Farmer girl swaps husbands: buys a sickly villain and pampers him

Chapter 53 Best Friend
Anning Village, Su family.

Zhang Zhaodi looked at Jiang Jing, pulled Su Yaoguang to a nearby corner, and said in a low voice, "My dear daughter, although we have made some money for now, we still have a scholar at home. How can we afford to support another one? You have to change your habit of bringing people home so casually."

"Mom, Jiang Jing is very capable. She knows medical skills." Su Yaoguang said, "With her help, our skin care cream will definitely be more advanced."

"She looks about your age, maybe even younger. What medical skills can she possibly possess? Don't be fooled." Zhang Zhaodi frowned. "From what I heard about her, I don't want her to pay back the money for her father's funeral. Let her go. She can go anywhere, but she can't follow us."

"Mom, she is really good." In her previous life, she fell seriously ill just after becoming the wife of the top scholar. If she hadn't saved her, she would have died long ago.

At that time, she discovered that she was poisoned, and warned her to check the people around her. She trusted Xiao Yanci too much and told him about this matter. The next day, Xiao Yanci beat and killed the kitchen maid in the mansion, saying that the kitchen maid's daughter was originally Xiao Yanci's maid, and she wanted to climb into his bed but was sent away by him. She held a grudge and tampered with her food.

Later, Jiang Jing was invited to Xizhou City for medical treatment and left Beijing for three months. It was during those three months that she became terminally ill and did not know Xiao Yanci's true identity until her death.

Besides that incident, she was drugged at a noblewoman's banquet, and it was Jiang Jing who helped her avoid embarrassment. Jiang Jing had been kind to her, and now that she was down and out, she couldn't just ignore her. Not to mention that they had been close friends in their previous lives, so it was even more impossible for her to ignore her.

Jiang Jing knelt in front of Zhang Zhaodi, kowtowed and said, "Sister Yaoguang helped me bury my father, which means she bought me. From now on, I will be Sister Yaoguang's maid."

"I don't want a girl. You become my sister." Su Yaoguang pulled Jiang Jing up and said, "Mom, look how well-behaved Xiao Jing is. Didn't you always say that it was too lonely to have only me as your daughter? Now it's good. I've found you a little daughter."

Zhang Zhaodi looked at Su Yaoguang, then at Jiang Jing, waved her hand and said, "Alright, I'm afraid of you, so stay! But let me tell you in advance, if you don't obey or do anything bad to our family, I will kick you out immediately. You can see that our family conditions are not good. You won't have a good life with us. Think it over carefully before making a decision."

"My mother promised you, call her godmother quickly." Su Yaoguang urged.

"Godmother, please accept my daughter's greeting." Jiang Jing kowtowed.

Zhang Zhaodi's expression softened: "Get up! I'll go cook."

"I said before that I'd give my room to Wangshu, but now it seems that's not possible. Next time I go to the city, I'll tell Wangshu. He's living in the academy now and only comes back once a month. It's unfair for him to continue living in the woodshed. Xiaojing and I will sleep together. When we earn more money and move to the city to rent a store, we can find a place with more rooms then."

"Xiaojing, come with me to pick vegetables later." Zhang Zhaodi called out.

"Okay, godmother."

Zhang Zhaodi took Jiang Jing out and walked around the village. Soon, everyone in the village knew that Zhang Zhaodi had adopted a daughter, and that this daughter had a black birthmark on her face.

Zhang Zhaodi had been observing Jiang Jing. When the villagers showed disgust at her birthmark, her expression did not change.

"Don't you mind?" Zhang Zhaodi asked.

"Godmother, this birthmark of mine is not congenital," Jiang Jing said. "My ancestors were all doctors. One day, my parents went to the city to see patients, leaving me alone at home to look after the house. A few strange people came that day, searched our house, and took away a box. Before they left, they fed me a poison, and I was in excruciating pain. Fortunately, my parents came back and prepared an antidote for me before I died. But that medicine could only save my life. When I woke up, I had these black marks on my face, just like the birthmark." "My father said that there was still some poison in my body, so he has been preparing various antidotes over the years. Unfortunately, before he could prepare them, a flood hit my hometown, submerging all our belongings and leaving my mother there forever. We fled all the way, escaping death again and again, until not long ago when my father became seriously ill and there was no medicine to cure him."

"This black mark is indeed ugly, but if it weren't for it, I wouldn't have been able to escape all the disasters on the way. Godmother, on the road of escape, human nature is really terrible!"

Zhang Zhaodi's eyes were red. She took her hand, her eyes less wary and more distressed: "You are also a miserable person. Don't be afraid, we are a family from now on."

Su Yaoguang noticed that Zhang Zhaodi's attitude had changed after she took Jiang Jing out. She approached Zhang Zhaodi and asked mysteriously what had happened and how she had suddenly figured it out.

Zhang Zhaodi said unhappily, "She calls me godmother, so of course I have to treat her as my own daughter. You are the elder sister, so you should give in to your younger sister from now on."

Su Yaoguang: "..."

It's over, she's going to fall out of favor.

In her previous life, when Su Yaoguang met Jiang Jing, there was no black mark on her face. Now there was a black mark, and it was obviously for a reason. She didn't ask what the black mark was. After all, no woman didn't care about her appearance, so there was no need to mention it specifically.

Su Yaoguang gave her clothes to Jiang Jing to change into.

At this point, Jiang Jing already possessed the aloof demeanor of later generations. She spoke little, and when she did, it was to the point. She also didn't joke around. Perhaps it was just her nature, or perhaps she'd experienced so much that she'd lost her youthful innocence.

Jiang Jing stayed in Anning Village and became Su Yaoguang's adopted sister. Su Yaoguang always took her with him, and the villagers, initially critical of her, gradually became accustomed to her. Once the initial novelty wore off and the villagers paid less attention to Jiang Jing, Su Yaoguang finally stopped bringing her along.

"Xiao Jing." Su Yaoguang walked towards the well and saw Jiang Jing fetching water. She strode over and took the bucket from her hand. "Who asked you to fetch water? You're not strong enough to do this."

"You're a girl too, so how can you be the only one to carry water?" Jiang Jing said, "If you can do it, I can do it too. From now on, you carry water one day, and I'll do it the next."

"Are you stupid?" Su Yaoguang laughed. "I'd avoid this kind of hard work if I could, but you insisted on competing with me for it."

"You're even more stupid." Jiang Jing pursed her lips. "You do all the rough housework. You're just a little girl, you shouldn't be working so hard. Since I'm your younger sister, I should share the burden with you."

"Look how lucky I am! I found such a wonderful sister right away." Su Yaoguang said with a smile, "But Xiaojing, you really don't need to carry water. If you really want to help me, I want to mix a scar-removing skin cream. Can you help me think of how to modify the recipe so that it can protect the skin and achieve the effect of scar removal."

"As for scar removal ointment, I can make it. But I don't know how to make skin care cream, so I'm not sure if it can help." Jiang Jing said, "Let's go back and try it first."

(End of this chapter)