There was a moment of silence in the yard, with only the sound of benches falling and colliding from next door, and the pumpkin vines rustling and being torn.
Xie Zhao took a few steps forward, climbed up the wall and took a look.
Cheng Yaoyao asked worriedly, "Who is it?"
Xie Zhao wiped the dust off his hands and said, "Don't be afraid, it's Cheng Nuonuo."
Cheng Yaoyao finally breathed a sigh of relief. If it was Cheng Zheng and his wife or Aunt Yingui's family, she would still be a little worried. But if it was Cheng Nuonuo, she would not be afraid.
Cheng Yaoyao had a complicated expression: "Isn't Cheng Nuonuo too sick to get up? How can she still climb the wall?"
The smile in Xie Zhao's eyes faded, and turned into coldness: "I will never repent."
The fat orange-and-white cat sauntered up to Cheng Yaoyao, flapping the ground with its furry tail as if asking for credit.
Unfortunately, no one praised it for its great achievement. Cheng Yaoyao saw that the tips of its paws were covered in blood and criticized it, "Jiang Jian, you have learned bad habits. You are so cruel when you chase people."
"Yeah! Yeah!" He raised his chubby face stubbornly, looking righteous, and stretched and retracted his nails in the pad of flesh.
Xunxun also ran over, but was knocked over by the tiger's claw and its head was pressed down. The tiger could only lie on its belly and kick its legs while crying.
Xie Zhao's words are still ringing in my ears: It will be fierce after the full moon, it will be fierce, it will be fierce...
Cheng Yaoyao watched this scene and then looked at Xie Zhao. For the first time, Xie Zhao avoided Cheng Yaoyao's gaze.
Cheng Yaoyao held his face: "Xie Zhao, look into my eyes!"
The sound of hurried knocks on the door rescued Xie Zhao.
"Cheng Yaoyao, open the door! Open the door!"
Cheng Yaoyao raised his eyebrows: "Tsk, I haven't even settled the score with her yet, but she came knocking on my door. Is she crazy?"
Cheng Nuonuo was really furious. She slammed the door of Xie's house with both hands, and her hands, which were covered with wounds, smashed several more places on the old and hard wooden door. She seemed to feel no pain at all, and slammed the door desperately with a red face.
The door was suddenly opened from the inside. Cheng Nonuo didn't check for a moment and rushed in. His lower abdomen hit the door sill heavily and he screamed immediately.
Cheng Nuonuo curled up on the ground like a shrimp, her stomach aching as if it were being chopped by a knife or an ax. A hot current surged out again, and her vision went dark.
It took her a long time to see Cheng Yaoyao standing in front of her, looking down at her.
Cheng Yaoyao was dressed casually without any makeup, but she was still dazzlingly beautiful. Her peach blossom eyes were filled with the arrogance and naivety that she hated the most. The tall and handsome Xie Zhao stood beside her, looking like a protector.
A fat orange and white cat and a fat dog ran up to her.
The cat had an arrogant demeanor, exactly like Cheng Yaoyao, and even breathed threateningly at her. The fat dog stuck out its tongue at her and stepped on her with its dirty paws.
"Dead cat and dead dog!" Cheng Nuonuo's face was scratched by the cat, and he stretched out his hands to catch them.
Cheng Yaoyao shouted hurriedly: "Stop it!"
Qiangqiang flew up, but Luanluan was caught and screamed in fear. Xie Zhao was about to make a move, but Qiangqiang grabbed Cheng Nonuo's hand with his claws, and Cheng Nonuo howled in pain and let go.
"Well done." Cheng Yaoyao praised the crying boy, picked him up and coaxed him again and again. It was only when Xie Zhao gave him a piece of dried chicken that he stopped crying.
Cheng Nuonuo howled for a long time but no one paid any attention to her. She said angrily, "You let this cat chase people away on purpose!"
Cheng Yaoyao asked curiously, "Didn't you ask for it yourself? What do you want to do? Did you come here just to get beaten?"
