Chapter Eleven Interpretation

  Lan Niang heard her complaints, and her chaotic thoughts were justified, but she was furious. Although she didn't expect things to turn out this way, hitting her head and even losing her memory. If her sister knew, she would be heartbroken, Lan Niang thought, and her heart was tangled into a knot.

  "Xiaolan, don't get agitated, you're still ill. Can't you just talk to her properly?" Liu Jian held onto her hand, stopping the outburst of temper that was about to erupt.

  "It's also good for you to leave quickly, I'm fine being alone." Knowing that she had cast a sideways glance at this fierce mother, she turned her face away and ignored them, hoping they would leave soon.

  Ling listened to Liu Jian's words and the fire that had just been suppressed was ignited again. With one hand on her waist and the other pointing at her, she said:

  "You think it's beautiful, I'll tell you, from now on I'll live with you in the mountains."

  "You think you can stay, I don't even want to!" Zhi Xiao heard her words and jumped up, a fire bursting in his heart, about to explode.

  The mistreatment she suffered in her past life, or the loneliness of living on a mountain for this lifetime, made it even more unbearable for her to face death alone after an accident, with no one by her side to care for her.

  She doesn't want parents like that.

  Liu Jian looked at these two people with some helplessness, the two people's tempers were equally big, and they had clashed again. He watched this scene with a headache.

  "I heard from your mother that you were driven up the mountain, and the villagers below have always thought that you..."

  Ling's daughter hesitated, unsure of how to speak up, but finally gritted her teeth and told her about the process of how this girl ended up living on the mountain, although she had also thought that by letting her live on the mountain, she could temporarily avoid trouble.

  Before long, Lian Niang poured out the whole story from beginning to end.

  "What!" The fire of knowledge grew even larger.

  She hadn't even come to terms with living alone in the mountains, still resenting them for abandoning her. It turned out that she was forced to move up the mountain, and she had become a jinx, someone who could bring death to others, as if she had become a god.

  Knowing that the fire was about to burst out, fortunately those people thought of it, if they had hit a person, wouldn't they have died even more miserably? How could they think of this? These people are not only ignorant but also hateful, imposing their own imagined crimes on a child, ridiculous, and surprisingly they dared to say it.

  Those parents were also outsiders, and they came to teach here relying on the introduction of Jia Xiuzai's distant relatives. After her husband died, she left with her daughter...

  "Does your head still hurt, do you remember anything?" Lan Niang hugged her and gently combed up the fine hair on her forehead, where a bruise was swelling with a red lump, although it had already scabbed over, but there was still a big package on top of her head.

  It's actually known that the wound isn't hurting much now, but she didn't just lose her memory because of the injury on her head. Her soul had transmigrated into this body, and no matter what, she wouldn't be able to recall anything from before.

  "It still hurts, just thinking about it hurts." Knowingly wailing in pain, so as to reduce their suspicions.

  What can she do now? After all, they are still her parents in this life. She doesn't blame them for leaving her alone on the mountain.

  "Alright, let's not think about it anymore." Lan Niang hugged her tightly, patting her back gently and cooing softly. Seeing the dirty little hands, she quickly called Liu Jian, who was standing nearby, to boil some water and wash the little face and hands clean.

  After learning from Lingshan that she was forced to go up the mountain, her heart could no longer be calm.

  "So, I discussed it with your father and we thought that if you stayed in the village, people would continue to gossip and ruin your reputation. We didn't know what other unpleasant things they might say about you, which would be unfair to you. That's why we asked you if you were willing to leave, and at the time, you agreed..."

  "...it's better if you live in the mountains, so that group of people won't gossip about you and speak ill of you..."

  "...these two days we weren't in the village, and as soon as we got back, I heard that you went down the mountain into town by yourself. Listen to your mother's words, from now on don't go down the mountain alone again. If you get lost, where would your mother look for you?"

  She knew that with her head hung low and a foolish smile, she had almost been taken in by this body, and hadn't planned on coming back. If she hadn't known that there were wild vegetables on the mountain that could be sold for money, she might not have come back at all.

