Joyful Motherhood in a Rural Family

Chapter 100:  Chapter 98: An Unexpected Guest – Liu Sisi’s Confusion

The whole shop’s items were messily scattered around, obviously the work of those people from earlier.

After Liu Sisi finished tidying up the items, she took the two children and started heading home.

Passing through the market, onto the main road leading home, following the mountain bay, and turning into a dense cornfield, she was suddenly attracted by a large group of people gathered in the cornfield.

Liuping Town was a small town, and the sudden appearance of so many people on the road back to the Upper Village, along with several soldiers officers in uniform and carrying shiny big blades, meant that something had happened, and it must be a significant incident!

“Sisi, Sisi, over here!”

Someone in the crowd waved their hand, calling her.

Liu Sisi looked carefully. Wasn’t that Miao Cuihua whom she had just argued with recently? What was she doing here? Most importantly, she beckoned to herself like a harmless person.

Feeling compelled, Liu Sisi gave a forced smile: “Oh, it’s you. What’s… what’s going on here?”

Miao Cuihua ran over with her large frame and mysteriously said in response to Liu Sisi’s question, “Take a guess?”

“…”

Liu Sisi pursed her lips.

“Hehe, what else could have happened for the soldiers officers to come? Someone died!”

Miao Cuihua said loudly, shouting: “I don’t know what kind of outrageous thing this person did, but he was completely naked and not only strangled to death but even that thing was cut off. Tsk tsk…”

That thing?

Liu Sisi was stunned for a moment before she understood what Miao Cuihua meant, and her cheeks immediately turned red.

Miao Cuihua didn’t notice Liu Sisi’s reaction, and continued excitedly: “They say the man had been dead for many days and his corpse is already rotting. It was a corn farmer who came to harvest his crops and noticed a few stray dogs digging in his field. Curious, he drove the dogs away and took a closer look, only to find the dead man. He was so scared that he scrambled to the town to report it. The townspeople didn’t dare to delay, and promptly reported it to the county government, which then sent people…”

As they were talking, the noisy crowd on the other side was already carrying a stretcher toward them.

A piece of black cloth, so dark that one could hardly tell its original color, covered the stretcher. A strong stench of decay emanated from it, making Liu Sisi quickly get the two children out of the way.

Fortunately, the stretcher was not headed in the direction of the Upper Village. Once on the main road, the four strong men walked towards the small town, gripping the edges of the stretcher.

On the other hand, several officers surrounded a tall man who was obviously their leader, having a quiet discussion and occasionally looking back to give instructions.

“Alright.”

“Understood.”

The people behind him repeatedly responded.

The leader was clearly a serious and unsmiling man, with his eyebrows locked together so tightly that a large “川” had formed between them.

When passing by Liu Sisi, he only glanced at her casually. However, when their eyes met, he suddenly shuddered and sharply stared back at her. His piercing gaze was like a steel needle stabbing straight into her heart, causing a pang of pain.

His expression changed rapidly in his eyes: joy, doubt, confusion, hatred, and coldness. Although it was only a brief moment, it seemed as if he had gone through countless cycles.

However, before Liu Sisi could get a clear look, the man’s gaze had already darkened. He turned his head and body away without looking back, walking away with the other officers in large strides towards the other end of the main road, his sturdy figure soon disappearing around the corner.

Who was this person?

Did she know him before?

Liu Sisi couldn’t describe the thoughts in her heart at that moment, but she was sure of one thing: that officer she just saw definitely recognized her, or rather, the original owner of this body. At this moment, Liu Sisi was completely at a loss!

“…Sisi, do you think my analysis just now is accurate?”

Miao Cuihua proudly concluded her long-winded explanation.

“Ah? Oh, yes…”

At the moment, Liu Sisi’s heart was a mess, with so many things happening continuously lately, she had no interest in dealing with others.

She forced a smile and excused herself, “It’s not early anymore, I have to go back. Xuan’er, YingEr, let’s go.”

Without caring about the shouts behind her, she took the two children and rushed home.

Di Yelei had already returned home. When Liu Sisi arrived back, he was pulling weeds and cleaning in the expanded courtyard. His sharp facial features and strong body showed off sleek, glistening muscles under the sun as he swung the broom quickly, sweeping the ground with a rustling sound.

Seeing Liu Sisi and the others return, he hurriedly grinned and approached.

“Sisi, you’re back…”

Liu Sisi completely ignored him, walking straight past him with a stony face.

At the moment, her lips were pressed tightly, and her large, deer-like eyes were filled with coldness and frost, almost piercing through people.

“Dad, Dad you’re back…”

As soon as YingEr let go of Liu Sisi’s hand, she clung to Di Yelei’s thigh.

Di Yelei wanted to chase after her, but his feet were tangled by YingEr, so he could only watch as Liu Sisi entered the bedroom door and closed it in front of his eyes.

His eyes darkened, and the smile on his face gradually faded. He gently patted YingEr’s head and secretly sighed.

Sisi…

She was still angry at him!

Touching the silver in his arms, Di Yelei felt much more at ease.

Liu Sisi quickly took off her male clothes and changed into her own clothes, then picked up the discarded clothes and walked outside the room, intending to wash them.

Di Yelei’s eyes brightened, and he immediately went over with a smile, “Sisi, let me wash them for you. You’ve been tired all day, take a break first!”

Liu Sisi dodged his outstretched hand, went straight past him to the kitchen, picked up a wooden basin, and did not even glance at him.

“Sisi…”

He couldn’t bear her coldness at the moment and couldn’t help but hug her from behind.

“Sisi, don’t be mad at me, it’s all my fault. I shouldn’t have misunderstood you and shouldn’t have forced you. But when I saw you and him hugging each other, and with Second Sister-in-law inciting me, I was so angry, so… ”

“Let go!”

Liu Sisi’s icy voice came from the front, making Di Yelei startle and easily letting Liu Sisi shake off his big hand.

She didn’t say more, grabbed a few handfuls of straw ash from the stove, carried the wooden basin out of the kitchen, and went to the laundry trough at the edge of the courtyard to start washing clothes.

“Sisi, take this! I went hunting and sold it in the county. I was lucky this time, and I sold it for 2 taels and 634 maces of silver. It’s all here.”

As Di Yelei was talking, he tried to stuff the money bag into Liu Sisi’s hand.

“Have you had enough? Di Yelei!”

Liu Sisi, furious, forcefully knocked the money bag out of his hand and shouted at him, “Who do you think you are? And who do you think I, Liu Sisi, am? I, Liu Sisi, may be cheap, but I’m a person, not a beast! And I’m not your servant whom you can hit and scold as you please!”

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