The woman raised her eyes and stared at Mr. Qian, and then looked around at the other people in the room. She saw that there were men, women, young and old, pregnant women and children. They were probably a family. Then she relaxed a little and no longer resisted Mr. Qian's support. He stood up from the ground with great effort.
Mrs. Qian helped her sit down by the kang again, turned her head and glanced at the medicine in Chu Xiuxiu's hand, and said bluntly: "Xiuxiu, please put the medicine bowl aside first. I see that this girl is afraid for a moment." I won’t drink it.”
Hearing this, the woman glanced at the medicine bowl in Chu Xiuxiu's hand and said, "Thank you so much for this aunt, I don't know what you call me, and who saved me and brought me back, Lin... Qiu Yi is grateful."
Shen Luzhu walked two steps forward: "Miss Lin, my husband's surname is Chu. The person who helped you just now was my cousin. It was my younger siblings who found you in the shelter outside the yard early in the morning. They saw that you had fainted from the cold. Then he helped you into the house. Your clothes were wet and he changed them for you. The doctor from the village also came over just now and said that you were fine, but you were a little weak due to the cold air. Drink some water. Just take some decoction and rest for a while. The girl looks very unfamiliar, I don’t know where she is from, how could she faint in front of my house?"
The woman who called herself Lin Qiuyi saw Shen Luzhu standing there with a big belly, and moved slightly to the side: "Mrs. Chu, thank you for your family's help. You are inconvenient, so you should sit down first. I am indeed not from Ningchuan Mansion. Dear friends, I live in Lingnan County. This summer, there was a huge flood in Lingnan. The whole family was not able to escape. I was left alone with nowhere to go. Then I remembered a distant cousin who had lived there many years ago. I moved to Xing'an County under the jurisdiction of Ningchuan Prefecture, and then I came here to seek refuge. But who knew that I finally reached the boundary of Xing'an County, but I couldn't find the cousin. I ran out of money and had no choice but to wander around. When I walked outside the house early this morning, I was really cold and tired, so I thought about finding a place to hide from the wind. Who would have thought that something unexpected happened. Thanks to everyone's help, Qiu Yi really had nothing to repay. !」
Hearing this, Mrs. Qian became more and more sympathetic to Lin Qiuyi: "Do you know the name of your distant relative? Have you ever asked on the streets in the county, or you can go to the government to ask. Our county is very big. It’s amazing, you can’t find it on your own!”
Lin Qiuyi heard this and explained: "I only know that I married into a family named Zhang. I don't know much about the other details. I guess I couldn't find her when I went to the government office, so I didn't go."
Mr. Qian disapproved and advised: "It's winter, so you can't just walk around alone outside! What should you do if you encounter some danger or something?"
Yuan Shuang also nodded in agreement: "Yes, yes, it's a good thing that you fainted in front of my cousin-in-law's house, otherwise it would have been dangerous!"
"It's really all thanks to your family."
Shen Luzhu glanced sideways at Lin Qiuyi. Something felt wrong, but then he thought about it. If he opened his eyes and found himself in a stranger's home, it would be normal to be distrustful and wary, so he interrupted immediately. Conversation between several people in the house: "My cousin, my brothers and sisters, Miss Lin has just woken up. I'm afraid she is still very weak, so let's not disturb her! Miss Lin, this room in my house is usually unoccupied. If you I think you can stay here to rest for a while. If you need anything, just tell me."
Lin Qiuyi thought for a moment and quickly saluted and thanked everyone in the Chu family: "Then I'll trouble you all!"
"You're welcome."
After Shen Luzhu finished speaking, he took the lead to leave the west wing with the support of Chu Yi. He also said to Qian who followed him out of the west wing: "Auntie, I have been tired for a day. I will take a rest when I go back." Yes, let's ask Aunt Han to go to Auntie's house to cook dinner today, so as to save Auntie Han from having to go back to make a fire to cook dinner later. I just couldn't go to Qichan Temple today, so I had to Find another day!"
Qian waved her hands and said, "It's nothing. We're not rushing to the temple fair to join in the fun. We'll just go when we have time. I just don't know what this Miss Lin should do in the future."
Shen Luzhu didn't worry too much: "If she wants to rest at home for a while, we will treat her with courtesy. If she doesn't want to stay at home longer, then we won't stop her. But I think Miss Lin may not be here." We have stayed at home for too long."
Mr. Qian sighed after hearing this: "That's right. Everyone has his own path. Wherever we can, we can all
Now that you're done worrying about it, you've been tossing about it all day. It's still a while before you have dinner, so go and lie down and have a rest. "
Chu Yi half hugged his wife and walked towards their room: "A Zhu, do you think there is something wrong with that person?"
Shen Luzhu turned his head to look at Chu Yi, who was getting to know him better and better, and couldn't help but smile: "That's not the case. Just now I saw her talking about the flood and her whole family was wiped out, as if she was talking about other people's affairs. It's just that. Knowing that her distant relative's husband's surname was Zhang, she came all the way to our county after she moved to our county. It can be seen that she was really desperate. This family should be her last life-saving straw, but it seemed that I gave up very easily, and felt that she didn't seem to be telling the truth, but it didn't matter. It's normal for people to be defensive when they are strangers. I just don't know if I was doing the right thing by leaving her at home like this. .”