  When she heard her mother say this, it wasn't that she thought she was indifferent to her, but rather that she had been called a "disaster star" and had no choice but to live on the mountain.

  I'm aware of the strange places she's been to these past two days. Once, she met an old man pulling a cow cart, and upon seeing her, he revealed a terrified gaze. Another time was today when a group of kids saw her and scattered in all directions, scared out of their wits, with some even peeing their pants. And then there's that couple, who, due to her strange behavior, would sometimes let her ride the cart and other times shoo her away, each time giving a reason that could be justified. Are they afraid she'll bring disaster upon them?

  She gazed helplessly at the unfamiliar person in front of her, it seemed that these two people were going to be her nominal parents from now on, she couldn't escape and had no choice but to accept them.

  ……

  Last summer, Zhi Xiao was squatting under the big tung tree in front of the door, eating watermelon on a stone, when she saw Liu Er, who lived next door, carrying a fish and walking past her with a happy face. She stared straight at the fish in his hand, her eyes filled with envy, and threw away the watermelon rind she was gnawing on, which had no red flesh left, and went alone to the riverbank in front of the village.

  Stood there thinking for half a day, couldn't think of a way to catch fish, no handy tools, only picked up a small bamboo stick that could be used as a fishing rod, but didn't have suitable line and hook, hooks were still relatively expensive things for ordinary people at this time, generally households wouldn't have them, wanting to catch fish could only use nets and diving into the river these two methods.

  It is natural to choose the latter.

  She jumped into the river, swam to the middle of the river, and dived underwater to search for fish. She was lucky enough to find a big grass carp eating wild grass roots with its back facing her after a while. This fish was much bigger than Liu Er's. She was very excited.

  The bird slowly flew closer, and with a sudden pounce, it was surprisingly caught by her good luck.

  But the fish in the water and the fish out of the water are two different things, with a strong wild nature. In the end, after struggling with the fish, she managed to grab hold of some reeds in the river and slowly swam to the shore, covered in mud and soaked from head to toe, without catching any fish.

  Zhaojia's return home was seen by Lanniang, who asked her and she only said it was hot so she went swimming.

  It wasn't until two days later that Lan Niang found out from Liu Er Bao's mother, and her legs went soft as soon as she heard the news. As a result, she was punished to stand overnight and not allowed to go out for a month.

  Liu Er Bao also happened to be there that day, he was alone playing by the side of the road, and saw Liu Er Guo carrying fish, with the same idea, wanting to go catch some too.

  But he came too late, and Zhi Xiao had already taken the lead. He was also afraid of Zhi Xiao, so he could only shrink his head and hide behind a pile of stones in the grass, secretly looking towards the riverbank.

  After telling his mother the whole story, he never dared to go fishing by the river again. He was still very afraid, and when he saw Zhi Xiao almost drowning, he feared that one day he would end up like that too. He still cherished his own life dearly.

  So he knew she was going to the river in a hurry and didn't want her to go.

  But when they saw that it was actually done this way, and now there were two lively fish in the fish basket, Han Niang and Liu Jian couldn't believe it. Could this girl really catch fish like this?

  Liu Jian was still thinking about how he hadn't thought of it before.

  Liu Jian crouched down, took over the rattan woven fish basket and examined it carefully. The fine rattan strips had some of the inside green veins exposed on the surface.

  Knowing that the fish likes to eat this vine, Liu Jian suddenly realized, no wonder the fish is so easy to catch, it turns out that this is its favorite food, and it was also accidentally bumped into by this girl. However, this is not bad, weighing the two fish in his hands, the weight is not light either. Liu Jian laughed happily.

  Under her mother's instruction, Zhi Xiao was asked to take over the cheap father, and after watching her father's skillful fish-killing technique for a while, she was ordered by her mother to go home. Zhi Xiao was unwilling, wanting to talk to her father about the wonderful uses of this vine, but was pulled back home by her mother.

  This time is good, there's an extra mother to manage herself, her freedom ah