Chapter 247 Dressed as a Farmer Orphan Girl

After Jiang Sheng came out of Li Zheng's place, she planned to walk around, but Mei Xiaomian kept following her.

Jiang Sheng then asked: "Where did my sister live before?"

Mei Xiaomian snorted: "Why should I tell you?"

She looked at Jiang Sheng critically: "Are you the sister who took Sister Jiang's place?"

He's pretty good-looking, but at first glance he doesn't look like a good person.

"That's right. Are you familiar with my sister?"

Hearing this "familiar" sentence, Mei Xiaomian raised the corners of her lips and reluctantly told Jiang Sheng: "Sister Jiang in the entire Zhuji Village is the best like me."

She rolled her eyes: "Please accompany me home, and I will take you to Sister Jiang's house later."

"No need." Jiang Sheng looked around, "Just give me some direction and I'll go by myself."

However, Mei Xiaomian pulled Jiang Sheng up and walked towards her home with unusual enthusiasm: "I'll take you there, you're welcome."

So Jiang Sheng was dragged to Mei's house in the west.

As soon as she entered the door, a yellow and white-haired dog barked at her.

The cry was so urgent and fierce that Jiang Sheng was caught off guard, startled and subconsciously stepped back.

Mei Xiaomian quickly pushed Jiang Sheng into the yard: "That's for wealth, it doesn't bite, you just wait for me here."

While asking Jiang Sheng to go into the yard and wait for her, Mei Xiaomian closed the door naturally and went inside.

Inside, Brother Mei was clearing away the dishes. He was a little surprised when he saw Mei Xiaomian: "It's you who's back."

Wangcai kept calling, and he thought it was his mother who was back.

Brother Mei looked outside the hall: "What's wrong with the wealth outside?"

"It's nothing." Mei Xiaomian's eyes darted around in her eyes, "I'll go back to the house to get something."

Brother Mei didn't know why, so he scratched his head and started to walk towards the yard.

Mei Xiaomian took a few steps back and grabbed Brother Mei who was about to go out: "Why are you going out? Don't ruin my affairs."

Listening to the barking of dogs in his ears, Brother Mei felt that his sister was a little confused: "What's going on?"

"Oh brother, just leave it alone."

After pulling Brother Mei back and warning her, Mei Xiaomian returned to her room and stayed for a while. She listened to the prosperity outside becoming more and more prosperous, then her voice gradually became lower, and finally there was no movement at all.

Mei Xiaomian leaned against the wall and listened for a while, wondering... strange, why didn't she hear the girl's scream?

But she didn't think much about it, maybe she was so scared that she couldn't make a sound.

Sure enough, girls from the capital are timid.

Mei Xiaomian estimated that the time was almost up, so she got up again and went out to the yard.

But the expected scene of Jiang Sheng being chased with a face full of embarrassment did not appear.

I saw the girl opposite smiling, half-crouching and rubbing Wangcai's head. Wangcai looked aggrieved and howled a few times as if she was complaining.

Mei Xiaomian was stunned.

Wangcai has never been very friendly to strangers, why is he so uncharacteristic of himself today?

Jiang Sheng patted Wangcai, raised his eyebrows at Mei Xiaomian and said with a smile: "Leaving?"

Mei Xiaomian looked at her and frowned, but Jiang Sheng's expression was natural and there was nothing special about her.

Mei Xiaomian could only curl her lips: "Then let's go."

Jiang Sheng stood up.

Jiang Sheng could probably guess what Mei Xiaomian was thinking, but he didn't care. He just wanted to bring her to his sister's house.

Jiang Xian's house in Zhuji Village was not far from Mei's house, and Mei Xiaomian did not do anything extra. The two of them arrived at their destination half a quarter of an hour later.

It was a small brick house. It could be seen that no one had lived in it for a long time. Jiang Sheng pushed the door but did not push it.

She leaned against the door and suddenly said, "Tell me about my sister."

Mei Xiaomian raised her eyebrows: "Why should I tell you?"

Jiang Sheng knocked on the door handle: "Forget it."

Mei Xiaomian:......

Can’t you hold on any longer?! If you ask her a few more questions, she will tell her!

Mei Xiaomian snorted and said reluctantly: "But you have found the right person. There is absolutely no one in the whole village who understands Sister Jiang better than me."

"Actually, I wasn't very familiar with Sister Jiang at first. I just felt that she was quite pitiful. She lost her parents so early. As a result, her uncle and aunt were not good people either."

