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Chapter 166 The Truth Behind Old Wang's Huge Debt
Everyone in Hujia Village knows that Old Mrs. Wang is very fortunate; she has four sons.

Perhaps it was because she only gave birth to sons, and her sons only had grandsons; she had no daughters at all.

Everyone says that the Wang family is destined to have no daughters.

Naturally, some people were envious, while many more secretly envied them.

Nowadays, most people believe that once a son is born, he is a treasure. As long as he can get through the poor boy stage, he will be a great help when he grows up.

The son doesn't need to get married; he's strong enough to farm at home and support himself in his old age.

Once a daughter gets married, it's very difficult for her to come back.

Some women are so strictly controlled by their in-laws that they can't go back to their parents' home for over ten years, and their parents' home won't help them out for no reason.

But no one in Hujia Village knew that before entering Hujia Village, Old Lady Wang had fled famine with her four sons and one daughter.

At that time, the emperor was incompetent and tyrannical, indulging in cultivating immortality all day long. The court was corrupt and the people were full of complaints.

Furthermore, due to the unfavorable weather and widespread famine, uprisings broke out in many places. The original home of the Wang family was affected by the war, forcing them to leave their old place and seek survival in the cracks.

They wanted to find a remote and quiet place to live. Although the journey was tough at first, the family members supported each other and managed to get by.

They encountered many cases of people selling their children or even exchanging children to eat on the road, but they pretended not to see them.

Wang Chuanman and Wang Aibao are twins, a boy and a girl, and they are also the two children that Old Mrs. Wang loves the most.

It's said that emperors love their eldest sons, while common people love their youngest. Old Mrs. Wang was no exception.

Wang Aibao was very smart. She showed great talent when she was two or three years old. Even when they were fleeing famine, little Wang Aibao was always happy.

She loved following her older brothers around, picking wild vegetables and finding wild fruits, sometimes even finding more than them.

Grandma Wang taught the children to recite poems, and little Wang Aibao always learned the fastest.

When Wang Aibao was four or five years old, she fell in love with Grandma Wang's embroidery skills and pestered Grandma Wang to teach her every day.

At that time, they had no fixed abode and would sometimes stay in one place for two or three months before leaving. Old Mrs. Wang could not be patient enough to teach her daughter, but she would still take the time to occasionally give her a few acupuncture treatments.

Wang Aibao was extremely talented. Even at the age of 5, she could do needlework quite well. However, she was not very good at embroidery at that time, but she liked to draw on the ground with a twig.

She invented a flower with six petals and even imagined the flower's color and the shape of the leaves.

Grandma Wang simply embroidered his imagination and then told Wang Aibao, "Bao'er, this will be your birth flower from now on. Whatever you like in the future, just embroider a flower on it."

“I love Mom, can I embroider a flower on Mom?” Wang Aibao asked playfully.

Grandma Wang gently pinched her little nose, both amused and exasperated: "Then you can try it and see if your mother will spank you."

Wang Aibao burst into laughter.

When Wang Aibao was six years old, they entered a county town, which happened to be affected by a famine. A large number of refugees poured in. Perhaps because they had been hungry for too long, the refugees were not satisfied with the free porridge distributed every day and began to forcibly seize it.

This is where the problem arose.

The Wang family was separated from their family by the refugees.

The government directly and forcefully suppressed the protests, killing many people. Blood flowed like rivers, and corpses were everywhere.

The Wang family members were all lucky to be alive, but Wang Aibao was terrified and had a high fever for several days.

In order to treat Wang Aibao, Old Mrs. Wang had no choice but to go up the mountain to collect herbs and find something to eat.

At that time, most of them could only eat tree bark.

Tree bark isn't something you can just peel off and eat. Some bark can be boiled in water and eaten directly, but most bark needs to be dried, ground into powder, and then made into bark cakes. Wang Aibao was too weak to eat bark cakes, so Old Wang had to go to faraway places to beg kind-hearted people for some.

