In his sleep, a huge hand suddenly pinched Zheng Quchi's neck from the black mist.
A violent and ferocious voice struck her ears: "It's time to pay back what you owe me!"
ah--
Zheng Quchi opened his eyes suddenly, waking up from his sleep.
There is lingering fear in my heart.
She quickly touched her neck.
Okay, okay, just a nightmare.
Although the man whose face he couldn't see clearly in the dream was scary, it was by no means an ominous sign. At most, it was just something he thought about every day and dreamed about at night.
She patted her pounding heart and comforted herself.
Seeing that it was already getting slightly brighter, Zheng Quchi couldn't sleep anyway, so she stood up carefully without waking Brother Sang and Yaomei Sang.
She was going to draw the architectural drawings of the house she had imagined in her mind, but found that this was not a camp, and there were no valuables like rice paper, pen and ink for her to squander.
The word "poor" really made her understand.
She could only imitate primitive people, first find a flat stone, use charcoal to design the structure of the house on it, and record the data.
She has long been a mature designer, and she can handle such uncomplicated residential drawings with her eyes closed.
Not long after, Brother Sang put on his coat and found it.
When he saw Zheng Quchi squatting on the ground writing and drawing, he relaxed and closed his fly: "Why are you up? It's very cold in the morning, what are you doing squatting there?"
Zheng Quchi turned around and said, "Brother, where can we find loess near here?"
He immediately understood what she was going to do, thought for a while and said: "The slopes of the bushes in the north are all covered with loess. If anyone in the village wants to build a house, they go there to build a house."
"Okay, then I'll go to Brother Yang to borrow a bamboo basket and carry some loess back."
Brother Sang grabbed her and said, "I'm going to borrow the stove to cook some potato porridge and eat before going out."
Seeing that he was pulling her hard and refusing to let go, Zheng Quchi couldn't help but said, "Okay."
"I'll go out and find someone for you in a moment. You... are a woman after all. You have to get married and have children. If you do too many of these heavy tasks, you will regret it if you hurt your body and bones." He taught earnestly.
This was the second time Zheng Quchi heard him talk about getting married. He knew that "Brother Qing" was a woman, but did he know who "Zheng Quchi" was?
She didn't know when the Mohist "Zheng Quchi" replaced Sang Xuanqing, but "Zheng Quchi" didn't change her appearance. She just blackened her face and disfigured herself. She looked like this. If she were replaced halfway, Didn't anyone in the Sang family notice anything?
Thinking of this, some kind of speculation flashed through Zheng Quchi's head.
Suddenly she realized that she might have entered into a misunderstanding.
She believed that Sang Xuanqing and the Mo family's "Zheng Quchi" were two different people and had been replaced, but was there a possibility... that they were actually the same person from beginning to end.
Zheng Quchi planned to boldly ask for confirmation: "Brother, have you heard of the name Zheng Quchi?"
Brother Sang was stunned for a moment, with a strange look on his face: "Isn't this the pseudonym your parents gave you when you were a kid?"
Zheng Quchi's breath was stagnant.
This is really the case.
Sang Xuanqing was beaten by Zheng Quchi.
"What about the Mo family?"
"What's wrong with you?" Brother Sang looked around in panic and dragged her into the house: "Be careful, my parents are dead, and we have nothing to do with the Mo family. Remember, never do this in the future. Let’s talk about the Mo family and the past again.”
Zheng Quchi dug out another big melon.
She gasped.
It turns out that it was not Sang Xuanqing alone who had a secret relationship with the Mo family, but the entire Sang family had a close relationship with the Mo family.
"Brother, you mentioned that my parents' death has something to do with the Mo family?"
"I don't know. Don't ask this question again in the future." Brother Sang's face suddenly turned ugly. In order to prevent her from talking about this endlessly, he said in a serious tone: "When the house is repaired, we will arrive at ten It’s February, and the annual wedding procession in Fu County is about to begin. You must get married this year, so you can’t delay it any longer.”
Originally still worried about his current identity, Zheng Quchi was suddenly dumbfounded when he heard the topic of marriage.
"Brother, I'm still young..."
"I have allowed you to be willful for sixteen years, but I can't let you continue to be willful. You must return to being a daughter and find a good family this year and get married."
Without any hesitation, Brother Sang dragged his lame leg to the kitchen house with a livid face.
Zheng Quchi was left alone in the room sighing.
Brother, I'm afraid you don't know how capable your sister is of causing trouble, let alone that she has been inextricably linked to the Mo family.
Now there was a group of jackals, tigers and leopards behind her, staring hungrily, ready to hunt and kill her at any time.
If she returned to being a daughter and got married at this time...she couldn't imagine that her career would be ruined.
If Yu Wensheng gave up recruiting her because she was a woman... then one can imagine her fate.
Therefore, even though her eldest brother is like her father, she can only disobey him.
Putting aside these troublesome things, she continued to focus on building a house.
She carried the loess back and forth several times with a basket on her back, but when it became clear that the required amount was far from enough, she felt that there were too many things to do, even though she only had one pair of hands.
No matter how reluctant you are to part with money, you have to ask for help this time.
She comforted herself that fortunately, the materials for building a house could basically be obtained from nature, and the only way to spend money was to pay some labor fees.
In fact, Hegou Village doesn't want to give money to people who want to build houses. As long as food is provided, the villagers will usually come to help enthusiastically. However, Zheng Quchi thought that his family was very unpopular, so he planned to offer two copper coins a day.
The other party only needs to help her carry loess, cut down trees and remove soil embryos, and use some brute force.
She can do the rest of the carpentry work, such as windows, doors, roof beams, purlins, etc. by herself.
Brother Sang said he would go to the village to look for someone, but at noon, no one had come back yet. When she was wondering, she saw a group of village women running toward her with their children.
"Sang Xuanqing, come out, you head-chopping man, why do you bully my baby!"
As soon as Zheng Quchi looked up, he recognized the child of the leading village woman, who was the one who bullied their Yaomei that day.
Seeing that the perpetrators were not kind, Zheng Quchi immediately darkened his face and shouted in an even more angry voice than them: "That's right, I still want to find you. Since you are here, you will save me the trouble of looking for someone later. "
They thought that Sang Xuanqing would be frightened and retreat, but they didn't expect that she didn't have any false anger at all.
On the contrary, they were stunned by her tough attitude.
The leading village woman's face twitched and she pointed at her nose: "What do you mean by this?"
The "young brother" in front of them felt very strange to them.
In the past, she always had a taciturn and unlucky character. When she thought of being taken away and bullied by the leprosy men from the next village, she never said a word. When she saw people in the village, she would lower her head and not say hello, for fear of being attacked. Make eye contact with people.
