The late autumn day is extraordinarily gloomy.

Ruyi carried a basket of clothes to be washed, and as soon as he walked to the entrance of the village, he saw some women chatting there in twos and threes.

Ruyi only felt shameless, so she couldn't help lowering her head, tightened the basket, and walked silently from the entrance of the village.

"Ruyi, this girl is also pitiful, she has no father and no mother when she is young, and she is going to work hard to marry that Zhang Xiucai as his wife, who knows that there is such a thing." Aunt Tuesday in the village looked at Ruyi's back and just sighed.

"But no, the Zhang family is ruthless enough, as soon as something happened to Ruyi's side, his family asked the matchmaker to come and withdraw from the family, and it was also a loss that their family was still a scholar, so it was not kind."

"I can't say that, the scholar values the innocence of the girl's family the most, Ruyi has this matter, so can the Zhang family still want her? If Zhang Xiucai goes to high school in the future, will it be difficult for him to follow as an official's wife? ”

As soon as Song San's sister-in-law finished speaking, the women all nodded yes, and one of them only sighed; "This is also true, Ruyi's girl was dirty, not to mention that the descendants of Zhang Xiucai's talent don't want her, I'm afraid that even Cui Da in our village will dislike her."

Cui Da of Xihe Village is a famous lazy man in Shili Eight Villages, who is nearly forty years old and has not yet asked for a daughter-in-law.

Hearing this, Aunt Tuesday frowned and said; "After all, you can't complain about it......"

Before Aunt Tuesday could finish speaking, she was interrupted by a woman's voice; "Don't blame her, who do you blame? There are so many girls in our village, why did she meet a bad person, why did she have an accident? Didn't I say, look at her eyes, watery, I'm afraid she can drip water, if she is an honest person, then the villain can find her? ”

"That's it, as the old saying goes, flies don't bite seamless eggs, look at her delicate appearance, and she still doesn't know how to make waves behind her back, maybe she has a leg with those gangsters."

After the woman finished speaking, she ate and laughed, and then listened to it, and there were some unbearable words, although Ruyi had gone away, but those words still penetrated into the ears with the wind, and when people listened, they felt that their hearts were like falling into the abyss, full of unspeakable despair and sadness.

Ruyi walked to the river, and as soon as he put down the basket, tears couldn't help but fall.

If there is no such thing, the sixth day of the next month will be the big day for her and Zhang Xiucai, and Ruyi at this time must be preparing for marriage, and it will definitely not be the situation it is now.

Ruyi sobbed softly, even if she wanted to forget it countless times, the events of that day were still clearly imprinted in her mind, and she couldn't forget it no matter what.

That day, she got up early in the morning as usual, went to the mountains to dig wild vegetables, but unexpectedly met three gangsters in the mountains, the three gangsters were all fierce and vicious, Ruyi just saw the three people, was startled, but before she ran away, the first gangsters had stepped forward to catch her, Ruyi almost didn't see how the gangsters came out, there was a sharp pain in the neck, and then the whole person fainted without knowing anyone.

When the man who went up the hill to chop wood saw her, she was already lying naked on the grass, and there was a pool of blood frozen on her lower body, and it was clear at a glance what had happened.

When Ruyi woke up, she had already returned home, and when she woke up, her sister-in-law couldn't help but say that she was going to come up and beat her, only to let a few neighbors hurriedly pull her, Ruyi was stunned at first, and as soon as she moved, there was a sharp pain in her lower abdomen. Although she doesn't understand the affairs of men and women, she can look at the faces of those aunts and listen to the scolding of her sister-in-law, even if she is no longer sensible, she knows what happened to her.

Ruyi only felt that the sky had fallen, no matter what others came to say to her, she couldn't say a word, only crying silently there, some aunts saw her like this, but they couldn't bear to ask anything again, until the neighbors gradually dispersed, and the sister-in-law pinched and twisted Ruyi, scolding Ruyi again and again, and the face of the entire Song family was lost, so that their husband and wife had no face in the village two days later.

Ruyi was scolded by her sister-in-law, she had no parents since she was a child, and she has been living with her brother and sister-in-law, the eldest brother has a wooden temperament, and her sister-in-law has a short temper, over the years, Ruyi has not known how much she has been beaten by her sister-in-law, I thought that when she married into the Zhang family, Zhang Xiucai was a scholar after all, and there was some hope in the days to come, but it didn't come to pass, when the Zhang family knew that Ruyi let the villain ruin his innocence, he almost didn't delay for a moment, so he invited a matchmaker and returned the marriage.

Ruyi looked at the river in a daze, crystal tears hung on her pale cheeks, like a woman who lost her virginity before marriage and was divorced by the man's family, thinking about it, there is only one way to go.

That is death.

She got up slowly, her fingers tightly clutching the corners of her clothes, she knew that her sister-in-law would not be able to tolerate her, and in these ten miles and eight towns, no one was willing to marry her, even a man as old as Cui Da was her father, he also disliked her.

Even ..... sister-in-law saw that she couldn't get a dowry, so she simply sold her to Renya for silver and sent her to a brothel.

Ruyi's heart was sad, as if she could already foresee her future days, she gritted her teeth, only mustered up enough courage, and walked towards the river step by step.

The river water in late autumn is cold, Ruyi's ankles just touched the river water, it is frozen and shivered, Xu is still young, looking at the river in front of him, Ruyi's heart is involuntarily born two points of retreat.

It turns out that it takes great courage to seek death.

She turned her head and glanced in the direction of Xihe Village, and when she went back, it was her sister-in-law's endless beating and scolding, the innocence ruined by the gangsters, the fingers and fingers of the villagers, and the husband's family quit the marriage, and she couldn't raise her head for the rest of her life.

Thinking of this, the wishful heart of death once again prevailed, and she didn't think about anything, but only took two steps forward.

The river overflowed her ankles, and suddenly, the surface of the river that was originally calm was floating with ripples, and Ruyi looked at it, and she was taken aback, and involuntarily stopped.

Hearing the sound of "bang", a shirtless man peeked out of the river.

At a glance, I saw that the man was about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, and he was very heroic, and after seeing his face clearly, Ruyi was stunned there.

This person, Ruyi knew him, knew that his surname was Qin, and that day on the mountain, it was this Qin Yunyi who first saw Ruyi, and it was he who took off his clothes and wrapped himself around Ruyi, if it weren't for this person, Ruyi would have frozen to death.

Ruyi didn't dare to take a closer look, she never thought that on such a cold day, there would be someone bathing in the river, and the other party was still her "life-saving benefactor", Ruyi came back to her senses, remembering that she was not wearing clothes that day, all fell in the eyes of this person, and looked at him now that he was also naked, and suddenly felt red in the face and red ears, so he hurriedly went ashore, and was just about to flee in the wilderness, when he heard a male voice behind him: "Stop!" ”

The voice was low, revealing an inexplicable majesty, listening to it as I wished, I felt a shock in my heart, and I couldn't help but stop walking.

There was a man's footsteps behind him, Ruyi didn't dare to look back, Qin Yunyi went ashore and put on his clothes, the man's sharp eyes looked at Ruyi, and saw that her pair of embroidered shoes had been wet by the river, the man's eyebrows frowned slightly, and he said a word to the girl in front of him; "You're going to kill yourself?"

Ruyi was stunned, and when he looked up, he saw Qin Yunyi's dark eyes were deep, looking at him.

She didn't know how to speak, these days, her sister-in-law would use those foul words to insult herself all day long, and some long-tongued women in the village also scolded her behind her back, only saying that she had such a big scandal, and she didn't even seek death, but as if she didn't seek death, she was shameless, so where could she live?