang didn't know why, but she suddenly felt that a man with such a good-looking face couldn't be a bad person, right? He must have been harmed by someone else to be like this!
Wei Erlang, whose face represents justice, immediately began to defend the man. He even mustered up the courage to move over and carefully put his hand under his nose to see if he was still breathing.
However, she didn't expect that her hand was immediately grabbed by the man. The man opened his eyes and looked at her sharply. Before he could say anything, he closed his eyes and fainted completely.
Wei Er Niang was shocked and thought he was dead. But when she felt the air he exhaled at her fingertips, she realized he was not dead, but just fainted.
The fainted man was even less threatening. Wei Er Niang was now observing him. The robe he was wearing was obviously perfectly made and made of expensive fabric. It was obvious that it was not something that ordinary people could wear. What's more, he was wearing a pair of straight and stylish boots on his feet, which ordinary people could not afford.
And there was the jade pendant hanging on his belt... Wei Er Niang took the jade pendant off the man's belt as if possessed by a ghost, looked at it again and again with fascination, and then put it in her pocket.
Knowing that this man's identity was not ordinary, Wei Er Niang had many thoughts in her mind. If she became this man's savior, she could show her kindness and wash away the bad reputation of being struck by lightning in her home, and she could also gain the favor of a noble person. Why would she worry about not having a backer in the future?
Thinking of this, Wei Er Niang no longer bothered to collect firewood. She was a weak woman with little strength, but she dragged the seriously injured and unconscious man back to her own shabby house.
When Old Man Wei and Old Lady Wei saw that she brought back an injured man of unknown origin, they were furious and almost beat Wei Er Niang to death. However, Wei Er Niang was very smart and told them about the noble identity of this man and the rewards that would come after saving him, and then Old Man Wei and his wife had no objections.
It was only later that Huo Shichu heard that the Wei family had rescued an injured nobleman, but the nobleman had lost his memory and temporarily could not remember his origins, so the Wei family had no choice but to continue to take him in.
"..." Huo Shichu immediately understood that this injured nobleman was the fuse that caused the original owner to make Wei Dalang drink the poison.
This man's real identity is Chu Ran, the son of the Marquis of Ding'an in the capital. He secretly works for the second prince and comes to the neighboring county to investigate the secrets of his political enemies. However, somehow the news leaked out and he was chased and fled to the back mountain of Baisui Village, where he was rescued by Wei Er Niang.
It's a pity that he lost his memory due to a head injury and couldn't remember his identity, so he had to stay in the Wei family. During this period, he fell in love with Wei Er Niang.
The original owner was a poor woman who was forced to marry Wei Dalang, a man with crippled legs. She fell in love with Chu Ran at first sight after he recovered from his injuries. She also heard from vaguely that he had an extraordinary identity, so she immediately had evil thoughts and began to find ways to seduce Chu Ran.
In order to get rid of the worries later, she even poisoned her husband to death with a bowl of poison, just like Pan Jinlian.
In the original owner's world, Wei Dalang's legs were not healed and he became a disabled person. The arrogant and fragile original owner naturally looked down on him. She also foolishly thought that if she killed Wei Dalang, the "husband" who hindered her pursuit of happiness, she would be able to be with Chu Ran without any obstacles.
But she never thought about whether Chu Ran liked her or not, or whether it was possible for them to be together. She cut off her own retreat and insisted on killing Wei Dalang. Her approach was not smart and was seen through by others. In the end, the truth was revealed and Wei Dalang was killed. She was left with only the infamy of being a vicious person, which highlighted Chu Ran's charm.
(End of this chapter)
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