Chapter 33: Chapter 33 You Don’t Care Anyway_1 Chapter 33: Chapter 33 You Don’t Care Anyway_1 Aunt Liu Hua, however, stood up in agitation, “How can a person not care about their own reputation?!”
Seeing An Jing’s truly indifferent demeanor toward reputation, Aunt Liu Hua also realized that persuading An Jing further would merely be a waste of breath.
“Forget it,” Aunt Liu Hua waved her hand, “Regardless of whether you care or not, I will go and have a thorough talk with everyone. I can’t just watch you being maligned by your mother and sister-in-law . Otherwise, you really might be united against and driven out of the village. If you are driven out of the village, what other way is there for you to survive!”
Without waiting for An Jing to say anything, Aunt Liu Hua quickly walked away.
Watching Aunt Liu Hua leave like that and knowing that she meant well, An Jing didn’t stop her.
In this age where the hierarchy is strict and men are valued over women, an unmarried woman being driven out of a village is indeed akin to a dead-end.
But she wasn’t Lin Anjing; she was An Jing.
Could she, a modern special forces soldier who had undergone all sorts of devilish training, really be at a dead-end just by being driven out of the village? It was practically a joke.
So, even if she were to be driven out of the village, it wouldn’t matter much.
Worst case, she’d live in the remote mountains.
Looking in the direction of the courtyard door, An Jing suddenly smiled with deep meaning and murmured, “It’s just that I don’t know if he would be willing to follow me…”
As soon as Aunt Liu Hua left Xiao Changyi’s courtyard, she went to the entrance of the village and started telling everyone she met that An Jing had been forced to speak of reporting to the authorities, asking them not to misunderstand.
In Jiuping Village, Aunt Liu Hua had an excellent reputation, everyone liked her very much and was happy to interact with her. Believing what she said, they let go of the idea of driving An Jing out, but they still felt somewhat uncomfortable in their hearts.
Aunt Liu Hua herself was also a bit uncomfortable.
Her family also rented land from Landlord Wang. How could Aunt Liu Hua be completely indifferent to what An Jing said? But Lin Anjing was someone Aunt Liu Hua had watched grow up; she couldn’t just stand by and see Lin Anjing driven out of the village.
And the most uncomfortable of all was Lin’s mother.
Lin’s mother, not having received the betrothal money, grew increasingly resentful the more she thought about it at home. So she and Mrs. Gu went about the village spreading all sorts of slander against An Jing, eager to see her dead. They didn’t expect Aunt Liu Hua to intervene and clarify things so quickly.
This made Lin’s mother hate Aunt Liu Hua as well.
As for how things were outside, An Jing, even while sitting at home, could guess but she didn’t delve into it.
Instead of saying she didn’t delve into it, it was more accurate to say she simply didn’t care.
“You’re back!” As soon as An Jing saw Xiao Changyi return, her eyes immediately lit up.
“Mhm.” Although Xiao Changyi’s face showed little emotion, the coldness in his eyes had completely dissipated.
“Did Carpenter Zheng say when he could finish making the bed?”
“We’ll go to town tomorrow to find someone to make it.”
An Jing was taken aback at first and then asked, “Is there anything else? Anything else you want to tell me?”
“You don’t care anyway.” So, it doesn’t matter whether he said it or not.
An Jingxin was shocked; she hadn’t expected that this man truly understood her so well.
After a while, she smiled and said, “Then let’s do as you say. Tomorrow, when we go to town to have the wedding clothes made, we’ll also look for someone to make the bed.”
Although hiring a town carpenter would be a bit more expensive, compared to asking Carpenter Zheng from the village to make their bed, she was willing to spend the money.
You see, she had never asked anyone for a favor in her life.
An Jing looked steadily at Xiao Changyi and suddenly said, “Aunt Liu Hua came by just now.”