The Wang family has lost another daughter?
That very evening, the news spread throughout Ning'an Village.
It's snowing now, and all we can do is stay home and warm ourselves by the fire, except for some work near the village.
This lively scene quickly became the main topic of conversation among everyone.
"Really? The Wang family has already lost four or five daughters, and now they've kept another one. It's not surprising at all." When the women in the village talked about this, their lips were pursed, not because they were happy, but because they despised and looked down on Zhao Chunniang.
These women are all mothers. Even if they like their sons more than their daughters, their daughters are still their own flesh and blood. How can they just throw them away like Zhao Chunniang?
I really don't know how cruel one must be to do something like this.
"Sigh!" The person next to him grabbed a handful of peanuts and said while eating, "But I haven't heard anything about Zhao Chunniang getting pregnant lately. The original girl was lost a long time ago, so where would she get a girl now?"
"That's right!" The person eating sunflower seeds became even more curious. "Then whose daughter was it that went missing?"
These words immediately aroused the curiosity of the villagers.
Isn't that exactly the case?
These people knew everything about the village, but none of them had ever heard that Zhao Chunniang was pregnant.
I've never seen her with a pregnant belly, how could she have given birth to a girl in just two or three days?
Then someone immediately grinned and pointed, saying, "You guys don't know this, do you? The girl who got lost this time isn't Zhao Chunniang's biological daughter. Wang Dazhu picked her up on the way back from his aunt's house on his way to the county town!"
"I heard that little brat might have eaten all their food, and now nobody knows where she is... It's driving her and her husband crazy with worry!"
"If you ask me, these two are just reaping what they sowed! They didn't raise their own daughters, but instead raised someone else's daughters. They deserved to have their food eaten up!"
The villagers laughed and joked for a while, but upon closer examination, no one really noticed the unfamiliar girl.
The girl seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth in an instant.
Zhao Chunniang was so anxious and agitated that she almost scratched her husband Wang Dazhu's face raw.
He muttered angrily, "That damned brat! She ate so much of our food, and now she's all gone! It's snowing everywhere, it's freezing cold, I'd like to see where she can run to! If she dares to run out, she'll freeze to death sooner or later!"
Despite her fierce scolding, Zhao Chunniang had no choice but to open the granary and exchange some of her rice with her neighbor for a few kilograms of rice to eat.
After all, her son, Wang Hu, was still starving and crying for food.
After eating and drinking his fill, Wang Hu only had time to remind his father, Wang Dazhu, to buy him roast chicken the next day. He didn't care about anything else and went off to play again.
It wasn't until evening that this happened.
Zhao Chunniang's face fell, but she still finished preparing the meal.
"Knock knock knock".
"Knock knock knock".
The Wang family picked up their chopsticks, ready to eat, when they heard a knocking sound at the door.
"Who is it?" Wang Dazhu asked in surprise. "Who would be so inconsiderate as to come to our house at this time?"
These days, anyone with a modicum of manners wouldn't knock on the door when someone is eating.
Food is precious, and others are unwilling to share it with outsiders.
But if outsiders were to see it, it would make the host appear rude.
The knocking on the door never stopped, continuing to 'thump, thump, thump,' which was getting increasingly annoying.
"Tsk!" Wang Dazhu put down his chopsticks helplessly.
As soon as he opened the door, he was blown back two steps by the cold wind that rushed towards him.
He stopped, looked ahead, and saw a blanket of white snow outside the door. The little girl had actually come back!
"..." Wang Dazhu's face immediately turned cold.
This little brat ate so much of their food for nothing, then suddenly disappeared, and now she's suddenly back while they're eating at their house!
"Dazhu, who is it? Why haven't you come back yet?" Zhao Chunniang walked over carrying a bowl.
She was startled when she saw the skinny little girl at the door.
"Mother, I'm hungry." The little girl saw her and her dark eyes darted around.
"You..." Zhao Chunniang felt uneasy under her gaze and quickly stuffed the two bowls of rice she was holding into the little girl's hand: "You eat, you eat..."
The little girl had no idea what politeness meant; she took the bowl and started eating heartily.
Not content with just one bowl, he sat down at the table and devoured all the food on it.
"This is mine!" Wang Hu exclaimed anxiously, stuffing food into his mouth as he said urgently, "Leave some for me! Leave some vegetables for me... I don't want you as my sister anymore, you're bad. You're ugly and eat a lot, I don't like you! Go away!"
"Smack smack..." The little girl still didn't say anything, just kept eating.
Wang Dazhu asked Zhao Chunniang unhappily, "What are you doing? She's already eaten so much today, and you still want her to sit at the table? Do you want her to finish all the food in our house?"
Zhao Chunniang didn't say anything, but just held his hand, her eyes constantly falling on the little girl.
When that little girl took the bowl and chopsticks, Zhao Chunniang accidentally touched her skin, and it was icy cold, clearly different from a normal person's!
She was staring intently at the little girl, but just like at noon, in the blink of an eye, the little girl seemed to have vanished.
Zhao Chunniang, still somewhat shaken, said to Wang Dazhu, "I think you're right... that little girl really does seem different from others, huh? Could she really be a fairy? How could she just disappear like that?"
Their door was still properly closed.
The little girl was only four or five years old and couldn't open the door bolt at all.
"You... what did I tell you?" Although Wang Dazhu also felt a little creeped out by the girl's sudden disappearance, he still held onto a sliver of hope.
He was feeling dizzy and a little scared, but also had a kind of joy at having been hit by something good.
Could it be that she really picked up a little fairy like that girl from the Lin family?
The ability to appear and disappear suddenly is clearly not something an ordinary child could possess.
Will their family be able to live the same good life as the Lin family?
“But…” He was still a little unhappy, and lowered his voice: “But which deity can eat so much? Our family might not be able to afford to feed this little deity…”
Zhao Chunniang poked his head with her finger: "What kind of brain do you have? If our family could really live like the Lin family, let alone raising one child, even if we raised... two more! Our family could afford it."
She originally meant that she could afford to raise ten.
Given the Lin family's lifestyle, even if they could afford it, she wouldn't want to raise ten little girls who could eat so much.
Besides, what's the use of just making money if you can't help her with chores?
Zhao Chunniang felt unhappy just thinking about it.
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