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When the young man saw Qin Wuya's inquiry, he was startled, but then laughed out loud: "Miss, it's just that you've not seen me for a few days and you don't recognize me anymore?"

He did know her!

If Qin Wuya had still harbored a trace of hope earlier, thinking that this person was here to ask for directions, then after hearing it, she would have been done for.

That's right, according to his own facial blindness, how could someone with some impressions be a passerby he didn't know? Just thinking about it made Qin Wuya have a headache, the more he looked, the more familiar it seemed, why he couldn't remember anything.

Seeing Qin Wuya's conflicted expression, Zhang Shan felt gloomy, even though her appearance was a little ordinary, sshe should not have forgotten the situation after seeing it, right? That day, he had purposely talked to that little girl about how she could remember him. Why was it that she didn't even remember him for a few days?

"Miss, did you ask me before that you live in Liu Jia Tun? A few days ago, I came back to Liu Jia Tun and specifically stayed there for two days to see you, but didn't expect to hear from you that you were not there.

Liu Jia Tun? What did I say I'm from the Liu Jia Tun? Qin Wuya stared blankly at him for a while before realizing that she had indeed said those words. It was just that her target was the salt seller, not the person in front of him wearing a gown …

Wait …

The peddler? A man in a long gown?

Qin Wuya raised her head in astonishment to size up the man in front of him, and the more he looked, the more familiar he felt. After carefully recalling the events of the day when she bought salt, she finally connected the man in long robes with the fellow in short clothes.

Qin Wuya only had a blind face, but she did not have a bad memory. Thinking back to that day, she remembered this fellow's attitude and could not help but say with a cold face, "Why did you go to Liu Jia Tun to find me?"

[Oh my god! He actually touched someone!] Fortunately, he intentionally gave him a fake address. If he had been told that he was at the Li family village, then he would have inquired about it without a care. Perhaps, his reputation would have been even worse.

Although Qin Wuya's reputation was already at its lowest point, she was still unsatisfied after being added to the list of people who had colluded with strange men for no reason.

Thinking about it, Qin Wuya couldn't help but have a worse impression of this peddler who pretended to be gentle. She was someone that all transcenders understood. How could this person who was born and raised in ancient times not know about it?

Since he knew that he was going to ask about an unmarried girl, wasn't this obviously discrediting him? If it was someone else who was more strict with their teachings or was watched by the people in the village, wouldn't they be scolded? •

"That day... That day, I still had something I wanted to say to you. " Staring at Spring Peaches, Zhang Quan felt a burst of nervousness in his heart. He couldn't even finish speaking the words he had thought of earlier. After a while, he returned to his seemingly indifferent appearance, and said with a smile:

"Don't be angry, I mean no harm. It's just that I saw you leave in a hurry that day and thought you had something urgent so I didn't stop you. When I came back a few days ago, I remembered you. When you said that you lived in the Liu Jia Tun, I couldn't help but want to go take a look at you, but didn't expect that you were only lying to me, it wasn't from the Liu Jia Tun at all. "

Humph! This person was really sharp tongued.

She had clearly asked him why he was looking for her in the village, but he had changed the topic with just a few sentences. Not only was he completely innocent, she had even said that she was deceiving him.

"What do you want to say? What does it matter if I don't live in the Liu Jia Tun?" Qin Wuya's tone was a little unfriendly.

Qin Wuya, who had come to this world for a few months just to survive, was a very cautious and cautious person. If one were to say that the first time was the unreasonable siblings that she had seen in the Manager Wu's backyard, the second time was this deceitful and gentle seller in front of him.

Zhang Shan didn't think that this little girl who looked at him with gentleness would suddenly have such a temper. That kind of gaze was like a little wild cat whose tail had been stepped on, and couldn't help but feel that it was even funnier.

It was a crime to ruin the young miss's reputation, but the matter of rashly finding Qin Wuya was not her fault. She was really used to running and living in the outer sect, and normally when she interacted with her, she would say that she was a person from the martial arts world, so she did not pay much attention to it.

Zhang Shan was not from Clear Water Town, but he was still from Cloud Prefecture. But when he was young, both his parents died after falling into a river pool when they were working outside.

