47: Chapter 46: Crooked Reasoning 47: Chapter 46: Crooked Reasoning Even Yang Cuihua had heard the news from soone else’s mouth.
After finishing her work, she imdiately slung the hoe over her shoulder and ran ho.
Xu Niannian didn’t know how excited her mother was.
Yang Cuihua knew her daughter had developed prickly heat and watched her cover her face every day, worried sick that she would ruin her looks.
Her daughter loved beauty so much that if she turned ugly, her daughter would probably cry herself to death.
It seed that drinking that dark, unsightly herbal dicine every day was really useful.
There is always gossip in front of a beauty.
Luckily, Xu Niannian had been a well-known beauty in the ten miles around the village since she was young.
So, the villagers accepted it quickly and were curious to run over to the Xu family’s ho.
Xu Niannian’s modest-sized earthen house was imdiately cramd with people.
Each person ca with so excuse, but in reality, they just wanted to see if Xu Niannian really had beco beautiful again.
After seeing her, each person returned ho with a stony face.
Just what is the secret of this daughter of the Xu family, Dawei’s daughter?
Although in that era, everyone generally favored boys over girls, they all understood one truth: if a girl is beautiful, as long as nothing untoward happens, she could definitely marry into a good family.
These days, morals were strictly enforced; not everyone dared to be a hooligan openly.
Dawei had been splitting wood in the house, and he was shocked too when he saw Xu Niannian return.
Xu Niannian quickly trotted out her prepared story.
Dawei, who doted on his daughter like his life, naturally wouldn’t suspect anything.
He happily watched as people from the village ca to his ho under various other pretexts just to see his own daughter, making him profoundly proud.
After everyone had left and Xu Niannian’s mouth was dry from talking, she looked up and saw Xu Zhiqiang staring at her.
Xu Niannian, feeling a bit guilty, smacked her lips, “Zhiqiang, what are you looking at?”
“Sister, why are you lying to people?”
Xu Niannian was startled and almost fell off her stool.
Had he realized she was lying to people?
As she was anxiously pondering how to fool Xu Zhiqiang, she heard him say, “That dicine clearly wasn’t bought from the street-side quack.”
On hearing that this was his concern, Xu Niannian’s heart settled back down.
Really, she was scared to death.
She had thought he had discovered sothing about her space.
Before telling this lie, Xu Niannian had already thought about how to explain to Xu Zhiqiang.
Since he’d been following her these past few days, he definitely knew where she had bought the dicine.
She said, “Didn’t you notice that those people just wanted to find out where to buy the dicine?
What if everyone goes to buy it, becos beautiful, and overshadows your sister?”
The original owner of the body was extrely vain, and as soon as Xu Niannian said this, Xu Zhiqiang instantly understood.
His sister was afraid of others becoming as white as her.
After saying this, Xu Niannian still nervously asked Xu Zhiqiang, “Zhiqiang, don’t you think I’m too selfish?”
Xu Niannian knew this excuse would definitely make Xu Zhiqiang have a negative impression of her.
But there was no other way, she could only say that, or it would make no sense.
If everyone went to that store to buy dicine and then realized it was useless, wouldn’t that just prove she had lied?
She really cared about this younger brother.
Not only because she finally had a family, but also because of Xu Zhiqiang’s protection.
The feeling of being protected by a family mber was truly wonderful, and she didn’t want to lose it for anything.
Seeing Xu Niannian’s nervous eyes, Xu Zhiqiang was stunned for a mont.
When he t her overly beautiful face, his cheeks flushed instantly.
“No matter what, you are still my sister.”
So, as long as she didn’t bully them, he would always support her.
The reason why Xu Zhiqiang and Xu Zhicheng were so easily moved by Xu Niannian’s actions wasn’t because she owed them a great debt or treated them exceptionally well.
It was because Xu Niannian was their blood sister.
Their previous hatred and distaste for her stemd from the expectation that this longed-for family mber would be good to them, yet she turned out to be the very person who treated them the worst.
Everyone craves sothing.
For Xu Zhiqiang and Xu Zhicheng, their greatest craving was the care from their kin.
Xu Duoyu was still young and didn’t understand many things.
But even so, he was close to her so easily because Xu Niannian was his blood sister.
Hearing Xu Zhiqiang’s words, Xu Niannian felt incredibly moved in an instant.
“Zhiqiang…
you’re really kind,” she said, her voice choked with emotion.
Xu Niannian was soone with a tender heart, especially valuing her hard-won family since she had grown up without any blood relatives.
Seeing her cry suddenly, Xu Zhiqiang panicked: “Sister…
sister, don’t…
don’t cry.”
Yang Cuihua had just arrived ho when she heard Xu Zhiqiang’s words.
She rushed over and pulled Xu Niannian to her, asking frantically, “Baby Nian, what’s wrong?
Don’t scare .”
When Yang Cuihua pulled Xu Niannian to her, the first thing she noticed wasn’t her daughter’s dramatic change in appearance, but the tears in her eyes.
“Why are you crying, Baby Nian, my Baby Nian?
Who has bullied you?” Yang Cuihua’s face imdiately grew stern, with the air of soone ready to grab a knife and fight anyone who dared to bully Xu Niannian.
Xu Niannian quickly wiped her tears and explained to Yang Cuihua, “Mom, no one’s bullying .
It’s Zhiqiang…”
“What?
Xu Zhiqiang, you bunny brat, you’ve got so nerve, daring to bully your sister.
I’ll beat you dead,” she said, ready to rush over.
Before Xu Niannian could even finish her words, Yang Cuihua interjected, scaring her into hastily hugging her mother’s waist: “Mom, mom, slow down, let finish what I was saying!”
“Let go, Baby Nian.
Let mom take care of this first, then you can continue,” Yang Cuihua said, glaring.
Xu Zhiqiang’s face darkened imdiately.
Xu Niannian, caught between laughter and tears, and afraid that Yang Cuihua would misunderstand, hurriedly said, “Mom, Zhiqiang hasn’t bullied .
He’s been nice to .
I’m crying because I’m moved.”
Hearing this, Yang Cuihua was taken aback and asked incredulously, “Really?”
Xu Niannian helplessly replied, “Really, Mom.
I’m not lying to you.
Zhiqiang is being good to .
He wouldn’t bully .”
Xu Niannian said this hoping it would make Yang Cuihua be a bit nicer to Xu Zhiqiang.
To which Yang Cuihua responded, “He should be good to you.
After all, you are his sister.”
Xu Niannian: “… And Zhiqiang is still my brother, so I should also be good to him.”
Hearing this, Yang Cuihua, worried that Xu Niannian would naively give all her hard-earned money to her brothers, quickly started to work on changing her thoughts.
“That’s not the sa.
They only have one sister like you, but you have three younger brothers.”
Xu Niannian was imdiately at a loss for words: “…”
So it was still the rarity that made sothing valuable.
Xu Zhiqiang had long since grown accustod to Yang Cuihua’s reasoning.
In the past, when Xu Niannian treated them poorly, every ti he heard this talk, Xu Zhiqiang would be upset for a long ti, feeling as if his heart was being sliced with a knife.
Now that Xu Niannian was being kind to the three brothers, Xu Zhiqiang unexpectedly found that it seed quite reasonable upon hearing Yang Cuihua’s words.
They, the three brothers, should be good to their sister.
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