Cheng Nonuo then remembered why he came here, and said with a trembling voice: "You...you actually used the spiritual spring to feed the chickens and water the vegetables?"
Cheng Yaoyao raised his lips slightly, with his usual arrogant look: "Why? Do you want to steal the water for growing flowers again? Or do you want those vegetables?"
Before she finished her words, Cheng Nonuo couldn't help but look at the garden of juicy vegetables and chicken coop.
Cheng Nonuo dug her fingers into the ground, her face twisted horribly. She had only put a drop or two of the spiritual spring water in a pot of food, but Cheng Yaoyao actually used it to water the food and feed the chickens!
Cheng Nonuo lost all his reason and hissed, "You will be punished for wasting the spiritual spring like this!"
"The spiritual spring is in my hands. It's none of your business if I waste it." Cheng Yaoyao said casually.
Cheng Nuonuo didn't care about the hatred and asked anxiously: "How did you do it? Why do you have so many spiritual springs?"
"This is really a pity for you." Cheng Yaoyao said lazily.
"Me?" Cheng Nonuo's mind was filled with jealousy and hatred. He thought quickly, "Which time was it? The time on the mountain? No, you already had the spiritual spring. When was it? Which time was it?! Tell me, tell me!"
Cheng Yaoyao raised his index finger: "Guess."
Cheng Nuonuo was furious. She endured the pain and climbed up. She took a step closer to Cheng Yaoyao, but was immediately blocked by Xie Zhao. The calm Xie Zhao in front of her overlapped with the manic and bloodthirsty beast on the mountain that day.
Cheng Nonuo shuddered, and his mind suddenly became clear.
She panted, forced a smile at Cheng Yaoyao and said, "Okay, let's not talk about this for now. I was on the wall just now, but I saw a good show."
Cheng Nonuo's expression changed suddenly. Unfortunately, the scar at the corner of her mouth made her signature gentle smile look very strange.
Cheng Yaoyao glanced at Xie Zhao first, his expression seemed a little guilty: "What did you see?"
Cheng Nonuo chuckled and said slowly in a hoarse voice: "I saw what you were doing in the yard just now..."
"Ah." Cheng Yaoyao was speechless and said to Xie Zhao, "Xie Zhao, go and close the door."
Xie Zhao went to close the gate and returned to Cheng Yaoyao.
Cheng Nonuo thought Cheng Yaoyao was feeling guilty and kept silent. But Cheng Yaoyao just stroked the cat leisurely and didn't say a word.
Cheng Nuonuo felt a pain in her stomach, her legs were weak, and she was sweating profusely after standing for a while. She had no choice but to speak: "I saw it clearly from the wall just now. You two were being so affectionate in broad daylight. Sister Yaoyao, if this gets out, your reputation as a beautiful lady will be..."
"So what?" Cheng Yaoyao asked back.
Cheng Nonuo said, "There are many gossipers in this village. I don't need to tell you, Sister Yaoyao, how important a woman's reputation is, right?"
Cheng Yaoyao didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Will others believe your one-sided story?"
Cheng Nonuo chuckled, "What if there's more than just this?"
Cheng Yaoyao's expression really changed: "You can't be..."
Cheng Nonuo laughed crazily and happily: "That's right. If people knew that you were taken to the mountains by a man, would they still worship you like Guanyin? What would they think of you?"
Cheng Yaoyao's expression really changed. He was not frightened, but was surprised by Cheng Nonuo. She was an accomplice in the incident that day, and the man was dead without any evidence. Cheng Nonuo didn't count her good luck, but actually wanted to bring up this matter?
Cheng Yaoyao said: "Do you know that if this matter is exposed, you will be the first person to go to jail or even be shot."
Cheng Nonuo chuckled: "Have you ever heard a saying? Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes."
Cheng Yaoyao stared at her with his charming eyes for a long time before saying, "What do you want?"
"Spiritual Spring." Cheng Nonuo said, "Give it to me and tell me how to use it."
