Marriage of the Di Daughter |LK ADAPTATION|

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117: Public Sentiment

In the early morning in Tongxiang today, light snow floated in the sky.

For a place in the South, no matter how cold it was, snow was something rarely seen. There were not many people on the street, as they walked out of Qingzhi Lane, they could see many women sweeping the snow in their respective yards. The children were the happiest; snow was a joy and a novel thing for them to play.

Dai Yun got out of bed early and brushed off the snow on the rattan sticks in the yard carefully. Her young daughter, the six years old Ping An, was sitting and having a meal obediently in the main house. Ping An ate the watery congee that's like a mirror with gusto. From time to time, she raised her eyes to look at the fluttering snow outside with interest.

Dai Yun spoke from the yard, "Pin An, close the windows, don't catch a cold."

Ping An responded, got up from the stool, and stood on tiptoe to close the windows.

Dai Yun looked at the roof and sighed. The weather is getting colder, when the snow melts and the water flows down the broken roof, it will be even colder inside the house. If it falls on Ping An, it will be troublesome. Must find time to let people mend the roof..... It's good if there's a man in the house. Dai Yun couldn't help thinking like this. In the past, when Xue Huai Yuan was still present, she never thought in this way. However, nowadays, such thoughts continued to come into her mind.

Dai Yun had not reached 25 years old this year. She looked young and beautiful. She was a widow, when Ping An was just two years old, her husband went to the river to fish and happened to meet a hard to encounter ten years wind and rain. His boat was torn and the person was gone. Afterwards, only Dai Yun and Ping An, the mother and daughter, remained, dependent on each other.

There's no man in the house, it's always not so convenient. The newly appointed county deputy Feng Yu Tang had thoughts on her body. Dai Yun could deal with it once or twice, but how long could she persist like this if this continued? Those neighboring uncles used to help willingly, but due to the threats made by Feng Yu Tang, they did not dare to have much interactions with her. She could only suffer in silence.

Dai Yun sighed, in any case, she only hoped for Ping An to grow up healthy. Dai Yun walked towards the stone table and sat down. There's unfinished needlework on the stone table which she relied on for her family expenses. Ping An saw her like this and came out, holding the wooden puppy in her hands, she sat beside Dai Yun. The wooden puppy was given to her by her father when he was still alive. Dai Yun saw it and her heart turned even more sour.

The mother and daughter were about to start the day's work when a series of knocks sounded from someone knocking on the gate.

"Someone's here!" Pin An said.

Dai Yun looked towards the gate, her heart tightened, fearing that it was Feng Yu Tang who came to look for trouble. It was a nightmare for her everytime Feng Yu Tang came. However, the knocks sounded today were much gentler compared to the previous impatient and urgent knocks.

Ping An opened her eyes wide, staring blankly at Dai Yun. Dai Yun got up, walked to the gate, hesitated for a while before opening the gate.

The one outside the gate was not the Feng Yu Tang who she loathed, instead, it was an unfamiliar girl.

The girl seemed to be around 15 – 16 years old, pretty, wearing a dark green embroidered moonlight skirt, and covered with a blue patterned cloak. The cloak was wide, making her particularly petite and delicate. Her pair of eyes looked clever and compelling, a shallow smile hung on the sides of her lips.