"My name is Li Juan." Li Juan held the corner of her clothes with both hands, lowered her head and dared not look at He Xiuyun, and said in a low voice, "I fainted on the side of the road before, and it was Brother Chunming who saved me."
He Xiuyun's eyes widened suddenly, "You haven't left yet?"
Li Juan's face suddenly turned red and she didn't know how to answer for a moment.
"Juan, look what I brought back for you?"
At this moment, Jiang Chunming's voice sounded outside.
Jiang Chunming walked in carrying a load on his shoulder. When he saw He Xiuyun's unfinished words, he stopped talking. He quickly glanced at Li Juan, then at He Xiuyun, and drooped his shoulders like a child who had done something wrong. Then he straightened his back again as he thought of something.
"Mom, why are you here?"
He Xiuyun glared at Jiang Chunming, "If I hadn't come, I wouldn't have known that my eldest son had learned how to keep a beautiful woman in a luxurious house!"
"Mom, things are not what you think." Jiang Chunming's face flushed, but he did not back down. "I wanted to talk to you about this after I was busy for a few days, but I didn't expect you to come here first."
He Xiuyun ruthlessly exposed her, "If you know, it takes you less than ten minutes to walk to Lao Si's place. If you don't know, you would think it takes you ten hours. You didn't even have time to say a few words to me."
Jiang Chunming originally wanted to cover it up, but seeing his mother being so aggressive, he knew he could no longer hide the matter.
He put down his burden, walked over and held Li Juan's hand.
Li Juan looked up at him in horror and subconsciously tried to break free from his hand but failed. Her face turned pale and red.
"I'm not going to eat her!" He Xiu said unhappily, "Tell me, what's going on?"
Without waiting for Jiang Chunming to speak, Li Juan quickly said, "Aunt, this matter has nothing to do with Chunming. It's my problem."
"Juan." Jiang Chunming frowned, and Li Juan shook her head gently at him, "Let me tell my aunt first."
Li Juan first went into the house and moved out two chairs, placing one of them at He Xiuyun's feet.
"Auntie, please sit down first and let me explain it to you slowly."
He Xiuyun sat down and looked at Li Juan in silence. She wanted to hear what she had to say.
Li Juan sat next to He Xiuyun, staring at her toes, and said softly, "Aunt, I am from the Northern Province. I was married to my mother and my husband's family in exchange for marriage. My brother married my husband's sister."
He Xiuyun was stunned. She had heard about the marriage exchange. Looking at the pretty Li Juan, her eyes became somewhat sympathetic.
She has been missing her daughter all her life and is almost going crazy. Just imagine, there are people who would treat their daughter like this.
He only thought about finding a new wife for his son, but didn't think about what life would be like for his daughter after she got married.
Li Juan didn't look at He Xiuyun, but kept her head down in shame. She felt that what she did was inhumane.
"I gave birth to three daughters in a row, and my husband beat me to death. My in-laws also scolded me every now and then for not being able to give birth to a son and to carry on the family line.
When my third daughter was born, my husband kicked me out of the house. When I went back to my parents' home, my parents wouldn't let me in.
I had nowhere to go so I begged along the way and fainted from hunger when I arrived at Taoyuan Village.
Having said that, Li Juan looked up at Jiang Chunming, with a blush on her embarrassed face.
She continued, "Brother Chunming is a good man. When I heard Yuping say that his mother had passed away, I wanted to live with Brother Chunming, so I didn't leave..."
"Mom, I like Li Juan. She is a good woman and I want to marry her." Jiang Chunming looked at He Xiuyun and said seriously.
He Xiuyun was in a complicated mood. On the one hand, she sympathized with Li Juan's situation, but on the other hand, she was a little worried.
What if her in-laws come looking for her?
As if she could see He Xiuyun's worry, Li Juan smiled bitterly and said, "Before I was kicked out of my husband's family, my mother-in-law had already paid a high price for my husband to marry a girl."
He Xiuyun was stunned, looked at Li Juan and asked seriously, "Are you telling the truth?"
Li Juan nodded hurriedly, "Aunt, if you are worried, you can go to my husband's village and ask around. I'll take you there, but I won't show up. You can just ask around and find out by asking anyone in the village."
"Mom." Jiang Chunming couldn't bear to rub salt into Li Juan's wounds. He looked at He Xiuyun and said firmly, "Mom, since you know about this today, I will go to get the marriage certificate with Li Juan tomorrow."
"Can you get this certificate just by saying so? You need a certificate and a letter of introduction from the village chief."
"I have a certificate and a letter of introduction." Li Juan took out two pieces of paper from her pocket and unfolded them for He Xiuyun to see. "Before I left home, I went to the village chief to get a letter of introduction and a certificate. Because this is a marriage exchange, my husband and I don't have a marriage certificate."
He Xiuyun opened her mouth slightly, and after a long while she said, "You didn't plan to go back from the beginning?"
Li Juan did not deny it.
Her husband's family kicked her out, and her parents' family didn't want her either. She swore in her heart that she would leave here and never come back.
So she went to kowtow to the village chief and begged him to give her a letter of introduction and certificate.
The village chief also knew how Li Juan lived at her husband's home.
That wicked guy actually brought his new wife straight into the house and then kicked Li Juan out.
The village chief did not make things difficult for Li Juan and immediately gave her many letters of introduction and certificates.
"Mom, Li Juan is a good woman. I won't make the mistake of choosing her this time. Please believe me." Jiang Chunming said anxiously when he saw He Xiuyun didn't speak.
He Xiuyun returned the letter of introduction and the certificate to Li Juan and said to Jiang Chunming, "Come with me into the house."
After saying that, He Xiuyun stood up and walked into the house.
Jiang Chunming gently patted the back of Li Juan's hand and comforted her, "Don't be afraid, my mother is a very good person. I have three sisters-in-law, and my mother never bullies them."
Li Juan nodded.
Of course she knows!
She pretended to pass by Jiang Chunming's brother's house countless times and saw He Xiuyun treating a very beautiful young woman very well. She also saw that He Xiuyun treated the other two women who looked to be in their thirties well as well.
"Boss, are you determined to marry her?" He Xiuyun asked with a frown as she entered the door.
Jiang Chunming nodded, "Mom, Li Juan is very good. You will know after you spend more time with her."
"We agreed before that she would be allowed to leave the next day once she recovered. Did she not leave, or did you keep her there?" He Xiuyun asked the question that was in her mind.
Jiang Chunming looked at He Xiuyun and said, "I went back the next day, thinking that if she left, I would go back and lock the door, but I didn't expect that she didn't leave.
She knelt in front of me and begged me to take her in for a few more days. Seeing how hard she cried and hearing what had happened to her, I felt sorry for her and took her to the county.
My father just found a house for me, so I let her live in the county first. After all, there are not many acquaintances in the county, and others will not gossip if they see her. "
"Humph!" He Xiuyun curled her lips, "Of course others won't gossip about you. They thought you were a couple."
Jiang Chunming smiled awkwardly and said nothing.
He Xiuyun remembered something and her face changed. "I heard you call her Juan so affectionately. You wouldn't..."
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