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Chapter 7: Searching
The creaking sound continued from the door, which was the sound she could hear every day, and besides hearing these, there was nothing else. She did not speak or cry, just like her in her previous life.
Every day when she woke up in the morning, she picked a bunch of wild flowers and placed them in front of her mother’s tomb, where she would stay there for a long time, and then she would go to collect firewood and give it to Old Lady Niu.
They helped her bury her mother. She has nothing to repay their family now, only a bundle of firewood every day, which she can do. When Daddy comes, she will let Daddy give them money.
It’s not that she was stingy, but for the peasants, silver is more important than anything. The capital and the big families, they may look good outside, but who knows the pits and waters and nasty inside.
Rather than being calculated by others everywhere, it is better to live a peaceful life in this beautiful place with mountains and rivers. If you fail to make a single step, you will be crushed there.
She believes that Old Lady Niu knows this, otherwise it is impossible for her to return to this small village with her biological son. She belonged to a noble family. But she came here. It was not because of other reasons, but just because she hates the darkness in the big families.
Therefore, it is better not to go. The road that she will take in the future is not a good road. It was full of danger; it was always possible to die.
“Mother, daddy will be coming soon.”
Shen Qing Ci put a bunch of wild flowers in her hand in front of the grave, and she hugged the small grave.
“Mother, A Ning was wrong. Do you think that Daddy would forgive A Ning? If it weren’t for A Ning’s wilfulness, Daddy would not die… ” she sniffed and said to herself again, “Daddy… Not the father of the previous life, the father of the previous life is dead, and the father of this life has not been harmed by A Ning, so he doesn’t know what A Ning did.”
“Mother, don’t worry, A Ning knows that she was wrong, A Ning really knows that she was wrong, A Ning will definitely protect her father, I’m sorry, mother, A Ning can’t come to accompany you yet, A Ning still has a lot to do…”
In this way, she told her previous life to her mother, she even said what she didn’t dare to say. These were the things other people don’t know, and they wouldn’t believe it.
“Mother, A Ning was really hurt” she shrank her small body. She could still remember the pain when her bones were broken and when she was beaten to death.
“Mother, A Ning’s hand hurts… Mother, will you help A Ning? Then A Ning will not be hurt and others will also not be hurt.”
She grasped her clothes tightly. She was scared, at this time she was just a helpless child, she had no mother, no father, no relatives, she had nothing. She was just like her in the previous life. When there was only a pear tree in her courtyard. When she was hungry, she would eat the flowers and then eat pears.
She touched her small wrist. Her hand was still there.
The sky was grey cover with clouds. It looked like it would rain. It has not rained for a long time.
At this time, on the road, a handsome man was riding a horse. The man whipped the horse and the horse moved faster as it left dust flying in the air…
The horse stopped at the entrance of the village, and then the man got off the horse. He was dressed in black clothes, his face was cold, his eyes were enlightened, his hair was draped indiscriminately, and he even had a beard. It hasn’t been shaved for a few days.
He took the horse and walked into the village. The people in the village have only seen bullock carts and donkey carts. It was the first time that they saw a horse.
The man tied the horse to a tree, and the horse bowed its head and ate the grass beside the road.
“Madam, I want to ask…” The man hurriedly walked over, followed by a bunch of children, and the children were surrounding the horse, curious about the horse.
It turns out that horses look like this. Their village was very remote. Not to mention children, sometimes even some old people have never been out of the village in their entire lives. This was really the first time they have seen a horse.
“What do you want?” The woman was actually a little scared when she saw the man. He was full of murderous aura, so it made people feel unconsciously scared.
The man pressed his lips tightly, and even his face was dusty, and there was blackness under his eyes. It was a long time on the road and he hadn’t slept well.
“I want to ask, have you ever seen a mother and daughter? A young woman whose surname is Lou and her husband’s surname is Shen. She is also carrying a four-year-old girl.”
When the woman heard this, she couldn’t help but remember Lou Xue Fei and Shen Qing Ci. She already knew who the man was looking for, wasn’t it them? Lou Xue Fei had already said that her husband’s surname was Shen, and everyone called her Madam Shen[1].
But no one had ever believed that she really belonged to a big family.
Now that Lou Xue Fei’s husband has come searching for her, she didn’t know if it is a good or bad thing, but it has nothing to do with her family.
“Go to that house and ask, they know.”
This woman pushed everything to Niu’s family. Anyway, the Niu’s family buried Lou Xue Fei. If anything happened, it was also Niu’s business…
“Thank you.” The man clasped his fists, and he strode towards Niu’s house, but the woman just now felt some regret, as if she had missed something.
What was wrong, she closed the door when she went back. She intuitively felt that he came to seek revenge, and she has never spoken even a word to Lou Xue Fei. So, she had told him that she didn’t know about them. But now she regretted it.
The man had already reached the door of Niu’s house, and then reached out and knocked on the door.
Soon, the door opened, and the old lady Niu walked out, and when she saw the person standing at her door, she instinctively took a step back. She has seen a lot of people, but it is the first time she has a man with that much murderous aura.
Notes:
[1] Usually, Maiden surname is attached with ‘Madam’; and husband’s surname is attached with ‘Furen’ here it should be actually ‘Madam Lou’ or ‘Shen Furen’. But since the villagers don’t know Lou Xue Fei’s maiden name, they call her as such.
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How sad this could be when he finds out that his wife is dead.
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Why were they seperated? And why did shelive in such miserable condition with her four year old daughter???
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