Cheng Yaoyao laughed: "Are you crazy or am I crazy? If you were me, would you be willing to hand it over?"
Cheng Nonuo said: "That spiritual spring originally belonged to me!"
"That jade pendant was left by my mother, and you stole it." Cheng Yaoyao pointed out bluntly, and said to Xie Zhao, "I didn't even wear it for a day, and she broke it."
Cheng Nonuo screamed, "I discovered the spiritual spring! You idiot, you have never discovered the use of the spiritual spring! If it weren't for me, the spiritual spring would never have appeared!"
Cheng Yaoyao said perfunctorily: "Thank you very much, then?"
"Cheng Yaoyao!" Cheng Nonuo became more and more agitated, "Why do you think you can keep the Lingquan all to yourself? I was the first one to discover the Lingquan!"
Cheng Yaoyao said: "Then call it and see if it responds to you."
"You!" Cheng Nuonuo was so angry that her stomach ached. The sarcasm on Cheng Yaoyao's face was so irritating that her vision went dark.
She finally realized that Cheng Yaoyao was making fun of her.
"Okay, okay, okay!" Cheng Nuonuo showed a desperate look: "You are not afraid, right? I will turn myself in, and I will tell everyone that you were caught by a man and raped on the mountain that day, and Xie Zhao killed him for you."
Cheng Yaoyao asked, "Do you really want to hurt yourself in order to harm me?"
Cheng Nonuo's hoarse voice was as cold as a snake: "What else is there for me to be afraid of? Since I was a child, I have hated your high and mighty look, as if I were the rotten mud under your feet. Isn't it just because you have a pretty face? Okay, now let them see what kind of person Guanyin is in their eyes..."
"Shut up!" Xie Zhao shouted coldly.
Cheng Nonuo was almost crazy, pointing at his nose and laughing: "Do you think she is beautiful? She became beautiful by stealing my spiritual spring! Do you think she likes you? She is just afraid of work and uses you as a lifeline! The way she chased after Shen Yan before..."
"Cliff." Xie Zhao spat out two words coldly.
Cheng Nuonuo was like a chicken with its neck strangled, and became silent in an instant.
Cheng Yaoyao said to Xie Zhao aggrievedly: "I didn't chase Shen Yan,...no."
It was the original owner who did it, not her. In front of Cheng Nuonuo, Cheng Yaoyao had no way to explain, and could only stare at Xie Zhao with an uncomfortable and coquettish look.
Xie Zhao gently smoothed her hair, his cold eyes softened: "I know."
The intimacy between the two of them, without paying attention to anyone around, deeply hurt Cheng Nonuo's eyes. The thing she was most proud of in front of Cheng Yaoyao was that she had snatched Shen Yan away. No matter how much she failed, at least she had the upper hand in the matter of Shen Yan.
But now, she even lost her child, and Shen Yan still refused to marry her. Cheng Yaoyao still had no attachment to Shen Yan, and turned around and threw herself into Xie Zhao's arms.
Regardless of Xie Zhao's character, just looking at his appearance, Xie Zhao is tall and stern, with a strong masculine aura. Cheng Nonuo just saw through the wall how the two of them were whispering to each other, and she gritted her teeth in hatred, but she couldn't help but want to watch more with a blushing heartbeat.
only……
Cheng Nuonuo couldn't help but shudder when she thought of the two words Xie Zhao had just uttered.
Cheng Yaoyao kept asking, "What cliff?"
Xie Zhao narrowed his eyes and looked at Cheng Nonuo coldly, saying firmly: "She doesn't dare to report the case."
Cheng Nonuo insisted: "Who said I don't dare!"
Xie Zhao sneered: "You dare to go, why not tell us how that scum died?"
Cheng Nonuo took two steps back, her lips trembling: "I... I don't know what you are talking about!"
Originally, Cheng Nuonuo was just trying to deceive Cheng Yaoyao, but now Xie Zhao had exposed her true intention and touched her weak spot, so she was immediately at a loss.
