Wen Yuan thought that her real name couldn't be used in this place, so she made up one casually, "My name is Yunyi."
"Yunyi, what a good name. What about your man? What's his name?"
"His name is Li Ergou. You can just call him Ergou."
Ergou Ergou, this name really doesn't match a woman's name. The person who just asked Wen Yuan's name laughed out loud thinking about this question.
It was hard to resist this woman's kindness, so Wen Yuan could only leave the matters in his hands to her.
Since the house was not big and there were not many things, it was quickly sorted out, but seeing as it was already dinner time, Wen Yuan had not arrived yet and was in a hurry.
Seeing that the two of them had no food to eat, the woman quickly invited them to her home, "It's so late at night. If you want fresh food, you don't know how long it will take. Come to my house. Come to my house to deal with it."
Wen Yuan was a little embarrassed, but she was indeed hungry now. It happened that Wen Yuan's stomach growled at this time, and the gurgling sound made her cheeks turn red in front of the woman, "I'm really hungry, by the way, eldest sister." What should I call you?"
"Just call me Sister Chun. My name is Lin Chunfeng. I am an ordinary peasant woman here. If you need anything in the future, you can come to me."
Sister Chun helped Wen Yuan back home. At this time, the hot meal had just been put on the table. She introduced her family to Wen Yuan, "This is my man named Shunfu, my eldest son Shuanzi, and my youngest son Qiang." Son. Wait a minute and I will find you a mat."
"Don't bother Sister Chun, I'm not that squeamish." Wen Yuan quickly stopped Sister Chun, but this eldest sister was so enthusiastic that Wen Yuan could not refuse.
Wen Yuan sat down on the cushioned stool with embarrassment. Looking at the table of meager meals, Wen Yuan felt a little unappetite.
I have been accustomed to a refined life since I was a child, and I really can't accept such ordinary meals for a while.
What's more, Wen Yuan and her eldest sister's family have different eating habits. They eat corn flour steamed buns at night, and Wen Yuan likes to eat rice.
Picking up a steamed bun, Wen Yuan stuffed it into his mouth with some difficulty. After chewing it for a while, he found that it tasted good, and it tasted even better with pickles.
"Is it delicious?" Sister Chun looked at Wen Yuan excitedly.
Wen Yuan nodded sheepishly, "It's delicious."
"That's good. We don't have much to eat here. Basically, every family just eats these steamed buns. My family is pretty good."
After eating, the eldest sister wanted to stay with Wen Yuan to chat for a while. Wen Yuan had no choice but to let Shen Huaiyan go back first and stay at the eldest sister's house to talk to her.
"Yunyi, why did you think of coming to this place? Not only are we poor here, there are many older men in the village. You have to be careful here."
Wen Yuan was a little confused when she heard the eldest sister's words. Is she reminding herself of something?
But in order to hide it well, Wen Yuan could only continue to deceive her eldest sister with lies, "My family's life was pretty good originally, but then my father was cheated and the family property was sold off to pay off debts, but it was still a little short of it. I couldn't pay it back, so I had to take it with me." My husband has been hiding here for a while."
Hearing this, the eldest sister sympathized with Wen Yuan's experience, "So that's it. Alas, you should never have come to this village. Fortunately, you didn't stay long. Let me tell you, there are some people in this village. Man, is that really..." At this point, the eldest sister winked at Wen Yuan and shook her head, "Anyway, be careful, don't come out after dark, stay in your own room."
Wen Yuan still doesn't know what the elder sister said specifically, but she has always been more persuasive, "Okay, Sister Chun, I understand. I will pay attention."
After speaking, the eldest sister sent Wen Yuan home.
The house the two live in is very small, with only a bed and a basic table and chairs.
Wen Yuan had to sleep with Shen Huaiyan, but the man would not do anything without Wen Yuan's permission, not to mention that Wen Yuan was pregnant now and couldn't do anything he wanted to do.
The two felt warm next to each other, and it didn't take long for Wen Yuan to fall asleep.
Shen Huaiyan sat against the wall without falling asleep. In order to let Wen Yuan sleep well, he put out the oil lamp. After a while, he heard rustling sounds outside, which seemed to be two men.
There were indeed two men outside the house, and I didn't know what they wanted to do.
Shen Huaiyan could hear what they were saying even without using magic, the sound was still quite loud.
"Although this little girl looks average, she is still young and must be better than those old ladies in the village."
"Please keep your voice down so that you don't hear it from inside. Besides, her husband doesn't seem to be easy to mess with."
"What's the matter? He's so thin and looks like a tuberculosis man. What's there to be afraid of?"
Shen Huaiyan listened for a while and figured out the two people's intentions. Fortunately, they didn't make any moves tonight. It seemed that they were just here to step in.
