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Chapter 774: Chapter 779: Waiting for the Evening_1
If Tan Zhenghong had only made advances during the day and left her alone at night, she might have accepted it, but the guy still wouldn’t leave her be even at night, so she firmly refused.
Tan Zhenghong blinked pitifully, "If not during the day, then I can only wait for the night."
"Can’t you think about anything else?"
Qiao Duo’er felt the urge to vomit blood.
"This sort of thing is human instinct, you can’t blame me," Tan Zhenghong responded with a thick face.
Qiao Duo’er pursed her lips, "Keep talking and you’ll sleep in the guest room tonight."
Tan Zhenghong obediently shut up. Every time she used this to scare him, and annoyingly, it worked every single time.
It was still early, Qiao Duo’er read a book on the sofa while Tan Zhenghong practiced calligraphy at the desk, occasionally chatting idly. Indeed, these were peaceful times.
About two hours later, Fat Fat and Fatty started yelling at the top of their lungs.
From the desperate way they were behaving, it must be a stranger entering the yard.
Tan Zhenghong glanced out of the window, "Someone’s looking for you."
This girl looked unfamiliar; she was probably a new worker from the embroidery room. In these circumstances, he better keep his distance, lest she hangs onto him like Ruo Lan did before.
Hmm... He now had a phobia of women.
Qiao Duo’er said helplessly, "That’s my third sister, Qiao Mei’er."
"What’s she doing here?"
If he remembered correctly, his wife’s family had only caused a fuss when they were building a house, and they hadn’t come since.
Thinking more carefully, there seemed to have been such a girl at that time, one with quite a temper.
Qiao Duo’er shook her head, "Go out and see, then you’ll know."
But based on her intuition, it definitely wasn’t anything good, since all good things would have already been taken by others.
But now that trouble had come knocking, she was not the type to shy away from problems.
Standing at the door, Qiao Duo’er whistled, and Fat Fat with Fatty instantly stopped howling, but they were still circling around Qiao Mei’er.
They were loyal protectors and wouldn’t give any chance to bad people.
When Qiao Mei’er saw Qiao Duo’er coming out, she knelt down with a ’plop’.
"Big sister, you must save me, or I’ll die kneeling here!" Qiao Mei’er wailed.
It wasn’t that she didn’t want to shed a few tears, but she had cried so much in recent days that she simply had no tears left.
"If you have something to say, say it, don’t kneel at every turn."
Qiao Duo’er furrowed her brows—she was still alive and didn’t like being knelt to!
Besides, refusing to get up isn’t it just a blatant threat?
Seeing Qiao Duo’er enter the house, Qiao Mei’er quickly followed. Now, big sister Qiao Duo was her only lifeline, and she had to hold on to it tightly. 𝔫𝖔𝖛𝖕𝖚𝔟.𝖈𝖔𝔪
In the main hall, Qiao Mei’er managed to explain the situation, albeit disjointedly.
Last year, the Qiao Family was slow in their actions, and most of their rice was soaked by the floods, with only sixty percent of the usual yield.
After paying the rent and taxes, they only had a little over two hundred pounds of food left, which was finished before the New Year.
Then, someone suddenly sent Ten Taels of Silver, saying it was the dowry for Qiao Hua’er, and only then did the family manage to get by.
But a few days ago, Qiao Mei’er heard that it was actually her whom they wanted to marry off to an old man. She refused to marry the old man, which led to a beating and being locked up at home.
She finally found a chance to escape today and ran all the way to her big sister’s house, thinking that life was better here.
"Big sister, I heard that old man likes to play with girls and has caused several deaths. You must save me, I don’t want to die!"
Qiao Mei’er clenched Qiao Duo’er’s sleeve tightly.
Qiao Duo’er said indifferently, "Do you still remember what you said back then?"
The original host also resisted when she knew she was being sold. What did this sister do at that time?
