Seeing that the time was ripe, Tao Xiaoxi shook off the quilt wrapped around her body, put on a white dress, and walked to the front of the crowd barefoot, trembling. The scene instantly became quiet. For a moment, everyone thought they had seen a ghost.
Tao Xiaoxi gathered up the hair that hung down from her forehead, lowered her eyebrows and looked at Sun Wangcai, then said humbly, "Wangcai, let's return the money to them. It's not auspicious for us to hold it. I'm back now, and I will never commit suicide again. Let's live a good life from now on."
"Who wants to live a good life with a jinx like you!" Sun Wangcai was furious as if he was ignited. "You two are lying in the same coffin. Who knows what happened? I think there is grass on my head. You are taking advantage of me!"
Tao Xiaoxi squinted her eyes and shed two tears, "How can you look at me like this? Believe me, there is really nothing between Li Nanshan and me. If you let me go home, I will no longer care about your affairs with Youhua. If she doesn't want to be the mistress, I can let her be the eldest. I don't care, as long as you let me go home..." Tao Xiaoxi felt more and more aggrieved as she spoke, tears streaming down her face, and her whole body shivered uncontrollably, as if she really wanted to get Sun Wangcai's forgiveness and be a good wife to him.
But in Li Nanshan's eyes, it was like a thorn in his throat and a thorn in his back. As expected, this woman finally chose to compromise. If someone pretends to be asleep, how can he wake them up?
Li Nanshan turned around and left, decisively and cruelly.
The neighbors...some advised Sun Wangcai, others advised Sun Pozi, all of them agreeing that a harmonious family brings prosperity and that they should just take the girl home. No one said anything bad about Sun Wangcai, and no one spoke up for Tao Xiaoxi. Why did she jump into the river? Wasn't there already a patch of grass above her head?
The atmosphere was so tense that Sun Wangcai couldn't let his wife go back, no matter how much he didn't want her to. At least not at this moment. Fearing that things would get out of hand, Mrs. Sun tugged at her son's cotton-padded jacket and said sensibly, "Forget it. After all, she's Beibei's mother. Even if our Sun family accepts our loss, we've got such an ignorant daughter-in-law."
Sun Wangcai was relieved to see that Li Nanshan had left and no one was asking him about the money. As for other things, he didn't care at all and tacitly accepted his wife's return. He didn't even look at her and walked straight into the house.
Tao Xiaoxi just treated him as a dog, nothing more. In order to make this dog eat shit completely, she had to endure it.
Tao Xiaoxi entered the house and began to look for clothes and shoes, but after searching through all the boxes according to her memory, she didn't find any of her clothes, not even a single piece.
"Where are my clothes?" Tao Xiaoxi wondered.
Sun Wangcai lay down on the bed, smoking a cigarette he had rolled himself, and said nonchalantly, "Burned."
"It's burned. Why?" Tao Xiaoxi didn't expect this.
"You're asking such a strange question. You're already dead, so why would we keep your clothes? We should burn them, of course."
Tao Xiaoxi tightened her grip on the trunk lid, then gently closed it again with force. She smiled and said to Sun Wangcai, "Let it burn. Wangcai, give me some money so I can buy some clothes."
"Money? Where can I get money? You short-lived ghost, you came back and asked for money. I don't have any!"
Tao Xiaoxi guessed that this was the case. He sold her for a hundred yuan in total. How could he not have money?
She closed her eyes, gritted her teeth, and took out a piece of Sun Wangcai's clothes from the box and put it on. It was a cotton-padded jacket made for him by the original owner. It was a little small for Sun Wangcai and he rarely wore it. For this, the original owner was scolded by Sun Wangcai.
Sun Wangcai saw this but said nothing and turned over to pretend to sleep. It was broad daylight and he didn't even bother to go to the fields to work.
She had clothes, but she had not yet found shoes. Tao Xiaoxi was bending over to look for them when someone gently pulled the corner of her clothes. When she turned around, she saw a pale and thin face.
"Mom, come with me." The girl whispered, looking at her father on the kang from time to time.
"Beibei?" Tao Xiaoxi thought of this name. She never expected that a child could be so thin.
She was wearing thin clothes, and she felt indescribable heartache and couldn't bear to look at it.
But Beibei just held his mother's hand and led her to the woodshed.
"What are you doing, Beibei?" Tao Xiaoxi asked after calming down.
"I have shoes, Mom. I'll get them for you." Beibei said and went into the haystack in the corner. When he came out, he had a pair of women's cloth shoes in his hand. They were worn, and the black cloth had turned white.
Tao Xiaoxi picked the grass debris off her hair, took the shoes from her hand and tried them on, "They fit perfectly."
Beibei grinned, "These are Mom's shoes. I hid them."
Tao Xiaoxi also smiled at her, "Well done, Beibei!"
Beibei restrained her smile, leaned towards her, stared at Tao Xiaoxi with her clear blue eyes, and suddenly stopped talking.
"What's wrong?" Tao Xiaoxi was confused.
Beibei pulled Tao Xiaoxi's hand, her mouth pursed, looking very aggrieved. She raised her little face to look at her and asked cautiously, "Will Mom leave again?"
Tao Xiaoxi was stunned for a moment, then bent down and touched Beibei's head, "I'm not leaving."
"Are you really not leaving?" Beibei confirmed again. "It's okay if you want to go. Can you take Beibei with you?"
Tears welled up in the little girl's eyes. Tao Xiaoxi turned her face away and tears flowed uncontrollably.
Beibei thought that her mother would not agree, and anxiously pulled Tao Xiaoxi's hand and shook it again, "Mom, please don't leave Beibei, Beibei, be obedient, Beibei wants to follow you..." she burst into tears.
Tao Xiaoxi turned around and hugged Beibei in her arms. Her movements were a little awkward and her voice was choked. "Okay, I'll take you with me if I have to go."
Beibei finally burst into laughter, hugged Tao Xiaoxi's neck with both hands, buried her head in her chest and rubbed it hard, feeling extremely happy.
Tao Xiaoxi's maternal love was awakened at this moment.
Beibei clearly hadn't realized anything was wrong with her mother yet. For example, she wouldn't call herself "mother," and she was a little awkward when she held her. But as a five-year-old, she was deeply terrified of losing her mother. Now that her mother was back, she was overjoyed and had no time to dwell on the situation. She could sense that this person was friendly and safe, so she trusted her unconditionally.
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