Divorce the bad husband, store grain fields, and marry the emperor's uncle for the second time

"I have already moved out of their house. Their affairs have nothing to do with me. Sister Xianyun, shall we go inside? I bought a few kilograms of rice. We'll have white rice for dinner." Xia Xiaorou said with a smile.

Chu Xianyun also smiled and nodded, "Yes."

The two returned to the house.

Song Yuan immediately ran out from the side room and handed Xia Xiaorou a small hand warmer, "Here, Third Aunt, it's warm."

Xia Xiaorou walked and felt warm, not cold.

She touched Song Yuan's little face with her warm hands, "Aunt San is not cold, you can hold it yourself."

Song Yuan opened his eyes wide and said in surprise, "Wow, Third Aunt's hands are so warm."

"Right, Third Aunt isn't cold. She's just walked a long way and is sweating all over." Xia Xiaorou patted Song Yuan's little head.

Chu Xianyun came out of the kitchen, holding a bowl of warm medicine, walked up to Xia Xiaorou, and gestured, "This is your medicine. I prepared it without leaving. It's not hot anymore. Drink it quickly."

"Thank you, Sister Xianyun." Xia Xiaorou took it gratefully and drank the medicine in one breath.

Chu Xianyun took her empty bowl and pointed at Song Yuan, "You must be tired from walking. Sit with Yuaner and talk and rest. I'll go make dinner. I picked some radishes from the fields this afternoon. Let's have radish soup and rice."

Xia Xiaorou was indeed tired. She smiled and said, "Okay, I'll enjoy it for a while."

Song Yanbai was awake and heard Xia Xiaorou's voice. He said in the room, "Xiaorou, where have you been? Why have you been gone for a whole day?"

Xia Xiaorou followed Song Yanbai's arrangement and would not enter the house until his condition improved. She would just walk to the door and say, "I went to the back mountain and brought back some herbs. Some herbs are suitable for winter harvesting."

"It's snowing outside and it's freezing cold. You have to be careful when you go out alone and watch out for the wild animals in the mountains and forests," said Song Yanbai.

The wild beasts of the forest...

This reminded Xia Xiaorou of her missing elder brother.

Her heart grew heavy.

After listening to Song Yanbai speak for such a long time without coughing, Xia Xiaorou thought that the medicine had taken effect. She wanted to ask about her elder brother while he was feeling better.

"Is Brother Yanbai feeling better? I heard your voice and you don't cough anymore, do you?"

"I still have a slight cough, but it's much better now. Unlike yesterday, I had to cough for a long time to say a sentence. This young doctor Chen you found is really capable." Song Yanbai said with a smile.

"That's good." Xia Xiaorou said with a smile. She looked into the door and said, "By the way, Brother Yanbai, I was only four years old when my eldest brother disappeared. I can't remember what happened back then. Do you remember what happened that day?"

Speaking of the missing Xia Changyuan, Song Yanbai sighed deeply in his heart.

That was a fellow villager who treated him well after his parents passed away.

Unfortunately……

"That morning, I went to the back mountain to dig herbs and came to the pond to wash the mud and sand. Brother Changyuan came to the pond with a load on his shoulder to fetch water, and we started chatting. I remember I told him where to catch wild rabbits, who had killed a wild goat, and a few people with foreign accents who came to our village to buy game. Brother Changyuan asked me to go to the back mountain with him the next day to catch wild rabbits for money."

"..."

"We were talking happily when your stepmother came to the pond to wash clothes. She saw Brother Changyuan chatting with me and scolded him for 'chatting with an empty bucket'. She took the mallet in her hand and hit Brother Changyuan a few times. I stepped forward to persuade her and she stopped beating him. Then Brother Changyuan carried the water and went home, and I also carried the basket of herbs and went back to my own home."

"..."

"That evening, I was sorting herbs in my yard when I heard villagers passing by talking about the disappearance of Brother Chang Yuan. That's when I realized that he was missing. After that, I never heard from him again..."

