I'm reborn, so it's not too much to kill the one who traveled through the book, right?

"Changsheng, why are you back?" Shen Rong had just come out of the house and saw Changsheng rushing forward with his head down. She opened her mouth and called out to Changsheng to stop him.

Changsheng raised his head when he heard the voice. When he saw Shen Rong, the expression on his face relaxed and he took small steps towards Shen Rong.

"Where have you been?" Changsheng asked.

"I went home to get some things. Let's go." Shen Rong naturally took Changsheng's hand, and the two walked towards the west of the village together.

The two of them walked across the bluestone road that ran from the east end of the village to the west end.

After they passed by Gu's house, Gu Zhaoming walked out of his yard. His eyes were fixed on the hands of the two people, and his eyes were dark and unclear for a moment.

Shen Rong gave money to her parents' home, had lunch there, and returned home with Changsheng. The joy of her parents' home buying a cow gradually faded, and was replaced by a feeling of depression.

She sat in the yard, staring blankly at the green hills opposite, her mind a little dazed, as if she was dreaming.

This dream was not bad for her, but it was not good either.

She remembered the determined look in Gu Zhaoming's eyes when he looked at her just now, and felt a little uneasy. But then she thought that Gu Zhaoming and Shen Yuan were about to leave Taohua Village, and she felt a little relieved.

She also thought that Gu Zhaoming would rise to the top in the future with the help of the Chen family and become a superior person. Even though Shen Rong comforted herself in her heart that as long as her family members were well, nothing else mattered, she was still unwilling in her heart.

But now that things have come to this, there is nothing she can do but watch the other person become the superior one. When she thought of this, all her resentment finally turned into a sigh.

"Ugh!"

God is unfair!

Changsheng looked at Shen Rong. Although Shen Rong didn't say a word, Changsheng knew that his wife was in a bad mood.

He wanted to coax Shen Rong, but he didn't know how, so he could only sit next to Shen Rong and stare blankly with her.

As the sun slowly set in the west, golden sunlight spread over the land, covering the entire Taohua Village with a layer of golden gauze.

Changsheng watched the golden gauze change from light to dark, and finally turned into the color of the ripe oranges in the yard of his wife's parents' home.

"Sanniang, I'm hungry." Changsheng covered his stomach and looked at Shen Rong with a wronged look.

I’m so hungry!

His wife has ignored him for several hours, and he clearly did nothing wrong!

Shen Rong finally came back to her senses and looked up to see the brilliant rays of light in the sky. She then realized that it was already late. In the past, she would have cooked the meal at this time. No wonder Changsheng was crying out for hunger.

Ever since grandma and grandpa stopped collecting herbs, grandma would go with grandpa whenever he went to see patients somewhere far away.

As the sun was setting and the two old people were about to return home, Shen Rong hurried into the kitchen to cook.

Changsheng followed closely behind, sometimes helping to scoop water, sometimes helping to pick vegetables, and was very busy.

With Changsheng's help, Shen Rong finally prepared the meal when her grandparents came home.

That night, Shen Rong felt unhappy and used the excuse that Changsheng had done something wrong and refused to let Changsheng enter her bed.

Changsheng seemed to have a premonition of this. He lay there quietly and did not ask Shen Rong why.

Although he couldn't figure out what he had done wrong, he firmly believed that he was not wrong and that his daughter-in-law did not reject him because of him.

Changsheng couldn't figure it out, but he could read people's faces. In short, he could keenly feel that his wife was in a bad mood.

He wanted to coax his wife, so suddenly he sat up from the bed and slapped his head.

"Ah! I forgot."

Shen Rong immediately came to her senses, "What did you forget?"

"Hairpin." Changsheng looked at Shen Rong with sparkling eyes.

Shen Rong then remembered that when Changsheng disappeared, Ergouzi said he bought a hairpin to give to her. After finding Changsheng, she was so happy that she forgot about it.

If Changsheng hadn't mentioned it, she wouldn't have even remembered about it.

Changsheng was similar to Shen Rong. He had been living in fear outside for several days and had even forgotten about the hairpin he had spent nearly a month's hard-earned money on. He only remembered it now when he was thinking about how to coax his wife.

"Then do you remember where you lost it?" Shen Rong no longer had any hope for the hairpin that she had never seen before.

Unexpectedly, Changsheng nodded and said, "I remember, it's not lost."

Shen Rong perked up, "Not lost? Then why didn't I see you take it out?" She paused and said, "If you really lost it, I wouldn't blame you."

"It's not lost." Changsheng frowned when he thought of that place. He hid the hairpin there because he was angry.

He didn't hide anywhere else but the place where he used to stay.

Unfortunately, it’s dark now.

Changsheng always remembers his grandmother's words and never goes out after dark.

"Where are you hiding?" Shen Rong asked curiously.

It seems that Changsheng hid things not at home, but outside.

Changsheng said nothing.

Shen Rong waited for a while, but he didn't answer, so she knew she might not be able to ask the question.

"Then when do you plan to get it?" Shen Rong asked again.

This time Changsheng did not remain silent, "Let's go when it's daybreak."

"Shall I come with you?"

At this time, Changsheng lay down silently, with his back to Shen Rong, and did not answer Shen Rong's words.

If Shen Rong still doesn't understand that Changsheng doesn't want her to go with him, then the past year or so she has spent with Changsheng in vain.

But when she thought that Changsheng still had a secret from her, she felt a little uncomfortable.

Neither of them spoke for a while, and the room soon fell into silence.

………………

At dusk, the shadow of the old soapberry tree in the middle of the village fell obliquely to one side. Changsheng stood under the tree in a daze, with a silver hairpin in his hand. He stood there for a while, and finally, as if he had made some decision, he bent down and crawled into the tree hole behind him.

Changsheng entered the tree hole, squatted in a corner skillfully, picked up a dead branch, and started digging a hole in the ground.

As he dug the hole, tears flowed from his eyes. He did not bother to wipe the tears when they flowed into his mouth. Only when the hole was deep enough did he reluctantly put the hairpin in his hand into the hole.

He stared at the silver hairpin for a long time in the dim light that slipped in from the cave. Finally, he scooped up a handful of soil and covered the hairpin.

The soil gradually filled the hole. Changsheng seemed to be afraid that the burial was not solid enough, so he raised his foot and stomped on it a few times, just like he did every time he buried something, only feeling relieved after making sure the soil was firmly stomped down.

Under the old soapberry tree, Changsheng sat facing the direction of the village entrance for a while. The sky was getting darker and the shadow of the old soapberry tree was getting longer and longer. The children playing nearby had already gone home, and the surroundings were deserted and quiet.

Changsheng sat alone under the tree, out of tune with the hustle and bustle in the row of houses not far away.

It was not until the sky grew darker that Changsheng turned around to see the last ray of light in the west sinking into the mountains. He seemed to be suddenly awakened, and he stretched his neck and shouted towards the entrance of the village, "Sanniang!"

This shout was unstoppable, and Changsheng suddenly stood up and ran towards the outside of the village.

Changsheng's thoughts were pulled away from his memories. He didn't know how to tell his wife that he had buried her before, and more than once, just like the green dates and apricots he had buried before.

He didn't want Shen Rong to know that he had been rejected and despised time and time again.

Even if you have a pure heart, you still want to leave some good impressions in the hearts of the people you care about.