Xia Xiaoying stopped and looked at Xia Xiaorou with a puzzled look, "What happened back then? ...What happened back then?"

Xia Xiaorou suppressed her anger, "You are pretending to be confused, right? You made me pretend that nothing happened, right? Xia Xiaoying, you are really good!"

Xia Xiaoying became anxious, "Xiao Rou, I really don't know what you are talking about. What happened back then?"

Xia Xiaorou smiled, with anger in her eyes, "Xia Xiaoying! I don't want to marry into the Song family. You stole the household registration card that Nanny Tian hid for me and gave it to Xia Chenshi, which made it impossible for me to escape and I had to marry into the Song family! How dare you forget this!"

"It's not me, I don't have it!" Xia Xiaoying stamped her feet and cried anxiously, "Xiao Rou, our household allowance...ours, I didn't give it to my stepmother, I still hid it!"

Xia Xiaorou laughed sarcastically, "Don't pretend to cry. Among the three of us, you have the best relationship with Xia Chenshi. She asked you to steal my household allowance and give it to her, so why wouldn't you give it to her?"

Xia Xiaoying looked at her angry sister, feeling anxious and panicked.

She didn't know what she had done wrong to make her sister doubt her so much. She wiped her tears and said, "Xiao Rou, I'll take you to a place and give you your household registration."

Xia Xiaorou looked at her calmly, "Okay, let me see if you can help me find a household registration."

Seeing that the two sisters were on edge, Chu Xianyun pulled one's arm, pushed the other, and gestured, "Stop arguing, talk it out. I guess there must be some misunderstanding between you two."

"We have no misunderstanding!" Xia Xiaorou looked at Xia Xiaoying coldly.

"Xiao Rou, come with me." Xia Xiaoying pursed her lips, leaned on a stick, and walked out of the dense forest.

Chu Xianyun hurried forward to support her.

Xia Xiaorou raised her eyebrows slightly and followed.

After walking out of the dense forest, the road became much flatter. Chu Xianyun asked Xia Xiaorou to take their backpacks, and she walked over and carried Xia Xiaoying on her back.

Xia Xiaoying insisted that she didn't want him to carry her on her back. "I can walk. You're not that strong. Don't try to show off."

Xia Xiaorou glanced at them, walked to the road, stopped a passerby driving a cart, gave him ten cents, and begged him to drive the three of them back to the village.

The passerby was not in a hurry and readily agreed.

Xia Xiaoying said awkwardly, "Xiaorou, I'm sorry to have cost you money."

"Sister Xianyun can't carry you, so just walk back slowly. You're just wasting my time." Xia Xiaorou glanced at her indifferently and turned her head away.

Seeing that her face turned cold again, Xia Xiaoying sighed and stopped talking.

The coachman followed Xia Xiaoying's instructions and came to Xia's house.

However, the door of Xia's house was closed and no one was seen.

"The door is closed, how are you looking for something?" Xia Xiaorou glanced at the door and asked Xia Xiaoying.

"The kitchen door is not locked. The things are in the kitchen." Xia Xiaoying said. She nodded to Chu Xianyun, "You wait outside for a while. Let Xiaorou come with me."

This was a matter between the two sisters of the Xia family. Chu Xianyun smiled tactfully, pointed to the old millstone beside the gate, and sat down to rest.

Xia Xiaorou put down the backpack and followed Xia Xiaoying into the kitchen.

Since their stepmother came, the sisters' original bedroom was given to Xia Chen's daughter Xia Chunfang.

The two of them were arranged by Xia Chen to work in the kitchen.

The kitchen was divided into two parts, one side was the stove and the other side was their bed, separated by a curtain in the middle.

Three years ago, after Xia Xiaorou was married to the Song family by Xia Chen, the sisters' beds were moved away by Xia Chen, and some firewood is now piled where the beds were.

"Where is the household sticker?" Xia Xiaorou asked with raised eyebrows, looking at the messy kitchen.

Xia Xiaoying pointed to the corner where the bed was originally placed, "There, I'll find it."