Zhang Shan's family's situation was not that good either. When his parents left, they left behind only three acres of land for Zhang Quan, who was seven years old, and three taels of silver as pension from the government official who was in charge of mending the lotus pond.

However, before these two and three taels of silver had a chance to warm up, Zhang Quan's uncle took them away in the name of raising his younger brother.

Uncle Zhang had many children, and his own children could not even be raised. Not to mention living and eating, he was even reluctant to give them a cold snack.

Zhang Quan had an idea since he was young. Although he was only seven years old, he knew that this was not a solution, so he ran over to the inner court to seek justice. He did not beg his uncle to raise him, but rather asked him to give back the three acres of land that his parents had left him and the three taels of gold that the imperial court had given him.

Unfortunately, at that time, even if Zhang Quan had any ideas, he was only seven years old, and wasn't someone who could teleport away like Qin Wuya. He didn't have the thought of using the crowd's opinions to seek justice for himself, he only knew how to seek justice.

In fact, in Zhang Quan's memories, the person in the village was a pretty decent uncle, and he was normally very friendly to the kids in the village. Zhang Quan still remembered one day when he was 5 years old and his parents had yet to return home. He was so hungry that he wandered around the village, and when he saw them, he even stuffed two sweet fruits in front of him.

However, sometimes, human hearts were the hardest things to understand. Some people were bad to the bone, but they could also do human things. Some people could be good for life, but they could also be bad to the point that they couldn't be seen through.

In the past, when he was seven years old, Zhang Quan knelt down in the Li Zheng family house full of grievance, begging for justice. However, in the present, he spoke plainly: "Since ancient times, when your father is alive, he has to respect your uncle.

Now that your parents are gone, it makes sense for your family to be awarded to your uncle. You are still young and can't live by yourself, so why don't you point to your uncle and aunt and raise you? "The grace of raising a child is as great as the heavens. The three acres of thin farmland and the three taels of silver will all be repaid in gratitude."

In fact, if Zhang Shan's uncle and aunt had left him some food to eat, even if he could get enough of it, he wouldn't have gone to seek justice.

But right now, he really had no other choice. He had been starving for two whole days and had dug up all the wild vegetables in the mountain behind the village.

At that time, when Zhang Shan was young, he was somewhat afraid of facing his uncle's family by himself, so he didn't dare to say anything in the first place. But the reason why Zhang Shan mustered up the courage to come to this place was because his aunt suddenly brought him out of the house early in the morning.

Zhang Quan was still too young, so he really hadn't worked in the fields before. However, he didn't dare to resist and followed his uncle into the fields.

When he got to the ground, his uncle didn't really point at him and do anything, but just turn over and be a worm. Zhang Shan had thought that his uncle was more or less fond of him, but when he thought that he would return home from the mountain, he realized that all the wild herbs that he had gone through great difficulty to dig out from the mountain yesterday were all gone.

It went without saying that his aunt had taken it away when he left the house this morning. After her parents passed away, her aunt came to her house to clean up. Today was the day of cooking, tomorrow was the day of shoveling and axing. She even searched all the old clothes and shoes that her parents had left in the main house. If it wasn't for the fact that the bedding in his room was too worn out to look at, he probably wouldn't have let it go.

But Zhang Shan never would have thought that his aunt would not even let go of his last remnants of food. As he thought about this, Zhang Shan subconsciously reached his hand out to his chest, where a small cloth bag was hidden close to his chest. Inside, there was a gold ring and a pair of gold earrings that Zhang Shan's mother secretly placed in the room. This was the dowry Zhang Shan's mother brought when he married Zhang Shan's father.

Speaking of Zhang Shan's mother, before he married Zhang Shan's father, his family's situation was not bad. It was just like many large households, where each generation was weaker than the last. When it came to Zhang Shan's mother's generation, it would just fall. Zhang Shan's mother was surnamed Zhao. He had a brother who had married the daughter of a rice shop in town, and that new sister-in-law of hers was extremely powerful.

After that, she started to dislike her own sister-in-law, thinking that she should marry her sister-in-law off to someone else. The daughter of the rice shop was used to seeing her father do such disgusting things, so she was determined to take Zhang Shan's mother to her distant relative as a concubine.

