Hanging Herself Again

Jiang Xi had been carried back again. Three times she had been engaged, three times she had broken off the engagement, three times she had hung herself, and three times she had broken someone’s beam. Now, the entire village was on guard against Jiang Xi, afraid that she would take things too hard and hang herself in front of their house. Hanging herself was a small matter, but she had broken the beam every time. Who had she offended? It was a lot of money to repair a beam!

 A woman with a headscarf and a capable aura walked in front with a face full of sweat. From time to time, she would turn around and shout, “Be gentle! Who will be responsible if you wake her up? Old Jiang family! Old Jiang family, hurry up and come out! Your Jiang Xi hung herself again! It’s so early in the morning, how unlucky!”

Behind the woman were two dark and muscular youths with honest looks. The two of them were carrying a stretcher made of bamboo strips. On the stretcher lay a sickly little girl. She was seventeen or eighteen years old and was thin and pale. Her slender eyebrows were slightly furrowed, making her look even more delicate, as if the wind could blow her over. The little girl’s fair skin made the deep purple mark on her neck look even more terrifying.

“Old Jiang, hurry up and come out! Your Jiang Xi is courting death again! Last month, she hung the beam of the Wang family’s house. Today, she came to my house to hang herself and almost smashed me to death! Can you control her! If she wants to hang herself, she can do it at her own house…” The woman placed her hands on her hips and looked fierce. She wanted to say that she would die in her own house, but she suddenly heard a low moan from the stretcher behind her. She was so frightened that she quickly stopped. It was over, it was over. This little ancestor was about to wake up!

Jiang Xi’s mother, Yang Fen, had just stepped out of the door when she saw the woman’s expression as if she was facing a great enemy. She was so angry that her entire body was trembling. “My good daughter, why are you so stubborn? If you cancel the engagement when you’re not lucky… How are dad and mom going to live like this?!” Yang Fen cried as she rushed to Jiang Xi’s side. One look at Yang Fen’s dressing and one could tell that she was poor. Her clothes had been washed until they turned white, and there was also a lot of white hair at her temples. She was probably malnourished all year round. After crying, she wiped her tears and looked at the woman. “Mrs. Lin, I’ve really troubled you. Our Jiang Xi has a hard life. The marriage that was finally settled was canceled three days ago…”

The two youths saw that Yang Fen was crying sadly and felt even more embarrassed. After putting down the stretcher, they jumped away.

“Tough life? If your Jiang Xi’s life is tough, then wouldn’t we, who are unlucky for no reason, have an even tougher life? Your Jiang Xi hung herself three times and collapsed other people’s roof beams three times. Why didn’t Jiang Xi hang herself in your own house? Did she specially pick on us so that we could be bullied? Let me ask you, aren’t you afraid to see a snow-white little girl with a bruised face lying at your door so early in the morning?” Mrs. Lin’s attitude was very mean because she had to waste more than one hundred yuan to repair the roof beams again. Just thinking about it made her grit her teeth in hatred. She did not feel that human lives were more important than one hundred yuan.

Mrs. Lin seemed to be still angry after scolding them. She turned around and scolded her silly son, “The two of you are also useless! I told you to stay at home and watch. Don’t let Jiang Xi, this girl, come and harm our house! Look at what you’ve done!” The way Mrs. Lin gritted her teeth frightened her two sons so much that they hurriedly took two steps back.

Yang Fen was originally crying on Jiang Xi’s body, but when she heard Mrs. Lin’s words, she could not hold it in anymore. She immediately took out two hundred yuan from her pocket and hesitated for a long time with her calloused palm touching the money. Then, she gritted her teeth and stuffed it into the Lin family’s daughter-in-law’s hand. “This… This beam was broken by our Jiang Xi. We can’t let you repair it yourself… Take this two hundred yuan. The rest of the money is for the two children to buy something to nourish them. Our Jiang Xi has caused you trouble.”

After Mrs. Lin took the money, she also had a smile on her face. She took the money and looked at it lovingly before putting it away. She looked at Yang Fen and said earnestly, “Well, Sister Yang Fen, it’s not that I want to say this, but it’s time for your Jiang Xi to go to the temple to take a look. I’m telling you this because I treat you as someone I’m familiar with. Look at the people around you. Which family’s marriage is as complicated as your Jiang Xi’s? Three times she was engaged and three times they broke off the engagement. Jiang Xi even hung herself three times and didn’t die three times… Ahem, this matter is too fantastical. It’s better to go to the temple to take a look and pray. If there’s a problem, shouldn’t it be resolved sooner?”

Mrs. Lin’s words were like a knife stabbing into Yang Fen’s heart, making her unable to maintain her expression.

