The Ruan surname is a common surname in Shili Village, and there is a ancestral hall for the Ruan clan.
The location of Shili Village is not too remote, and the people in the village basically make a living by farming. In their spare time, they go to the mountains to pick up wild products, hunt, and make some supplements for their families.
All in all, it is an ordinary small mountain village with fairly beautiful scenery.
Ruan Yinqiao's parents and grandparents are all present.
The family's main source of income comes from the fields.
Ruan Yinqiao is the fourth in the family, with two brothers, one sister, and a younger sister.
My sister is the eldest and got married early.
Each brother married a wife and gave birth to two children each.
So the Ruan family is a big family, and they are noisy every day.
Occasionally we quarrel over something, and our lives go by normally.
Ruan Yinqiao is fifteen years old this year and has been married to Ding Mao from a nearby village.
Ding Mao is one of the few scholars in several villages, and the only one who has passed the Tongsheng examination. He is only twenty years old. When Ding Mao passes the examination, Ruan Yinqiao will become a scholar's wife.
This marriage made the entire Shili Village look happy.
Ruan Yinqiao was good-looking and skillful, and had a good reputation in several villages. This was why the Ding family proposed to marry her.
The wedding is scheduled for May next year.
In a small mountain village, there is no such thing as whether you are ready to get married or not. Before you get married, you are still a member of your own family. You have to do whatever you have to do and do all the work at home and outside the home.
Until twelve days ago, Ruan Yinqiao was just an ordinary village girl.
Twelve days ago…
Zihua opened the light curtain and found the memory from twelve days ago.
On the screen, Ruan Yinqiao was washing clothes in the river outside the village.
The village relies on this river for drinking water and washing things.
When she was about to finish washing, two people came from outside the village.
They are two foreigners.
Although Shilizhuang is not remote, the road out from Shilizhuang has several slopes. It goes uphill and downhill at one time, which is very laborious. Therefore, few outsiders come to Shilizhuang, except to visit relatives. Only the salesmen come to Shilizhuang.
The number of visits is less than in other villages.
Now two strangers suddenly arrived, and Ruan Yinqiao looked at them curiously.
The clothes the two of them wore were a bit strange. The clothes were made of brighter materials than those of the rich and wealthy people in the town, but they were made in a short style, so that the good materials were not wasted.
The buns the two of them wore were also weird. Ruan Yinqiao had only seen Taoist priests wearing hairpins like this in Niushan Temple.
She saw the two of them, and the two of them saw her, and started chattering in a foreign language of unknown origin. The voice was loud, but Ruan Yinqiao couldn't understand a single word.
Because they were all young men, Ruan Yinqiao only glanced at them a few times. She wrung out the water from the washed clothes and put them into the basket, then walked home with the basket in hand.
Unexpectedly, the two men came towards Ruan Yinqiao, and they met Ruan Yinqiao under a big willow tree.
The way the two of them stared at her made Ruan Yinqiao feel very uncomfortable. She carried the clothes basket and wanted to go around the street.
One of the men, with a pale face, quickly walked a few steps in front of Ruan Yinqiao and asked with a smile, "Girl, what kind of village is this?" Ruan Yinqiao understood this.
Ruan Yinqiao couldn't escape, so she had to lower her head and answer, "Shili Village."
"What's the girl's name? How old is she?"
Ruan Yinqiao's face turned pale all of a sudden, she had met a traitor!
It happened that this was the time to work in the fields, and there was no one around.
"You, please get out of the way, I want to go home." Ruan Yinqiao backed away in fear, but with the willow tree behind him, there was no way to retreat.
Another man with a thin face persuaded the fair-faced man, "Guanzi, don't scare me, she is a serious girl."
Then the man with the fair face said several words of foreign language to the man with the thin face.
The thin-faced man stopped trying.
The fair-faced man approached Ruan Yinqiao. Ruan Yinqiao was so embarrassed and angry that she pushed the fair-faced man with the clothes basket in her hand to prevent him from getting closer.
The clothes basket was a bit heavy, so Ruan Yinqiao could only push the man away from her so that she could escape.
The pretty face saw through Ruan Yinqiao's thoughts and took her arm, "It's just for a while, please cooperate."
The other man shook his head and smiled, "I'm impressed." Helping Jing Bailian take away Ruan Yinqiao's clothes basket and put it on the ground aside.
"Come and have a laugh." Jingbailian touched his head with Ruan Yinqiao's.
Ruan Yinqiao resisted, but the man's strength was astonishing, and there were two men. She couldn't resist at all, and it seemed like he was cooperating with her.
She felt boundless helplessness and fear in her heart, and she felt as if she was stupid.
At this moment, someone from the village came over, saw this scene, and shouted, "What are you doing!"
The thin face said a few more foreign words to the fair face.
Jingbailian let go of Ruan Yinqiao's arm, but suddenly pinched Ruan Yinqiao's face with his hand, "It's so slippery. I'll propose marriage in a few days."
The two people ran away the same way they came.
She is finished! Her reputation and her marriage are all ruined!
Ruan Yinqiao seemed to have lost his soul, his legs went weak and he fell to the ground.
The visitor only saw the second half of the incident, when he saw the man grabbing Ruan Yinqiao's exposed arm and touching her head to head.
Someone discovered her, and before running away, she pinched Ruan Yinqiao's face and said, "I'll propose marriage in a few days."
The three of them stayed under the big willow tree where they could still get some shelter.
Now, no matter how Ruan Yinqiao pleads that he doesn't know the two of them, no one can believe him.
The story of Ruan Yinqiao's entanglement with two men soon spread throughout Shili Village.
For Ruan Yinqiao's family, it was like a bolt from the blue.
By evening, the news had reached Ding Mao's house in the neighboring village.
The Ding family sent word that they not only broke off the engagement, but also asked the Ruan family to explain to the Ding family that the shameless Ruan Yinqiao would be hanged to death because the Ding family could not bear such humiliation.
Of course Ruan Yinqiao's family is not willing. After all, Ruan Yinqiao is her granddaughter, daughter and sister.
It's a pity that we can't ignore the situation. It was indeed Ruan Yinqiao who did something sorry for the Ding family.
If Ruan Yinqiao is not dealt with, not only will it affect the marriage of Ruan Yinqiao's sister, but also the marriages of several of Ruan Yinqiao's cousins, and even the reputations of all the women in Shili Village will plummet.
When it comes to Shili Village, I will only say that if there is a shameless Ruan Yinqiao, there will be no good people in the village.
People in Shili Village were proud of the fact that Ruan Yinqiao and Ding Mao got married before, but now they feel even more embarrassed.
In the end, the Ruan family could not take action, but they did not side with Ruan Yinqiao. They escorted Ruan Yinqiao into the mountains and left her to fend for herself.
Ruan Yinqiao lived alone in the mountains for five days and suffered a lot. When he ran away from a wolf, he fell down a cliff and died.
Ruan Yinqiao wanted that Jing Bailian to die, but the other person could not die but should be punished as he deserved.
She also wanted to know why the two of them treated her like this since she thought she had never met them and had not done anything frivolous.