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Paper can’t wrap fire, especially when soone is deliberately waiting for the rabbit, waiting for Yan Jinsu to slip up!
In Yan Jinsu’s eyes, hunting in the mountains was just a ans of livelihood.
In Wang Chuni’s eyes, Yan Jinsu was a malevolent spirit!
In Qingfeng Village, even the strong n dared not easily go into the mountains to hunt, and among all the young and able-bodied n in Qingfeng Village, only Xie Jingchen, her Brother Chen, dared to hunt in the mountains!
Yes, among Xie Jingzi’s two good friends, not only did Wang Xiuzhen have a fondness for Xie Jingchen, but Wang Chuni had also secretly been in love with Xie Jingchen.
Xie Jingchen was tall and powerful, and also a Rong Wei. In the simple eyes of the rural folks, Xie Jingchen was seen as "promising"!
Wang Xiuzhen had expressed her feelings first, so even though Wang Chuni liked him deeply, she could only suppress it in her heart.
She was petite and delicate, not as tall and slender as Wang Xiuzhen, who, standing beside Xie Jingchen, seed well-matched at a glance.
But what she had over Wang Xiuzhen was her petite beauty and big eyes, and she was always gentle and willing to work, maintaining a better reputation in the village than Wang Xiuzhen!
Before Xie Jingchen got married, Wang Chuni always felt that the competition for Xie Jingchen’s partner would be between her and Wang Xiuzhen.
Who knew that a "Zhang Shanni" would appear out of nowhere! Even now, with a changed na, Wang Qingi still hated her!
When Wang Xiuzhen targeted Yan Jinsu, Wang Qingi was secretly delighted.
Just let her plot; if Yan Jinsu is taken down, who gets the prize in the end is still undecided.
But who would have thought that Wang Xiuzhen couldn’t withstand the pressure and after just one round, she got discovered by Yan Jinsu for scheming, and even got blad by Zhou Xiuhua.
The two siblings dared to continue their death wish, even calculating against Xie Jingzi, and eventually were forced to be driven out of Qingfeng Village—Wang Qingi, though outwardly horrified, was extrely satisfied within!
However, what followed was the news that Yan Jinsu had beco pregnant!
Wang Chuni nearly went mad with anger, cursing in her heart, wishing for Yan Jinsu to have a premature birth or to die in childbirth; if she were to marry over and beco a stepmother, seeing as Yan Jinsu had made way for her, she would treat Brother Chen’s child well!
Nevertheless, no matter how Wang Qingi cursed, Yan Jinsu safely gave birth to the child, and it was a particularly auspicious pair of dragon and phoenix twins!
This piece of news woke Wang Chuni up from the abyss of unfulfilled desires, realizing that her dream of becoming Brother Chen’s bride was a distant impossibility!
Perhaps if Yan Jinsu hadn’t returned, Wang Chuni, after a year or a year and a half, would have let her deeply biased secret love dissipate, and years later, looking back on now, she could only laugh it off!
Unfortunately, Yan Jinsu ca back!
The recently sobered mind of Wang Chuni beca muddled again—she couldn’t bear to see Yan Jinsu’s happy and fulfilled life with her children, while she could only pine in vain!
Ever since Yan Jinsu returned to Qingfeng Village, Wang Qingi woke up crying every night:
Half of it was clear rationality: Wang Xiuzhen’s outco was a stark warning;
The other half was her unrequited feelings: she had liked Brother Chen for five years, and during those five years, in order to beco his bride, she had been diligently learning all kinds of knowledge, hoping to be a "good wife and mother" worthy of him!
Even for the sake of education, she pleaded with her mother countless tis, yet it was only because the family truly had no ans, that she managed to study up until junior high...
But all her efforts were in vain! She’s not even as good as Yan Jinsu, that country girl who hasn’t spent a day in school!
If she had known that jumping into a lake or causing a scene by attempting suicide would make her Xie Jingchen’s wife, Wang Qingi would have jumped without a second thought!
Is there such a thing as ’if only I had known’ in the world?
"You, you..." The young n, who had just arranged to et and walked through the woods, were caught off guard not by Wang Qingi hiding behind the trees, but by Yan Jinsu appearing with three wild chickens in one hand and two rabbits in the other!
The shocked youths were all montarily dumbstruck.
Especially the tallest and strongest among them, who appeared to be in his early twenties, about one ter seventy-eight in height with a robust physique, was the first to speak up.
"Is there a problem?" Upon hearing the noise behind her, Yan Jinsu stopped, facing a group of five or six young n who suddenly appeared, her gaze eting that of the youth in the lead.
Though she had been married to Qingfeng Village for a year, she rarely showed her face in the countryside. It was only because she returned to her parents’ ho this ti and thoughtfully brought gifts to visit all the clan elders, that the villagers might recognize her at all!
While Yan Jinsu might only be seen as a woman who was ’sent’ to her marital ho [In the eyes of the villagers, a woman not married off according to customs is akin to being sent over, and such a wife does not hold much status or command respect], both the Xie Family and Xie Jingchen did treat her with full ceremonial respect when she joined the family, and Jingchen was not stingy during the ’acknowledgnt of kin’.
This let many of the village elders know that despite Yan Jinsu’s hard life, she was regarded as a bona fide daughter-in-law in her husband’s family.
This ti, she even gave birth to twins for the Xie Family—a dragon and phoenix pair!
The Xie Family has seven branches, and over ten years, only the third branch produced two pairs of twins; one pair born to Xie Jinghong and the other the dragon-phoenix twins belonging to Xie Jingchen.
Such auspiciousness made people feel as though the third branch of the Xie Family was poised for a rise to power!
When Yan Jinsu returned to her birthplace, she shed her rural appearance, her complexion turned fair, her features delicate, dressed appropriately, never revealing her teeth when smiling, clearly an educated and cultured young woman from the city.
Following the notion that Yan Jinsu was actually the ’Golden Phoenix’ stolen away by Lin Zhaodi, nobody really doubted the changes in her; they simply took for granted that:
Dragons beget dragons, phoenixes beget phoenixes; Yan Jinsu has always been a child of the dragon and phoenix, and now that she has found her birth parents, her life is bound to change drastically!
Not needing to toil under the sun anymore, it’s only natural that she should beco fairer and more beautiful.
Moreover, when Yan Dongsheng’s family ca to recognize kin, they grandly drove in two personal sedans, and the driver dressed in a camouflage uniform was with them. The word spread quickly from one to ten, and from ten to a hundred. Now, who doesn’t know that Xie Jingchen from the Xie Family, the second son, is truly accomplished and observant?
Others despised Zhang Shanni for having an unsuitable family, thinking that even if the girl was capable and filial, nobody would propose marriage because of her family background!
But it was Xie Jingchen who dared to jump into the lake to save her and recognized her as his wife then and there!
And look, it indeed turned out to be a ’match made in heaven’!
In others’ eyes, she was the last woman one should marry, but once he married her, she beca the Golden Phoenix that had been lost abroad!
Now, the couple, Xie Jingchen and Yan Jinsu, are well-known celebrities in Qingfeng Village, Shanglin Village, and Old Lin Village.
Since Yan Jinsu returned with proper manners, making rounds in the village, virtually all villagers knew her, and even those who did not recognized her when the elders spoke of her as the fairest and most delicate wife of Xie Laoer.
Therefore, at just one glance, the youths present all recognized her, the graceful woman who was supposed to be Xie Jingchen’s wife, the talk of the town recently—Yan Jinsu.
"You, —"
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