“Cough, cough...” At that moment, a faint cough sounded.

Very Strange

The moment she coughed, Mrs. Lin's smug expression suddenly changed. She jumped away as if she had seen something terrifying and stuttered, “I... I still have something to do at home. My child’s father is waiting for me to go home and cook. I’ll go back first. Please let Jiang Xi rest well. Three-legged toads were hard to find, but weren’t there plenty of two-legged men? Tell Jiang Xi to get over it!” After saying that, she took her two dumbfounded sons and ran away. From the back, she looked as if a ghost was chasing her. It was evident how powerful Jiang Xi was!

Yang Fen hugged Jiang Xi and cried for a while more before carrying the thin Jiang Xi into the room. At this moment, Jiang Xi’s breathing was very weak, and his body was cold. Yang Fen could not help but cry again. Her daughter’s health was getting worse and worse. She had to rely on the medicinal liquid to keep her alive. Her marriage was going through a lot of twists and turns... What was she going to do in the future?

It was already a little cold in October, but Yang Fen did not think that Jiang Xi, who was so weak that she was almost out of breath, would lose her life. She remembered that when Jiang Xi was born, it happened to be the birthday of the Goddess of Happiness in the temple in town. Jiang Xi and the Goddess of Happiness had the same birthday! This made Yang Fen particularly proud. She felt that her daughter was absolutely blessed, but this marriage was too unsuccessful.

Jiang Xi hung herself for the first time in the village’s richest family, Old Ma’s family. Old Ma’s family had just built a new house. The beams of the house were extremely strong and would not shake even if five or six strong men were hung on it. At that time, Jiang Xi’s engagement was called off for the first time, and it was her playmate with whom she had been close when she was young. Jiang Xi was sad and had the idea of committing suicide. After much consideration, she chose Old Ma’s house’s beam. Jiang Xi had never lived in a good place before she died, so she had the idea of choosing a rich family after her death. Therefore, she hung the rope on the beam of Old Ma’s House while the moon was dark and the wind was strong. To her surprise, as soon as Jiang Xi hung it on her neck, the new and strong roof beam of old Ma’s House cracked with a loud crack! Jiang Xi’s first attempt at hanging herself was also a failure because the beam of Old Ma’s new house was shattered.

For the second time, Jiang Xi deliberately chose an old beam that was known to be thick and strong. Then, she hung herself on it. Unexpectedly, the beam collapsed as soon as she got on it and even injured the landlord who had tried to stop Jiang Xi from hanging herself. Jiang Xi, who was so thin that she could fall with the slightest breeze, got up on her own, dusted off her skirt, and left. The 1.8-meter-tall landlord had been lying in bed for half a month!

As a result, the entire Happy Village felt that Jiang Xi was strange and guarded against her as if she was a thief. They were afraid that she would come to their house to hang herself. Jiang Xi did not think too much about it. After breaking two beams, she thought that she was too heavy. So, after the third engagement, she went to hang herself after starving for three days. Jiang Xi thought that she had to hang herself, so she broke the beam of the Lin family’s house ...

Later on, someone was curious and went to study the broken beam. The beam was so thick that even five or six strong men hanging together could not break it! So, how did Jiang Xi manage to break it? Moreover, she broke them three times!

Yang Fen did not dare to overthink it. Her daughter, Jiang Xi, was now famous for being a widow. If there were more rumors about her, she would not be able to get married. Her mother-in-law was already at odds with her because of this. She disliked Jiang Xi more and more. After all, she was a monster who had hung herself three times and still did not die! Who knew what she had on her?

Jiang Xi’s hanging had become the talk of the town in Happy Village, and the more they talked about it, the more mysterious it became. Under the lush old willow tree at the village entrance, a group of men smoking tobacco and women sitting on small stools picking vegetables was chatting and sighing. Jiang Xi’s fate was really full of ups and downs. During the first engagement, her fiancé was seduced by another young lady not long after. During the second engagement, her fiancé ran away with another woman. During the third engagement, it was heard that the man was promiscuous outside and another pregnant lady came to look for him. Sigh... People really could not see through Jiang Xi’s fate.

The outside world said that Jiang Xi was not blessed, and they must be somewhat credible. Otherwise, why would her marriage always be full of twists and turns? Every engagement was broken, and every time she hung herself, she did not die. Was this good luck or bad luck? The people of the Happy Village were a little conflicted, but without exception, they were all on guard against Jiang Xi, afraid that she would take a fancy to their house’s beam!

The Past

At the same time, in the Jiang family. There were many fruits and vegetables planted in the small courtyard surrounded by bamboo. It was already the autumn harvest season, and the garden was full of fruits and vegetables, red and green, which looked particularly pleasing.