Cheng Yaoyao seemed to understand, but she could see that Cheng Nonuo was guilty and just needed one last blow. She said to Cheng Nonuo, "I think you are crazy. Even if you report the case and turn yourself in, what will happen? I am not injured, and no one except you can prove that I was arrested."
"As for you, you were found in the back hill. A man and a woman alone, the two of you conspired to do something bad... Do you think you are not in the limelight enough? Or do you think it is not a headache for your dad to clean up your mess?"
Cheng Nonuo suddenly laughed and said without thinking, "You still miss your father? It's a pity that he is very disappointed in you. He often said that we should just live a good life as a family of three as if we had never had a daughter like you."
As Cheng Nonuo spoke, she stared at Cheng Yaoyao, trying to find even the slightest sign of sadness or hurt on her face.
Unfortunately, Cheng Yaoyao's expression remained calm, but Xie Zhao immediately held her hand and watched her reaction with concern.
"I'm fine." Cheng Yaoyao gave Xie Zhao a soothing smile.
Cheng Nonuo continued, "The things you sent over these days were deliberately not added with spiritual spring water, and they were cold. Dad said you have no sisterly love at all, and you used your own money to buy eggs and fine grains for me to eat."
Cheng Yaoyao took a deep breath.
Cheng Yaoyao cried bitterly in Shanghai last year because of a quarrel with his father. Although he later said he didn't want to see his father, he still sent things to Shanghai every month, and he still had feelings for his father.
This delicate girl can't stand being wronged. Xie Zhao took a step forward and looked at Cheng Nuonuo fiercely, but was stopped by Cheng Yaoyao.
"Yes." Cheng Yaoyao raised his eyebrows and pointed to the vegetable garden behind him: "I deliberately didn't add spiritual spring water. How much spiritual spring water did you drink to become fair and beautiful? A cup? A bowl? You have so many wounds on your face and body, and your body is weak. I'm afraid you need to drink a lot of spiritual spring water to recover, right?"
Cheng Nuonuo's expression changed several times. Now the spiritual spring is in Cheng Yaoyao's hands, and she is protected by Xie Zhao. How can she get the spiritual spring to restore her appearance?
If you judge others by yourself, if she were Cheng Yaoyao, would you be able to give her a drop of spiritual spring water?
Thinking of this, Cheng Nuonuo decided to go all out and said directly: "Give me a bottle of spiritual spring water to help me recover, and I will never bother you again."
Cheng Yaoyao sneered: "On what basis?"
"Because we are sisters." Cheng Nonuo said hastily with a thick face, "Just think of it as a pity for me and give me a pot, no, a bowl will do. When I recover and marry Shen Yan, you will also be able to benefit from it in the future, right? And dad, when dad knows that you helped me, he will change his mind about you!"
"I used the spiritual spring to feed chickens and water vegetables, but I didn't give it to you. What were you stingy with that little spiritual spring for? My cats and dogs all use the spiritual spring to bathe. What do you think? Are you mad at me?"
As Cheng Yaoyao spoke, he raised his fingertips. His fingers were as slender as if carved from white jade. Water from a spiritual spring dripped onto the ground like sweet dew or spring rain. The blue brick ground quickly absorbed the water droplets, and gradually could no longer absorb them, forming a pool of water as clear as a mirror.
Cheng Nuonuo rushed forward in a hurry, but fell heavily to the ground, her whole body in pain. She used her hands and feet to crawl forward, but was blocked by Xie Zhao.
Xie Zhao's dangerous and indifferent eyes made Cheng Nonuo instantly recall the scene on the mountain that day. He did not dare to move for a moment and stared at the spiritual spring on the ground with bloodshot eyes.
The little fat dog and cat came up and licked the spiritual spring on the ground. Cheng Yaoyao even said in disgust: "You still have some in your bowl, why are you drinking from the ground? It's really dirty."
Cheng Nonuo was shot again. She could still remember clearly how she drank dirty water and picked up the crushed cake on the ground for the spiritual spring.
