Allure of a Country Maiden-Chapter 81 - 79 It’s especially cold tonight

Yun’er looked at Shen Chengyao and Mrs. Liu, then at Xiao’er, bowed her head, and whispered, "Previously, because our family was poor, they could not afford to raise so many girls, so they had to send one of us to live with someone else, right? If I did not go with dad and mom... no, with Mr. Fang and Mrs. Fang, Xiao’er would have to go with them." When Yun’er thought about her real parents, she added the surname of her adoptive parents.

Hearing this, Mrs. Liu instantly stood up, approached Yun’er and asked, "Who said so? There were only you and Xiao’er as girls in our family, and we didn’t feel extra, even when we had one more girl later. Girls are like warm cotton-padded coats to our hearts; we won’t find them too many!"

"Aren’t elder sister and second sister also girls? Doesn’t grandma dislike girls? Aren’t girls a financial burden?"

Mrs. Liu was silent. In the past before division of the family property, the two girls were indeed counted as girls in the family.

"Who told you that we couldn’t afford to raise a daughter in the house?" Chengyao was hoping from the bottom of his heart that it wasn’t Mrs. Shen who had said that. Mrs. Shen didn’t like two daughters born by Mrs. Liu, and it was known that everyone in the family knew it.

"Auntie told me this!"

It was indeed the people from the main family behind it!

"It’s too much, too much! This is something that humans can’t do!" Mrs. Liu was filled with hatred towards aunt Lan, and regretted causing harm to her daughter. She had always known that aunt Lan didn’t have a favorable attitude towards her and her children. At that time, aunt Lan suddenly changed her character and treated her daughter well. She felt it strange but never expected that people rarely offer help unless they want something in return!

Before her marriage, her mother told her to obey and respect her parents-in-law at her in-laws’ house and to get along with her sisters-in-law by speaking less and doing more. But one should always guard against others! Not everyone will be kind to you just because you are kind to them. Sometimes, the human heart can be incredibly dark.

"What did Auntie say?" The cold wave in Chengyao’s heart intensified. This was done by his family members!

Auntie told me that the house couldn’t afford to raise so many girls. Your mother gave birth to two daughters at once. Your grandma planned to sell one of you guys. If you are unwilling to go with these two uncles and aunts, Xiao’er will have to go with them. Don’t worry, when the family has the silver, they will bring Xiao’er back home. I thought that Xiao’er was more playful and loved food, and might not be liked if she went to someone else’s house. I didn’t want Xiao’er to suffer, so I went with them. Dad, now you have silver at home, so did you bring me back?"

The two things that Yun’er remembered the most over the years were the faces of her parents and these words from Mrs. Lan.

Mrs. Liu couldn’t help but shed tears again, shook her head, and choked up, "No, it’s not..."

Xiao’er didn’t expect that her affairs were also involved, or to be precise, the affairs of the original owner. The little girl knew how to sacrifice herself for others at such a young age. Was this due to a good genetic inheritance or to the example set by Shen Chengyao and his wife! Being kind-hearted and self-sacrificing is good, but one should discern the persons and things! If done wrong, good deeds become bad deeds.

After hearing these words, Yun’er was nervous again and she sat up straight, "The family didn’t take me back because they had silver, then..."

Shen Chengyao patted Yun’er’s back, "Yun’er, the family is not short of silver now, don’t worry. Our family didn’t take you back just because we have silver." freewēbnoveℓ.com

"Then why?" Yun’er looked at Shen Chengyao with confusion, looking into his bright and questioning eyes.

Shen Chengyao’s heart hurt terribly. His daughter didn’t believe that he had not sent her to live with others!

"Yun’er, mom and dad have been looking for you for more than three years. Auntie said that day that she lost you by accident and was afraid that you were abducted!" Xiao’er couldn’t bear to see the sorrowful expressions on Shen Chengyao’s face.

"No, I didn’t lie, it’s true that auntie told me that the family can’t afford to raise so many girls! I didn’t lie! Really, mom, dad, I didn’t lie!" Yun’er was extremely excited after hearing these words, and she couldn’t help but tremble. She thought that they didn’t believe her words and misjudged her as a liar.

She remembered, at the Li family’s, when her cousin stole some candy and broke the candy jar. Grandma Li came out when she heard the noise, and her cousin claimed she was the one who broke it. No matter how much she denied it, Grandma Li insisted that she was the culprit, calling her a liar. She was beaten and thrown into the firewood shed for several days. It was only after she fell sick and didn’t recover that her parents came to take her home.

"Yun’er, Yun’er, we know you didn’t lie. It was Aunt who lied to us. Your mom and dad...didn’t intend to give you away. They knew nothing about this, they even reported it to the government and asked them to help find you!" Shen Chengyao hurriedly comforted the agitated Yun’er. He also struggled to say that Mrs. Shen had no such intention, as he couldn’t even guarantee whether his mother was involved in this or not.

He couldn’t imagine what his daughter had been through that made her afraid of her own shadow!

Xiao’er also felt terrible inside, probably due to some kind of twins’ intuition. Yun’er must be traumatized. She needed to ask Brother Ri about Yun’er’s past when she got a chance.

"Mom and dad didn’t know?" Hearing this, Yun’er was stunned. So she was deceived by her aunt, which made her leave her parents for such a long time! Remembering the bitter days in the past, she couldn’t help but burst into tears with her face full of tears.

"Tomorrow, we have to talk to mom and dad about it. We must seek justice for Yun’er! I really want to ask Mrs. Lan, what is her heart made of that it can be so black!" Mrs. Liu’s heart filled with icy chill. How hard she and her husband had been working over the years! They worked their hardest during the busy farming season and took short-term jobs in the town during their free time. They went hunting and chopping firewood in the mountains to sell! The money they earned mostly went to support the main family, yet their own children were still destitute. They wouldn’t have been in this situation if it was only their own family!

Who would have thought they were raising an ungrateful wolf! Grandma always scolded someone for being a wolf, but who was the real wolf after all?

Remembering what happened in her room a few nights ago, Xiao’er took out two documents severing the relationship and handed them to Shen Chengyao.

Shen Chengyao reached out and accepted, "What is this?"

After reading through, he felt like a bolt from the blue! Severing the relationship!

"What on earth happened? Why did grandfather and Uncle’s family cut the relationship with us?"

"What?" Mrs. Liu also jumped in surprise after hearing this.

Xiao’er recounted everything that had happened that night, including everyone’s words, without any omission or addition.

Mrs. Liu remained silent, feeling maybe it was better to sever ties, yes, let’s sever ties indeed. She was fed up with everything! What odd business and what strange people indeed!

"Dad, are we still going to visit them tomorrow?" Xiao’er asked Shen Chengyao, who looked so despondent his face was ashen-gray.

"Go, why wouldn’t we go! I will surely ask those people if their hearts are blackened!" Mrs. Liu was furious!

"We won’t, why should we! Those people have nothing to do with us!" came a placid voice.

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Liu became silent. Others didn’t consider her family as relatives, no matter how much she asked or explained, what could she get? Perhaps, they might feel as numb as could be. Forget it!

Shen Chengyao felt a chill in his heart. He felt that tonight was particularly cold, hugging Yun’er tighter in his arms. He was getting on in years, had a house full of children, but tonight was the coldest he’d ever felt. Was it because it was snowing outside?

What he didn’t know was, it’s not the winter cold but the coldness of the heart that brings the chill.