After her husband died, her parents came to force her to remarry

Chapter 199 Can You Please Stay with Me?

"Hey, she's awake!" Wang Qiuxia shouted hurriedly when she saw Xu Xiaohua open her eyes slightly.

Jiang Xiaohe hurried to see her.

Xu Xiaohua opened her mouth, but before she could say anything, tears started falling.

Jiang Xiaohe quickly said, "Don't cry, don't talk, save some energy and eat this bowl of rice!"

As he said this, he gave the meal back to Wang Qiuxia and helped the person up.

Xu Xiaohua looked at her, and her empty eyes finally brightened up: "Aunt Jiang..."

"Be good, no need to say anything." He hugged her in his arms, took the bowl from Wang Qiuxia, and fed Xu Xiaohua himself.

Smelling the aroma of the rice, she realized how long it had been since she had eaten white rice!

If Jiang Xiaohe hadn't fed her spoonful by spoonful, she would have swallowed the bowl in one gulp.

The small bowl was empty.

Wang Qiuxia took the bowl and said, "I'll go get some more."

"No, mother, she looks like she hasn't eaten for a long time. A small bowl is already the limit. Even if she is very hungry, she has to wait a while before eating, otherwise her stomach won't be able to take it."

Wang Qiuxia nodded: "Okay." She turned around and went to the kitchen with the bowl.

After dinner, Xu Xiaohua wanted to talk to Jiang Xiaohe, but Jiang Xiaohe told her not to say anything and to have a good sleep first. So she closed her eyes. Maybe the ginseng took effect, because her face was not as pale as before, but slightly pink. After seeing that her breathing became even, Jiang Xiaohe turned off the lights, got up and left the room.

Wang Qiuxia hadn't slept yet. When she saw her come out of the house, she pulled her to the kitchen.

"Xiao He, don't blame me for being nosy. Xu Xiaohua looks pitiful, but she suddenly showed up at our doorstep. If Zhang Xiu'e and her uncle knew about this, I'm afraid this matter wouldn't be so easy to resolve."

Jiang Xiaohe naturally understood in her heart: "Mom, let me tell you something from my heart. Actually, I first thought that if Xu Xiaohua was still not living well in that family, I would also like to bring her back to raise her myself. I can't explain why, but I just have a certain affinity with this child."

She made her words so clear that Wang Qiuxia also understood: "Okay, since you want to support her, we are not afraid of raising one more person. After all, our family is small and one more person will make it more lively. But you have to think of a solution for Zhang Xiu'e. That woman has always been the kind of person who only knows how to take advantage and never gives. Otherwise, she would not have coveted the land that should have been given to Xu Xiaohua when the family was divided!"

"Don't worry, mom. I understand. You must be tired after working with me all night. Go to bed early."

Wang Qiuxia took off her apron and went back to the room to sleep.

After telling Zhang Fu that Jiang Xiaohe wanted to raise Xu Xiaohua, Zhang Fu just turned over and said, "It's nothing to have one more mouth to feed. If my daughter-in-law is willing to raise her, then she can do it. Don't say anything."

How could she complain? It was just that she had already spent fifty taels of silver on the ginseng tonight, and she was afraid that Zhang Xiu'e would ask for more if she came to her house!

Xu Xiaohua slept until dawn and did not wake up.

Jiang Xiaohe came to see her twice during the night, and it was obvious that she was not awake, so it was not a good idea to disturb her.

Wang Qiuxia went out with her clothes in the morning. Li Cuihong, who lived next door to Zeng Hua, asked, "What was the noise last night? I heard that both your families got up. What happened?"

Wang Qiuxia smiled unnaturally and said, "What could it be? You must have heard it wrong!"

Have it?

Li Cuihong frowned slightly, and seeing that Wang Qiuxia didn't want to talk, she smiled and said, "Maybe I heard it wrong. I have to go to work in the shop, so I'll leave first."

Wang Qiuxia smiled slightly and said nothing else.

When he got home, he saw Jiang Xiaohe playing with Zhang Chuan in the yard, so he asked, "Are you still awake?"

"No, she probably hasn't had a good night's sleep for a long time. Let her sleep for a while."

It was noon again and Xu Xiaohua finally woke up.

Jiang Xiaohe happened to be standing by her side. When she saw her wake up, she smiled and said, "Finally you're awake. If you're still not awake, I'll have to call you."

Xu Xiaohua's skinny face was a little embarrassed: "Auntie, I..."

Jiang Xiaohe helped her up: "It's nothing, it's a good thing to be able to sleep. You must be hungry, I just made you some porridge."

As he spoke, he took the bowl of rice from the coffee table next to him. This bowl of rice was also mixed with powdered ginseng: "Come, drink this porridge. It has the medicinal herbs prescribed by Doctor Niu. It will be good for your health if you drink it."

As he spoke, he fed Xu Xiaohua one spoonful at a time.

Tears were falling from Xu Xiaohua's eyes.

Jiang Xiaohe took out a handkerchief and wiped her tears: "Why are you still crying?"

She bit her lower lip slightly and said, "Except for grandpa and grandma, no one has ever been so nice to Xiaohua."

Jiang Xiaohe looked at her little appearance and recalled how she depended on her grandmother in her previous life. She had no relatives but her grandmother. When the villagers saw her, they thought she was like a plague and avoided her. Some even forbade their children to play with her, as if she was a dirty thing. But she was happier than Xu Xiaohua because she had a grandmother who truly loved her, while Xu Xiaohua's grandmother...

Not to mention.

Jiang Xiaohe touched her face. Her face was thin and yellow, and the traces of bones were very obvious in some places. If she went out like this, the children in the village would be scared by her.

He wiped her tears and said, "You can't cry anymore. Doctor Niu said that your body is hollowed out. If you cry, no matter how good the medicine is, it will be useless."

Xu Xiaohua rolled over from the bed, knelt on the ground, and cried, "Aunt Jiang, please let me stay. I will do anything for you as long as you can keep me."

Jiang Xiaohe put the bowl aside and hurriedly pulled her: "What are you doing! Get up!"

Xu Xiaohua was too stubborn to stand up: "Aunt, I know you and I are not related, but no one has ever been so kind to me. Xiaohua doesn't ask for anything else, just to survive."

Hearing her words, Jiang Xiaohe couldn't hold back her tears. It wasn't that she was sentimental, but their experiences were too similar.

When she was a child, she was despised by everyone except her grandmother. The children in the village called her a little bastard, and the adults in the village said that her mother ran away after giving birth to her because she didn't like her. The old people in the village sighed and said that it would have been better if the Jiang family had kept a boy. You see, if they kept a girl, not only would Li Fengchun (her grandmother) have worked hard to raise her, but when she grows up, she will just be someone else's daughter-in-law, which is boring.

Every time she heard this, she felt that she shouldn’t be alive in this world. She even thought about jumping into the river, but her grandmother stopped her, hugged her and cried, “You are my only relative. How can I live if you die? You are not taking your own life, but my life!”

She cried in her breast, "But they all scolded me. Sometimes they called me a jinx, sometimes they called me not a boy..."

"Child, the more they say this, the more we should live well and make our lives better, so that they know they are wrong. Study hard and get out of this mountain. Then no one will scold you, say anything about you, or look down on you anymore..."