Marrying into a poor family

Chapter 21 Calloused Hands

She stretched out her hand, turned it back and forth, and then placed it flat in front of Su Shi. She looked into Su Shi's eyes: "Mom, do you see what I have in my hand?"

Su's questioning was interrupted. She looked at Qin Xiang's hands and followed her daughter's words: "No."

Qin Xiang took Su's hands on the table, turned them over and spread them out, and said, "Look, there is nothing in my hands."

Su didn't understand what Qin Xiang wanted to say, so she frowned and said, "I'm asking you why you have changed so much?"

However, Qin Xiang was still talking about her hands: "Mom, we, mother and daughter, have nothing like these hands. Look at my hands. They have no weapons and no power. What's the use of just being beautiful? What should I use to protect them?" You, protect me?"

Su's heart was shocked, and she looked at Qin Xiang's hands seriously. The palms of her fingers, which were originally white and beautiful, were a little rough. It was obviously because she had been busy making incense these days and nights.

Touching her daughter's palm, Mrs. Su felt very sad: "Why are you calloused?"

"My daughter is actually more willing to grow spikes." Qin Xi said lightly.

"Mom, you have placed your hopes on your father, but what are you waiting for? Do you still want me to be like you, waiting here obediently for him to arrange my life?"

Su Shi didn't speak, her eyes were filled with tears.

Qin Xiang thought helplessly: If she died, it would be over, but why would she have to do it again?
"Mom, who doesn't want to be gentle and virtuous, write poems and songs every day, play the piano and make incense, but can we?" Qin Xiu stood up and prepared to leave without explaining too much.

"Xian'er, I'm sorry. It's my mother who has dragged you down, and she can't help you."

Qin Xiang breathed out a heavy breath to suppress the irritation in her heart, turned around and walked to her mother, squatted down and looked up at her crying mother: "Mom, the Qin family is a dragon's pond and a tiger's den. Don't have any hopes of returning to the Qin family; my father has been treating me for many years. We don't care, which shows that we are not that important in his heart."

Seeing Mrs. Su nodded slightly, Qin Xi continued: "He didn't take us back before, saying that the mistress at home was very strict and it would be difficult for us to live after we go back. We might as well be free in this small town."

"But now that I have just grown hair, he can't wait to get me engaged and we will get married soon. Without a word, he asked us to go back to the Qin family's old house. Isn't the current mistress of the Qin family not strict? Also, mother wants to Have you ever thought about it? What kind of husband's family can make my father so anxious? It's really for my own good, why don't you write a letter and explain the whole story in detail? "

Su Shi stopped crying and looked at her daughter without saying a word.Qin Xiang thought she probably still wanted to say something like, "After all, he is your father."

"Mom, it is said that tigers are poisoned but cannot eat their seeds, but have you seen too few examples? Weren't you sold by your father, mother, and brothers? If it weren't for them, why would you be unable to hold your head up all your life? How could you be so disrespectful to others? Does my daughter feel guilty?"

"You don't know your father, you can't fight him." Mrs. Su raised her hand to touch Qin Xiang's head and said worriedly: "When I first met your father, he also told me when he was happy after drinking. He seems to be taking human lives for some external things. He said he hates disobedient people the most. It’s not that I want you to do anything, but that I’m afraid. I’m afraid that he will punish you.”

From then on, the Su family did not dare to have any thoughts of resisting Qin Xiongfei.

"Did father take a life? Mom, please tell me carefully." Qin Xiang asked eagerly as if she had grasped something.

"How do I know? It's just this feeling." Su looked at her daughter helplessly.

"Mother, as long as you stand behind me and as long as mother is well, I will give it a try. I have to give it a try before I am willing to accept it." Qin Xiang leaned against her mother and lowered her head, hiding the hatred in her eyes.

She doesn't just want to try, she wants to succeed.

She was not only fighting against her father, she also wanted him to be ruined and lose everything, as well as the so-called mistress of the Qin family. Thinking of her, Qin Xiang felt sick and a little scared.

