Chapter 2 - 002 This is Trying to Kill Me
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For a time, the bustling village women grouped in twos and threes into a semicircle, mostly with odd expressions on their faces, peering at the young man and woman still entangled in each other's arms, some asking anxiously with closeness.
"Goodness gracious, San Ni, what has happened to you? Don't scare your Aunt like that! Why on earth did you think of jumping into the water?"
"Exactly, such a well-behaved little girl, why did she suddenly jump into the water?"
"I just heard yesterday that the Zhi Country had arranged a marriage for San Ni, could it be that..."
This was the speculation of the well-informed women, instantly hitting the nail on the head.
"What a sin..."
The lake in the center of the village wasn't far from the Zhang Family, and before the village women could come to any conclusions about a prospective marriage or suicide by jumping into the water, even as Zhang Shan Ni [Yan Jinsu] still felt her head heavy with confusion, she suddenly heard sharp and hurried curses getting louder as they approached.
Lin Zhaodi cursed all the way, pushing through the village women circled in the center, and upon seeing that Zhang Shan Ni was unharmed and not dead, a wave of relief washed over her heart, immediately followed by a burst of scolding:
"Look at you, you rascal! What were you jumping into the water for? Do you want to be the death of me?!"
Upon hearing her little daughter had jumped into the water, Lin Zhaodi had rushed over in a panic. Seeing San Ni shamelessly clinging to a grown man, she rushed forward to pull them apart, "You shameless wretch, let go at once!"