The orange-white cat licked the water a few times and stopped drinking. It picked at Xie Zhao's trouser legs and asked Xie Zhao to pick it up. The puppy was stepping around in the water, rolling around, and shaking its head happily. The clear spring was stained by the stepping, which made Cheng Nuonuo's eyes burst with anger.
But Cheng Yaoyao still laughed: "Xunxun, you are so dirty, please stop stepping on me. Can I put a basin of water for you to take a bath?"
Cheng Yaoyao said, stretching out his hands to hug Kunkun. Kunkun ran away with a cluck, still shaking his hair, and some dirty water splashed on Cheng Nonuo's face, but she wiped it into her mouth like a drug addict.
Cheng Yaoyao almost vomited in disgust and stepped back a long way in disgust.
At this moment, Grandma Xie's voice came from the door: "Why is the door locked?"
As soon as Xie Zhaocai moved, Cheng Yaoyao rushed over and said, "I'll go open the door!"
Cheng Yaoyao ran to the door, and Xie Zhao said over Cheng Nuonuo's head: "You pushed that person off the cliff."
Cheng Nuonuo shuddered violently and stared at Xie Zhao as if he had seen a ghost. Xie Zhao's tone was too firm, but that matter was only known to heaven and earth, how did Xie Zhao know?
Xie Zhao's narrow eyes were filled with inorganic coldness: "If you dare to make a far-fetched comment, just try."
He stopped talking without even looking at her, and walked straight to Cheng Yaoyao's side.
Cheng Nuonuo no longer cared about anything else and took the opportunity to rush to the spiritual spring. Unfortunately, Kong Kong rolled in the spiritual spring, and most of the spiritual spring water was sucked away by its hair, leaving only a little turbid dirty water.
When Xie Zhao opened the door, what Grandma Xie, Xie Fei and a group of women saw was Cheng Nuonuo lying on the ground licking dirty water.
Coincidentally, Cheng Zheng and a few others, who had returned home and found Cheng Nuonuo missing, also came over. When they saw a group of people gathered at the door of Xie's house as if they were watching a foreign spectacle, they immediately had a bad feeling.
Cheng Zheng pushed through the crowd and went in to take a look. He almost fainted. He rushed forward and grabbed Cheng Nonuo: "Nonuo, you are crazy! Get up!"
Cheng Nonuo was like a traveler who had been thirsty for three days and three nights in the desert. He had no time to care about anything else and only the spiritual spring could see it.
Her frail body seemed to weigh a thousand pounds as she lay prone on the ground. Wei Shuying rushed over to pull her away, beating her and cursing at her: "What are you crazy about, you little girl! Get up! You, Cheng Yaoyao, what did you do to my daughter?"
Shen Yan and his mother looked at this scene and turned around to leave. However, the villagers blocked them in the middle, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and pushed them: "Hurry up and stop him, I don't know if he is possessed by evil spirits."
"Pah, don't dare to promote superstitious ideas! I think Cheng Nuonuo has been stimulated and his brain is damaged."
"Shen Zhiqing, when you return to Shanghai, you must find a place to treat her."
Mother Shen's face turned ashen, and Shen Yan almost wanted to find a hole to hide in. He didn't want to have anything to do with Cheng Nuonuo, let alone pull her in.
Only when Cheng Zheng slapped Cheng Nonuo hard in the face did she come back to her senses from her crazy state.
She stared blankly at the furious Cheng Zheng and Wei Shuying in front of her, then looked at the villagers surrounding the yard, as well as Shen Yan and Shen's mother, and her heart skipped a beat.
Wei Shuying cried out, "My daughter, what did Cheng Yaoyao and the others do to you to scare you like this?"
Cheng Nuonuo seemed to be frightened. After a long while, she stared with eyes wide open and said, "What happened to me? I remember just seeing... I saw Sister Yaoyao and Xie Zhao in the yard..."
"Shut up and don't talk nonsense!" Cheng Zheng's face turned pale.