At that time, they really met a kind person who gave them a bag of food and even helped them buy medicine in the county town, taking great care of Wang Aibao.

The Wang family lowered their guard, thinking that the man was a kind-hearted person. As a result, Wang Aibao was stolen by that man when they weren't paying attention.

Grandma Wang was almost driven mad.

However, things were chaotic everywhere at that time, and it was good enough to save one's life, let alone find someone.

You can't find them at all.

But Old Mrs. Wang didn't believe it, and she searched everywhere like a madwoman.

Everyone else said, "Don't bother looking anymore. In this day and age, what do you think a stolen child would be used for?"

Perhaps in the past, when life was harmonious, if a child was stolen, they would be raised as a child bride, with the boy becoming a successor and the girl becoming a child bride.

But now everyone is struggling to get enough to eat, let alone raise other people's children, so the most likely scenario is that Wang Aibao is being used as a pawn in a scheme to exchange children for cannibalism...

Someone coldly said, "What's the use of a daughter? She's just a money-losing burden! She's gone, so what? Why are you still looking for her? I don't think you really want to find your daughter; you probably just want to trade her for someone else's child."

The person who was speaking was chased for two miles by Old Mrs. Wang, who was holding a large rock, and was hit on the head with a huge bump.

In chaotic times, without laws, that person could only accept their bad luck and stay far away from Old Lady Wang.

From that time on, Old Mrs. Wang seemed to have suddenly become a different person. She was no longer gentle and weak, and her speech was no longer polite. She was also much stricter with the four children who were left in the family.

Old Mrs. Wang never stopped searching for her youngest daughter. They traveled along the way, stopping frequently, when they suddenly learned that the emperor had died suddenly, the crown prince had ascended the throne, and the reign title had been changed to Minghua.

The rebels were eliminated one by one, the war gradually subsided, and the disasters seemed to decrease.

Everything around them was returning to normal, but Wang Aibao had vanished without a trace.

Old Mrs. Wang was heartbroken and lived like a walking corpse, which made her family feel extremely sorry for her.

For the sake of her children, she gritted her teeth and endured it.

This forbearance lasted until her eldest son, Wang Chuanfu, met Feng Shi. The two almost secretly pledged their lives to each other, and just then, they arrived at Hujia Village.

Grandma Wang's body, which had been holding on for so long, could no longer withstand the strain and she collapsed, remaining in a coma for over a month.

When she woke up again, the first thing Grandma Wang said was, "I'll stay here, I'm not leaving."

She is tired.

Recalling this moment, Grandma Wang felt as if all her strength had been drained away, and she could barely support her body.

Seeing this, Old Wang quickly helped Old Mrs. Wang up.

"Old woman, you have to hold on! Go to your room and rest first. We can talk about other things tomorrow. We've waited 17 years already, so there's no rush."

After calming herself down, Grandma Wang looked at her sons and daughters-in-law and said, "Have you all been wondering where this money is owed? Well, I'll tell you."

"That money was 2000 taels, borrowed from a pawnshop owner. The money wasn't used for anything else; it was all used to ask someone to find Aibao. You don't need to worry. You don't have to pay it back. Just pretend you don't know anything about it. Even if we can't pay it back in the future, the pawnshop owner won't bother you."

Grandma Wang glanced at the handkerchief on the table again, her eyes deep: "Since Heaven has shown me this handkerchief, I will not let it slip by. If you are dissatisfied, just keep it to yourselves. Anyway, as long as I am the mother-in-law, I will be in charge. Even if you have different opinions, I have no intention of taking them into consideration."

The sons and daughters-in-law exchanged glances, all wondering if their mother had lost her mind.

What can you prove with just a handkerchief?
Moreover, Wang Aibao was only 6 years old at the time, and it's uncertain whether she even remembers things from her childhood.

(End of this chapter)