Chapter 87: A chicken’s fate is not to become a phoenix

Seeing his long-lost smile, He Cao, instead of being happy, took a few steps back to increase the distance between them. She looked around, trying to find a good place to escape. But all she saw were tall weeds and vines and branches that were over a meter tall. There were also unknown dangers on the ground. She covered her stomach with one hand and tried to find a suitable weapon with the other. “What are you looking at, hurry up and tell me.

Once we get the money, we can pay off our debts and buy a job in the commune. Wouldn’t that satisfy your wish to leave the countryside?” Xu Weijun pretended to be affectionate, spread his arms, and encouraged her to speak quickly. Seeing this, He Cao was so scared that she fell to the ground. She cried and told him again about the money being stolen, emphasizing that as long as they searched nearby, they would definitely find ginseng.

It was fine not to mention ginseng, but as soon as she mentioned it, Xu Weijun glared at her. Thinking about how he had just been like a dog, crawling on the ground looking for it, and only finding the dug holes, he was furious. “Tell me, did you steal that money to support your lover? My mother was right, you’re a bitch, you deserve to be disciplined. If you don’t tell me where the money is, I’ll kill you right here.” He turned his head and looked around, until he found a patch of short weeds, and then he strode forward, ready to drag her there. Seeing Xu Weijun take a step forward and look around, He Cao suddenly shouted, “No,” and immediately turned and ran. She was too familiar with that phrase and that look. Thinking about the torture she had endured every night these past few days, her legs went weak, and she ran in a panic, not caring about the child in her belly. If he hadn’t been pressing her step by step, she would have collapsed on the ground by now.

“Where are you running to? When you were hiding in the haystack with me, didn’t you say you liked the excitement of the wilderness? You haven’t had your fill lately, the environment here is good, you should be happy, why are you running?” Watching He Cao running in a panic, Xu Weijun laughed evilly, following closely behind her, like a cat playing with a mouse. He watched her stumble and run, but he didn’t catch her immediately.

 He Cao dared not stop, she fell and got up, afraid of falling into his hands. If it had been before, she might have been happy about his words and looked forward to the excitement. But now, he had lost his ability as a man, and he only made her afraid and humiliated. She couldn’t fall into his hands here, or else she wouldn’t be able to get down the mountain today. It seemed that He Cao also liked the patch of weeds that Xu Weijun had chosen, because in her panic, she ran directly there, making Xu Weijun, who was following closely behind, sneer, “My mother was right, look, I just scared you a little, and you immediately found a suitable place to lie down.

You’re really a low-life.” He Cao, who had tripped over the weeds again, fell to the ground. Listening to Xu Weijun’s words behind her, feeling the man pressing down on her, her eyes fell into despair. She didn’t understand why, even though she had transmigrated and reborn, and even though she had taken away He Wanqing’s identity as the wife of an official, why was she still so miserable? Just like before, she was beaten by her in-laws, scolded and humiliated by her husband. Was she really just a chicken destined to be a chicken, so she couldn’t become a phoenix?

 Feeling her clothes being stripped off, He Cao looked blankly at the sky, without any reaction, which made Xu Weijun annoyed. Then, his perverted methods were revealed, and it wasn’t until He Cao trembled and cried for mercy that he temporarily let her go. While the two were rolling around in the weeds, He Wanqing in her space was eating peaches and listening to the sounds outside her space. After discovering that there was no sound outside, she finished the last bite of the peach and flashed to the place where she had dug up the ginseng. Just as she was about to get up and leave, she heard He Cao’s piercing cries for mercy and Xu Weijun’s triumphant and arrogant taunts. To avoid being discovered by the two, she crouched down again and looked around.

Just one glance, and she almost destroyed her own eyes, pretending she had never seen it. She didn’t expect the couple to be so wild, actually doing it outdoors, and with a substitute. She used the weed leaves to block her view, and then quietly took another look. After discovering that Xu Weijun was only focused on tormenting He Cao, she slowly backed away. It wasn’t until she could no longer see their figures that she stood up straight, looked back at the place where the piercing cries for mercy came from, and then quickly ran towards the place she had been going before.

As for the two who were hunting, she looked back at the location. Forget it, this was a semi-deep mountain, she wouldn’t go down and call people to watch. She ran all the way to the slope she was going to, turned left and right, and then used her sickle to cut off the vines, finally seeing the two ginsengs hidden under the vines. Reaching out to touch the swaying leaves, her thoughts flew back to her past life. In her past life, she had used these two ginsengs to open the door to leave this place. These two ginsengs also gave her the capital to open a small restaurant. It was also these two ginsengs that gave her the courage to fight back against Zhu Sanni’s beatings.

 “Old friends, long time no see. This time, I’m not going to sell you. I’m going to take you to a place where no one will find you. Grow well! Hopefully, when I leave this world again many years later, you will be able to become ginseng spirits, like in the legends.” Looking at the swaying ginseng leaves, she smiled, grasped the wooden handle of the iron shovel, and without tying the two ginsengs with a red rope, she bent down and started digging. Having experience from digging before, she perfectly avoided the places where she had injured them in her past life and dug out the two ginsengs, which were intertwined with each other, intact.

She sent the ginseng into her space, straightened up, looked at the knee-deep pit, smiled, and jumped out of the pit. As before, she used the shovel to fill the pit back in, and then she left the mountain, looking back every three steps. She had been careful when she came, and when she went back, she only took the same path. She reached the foot of the mountain before nightfall. She was carrying a backpack, and just as she was about to pick up the branches on either side to take home for firewood, she saw Gu Cheng’an standing on the other side, looking at her with a dark face. As if remembering something, she looked at him with pleading eyes.

“Don’t be angry, I promise I won’t go up the mountain alone next time.” She raised two fingers and made a promise. “Really?” Gu Cheng’an raised an eyebrow at her, clearly not believing her. He had been looking for her in the mountains for a long time, and he was about to go back and call people to help when he saw her humming an unknown tune, bouncing out of the deep mountains.

If he hadn’t been afraid of scaring her, and if he hadn’t been afraid of the wild boars somewhere in the mountains, he would have said it then. Why wait until now? His eyes fell on the wild vegetables in her backpack, he sighed, reached out and took it. “The mountains are dangerous, don’t go to the deep mountains alone next time.” He couldn’t help it, she was his wife, he couldn’t scold her loudly or put her under house arrest.