Jiang Xi sat on a small wooden bench in the courtyard, wearing a long linen dress. She did not move her eyes for a long time. The hem of her dress swayed in the breeze, like a spiritual puppet. It looked very horrifying.

“How is it? What did they say?” Zheng Rong lowered her voice and glanced at Jiang Xi, who was sitting in the courtyard like a statue. She sighed in her heart. Sigh, this was the third time.

“The second and third brother went to ask just now. They heard that the woman is nine months pregnant and is about to give birth. The engagement with our sister, Jiang Xi, has to be called off. ” Jiang Da, who looked simple and honest, washed his face with cold water. The water droplets on his face could not hide the irritation in his eyes. He looked at the back of his sister, Jiang Xi, and could not help but feel a chill run down his spine. He had a feeling that Jiang Xi, who had hung herself three times but still survived, was a little different this time.

“There’s a wedding at my uncle’s house today, but Jiang Xi ...” Even though Zheng Rong did not have a good impression of Jiang Xi, she felt a little sad at this moment. Her fiancé was getting married, but the bride was not her. Why was she invited to the wedding? What the hell was this?!

“I’m not going! Why should we go?! We must have been blind to have taken a fancy to that Yang Kun kid!” Jiang Da said snappily. He and Jiang Xi had grown up together and were childhood sweethearts. He was even slightly related to our family and Jiang Xi’s cousin, so we set the engagement. I didn’t expect him to do such a disgraceful thing! He’s not good enough for my younger sister, Jiang Xi!”

Previously, her uncle, Yang Shaoqun, was poor. Her uncle’s son, Yang Kun, had reached the marriageable age, but he had not been able to find a wife. So, he had discussed with the Jiang family to let Yang Kun and Jiang Xi get engaged. In this way, the Yang family and the Jiang family could be considered close. However, who would have thought that the Yang family would make a small fortune just a month after the engagement? At that time, the Yang family had even said that Jiang Xi was born with good fortune. In the end, Yang Kun had gotten together with another woman and cheated on Jiang Xi! Now that Yang Kun was getting married, he even sent an invitation to the Jiang family. Where did he get his face from?

Zheng Rong’s lips moved, but she suppressed her words. In fact, she felt that things were a little strange. It seemed that all the families who were engaged to Jiang Xi had made a fortune... Then they dumped Jiang Xi after making a fortune? Zheng Rong shook her head and did not think too much about it. Perhaps Jiang Xi was born with bad luck.

Jiang Xi, who was sitting in the courtyard in a daze, was dumbfounded when she heard the soft and mumbling voices behind her. She had stayed at Zhoushan Mental Hospital for three years. The green mountains and clear waters that she had once yearned for were now right in front of her eyes. Everything felt like a lifetime ago. She could still vaguely remember the days when she was dominating the mental hospital. After all, she was the master in Zhoushan and the empress of mental illness.

“Mother, second brother and third brother are back. You and Jiang Xi should hurry up and pack up. Uncle Yang Shaoqun is coming to hurry us.” Zheng Rong, Jiang Xi’s sister-in-law, went into the house and changed into a clean set of clothes. Then, she called out to Jiang Xi. She felt that Jiang Xi would definitely not attend the wedding, but as Jiang Xi’s sister-in-law, she had to call out to her. Otherwise, she was afraid that Jiang Xi would start a feud with her. After all, being a daughter and a daughter-in-law were different.

The room was silent for a while before Yang Fen responded in a low voice. Yang Shaoqun was Yang Fen’s older brother. Although Yang Kun and Jiang Xi’s marriage had been called off, they were still relatives. They could not just sever their ties. Moreover, Yang Shaoqun was her older brother and also her family! However, Yang Fen was disappointed in Yang Kun after all. She had watched Yang Kun grow up since he was a child. It was a pity...

Yang Fen sat on the bed and thought for a long time before she took out a money bag wrapped in red cloth from under the bed. She took out 200 yuan, weighed it for a moment, walked out of the room, and stuffed it into Jiang Xi’s hand. Jiang Xi looked at Yang Fen in a daze, her eyes confused.

“I... I’m going to your uncle’s house. Go to the market and buy some snacks that you like. Don’t think too much.” Yang Fen’s eyes were a little evasive, but she was sighing in her heart. Her eldest brother, Yang Shaoqun, was now living a good life. Yang Shaoqun had introduced the jobs of her three sons. Her fourth child was also a bookworm. Her family relied on Yang Shaoqun’s protection. Now that Jiang Xi had been wronged, there was no way to seek justice for her.

It was strange that Yang Shaoqun’s family used to be in trouble, but ever since he was engaged to Jiang Xi, everything had gone smoothly. It was as if they used a cheat........