Song Yanbai sighed as he spoke, "I was thinking, could it be that I told him that he could catch wild rabbits in the back mountain, and he went into the back mountain first? Did he encounter an accident? If so, I... I am a sinner."

Xia Xiaorou heard the key words, "A person with a foreign accent? How is that person dressed? Have you seen him? Brother Yanbo?"

"Yes..." Suddenly, there was a loud bang, which scared Song Yanbai back, "What's going on outside?"

Xia Xiaorou turned around and looked behind her, and saw Chu Xianyun picking up the broken pieces of a clay basin.

Looks panicked.

"It was Sister Xianyun who accidentally dropped the clay pot." Xia Xiaorou walked over and helped Chu Xianyun pick up the broken tiles. "Hey, Sister Xianyun, it's just a clay pot. It's broken, so let it be. The old one won't go away, and the new one won't come. I'll find time to buy a new one tomorrow. Don't be sad."

Chu Xianyun looked up at Xia Xiaorou, blinked, pursed her lips slightly, took the broken tiles and left.

Xia Xiaorou raised her eyebrows. Why did Chu Xianyun look so strange?

Thinking back to what happened back then, Xia Xiaorou and Song Yanbai couldn't figure out the reason for Xia Changyuan's disappearance, so they stopped thinking about it.

Xia Xiaorou advised Song Yanbai to rest more. She walked over and talked to Song Yuan for a while, then walked towards the kitchen.

Just as he was about to enter the kitchen, a shout came from the courtyard gate, "Bitch Xia, get out here!"

Xia Xiaorou raised her head, looked at the person who came, and smiled coldly, "What's the matter, mother?"

Song Liu looked at Song Cuixi who was following her and pointed at Xia Xiaorou, "Come out and talk."

When Chu Xianyun heard Song Liu's voice, she hurriedly walked out of the kitchen and gestured to help.

But Song Liu always looked down on her and never even looked at her.

"If you have anything to say, just say it here." Xia Xiaorou raised her eyebrows slightly.

She found that with Song Yanbai, the "infectious disease" carrier, as a cover, she could avoid a lot of trouble. For example, Song Liu and Song Cuixi, who were always arrogant and would grab her and beat her without saying a word, now only dared to stand outside the gate and yell, and did not dare to come in to beat her.

Song Liu didn't dare to enter the yard, nor could she call out to Xia Xiaorou, and she was so angry that she gnashed her teeth.

"Are you determined not to go back?" Song Liu asked, suppressing her anger.

Xia Xiaorou said calmly, "Mother, it's not that I don't want to go back, it's Cui Xi who chased me away. She threw all my clothes and bedding out and closed the door. It's snowing, and if I don't find a place to live, am I going to freeze to death living in the wild? I had no choice but to stay at Sister Xianyun's house."

Chu Xianyun nodded, indicating that this was indeed the truth.

"It was obviously you who wanted to kill me. I did that because I was angry. I didn't do it on purpose." Being wronged, Song Cuixi was so angry that she was about to explode.

"Shut up!" In order to coax Xia Xiaorou out, Song Liu scolded her daughter and glared at her fiercely.

"Mom, don't you believe me?" Song Cuixi felt wronged and wanted to cry.

Song Liu wanted to beat her daughter to death, so she actually drove Xia Xiaorou away. No, she fell into Xia Xiaorou's trap.

Now that the person has been driven away, who will do the housework?

She had just come home and saw that the clothes in the house had not been washed for two days, the pots were all cold, the floor had not been swept, the pigs were crying with hunger, and two chickens had run away. She was so angry that she beat her daughter severely.

In order to coax Xia Xiaorou back, she had to suppress her anger, "Xiaorou, Cuixi was confused for a moment and said something angry. You are her sister-in-law and the daughter-in-law of our eldest wife. How could we chase you away?"

Xia Xiaorou was about to laugh.

In order to coax her back, Song Liu actually had to be so humble?