Transmigrated Leftover Woman in Rural Style

Li Xiaonuan woke up, much to everyone's delight. Although someone felt something was off about her, no one doubted that she wasn't Li Xiaonuan. After waking up, Li Xiaonuan only drank a glass of water before letting the Xiao Yang brothers rest.

Seeing their sister awake, the Xiao Yang brothers were relieved. Therefore, neither of them refused and helped their father to the next room to rest.

Li Xiaonuan turned over, hugged Su Shi, found a comfortable position, and fell asleep as well. Su Shi stroked Li Xiaonuan's hair, wiped away her tears, and also fell asleep in her arms.

While everyone else was fast asleep, Li Xiaonuan opened her eyes. In the dim light, she carefully examined Su Shi. In her eyes, there was pain, regret, tenderness, and an overwhelming, unyielding affection for her child.

The white hairs at Su's temples, like mold spots, seemed impossible to remove. A hint of pink had begun to appear in her sallow complexion, a sign that her health was improving. However, the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes were so deep they could trap a mosquito.

The ear piercings she'd had since childhood were already showing signs of closing. Li Xiaonuan thought that one day she must buy Su some jewelry so that Su could also hold her head high in front of those women.

On a sweltering summer night, Su Shi, exhausted from a long day, exuded a strong, sour smell of sweat. Li Xiaonuan, however, found the smell incredibly comforting. She gently rested her head on Su Shi's shoulder and drifted off to sleep contentedly.

The next morning, Fei Fei brought her medicine kit to give Li Xiaonuan a follow-up check-up. Upon learning that she had woken up the previous night, Fei Fei smiled. After taking her pulse, Fei Fei prescribed two new doses of medicine and instructed them:

"Miss Li is mostly recovered, but her pulse is still weak, so she needs to rest well. These two doses of medicine are for treating a cold."

Hearing that Li Xiaonuan was alright, the Li family was overjoyed. After obtaining Fei Fei's permission, they began packing to go home. However, while packing, they noticed Li Xiaonuan looking at them with a strange expression, as if she wanted to say something but then hesitated.

However, at this moment, Li Xiaonuan's attention was clearly not on them, so she did not notice anything amiss. Suppressing the pain in her throat and pinching her blocked nose, Li Xiaonuan decided to go see Prince Jing first.

"Xiao Nuan, why don't you stay at the clinic for now? You can go home when you feel better," Madam Su suggested.

Xiao Yang chimed in, "Yeah, sis, why don't you just stay? It won't cost us any money anyway."

Li Xiaonuan, preoccupied with figuring out how to negotiate with Prince Jing, completely failed to notice the nervous glances Su Shi and Li Xiaoyang were giving her. She replied in a hoarse voice, "It's just a minor cold, why stay at a clinic? Don't forget, those people are still holding onto that incident."

These words silenced the Su family. But the thought of the distressing betrothal ceremony made them reluctant to let Li Xiaonuan go back and face it. They had come in a hurry yesterday afternoon and didn't know how the others were doing.

"Xiao Yang, go ask Doctor Qi if I can see Doctor Wang—no, I mean Doctor Jing. Tell him I want to see Doctor Jing now." Seeing that none of them objected, Li Xiaonuan asked Xiao Yang to go and do it.

Xiao Yang put down the medicine packet in his hand and went out as instructed. As soon as he reached the door, a maid from the Qi family came in. The maid said to Xiao Yang, "Young Master Li, someone outside is looking for you. They say they are relatives of yours. It seems to be your second aunt or third uncle or something."

Why are they here? Li Xiaoyang thanked the maid, then turned back into the house, still puzzled.

"Father, Mother, Second Aunt and the others are here. I'll go out and see them. You wait here for a bit, I'll come back in later."

Li's father and Su quickly urged him, "Go ahead. If they're here to see your sister, tell them to wait. We'll go home together after we leave."

Xiao Yang understood the meaning behind Su's words. He said to Li Xiaonuan, "Sister, I'll go out and check on Second Aunt and the others first. As for Doctor Jing, I've asked the maid in the clinic to inquire."

Li Xiaonuan nodded, gesturing for Xiaoyang to leave quickly. After Xiaoyang left, Li Xiaonuan asked her father and mother in a hoarse voice, "Dad, Mom, did you have someone notify my second aunt and the others?"

Father Li shook his head, while Madam Su said, "No way. Your second uncle is still living at the clinic. They probably heard about you when they came to visit him."

That explanation made sense, so Li Xiaonuan didn't press the matter further. Her throat was sore, and she didn't want to talk much. She needed to save her energy so she could speak with Prince Jing later.

Fifteen minutes after Xiao Yang left, a maidservant came to report: "Young Master said that Doctor Jing has gone out these past two days and asked Miss to go home first."

"He's gone out, or is he here in this spare moment? It seems Prince Jing is avoiding me. Oh well, maybe things will be easier to talk about in a couple of days. Just as I was about to tell Madam Su and the others to go back first, Xiao Gang ran in, shouting all the way:"

"Sister, someone has taken us to court, saying we committed marriage fraud."

Li Xiaonuan frowned. What was all this about? Who pinned this marriage fraud accusation on them?

"What's going on? Who tricked me into marriage? Mother, have you arranged a marriage for Xiaoyang?"

"No, no, it wasn't Xiaoyang." Madam Su looked at Li Xiaonuan, then at Li's father. She really couldn't bring herself to say it, afraid of upsetting Li Xiaonuan.

Seeing this, Li Xiaonuan said with difficulty to her father, "Father, tell me what happened?"

Father Li tried to speak several times, but no words came out. Xiao Gang, watching anxiously from the side, blurted out, "Sister, you've been sold out by Grandma and the others. They took your and Brother's marriage certificates sometime ago. Now the family you were betrothed to is taking the marriage certificate to the yamen to sue us. They're saying our family used a dead person to commit marriage fraud."

Hearing this, Li Xiaonuan was horrified. What a despicable bunch of bastards! She had initially thought they were family, and that once the misunderstanding was cleared up, they could sit down and chat and eat together peacefully. Now it seemed that some people were just like that, regardless of whether there was a misunderstanding or not.

"Dad, if Grandma and the others really did this, what would you do?" Li Xiaonuan asked her father, who was sitting to the side with a sullen face, in a hoarse voice.

Before Li's father could answer, Su shouted at him, "I want a divorce, and I'm taking the child with me. I don't want to have anything to do with your family for even a day longer. You'd better come with me to the yamen to write the divorce papers right now."

Li Xiaonuan tried her best to persuade Su Shi: "Mother, don't be anxious. Let's listen to Father about this. I believe he will find a way to handle things well. Otherwise, we'll go with you then. Xiaogang, don't you agree?"

Xiao Gang nodded vigorously, saying repeatedly, "Yes, Mom, let's listen to Dad. Dad is the head of the family, he'll definitely find a way to solve this."

Li Xiaonuan only said that to give her father a chance to prove himself. No matter how much Li Xiaonuan inquired, no one was willing to talk about what had happened. Even the village elders were evasive and couldn't give a definite explanation.

Since that's the case, let Father Li face it himself. So many years have passed, it's time to clear up even the deepest misunderstandings.