The general's wife knows medicine

The night was getting darker and darker. A crescent moon hung in the sky, emitting a soft light that illuminated the entire village. There was silence all around and all things had fallen asleep.

Suddenly, a burst of crying was heard from the east end of the village, which seemed particularly loud in the originally quiet night.

"Dad, Dad, please, let me go, please?" A girl who looked about fifteen or sixteen years old knelt on the ground and pulled the trouser legs of a man sitting on a stool and cried.

"Peipei, it's not that your father is cruel, but you refused to tell me who the other person is. You were also unwilling to abort the child when I asked you to. You are pregnant before marriage, which is an unmatched affair. If it weren't for the magistrate's generosity, you would have been put in a pig cage and drowned in the river." The man pointed at the girl with a look of disappointment.

"Dad, believe me, he is a very powerful man. I can't tell you who he is now, but he will definitely come back to find me."

"You told me to believe you, but I don't even know who that man is. How can I believe you? Do you have any proof?" If he is really a powerful person, he can support Peipei for a while.

There was no proof. In fact, apart from knowing that the man was very good-looking, Tang Peipei didn't know anything else.

Just a month ago, Tang Peipei was learning how to make necklaces with Tang Erya in the west of the village. She was so engrossed in the making that she went home late. Having grown up in the village, she was familiar with every place. So, even though it was already dark, Tang Peipei still insisted that she could go back, and she went home by herself under the moonlight.

Tang Peipei's home is in the east of the village. To go home, he has to pass by a forest connected to the back mountain. Just when Tang Peipei felt inexplicably in danger, he was suddenly knocked unconscious and forcibly dragged into the woods.

When she slowly woke up, someone was lying on her and kissing her. Tang Peipei suddenly felt a chill all over her body, and despair and shame filled her entire nerves. She knew what she was going through.

She used all her strength to push and hit the man on her body. The man was suddenly hit and glared at Tang Peipei. With the moonlight, Tang Peipei saw the man's face clearly. His smooth and white face was angular and cold. Looking at his dark and deep eyes, she felt like she wanted to be deeply immersed in them. His thick eyebrows, high nose bridge, and sexy lips all told of the handsomeness of this man. Tang Peipei stopped struggling instantly. Such a handsome man was enough to capture her heart. Just like that, Tang Peipei accepted this love calmly. When Tang Peipei woke up again, the handsome man was no longer around her. If Tang Peipei had not felt uncomfortable under her body and was only covered by clothes, she would have thought she had a dream.

Afterwards, Tang Peipei quietly returned home and told her family that she came back late and everyone was asleep, so she went back to her room to rest without disturbing her family. Everyone in the family had something to do, so naturally they didn't care whether what she said was true.

After that, Tang Peipei looked forward to the man's return every day and ignored the changes in her body until her family noticed that her belly was getting bigger and bigger and people in the village started to gossip about her.

"Since nothing is left, don't blame your father. I can't ignore the reputation of other children because of you." Tang Ren pushed away Tang Peipei who was pulling him, "You go to the old house at the end of the village." After saying that, he turned around and left.

Tang Peipei looked at her father who left in anger, filled with despair. She had left the home where she was born and raised, and was pregnant with a child. How was she, a powerless woman, supposed to live?

But the hope that the handsome man would come to find her prevailed. No matter how difficult it was, Tang Peipei gritted her teeth and refused to give in.

"Peipei, my poor daughter." Tang's mother covered her mouth and cried softly. She didn't dare to go forward to say a word for her daughter. She could only watch her daughter being dragged to the old house by her two brothers.

With Tang Ren's permission, Tang's mother packed up some of Tang Peipei's old clothes and secretly took out the three taels of silver that Tang Peipei had earned from beating Yingluo and gave them to Tang Peipei.

In fact, the so-called old house is just a thatched hut with only a bed and a table inside.

Relying on the three taels of silver and picking wild vegetables in the mountains every day, Tang Peipei lived in the old house.