Joyful Motherhood in a Rural Family - Chapter 958 - 958 958 Sisi Saves Her Child
Chapter 958: Chapter 958: Sisi Saves Her Child Chapter 958: Chapter 958: Sisi Saves Her Child “What are you looking at? Haven’t you ever seen a woman cry? Beat it, all of you!”
Who would want to be treated as a spectacle? Liu Sisi began chasing people away directly.
Having waited until the surrounding crowd dispersed, she slowly got up and started to make her way back. Her legs had gotten numb from crouching for too long, and all along the way, she inadvertently drew curious glances from passersby.
She kept her back straight as she walked to where she had abandoned her manuscripts, only to find that the surface of several pages had been smudged by rainwater and would need to be discarded and rewritten. Luckily, the content inside was undamaged, which was some good news.
Moving on, she went to where she had left her oil-paper umbrella, but after searching around for quite a while, it was nowhere to be found. It must have been blown away by the strong wind or picked up by someone; limping, she headed back towards the broken house.
She garnered countless astonished stares along the way, until she finally reached the broken house and closed the door, completely blocking out the strange gazes from outside.
After setting down her manuscript and removing her veil hat, she realized it was covered in mud, looking as if she had rolled out of a mud pit, no wonder so many people were staring at her!
Her clothes were all wet, and after being blown by the cold wind, she sneezed several times in succession. Since her arrival, Granny Peng had given her two sets of clothes: one that she had taken off this morning, and the other that she had just removed.
After thinking it over, she hurriedly rummaged through the cabinets and found the clothes she had been wearing when Granny Peng first found her and put them on.
This clothing had been worn as she left the brothel, and according to Granny Peng was originally intended to be thrown away, fortunately, Liu Sisi had kept it, and now it came in handy.
The fabric of this particular outfit was not bad, and it looked quite nice on Liu Sisi — that is, if one didn’t look at her face.
As long as one still has that breath in them, life must go on!
She brewed a bowl of ginger soup and drank it down, then washed the dirty clothes and hung them out to dry. After returning to the room, she ground some ink and rewrote the ruined pages. Only then did she carefully wrap the manuscript in several layers of packaging before leaving the room again.
“Eh? Auntie, didn’t you go out? Why are you here again?”
The married woman next door, who had returned home with an empty carrying pole, looked at Liu Sisi curiously. She was obviously back from delivering tofu.
“Well, I remembered halfway that I’d forgotten something, so I had to come back.”
Liu Sisi didn’t want to explain too much, so she casually made up an excuse to dismiss the other party and lifted her foot to leave. That married woman was simply too nosy, it was unbearable.
Really now! Can’t you come up with a better lie?
That woman glanced at the Shu brocade on Liu Sisi’s body and curled her lips. Could it be she went to meet a lover? To change clothes in such a short time.
She quickly called out from behind, “Auntie, earlier there were several men on horseback asking about you. They were looking for a beautiful and gentle woman who, they said, had a voice as melodious as an oriole.”
That indeed made Liu Sisi stop in her tracks and turn her head to look at her.
Even through the veil hat, that woman could feel Liu Sisi’s gaze on her, and she couldn’t help but smile triumphantly!
“It’s such a pity you missed it; the man leading them was handsome and wealthy! Not only was he surrounded by several servants, but he also rode a treasured horse. Just standing here, he exuded such an air of nobility… Tsk, tsk! And he was so generous, offering up a full silver ingot as a tip. How could you just happen to leave at that time?”
Yelei knew full well. How could she not?
Not only did she know, but she had also shared a bed with him for such a long time!
Remembering that familiar face, Liu Sisi felt a knife-twisting pain in her heart.
“Really? Congratulations to you then.”
Liu Sisi said indifferently, turned around, and continued to walk briskly out of the narrow alley.
She was afraid if she stayed any longer, she wouldn’t be able to hold back the tears threatening to overflow.
“Pfft! What a pretense! So poor that not even a few copper coins to her name, yet putting on airs in front of silver ingots, truly…”
That woman sneered a few times, tossed her head, and then hummed an unknown tune as she carried the two children back into her home.
Walking briskly for quite a while, Sisi finally emerged from the narrow alley and once again found herself darting across the streets, until she realized the surroundings were strangely unfamiliar and that she had made her way near the hostel.
If Di Yelei had appeared in the city of Wanzhou, did that mean his family and others had also followed him to Wanzhou? She just didn’t know how Xing Pan’er was doing at the moment.
While Liu Sisi was lost in thought, unable to make up her mind, she suddenly saw a familiar figure dash out from the hostel ahead.
Chou Chou was running while looking back, his expression one of extreme panic as he bolted from the hostel.
Very quickly, two servants chased out after him, and Sisi immediately recognized them; both were among the followers she had later bought for the children.
“Young Master, Young Master, please hurry back! If Old Master Marquis finds out, I’m afraid you won’t escape punishment. Young Master…” The two servants shouted as they ran.
“You guys go back! I’m just going to stroll the streets, I’ll return soon,”
How could Chou Chou be corralled by these servants? He forcefully pushed aside the servants blocking him and turned to run.
“Be careful!”
This shout came simultaneously from several mouths.
Right in the direction Chou Chou was charging, a carriage was speeding towards the front of the hostel.
“Be careful!”
Sisi’s instinctive response was quicker, her cry of alarm drowned out by everyone else’s as her body lunged forward, shielding Chou Chou in her arms, blocking the charging horse that was behind him. This was naturally because she had been standing not far from Chou Chou.
Bang!—
A loud noise boomed!
Shouts of alarm erupted, and Sisi quickly opened her tightly shut eyes. Anxiously checking the little one in her arms, the child, clearly scared by the incident, had his eyes wide open for quite a while without moving.
“Phew—”
The coachman was obviously also frightened, struggling to control the horse that had become immobile.
“Young Master! Young Master, are you all right?”
The two followers hurriedly crowded around, checking Chou Chou over and over until they were certain he was unharmed before finally breathing a sigh of relief and turning to express their thanks.
“Thank you, this… Eh! Where did she go?”
Just in the moment of delay, Sisi had already confirmed that Chou Chou wasn’t hurt and had quietly left the scene.
Now that she had become the ghostly figure she was at the moment, she couldn’t even be sure how long she would live. How could she face everyone’s disappointment?
“She’s already gone. It’s strange, how could someone just leave like that?”
Chou Chou looked towards the direction where Sisi had disappeared, his face showing a moment of bewilderment.
Although it was only for a moment, he felt as if he had returned to the embrace of his mother.
This feeling was truly indescribable!
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