Cheng Nonuo quickly lowered her head, seeming to want to say something but stopping herself, leaving people with endless room for imagination.
Cheng Zheng couldn't help but look at Cheng Yaoyao and Xie Zhao. Seeing his daughter, who was as delicate as a flower, and Xie Zhao staying alone in the mansion, Cheng Zheng immediately felt as angry as if his cabbage was eaten by a pig.
The mood of the onlookers was also a little unstable. Today was the gathering of Bashang Village. Grandma Xie and Xie Fei went with the women in the village to the gathering. Only Cheng Yaoyao and Xie Zhao were at home.
The beautiful lady and the young and strong boy are in love with each other. This...
Grandma Xie stood in front of Cheng Yaoyao and said angrily, "Our Zhao'er and Yaoyao have been engaged for a long time! Moreover, it was broad daylight and the door was open, what could have happened! How could you see what happened in my yard when you were in Aunt Yingui's yard?"
The older you get, the wiser you get. Grandma Xie accurately grasped the loophole, and Cheng Nonuo was speechless for a moment.
Cheng Yaoyao hugged Jianjian and imitated Cheng Nuonuo's usual innocent tone: "Just now, Xie Zhao and I were staying in the yard. I don't know why she was leaning over the wall to peek. She scared me, then knocked on the door and ran into the yard, saying a lot of weird things."
"You!" Cheng Nuonuo was eager to refute, but meeting Xie Zhao's warning gaze, she dared not utter a word.
Cheng Yaoyao continued: "She refused to leave the yard and lay on the ground..."
Cheng Yaoyao was about to say something but stopped. Everyone followed her gaze and looked at Cheng Nonuo lying on the ground, drinking dirty water.
Women were the best at imagining things, and they all asked, "Oh, you can even do something like climbing over the wall?"
"She's not married and has a child, so what's the big deal about climbing over the wall? Tsk, luckily Xie Zhao is at home, if Cheng Zhiqing was alone, I don't know how she would be bullied by her."
"Didn't she say she couldn't get out of bed after the miscarriage? How come she's fine?"
"She just lay on the ground and drank dirty water. I'm afraid her brain was stimulated..."
The strange looks and sarcastic remarks from the crowd came like knives from all directions.
Cheng Nonuo rolled his eyes and fell to the ground with a thud.
Wei Shuying cried out, "Hey, feed my daughter!"
Cheng Zheng also looked at Cheng Nonuo with concern. No matter how angry he was, she was still his daughter.
Who knows that someone in the crowd said coolly: "It's really time to get dizzy. You can even climb a wall, how can you get dizzy so easily?"
Cheng Zheng was startled, and looked at Cheng Nonuo carefully, but saw her eyeballs moving under her eyelids, and his heart suddenly turned cold.
Grandma Xie said, "Yaoyao's father, logically you are Zhao'er's future father-in-law, and I shouldn't be picky. But this concerns the reputation of my two children, so you have to give me an explanation."
Wei Shuying yelled at the top of her voice: "What do you mean? I want you to give me an explanation. What did you do to my daughter? Why did she faint for no reason? You must have..."
"Shut up!" Cheng Zheng roared, staring at Wei Shuying with red eyes.
Wei Shuying was immediately frightened and shut up, not daring to say another word.
Cheng Zheng felt like he had swallowed a lump in his throat. He didn't even dare to look at Cheng Yaoyao and said in a hard voice, "Nonuo has been traumatized. She has been hallucinating and talking nonsense these days. Don't take her words seriously."
Wei Shuying stared, and the unconscious Cheng Nonuo clenched her fingers. Unfortunately, it was too late to get off the tiger, so she could only continue to pretend to be dead.
Grandma Xie nodded with satisfaction: "Did everyone hear it?"
Everyone agreed. Now the Xie family is popular, Xie Zhao is promising, and he is leading everyone to grow greenhouse vegetables. Who wants to offend the Xie family? Besides, Cheng Nuonuo went crazy in public and repeatedly attacked Cheng Yaoyao. This is obvious to all.
