Chapter 73: The Pitiful Chunmiao Sisters

Hearing the person recommended by Qiulian Niang, Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but purse her lips and smile lightly.

She thought that Qiulian Niang would recommend someone she was familiar with or had a good relationship with to do this job, but she didn't. Instead, she recommended Chunmiao, who had nothing to do with her.

"Sigh, you don't know..."

Qiulian Niang sighed and said: "Yesterday, Chunmiao and Chunya, the two girls, were driven out of the house by Zhao Wulai, that bastard. They helped work on the mountain for a day, and didn't even have a mouthful of hot food when they went home. They were hungry outside for most of the night before they were let back home."

Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but frown and said: "Doesn't Zhao Dasao care? Chunmiao and Chunya are her own daughters."

"Sigh, she can't help it either, she can't even protect herself..."

Qiulian Niang shook her head helplessly and continued: "I heard that Zhao Wulai discovered she was secretly hiding meat and beat her up. Now Chunmiao's mother is still lying at home and can't get up. The two girls were driven out just because they were pleading for their mother..."

Hearing this, Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but feel a bit of emotion. Zhao Wulai is too inhuman. It's one thing to be gluttonous and lazy, but he also commits domestic violence all day. How can Zhao Dasao endure such a man?

Even if divorce is difficult in ancient times, if you want to leave such a man, it's not without a way.

"So, I was thinking, why not let Chunmiao come to your house to help work? You don't have to give her much wages, just let her have a full meal. This child is so pitiful..."

Jiang Wei shook her head, indicating that everyone should be treated equally: "Wages still have to be given for coming to work."

"But, Mother, if you give Chunmiao wages, what if her father snatches them away?" Jiang Xiaoxiao reminded from the side.

She raised both hands and feet in favor of letting Chunmiao come to help work at home, but Qiulian Niang's words also made a lot of sense. Letting her come to work at home is to help her avoid the abuse of her scumbag father at home, but if she takes the wages back, with Zhao Wulai's greedy temperament, he will definitely beat Chunmiao to force her to hand over the wages.

It would be better to exchange the wages for other food for her. This can not only avoid bringing trouble to her but also let her have a place to settle down and eat her fill.

"Xiaoxiao's words make sense." Jiang Wei nodded in agreement. "It was my consideration that was not thorough. Since that's the case, let Chunmiao eat at our house from now on."

"Good, then let's go find Chunmiao tomorrow when we come back!"

Jiang Xiaoxiao smiled happily. With Chunmiao's help, her little hands could be liberated. She was almost driven crazy by beating so many eggs.

"Xiaoxiao, if you are tired, go outside and rest."

Qiulian Niang touched her head with love. "When my Tiezhu was five, he wasn't half as sensible as you. He only knew how to play wildly outside all day and get covered in mud, which I had to wash. Look at you, not only sensible but also capable, helping your mother go to town to sell snow cakes every day. Sigh, if only my Tiezhu could be half as sensible as you..."

While speaking, she also glanced at Jiang Wei with reproach, as if to say, you are willing to let such a small child help you do so much work every day.

"Ah, Auntie Qiulian, actually I'm not tired..." Jiang Xiaoxiao was stunned and was about to speak, but her mother nodded in agreement: "That's right, Xiaoxiao, you go out and play. Let us adults do this work."

Saying that, her mother drove her out of the kitchen.

"Ha?" Jiang Xiaoxiao stood in the courtyard, stunned. Do they really not need her help anymore?

But today they have to make more than a thousand ice cream and snow cakes. How can the two of them finish it?

"Mother, I'm really not tired. Why don't I come and help you burn the fire?" Jiang Xiaoxiao pulled the window and poked her little face in.

"Alright, you are not even as tall as the stove, so just go out and play obediently." Jiang Wei waved her hand. "If you really have nothing to do, go to Zhao Dasao's house and find Chunmiao, and tell her to come to work tomorrow."

"Alright then." Jiang Xiaoxiao could only say.

Come to think of it, she always forgets that she is a five-year-old child, following her mother all day, worrying about everything, without any childishness.

If this continues, it will sooner or later attract suspicion. She should find something for children to do.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xiaoxiao returned to the room, rummaged through the cabinet for the fragrant sugar fruits that Jiang Wei bought not long ago. Inside was a big box full of honey cakes, sugar balls, sugar corners, happy sugar, and the like, the snacks that children like most.

But she basically doesn't eat these usually, because Jiang Wei will occasionally stuff her with chocolate and nuts that only exist in modern times. These ancient snacks are naturally delicious.

She simply grabbed a handful and stuffed it into the small bag at her waist, and went out for a stroll.

But just as she walked to the courtyard gate, the little tiger pounced on her, climbing her trouser legs with its claws and calling "Awoo."

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked down and saw the little tiger raising its tiger face, its pair of beast eyes looking at her pitifully.

She couldn't help but laugh: "Why are you so clingy? Do you also want to go out and play with me?"

"Awoo~" The little tiger responded lightly, its call full of sycophancy and flattery.

"Alright then." Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at the injury on its leg twice, which seemed to be almost healed, so she bent down and picked up the tiger, "But you have to be obedient and listen to me when you go outside."

"Awoo~ Awoo~"

The little tiger seemed to understand her words, responding twice in a row.

Jiang Xiaoxiao held back her laughter and took the little tiger out of the house together.

Her house is at the end of the village, quite far from Zhao Dasao's house. Walking all the way, she passed the big locust tree in the village as usual.

As in the past, a few old women sat under the tree to cool off, rubbing straw ropes in their hands while chatting with each other.

Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't help but want to stop and listen to the gossip when she walked there.

No way, there are no mobile phones or internet information in this era. In this closed and deaf mountain village, you can only rely on listening to gossip to understand other things in the village.

"Hey, have you heard? Someone saw Zhao Wulai getting very close to Widow Xu in the village recently..."

"Ah? That can't be, Widow Xu's man has only been dead for two years, and she still has her father-in-law and mother-in-law above her. If she still has a conscience, how could she do such a thing."

"Who knows, I heard that Zhang Dalin's son saw them drilling into the small forest once..."

"Heaven, this woman is so bold! This is to be soaked in a pig cage!"

……

Jiang Xiaoxiao was originally pricking up her ears and listening with great interest, but when the old women saw her coming, they immediately closed their mouths and stopped talking.

"Xiaoxiao, where are you going?"

The old women probably felt that it was inappropriate to chat about such dirty gossip in front of a child, so they changed the subject, but the next second they noticed what she was holding in her arms, "Eh, Xiaoxiao, what are you holding in your arms? A cat?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 74 =====