Yang Cui didn't rush to send Yuan Qiu to the Cen family. Judging from what this woman said, the Cen family treated Yuan Qiu's uncle and mother so badly, how could they possibly treat their grandson well? Don't tell me they're in cahoots with his second uncle and aunt!
Yuan Qiu was very clever. He knew that he couldn't go to the Cen family, and he couldn't go back to the Yuan family either. These past two days, he had been following Yang Cui and felt like he was living the life of a god.
With a thud, Yuan Qiu knelt down in front of Yang Cui, crying pitifully, "Auntie, please don't send me back, okay? I'll eat less from now on, and I can do chores for you, lots of chores!"
In those days, the legal system was not sound, and there were no welfare homes or anything like that. If Yuan Qiu were sent back, he would definitely not have a good life.
Oh well, let's just consider it fate!
Yang Cui sighed: "Then you'll be my godson from now on!"
"Godmother!" Yuan Qiu immediately stopped crying and shouted loudly.
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Not long after Yang Cui left with Yuan Qiu, another woman entered Shengli Village, also to inquire about Cen Daniu's family. Coincidentally, she asked the same person for directions.
The woman muttered, "Why are so many people looking for Cen Daniu today?"
Upon hearing this, the woman frowned slightly: "Auntie, has someone else come looking for Cen Daniu?"
"Yes, a woman came looking for Cen Daniu with a child, but Cen Daniu has been in the army for seven or eight years and we haven't heard from him since. We really don't know why you're looking for him."
"Auntie, did that woman say anything about her relationship with Cen Daniu?"
"They didn't say, I don't know."
"Auntie, from what you're saying, there's been no news of Cen Daniu since he left?" The woman emphasized the word "since."
"Yeah! No news. That's why it's so strange, why are you all looking for him?"
The woman didn't speak, turned and left, but she kept wondering: In my past life, Cen Daniu should have returned by this time! Did I remember the time wrong?
If Cen Daniu were here, he would definitely recognize this woman as his former wife in name only—Luo Yanfen.
Luo Yanfen was reborn. In her previous life, Cen Daniu had just married into her family when the imperial court began conscripting soldiers. Her father didn't want to join the army and was unwilling to spend any more money, so he sent his son-in-law Cen Daniu as a conscript. Less than two years after Cen Daniu left, Luo Yanfen unilaterally dissolved her marriage with Cen Daniu and married a refined and well-educated man named Cui Wenzhuo.
I thought Cui Wenzhuo was a good person, but I never expected this! In the end, he conspired with his own cousin to seize the Luo family's property, killed her parents, and sold her to an old widower in the deep mountains to be his wife. In the end, she was beaten to death by the old widower!
As a result, God took pity on her and allowed her to be reborn after a year as a ghost. Unfortunately, she was not reborn before Cen Daniu joined the army, but rather half a year ago. At this time, her parents had died, Cui Wenzhuo was in charge of the family business, her cousin and beautiful wife were by her side, and she had already been sold!
She gained his trust without making a fuss, eventually got the old widower drunk, and under the cover of darkness, pushed him into the pond to drown. With the old widower dead, she was free!
Rebirth only taught her who was human and who was a monster, but it didn't improve her intelligence. Luo Yanfen knew she couldn't defeat Cui Wenzhuo, so she could only find a powerful ally to help her take revenge!
And this helper was none other than Cen Daniu!!
Others may not know how formidable Cen Daniu is, but she does!
When she was a ghost, she accidentally discovered that Cen Daniu had actually become a great general! However, at that time he was not called Cen Daniu, but had a domineering name - Cen Xiao.
He returned to Wan'an County in a very low-key manner for the sake of his sister. Upon his return, he discovered that his sister had died and his only nephew had starved to death.
In this life, in order to cling to a powerful figure, Luo Yanfen wanted to treat his sister and nephew better, but she was reborn too late, and Cen Erfeng was already dead. She could only try to get Yuan Qiu out of the Yuan family.
So Luo Yanfen approached Ma Qiugui and asked her to act as a go-between to buy Yuan Qiu. She thought that after buying Yuan Qiu, she would treat her well and use this favor to get back together with Cen Daniu, even if she was just a concubine. She also wanted to use Cen Daniu's influence to take revenge on Cui Wenzhuo and her cousin Zhao Jiajia, so that she could change her own fate, become a superior person, and enjoy endless wealth and glory.
Unexpectedly, Yuan Qiu ran away!
This is completely different from the trajectory of the previous life!
Luo Yanfen couldn't find anyone, so she came to Shengli Village to see if she could find Yuan Qiu or run into Cen Daniu. But she discovered that someone else was also looking for Cen Daniu. Who could it be? And it was a woman with a child! What could their relationship be?
This made Luo Yanfen feel a sense of crisis.
No matter what, she absolutely could not let go; Cen Daniu had to be hers!
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Yang Cui brought Yuan Qiu home, and the An family couldn't help but be curious when they saw that Yuan Qiu had come back with them.
Yang Cui had no choice but to tell the An family about it, and also told Er Ya and San Ya that Yuan Qiu would be their brother from now on.
Er Ya and San Ya were quite happy. They had been taught since childhood that having many brothers meant having a strong back and not being bullied. Now that they had another brother, it was naturally a good thing.
Most importantly, Yuan Qiu and the others have many similarities. For example, they have bad people in their families who often bully them, and the three children get along better because of similar experiences.
An Dafu secretly pulled Yang Cui aside and whispered, "What do you plan to do with this child?"
"Uncle, I want to adopt him as my godson."
Upon hearing this, An Dafu's eyes widened: "Are you kidding me?! You're already struggling to make ends meet, and now you're adding another mouth to feed? You must have so much food you don't know where to put it! A half-grown boy can eat his father out of house and home, do you know that? Even if you can afford to raise him, have you thought about how you'll get married in the future? He's not your biological son. When you get married, will the man's family accept him? What will happen to him then?"
"Uncle, I understand everything you're saying. To tell you the truth, I don't plan to get married. I'm planning to find a husband for myself!"
"What? Recruiting a husband?" An Dafu couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. He really didn't expect his niece to have such an idea.
“I know it’s not easy to find a husband, but it doesn’t matter. I can take my time. Even if it takes three or four years, I’ll only be twenty-one or twenty-two. I’m still young. By then, Er Ya might already be married. If I get married and happen to have a mother-in-law like Fan Shi, I won’t be able to live my life.”
An Dafu sighed: "Alright, as long as you've thought it through yourself, but about Yuan Qiu..."
Before he could finish speaking, Yuan Qiu rushed up to An Dafu and said, "Uncle, don't worry, I will definitely work hard. I eat very little, and I can help my godmother with a lot of work."
Yuan Qiu was afraid that Yang Cui would listen to An Dafu and send him back. His eyes were filled with tears and he looked at An Dafu with a pleading look. An Dafu looked at him and couldn't bring himself to say anything cruel. In the end, he only said, "Be a good boy and listen to me."
"Yes, Uncle! I'll definitely be good, work hard, and eat less!"
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