I tossed and turned, and all I could think of was the two of them fighting. I slapped my head to try to wake myself up, but my mind was still a mess. Since I couldn't wake up, I might as well go and watch the fun.
Thinking of this, she tiptoed over. She didn't know why the two of them started arguing after their previous intimacy. She vaguely heard her own name. When she got closer, she saw clearly that the man facing Tian Xiaolan was Chen Dong, the protagonist who eloped with her by the river today.
Wang Juan impatiently shook off their clasped hands and scolded Chen Dong: "Didn't you say you could get rid of her? Why is she still in the village? Are you heartbroken? Is she as pretty as me? If you dare to have other women behind my back, I'll ask my dad to drive you to the pig farm to feed the pigs."
It sounds nice to call it a pig farm, but in fact it only has a sow and a few piglets. The smell alone can spread for miles, not to mention living with the pigs, you won’t get any benefits at all.
"Today was an accident. I'm not soft-hearted. Didn't you see the scene? She had the guts to beat up her parents in front of so many people. If I went up to her, do you believe she could have knocked me down with just one punch?"
Wang Juan didn't want to listen to his explanation and turned her head away without looking at him.
"You coward, are you still a man? What are you afraid of? How could she hit you if she likes you? You have a pig brain! If you say a few nice words to her, she will be obedient."
Tian Xiaolan wondered if the original owner had offended this woman whose facial features were squeezed together. She found that the two people couldn't see her, so she walked closer and started to fight. It would have been better if she had two handfuls of melon seeds in her hands at this time.
Chen Dong pinched his palm hard, his face turned blue, and he looked at her with a fake smile: "I'm not sure if she saw me pushing her. She is at Aunt Guihua's house now. She has a dog at home. How can I find her?"
"You can't even do anything right. You're so clumsy. You should do things by yourself and don't forget what you promised me." Wang Juan curled her lips at his cowardly look, got up from the ground, patted her butt, and walked away like a penguin.
After a few seconds of silence, Chengdong didn't know how to defend himself, and finally just said: "I understand."
Chen Dong never believed in ghosts and gods, only in himself. He didn't understand why he originally wanted to sell Tian Xiaolan to a human trafficker, but she ran to the river and he accidentally pushed her into the river when he tried to catch her...
After watching the show, before she could sort out the conversation between the two, she smelled a fragrance that woke her up.
I opened my eyes and looked at the thatched roof above my head. My mouth felt a little dry, so I picked up the peony-patterned enamel cup and took a big sip. The warm water was very comfortable.
Seeing her sit up, Aunt Guihua felt her forehead for a moment and found that it was about the same temperature as her own. She turned around and took out a flower-collared coat from a rectangular wooden box and put it on her back.
"Are you awake? Are you starving? Get up and eat."
Tian Xiaolan stretched lazily and smiled, "Sleeping on the bed at home is still more comfortable. Auntie, you must have fried it. I'm overwhelmed by the aroma."
"You good eater, put your shoes on."
After putting on clothes and shoes, there were several dishes on the table in the main hall, including egg soup, wild vegetable and multi-grain cakes, and an enamel basin filled with sweet potato porridge.
Looking at all the dishes, Tian Xiaolan was asked to sit down and eat. She picked up the chopsticks and ate the dishes without hesitation.
Next to her seat was a simple man of about seventeen or eighteen years old, Aunt Guihua's son Li Weimin, who frowned and moved a few centimeters to the side.
Guihua and Li Weihua looked at each other, and only felt relieved when they saw that the child was eating and drinking well, and started to eat.
"Eat more. You're so skinny, like a stick. If you don't know, you'd think someone abused you."
As Guihua said this, she picked up the only egg pancake on the plate and handed it to Tian Xiaolan's bowl, telling her to eat it quickly.
Their family is not rich. There are more than four mouths to feed, and one of them is studying in high school away from home. The eggs laid by the hens at home have to be exchanged for money to make ends meet.
"Thank you, Auntie. You eat too." He cut the egg pancake in the bowl into four pieces with his hands and put them in their bowls. He looked at them with a smile, "Uncle Weiguo's teaching at school is very demanding, so he must eat. Aunt Guihua and Brother Weimin also need to supplement their nutrition while working in the fields, so they should eat too."
Wei Min pursed his lips, and in the blink of an eye, a small piece of egg pancake appeared in his bowl.
She used to be silly and always did stupid things, how come she suddenly became good? The rumors outside were all weird, so Wei Min could only observe for a while.
Aunt Guihua and Uncle Weimin ate the cakes with a smile, feeling that they still had a conscience in bringing this child with them, unlike the captain's daughter who only cared about herself when eating.
After Wei Min finished a bowl of rice, Tian Xiaolan gave him another bowl. They all finished eating and there was nothing left on the table. Wei Min, a young man, had a big appetite and swept away all the remaining dishes. He touched his stomach and felt that he was only half full.
After dinner, Aunt Guihua took the dishes to the kitchen to wash.
At night, Tian Xiaolan was so hungry that she tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. Not only was she there, but there was also a sound mixed with the rising and falling sounds, accompanied by the chirping of cicadas, like a symphony.
Late at night, Tian Xiaolan found herself feeling hot all over and dizzy.
When Aunt Guihua went to the toilet, she was shocked and her face turned red like an apple. She hurriedly called Wei Min to get some wine and used the folk method of rubbing her limbs with white wine to cool her down.
After being busy for half the night, her body temperature finally dropped a little bit. Guihua calmed down and went to bed to take a nap.
After a night, Tian Xiaolan felt better. With nothing to do, she got up and went to the inner room to clean up. There was a dull musty smell in the room, and a few mushrooms grew on the cold and dark wall.
At the very back was the bed. There weren't many things in the room, just a few cabinets and the bed. The quilt smelled a bit musty, and the pillowcase was wrinkled and yellowed. She took off the sheets and replaced them with new ones, and the pillowcase also needed to be washed. The quilt could only be dried in the sun on a good day.
In less than a quarter of an hour, she had tidied up the inner room. She found a large basin behind the door, put the changed bedding into the basin, and took a bucket of water from the kitchen to wash the clothes.
Wei Min looked at her busy figure and was a little confused. She had just fallen into the water yesterday, and she was so energetic early in the morning.
Guihua was cooking in the kitchen and Weiguo was making a fire. Seeing Xiaolan busying around and Weimin sitting on a stool waiting for dinner, he became very angry.
"Li Weimin, you're the boss of this family, should we worship you? You're blind, why don't you go help your sister?"
"Okay, I'll go right away."
He took the bucket from Tian Xiaolan's hand, scooped water from the water tank and poured it into the bucket. He stopped only when the bucket was full, picked up the bucket with one hand and walked out.
He poured all the water into the basin and looked down at Tian Xiaolan: "You wash it. If there is not enough water, tell me."
"Okay, thank you, brother. Please go get another bucket."
Tian Xiaolan said rudely while soaking the bed sheet with her hands.
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