Xu Huaiqian had no idea what was going on outside. He sat on the bed, ready to go find Chen Liejiu to explain things.

Unexpectedly, the door opened automatically from outside.

A neatly dressed little girl, round-headed and cute only about one meter tall, with two buns came in from outside.

She held a bowl of medicine and placed it in front of Xu Huaiqian with disdain: “The medicine prescribed by Doctor Sun is expensive. You should drink it quickly. It will lose its medicinal properties if it gets cold.”

Xu Huaiqian glanced at her: “Who are you?”

The little girl glanced at him strangely, then straightened her chest. With a confident posture: “I will not change my name, the third child of the Chen family, Chen Baozhu.”

The little girl was quite stylish.

Xu Huaiqian coughed lightly and smiled: “Hello, Third Miss Chen, where is your eldest brother?”

Third Miss Chen!!!

 Chen Baozhu’s face flushed red.

Never! Never! No one has ever greeted her so politely.

She seemed like a rich lady.

But she knew she wasn’t. People in the village called her Little Third Chen, and those who were a little polite would call her little sister or youngest sister.

“I’m not Third Miss Chen,” Chen Xiaomei looked at Xu Huaiqian again, and her attitude became much better. “You can call me Chen Xiaomei   (Little Sister Chen) or Youngest Sister. My eldest brother went out, he asked me to watch you.”

He even asked someone to watch him. Xu Huaiqian asked Chen Xiaomei: “Are you afraid that I’ll run away?”

Chen Xiaomei looked up and down at Xu Huaiqian’s skinny body, then she showed a very contemptuous look, as if to say, you?

 “No,” she shook her head, “I’m afraid you’ll commit suicide.”

She didn’t know why a grown man can be so desperate and let everyone know about it. Chen Xiaomei recalled the process of Xu Huaiqian jumping into the river, and her expression was complicated.

Xu Huaiqian also showed an embarrassed look on his face.

The memories of the original owner in his mind were very chaotic, and many of them were just fragments or a vague image. The plot of jumping into the river was just a hot-headed thing of the original owner, and he didn’t pay attention to anything else.

It’s easy to know that a man jumped into the river, especially in a place like Xinghua Village where there is almost no entertainment. It must be the headline news. If there is a hot search, it must be accompanied by the word “explosive”!

It’s really hard to adapt to the shame of being known to everyone.

 “Okay, okay, it’s all over,” Chen Xiaomei saw Xu Huaiqian’s discomfort and quickly changed the subject. She pushed the medicine bowl in front of Xu Huaiqian again, “Hurry up and take the medicine, it’s really expensive.”

She saw when her brother paid. It is one silver coin for one dose of medicine!

Her brother was very generous, and paid for five doses of medicine in one payment. Plus the consultation fee, it was seven or eight silver coins.

Is this medicine? It’s her brother’s hard-earned money!

Xu Huaiqian looked at the dark soup with some unidentifiable residue floating in it, and he was disgusted. It was not that he didn’t want to drink it, but that he didn’t know whether the medicine was clean or not.

But the little girl in front of him had urged him twice, and three times was the limit. He still had something to discuss with her brother…

Xu Huaiqian weighed the pros and cons and decided to forget it. It wouldn’t make him sick if he drank the dirty soup.

Seeing Xu Huaiqian pick up the bowl and drink it up with his eyes closed, Chen Xiaomei nodded with satisfaction.

He is obedient.

Xu Huaiqian didn’t know what she was thinking. As soon as the strong bitter soup entered his stomach, it immediately set off a huge wave. The bitterness went along his intestines and went straight to the top of his head. Fortunately, he pressed the corner of his mouth with his sleeve in time, otherwise he would have vomited it out.

 “You look so delicate,” Chen Xiaomei waved her hand and pushed the candied fruit on the table to Xu Huaiqian, “Here, take it to soothe your throat.”

Xu Huaiqian had just finished drinking the dark medicine juice and looked at the gray candied fruit in front of him, not knowing where to start.

“Ah——”

Chen Xiaomei ignored his hesitation and asked him to open his mouth and put the candied fruit in his mouth.

Xu Huaiqian took a bite and it was quite sweet.

 “Don’t worry, I won’t hurt you,” Chen Xiaomei saw Xu Huaiqian’s face, which was tense by the bitterness, slowly melted away, revealing a faint smile, “I wish I could send you back after you get better.”

Xu Huaiqian was eating candied fruit and was puzzled: “Why?”

“You are too valuable,” Chen Xiaomei did not hide anything from him, “My family can’t afford to support you, my elder brother works very hard to make money!”

Xu Huaiqian thought her words were funny and teased her: “You also know how hard it is to make money.”

“Of course!” Chen Xiaomei straightened her chest and stretched out her short fingers to show Xu Huaiqian: “With spring planting and autumn harvest, escorting, collecting debts, my brother can’t even earn ten taels of silver a year.”

And supporting you can cost ten taels a month, or even more!

