Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields

Chapter 327: Affection between brother and sister

“…” Her sudden change of attitude stunned Ah Jian.
He moved his mouth but didn’t know what to say.

Seeing him like this, Lian Fang Zhou couldn’t help but force a smile and sigh.
“Forget it, this matter is over, it’s not interesting anymore! I have to check the water source, you go first!”

Ah Jian nodded: “I’ll leave now.”

Seeing Ah Jian walk away, she was quiet for a moment.
Smiling unconsciously, she soon pushed the matter aside and stopped thinking about it.

She had never been the type of person to waste time on trivial things!

However, she had never dreamed that while there was an oriole behind the mantis while it caught the cicada, there was an oriole behind the oriole! In addition to Ah Jian, Lian Ze had also overheard what Sun Ming and Ah Jian had said to her.

That night, Lian Ze called Lian Fang Zhou out into the yard to talk.
By this point, she was almost unsurprised.

Feeling embarrassed, she snapped: “You have learned bad habits! All of you have bad habits! When your sister talks privately, you dare to eavesdrop!”

“I—” Lian Ze opened his mouth, embarrassed: “Where did I want to help Big Brother Sun, I just wanted to talk to my sister— Well, I saw my sister going over to check the water source and wanted to help.
Who knew that Big Brother Sun would also go…”

“So?” Lian Fang Zhou glared at Lian Ze, “You’ve called me outside now, what do you want to say to me?”

Lian Ze struggled for a moment and then finally picked up his courage: “Sister, marry Brother Ah Jian!”

“You! What did you say!?” Lian Fang Zhou was so surprised and flustered she choked on her own saliva.
Bending over, she patted her chest, coughing constantly, her face flushed.
When she finally caught her breath, she stared at him and said: “What are you saying, what nonsense! Daring to joke like this!”

“I’m serious!” Lian Ze’s eyes were shining under the faint moonlight, his lips pursed and his expression unusually solemn.
He looked at her and said: “Sister, you have paid too much for us! You should think about yourself, not just about us.
If you don’t find a good home, we will not be at ease for the rest of our lives!”

His expression and tone were so serious that Lian Fang Zhou was stunned.
Looking at the thin but sturdy figure of a young man in the faint light, it was obvious that he was much taller and stronger than when she first arrived.
After another year or two, he would be even taller than her!

Suddenly, she realized that he was no longer a child.
Che’er and Qing’er were also growing up day by day.
Her heart was flooded with emotion for no reason.

Lian Fang Zhou moved her lips but made no sound.

Her brother continued: “Brother Ah Jian actually likes Sister! I can see that Sister also treats him differently than others.
Although Brother Ah Jian’s origins are unclear, we all know that he is a good person and we like him very much.
Eldest Sister, isn’t it good for him to be our brother-in-law? He will be good to my sister! Moreover, he will protect my sister from feeling wronged! The elders in our family are gone but its only required to show filial piety for a hundred days before children can get married.
It’s been more than a hundred days, if sister is—”

“Alright, don’t say anything else!” Lian Fang Zhou’s heart was slowly recovering from the shock.
Calmly, she looked at Lian Ze and said softly: “You can’t decide this on your own, you know! Not only do you need my opinion, but you also need your Brother Ah Jian’s!”

“Why?” Lian Ze pursed his lips, looking like a little boy.
Aggrieved and annoyed, he said: “I’m speaking from the bottom of my heart, why is my sister unwilling to listen!”

Lian Fang Zhou laughed and said deliberately: “Oh, are you forcing your sister to marry?”

“Sister!” Lian Ze became a little angry.

“Ah Ze!” Seeing that he was upset, she stopped teasing him.
She sighed: “You are only thinking of your sister, but you have forgotten to think about your Brother Ah Jian.”

Speaking slowly, she said: “Ah Jian does not remember his past life experiences.
Have you ever thought about what he has forgotten? What would we do if he is already married? What if he has children? What would happen if your sister married him and he remembered his past? Have you thought about what dilemma we will face? How unfair this would be to his wife or fiancée?”

Saying these words, Lian Fang Zhou’s heart was filled with a sour, unspeakable taste and her chest was extremely stuffy and uncomfortable.

In fact, she didn’t know how many times she had thought about these words in her heart since long ago.
But whenever she started to think about it, she would always push it away because she didn’t want to think too deeply about it.

But now that Lian Ze had said such a thing to her, even if she didn’t want to face it, she could only look straight ahead.

Since when had he become different in her heart? Maybe it was when he had driven away the troublemakers sent by her uncle.
Or maybe it was when her aunt calculated against her and tried to sell her and he saved her.
Maybe it was just day by day, growing a little each time.
Maybe—

Maybe it had been from the day he had arrived at their home.
At that time, she had felt that he was different so it was inevitable that she would pay more attention to him.
The more attention she paid, the more she liked him.
After all, he was a really good person!

Stunned, Lian Ze’s mind was empty and his heart seemed to have been hollowed out.

He stared at his sister in a daze, looking at her calm and serene expression, and felt a sense of unexplainable sadness and melancholy.

He moved his lips, but couldn’t say a word.

What she said, he had never thought about, but as soon as she said it, he knew that his previous words had been wrong.

His hands tightened at his side.
Sullen, he couldn’t help but think: Sister’s life is so unfair! Really unfair!

Originally she had a happy marriage, but she had been thrown aside for no reason.
Because her siblings were too young, she couldn’t focus on her marriage.
Now, she had found someone who didn’t dislike her and was willing to marry her.
He promised to be good to her from the rest of her life but she couldn’t agree because of the cruel reality of their situation.

And now, because of an even more cruel reality, she could not marry Brother Ah Jian…

Wasn’t his sister destined to find a beloved, happy home in this life?

“Alright.” Seeing Lian Ze’s expression, Lian Fang Zhou forced herself to laugh and smile: “Look at you, how old are you to be worrying about your sister’s affairs! Don’t think too much, in such a big world there will always be someone suitable for your sister.
Don’t you know? Marriage must be a natural decision.
Maybe it’s just that your sister’s fate hasn’t come! This is something that the heavens should worry about, why do you need to?”