The ladies wiped away their tears and gossiped among themselves.
Qiao Chu understood.
No one regarded this girl as a human being at home. She was beaten, scolded and enslaved for many years, and she never had enough food or clothing.
Si Niang cried for a while and finally calmed down. She looked at everyone timidly: "But where can I go after I leave their house?"
This is the intention to leave.
"Even if you go to break rocks, it's better than being a slave in their house!" Juhua said angrily.
"That's right! No matter how tired you are, you can't be more tired than you are at their house!"
"Then what is the life of a human being, that is, you can endure it!"
The women were talking all over the place.
Bai Guili's legs were also weak. He sat aside and calmed down for a while, already having a plan in mind.
At that moment, Bai Guili raised his hand and pressed it down, and the chattering crowd fell silent.
"That's right. Everyone in the village knows your situation. If you make up your mind to reconcile, I will join hands with the elders in the village to go to the Weisuo Yamen to set up a female household for you. From now on, you will live alone. Are you willing to fight?
Whether the stone is washed or mended is your business."
"If you still want to go back to Bai Guishui's house, just pretend that I didn't say anything today. Anyway, you have survived. If it's too late next time, we will save you. If it's too late... then it will be your life."
Bai Guili said this more tactfully than Qiao Chu, but everyone understood it.
Yes, you choose your own path.
She was beaten to the point where she couldn't survive. If she wanted to go back and be beaten again, no one else could stop her from seeking death.
Si Niang lowered her head and said nothing.
The fat sister-in-law shouted over there: "Do you want to eat or not? If you don't eat, then leave quickly!"
That unique loud voice made everyone come back to their senses: Yes! It’s already dark and we haven’t had dinner yet!
"Eat! If others don't care for us, we will care for ourselves! How can we not have enough to eat after working all day?!"
Juhua shouted loudly, for the ladies, and especially for Si Niang.
The ladies all responded: "Yes, yes! Let's eat!"
The ladies came into the house one after another, and the fat lady began to fill the big bowl with food.
Today, Chen Qingshan gave his fat wife a large piece of pork and a basket of taro, braised pork and taro, and a pot of stewed python meat. Everyone ate heartily.
Si Niang, who was sitting outside the door, looked dazed. A bowl of food was suddenly handed to her, which was filled with gravy, python meat, rice covered with pork and taro.
Qiao Chu said calmly: "If you want to survive, you must first work hard to eat enough."
Si Niang was stunned for a moment, and her tears began to fall again.
"Why are you crying? What's the use of crying?" Qiao Chu said impatiently.
Si Niang shivered and did not dare to cry.
"Eat." Qiao Chu said, stuffing a bowl of rice over her.
Si Niang was forced to catch it and looked at Qiao Chu in a dazed, weak and helpless manner.
"Eat it! Don't waste it." Qiao Chu ordered again.
Si Niang almost subconsciously started eating immediately.
She ate a bowl of rice without knowing the taste, only to realize later that she had eaten too much...
She has never eaten so much in one meal. Her stomach has long been accustomed to eating a little bit at a meal. She has never eaten so much...
Si Niang felt uncomfortable. Seeing that Qiao Chu had already gone in, she stood outside the fence with an empty bowl, not daring to go in and not wanting to leave.
It was Juhua who saw Si Niang's appearance and came over to take the bowl from her hand: "If you go to my house to sleep tonight, you can sleep with me. Then Bai Guishui doesn't dare to come to our house to make trouble."
"Okay." Si Niang's voice sounded like a mosquito.
Juhua shook her head and said nothing more.
After everyone had eaten, they dispersed and agreed to come back tomorrow to help Chen Qingshan knock down the thatched house and prepare to renovate it.
After everyone dispersed, Chen Qingshan and Qiao Chu arranged the children's beds and bedding, and then told the children to wash up.
The newly purchased bathtub made both children feel a little strange and expectant.
They used to bathe directly with well water. If it was cold, they rarely bathed. Occasionally if it was too dirty, they would just wipe it with a handkerchief.
But Chen Qingshan and Qiao Chu said that this tub would be their only use for bathing from now on!
They also prepared bathtubs specially for their two brothers and sisters...
This realization made Bai Shan feel a little confused. He stood there and refused to move.
Qiao Chu was stunned, stepped forward and tugged on his sleeve: "What's wrong? Don't want to take a shower?"
Baishan didn't say anything awkwardly.
Qiao Chu didn't argue with him: "If you don't want to take a shower, don't take a shower. Can Yu'er take a shower?"
The little girl replied in a sweet voice: "Wash your feet."
Chen Qingshan then fetched water into the bathtub, and Qiao Chu gave the little girl a bath.
Listening to the child in the room calling her mother in a sweet voice, General Huyan outside was also secretly puzzled.
He had seen everything happening today. Qiao Chu didn't seem to be a particularly enthusiastic person at first glance, but he was willing to save people and even adopted this pair of orphans. It had to be said that this person was really cold-faced and warm-hearted.
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Although Chen Qingshan looks honest and simple on the surface, he is not weak in martial arts, which can be seen from the fact that he does not look tired at all after a busy day.
Such a couple turned out to have just ascended from the lower world, and Qiao Chu was actually a cultivator of immortality.
They are willing to spend money to give their children to Luo Zi to take care of them, which shows that they treat these two children very well.
As for whether there is another reason behind it, or whether he is deliberately getting close to Luo Zi...
Then we don’t know yet.
General Hu Yan was thinking wildly about analysis when Chen Qingshan suddenly sat next to him and asked with a silly smile: "Are you going out tomorrow?"
What does it mean?
Do you want me to help you move rocks as a coolie?
You think beautifully!
The alarm bells rang in General Huyan's mind, and he immediately said: "I have something to do when I go out tomorrow."
"Oh. Forget it then." Chen Qingshan looked very regretful.
General Huyan was instantly happy: Humph! You want to fool me? There is no way.
"I also said that I would talk to Mrs. Luo tomorrow and ask her to live in our house. Anyway, her house is a shabby thatched house." Chen Qingshan sighed while boiling water in the kitchen.
What the hell?
Is it intentional?!
While cursing madly in his heart, General Hu Yan paused in his footsteps and thought seriously: Do you want to regret it?
"But since you said you were going out for something, you must be very busy and don't have time to help Mrs. Luo move." Chen Qingshan felt even more regretful.
General Huyan's inner villain was jumping up and down like crazy and was about to regret it on the spot. Chen Qingshan poured a ladle of water over it, put out the fire, and went back to his own room.
"..."
General Huyan stood in the courtyard, in a dilemma.
No, to help Mrs. Luo move, I must do it myself!
There was a red moon in the sky. General Hu Yan wanted to wait until Chen Qingshan came out, but instead he waited until the lights in the room opposite gradually turned off...