She would find out what the woman was up to if she waited for a villager to come and ask them about the situation.
Don’t think I’m ignorant. I know that the laundry must first be placed in wooden basins or bamboo baskets and then brought to the river for washing. I’ve washed my brother and sister-in-law’s clothes a few times, okay?
After waiting for about 15 minutes, a young man with two empty wooden buckets arrived.
“Hey, isn’t this Wang Xing’er? Why is she here?”
The man was shocked to see a woman lying beside the spring. However, he was even more surprised when he saw who it was.
Didn’t we chase this woman away? Why is she here?
Qian Yiyun walked out from the side and asked the man, “Hey, you know her? Who is she?”
“You…!”
The man was shocked by Qian Yiyun’s sudden appearance and took a step back.
“Don’t be afraid. I knocked her out, but I didn’t do anything bad. I just want to know what this woman was trying to do,” Qian Yiyun quickly explained when she saw that the man’s face had turned pale.
She really did not do anything bad. No matter what that woman was up to, Qian Yiyun decided she should knock her out first and inquire about it later.
If it was a misunderstanding, she could just apologize to the woman.
“She… Miss Qian, why did you knock her out? How did she… get here?” the man swallowed and asked carefully.
Compared to finding Wang Xing’er on the ground, he was more curious about how she got here.
“You’ll have to ask her.” Qian Yiyun shrugged and looked at the unconscious Wang Xing’er.
“Everyone knows that the water here is for drinking, but she brought many clothes here to wash. That’s outrageous! Who else should I hit if not her?”
She reached out to open Wang Xing’er’s bag, but a hand grabbed her wrist.
“Miss Qian, don’t touch those. You must not touch them.”
The man broke out in a cold sweat when he saw that she was about to touch Wang Xing’er’s belongings. He quickly grabbed her, not caring that physical contact between a man and woman should be limited.
“Why?” Qian Yiyun was surprised.
So this woman is not a good person. Does she have evil intentions?
The man explained, “This woman is Wang Xing’er. She’s from our village, but she returned to her parents’ home a few days ago. She brought her family here today to seek refuge with her in-laws.
“But her father seems to have contracted the epidemic disease. We chased her out of the village not long ago. At noon.”
Qian Yiyun was shocked and quickly retracted her hand. “What?!”
She saw that Wang Xing’er was about to put a few pieces of clothing into the spring. Judging from the style and color of the clothes, they should belong to a man—an older man.
Do those clothes belong to Wang Xing’er’s ill father?
“What a vicious woman! She wanted to soak her father’s clothes in the spring!”
She looked at Wang Xing’er. If she had a knife in her hand, she would definitely stab her ruthlessly. Wang Xing’er wanted to harm the entire village and implicate her sister-in-law!
