I feel dirty being a superficial couple with him...
With a stiff face, I stood up and sat across from him.
Zhao Yanqing sat in my original seat, looked at me with a smile and said, "Mingzhen, give me the answer before tonight."
The implication is, if I refuse, he will not look for my mother?
But isn't this originally the responsibility of the government? What's more, there's no telling whether Zhao Yanqing can find him or not.
I sneered coldly and ignored him.
Zhao Yanqing didn't say anything more, and just looked outside with a dull expression.
The carriage continued to move forward amidst bumps and mud...
At about noon, we finally arrived at Qinghe Village.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month coincides with the Lantern Festival, and every household in the small village is decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations.
Zhao Yanqing stopped the carriage outside my house and helped me out.
Then he looked at the cold Zhang family next door, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Ming Zhen, I heard that Zhang Xiulan's engagement was broken off by Chen Xiucai. Now that she's back, do you want to go and have a look?"
Lan'er's engagement was annulled?
I was slightly surprised, but I quickly understood.
Yes, Lan'er has lost her reputation, how can the Chen family still want her?
But without Zhao Yanqing's connivance with the Zhou family, how could Lan'er have suffered such changes?
In the end, Zhao Yanqing still needs to take some responsibility.
I smiled sarcastically, stretched out my hand towards Zhao Yanqing, and said indifferently, "Have you brought the banknote? Give me five thousand taels of banknote."
Zhao Yanqing was startled and a little confused.
But he quickly came to his senses and immediately took out a stack of banknotes from his wallet and handed it to me.
Then he took out some new year's goods from the carriage and helped me walk to the entrance of Zhangjiayuan.
"Aunt Zhang, are you at home?"
I knocked on the door and shouted in anxiously.
After a while, Aunt Zhang's pale and haggard face poked out from the crack in the door.
When she saw it was me, a hint of joy filled her eyes, but when her eyes moved to Zhao Yanqing, she froze again.
Perhaps Zhao Yanqing noticed the resentment in Aunt Zhang's eyes, so she spoke first and said with a smile, "Aunt Zhang, Mingzhen and I came back to visit her father's grave. We stopped by to see you."
Hearing this, Aunt Zhang said lightly and stepped forward to hold my hand.
While pulling me in, he closed the door heavily, leaving Zhao Yanqing outside.
As soon as we entered the room, Aunt Zhang's eyes turned red and she asked me with concern, "Ming Zhen, how are you doing these days? Is the person named Zhao giving you any trouble?"
"I've heard people say that he raised the widow of the Zhou family outside, and it was because of his connivance that the Zhou family dared to harm others easily."
"You came back that day and said he was dead, but because he had an affair? Because he betrayed you?"
"And your leg wasn't injured by a bandit at all, right? Was it the one surnamed Zhao? He did it to you because of that bitch from the Zhou family?"
Aunt Zhang wiped away tears and became more and more excited as she spoke.
Because of Zhao Yanqing's "protection" for Zhou Huaichun a few days ago, and because Lan'er's engagement was annulled by the Chen family, she hated Zhao Yanqing, the Zhou family's great supporter, to the extreme.
I looked at Aunt Zhang in silence and didn't answer.
After she finished scolding, she smiled bitterly and replied, "Don't worry, Aunt Zhang. Although Zhao Yanqing doesn't treat me well, he won't hit me."
"Lan'er, on the other hand, I heard that her engagement was broken off by the Chen family. Is she okay?"
"Lan'er...has not eaten or drank for several days, and now she is lying in the house."
"She has cut her wrists twice since she came back from the fight. I'm really afraid that she won't survive the first month of the year."
Aunt Zhang's eyes were red, she even choked back a few words to me, and started to cry again.
I comforted her for a while, gave her the 5,000 taels of silver notes, and told her that if it didn't work out, I would take Lan'er to move. With these 5,000 taels of silver notes, it would not be difficult to buy another family property in another county.
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Aunt Zhang originally didn't want it because she thought Zhao Yanqing's money was too dirty, but considering Lan'er's future, she finally agreed.
After that, I went into the house and spoke a few words with Lan'er, then got up and left Zhang's house.
When I went out, Zhao Yanqing had returned to the carriage and was reading the file carefully with his head down.
Hearing my footsteps, he slowly raised his eyelids and asked me softly, "Mingzhen, how are you? Is Zhang Xiulan okay?"
"Can it be okay?"
"I have lost my innocence and reputation, and I have already sought death twice."
I sneered, looked at Zhao Yanqing coldly, and couldn't help but resent him, "Zhao Yanqing, if I can, I really want to cut you into pieces!"
"You hate me so much?"
Zhao Yanqing put down the file in his hand and raised his head to look at me.
Before I could speak, he suddenly took out a dagger from his waist and put it into my hand. He smiled softly and said, "Ming Zhen, come on, stab me. It's just to avenge Zhang Xiulan and yourself."