The water in early spring is still very cold, and it is really inappropriate to wash your hair, but in the late winter, you still wash your hair with ice and snow water, which is nothing.

She sat by the river, untied the green silk, and washed it with the flowing river water, the water was not as cold as she imagined, she could still bear it, but when she thought of the things at home, her heart couldn't help but rise.

It's not the first time that the stepmother and Uncle Wang next door have done this kind of thing, last time they were caught red-handed by their father, and under Aunt Wang's bitter pleading, they didn't take them to the field for three days, why didn't they do it long before they got it again.

Xiao Wan sighed, and suddenly faintly heard the sound of treading water in the distance, and she quickly wrung out her hair.

On this side, Ling Chaofeng went to the vicinity of Qingling Village to run errands, and the horse was thirsty halfway, so he led it to the water's edge to drink water, and when he approached the river, he found that there was a young girl sitting on the shore washing her hair.

Ling Chaofeng immediately pulled the horse out of the water, it was not good for the girl to stain the river water, but he wondered, the weather in March was still so cold, how to wash his hair with river water, even the hot day was not suitable, and the body of his daughter's family should be warm.

Naturally, he would not be nosy, and when he pulled the reins of the horse, he would take it downstream to drink water.

But Xiaowan was afraid that the people in the village would see it, or some other trouble, so she dried her hair and wanted to leave quickly, but she didn't expect to step on the slippery moss under her feet, and a big horse fell down.

"Girl!" Seeing this, Ling Chaofeng immediately jumped across the river and helped Xiao Wan up, when he held Xiao Wan's arm, his heart trembled, so thin, skinny.

"I'm fine, thank you......" Xiaowan stood still embarrassed, she was soaking wet, this is terrible, she looked up and wanted to thank the person in front of her, but when she saw Ling Chaofeng's face, she was stunned.

She had lived for seventeen years, almost eighteen years, and had never seen such a handsome man, tall and slender, not too burly and not thin.

How should she describe this man's face, she has never studied, she can't use flowery rhetoric, it's just good-looking, it's too good-looking.

Xiaowan suddenly found herself staring at others very impolitely, and hurriedly lowered her gaze: "Thank you, son." ”

And in Ling Chaofeng's eyes, the thin girl, with a clear and pale face, is the same heart-warming face, I didn't expect that there would be such a beautiful woman in this small village, it's just ......

The girl's family may be a little poor, her clothes are old and torn, and why are there whip marks on the exposed half of her arm?

Xiaowan tried to wring out her clothes, but it was in vain, it was still very cold, and it would take at least half a day to dry it on her body.

And when she goes home so wet, she will definitely be beaten and scolded by her stepmother, although her stepmother never gives herself good clothes to wear, but she will also remember that she does not cherish things.

"It's going to catch a cold, it's going to get a chill." Ling Chaofeng said, "Take off your clothes immediately, dry your body, and dry your clothes with fire." ”

Xiaowan shook her head and smiled: "It's dry under the sun, it's okay." ”

Ling Chaofeng said: "It's all my fault that my horse frightened you, girl, I ......"

But Xiaowan had already picked up her bamboo shoots, bowed to Ling Chaofeng to say goodbye, and turned to leave.

This back, Ling Chaofeng seems to be familiar, is it the person who bought sugar gourds for Pei'er at the New Year's Day market?

"Girl......" Ling Chaofeng chased after him.

"Yes, is there anything else you can do?" Xiaowan turned around tremblingly, as if she was shy and shy, and when such a handsome man talked to her, her heart trembled.

"May I ask if the girl bought a sugar gourd for such a big child at the market in Baisha Town on New Year's Day?" Ling Chaofeng asked.

"Yes......" Xiaowan nodded, looking at Ling Chaofeng, could it be his child?

"That's my son, I'm causing trouble for the girl." Ling Chaofeng said, "Thank you, girl." ”

Xiaowan couldn't say it in her heart, she was a little lost.

Sure enough, such a beautiful fat doll must have a handsome and chic father, and his mother must also be a big beauty.

She was in a trance, what was she thinking, what did it have to do with her.

"It's time for me to go." Xiao Wan smiled slightly, turned around and walked away.

Ling Chaofeng stood by the river, waiting for her to go far and turn into the village, before he rode his horse, returned to the inn, and galloped all the way, but in front of him was Xiaowan's face, the thin body and shocking scars, which made him worry.

Xiaowan returned to the village, probed her brain at the door of the house, and saw that Wen Bao came back with a schoolbag, so she ran to talk to her younger brother, and the two went home together.

Fortunately, Uncle Wang had already left, and I saw Xu Shi holding his hair and walking out with a spring on his face, and gently asked his son if he was studying hard today, and asked him if he was hungry.

Seeing that Xiaowan came back with a large basket of bamboo shoots, she was quite satisfied, so she didn't bother to pay attention to her, and sent her to make a fire to boil water, and she wanted to prepare to cook for her son.

Xiao Wan had a chance to dry the clothes on her body, but her eyes were clearly staring at the flames, but a man's face appeared in the flames.

