The first time Su He came into contact with Zhao Luochuan was shortly after her husband became bedridden.
At that time, there was an elderly widower in her husband's clan. He had a wife when he was young, but she suffered heavy bleeding during childbirth, and both the mother and the child were lost. Since then, he has been alone.
Although the two families are from the same clan, they do not live in the same village and are not close to each other. Su He has only met them once after getting married and they have never spoken to each other.
When the widower was young, his family was well-off for a while. His parents made a living by tending more than ten acres of land. If you were to count the families in the village who could afford to eat white flour on one hand, the widower's family would definitely be one of them.
Perhaps because his life was too comfortable, the widower couldn't bear the loneliness and started to have bad thoughts. He was tricked into gambling and lost more than ten acres of good farmland. In the end, he even lost the house deed on the gambling table and lost everything.
His parents were so angry that they became ill and passed away not long after. The widower never recovered from his loss. He had no farmland and no skills, and the money his parents left behind was not enough for two rounds of gambling.
His life became more and more miserable, to the point that when he reached the age to get married, no one came to propose marriage. He kept wasting time and time, and in the blink of an eye, the widower was in his forties.
He was jealous of the married man who had someone to warm his bed at night, and he also coveted the unmarried girls. He was so itchy that he was blinded by greed and even had the idea of peeping.
At first he was restrained, but after not being caught once or twice, he became more and more daring, and finally he even dared to stop people on the road and tease them. When he met a girl or a young wife who was alone, he would speak dirty words to her. Over time, his reputation in the village was completely ruined, and everyone avoided him.
The widower was not very courageous and only dared to take advantage of the situation. He did not dare to really overstep the line because the law clearly stipulated that those who attempted adultery would be exiled a thousand miles away, and in serious cases, they would be hanged.
When girls and women encounter such things, they are all too embarrassed to speak out, fearing that they will be badly reputed, and can only swallow their anger and bear it.
The silence of the girl and the woman only emboldened the widower's arrogance, but truth will eventually come to light if one does too many bad things.
Su He was not a gentle person to begin with, and she had experienced the fickleness of human nature since her husband fell ill. She had no choice but to become even more aggressive in order to avoid being bullied.
The widower knew that Su He's husband was running out of time, and seeing that Su He was the only woman struggling to support the family, he took advantage of her and bullied her.
Su He went out to buy medicine for her husband. When she reached the river, she was stopped by the widower. The widower spoke to her frivolously and said that her short-lived husband would soon die, so she might as well obey him.
Su He was furious and slapped the widower's cheek, leaving it red and swollen.
The widower, who had been successful for a long time, suddenly met a fierce woman and immediately became interested. He was determined to take her by force, even if it meant being exiled thousands of miles away.
No matter how strong Su He was, she was still a weak woman. She was much weaker in physical strength than the widower. She had no other choice but to jump into the river and die. Just when she was at her wit's end, Zhao Luochuan passed by and rescued her.
Zhao Luochuan was young and hot-tempered, a tough guy. He kicked the widower into the river and warned him not to go near Zhaojiazhuang in the future, otherwise his evil deeds would be immediately written into a complaint and sent to the government office.
It would have been a good thing to vent one's anger, but the people who were persecuted by the widower not only did not appreciate it, but instead confirmed the rumors that Zhao Luochuan was a bad guy.
When these things spread back to the village, the relatives of the same clan who lived in the same village as Suhe's husband could no longer sit still. No matter how bad the widower was, he was still a member of the clan. How could they let outsiders slap their family in the face? After a big fight with Zhao Luochuan, Suhe was not spared either.
Su He will never forget how those relatives scolded her for being unfaithful and a bitch.
This matter implicated Zhao Luochuan. Su He felt bad and wanted to give him something several times to repay him for saving her life.
Zhao Luochuan didn't care much about it and rejected them one by one.
Even after many years, whenever Su He recalled what happened that day, her heart would still beat like a deer, and she still felt that Zhao Luochuan was like a savior.
She and her husband did not have a deep relationship. Everything was arranged by her parents. She could not say that she loved her husband. At most, she treated him with courtesy.
Not long after, her husband passed away. Su He did not feel sad at all. Instead, she felt a sense of relief and relief. Her thoughts about Zhao Luochuan grew deeper and deeper, and she even had the idea of silently giving without asking for anything in return.
However, the idea was strangled in the cradle as soon as it came to mind. Su He found out that she was pregnant with her husband's posthumous child.
Her entire life depended on the house and fertile land left by her husband. If she was pregnant with a son, she could hold these things firmly in her hands, but if it was a daughter or the child unfortunately died, these things would not belong to her completely.
In order to survive, Su He decided to take a gamble and gave birth to a daughter after ten months of pregnancy.
When the relatives learned that Su He had given birth to a daughter, they swarmed over like hungry wolves seeing rotten meat. Su He negotiated for a long time and finally managed to force the relatives to leave by accusing them of "bullying an orphan and a widow" and threatening to commit suicide. However, she also knew that there was no possibility for her and Zhao Luochuan to be together anymore.
But she still didn't give up, thinking that it would be good to be closer to Zhao Luochuan. It was not until she heard the news that Zhao Luochuan was going to marry Yang Chunxue that she completely gave up her last bit of hope.
Coincidentally, her parents came to pick her up at this time. Su He didn't want to watch Zhao Luochuan's wedding night, so she went back to her parents' home, thinking that if she was far away, she would be able to let go.
But the world is so big, and I never thought that there was no place for me and my daughter. After just over a year, I returned here in disgrace.
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