Chapter 299: Zheng Shi Takes Action

Moreover, for the past few days, she had never seen any disgust toward her sixth finger in Jiang Xiaoxiao's eyes, not even a hint of dislike.

She was different from everyone else she knew.

Jiang Xuelien sniffed, suppressing the emotion in her heart, and said with red eyes: "Xiaoxiao, thank you; being able to know you is truly the luckiest thing in my life..."

Jiang Xiaoxiao smiled, then looked at the rabbit skin gloves in her hand, and asked with a grin: "So, Sister Xuelien, who did you make these gloves for?"

The gloves Jiang Xuelien made were a bit large and didn't fit her.

"I, I..." Jiang Xuelien lowered her head with a red face, "I made the gloves for Madam Jiang; the weather outside is getting colder, and hands have to be exposed when driving the carriage, so it's inevitable they will freeze..."

Hearing this, Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but be stunned, then smiled.

It's good, her mother also has someone to care for her...

Jiang Xuelien was very embarrassed; she was afraid that Jiang Wei would freeze her hands while driving the carriage outside, so she rushed to make this pair of gloves, and the workmanship was still slightly rough.

She was afraid Jiang Wei wouldn't like them.

Jiang Wei's temperament was cold; although they had lived together for a few days, she was still very reserved and afraid when facing Jiang Wei, being careful in everything...

But when she shyly handed the gloves to Jiang Wei, the other party smiled rarely and even thanked her.

This excited Jiang Xuelien so much that she pulled Jiang Xiaoxiao for a long sigh.

Jiang Xiaoxiao shook her head helplessly.

After being happy, Jiang Xuelien picked up the remaining rabbit skin and started sewing gloves, comparing them to Jiang Xiaoxiao's small hands.

The carriage continued forward unhurriedly, and they traveled for another day.

Jiang Xiaoxiao lifted the carriage curtain, and in the howling cold wind, she could already see the official road leading to Yong'an County from afar.

At the same time.

In a dilapidated temple on the outskirts of Yong'an Town.

Old Woman Li, wrapped in a sour-smelling, shriveled, broken cotton cloth, was shivering in the corner of the temple.

Her black and thin face had an abnormal flush, and she looked listless and sickly.

Old Man Li beside her said with rare anxiety: "Old woman, how do you feel now? Are you any better?"

As he spoke, he poured the hot water boiled in the broken clay pot into a broken porcelain bowl and fed her a few mouthfuls.

Old Woman Li's throat was too dry and hoarse to speak. She barely opened her mouth and drank a few mouthfuls of the water handed over by Old Man Li.

With the moisture of the water, her dry throat felt much more comfortable.

"Old man..." She looked at Old Man Li, who had been taking care of her without leaving her side after she got sick, and her eyes couldn't help but turn red.

Ever since being driven out of Yuhe Village, she hadn't been taken care of by anyone for a long time.

Now that the weather was getting colder, she still had to get up early and work late every day to wash chamber pots for people, touching cold water every day, which caused her to catch a cold, and her body gradually couldn't hold on, which was why she got sick.

"Don't speak, rest well." Old Man Li couldn't help but frown as he listened to Old Woman Li's hoarse and unpleasant voice.

This illness, I'm afraid it won't get better...

He sighed deeply, put down the broken porcelain bowl, leaned against the wall beside him, and frowned tightly.

Now the few of them were living in this dilapidated temple, not eating enough, not wearing enough, and just barely surviving on the money Old Woman Li earned by washing chamber pots.

If Old Woman Li's illness didn't get better, this only income would be gone, so what should he do...

Thinking of this, Old Man Li sighed sadly again.

What kind of sin did he commit...

Not many days after being driven out of Yuhe Village, Li Shoucai took all the money of the two old people and ran away, also taking Yun Ying and Zhu Shi with him.

At this moment in the temple, besides him and Old Woman Li, only a crazy and stupid Li Xiufen remained, and...

His gaze fell on a boy of about ten years old.

At this time, Li Jinbao was starving and thin, not looking at all like a ten-year-old, just like Jiang Xiaoxiao before.

But he didn't have Jiang Xiaoxiao's sensibility and obedience.

At this moment, Li Jinbao was viciously pulling Li Xiufen's dirty and messy hair, pointing at her ugly and ferocious face and mocking and teasing her.

To be honest, Old Man Li's feelings for this big grandson were very complicated.

Sun Shi had run away; he was the only bloodline of the eldest.

The second family had all run away; now the only grandson he had left was this Li Jinbao.

But Li Jinbao had been pampered by his family before, so how could he endure the hardship of living in this dilapidated temple? He would cry and make a scene every day, grabbing the foolish Li Xiufen to bully her to vent his anger.

Now that life in this dilapidated temple was already extremely difficult, and they still had to endure this big grandson's mischief every day, Old Woman Li had proposed more than once to sell Li Jinbao; anyway, the two old people couldn't afford to raise him.

He had rejected it with a loud scolding countless times.

This was the only bloodline of his Li family; even if the two old people starved to death, they couldn't touch the only bloodline of his Li family.

But when the grain was truly exhausted, Old Man Li's firm belief began to waver.

It was already winter, and the weather was getting colder; they didn't even have a thick quilt, so were they really going to starve and freeze to death in this dilapidated temple?

Old Man Li looked at the sickly Old Woman Li, and then at Li Jinbao, who was still full of energy bullying Li Xiufen despite being starving and thin, feeling incomparably conflicted in his heart.

A half-grown boy eats the father poor.

Old Woman Li got up early and worked late every day to wash chamber pots, earning ten wen a day; if it weren't for this brat crying every day for meat buns, the two old people wouldn't have been hungry one meal and full the next.

Could it be... that he really had to sell the only grandson of his Li family?

Old Man Li leaned against the cold wall of the temple, his face full of conflict and pain.

Just then, a sound came from outside the temple.

"Madam, be careful, there is a stone by your feet."

The maid's warning voice came from outside.

Old Man Li subconsciously looked up and saw a young lady dressed in luxury and covered in pearls and jade, being supported by two little maids as she entered the temple.

He was wondering which wealthy lady this was and why she would come to this dilapidated temple, when the person stood in front of him.

"Are you the Li family from Yuhe Village?" Zheng Shi's gaze, sizing up Old Man Li, carried undisguised disgust.

She covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief and frowned tightly as she sized up this dilapidated temple.

"I, I am..." Old Man Li nodded repeatedly, not daring to show any dissatisfaction in the face of the other party's disgust.

"Then we found the right person." Zheng Shi gave a look to a little maid beside her.

The little maid immediately stepped forward, raised her chin slightly, and introduced: "This is my Madam, surnamed Zheng; she is the first wife of Wealthy Merchant Sun of Qingping County... Do you know Wealthy Merchant Sun of Qingping County?"

"I, I know..." Old Man Li nodded stiffly.

Who in Qingping County doesn't know of Wealthy Merchant Sun? He is a famous wealthy merchant in Qingping County, controlling most of the canal boat business in the county; who doesn't know him?

But why would this wife of Wealthy Merchant Sun come to find him? (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 300 =====