She dragged her aching leg and climbed up the pile of firewood. She threw the tall firewood away bit by bit and moved a brick away.

Xia Xiaorou narrowed her eyes. She was smart and actually hid something here.

Xia Xiaoying reached into the crack in the wall and pulled out a clay jar.

The mouth of the pottery jar was wrapped with several layers of waterproof butter paper.

Xia Xiaoying tore off the oil paper and took out a small sandalwood box the size of her palm.

The box was exquisitely crafted, and the clasp was made of gold inlaid with jade, which looked very expensive.

It doesn't look like something from the countryside.

In her previous life, Xia Xiaoying was poor and destitute, but she actually hid such a valuable item!

Xia Xiaorou was very surprised.

"Xiao Rou." Xia Xiaoying held the sandalwood box and looked at Xia Xiaorou. "Before she died, Aunt Tian repeatedly told me that if someone from the capital came to pick us up, I should open this sandalwood box. If no one comes, we need a household registration card and use the one we have. Our household registration card is fake and has no value. It can only be used in this county. It will be recognized as a fake if we leave the county. The real household registration cards of my three siblings and mother, as well as Aunt Tian's, are all here."

Xia Xiaorou narrowed her eyes, "What do you mean?"

Xia Xiaoying shook her head, "I don't know either. This is what Aunt Tian told me before she died. I took it out because you insisted on it today." She looked at Xia Xiaorou and sighed, "Don't blame Aunt Tian for not telling you. You were only four years old back then, and you wouldn't understand even if I told you."

Beijing?

Is there anyone coming to pick them up?

Xia Xiaorou pondered these words in her mind, always feeling that there was something big that she didn't know about, that she missed in her previous life.

The Xia family's kitchen was struck by lightning this summer. The lightning burned the kitchen and half of the Xia house collapsed.

This sandalwood box and the things inside must have been burned.

She was glad that she insisted on asking Xia Xiaoying in this life and only then did she know that there was this secret.

Xia Xiaorou took the sandalwood box, opened the clasp, and found that there were indeed a few household registration cards inside.

She took out the folded household card and shook it open to look at it.

"Hey, you don't know how to read, so let me read it to you. When my mother died, I was six years old, and I learned a few words from her." Xia Xiaoying came to take the household registration card from Xia Xiaorou's hand.

But Xia Xiaorou pressed Xia Xiaoying's wrist, her voice trembling, "Don't move! I'm watching."

Xia Xiaoying sighed and shook her head, "You are reading, but you can't recognize the words. Mom wanted to teach you before, but you were always sick. She said you could learn after you recovered. But who knew that you recovered and Mom was gone. You never had the chance to learn to read, so how can you understand? You should show it to me."

"Have you seen these household stickers before?" Xia Xiaorou blinked and looked at Xia Xiaoying.

"No, look at the seal, it's still the same as it was many years ago and is covered with a lot of dust. It was sealed by Nanny Tian." Xia Xiaoying shook her head.

"Sister..." Xia Xiaorou was excited and asked Xia Xiaoying, "Did mother and Aunt Tian tell you about the capital before they died? And what are our true identities?"

Her mother died when she was three years old, and her wet nurse, Nanny Tian, ​​died of illness when she was four.

She was too young and didn't have many memories of Wei Xueying and Nanny Tian.

I only vaguely remember that her mother was very beautiful, so beautiful that the villagers said she was a fox spirit. She was so beautiful that her aunt Zhou Xia was jealous and hated her, and she was also hated because she looked like her mother.

I vaguely remember that Aunt Tian was a fierce person. She would beat anyone who bullied her. Although her accent was different from that of the villagers, it did not prevent Aunt Tian from winning every argument with the villagers.

Unfortunately, the two of them left too early and she didn't have time to ask them more questions.

Xia Xiaoying was confused. "We never talked about the capital. Our true identity... what identity?"

Xia Xiaorou looked at Xia Xiaoying with a cold expression, "We are not from here, and Xia Dequan is not our father."

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