The Family by the Bridge (Slice of Life)

Fisherman Old Qiao's third daughter nearly drowned!

When the news spread through W Willow Town, no one could believe it.

After all, Qiao Sanniang was known as the White Stripe of the Waves. She could swim by the age of three or four, and by seven or eight she was fishing alongside Old Qiao and his wife. Her swimming skills were better than those of most young men.

It was only when they saw Doctor Jin hurrying toward the Qiao home with his medicine chest that the neighbors panicked. Could she really have nearly drowned?

That afternoon, good news arrived: Qiao Sanniang had been saved. But she seemed like a different person now, bursting into tears at the slightest thing.

Her mother, Chen Lianfang, even went to the water's edge to call her soul back, begging the Lady of the Sishui River to return the soul her daughter had left behind.

No one could have guessed that Qiao Sanniang, who had been tortured to death in her previous life, had been reborn. Even she took several days to accept that she had truly come back.

Whenever she thought about it, the tears would not stop. Every night, she was afraid to sleep, terrified that it was all a dream and that everything would disappear when she woke up.

How wonderful. Her second elder sister was still unmarried, she had not yet taken a live-in husband, and her parents were still healthy. Even the magistrate, who loved his people like his own children, had not yet been killed by bandits.

Since Heaven had given her another chance at life, it must be to make up for the regrets of her previous one. This time, she would turn everything upside down and start over.

First, she would ruin her second sister's engagement. She would also change the man she planned to take as her live-in husband. After much thought, she personally prepared the six betrothal gifts and went to propose to the poor scholar in the south of town, who had lost the use of one hand.

After Cui Yunzhou's hand was crippled, he became a useless man who could neither carry things on his shoulder nor lift them with his hand. Unable to bear watching his widowed mother wear herself out supporting him, he secretly prepared a three-foot length of white silk to end his life. He never expected the Qiao family's third daughter from the east bank of the river to come in person with betrothal gifts and ask him to become her husband.

That lively, lovely young fisherwoman from the banks of the Sishui River! She surely had no idea that, during the torrential rain that year, she had rowed out in a little boat with a long pole and rescued him from the storm. That carefree, spirited figure had never once left his heart.

Now that she was willing to take him as her husband, Cui Yunzhou put down the white silk and decided to entrust his life to her once more.

Note: This is a fictional ancient setting with no identifiable historical dynasty.

A slice-of-life farming story about everyday life in a small-town family.

Theme: Time should not be wasted.