She hurriedly patted her face, she was thinking about something, it was really amazing, but people have wives and children, even if they didn't, it wouldn't be her turn in this life. I really want to marry someone and want to go crazy, but even if she is crazy, she will not have such good luck, it is better to be a real person.

At this moment, Ling Chaofeng had already returned to the inn, and when everyone saw that he was preoccupied, they told Pei'er not to be naughty, not to make his father angry, and to be beaten again when he turned around.

Pei'er said in a daze, "Daddy, he promised not to beat me again." ”

Aunt Zhang said angrily: "Then you can go to the house to uncover the tiles?" You can't be naughty, your father loses his temper, who can stop it? ”

Pei'er nervously covered her little buttocks, rolled her eyes, and asked her grandmother: "Is it possible that Pei'er has a mother, and her mother can stop it?" ”

"The little guy knows a lot." Aunt Zhang happily hugged Pei'er, "When your father has a daughter-in-law, someone will take care of him." ”

But I thought, who can guarantee that the daughter-in-law who married can treat this picked up child well, maybe I have to wonder if it is Ling Chaofeng's illegitimate son outside.

In the afternoon, two tables of guests were entertained in the inn, and after the guests left, Aunt Zhang took the silver to Ling Chaofeng to settle the account.

As if he was absent-minded, he took the wrong account book, and Aunt Zhang smiled: "Is this morning's matter very troublesome, how can I go out and come back and be soulless." ”

Su Su walked over with a stack of dishes and chopsticks, and said with a smile: "The shopkeeper seems to have something on his mind today, and when he came back, he didn't see me, so he walked away directly." ”

Ling Chaofeng looked at Su Su and remembered that when she and Aunt Chen fled to the inn, she was covered with scars, and he saw those whip marks again today, but they were on another girl's body.

It's all his own family, there's nothing to say, Ling Chaofeng told him about meeting a strange girl in Qingling Village, and asked her if she had bought sugar gourds for Pei'er.

After listening to this, Aunt Zhang felt that something was wrong, and asked Ling Chaofeng: "What did you say about Pei'er?" ”

Ling Chaofeng said: "I said that Pei'er is my son. ”

Aunt Zhang sighed loudly and threw the rag on the table: "Are you stupid or not, if you say this, people must think that you have become a family and have a wife and children." You just say it directly, saying that Pei'er is your adopted child. ”

Ling Chaofeng was stunned for a moment, and Aunt Zhang chattered with Su Su, saying something, "You deserve to be a bachelor for the rest of your life, and you are blind with such a face." ”

Pei'er hugged his cloth tiger and stood on the side, smiling at Daddy.

Ling Chaofeng was not angry: "Let's play on the side." ”

Pei'er ran away, and not long after she ran back, pulling the hem of her father's clothes and asking, "Daddy, when will you go to the town to buy me a mother." ”

Ling Chaofeng squatted down and nodded his head: "My mother didn't buy it back, she wanted to carry it back in a big sedan chair." ”

Pei'er said, "Daddy, go and carry it." ”

Ling Chaofeng said angrily: "You want to be beautiful, you are so skinny, who wants to be your mother?" ”

Pei'er pouted and said softly, "Daddy, I'm good." ”

Ling Chaofeng picked up his son and let him ride on his shoulder, making the little guy giggle, but Ling Chaofeng was in a trance, how could he seem to have seen such a scene somewhere......

The days flickered, and it was April, these days, Aunt Wang next door seemed to notice something, seeing that she was with her own man, and she didn't talk to Xu's family, and the two families had been cold.

Xu was unwilling and weak-hearted, this day watching Aunt Wang pulling a man to wash his hair in the yard, the couple and I were sorry, she gritted her teeth with hatred, and her internal organs had to be mixed together.

Xiao Xiao picked up firewood in the mountains at night and came back after a hard time, but she didn't know that there were wild flowers on the mountain falling on her hair in the wind.

On the way home, he happened to be on the same road as the little brother of the Wang family, and was praised for the beautiful flowers, so Xiao Wan asked him where the flowers were, and the little brother of the Wang family picked them for her.

Unexpectedly, this scene happened to be seen by the two adults, and Aunt Wang said loudly across the fence: "Really, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, and the teenage girl knows that the hook man likes it, so naturally he is at home, and he has to learn from it." ”

Xu Shi hated it so much that he shouted outside: "Mu Xiaowan, you come back for me!" ”

Xiaowan didn't know what she had done wrong, and as soon as she entered the door, she was slapped twice, and Xu took out a branch from her back basket and slapped it on her.

Xiaowan was so frightened that she ran around the yard, but Xu was enraged, stepped forward and grabbed her hair, pulled her belt and tied her hands directly on the stone mill, beat her fart-thighs to death, and broke the branches, so she went to get a burning stick to beat.

Xiaowan gradually lost the strength to cry, and when she hit her body one by one, her eyes gradually blurred.

The villagers passing by outside saw that the child was about to be killed, and finally someone came to persuade her, and Aunt Wang also pretended to persuade a few words, and Xu was just tired and sat on the side panting.

Xiaowan fainted on the ground, in severe pain, only remembering what the people in the village were talking about, and their faces shook in front of them, and then their eyes turned black, and they didn't know anything.