Farmer girl swaps husbands: buys a sickly villain and pampers him

Chapter 245 Fragments
The next morning, Zhang Zhaodi went out with a basket, intending to buy some pastries, but saw a person lingering at the door.

“Our shop doesn’t open this early. Did you come so early to buy something?” Zhang Zhaodi said, standing in front of the man.

When Su Rende saw Zhang Zhaodi, he remembered what had happened the night before. This woman dared to meddle in other people's business in the palace and saved him; she had done him a great service.

"I'm here to thank you," Su Rende said, waving to the people behind him.

There were more than a dozen servants standing behind him, each holding a box in his hands.

"I know your business is doing well, and you have plenty of money to buy whatever you want, but this is my thank-you gift, please accept it."

“Of course I will gladly accept your gift,” Zhang Zhaodi said. “You can take it in when the door opens later! I still need to go shopping.”

Seeing that she was about to leave, Su Rende instructed his attendants to take the thank-you gift inside, and then he turned around and chased after Zhang Zhaodi ahead.

"You stabbed yourself several times yesterday, shouldn't you stay home to recover?" Zhang Zhaodi asked, looking at him with suspicion as he followed her. "What are you doing following me?"

“I found some of my old belongings a few days ago.” Su Rende took out a handkerchief from his pocket.

No, it should be a piece of tattered cloth from a garment.

"I'd like you to take a look. Does this thing look familiar?"

Zhang Zhaodi stopped, took the tattered cloth from his hand, touched it, and said, "This is ordinary clothing. Nine out of ten poor people wear clothes made of this kind of fabric. Plus, it's been so long that you can't even tell what its original color is anymore. What are you showing me?"

"I just want to know... is it possible that I could be your husband who joined the army?" Su Rende stated his purpose directly.

Zhang Zhaodi chuckled: "You're General Su. If you want women, all you need to do is say one word, and plenty of people will send you women. Don't make fun of me."

"No, I'm serious."

"Yes, you're serious. I believe you're serious. Don't get in my way." Zhang Zhaodi stood in front of the stall, selecting pastries that Su Yaoguang liked.

Su Rende took out his silver and paid the money.

Zhang Zhaodi: "...Is this also a thank-you gift?"

"Yes."

“Alright then!” Zhang Zhaodi stopped and looked at Su Rende, saying, “I’ve always liked to take advantage of people. Even if you follow me around every day and pay me every day, I won’t blush or get out of breath. General Su, if I were you, I’d run as far away as possible right now.”

"I want to get to the bottom of this, don't you want to get to the bottom of this too?"

"You lost your memory, haven't you tried to figure it out all these years?" Zhang Zhaodi looked at him.

“I… I was still on the border a few years ago, and I haven’t been back in the capital for very long. When I was on the border, foreign enemies were always harassing the peace there. I was fighting them all day long and didn’t have time to think about anything else. After I returned to the capital, I also sought treatment for my headaches from the imperial physicians, but I just couldn’t remember anything.”

"Perhaps the things you can't remember are unimportant, and there's no need to force yourself to remember them. Sometimes we need to look forward in life."

“I’ve heard about your story,” Su Rende said. “You raised your daughter alone, making a living by delivering babies. You and your daughter were bullied by your family and the villagers. Because you had no male heir, even your house and land were taken from you. After your daughter bought a husband, your life became a little better.”

Zhang Zhaodi did not respond to his words.

What he said was too distant for her. If she hadn't seen Zhou Wangshu's success a few days ago, she wouldn't have remembered those unpleasant things from before. "You don't want to find out if I'm your husband who's been missing for over ten years. You're afraid that the answer won't be what you want to see. You're running away."

Zhang Zhaodi smiled.

Su Rende had a bad feeling.

Zhang Zhaodi grabbed a feather duster and swung it at Su Rende, yelling, "Running away my ass! My daughter and I are living a carefree and comfortable life, and you come here to spout nonsense at me. Even if you were, so what? A man who dares to forget his wife and children so completely shows he doesn't care about us. Do you expect me to welcome you back?"

Zhang Zhaodi spoke while waving a feather duster.

"You're chirping in my ear like a sparrow first thing in the morning, it's giving me a headache. Are you a general with nothing better to do? Why are you hanging around a woman first thing in the morning? If you're going to get horny, don't you know where you are or who you're after? Get lost, I don't want to serve a VIP like you, stay away."

Su Rende dodged to the side.

Zhang Zhaodi carried the basket and walked away.

Su Rende watched her retreating figure, wanting to follow her, but then he remembered what she had said and suddenly felt somewhat frustrated.

He thought she would be happy to hear his assumption, which meant that not only was she not a widow, but her husband had become a general, and he had become a general's wife. However, she became even angrier after hearing his assumption, and he even suspected that if he could really prove that he was Su Yaoguang's father and her husband, she would swing a knife at him.

"You surnamed Su, die..." Someone rushed over from the crowd and stabbed Su Rende with a knife.

Su Rende was caught off guard and was stabbed squarely.

As Su Rende watched the man rush towards him, fragments of memories surfaced in his mind.

"Guards! There's an assassin! Someone's trying to assassinate the General..." Zhang Zhaodi waved the basket in her hand and threw it at the assassin opposite her.

The assassin swung his knife to strike, but Su Rende pushed Zhang Zhaodi aside and blocked her way.

*Thud!* The white knife went in, and the red knife came out.

Su Rende collapsed.

"Help! Help!" Zhang Zhaodi shouted, "There's an assassin here..."

Several men in the crowd subdued the assassin.

Zhang Zhaodi, supporting Su Rende, shouted loudly, "I'll offer one tael of silver; could some kind hero please help me take him to Taoyao Lane?"

“I’ll do it. No money needed, I’m happy to help,” a burly man said.

Taoyaofang was now piled high with precious gifts. After the servants finished delivering the gifts, they said that the general had ordered them to be given to Zhang Zhaodi.

The people of Taoyaofang knew this was a gift of gratitude from General Su, but the common people did not. Seeing this display, the people were all speculating whether it was a betrothal gift for someone.

“Master Su is already married, so it can’t be her. Those two young girls are too young, so that doesn’t apply either. That leaves two married women. Could it be that General Su doesn’t like young maidens and prefers married women?” someone in the crowd said.

"Don't talk nonsense. General Su has won so many battles and was even named the Protector-General of the Nation. What kind of woman couldn't she have? How could she possibly be interested in a woman?"