Wen Yuan woke up early the next morning. She looked at Shen Huaiyan who was in low spirits and guessed that he hadn't slept all night. "What's wrong with you? Why do you look like this?"
"Last night after you fell asleep, I put out the oil lamp, and two men appeared outside our house to discuss something, saying that you must be younger than old women..."
After listening to the man's words, Wen Yuan now understood the meaning of what Sister Chun said yesterday. It turned out to be this.
It’s true that poor people come out of poverty. Everyone in the village got up early, and soon Sister Chun also went out.
When she saw Wen Yuan working in the yard, she went up to say hello, "Yunyi, what are you doing so early?"
"Nothing, just doing some small work that I didn't finish yesterday. Sister, what are you going to do?"
"I'll go to the fields to pick some vegetables to eat."
Wen Yuan grabbed Sister Chun who was about to leave, "That eldest sister... I met her at night when you told me yesterday. My man told me that there were two people hanging around outside my house last night."
The eldest sister became alert. She supported Wen Yuan and asked her to go back to the house first. "Wait until I pick the vegetables and I will tell you. Is your man at home?"
"Here I am."
"That's okay, don't come out. I'll come and find you later."
After waiting for about a stick of incense, Sister Chun arrived at the place where Wen and Yuan lived.
She looked at the furnishings inside and kept shaking her head and sighing, "Your door is not strong enough, and you must put something for self-defense at home. Judging from what you just told me, you must be being targeted."
"Being targeted? What am I being targeted for?" Wen Yuan looked very scared, but she was pretending.
Sister Chun sighed and continued: "Those men with ill intentions, there are four men in our village who have always been quite indifferent, specializing in dealing with those women who have temporarily settled in the village, but we are still There’s no way to get them out.”
"Why? Since they can do such a thing, why can't they be driven out?"
"Two of them are the sons of the village chief. There is nothing we can do. We can't get out. There is no way to survive if we leave this place."
Wen Yuan felt a little uncomfortable listening to her words, "Why is this so..." She didn't investigate these things clearly when she came, otherwise she wouldn't have come at all.
"Tell your men to be careful. They like to deal with men first and then occupy women."
That night, Wen Yuan specially caught a few snakes and placed them outside the window. Although she hid the evil spirit, snakes, spiritual animals, could still sense the power in her body, so they listened to Wen Yuan very much. if.
As expected, the two men came again, but this time they were startled by the snakes on the window just as they wanted to take a closer look, and one of them was bitten on the nose.
Unfortunately, the snake that bit him happened to be a highly venomous snake, and the man did not survive the next day.
On the second day, news spread throughout the village that the man had died tragically overnight.
The barefoot doctor in the village examined the body and found that the man died from snake venom and was bitten on the nose. This caused the man's face to be swollen like a pig's head when he died.
"It's strange. In this weather, the snake that bit him wouldn't appear. Do you know where he was bitten?"
"I don't know." Another person who was with the man last night immediately denied it.
The barefoot doctor felt even weirder when he heard this, "It's really weird, so strange. Could it be that the snake got into bed at night and was bitten?"
In short, the man's death was revealed in a hasty manner. After this incident, it was quiet outside Wen Yuan's house for a while.
The man's death brought rare silence to the village. "They haven't been guarding outside your house recently, have they?"
"I haven't been here since that man was bitten to death. Sister Chun, let me tell you one thing. Don't tell anyone else."
"What are you talking about? Don't you know what my eldest sister is like? She's famously strict in every corner of the country."
Wen Yuan said nonchalantly while choosing vegetables: "Actually, I caught that snake and put it outside my window. I learned some snake control techniques from my father."
"You girl, are you so brave? Aren't you afraid that you will be found?"
"What are you afraid of? It's a snake bite. And I'm sure they don't dare to tell anyone about what happened at night."
Sister Chun didn't say anything after hearing this. She chose the dishes in silence for a while and then saw the village chief's son walking this way and quickly took Wen Yuan back to the house.
Unexpectedly, he was stopped by the man. He looked at Wen Yuan greedily and wanted to say something. At this time, Sister Chun's husband came back, "Hey, what are you doing, second brother?"
In the village, both the old and the young call the village chief's two good-for-nothing sons eldest brother and second brother.
"It's nothing, I just wanted to come and talk to this woman. By the way, what's your name? You've been here for a few days, and we still don't know you."
Wen Yuan frowned and said displeasedly: "Yun Yi."
"Yunyi, what a good name. I'll leave today. I believe we will meet again soon."
Wen Yuan didn't want to have too much entanglement with this kind of person, so he said hello to Sister Chun and left.
After she left, the man became obviously more aggressive with Sister Chun's actions. He touched Wen Yuan's face unscrupulously, "Tell me, did you say something to her?"
