C21

After dinner, the two greeted Butler Xu and quickly went to the city gate. At this moment, they might be able to catch Old Man Wang's oxcart.

As the two of them left the city, they did not expect to be lucky, and as expected, they saw Old Man Wang parked his oxcart not far away from the city gate, under a tree, looking at the smoke bag in his hands, and upon seeing Cheng Xi and Cheng Xi, he smiled and waved at the two of them.

The two of them walked over, Cheng Xi laughed and said, "I was worried that you would have left, luckily."

The Old Man Wang laughed, "I just arrived not too long ago, it seems too early, I might as well wait for you at the city gate. If you guys still don't come, I should leave."

As he spoke, he tied up the rope and got ready to drive the carriage. Seeing the two of them getting on the cart behind, he started to set off slowly.

Old Man Wang also began to inquire about the two people's situation, "Did the child find anything? This time, my son-in-law is looking for someone when he returns, but I have to go to Prefecture City with him and work with him. The job is a bit hard, but it's still better than making money in our county. "

Cheng Xi asked curiously, "Uncle, what is your son-in-law doing at Prefecture City?"

Old Man Wang said, "The workers at the pier are very tight, they are short of children, so how about it, do you want him to go?"

After getting along with her for the morning, Old Man Wang knew that this girl had her own ideas. Furthermore, this child was very bored and couldn't say anything for a long time.

But this time, Cheng Xi did not reply. Instead, she replied first, "Thank you, sir, I will not be going if my Prefecture City is too far away. We have already settled some matters in the county city.

Hearing Xu Sanlang's words, the Old Man Wang could only give up, and after that, he asked about the two of them working, and even agreed that he would be driving his ox-cart into the city in the town the day after tomorrow. In any case, he had to help his son-in-law find workers these past few days, and from time to time, they would head towards the county city.

Because Old Man Wang wanted to ask around for information on recruiting workers, he sent the two of them to the entrance of Stone Bridge Village, and also asked around from the surrounding villages.

Cheng Xi and Yue Yang got off the carriage at the entrance of the village, and as the two of them walked towards the village, they discussed about future matters, "We will definitely not be able to return to the village much in the future, let's pack up and bring everything we need to the city."

Xu Sanlang nodded his head, "The things that your mother has sent over, I'll send them all back tomorrow. If you put them all at home, I'm afraid even you won't be able to put them all away."

Thinking about the extremely high quality Xu Family, Cheng Xi could not help but roll her eyes towards the sky, and said with a very helpless tone, "How do you want to explain this to Xu Family? I don't think your milk will let us go so easily. "

Xu Sanlang lowered his head and did not answer. He sighed and continued, "I still have to think about what to do."

After living here for a few days, Cheng Xi had a rough understanding of the situation. In this era where the word 'filial' was pressed on one's head, it was not something you could do as you wished. Similarly, the people here also valued filial piety, including Xu Sanlang.

Cheng Xi could originally be considered a filial person, but in the face of an old lady like old lady Xu who was disrespectful and still asked her to treat him like an elder being filial, she was still incapable of doing so.

Moreover, this was an era where both men and women were inferior to each other. If a weak girl like her wanted to survive in this place, she would have to be even more careful. Some things, no matter how uncomfortable her heart was, she had to think about it.

The two of them maintained silence, as though they were both thinking about something, Cheng Xi finally thought of an idea, and raised her head to look at Xu Sanlang with his bright eyes, "Branch Family, let's split up and settle the matter by ourselves."

Xu Sanlang shook his head, and immediately shattered Cheng Xi's expectations, "As long as the milk is still here, there is no way we can split the family, my family still relies on me to work hard to earn money."

Xu Sanlang was not stupid, he had not been directly killed by the Xu Family without any regards for anything else. That was because he possessed some value towards Xu Family, if not she would have pulled him, this unlucky person, into the deep pond long ago.

He knew how disgusting his existence was, but what could he do? After all, he was a tough person. It was good enough that he was still alive.

No one could be more experienced and feared than him, Xu Sanlang. He already had a reputation of being the bane of one's life, and there was no way he could carry a reputation of being unfilial. So all these years, no matter how hard his milk rubbed against him, he could still grit his teeth and endure.

Hearing that, Cheng Xi could not be divided up either, her brows knitted tightly, "Then what do we do? We can't just stay in the village and wait for you two to starve to death."

Xu Sanlang finally revealed his intentions, "Since your legs are on us, they can't tie us up when we go to the city. Besides, we're going there to earn money, so we'll just have to pay for it when the time comes."

