A Farm Girl: Three Acres of Fertile Land Can Be Exchanged for a Country

After careful consideration, Shi Xin realized he had a point. She kowtowed to him respectfully several times, then went back and told Qi Yunqiong that she should go back first while she stayed to earn money. She planned to find her again and marry her once she had earned enough.

Qi Yunqiong was reluctant to part with him, feeling that the world was so big and dangerous, and that if they separated, they might never see each other again.

But Shi Xin was quite stubborn about this, so she had no choice but to agree and get into the carriage he had hired to go home.

Two months after leaving Fudomo Peak, Qi Yunqiong discovered she was pregnant. The child was obviously relieved, but now she was thousands of miles away.

She wrote several letters and had them delivered to him by pigeons kept at the post station. A long time passed without a reply; she didn't know if the letters had been lost or if he simply didn't want to reply.

Women often feel particularly helpless and easily become sentimental when they are pregnant.

Qi Yunqiong suspected that Shi Xin had regretted her decision and didn't want her and the child. She also had severe pregnancy symptoms and vomited violently in the carriage. By the time she got home, she had lost a lot of weight and was on the verge of death.

Her relatives all asked her whose child it was. She didn't dare say it was a monk, so she wrote to Shixin every day, wanting him to know about it and urging him to come over as soon as possible.

However, no matter how many letters she wrote, they all went unanswered.

Qi Yunqiong, a man of letters for a lifetime, made a decision she herself could hardly believe—she would get up and return to Unmoving Peak right now, determined to let Shi Xin witness the birth of this child.

Her relatives all tried to stop her, saying it was too dangerous. Qi Yunqiong insisted on doing it, so they had no choice but to prepare the fastest carriage and the best driver to send her away from Jinzhou.

They rode at breakneck speed all the way, never stopping even in a storm. The coachman was astonished, for they hadn't gone this fast, not even during a military campaign, let alone with a pregnant woman.

When Qi Yunqiong arrived at Fudo Peak, she was still more than a month away from her normal delivery date.

Her belly was already very big, and she couldn't go down the mountain. She had to pay someone to go up the mountain for her. She learned that Shixin was no longer on the mountain. He had gone down the mountain to do business. No wonder she hadn't received a reply to her letter.

The world is vast, where can she find the child's father?

Qi Yunqiong was unwilling to give up, so she stayed in the town and did nothing but inquire about Shi Xin's whereabouts every day.

One day, when the family's oil bottle was empty, Qi Yunqiong went to the market to buy some. She inadvertently saw Shi Xin walking with a beautiful young woman; the two were smiling and appearing very intimate. Shi Xin had grown his hair long, was dressed casually, and looked dashing and debonair.

Did Shi Xin already find another woman when she left?

She couldn't believe it, and she was also afraid that Shi Xin was really so heartless. If she appeared in front of him with her big belly, it would be a disgrace to herself.

If you can't see Shixin, then see that woman.

Qi Yunqiong followed the two, and when Shi Xin went into the shop to buy something, while the woman waited outside, she went over and asked, "What is your relationship with that man?"

The woman blinked, looking at the suddenly appearing large belly with a puzzled expression.

"Are you Ayun? Hehe, I'm his wife."

Shi Xin became a monk at the age of ten; his name before ordination was Cheng Xingyun. The fact that a woman knew his secular name clearly indicates a deep understanding of him.

He renounced worldly life and returned to secular life... but married another woman...

Qi Yunqiong felt as if her heart was being torn apart, tears blurring her vision. The bamboo oil bottle fell to the ground with a thud, and she turned and ran away.

The woman looked at her retreating figure with a puzzled expression.

Shi Xin quickly came out of the shop, carrying a saddle and stirrups.

He was about to embark on a long journey. He knew that medicinal herbs from the north could fetch high prices in the south, and since he happened to know a bit about medicinal herbs, he planned to take advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune.

"There was this strange pregnant woman who came up to me and asked what our relationship was. After I told her I was your wife, she actually ran away crying."

The woman nudged Shi Xin with her shoulder and asked slyly, "Ah Yun, when you were a monk, did you secretly seduce women?"

A heavily pregnant woman? She ran away crying?

Shi Xin immediately thought of Qi Yunqiong, but Qi Yunqiong had already returned to Jinzhou and would not be here, much less pregnant.

Someone probably mistook it for something else...

Thinking this, he instructed the woman beside him, "Sister, don't joke around like that anymore. I already have a woman I like. Your husband will be angry if he finds out."

"You bastard, you've been a monk for so many years and haven't sent a single letter home, and now you have the nerve to lecture me."

The woman angrily scolded him.

He smiled helplessly and urged her to hurry up.

When Qi Yunqiong returned home, her heart ached more and more. She couldn't believe that Shi Xin was such a heartless person, and she also felt that she was too stupid to have come without knowing anything.

Now how to do?

If she were more assertive, she should have gone to their door, pointed her finger at Shixin, and given him a piece of her mind, then given birth to the child and dumped it on him before going back to Jinzhou to live her own good life.

But she loved Shixin... a love from the bottom of her heart.

She didn't even want to put Shixin in a difficult position because of her.

Moreover, if she were to come knocking on his door, Shi Xin would definitely dislike her and find her annoying...

Qi Yunqiong sat there all night, unable to bring herself to confront him. Giving birth alone in a foreign land was too difficult, so she simply packed her bags, found a driver, and asked him to take her home.

Halfway there, a heavy snow began to fall, covering the ground and turning everything into a white expanse.

Before they knew it, the carriage got stuck in the mud and they couldn't get it out.

The coachman wanted to go to the village ahead to find someone to help, but Qi Yunqiong couldn't ride a horse and couldn't control it. So he asked her to go to the village ahead and hire someone to come over.

Qi Yunqiong is almost due to give birth; her belly is quite large. Don't walk such a long distance; it's even inconvenient for her to lie down and sleep at night.

But they were the only two people in this desolate wilderness. And with the weather so cold, if they didn't find shelter quickly, they might freeze to death in the car.

She gritted her teeth and persevered, continuing forward.

The snow was knee-deep, and she walked with uneven steps, leaving a trail of messy footprints.

The village was about a mile away, and there were usually midwives or barefoot doctors there. Qi Yunqiong vaguely sensed that the baby was about to come out, and she desperately walked forward, wanting to give birth to the child in the house.

But the other party was in such a hurry to come into this world that when they were still half a mile from the village, she was in so much pain that she couldn't hold on any longer and collapsed on the snow. Her amniotic fluid gushed out and soaked the ground, and white smoke rose from the snow, which was quickly stained bright red with blood.

Qi Yunqiong's limbs were stiff from the cold, and her brain was throbbing so badly she couldn't think straight. She tried to recall other people's experiences of childbirth, and pressed her blood- and snow-covered hands against her belly, gritting her teeth and pushing hard, determined to give birth to him.

This is her and Shixin's child. Even though Shixin has changed his mind, they were indeed in love back then.

The child is hers, and even if she doesn't care or care about him, she will still raise him to adulthood.

She also told him that if you love someone, you should be sure of your love and never fall in love with someone else easily, otherwise the first person to be loved will suffer more than death.