Cheng Zheng couldn't even raise his head amidst all the discussion. He and Wei Shuying half-dragged and half-supported Cheng Nuonuo back to the yard. No one offered to help, and Shen Yan and his mother hid far away.
As soon as she returned to the house, Shen's mother came over and said, "I saw and heard what your little daughter did just now. My family will never marry such a woman!"
Mother Shen had said this countless times in the past few days, but this time, Cheng Zheng did not refute her. Instead, he waved his hand wearily, "Okay. As the saying goes, love is the best thing to do. There is really no need for our two families to make such a fuss."
Mother Shen thought she had heard it wrongly: "You...are you telling the truth?"
Cheng Zheng said: "If Shen Yan doesn't want to marry my daughter, then forget it."
"How can that be possible!" Wei Shuying finally jumped up.
Even Cheng Nonuo opened his eyes and called out weakly and sadly, "Dad..."
"Shut up!" Cheng Zheng didn't give her any face. "Aren't you dizzy? Why did you wake up so quickly?"
Mother Shen was so happy that she didn't want to give them a chance to regret. She kept saying, "Okay, okay. It's settled. I'll go back and tell my brother that you are still reasonable, Old Cheng!"
As soon as Shen's mother left, Wei Shuying started yelling, "You ignored my daughter for your own future!"
"Mom, don't say that." Cheng Nonuo burst into tears, "If Dad loses his job, how will our family live?"
Shen's mother's younger brother is Cheng Zheng's boss. Because of the matter between Cheng Nonuo and Shen Yan, Cheng Zheng has been squeezed out of the company and has a hard time. Shen's mother is always confused, and even Cheng Nonuo admits that she doesn't care about her for the sake of her future. Cheng Zheng's heart, which was half cold, finally cooled down completely.
He said angrily, "In the final analysis, it's your own fault. What's the point of forcing yourself to marry into the Shen family when they treat you like this? Get yourself well first. You're still young."
Cheng Nonuo smiled sadly: "I am like this now. Apart from the Shen family, will anyone else want me?"
Wei Shuying was very clear about her daughter's marriage and said bluntly: "Nono is suffering from a blood avalanche now. She will definitely not be able to have children in the future. Who would marry a hen that doesn't lay eggs? You can't just leave her alone!"
Cheng Zheng was extremely embarrassed by her vulgar words and angrily said, "What else can I do? The Shen family clearly doesn't want to marry your daughter!"
Wei Shuying was startled: "What do you mean you call me your daughter? Isn't Nuonuo your daughter?!"
Cheng Zheng blurted out: "I never thought of having a second daughter! It was you who tricked me into getting Nuonuo pregnant!"
Wei Shuying was stabbed in the lungs and screamed, "Cheng, I've been married to you for twenty years, and now you're still talking about this trivial matter!"
Cheng Zheng paused for a moment, "Don't forget who you are! Even in twenty years I will still remember why I married you!"
After Cheng Zheng finished speaking, he slammed the door and left.
The room was instantly silent. Wei Shuying's flushed face gradually lost color, revealing loose skin and wrinkles, as if she had aged ten years: "It's been twenty years, twenty years, and he still thinks I'm a hired nanny. He still despises us, mother and daughter..."
She lay on Cheng Nonuo, murmuring to her daughter with snot and tears.
Cheng Zheng is a cultured man. Over the years of marriage, even when Wei Shuying fell in love with Cheng Nuonuo, he was polite and cold. He just left with his daughter and a suitcase.
Wei Shuying repeatedly told Cheng Nuonuo about the first time she met Cheng Zheng. It was a photo that the matchmaker took out, a small black and white photo, in which the man was gentle and handsome, and Wei Shuying was attracted to him at first sight. Even if the matchmaker laughed at her for wanting to marry someone above her station, she was not afraid. She immediately took out twenty yuan and stuffed it into the matchmaker, only asking the matchmaker to keep the news a secret and introduce her to Cheng Zheng alone.