Cheng Xi opened her eyes wide: "So the money that we painstakingly earn, when the time comes, we will have to give it back to Xu Family?"

Xu Sanlang glanced at Cheng Xi, and his eyes seemed to think that Cheng Xi was making a big fuss out of nothing, after that he lowered his head again and replied, "As long as there is no difference in families, you will have to pay the boss when you go out."

Cheng Xi felt that her whole body was in a bad state, she reached out to support her forehead, and sighed: "Oh no, these days are really not going to end well." In her heart, she was regretting that she did not listen to Cheng Family a little as she went back.

It was rare for Xu Sanlang to speak in such a gentle tone to console his, "At least it's better than living in the village."

Cheng Xi helplessly replied, "I'll just take it one step at a time, let's go back to my parents' home first, and call my brother and the others over to move everything away, if I leave them alone, they won't be able to rest at ease, you might cause a ruckus anytime soon."

Although those things were not worth much, but in the face of current circumstances, those things were still suitable for use. She did not want to take advantage of the greedy and ruthless Old Madam Xu.

Xu Sanlang nodded in agreement. The two quickened their pace, and directly headed in the direction of Cheng Family.

It was almost dusk, and as most of the farmers were going out in the morning to work at night, they had all finished their work early as well. The people on the ground had already started to pack up, and slowly returned home with their tools, even greeting each other when they met each other. Cheng Xi and Xu Sanlang were walking on the road, and due to their reputation, very few people came up to greet them, and most of them were pointing behind them.

It seemed that Xu Sanlang's reputation for being stubborn was deeply engraved in their minds.

Being isolated like this, even Cheng Xi who was with Xu Sanlang had a deep experience of the situation. Even if Cheng Xi did not care about the fact that these people were strangers to him, this feeling was not easy to bear. Thinking about it, this kind of situation was caused by the words of the God Stick, causing Cheng Xi to have the impulse to give that God Stick a good beating.

Cheng Xi calculated in her heart that there would be a day when she would have to take care of that Divine Staff and turn all these rumors around.

After returning to Cheng Family, Mrs Wu had just finished preparing dinner, and directly called for the two of them to eat, while having dinner, Cheng Xi would occasionally secretly observe his father who was seated in the leader's seat, afraid that he would suddenly make a move on Xu Sanlang, but it seemed that there was nothing wrong with it, thus she was relieved.

Afterwards, Cheng Xi took the opportunity to say that they had already found things to do in the city, and when everyone heard that food and wages were available, they were all happy for the two and agreed to let them go to the city.

If they really wanted to help the two of them out, they wouldn't be able to do anything. Adding on the characters and characters of the people from Xu Family, they were even more clear that as long as they truly wanted to help them, they wouldn't object to leaving the Stone Bridge Village for the county city.

However, when Cheng Xi talked about the difficult times they would need to go to the County City, Cheng Family Member did not have any good ideas. Most of them said that she could only give some money to the Xu Family old lady, and that she could try to hide more of her private property.

After dinner, Cheng Xi called his two big brothers to push the cart and went back to the grass hut with them to carry the things back.

Lady Wu's eyes flickered, saying that she had nothing else to do, so she followed them.

Just as they reached the corner of the straw hut near the wall of the Xu Family courtyard, they were met with the Old Madam Xu, as if they were waiting here specifically for them.

The moment Old Madam Xu saw Xu Sanlang, she jumped up excitedly, pointed at Xu Sanlang and cursed, "You scum, where did you go? You didn't even do anything on the ground, you little scum, do you want me to kick you out of Xu Family?"

Cheng Xi was furious when she saw the old lady. When she heard her berating Xu Sanlang for not getting down to work, she could not help but interject, "You already intend to starve him to death, but you're still letting him work? "Old lady, do you still need to be so shameless? You …"

Cheng Chen, who was at the side, was afraid that Cheng Xi would say something shocking, so she quickly used her hand to gag Cheng Xi.

Although this Xu Family old lady's actions were rather shameless, but, after all, she was still Cheng Xi's elder. How could there be a young generation that cursed their elder's shamelessness?

And when Old Madam Xu heard Cheng Xi's curses, she became even angrier. She shifted the topic of war and pointed at Cheng Xi, cursing, "Little slut, do you really think that I can't do anything to you? Our Xu Family does not allow us to have such a wife. We should pull a little bitch like you into a deep pond in order to not embarrass our people in Xu Family. "