She heard from Doctor Sun that you have to be fed with ginseng and bird’s nest, and these things are precious!

 “Then I am indeed quite caliber valuable.” Xu Huaiqian did not hear the hidden meaning in Chen Xiaomei’s words. He thought of the Xu family giving him to Chen Liejiu for ten taels of silver, and Chen Liejiu, as a rich family in the village, could not earn ten taels of silver in a year.

Suddenly, he felt that he was very valuable. Thinking about it, he was quite excited…?

 Xu Huaiqian smiled and gave Chen Xiaomei a reassurance: “Please rest assured, I will not commit suicide again, nor will I pester your family. When your elder brother comes back, I will leave on my own after I have explained everything to him.”

Chen Xiaomei’s eyes lit up at once: “Really? Really? Really?”

“Really,” Xu Huaiqian nodded with a smile, “A gentleman’s word is as good as a horse.”

Chen Xiaomei didn’t understand what a gentleman’s word was, but she foolishly believed Xu Huaiqian. When her brother came back, she eagerly approached him: “Brother, brother, the guy surnamed Xu said he has something to say to you.”

Chen Liejiu, who had just stepped into the house with a cloth bag in his hand, heard this and asked in confusion: “What does he want from me?”

If he remembered correctly, this guy had been trying to avoid him before.

 Chen Xiaomei’s eyes dodged for a moment: “I don’t know.”

Chen Liejiu didn’t see Chen Xiaomei’s dodgy eyes. It happened that he also had something to say to Xu Huaiqian, so he took the bag and went to Xu Huaiqian’s room without much care.

In the room.

Xu Huaiqian, who had been waiting for a long time but no one came, had decided to get up and find Chen Liejiu himself. Although his body was a little weak, he was not so sick that he couldn’t get out of bed.

In this era without mobile phones, TVs, or anything else to kill time, just sitting and waiting for people is really torture.

He was not afraid of not finding someone. The words arrogant, domineering, and bully put together, isn’t it just like Lu Zhishen in Water Margin? He should be able to distinguish himself from the honest and well-behaved villagers in the village. He can speak the local language, so he can ask people.

As a result, as soon as Xu Huaiqian got up, a person walked in from the door.

 He had a high ponytail and wore a neat red horse-faced skirt. His long hair swayed at his waist. He was tall and sharp, with an extremely fair and bright face. There was a red line between his eyebrows, which complimented his three-dimensional and delicate features. His bright eyes reflected by the red clothes made him look bright and energetic.

Xu Huaiqian’s eyes lit up.

Living in modern society, he had seen all kinds of handsome guys, but he was inevitably amazed by such a handsome guy who was so beautiful and unconcealed.

It felt like even this room, which was so simple that it couldn’t be more simple, had added a little color.

Chen Liejiu threw the cloth bag in his hand on the table as soon as he entered the door, and the cloth bag made a crisp “clang” sound.

 Xu Huaiqian came back to his senses and asked tentatively: “Who are you?”

Chen Liejiu looked at him strangely: “I won’t change my name, Chen Liejiu.”

Xu Huaiqian’s expression froze slightly.

…They are really brother and sister, even their way of speaking is exactly the same.

Why didn’t the original owner remember Chen Liejiu’s appearance. It made him think of him as Brother Lu for a long time, causing him to feel embarrassed when he saw Chen Liejiu’s bright and beautiful face.

If he had known that such a beautiful person would be his wife, he would not refuse.

Imagine that a young, beautiful, and rich woman wants to take you home to be her husband. Would you agree or not?

“Why do you keep looking at me? Is there something on my face?” Chen Liejiu raised his hand to wipe his face when he was stared at by him, thinking that he had gotten dirty outside.

 Xu Huaiqian looked away from his face and shook his head: “It’s nothing.”

He felt nervous: Stay calm, stay calm, you have seen all kinds of handsome men and beautiful women, don’t act like a fool who has never seen the world, it will make people laugh.

“Oh,” Chen Liejiu didn’t care. Since there was nothing on his face, he simply sat down, picked up the teapot and poured a glass of water for himself and Xu Huaiqian, “My younger sister said you have something to say to me?”

“Mm,” Xu Huaiqian nodded and organized his words, “I jumped into the river when I was angry and my head was not clear. Now my head is clear.”

Xu Huaiqian sat down with Chen Liejiu and said to him face to face: “I think you may not really want to take me back to be a bought husband, but just want to scare my uncle’s family. I just want to ask you, when can you let me go back?”

“You can’t go back,” Chen Liejiu put the teacup filled with water in front of Xu Huaiqian, “I just went to your house, and your house has been occupied by your uncle’s family.”

Xu Huaiqian paused with the teacup.

 Chen Liejiu observed Xu Huaiqian’s expression while speaking, and seeing that he did not have much emotional fluctuation, he continued: “They say that a married man is like spilled water. From now on, you belong to me, Chen Liejiu, in life and in death.”

