Reborn in Dunhuang, I am farming and doing business in the desert

Chapter 3: Does her family dare not cancel the engagement?
Shen Heng turned around and saw Qin Yi pushing through the crowd and walking slowly towards him, his face as gloomy as if dripping water.

"Oh! He really protected him." My sister was right, this Qin Yi is really a piece of shit!

"You've come at the right time. I was just about to look for you!" Shen Heng clenched his fists and attacked Qin Yi fiercely.

Qin Yi quickly dodged to the side, grabbed Shen Heng's arm, and with a sudden force, Shen Heng was thrown out.

Fortunately, someone around caught him, otherwise Shen Heng would have suffered a great loss.

After stabilizing himself, Shen Heng no longer dared to look down on him: "Good boy! You really have some skills!"

Then he winked to his left and right, and four or five young men rushed out of the crowd and pounced on Qin Yi.

Two fists are no match for four hands. Even if Qin Yi had some skills, he would still find it difficult to withstand four or five teenagers alone.

Soon, Qin Yi fell to the ground with several bruises on his face and the areas around his eyes also started to turn black.

"Stop fighting! Stop fighting!" Xue Lingyao rushed over again, trying desperately to protect Qin Yi. Her pretty cheeks were covered with tear marks, and she looked so pitiful.

Shen Heng sneered: "What a love story between a man and a woman." If this woman didn't look exactly like Ah Zhao, he would have wanted to slap her a few times.

He kicked Qin Yi again, then signaled his companions to disperse.

"Qin Yi! Go back and tell your mother that the marriage between our two families is over!"

Shen Heng said rudely: "Also, you guys caused my sister to lose half her life, so you should pay me three thousand coins immediately, or this matter will not end!"

Pointing at Wang, he said, "You think you can get rid of me with just this little money? Do you think our Shen family is kind and easy to bully? Remember this! Your family must pay 5,000 yuan. If you are short of one cent, I will use your children to pay off the debt!"

After saying that, he left with a few friends.

He was the youngest son of the postmaster's family, and many of the young men in the neighborhood tried to curry favor with him. Therefore, when the boys from the Xue and Qin families were beaten, no one stood up to help. Who made these two families so tactless as to dare to offend the postmaster's child?
After a while, the people who were watching the excitement at the door of Xue's house left one after another. Some of them with sharp eyes went straight to the Qin's house half a mile away to attend the business.

It was because the neighbors saw the two sisters-in-law of the Shen family running towards the Qin family angrily, and they thought there would be another big scene to watch.

"What an injustice!"

Seeing her daughter still crying, Wang couldn't help but said distressedly, "Lingyao, stop crying. Be careful that your eyes will swell up like walnuts."

Xue Lingyao, who was sobbing, paused and her voice gradually faded away.

"Okay, okay, wash your face first." Wang personally scooped up some water and gently wiped her daughter's tears.

Suddenly, he saw his son squatting on the ground with blood all over his face. He couldn't help but frowned and said in a cold tone:
"What are you still doing here? If you hadn't hurt Shen Zhao without knowing the severity of the situation, how could you have attracted the young man from the Shen family?"

"Now, our family is already in a difficult situation, and we have to pay thousands of dollars. Can you please be more stable and not cause trouble for our family all the time?"

"Forget it. I don't care anymore. You can figure out how to get the money yourself."

Wang scolded her son for a while, but still not satisfied, she raised her hand and slapped him again, shouting:
"Don't even think about asking your father for it. His monthly salary is so little that it's not even enough for the whole family. If he gives it to you, we'll all be left starving!"

Xue Yi lowered his head, slowly stood up, and walked slowly to the kitchen.

Looking down at his reflection in the water tank, the boy's expression became even gloomier.

He bent over the mouth of the vat, scooped up water from the vat and splashed it directly on his face. The blood dripped down his cheeks, nose and mouth into the vat.

He suddenly grinned, wiped his face with his sleeve, stood up and walked out of the kitchen.

In the yard, mother Wang was combing her elder sister Xue Lingyao's hair while speaking to her in a soft voice.

Xue Yi stood at the door and looked for a long time, with a dark fire surging in his deep eyes.

