However, on her planet, all actions can be connected through the optical brain VR, and anything can be achieved by the optical brain, so activities such as shopping are no longer popular.
“Chirp, chirp, chirp.”
A burst of bird calls attracted Xu Xingchen's attention. There were actually birds in the middle of winter?
There were so many people watching that they formed a wall. She jumped up and down to look through the various heads. As she jumped, she saw an old man with a white beard setting up a stall. A wooden mechanical bird was jumping up and down flexibly, and the old man was carving something in his hand.
When she wanted to squeeze through the crowd and get closer to take a look, someone patted her on the back. She looked back in confusion.
"Sister Xu, it's you. I wasn't mistaken!" The person who took the photo of her looked excited.
——It turned out to be Zhang Xiaochun, his face flushed, maybe because of the high altitude red or because of his excitement at seeing Xu Xingchen. He was carrying a bamboo basket with a few paper packages in it.
Xu Xingchen's good mood cooled instantly. Zhang Xiaochun seemed not to notice the change in her aura. He put his arm around her affectionately and started chattering.
"Sister Xu, are you here for the market? What a coincidence, me too."
Xu Xingchen curled the corners of his mouth and put on a forced smile. You know it, yet you still ask?
"Sister Xu, are you still angry? My mother already taught me a lesson last night, and I already know I was wrong."
Zhang Xiaochun pouted and pulled her arm, shaking it in a coquettish manner.
Xu Xingchen didn't comment and just let it go in one ear and out the other.
Zhang Xiaochun, however, seemed to be completely clueless and didn't care about her coldness at all. "My mother told me to buy some delicious food at the market today so I can apologize to you later. I never expected to run into Sister Xu by chance."
Xu Xingchen was annoyed by Zhang Xiaochun's constant calling of "Sister Xu". She pulled her arm away from Zhang Xiaochun and walked in the opposite direction.
After she pulled out her arm, Zhang Xiaochun's face immediately became gloomy. He looked at Xu Xingchen's back and raised his chin to the right rear, and a corner of his coarse cloth flashed by.
She put away the gloom on her face and put on an innocent and lively look as she caught up with Xu Xingchen.
"Sister Xu, wait for me, let's go shopping together."
......
Zhang Xiaochun chattered along with her all the way without stopping.
The person involved did not respond at all, but instead made Zhang Xiaochun's mouth dry and his throat sore.
Xu Xingchen was also tormented by her noise, but she didn't want to pay attention and just silently quickened her pace.
Seeing that talking was useless, Zhang Xiaochun changed her strategy and shouted that she wanted to buy things, trying to lead her to the corresponding stall, but she miscalculated again.
Xu Xingchen was not like other villagers who went straight to buy what she needed. She walked around and stopped to actually "browse" the market. Researchers just wanted to explore and get a sense of novelty, and put everything else aside.
After walking around most of the market, Zhang Xiaochun became a little anxious. The owner of the coarse cloth clothes not far away was shaking his legs impatiently, and the invisible urging made Zhang Xiaochun feel very irritated.
She cursed in her heart, what a fool Zhang Tiansheng is. It's not like she hasn't experienced how difficult it is for Widow Xu to deal with him. If he has the ability, he can do it himself. While cursing in her heart, her thoughts can't help but go back to last night.
In fact, Zhang Xiaochun's "chance encounter" with Xu Xingchen was premeditated.
Yesterday, after Aunt Wang took Zhang Tiansheng back home after his bones were straightened, Zhang Tiansheng was still holding his arm and crying out in pain, which made Aunt Wang very distressed. She kept saying "my son" and trying to comfort him with all kinds of nice words.
"Bang, bang, bang."
“Who is it?”
There was a knock on the door. Aunt Wang, who was worried about Zhang Tiansheng, responded impatiently and went to open the door. When she opened the door, she saw Zhang standing at the door, sobbing and holding Zhang Xiaochun.
"Sister-in-law, what's wrong with you? Ouch, what's wrong with your face? Come in quickly and tell me."
Aunt Wang wanted to complain a few words, but when Zhang wiped her tears, her red and swollen cheeks were exposed. Her eyelids twitched and she quickly led the person into the house.
After entering the house, the slap marks on Zhang's face became clearer under the candlelight. Aunt Wang immediately scolded her, "Don't cry, sister-in-law. I'll go and scold Erzhu tomorrow."
Aunt Wang's younger brother Zhang Erzhu has been beating his wife for a long time, but he has never hit her on such an obvious part of the face. In the countryside, no man would beat his wife, and women would endure it in order to make a living.
Zhang just shed tears and shook her head silently. Aunt Wang saw that Zhang couldn't get any more information out of her, so she turned to Zhang Xiaochun and asked, "Xiaochun, was your mother beaten by your father?"
Zhang Xiaochun lost face today and looked like he had lost his soul. No one could get any information from him.
Seeing the two of them in such a state, Aunt Wang felt so disappointed. She thought that her husband had passed away and she had raised Zhang Tiansheng alone. She had suffered all kinds of humiliation. How could a widow Xu bring their family to this state?
After all, she still felt sorry for her younger brother Zhang Erzhu. Her brother had lost face in the village because of Zhang Xiaochun, but her sister-in-law was only slapped in the face, which was not a big deal.
"Don't cry, Xiaochun. Auntie wants to ask you if you want to avenge the humiliation you suffered today."
When the word "revenge" came out, Zhang Xiaochun's eyes moved. Aunt Wang secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Xiaochun still had some potential. She secretly guided him, "There are many bachelors in our village."
Zhang Xiaochun suddenly had an idea and said, "Aunt Wang...?"
Zhang was just crying and had no idea what they were talking about. Aunt Wang always disliked Zhang's stupidity and cowardice, but fortunately Zhang Xiaochun had some brains, unlike her mother who was stupid and cowardly.
Zhang Xiaochun came back to his senses from his memories and looked to the right rear again. Zhang Tiansheng had his right arm hanging down, and three or four strong men were following him.
With Aunt Wang's advice, she and Zhang Tiansheng discussed a plan. They wanted to shame Widow Xu and make her unable to hold her head up in the village. The key to making her unable to hold her head up was a woman's chastity.
Zhang Tiansheng called several strong bachelors in the village and told them that Zhang Xiaochun was his brother. At first, when she saw these three strong men, she was very puzzled. Zhang Tiansheng standing next to them was like a bean sprout sandwiched in fat, so how could she be Zhang Tiansheng's brother?
Zhang Tiansheng waved to her from a distance, signaling her to come over. Zhang Xiaochun looked at Xu Xingchen's back, bit her lip, and quietly blended into the crowd to meet up with Zhang Tiansheng.
When she came over, Zhang Tiansheng raised his hand and pushed her, shouting with spit flying: "Zhang Xiaochun, can you do this? I called all my brothers here, and you have been beating around the bush for a long time. How can we do it?"
Zhang Xiaochun felt pain, suppressed his dissatisfaction, rubbed his shoulders and replied timidly, "It's not my fault. Widow Xu never goes to those places... No, no, how about we try another way?"
She was halfway through her words when the burly man next to Zhang Tiansheng glared at her. The murderous look in his eyes scared her so much that she changed the subject.
Zhang Tiansheng tucked his tongue, glanced up at Xu Xingchen's figure in the distance, turned his head and spat, "Alright, what do you say? If you make these good brothers wait too long, they'll kill you before they kill Widow Xu. Got it?"
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