Lanhua and Lian'er could be heard talking and laughing in the hall.

They are simple-minded and only know that if they have enough to eat, they will have a good life.Qin Xiang came back to her senses and smiled. Suddenly she remembered the peace of mind and warmth she had never felt before when Xiao Chenyu held her hand tightly. Unfortunately, that person probably didn't want to mess with her anymore.

Looking up at her mother, Qin Xiang's voice became gentler: "Mom, don't think too much, I am naturally your daughter. Why don't you just ask me about my childhood and see if I know?"

It was late at night, Su and Aunt Sang were lying on the bed.

"Aunt Sang, after Xi'er gets married, you can follow Xi'er. She doesn't know how to cook or wash. How will she live her life?"

Aunt Sang was about to fall asleep, but she woke up again when Su said. She turned to look at Su: "What will happen to my wife if I leave?"

"My selling contract is in the hands of Xiner's father. This is the key to controlling Xiner. As long as there is this hidden danger, Xiner will not be free even if she gets married."

Aunt Sang was completely frightened out of her drowsiness. She sat up suddenly and looked at Su and said, "Madam, don't you think too hard?"

Su Shi couldn't laugh or cry and stretched out her hand to pull Aunt Sang to lie down, but Aunt Sang looked like she wouldn't sleep until she explained clearly.

"I won't be overwhelmed. I still have to watch Xiner give birth and live her life." Su Shi could only promise.

"I was scared to death. What's your plan?" Aunt Sang patted her chest before lying down.

"I want to go to Shuiyue An to practice." Mrs. Su looked at the tent roof: "Before the Chinese New Year, you accompanied me to Shui Yue An. As soon as you entered, you felt very calm. I thought at that time, if it weren't for Xi'er, , I really want to live here.”

I thought Aunt Sang would make a fuss, but she actually agreed after hearing this: "I think the same thing as my wife, there are beautiful mountains and clear waters, and no one looks at us strangely."

Su turned her head and looked at Aunt Sang with some surprise: "You don't want to go too, do you?"

"To be honest, madam, when I was kicked out of my husband's family, I had the idea of ​​becoming a monk in Shuiyue Temple. However, Lian'er's father came to find me and insisted that I go back with him, so I gave up the idea of ​​becoming a monk. Later, I My nephew is gone, and I pity my nephew and his wife that it’s not easy for her to support the child alone, so I haven’t dared to think about it until now."

If Su didn't suddenly mention it today, Aunt Sang would have thought she had forgotten it.

Shuiyue Nunnery is located in the mountains outside the county. Many female relatives in the county who eat fast and chant Buddha are willing to go to Shuiyue Nunnery. The main reason is that the host is actually the unmarried daughter of an official in the court. She is now 40 years old. Although she It was a monk who ignored ordinary things, but could not resist other people who wanted to use her to establish relationships with her family. This also made Shuiyue Temple very lively and popular.

The reason why Su chose Shuiyue An was not for friendship, but because after entering Shuiyue An, even Qin Xiongfei did not dare to come in and arrest people by force.

"I'm just afraid that the girl won't agree." Aunt Sang added with a final sigh.

"Go to sleep and wait until she gets married." Mrs. Su didn't want to talk anymore, but she told Aunt Sang: "Don't leak even a little bit about this matter."

Qin Xiang was not asleep when she suddenly heard the faint sound of bamboo flute and remembered in a daze that this was a piece that she often played when she was young. Xiao Hanyang had learned it at some point and would sometimes play the flute through the wall.

It was already late at night, why was he still playing the flute when he was sick?
Qin Xiang is not an ignorant girl, so she naturally understands that she wants to express her feelings and affection through music.

Unfortunately, Qin Xiang was completely indifferent to it now. She pulled up the quilt and covered her head and forced herself to sleep.

Unknowingly, I fell asleep.

(End of this chapter)