Reborn in Dunhuang, I am farming and doing business in the desert

Chapter 22 Sneak Attack
Chen Qing tilted his head and glared at his son, scolding him in a low voice: "You are worried a lot! What's the matter? Could it be that our family can't afford your cousin's oral tribute?"

The youngest son shrank his neck and muttered in a low voice: "That's not what I meant. It's just that Shen Xun is a very good person. Even if the engagement with my uncle's family is cancelled, there are still many families who want to marry him. I think it's better to let my cousin marry him instead of letting an outsider get away with it."

Chen Qing frowned and thought for a moment, then continued walking forward.

It's too early to say these things now. I'm lucky that my family and the Shen family don't become enemies tonight. How can I expect to marry them? Ha! It's a beautiful thought!

The father and son walked to the outside of the Shen family's fenced yard. Chen Qing took a deep breath, pushed away his son's hand knocking on the door, coughed lightly, and said loudly: "Is Brother Shen Ang home?"

This evening he saw Shen Ang coming out of Mr. Dong's house, so he knew that Shen Ang did not go to Tingyi, so he came over to talk to him.

"Who is it?" Shen Ang came out wearing a coat, holding up the oil lamp in his hand to shine: "Huh? Is it Brother Chen? Why are you here at this time? Please come in."

He walked over, opened the wooden door, and motioned Chen Qing and his son to come in.

Chen Qing walked into the house in silence, and suddenly bowed deeply to Shen Ang: "I am here to apologize to you. Brother Shen, please accept my greeting first."

Shen Ang was surprised. He quickly put down the oil lamp and held up Chen Qing. "Brother Chen, why are you so distant? What happened?"

Chen Qing sighed and told the story of his uncle coming to ask for a break-up. Finally, he said, "I didn't know people well. I'm sorry, Brother Shen. Now that things have turned out like this, I have no other options."

After hearing this, Shen Ang's face turned as black as the bottom of a pot.

I had just been discussing with my wife which guests to invite to my son's wedding, but now the wedding is ruined in the blink of an eye.

He turned to look at his wife, his eyes filled with endless meaning.

The couple had a good understanding of each other and knew that in the current situation, one of them had to play the good cop and the other had to play the bad cop.

So Zhang Shanyue stepped forward and said coldly: "In this case, my Shen family will not be a beggar, but they must return all the gifts they received, not a penny less!"

As long as you have money, why would you worry about not being able to marry a daughter-in-law?

She was even glad that the Cao family broke off the engagement in time. If something unexpected had happened after she got married, it would have been hell on earth.

Nowadays, no one would want a girl from such a shameless family even if she was given to them for free!
Chen Qing looked embarrassed and said softly, "Of course, let's go to Cao's house tomorrow and explain everything clearly."

As for whether Shen Ang can get the money, that depends on him.

Shen Zhao in the side room also heard it and felt unhappy and a little surprised.

These things didn't happen in my previous life. I remember that not long after the girl from the Cao family got married, the eldest brother returned to the border, and the new bride stayed in the Shen family obediently for half a year until the bad news of the eldest brother came. Then the Cao family came to pick her up, and the girl from the Cao family never returned to the Shen family after that.

I don’t know what happened in this life, but the Cao family suddenly proposed to cancel the engagement.

Shen Zhao lay on the wooden couch and carefully recalled every detail of his past life, but many of his memories began to become blurred.

She was startled and quickly sat up, took out a charcoal pencil from the small box, and wrote down some important things that happened in her previous life in the notebook made of bronze mirror.

For example, there was thunder and hail in the twelfth month of this year. The hailstones were as big as horse heads, and many soldiers and civilians were killed in the Yuze Barrier alone.

Some cattle, sheep and horses were also crushed to death and countless houses were destroyed. My family survived by hiding in a cave.

Then it snowed heavily, and many people froze to death. My family had to live in a cave for several months.

Then the Huns invaded. The imperial court sent 30,000 cavalrymen to attack the Huns. After killing more than 10,000 enemies, they were surrounded by heavy Hun troops on their way back. In the end, due to lack of food and water, there were heavy casualties, and only one or two out of ten people returned to Dunhuang alive.

Then in the autumn of the following year, a serious locust plague occurred in the Kanto region, and large numbers of locusts flew westward all the way to Dunhuang County.

These were the things that happened to Shen Zhao, and she had to record them down so that she wouldn't forget them.

The next day, Shen Zhao got up early, washed up and went to herd sheep.

The second brother, Shen Heng, also got up early because he had to push a cart to the Jinshui River to carry water. Every winter, the water flowing through the neighborhood would dry up, and it was not until the spring of the following year when the flowers bloomed that the water in the Shule River would become turbulent, and the canals in the villages would also be moistened.

Shen Zhao gently waved the small whip and drove the five sheep in his family to follow his second brother to the Jinshui River.

There were already people carrying water on the road returning, and they would greet the brother and sister from time to time.

Shen Zhao found that Mr. Dong's grandson was among them, so he asked, "Wufeng, is Mr. Dong feeling better?"

Wu Feng nodded: "I'm much better now, thanks to the medicine given by Uncle Shen."

My grandfather had been taking medicine for a while, but he just wasn't feeling well. The doctor had told him to prepare for his funeral. But the little pills Uncle Shen gave him were very effective. This morning, my grandfather was able to get up and even went to the kitchen to cook porridge.

"Is Uncle Shen home?" Dong Wufeng glanced at Shen Zhao timidly and whispered, "I, I want to ask him to go see grandpa again."

Shen Zhao: "Father went to Tingyi before dawn and will probably be back around noon."

She knew that her parents were going to the Cao family to seek justice today, but before leaving, her father had to go back to Tingyi to report for duty.

"Oh." Dong Wufeng was a little disappointed, then nodded to Shen Zhao and Shen Heng: "Then I'll go back, you guys go ahead and get busy."

Shen Heng waved his hand and put the cart by the river.

Shen Zhao also placed the five sheep here and looked around.

It was a bare land, with only some willow trees and shrubs by the river, and the rest was just yellow soil and sand.

Thinking of the coming cold winter, Shen Zhao planned in his mind to dig another underground cave for his home.

She watched the winter survival show for most of last night, and she also wanted to build a cave with a stove.

After that, I bought some coal, also called flint, and stored it, and relied on the stove to keep warm throughout the winter.

A warm bed is also essential. It would be nice to have a kang inside the small bronze mirror. While cooking and boiling water during the day, the kang can also be heated, so people can sit on it and feel warm.

When the time comes, I will buy a small stove, and it will be so comfortable for the whole family to sit on the kang and eat rice and hot pot.

As Shen Zhao thought about it, the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously.

Suddenly she felt a pain in her head and something hit her on the back of the head.

If he hadn't been wearing the hood of his cotton coat, the back of his head would have been broken.

Shen Zhao turned around suddenly and saw a thin figure hiding behind a thick willow tree.

But the edge of his robe revealed his identity.

"You're looking for death!" Shen Zhao was furious. He rushed over with a sheepskin whip and kicked him.

The boy was kicked to the ground unexpectedly, but his eyes were shining with excitement.

Shen Zhao didn't say much, he swung the whip in his hand and lashed at him hard.

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!
The whip hit his head, face and body, but left no marks.

It was because the young man held his head with both hands, and tried to curl up his neck and body, and curled up on the ground like a quail.

"Xue Yi! What are you doing hiding? Do you have the guts to fight me? What kind of man are you if you attack me from behind?"

Shen Zhao swung the whip again and hit him hard on the back of his hand.

(End of this chapter)