"Uncle and aunt of the Cao family treated her like that, but she still obeyed the advice of the aunt and uncle of the Cao family... I tried to persuade her several times, but to no avail... But! Then one day she seemed to suddenly have an enlightenment and become a different person."

"Later..."

Mei Xiaomian recalled how she slowly talked to Jiang Sheng a few years ago.

Although almost all of the things Mei Xiaomian said were mentioned in the novel before Jiang Sheng came... But she used to read it as a story from the perspective of a reader, reading it ten lines at a time.

What is described in the novel is someone else's story.

Mei Xiaomian is telling the story of her sister.

But in fact, from the perspective of a third party, what Mei Xiaomian knows is still somewhat incomplete...

More than five years ago.

Jiang Congwen passed the college entrance examination, and everyone in the Jiang family was very happy. Mr. Cao even walked with his head held high, like a proud bird.

But problems soon came one after another.

The small amount of subsidies issued by the imperial court were barely enough to maintain Jiang Congwen's daily livelihood, and were not enough to pay for repairs, pens, ink, paper and inkstones.

The Cao family was not a wealthy family to begin with, so the Cao family set their sights on Jiang Xian, the orphan girl left behind by her eldest brother and sister-in-law.

Although this niece is still young and looks darker and thinner than her daughter...but she is still a beauty compared to the rest of the people in Zhuji Village.

If you get married, you might be able to get a huge betrothal gift and save yourself a mouth to eat and drink.

After much deliberation, Ms. Cao released the news, and sure enough, a matchmaker came to her door soon.

But after a conversation, Mr. Cao was not very satisfied with the marriage.

——Wu Matchmaker came here on behalf of Zhang Yuanwai from the town. Zhang Yuanwai was dying and wanted to marry a concubine back home to celebrate the wedding. Maybe Jiang Xian would become a widow as soon as she got married.

Marrying my niece off to celebrate the occasion... If word spreads about this, the Cao family will be flooded with rumors.

Mrs. Cao just wanted to get a betrothal gift from her niece, and did not want to be known as selling her niece out.

Matchmaker Wu saw Cao's hesitation, but she didn't look impatient at all. She quickly opened the box in her hand. In an instant, fifteen shining silver ingots came into Cao's eyes.

"Mrs. Yuanwai also knows that raising a girl is not easy. If you are willing to let go, the betrothal gift will definitely be indispensable."

Mrs. Wu's tone was meaningful: "Besides, didn't your family just have a scholar? In the future, you will need money for everything..."

These words poked a hole in Cao's weakness.

As long as her son successfully succeeds and settles down in the capital, who dares to say something unpleasant!

Listening to matchmaker Wu's continued touting and analyzing the pros and cons with her eloquent words, Ms. Cao's worries dissipated. She smiled broadly, but pretended to be reserved and refused: "But such an important matter still needs to be discussed with my master.

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"Well, just wait for me for a few more days, and I'll go to town to give you an answer in person in a few days."

Although Mrs. Cao did not agree directly, Matchmaker Wu also knew that the matter should be settled.

With a smile on her face, she said that she was waiting for Mr. Cao's reply and deliberately left the fifteen taels of silver in the box.

Mr. Cao refused but accepted it.

After Matchmaker Wu left, Mrs. Cao touched the silver, her eyes shining.

Mrs. Cao originally thought that this matter would be done smoothly. After all, marriage is a matter of parents' order and a matchmaker - her niece has no parents and no grandparents, so she can make the decision on her own?

Anyway, as his brother-in-law, Jiang Zisheng would definitely not object.

Jiang Zisheng indeed had no objection. But what Cao didn't expect was that his niece, who had always been timid and mute, was extremely determined this time - she would rather commit suicide on hunger strike than marry into Song Yuanwai's family.

On the sixth day of her hunger strike, Ms. Cao finally couldn't bear it anymore, fearing that she would die just like that.

Mrs. Cao put some food in the firewood room, grabbed her chin and forced her to eat.

When the other party choked a few times and vomited out all the food he had fed, Ms. Cao sternly scolded: "You little bitch, don't be shameless. People want money. If they have money, what is there that is not worthy of you?"

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Seeing that the other party still didn't speak and looked like she couldn't even breathe, Ms. Cao shook her a few times: "Get up, don't pretend to be dead!"

Seeing that she still didn't move, Ms. Cao was about to slap her away, but her wrist was firmly clamped by a slender hand.

The force was not great, but Cao was shocked.

The dying girl had opened her eyes, and her originally dull dark amber pupils were filled with coldness.
Chapter completed!