Chen Tan's puzzled gaze lingered on the black dog for a while longer.
The black dog glanced at her warily, then lowered its head and continued to sleep.
In the middle of the yard, a middle-aged woman with short hair was massaging the legs of an old lady. When she saw her come out, she stood up and walked over.
"Hey, Cauliflower, why are you up? You're badly injured, lie down quickly."
The woman looked to be in her forties, and her skinny face was full of heartache and anxiety.
Chen Tan looked through the original owner's memory and found the information of this woman, who was Wei Xiao's mother, Wu Xia.
She smiled faintly and replied, "Thank you, Aunt Wu. I'm fine."
The old lady was sitting on a wooden chair, wearing a blue jacket with a slanting front. Her silver hair was all combed back and pinned into a bun with a black wooden hairpin.
There are many wrinkles on his face, but his eyebrows and eyes are straight and his demeanor is calm.
I think she was also a beautiful woman when she was young.
She couldn't see Chen Tan's face clearly, and with her trembling right hand she took out a pair of brown glasses and put them on.
"Girl, since you've come to my house, you're a member of the Qin family. As long as you're not like your parents, Qin Li and I will treat you well."
She is Qin Li's aunt Qin Qiuniang, who was sold to a wealthy family as a maid by her parents when she was young.
Until six years ago, she returned to the village alone and adopted Qin Li, the fourth son of her eldest nephew Qin Youtian, to take care of her in her old age.
After that, the two built a house on the hillside behind the village and rarely interacted with outsiders.
The original owner had only met her a few times in his life when he went to the back mountain of Dongwa Village to collect firewood.
Looking at her kind face and thinking about the fifty dollars that they had not taken away, Chen Tan knew that he had made the right bet.
Staying in the Qin family is definitely better than staying in the Shen family.
She came to the old lady and said solemnly, "Grandma Qin, you and Brother Qin saved me from the Shen family. I won't say those empty words.
Just watch what I do, and if I ever do anything that shows the bad habits of the Shen family, you can let Brother Qin punish me."
Seeing that her eyes were sincere and honest, without any flicker of fear or timidity, the old lady nodded with satisfaction.
"Well, let's do as you say. If you dare not abide by the rules of my Qin family, I will let Qin Li send you back and ask your parents to pay back the money twice."
Chen Tan knew that she was scolding him because the Shen family members were such bad people.
She responded loudly: "Okay, I won't let Grandma and Brother Qin down."
"Tsk tsk, this old Shen family is really good at producing good bamboo shoots from bad bamboo. Cauliflower, who usually doesn't make a sound, is better than that family."
Wu Xia said with a smile, holding Chen Tan's arm, "Your thigh flesh is turned outwards, you can't stand like this all the time."
"Come in and lie down." Qin Qiuniang looked at her dignifiedly, then looked at Wu Xia, "Auntie, please make her a bowl of egg tea."
"Okay."
Wu Xia supported Chen Tan back into the house and took out three white-shelled eggs from the jar on the second shelf on the wall. "Don't fall asleep, I'll be there soon."
"Well, sorry to bother you, auntie."
Chen Tan nodded and continued to lie on the warm kang.
Suddenly, she found a golden lotus appearing in her consciousness.
The golden lotus floated in the air, and below it was a vast expanse of white, like an endless white tiled floor, with no end in sight.
"Does this golden lotus look like the peace locket that the master sold me?"
The weekend before the time travel, she and her friends went to a famous temple and met an old monk.
The old monk stopped her and said that she was destined to face a life-or-death catastrophe, and asked her to buy his Golden Lotus Peace Buckle, which could help her be reborn like Nezha.
She didn't believe in fate, but she still paid a hundred dollars to buy it, and it actually came true.
"Um?"
She found that the golden lotus in her consciousness was slowly unfolding.
In the center of the lotus heart is not a lotus pod, but a pool of clear and transparent spring water.
After about a minute, the golden lotus grew to the size of a square and stopped growing.
The water in the lotus heart was half a cubic meter, sparkling but not overflowing.
"This must be the spiritual spring space required for traveling through time!"
The smile on Chen Tan's lips deepened.
That was a hundred dollars well spent!
"Knock knock"
The door opened and Wu Xia brought in a large bowl. "Cauliflower, lean against the wall and I'll feed you."
"Auntie, I can eat by myself."
Chen Tan turned over and sat up, taking the bowl.
Three poached eggs are floating in the red sugar water.
Chen Tan swallowed a stream of saliva out of his body's instinctive reaction.
In the original owner's memory, eggs were such a precious food that she didn't even have the right to take a look at them.
She picked up the bowl and started eating.
Now the important thing is to take good care of your health.
"Eat slowly, don't choke," Wu Xia looked at her, feeling even more distressed. "I washed all your old clothes for you. I've put the money next to your pillow. Remember to put it away."
"Okay, auntie, thank you."
Chen Tan looked at this kind woman and his guard against her receded a little.
"Why are you being so polite to your aunt?"
Wu Xia lovingly tidied up Chen Tan's messy, dry, short hair.
"Qin Li is a man who is cold on the outside but warm on the inside. You can stay here and take care of him and the old lady. He won't treat you unfairly."
Chen Tan roughly guessed the reason why Qin Li paid a high price to marry a wife.
He was the one who took care of his aunt when she was still able to walk.
Now his aunt's legs can't move. Although he is filial, he is a man and has to work, so he can't take care of everything.
The times are special now, and ordinary people don't have the luxury of hiring servants.
If he wanted to find someone to take care of his aunt, the only way was to get married.
This was exactly what she wanted, as she and he each got what they needed.
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