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Chapter 1047: Chapter 1052: Someone at the Village Entrance
"Quick, go look, there’s someone at the entrance to the village, kind of looks like Zhang Ziwen, but he doesn’t let anyone touch him."
"Did you say Zhang Ziwen?"
The first reaction of the big girl was to doubt her own ears.
The person nodded, "We’re not sure either, you better go and see for yourself, and his mood seems very unstable, I’m afraid the villagers won’t be able to keep him."
After confirming that her ears were not deceiving her, the big girl sprang up and followed the person, running there.
Even if there was only one in ten thousand chance, she couldn’t miss it.
"Ke-kun, once you’re finished, find someone to take over. I’m going to see how the big girl is doing," Qiao Duo’er ordered.
She had seen the big girl’s deep affection for Zhang Ziwen these days; now that Zhang Ziwen was back, and there seemed to be some unexpected situation, she worried that the big girl wouldn’t hold up.
Lu Kejun threw down the cards, "This can be played any time, there’s no rush for this moment."
She was more curious to know what kind of man could make the big girl’s heart flutter.
At the village entrance, many people had already gathered.
"Make way, make way!" The big girl didn’t care about her appearance and pushed her way through the crowd.
In the middle of the crowd, a disheveled person squatted on the ground, arms tightly wrapped around his head—a clear sign of being scared.
But even so, the big girl still recognized the person.
In the past, she had quietly admired him, observing his every move. Then, after nightmares began to plague her daily, she almost saw his shadow every time she closed her eyes.
So no matter what he had become, she would recognize him.
She just knew Zhang Ziwen would come back; she knew he wouldn’t let her down!
"Zhang Ziwen, you’ve finally come back!" The big girl immediately threw herself at him.
Zhang Ziwen lifted his head, his eyes full of fear.
The big girl’s heart turned cold in an instant—why did she feel like Zhang Ziwen didn’t recognize her?
"Don’t... don’t come any closer," Zhang Ziwen’s lips shivered.
Tears slid down the corner of the big girl’s eyes, "Don’t you recognize me anymore?"
"I don’t have silver anymore, I gave all my silver to you, I have nothing left, and my companions abandoned me."
"Don’t kill me, my father is still waiting for me to return home, I can’t live without him."
The people around him sighed, figuring the chances were that his mind had gone bad.
And once someone’s mind had gone bad, they almost never recovered.
Zhang Ziwen was the youngest scholar in the village, and it was thought that he had a boundless future. But fate played a cruel trick, and he had ended up like this.
"Didn’t I tell you he was Zhang Ziwen? Just now you all didn’t believe me."
"What a shame, such a good child has turned into this," said a woman sadly. This child had been motherless since he was young, and his father died in the plague. Now having ended up like this himself, he truly is pitiable.
"Those mountain bandits are just vile. Next year would have been the imperial examination. If not for this calamity, Zhang Ziwen might have become a scholar!"
"Ah, let’s hope the Tie Family doesn’t call off the engagement now, otherwise he really won’t be able to live."
When Father Zhang had died, the big girl had worn mourning attire, which meant that her engagement to Zhang Ziwen had been settled.
But looking at the current situation, it seemed almost impossible for the Tie Family to acknowledge it.
"If they really cancel it, we can’t say anything. Who would want their daughter to marry a man with a bad mind? That’s a lifetime of hardship. Would you be willing if it were your daughter?"
"I’m just saying, don’t curse me, my family is fine!"
The voices of the crowd made Zhang Ziwen revert to his ostrich-like behavior, shaking even more violently. 𝖓𝔬𝔳𝔭𝖚𝖇.𝔠𝔬𝖒
