The 8th day of the 9th month, autumn, the 10th year of Yuanhe

The autumn rains brought cold weather, and the winter wheat had been planted. The farmers were free, so Lu Chaoyun set up a loom in her room and started weaving to supplement the family income.

The farce at home early in the morning finally ended after Fang Lanxiang's stomachache improved after taking the medicine.

Sister Hongtao learned weaving skills from Lu Chaoyun.

The cloth they weave is called local cloth. The finished product is a coarse linen cloth with a yellowish brown color. It has low production cost and low price.

In Suanzao County, this kind of cloth is used by ordinary people. Some wealthy families wear fine linen or thin and soft white cloth imported from outside.

Lu Chaoyun didn't let Jiang Hongping get out of bed, and she ate and drank in bed.

Although she regained consciousness and her fever subsided, her calves still felt burning.

After dinner, Jiang Hongping had nothing to do, so she lay alone on the bed and went over in her mind all the things that had happened at home in her previous life before she got married.

Next, another big thing is going to happen.

After this incident, she met him. They fell in love at first sight and had frequent interactions afterwards.

In the spring of the eleventh year of Yuanhe, he left Suanzao County and asked her to wait for him for three years.

As soon as he left, her innocence was ruined by Lan Chunsheng. There was no possibility that the two of them would have a future. She married Lan Chunsheng, went to the Western Regions, and lived in hell for more than ten years.

God opened his eyes and gave her a chance to start over. She had to put into practice what she had learned in the second half of her previous life to change herself and the fate of her parents, brothers and sisters.

She would still meet him, but she didn't want to have too much contact with him in this life. Because in her previous life, she didn't know until shortly before she set herself on fire that the tragedy that happened to her was caused by him.

She and he, a commoner and a young man from a noble family, were not a good match. They were destined not to be together. He also had no ability to protect her. If he had a sense of responsibility, he would not have let others manipulate him in his previous life. Love was a luxury, not something she could dream of. The love in the storybooks was for the young men and women of rich families, and she thought she was not worthy of it.

She is grateful to her benefactor in her previous life for teaching her how to run a business and manage a household. In this life, she wants to live her own life and never get involved in love again.

Lunch was brought by Lu Chaoyun, as she had something to discuss with her.

"Mom, I want to change my name." This name reminded her of painful memories, and she wanted to change it and start over.

"Why change your name? Hongping is nice enough." Lu Chaoyun felt that her daughter was no longer as cautious as before, smiling and trying to please others. Now her daughter is straightforward, which is what she likes.

"Mom, don't be anxious. I heard that duckweed is a floating plant with no roots or whiskers, and it drifts in the water all its life. I don't want to be like it, a rootless person." Jiang Hongping looked at Lu with tears in her eyes. (From here on, the name of the heroine is changed to Jiang Muxia)

When the person who saved her learned that her name was Hong Ping, he said that it was no wonder that her fate was wandering, because the root of her fate was the word Ping. People without roots are like dandelions separated from their mother plant, and wherever the wind blows them to is their home. They can never control their own fate, and if they want to change it, they must change their name. So, her name for the rest of her life was Mu Xia.

"Your name was chosen by the great grandfather in the clan, who thought that it would start with the character "red" like his granddaughter's. I didn't expect it to have this meaning. Have you decided on a new name?" Lu Chaoyun still liked his daughter to have her own opinions. It made him angry to see her acting timidly.

"I thought about it and looked through my father's book. I think Mu Xia is good. The word Mu means "mu dew combing the wind", and I was born in summer. Mom, do you think it sounds good?"

"Anyway, I don't understand what it means, Mu Xia, it sounds pretty smooth when you call it, just as long as you think it's okay."

"Change your sister and brother's names as well. Just change the middle character. Change Hongtao to Mutao, and Hongyang to Muyang." She changed her name with only one purpose, to say goodbye to the past.

She wants to control her own destiny.

Just as he finished speaking, the sound of a group of women talking and laughing could be heard in the yard.

The mother and daughter looked at each other. Someone was coming. From the voices, it was the aunts and sisters-in-law from their family.

The footsteps in the yard were moving towards the north room of the west wing. Jiang Muxia understood that they must have heard that the second aunt had a miscarriage and went to see her.

Lu Chaoyun snorted coldly and said disdainfully: "I really didn't expect that I was so good to them, but they would do such a thing. Fortunately, you are okay, otherwise I will never let them go."

The mother and the daughter were talking in a heart-to-heart talk when the door curtain was lifted and four people came in.

"It's really cold. I put on several layers of clothes today, but I still feel chilly." The first person to come in was a middle-aged woman wearing a dark gray dress and a blue scarf on her head. She was Aunt Chun who lived next door.

Jiang Muxia greeted them one by one.

"Hongping, what happened?" Another woman wearing a loose dark green dress, with a slightly bulging belly, a cone-shaped bun and a face as red as a silver basin looked at her.

"Sister Hexin, I'm much better now. I'm sorry to bother you with my concern." She decided to tell everyone that she had changed her name. She didn't want to hear the name Hongping again.

"Auntie, sisters-in-law. After this fall, I almost lost my life. After discussing with my parents, I decided to change my name. Remember to call me Mu Xia in the future."

"You know what, Mu Xia sounds better than Hong Ping." The white-faced woman in blue said with a smile. This was He Feng's wife, Sun Lanhua. She was still as gentle and spoke slowly as in her previous life.

Aunt Chun laughed and teased her, "How can you be so stupid, girl? You can fall down from the post you usually go to. This time I will teach you a lesson. See if you can still be reckless."

Jiang Muxia knew that she was straightforward, and it was the same in her previous life. She liked the children of the same clan very much, and she didn't take Aunt Chun's words to heart. She smiled at her with her lips pursed, pointed at her legs, and twisted her little face to show that she was in pain.

What the next person said made her feel very uncomfortable, and she stopped smiling.

"Hongping is a good name, I think. You have heavy hands and feet, it doesn't matter whether you change it or not." The speaker was a red-faced woman wearing a dark grey dress and a cone bun. Jiang Muxia recognized her as He Nan's sister-in-law Fang Guizhi.

Lu Chaoyun sat on the edge of the bed with a calm expression and nodded, obviously agreeing with what they said.

The corners of Jiang Muxia's lips curled up, and the smile on her face widened a little.

Zhao Chunfeng, the sister-in-law next to her, chuckled and said, "Sister-in-law is right. A person's fate has nothing to do with his name. People are stupid in their nature. There is no point in changing their name."

"Yeah, if a person is stupid, he should experience more things so that he can learn from them." Lu Chaoyun echoed.

The more rude they said, the bigger Jiang Muxia's smile became. These ignorant women just saw that she was easy to talk to before and didn't take her seriously. They started to laugh at her in front of her.

Very good, the harsher you say, the greater the reward you will get.

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