Uncle Ya looked suspicious.
How come he doesn't know this
It was he and his master who found Su's father bitten by a wild beast in the mountains. They had nowhere else to go, so they sent him back.
But that very night, he died.
Uncle Ya recalled that night carefully and found that his master had really gone out.
Later, the master was determined to stay in this team and refused to leave.
Could it be that it was because he and Miss Su were already engaged at that time
In other words, before Su's father passed away, he promised to take care of Miss Su
While Uncle Ya was still hesitating, the young scholar had already pushed him out of the house: "Cousin, it's late, you should go back and rest. My wife and I also need to rest."
Uncle Ya opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but finally sighed, turned and left.
The young scholar ignored him and after he left, he quickly put down the straw mat door at the entrance and then ran back to the corner happily.
Su Qiao spread out the haystack a little more, put some old clothes on top of it, and lay down outside. He patted the place inside and said, "Go to sleep quickly."
This whole day, not only did she have to be on guard against others, but she also had to accompany him in making up stories. She was quite tired.
The little scholar quickly took off his shoes, crawled over and went to sleep obediently.
Thinking of something, he sat up again, took out a quilted jacket from his body and covered Su Qiao with it: "My wife, I will cover you with a blanket, you can't catch a cold."
Su Qiao also picked up a robe left by his original father and covered him with it, "Well, go to sleep."
*
The next morning, Su Qiao took Zhao Jingting to the river to fetch water, washed his face, picked up branches to brush his teeth, and combed his hair with a simple homemade wooden comb dipped in water.
When they had cleaned up and returned with the water, the open space that was usually used for training was in a mess.
There were scolding, crying, cursing and talking.
"What's wrong?"
Su Qiao poured the water into the water tank, put down the wooden barrel and walked over.
Something happened. A girl went to the woods to look for wild vegetables early in the morning and was dragged into the woods and raped. Now the girl has pointed out that it was a big man named Chu San who raped her.
Chu San denied it at first, but later said that it was the woman who seduced him so that he would protect her and find food for her in the future.
Su Qiao squeezed through the crowd and saw a girl lying on the ground in a dishevel, her eyes shaped like peaches from crying.
The girl was no more than fifteen or sixteen years old. Although she was very thin, she was very pretty and looked like a quiet girl.
There was no one around her at this time. The expressions on the faces of the people around her were either suspicion or contempt. Occasionally, there were a few who obviously disagreed, but they just looked at her with pity and didn't say a word for her.
The girl's face was filled with grief, tears streaming down her face. She pointed at a muscular man in black in the crowd with tearful eyes, trying to explain:
"It really wasn't me. I didn't. I didn't seduce him. It was him... He covered my mouth and dragged me deep into the woods."
"I really didn't sell myself for food. It wasn't my own will. I..."
The girl couldn't stop crying, but this only attracted looks of indifference, suspicion, ridicule, or pity from everyone.
A hunchbacked man with graying hair walked over and kicked her over. "Shut up! Aren't you embarrassed enough? If you don't want to kill yourself, why are you coming back?"