The implication is that Xu Huaiqian should follow Chen Liejiu well and not want to go back desperately.

Xu Huaiqian was speechless for a while.

When the original owner’s uncle mortgaged the original owner to Chen Liejiu, the reason he used was that they owed ten taels of silver for the original owner’s parent’s funeral. It happened that their family also owed Chen Liejiu ten taels of silver. The son paid the father’s debt, and he became Chen Liejiu’s husband, which was considered to be repayment.

Chen Liejiu might not be happy with such a forced sale.

Originally, he had thought about it. He would first test Chen Liejiu’s attitude, and then slowly plan to see what conditions he would ask for to let him go back.

Unexpectedly, the uncle’s family directly robbed his house and cut off his retreat.

 “I really didn’t have to take you back to be my husband. What happened that day was just an accident.” Seeing that Xu Huaiqian didn’t get angry after he said that, Chen Liejiu explained what happened that day.

A clay man still has a temper. It’s really that the Xu family’s eldest house is too rogue. They owed him ten taels of silver for three years. He extended the time again and again, and every time he went to collect the debt, they said they didn’t have it.

Finally, he couldn’t stand it anymore. When he saw Xu Huaiqian coming out of Eldest Xu’s house dressed as a scholar, he thought he was from Eldest Xu’s family. He got angry and had Xu Huaiqian tied up and threatened the Xu family that if they didn’t pay him again, he would take this person back home as a bought husband.

All things are inferior except for reading. At present, the Jin Dynasty has only been established for more than 40 years. It is the time to select talents. Even a country bumpkin like him knows this sentence. You can imagine how precious scholars are.

 He thought that for the sake of their own family’s seedlings, the Xu family would definitely pay back the money they owed him.

Who would have thought that the eldest son of the Xu family, Xu Huaiqian’s cousin, would directly say, “If you like him, take him away. I will use the ten taels of silver I owe you as a betrothal gift, and it won’t be considered unfair to my brother.”

Chen Liejiu was quite puzzled at that time as to why the Xu family was so willing to give him up. It was when Xu Huaiqian jumped into the river, then he realized that he had taken the wrong person.

The first and second branches of the Xu family had been separated for many years.

When Xu Huaiqian was young, the first branch thought that Xu Huaiqian, a sickly child, spent too much money, and forced Grandpa Xu and Grandma Xu to separate the second branch, that is, Xu Huaiqian’s parents.

Father and mother Xu took the young Xu Huaiqian to build up the current family business bit by bit. As a result, when Xu Huaiqian’s parents died, they not only occupied everything in the second branch, but also mortgaged Xu Huaiqian to Chen Liejiu.

 Xu Huaiqian held his forehead, and really didn’t know what to say.

The original owner jumped into the river, in addition to being impulsive, he probably really had no hope for life.

“I was wrong about this.” Wrong is wrong, Chen Liejiu didn’t hide it, and admitted it with a good attitude.

After Xu Huaiqian was robbed by him, now the whole village knows that he was sold as a son-in-law. Even if he released him, the lost reputation would not be restored.

What’s more, he even lost his home.

 “Like this–” Chen Liejiu thought for a moment, and pushed the cloth bag that he had just thrown on the table in front of Xu Huaiqian, and said sincerely: “I will give you all my belongings, or you can continue to be my husband. From now on, my home is your home, and all the money I earn will be given to you. You are the master of the family, and you can do whatever you want. I will never interfere.”

“Of course you can also refuse,” Chen Liejiu said without forcing, “If you really don’t want to, I can only compensate you with some money and send you back.”

After sending him back, he will not care about anything.

He wanted to help Xu Huaiqian take back the property that was occupied, but this was the Xu family’s family affair, and he, an outsider, had no right to interfere. He couldn’t be so bold as to go to other people’s homes and make trouble just because the villagers called him a bully.

As for letting Xu Huaiqian continue to be a son-in-law,

 First of all, this is the best way to redeem Xu Huaiqian’s reputation. As long as Xu Huaiqian is his husband for one day, it is the eldest wife of the Xu family who is sorry for Xu Huaiqian. On the contrary, because Grandpa Xu and Grandma Xu are still alive, if he disagrees, he will eventually become cold-blooded and ruthless and will not help others.

Secondly, his hot flashes are coming soon. If he really doesn’t find a man, he may have to go out and find someone random.

Chen Liejiu actually doesn’t care about these, but now there is a ready-made bargain to pick up, so why not pick it up.

Xu Huaiqian has no parents and no place to stay. He can be his husband, so that he doesn’t even need to marry. Except for his poor health, he is the best candidate.

Looking at the big bag full of silver ingots and broken copper coins pushed to him by Chen Liejiu, Xu Huaiqian reacted belatedly.

Is he being proposed to?

 On one side is a beautiful wife and huge wealth, on the other side is to go back and fight for the family property.

It seems that even a fool knows how to choose.

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Little sister shook Qianqian frantically: “Wake up! Don’t be tempted by beauty and money!”