The twenty yuan from twenty years ago was saved penny by penny by picking amaranth, picking lotus flowers, and helping people fetch water to irrigate the fields. It took her seven or eight years to save it in exchange for a chance to have a blind date with Cheng Zheng.
She succeeded, and for twenty years she had been congratulating herself on her decision.
After she married Cheng Zheng, her days were like walking on cotton. She lived in a building, ate white rice and meat, and only had to take care of a baby who looked like a jade doll.
Cheng Zheng treated her very well. He was different from all the men she had seen since she was a child. He was more beautiful and more handsome than in the photos. He spoke standard Mandarin and wore a three-piece suit like someone in a movie. Moreover, Cheng Zheng never hit her or even scolded her.
In the first month after marriage, Wei Shuying was so happy that she would wake up laughing in her dreams. Cheng Zheng rarely touched her and rarely talked to her. Only when she took Cheng Yaoyao to him and told him that Yaoyao had eaten a few more mouthfuls of rice porridge today and that Yaoyao seemed to be able to speak, would Cheng Zheng smile and listen to her seriously.
Wei Shuying didn't know what it meant to love someone and love his dog, but she wanted to make Cheng Zheng happy, so she treated Cheng Yaoyao very well during that period. Cheng Zheng became more friendly to her because of this, and even accompanied her back to her parents' home.
That was truly the most glorious and eye-catching memory in her life. The whole village was in an uproar, and all the female relatives in her family looked at her man with red eyes of envy.
But when Cheng Zheng was drinking with the men, her mother and sisters-in-law whispered to her, "Such a little girl, is it worth worrying about her? If you can give him a big fat boy, are you afraid that you can't keep his heart?"
This awakened Wei Shuying, she could also give birth, she could give Cheng Zheng a son to carry on the family line. Seeing how much Cheng Zheng loved Cheng Yaoyao, she thought that if she gave birth to a son, Cheng Zheng would definitely forget about Cheng Yaoyao and her mother and stand on her side.
Wei Shuying failed to give birth to a son, but she gave birth to Cheng Nonuo. Although it was more than ten years late, Cheng Nonuo still helped her to bring Cheng Zheng to her side.
Wei Shuying thought that young couples would always be companions in old age. After living together for twenty years, she would always have a place in Cheng Zheng's heart.
Cheng Zheng's words "Don't forget who you are" woke her up like a stick. It turns out that even the most gentle man's ruthless face can be ferocious when the mask is removed.
Wei Shuying kept talking and crying, but got no response from her own daughter. She was so angry that she slapped her and said, "You loser! It's all your fault! You useless thing, how come you are not a son? You are not even as tall as a finger of mine!"
Cheng Nuonuo felt severe pain all over her body, and her lower abdomen felt as if it was stabbed by a knife and was cold and painful. She gritted her teeth and said nothing, listening to Wei Shuying's vicious curses.
Shen Yan refused to marry her, Cheng Zheng didn't want her as a daughter, not to mention her biological mother... and Cheng Yaoyao, how did Cheng Yaoyao get everything? Beauty, favor, love, she had everything, why did even the spiritual spring show special favor to her? The spiritual spring that she had worked so hard to save bit by bit, but she could squander it at will?
Now she has lost her beauty, her engagement, and even the chance to have children.
The room gradually fell into darkness, with only Wei Shuying's curses and Cheng Nonuo's breathing like a bellows. She lay on the pillow as if dying, panting and sneering.
In the dead of night, a short shadow walked out of the east room silently. She walked barefoot on the cold ground at night, as silent as a ghost.
Rural people are used to hoarding firewood, and there are piles of dried firewood everywhere, under the walls of their houses and in the yards. When they start burning, they make crackling sounds, and a tiny flame gradually connects into a fire dragon, surrounding the landlord's house.
If someone was still awake at this time, he would be able to see the fire that burned half the sky red.
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