Even though the Zhao Family had declined, it was still a family heirloom! How could he let his daughter become a concubine? Not to mention that his mother would not agree, even his father would not agree. This was a matter that would cause his ancestors to lose face.

However, a daughter-in-law was someone who could cause trouble. As long as she didn't marry her daughter, she would beat the crap out of everyone. In the end, Mrs Zhao had no choice but to choose a husband for her daughter. Even if she came from a poor family, it was still better than being sold as a concubine by her eldest son's wife.

The Zhao Family had been in decline for a long time, if it was said that they still owed a debt, most people would not be willing to marry Zhang Shan's mother, because they were afraid that their future wife would help them. Those who were willing to take Zhang Shan's mother were either those with poor characters or those who wanted to be their concubines. Coming and going, Mother Zhao had picked the Zhang Shan's father.

Logically speaking, even if the Zhao Family's reputation declined, they still wouldn't want a poor, poor, and destitute son of a b * tch. But Mother Zhao was helpless, seeing that Zhang Shan's father's character was good, she went back to ask her daughter for her opinion, and seeing that her daughter agreed to the marriage agreement, she clenched her teeth and agreed to it.

In order to prevent her daughter from suffering, Mother Zhao secretly gave her daughter some of the gold and silver ornaments she had brought with her in the past that she had not allowed her daughter-in-law to see as a dowry.

It was a pity that Zhao Fu and Zhao Mothers could not protect their daughter for the rest of their lives even if they had a daughter in their hearts. Zhang Shan's mother had only been married for five years, but both his father and mother had already left. Zhang Shan's mother had a gentle personality sincehe was young. Even though the Zhao Family had declined, she was still a young lady who could not read, and after marrying into the Zhang Family, she did not get used to suffering so quickly. Within these five or six years, he had duped more than half of the dowry and accessories that his mother gave her, and of course, he was also deceived and tricked by Aunt Zhang Shan.

Afterwards, Zhang Shan's mother also became well-behaved, and his work became more solid, and he no longer treated as a servant. The last three gold ornaments were left behind. Zhang Shan's first day, when his first aunt came to clean the pots and pans, Zhang Shan, who was only seven years old, realized the danger and secretly hid the three golden ornaments left behind by his mother on his body.

It was also because Zhang Shan had foresight, that his aunt did not dare to be so brazen the first few times, but after coming here a few times, she did not hesitate to open her boxes in front of Zhang Shan, and if Zhang Shan dared to say anything, it would just be a beating.

For the next three days, Zhang Shan went to the mountains to dig up wild vegetables at night. The next morning, he was called to the fields to work, and at night, when he returned home, the wild vegetables were all gone. Zhang Quan tried changing places, but they were all gone, as if his aunt was looking at his hiding place.

After a few days, Zhang Shan could no longer take it any longer. One night, he sneaked into his big uncle's courtyard, just to eat something. However, it was this time that he overheard the conversation between his uncle and aunt. It turned out that their uncle and aunt had deliberately planned to pull him to work during the day, letting his aunt take away the wild vegetables he picked. For no other reason than to starve him to death.

They were afraid that when the time came, they would be stabbed in the spine by the villagers, saying that if they treated their younger brother as an orphan, they might as well starve him to death right now. He had even thought of saying that the child was too sad, that he had starved himself to death because his parents refused to eat and drink, day and night.

When the time came, they would be able to report this matter to the government and ask for the title of filial piety in the family. It was said that the government was the reward, and perhaps they could get another two taels of silver.

Zhang Shan felt a chill in his heart, he was young and did not know what a filial piety family was, but he knew that his uncle and aunt wanted to starve him to death, that was why they ran over to complain, and did not want to get such an outcome.

Although he was young at the time, he didn't know why Li Zhengzheng said that, but he still felt that Li Zhengzheng was a good person in his heart and thought this was the way of the world. That year, he had no other way to get out of the village.

When he came back later, he understood that it was not because he couldn't help him but because he had received a silver tael from his uncle and had long since written down the story of his starvation. He was waiting for the day to come when he would hand over the documents to the magistrate.