Chu Yi gently rubbed the broken hair on his wife's forehead: "Our A-Zhu is the most kind-hearted. Don't worry, even if she is bad, we are all at home and she can't do anything. I will pay more attention to her."
Shen Luzhu nodded: "With her being so defensive, I guess she won't stay at our house for too long. Maybe after she recovers some strength, she will come and say goodbye to us."
Chu Yi didn't care, he just carefully helped his wife lie down, and then covered her with a quilt: "It doesn't matter, it's important that you rest first."
He was indeed a little tired, so Shen Luzhu didn't say much. He patted the place beside him and saw Chu Yi lying down and rolling into his arms, so he closed his eyes and said, "I'll see you in my dream later. "
"Okay, see you in my dreams!"
Lin Qiuyi sat on the kang in the west wing of the Chu family. She saw the Chu family disappearing from the inner field of view one after another. After waiting for a while, she leaned towards the window again and looked around outside. She saw that no one was around and she breathed a sigh of relief. , turned around to check the clothes he had taken off and the package he was carrying. He just wanted to run away quickly, but before he could check, he saw that everything inside was still there, so he pulled up the quilt and half leaned on the kang. , while recovering his strength and making plans for the next step.
She is indeed from Lingnan County, but her real name is not Lin Qiuyi, but Lin Zhaodi, Zhaodi means "brother". She is the fifth daughter of the Lin family, but she is still not the son her parents expected. Fortunately, she In the second year after his birth, the Lin family finally welcomed their first son, and then the second son. When she was ten years old, her mother became pregnant again, but the family was so poor that they couldn't even provide for her mother's health. She had no eggs at all. At that time, several of her sisters had been sold off by her parents to get married, leaving her, who was only ten years old, to help take care of her younger brother and do housework at home.
Her father, who made a living by selling his daughter, soon took his interest in her and sold her to a man in the town for three taels of silver. Fortunately, her appearance was not outstanding. At that time, he was as thin as a bean sprout. Later, he was moved around many places, and was finally sold to the home of a wealthy businessman in the county. Fortunately, he was chosen by the old lady of the house, who stayed by his side to serve him personally and gave him a gift. Her name is Qiu Yi.
Although it was just a job to serve people, in her eyes, it was better than being sold to a place like a farmhouse, or being married to some wealthy family as a mistress.
During those years, she never stopped thinking about how to save enough money to redeem herself as soon as possible, change her original name to Lin Zhaodi, and return to the Lin family that she cherished so much, but redeeming herself was not as easy as she thought. It has been like this until this year. The old lady in the house passed away, and these maids were released from the house one by one by the master, in accordance with the old lady's last words, after paying back the deeds of selling themselves. This year, she was already twenty-nine years old, and they were sold out of the house for a whole year. Nineteen years.
The moment she was released from the house, she had only one thought, and that was to go home. Her home was in a small village below Lingnan County. She had also returned home to visit relatives in the past nineteen years, but this time she completely After realizing the true face of her family, all that greeted her was calculation and exploitation, and nothing else was left. If she hadn't heard her parents discussing with her brother and sister-in-law that night, saying that she must have a lot of money on her body over the years, He plotted how to stun her and sell her again, and he contacted the trap before she got home!
Now she probably doesn't know where she was sold for a few taels of silver again. So she pretended not to know, and the next night, after everyone fell asleep, she took all her
He wanted to escape from the Lin family's property, but as soon as he left the yard, his whereabouts were discovered.
The pursuit of the Lin family and that man forced her to completely escape Lingnan County, where she had lived for nearly thirty years, and headed north to a place called Xing'an County. She encountered many critical situations along the way. With the guy with a human face and an animal heart, he realized that she was not as important to her family as a few taels of silver. No matter whether they would really be hungry and cold because of these few taels of silver, they also knew that no matter whether she was beautiful or not, in the eyes of some people, Here, as long as she is a woman, she can be exchanged for money!
So she no longer took the main roads in the town or county, but chose a place in the countryside. She dressed up like a beggar on the run and slept in the open air aimlessly with her back to her home, not daring to stop for a moment. The ground goes further and further away.
Lin Qiuyi tried a few more times in the room and found that she was really weak. She could only hold on to the edge of the kang and walk a few steps on the ground. Now she had no way to continue on her way and could only find a way to recover as soon as possible. , how to make other plans in the future.
Lin Qiuyi stared at the already cold decoction that Chu Xiuxiu had put aside. She hesitated again and again, and finally picked it up and drank it all in one gulp. Then she wrapped herself in a quilt and nestled on the very warm kang, tired. He closed his eyes.
In the dream, she returned to the scene when she first met the Chu family. Mrs. Chu asked her identity again. She said her name was Lin Qiuyi, not Lin Zhaodi.
The name she once wanted to be called the most has now become a nightmare that she has to escape until death. The name she once wanted to be called the most has become herself in the future!
