Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 522 Fate

In my memory, the image of Song Ying wearing tattered clothes has long been blurred, and the only thing left in my mind is the image of her wearing beautiful skirts of various colors.

She seemed to have a special preference for green and cyan. She was often seen wearing clothes of these two colors, so that when I thought of her, the image that came to my mind was of her wearing a cyan dress.

She also wanted to dress beautifully and buy clothes in her favorite colors, in different shades of light and dark. She also wanted others to think of her wearing pink clothes when they thought of her.

Is this her fate? She wants to wear beautiful clothes, so she can only marry a fool.

So, everyone was wrong before. The one with bad luck was not Song Ying, but Yuan Shan.

She was destined to a hard life. If she wanted to live an easy life, wear beautiful clothes and jewelry, she could only marry a fool.

A fishy-sweet taste surged in her throat, more and more, until her lips were pushed open. In her last vision, she saw a patch of red and saw Song Ying running towards her hurriedly, his mouth opening and closing, but she could not hear what he was saying.

……

After an unknown amount of time, she regained consciousness and opened her eyes to see a completely unfamiliar rooftop.

Yuan Shan was startled and sat up suddenly, only to find that there was a small round table not far from the bed. A person was sitting at the table, writing something with a pen.

"Song Ying?" She relaxed. "Where is this?"

"Our clinic's backyard," Song Ying wrote, placed his pen on the pen rest, and turned around. "Don't worry, this isn't my uncle or my brother's room. It's my clinic for some female patients."

"What's wrong with me?" Yuan Shan asked again.

"Liver fire attacks the stomach, damaging the stomach meridians, and not eating on time. Basically, it's anger and hunger."

Yuan Shan lowered her head and stopped talking.

She looked completely different from her previous arrogant self. Song Ying sighed inwardly, "What's going on? Why is she vomiting blood in anger?"

"I..." Yuan Shan didn't know what to say.

After a long time, she whispered, "My family wants to ask for you to marry me, you know?"

Song Ying nodded: "I know. My family told me when I went back during the Mid-Autumn Festival."

It turns out that she knew everything, but she just found out today. Yuan Shan moved her lips, but only a hint of bitterness appeared in her expression.

Tears rolled down her cheeks, "I'm going to marry the fool from County Magistrate Chen's family. I've been wondering why these past few days, but when I saw you just now, I seemed to understand. This is fate.

I'm probably what the book says: "My ambition is as high as the sky, but my life is as fragile as paper."

Her tears fell like beads from a broken string, "I used to envy you and Yan Xing, envying that you could wear beautiful clothes and live in a bright and tidy building.

But I thought that one day I would be able to be like that, and I was so envious.

I never thought my wish would come true, but the price was marrying a fool."

"I usually call it being sold by my family."

Yuan Shan, who was crying, was stunned. It took her a long time to understand what Song Ying meant.

Panic flashed across her face. "My family is very nice and treats me very well. My grandma has never hit me. She only scolds me when I do something wrong.

Our family is just too poor, there is no other way, my brother needs money for his studies, I..."

She paused, unable to bring herself to say, "She's willing to marry a fool for a dowry," so she could only whisper and repeat, "Our family is just too poor."

Song Ying sat down beside the low couch and raised his hand to wipe her cheek. "Then why are you crying?"

"I...I..." Yuan Shan's tears burst out again, surging down, "I'm unwilling. I don't want to marry a fool."

Song Ying sighed softly, "Children who have never been loved by their families always try to grasp at that little bit of goodness to prove to everyone that they are loved by their parents and family.

But in fact, I know very well in my heart how stingy and short-lived their love is, so I work hard, behave well and be sensible, and dare not slack off for a moment.

No matter how blatantly they express their hurt, they will continue to find excuses for it.

Because piercing that illusion means you come into this world naked, with no one to rely on."

Yuan Shan lowered her head, and the look in her eyes could not be seen. All she could see were tears falling one after another on her hands, quilt, and mattress.

Song Ying put his hand on her shoulder and said, "I used to be like this too. I thought I was the only bloodline left by my father, and that grandma would definitely love me a little bit.

She is just old and worried that Second Aunt will torture me after she dies, so she doesn't protect me too much. She wants me to be filial and considerate to Second Aunt and please her."

Yuan Shan gradually started crying, and her tears were getting louder and louder.

After a while, he gradually stopped talking and said, "But what can I do? Marriage is decided by parents, and in my family, it's my grandmother who makes the decisions.

Besides, my brother really needs money now. He has been so good to me since I was a child. My grandmother didn’t want to delay his studies, so she didn’t let him teach me to read. But he still taught me secretly, saying that learning to read can help me understand etiquette and prevent me from being cheated.

Every day at home, we cooked eggs for him to nourish his body, and he would always give me half of them. Sometimes, when I was greedy, he would give me all of them. He would also buy me candies and hairbands. He would try his best to buy me whatever I wanted.

I am not as capable as you, so I cannot help him. Only marriage can help him."

"How could you not help him? He was studying and couldn't work. Aren't all the chores in the house and fields done by you and your family? You contribute to his meals; you wash his clothes every day so he can wear them clean and tidy."

Yuan Shan was stunned. "These are all small things, nothing."

"You worked as a temporary worker in the Chen family. Didn't the laundry maid get paid monthly? Didn't the maid who worked in the flower shop and the cook get paid monthly?"

Yuan Shan seemed to be lost in thought. She had been staying at the Chen family for a few months and was very familiar with the monthly wages of each maid.

Although Sihua's sister often complained about the lack of benefits, in her opinion, the monthly salary was already very high and the work was easy.

"No matter how trivial the work, it still needs to be done by someone else, and it's all meritorious. Also, your family has been so poor in the past and has managed to survive. Things will only get better in the future. How can you be forced to sacrifice yourself in exchange for a betrothal gift?"

Yuan Shan's face turned pale. "Then why did grandma let me marry the idiot from the Chen family? She no longer loves me. After so many years, she should have some feelings for me."

"Perhaps he was worried that if he refused, the Chen family would retaliate and ruin your brother's future; or perhaps he wanted to use the influence of County Magistrate Chen to make your brother's path to the imperial examination smoother."

"Will County Magistrate Chen take revenge on my brother?"

Song Ying: “…”

Why didn’t I realize before that Yuan Shan didn’t care about me so much?

She shook her head: "This is a matter for the future. You should take care of yourself first. If your brother knew that you agreed to marry into the Chen family because of this, he would feel guilty for the rest of his life."