Chapter 447: Checkmate and Salmon Soup (54)
"You make it clear, who did you say Granny Niu harmed?" Gao Zhan rushed to the front at once.
"Who did you hurt? He killed his husband, his son, and tried to murder his own grandson. She's a demon in human skin, the most terrifying demon I've ever seen. Qingmei seemed to be seriously injured, and slowly sat on the ground with the vine branch behind her.
"I'm not a demon in the first place! My maiden name is Han, the small character Qingmei, and I never left the small mountain village called Qingze before I was ten years old. Qingmei leaned her head on the vine branch, with a glimmer in her eyes: "Qingze is a small mountain village that is not very wealthy, and the people on and off the mountain add up to more than fifty, but everyone gets along very well, just like a family." Qingze is uneven and can't grow too many crops, so every household cultivates green plums. When the plums are ripe, the young people in the village are responsible for picking them up and selling them at the market outside.
After selling the green plums, I used the money to buy some rice and daily necessities, and then returned to the village to distribute them from house to house. Such peaceful days lasted for ten years, until the sky rained heavily and the flash flood came, and overnight, Qingze became a real river, and those uncles, uncles, uncles, and friends I was familiar with in the past all became floating corpses floating on the river. Even my mother was carried away by the flood that washed down from the mountain. My father desperately protected me and sent me to a green plum tree that had been washed down by the flood, and then, like my mother, was also taken away by the flood. ”
"How did you escape?"
"I floated on the water for a long time, surrounded by dead people, all of whom I knew, and I watched them soak in the water, float past me, and float back again. At first, I didn't feel scared because I knew they wouldn't hurt me. But on the third day, the fourth day, I was scared. Because all the people I saw had changed, I began to paddle desperately, trying to escape from that terrible place. I paddled for a long time, but I was still spinning in the water, and I couldn't get out.
I was tired, hungry, I couldn't hold it anymore, and in a daze, I saw those people floating on the river standing up one by one, and I closed my eyes in fear. By the time I woke up again, I had been taken to the stone monument at the entrance of the village, which was damp but not waterlogged.
I stood at the entrance of the village and looked into the village, and the people who had been floating on the surface of the river were gone. I immediately cried, because I knew that they had saved me, and they were afraid of scaring me, so they sank to the bottom one by one. I fell to my knees and cried, not knowing what to do, I even thought about it, and simply walked into the water and stayed with my father and my mother, as well as the villagers in Qingze Village.
Then, I heard my father and mother talking in my ear, and they told me to live well, and let me live well with the hope of all the people in Qingze Village. I also heard the villagers say goodbye to me, and I heard my friends say, Qingmei, you must come back to see us in the future.
I stood up and walked outside the village path, I didn't know where I was going, I just knew that I was going to live, I was going to live with the hope of the whole village. ”
"And then?"
"I met a group of refugees, just like me, who had survived the floods in their village, and I followed them, and I went wherever they went. They beg, and I beg. They chose to sell themselves in order to survive, and I followed suit. Later, I was favored by an old man and received a concubine at home. That year, I was fourteen years old. ”
Qingmei first closed her eyes, and then slowly opened them again.
"I don't know if my own fate is good or bad. You said that my life was not good, the whole village died, and I was lucky to survive. You said that my life is good, the whole village is gone, and I am alone and helpless. At the age of ten, I walked out of Qingze Village barefoot. At the age of fourteen, I was taken by a wealthy businessman and brought home. The rich merchant treated me very well, although he was just a concubine, he was unwilling to wronged me, saying that he must choose an auspicious and good day.
Before that good day came, everything was fine, but on the day we got married, there were bandits in the town, and most of the servants and maids in the house were killed, and only the young lady and I were taken captive by them. They said we were good-looking, and they wanted to take us up the mountain to be the Lady of the Village. The young lady was frightened and cried all the way, and I couldn't coax it.
I told the young lady that there is nothing wrong with being a lady in the village, but she is still a lady, and she is not short of food and drink. As long as people are alive, there is hope. But Miss couldn't listen to it, and said that she would rather die than go up the mountain to do anything to suppress Mrs. Zhai. But she didn't have the courage to escape, she could only cry, crying all day long. The robbers were annoyed by her crying and sold her halfway through. As for where it will be sold, I don't know. ”
"Then you went up the mountain to be the lady of the village?"
"No, before we got to the bottom of the mountain, they got word that a team of dart carts was going to pass by the mountain. They planned to rob the dart, but they didn't expect to be killed by the dart master and captured alive. The dart cart was not robbed, but he was sent to prison. Brother Cheng and I met at that time. Brother Cheng is the grandfather of the calf, and he is also the husband who was brought up by her. ”
"You met Maverick's grandfather, so you followed him back to Huaxi Town?"
"He saved me. Originally, he just wanted to send me back to a nearby town, and I agreed. I know that a man like him must already have a wife in his family. He's a good guy, and I'm not fit to be with him. But there were so many things along the way, and we came together before we knew it. Not only did he not mind my past, but he felt sorry for me and said that he would take good care of me in the future. I don't mind that he already has a wife at home, and I don't even mind following him without a name or a penny.
I know I'm at fault for this, but I'm just a woman, is it wrong for me to want to be with the man I like? Besides, Brother Cheng told me that even if there is no me, there will be other women in the future.
He said that he loved his wife, but that kind of love was not between a man and a woman, but between a brother and sister. He knew that his wife was his child daughter-in-law, and that he had the responsibility and obligation to take care of her for the rest of his life, but he was reluctant to return to his home and live with her as husband and wife, and he felt embarrassed and at a loss. It was my presence that gave him the courage to come back to this home, and he loved me as much as I loved him. ”
"I understand what you mean, but have you ever thought to the calf's grandfather that the calf's grandmother, who is also the cow's mother-in-law, is actually the biggest victim in this matter. Grandpa Maverick doesn't like her and doesn't want to marry her as a wife, so what about her, what is wrong with her. She came to Niu's house when she was four years old, and as soon as she entered the door, others told her that it was her husband, who would spend her life with her in the future and have children with her. She not only regards Maverick's grandfather as her belief and dependence, but also regards him as the hope of happiness for her life.
She paid so much for the Niu family and for the calf's grandfather, but in the end she was told that she was just a sister. If it's you, can you be happy in your heart? Don't always think about how pitiful you are, you also have to think about whether the calf's grandmother is pitiful. I know that the three of you are not wrong about this, but what is wrong is this evil child bride system. It's really not just you and Maverick's grandfather who can be hurt. ”
"Just because she was wronged, is she going to kill her husband?" Qingmei pointed angrily at the house: "I recognize everything you say, including that she can't tolerate me, I can understand, I don't hate her, I don't blame her." But why did she kill Brother Cheng, just because Brother Cheng only had me in his heart? ”
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