In the evening, Shen Zhao felt much better, so he got up and had dinner with his brother A Niang.

Zhang Shanyue served a bowl of stewed chicken in front of her daughter and said with a smile, "This is the hen that the Qin family gave as compensation. Mother stewed it for you to nourish your body." She served another bowl of chicken heads and chicken feet and handed them to her son, "You can also get some of the credit."

Shen Heng took a sip and said happily, "I'll go knock on them tomorrow. Their compensation hasn't been delivered yet!"

Shen Zhao picked up a piece of chicken from the bowl and gave it to his mother, and then picked up another piece for his second brother, and then asked: "Mother, has the Qin family agreed to cancel the engagement?"

"She dares not agree?" Zhang Shanyue took a sip of porridge and said angrily, "Yang is still trying to defend her son, saying that Qin Yi didn't let you down. Bah! That kid went to fight with Ah Heng and still said these nonsense to fool people! Does he really think that my family is a clay Buddha who specializes in saving her Qin family?"

Shen Zhao drank the soup silently.

"Don't worry, just stay at home and recover. Just pretend you don't know what's going on outside." Zhang Shanyue patted his daughter's arm and comforted her, "The cancellation of the engagement will be decided when your father comes back. By then, the Qin family will have no choice but to agree."

Shen Zhao nodded and gave half of the chicken in the bowl to his second brother.

"What's the point of giving him that? He's as strong as a bull, why would he need to eat so much meat?" Zhang Shanyue glared at her son and quickly urged her to eat the meat: "Eat yours, leave him alone!"

The second brother laughed and drank the chicken soup in one gulp, then picked up the bowl and ran to the kitchen to get porridge.

That night, Shen Zhao slept soundly and did not dream anything.

When I woke up the next morning, I felt much better without any headache or dizziness, so I got up early.

Wear a whitish apricot dress and wooden clogs.

He lifted the door curtain covered with茭草, scooped a bucket of water from the kitchen pitcher and placed it at the door, took a thin willow branch and dipped it in wood ash to brush his teeth, then washed his face with a linen towel, and then put some mutton fat from the oil can and carefully applied it on his hands and face.

The northwest is dry and windy, and the skin will easily crack if you don't apply oil for protection.

Finally, Shen Zhao poured the black water used for washing his face into the vegetable garden outside the yard, and then went to the sheepfold to herd the sheep.

Three sheep came out bleating and circled around their little master.

Shen Zhao touched the goat's head, picked up a sickle, and prepared to take them out to graze.

"A Zhao, why are you up so early?"

Mother Zhang Shanyue came out from the inner room, tucked in her clothes and walked closer. She reached out and touched her daughter's forehead, and asked softly, "Does your head still hurt?"

Shen Zhao shook his head: "It doesn't hurt, it's healed now."

"You still need to rest at home for two days after you are well. Go back and lie down. I will ask your second brother to get up."

Zhang Shanyue said as he tied his belt and turned to go into the east room.

After a while, the second brother's wailing voice came from the room: "Ouch! Mother, why are you hitting people?"

Shen Zhao smiled as he watched his brother escape from the house with his bare chest, without even having time to put on his short brown coat.

Zhang Shanyue followed him out, threw his short jacket at him, and shouted, "You lazy bastard! You're already seventeen or eighteen and you still sleep until the sun is high in the sky! Go herd the sheep!"

"I'm only sixteen! I'm not even seventeen or eighteen yet!" Shen Heng couldn't help but retort: "And it's not even the sun's high now."

"What did you say?" Zhang Shanyue glared at his second son, picked up the broom by the wall and rushed over.

Shen Heng was startled and ran to the toilet.

The old lady stood with her hands on her hips outside the toilet surrounded by millet stalks and yelled, "You little bastard! You are getting bolder and bolder. You dare to argue with your mother? In three months, it will be New Year's Day. If you are not seventeen, what will you be?"

"That's not even eighteen." Shen Heng muttered, and walked out of the toilet with a huff after he finished.

He put on his coat and walked out of the yard, kicking the bleating goat on its butt: "Hmph! You don't let me sleep so early in the morning! I'll kill it and eat its meat tomorrow!"

(End of this chapter)