"No." Tang Shen rejected Qin Zijin without any hesitation.
He stared at her seriously and spoke slowly, "You are injured. You should rest well at home. I'm fine."
"If I say we should go together, then we should go together. My injury is nothing serious and I will be fine after a day's rest." Qin Zijin's attitude was also very firm.
There is a mountain behind Zhaojia Village. The mountain road is notoriously difficult to walk on. People in the village who are able to walk are not willing to go up the mountain, and at most they stay at the foot of the mountain.
Tang Shen is in this condition now. If he goes hunting in the mountains again, he will probably lose his life.
If Tang Shen were gone, Tang Aimin's family would only bully her and her two children even more.
There is still no news from home, and it is still unknown whether she can return to the city. She doesn't want to become a widow so soon.
"You..." Tang Shen opened his mouth, looked at Qin Zijin's determined eyes, and finally sighed, "Then follow me and listen to me on the way."
Qin Zijin nodded.
The family had a meal.
Tang Ruixuan took the initiative to collect the bowls.
Qin Zijin felt distressed when he saw the little child struggling to hold several bowls.
At that time, a four-year-old child was just acting like a spoiled brat in front of her parents. How could she start doing housework at such a young age?
But here, everything is so natural.
Tang Can didn't even try to stop him, and just watched Tang Ruixuan go to work.
Tang Ruixuan went to clean up and wash the dishes, while Tang Can cleaned the house.
Cao Chunni smashed a lot of things in the house.
The family, which was already poor, is now even poorer.
Tang Can went to get the tools and sat there silently repairing the damaged wardrobe.
Several pieces of clothing fell to the ground, covered in dirt and footprints.
Only then did Qin Zijin have time to take a good look at the house.
After reading it, everyone fell silent.
"Penetrating nothing" is not enough to describe her current situation.
Three of the four walls were cracked, and the winter wind blew in through the gaps. Even inside the house, it was still freezing cold.
The yard outside is quite large, probably about 300 square meters. A kitchen was temporarily built on the side with simple wooden boards. There was only an earthen stove and a pot inside.
There were some firewood piled up in a mess in the yard. There were two trees near the gate, one was a pomelo tree and the other was a longan tree.
The longan tree is growing well, but all the leaves have fallen off in winter.
The pomelo tree looks dying, and most of its trunk has dried up. It will probably die completely soon.
There is a well in the yard, and Tang Ruixuan is struggling to draw water from the well to wash dishes.
Seeing that he really couldn't pull it anymore, Qin Zijin hurried over to help.
Qin Zijin touched the half-filled bucket of well water. The water was like ice water, freezing to the bone.
She quickly pulled Tang Ruixuan aside and said, "Let me wash it, don't move."
When I held Tang Ruixuan's hand, I found that the little guy's fingers had a lot of frostbite, and some of the parts were so serious that they had rotted. If I didn't treat it, I would have to give up these hands.
She couldn't describe the feeling in her heart.
Tang Ruixuan stood there stubbornly, "No, I..."
"Are you still listening to me? If you want to wash the dishes, just boil some water." Qin Zijin frowned and scolded seriously.
Tang Ruixuan lowered his head and said, "We don't have much firewood at home, we can't waste it."
When Qin Zijin heard this, he felt as if something had hit his chest hard, and he felt very uncomfortable.
What kind of sufferings are these in the world!
In her era, people had enough food and clothing, and everyone lived a very good life. They had basically escaped poverty. She had never heard of such poor and difficult days.
Looking at Tang Ruixuan at this moment, she felt a sharp pain in her heart.
Just as he was about to speak, the door was suddenly kicked open.
A man who looked to be in his early thirties, wearing a navy blue cotton jacket, with a dark complexion and a fierce look on his face, kicked the door open, came in and pointed at Qin Zijin and cursed, "You little bitch, now you've learned to steal things? Do you think you can just take our Tang family's things casually?"
Qin Zijin was stunned for a moment before coming to his senses.
The short, fat and dark woman in front of him was Chen Meilin, the daughter-in-law of the eldest son of Tang Aimin, Tang Can's second uncle.
Chen Meilin's family had some money, and when the two families got married, it was a great honor.
Chen Meilin has always been domineering and often bullied Qin Zijin in the past.
Now that he has found a reason, he will naturally not let her go.
Chen Meilin had long disliked Qin Zijin, a delicate young lady from the city, with fair and tender skin. She had been in Zhaojia Village for seven years, but she had not gotten tanned at all. She was completely different from the women in the village, which caused many men in the village to have some impure thoughts about her.
This is even more true for her husband Tang Wei.
Chen Meilin returned to her parents' home early this morning. When she came back, she heard her mother-in-law Cao Chunni complaining that Qin Zijin had stolen the old hen that laid eggs in their family.
So as soon as she put her things down, she came over angrily to cause trouble for Qin Zijin.
Seeing Qin Zijin's pale and pitiful appearance, she became angry. She took two steps forward and raised her hand to hit Qin Zijin in the face.
If that palm-leaf fan-sized slap had really landed on Qin Zijin's face, half of her face would have been swollen.
Qin Zijin frowned slightly and was about to avoid Chen Meilin's slap, but Tang Ruixuan at his feet, like an angry calf, suddenly clenched his fists and slammed his shoulder into Chen Meilin's stomach.
The little guy was young and thin due to years of malnutrition. When he bumped into Chen Meilin, he didn't knock her down. Instead, he stumbled back a few steps and fell to the ground.
Even though he fell, the little guy's momentum was not weakened at all. With red eyes, he shouted angrily at Chen Meilian: "You are not allowed to bully my mother!"
Chen Meilian couldn't help but pause when Tang Ruixuan blocked her, and the slap didn't fall on Qin Zijin.
He looked at Tang Ruixuan with vicious eyes and raised his foot to kick Tang Ruixuan.
That kick was delivered with great force.
Qin Zijin's face looked grim.
She couldn't remember when she had offended Chen Meilin. She had been in Zhaojia Village for seven years and had almost no contact with Chen Meilin. Why did this woman hate her so much?
Judging from the look of it, he really wants to kick Tang Ruixuan to death.
Qin Zijin was anxious and didn't know where he got the strength from, but he rushed directly towards Chen Meilin.
Although she is not very strong, she has just acquired intermediate medical talent.
I have a lot of information about medicine in my mind, and I am also very familiar with the major acupuncture points on the human body.
When she pounced on Chen Meilin, she quickly stretched out her hand and touched Chen Meilin's neck.
Chen Meilin suddenly lost consciousness below her neck, and her face suddenly became terrified.
The next moment, Qin Zijin threw him to the ground.
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