Marrying a village tyrant husband with space, being spoiled by the in-laws

Hearing a knock on the door, she came out of the kitchen. Who would come to the door in such heavy rain?

When I opened the door, it was Li Chengjin.

"Third brother, why are you here?"

"Aunt, I have something important to tell you."

"Come inside and talk."

Yunniang couldn't help but feel a little worried. Coming here in such heavy rain must be something big.

Hearing the noise outside, Zhou Tian and his newly married wife Li Xiaomei also came out of the house.

"It's raining so hard, why are you here, third cousin?"

Li Chengjin took off his hat, took off his raincoat that was dripping with water and hung it on the door.

"I went to town a few days ago and saw that not only has the grain tax doubled this year, but there will also be conscription soon. All families with adult males will be sent to the battlefield."

"We have discussed for a long time at home and are preparing to flee to Dongzhou. I came here today to tell my uncle and aunt if you want to go together. Just now, I walked to the bank of the canal and saw that the embankment on the riverside had cracks, and the water in the river was rising fiercely."

"At this rate, the river will break the embankment in less than two days, and then the dozens of villages along the river will be submerged by floods.

When the Zhou family heard this, their faces turned pale instantly.

Oh my god, what if this house is flooded? !

"It's not easy to escape from famine to Dongzhou!" Zhou Dazhu stood up with a limp and looked at the crackling rain outside the door.

"If we don't leave, we're afraid we won't be able to leave when the time comes. I just heard a manager on a merchant ship at the ferry saying that the dam in Huizhou Prefecture upstream has collapsed. Dozens of villages have been submerged, and there must be countless casualties."

Zhou Dazhu thought about it and realized that natural disasters were the most cruel. His sister and her family must have known enough information if they were willing to flee the famine, so they asked their third brother to come and inform them in the heavy rain. So they made up their minds to go together.

He also participated in the construction of the dam. The worst materials were used. Some of them used blue bricks on the outside and only put mud inside, which could not withstand the impact of floods at all.

"Third brother, when are we leaving?"

"We will be leaving early tomorrow morning. We have prepared everything. Uncle, aunt, cousin, and sister-in-law, pack up quickly and come back with me to our home so that we can leave together tomorrow."

"The dam is in this state now, and it's raining heavily. It's said that it can hold out for a day or two, but who knows if it can survive tonight. It's better to leave quickly!

"Yunniang, hurry up and tell your son and daughter-in-law to pack up the belongings and only take the important things. Don't take anything else. I'll go out and take a look."

It was such a big decision, so Zhou Dazhu still wanted to go out and see it with his own eyes.

"Uncle, I'll go with you."

Li Chengjin also hurriedly got up and put on his hat and raincoat.

It was raining heavily outside and the riverside was slippery. My uncle had difficulty walking and he was a little worried.

The two came to the river bank. There was no need to look closely at the embankments. At a glance, one could see large and small cracks on them.

Zhou Dazhui walked forward and pressed his fingers hard into the crack, and the soil fell down.

"The imperial court allocated so much money for disaster relief, but corrupt officials exploited it layer by layer, and less than one-tenth of it was used to repair the dam."

"This kind of dam can easily make a dent if you press it with your hand. How can it withstand floods? They simply don't take people's lives seriously!"

Zhou Dazhu didn't want to leave his hometown to make a living, but the situation forced him to do so.

"The King of Liang, who is in charge of Yuzhou, is cruel and ambitious by nature. He is now trying to attack other prefectures and states to expand his territory. He only levies heavy taxes and does not care about the lives of the people. How can such a person accomplish anything?"

"Hey, Third Brother, let's go back and pack our things. We'll leave once we're done."

When the two men returned home, the three men had already pulled out the cart and covered it with a large piece of oilcloth.

"Just take food, clothes, bedding, property deeds, and other belongings. Don't take any broken pots or jars."

Zhou Dazhu couldn't help but frown when he saw the broken jar on it.

As a woman, Yunniang naturally couldn't bear to part with these things. Even if she fled to another place, she would still need these things. If she didn't have them, she could only buy them with silver. Where could they get so much silver now?

Zhou Dazhu had also gone out to make a living in his early years. This escape from famine was no joke. Bringing so many useless things with him was just a waste of energy. He would have to throw them away in the end.

"Aunt, don't take these. The cart can't carry much."

After hesitating for a long time, Yunniang felt that it was difficult to choose any of them, so Zhou Tian quietly took those things down from the car.

Just the family's food, bedding, clothes, iron pots and other important things filled a whole large cart, which was barely wrapped in oilcloth and tied tightly with hemp ropes.

Before leaving, Zhou Dazhu looked at his home reluctantly. Although it was dilapidated, it was where he had lived all his life.

He took out the padlock and locked the inner room and the front door, then put the key in his arms, thinking that maybe he would come back one day.

Zhou Tian was pulling the cart in front and Li Chengjin was pushing it from the back.

Yunniang supported her husband, and her new daughter-in-law Li Xiaomei followed beside her.

The group of people walked slowly in the rain, one step deep and one step shallow.

The dirt road was muddy and it was very difficult to walk with a cart full of things. It was almost dark in the evening when the group finally arrived at the door of Li's house.

As soon as they entered the yard, everyone could smell a particularly fragrant aroma of meat, and Li Xiaomei took a breath secretly.

Life is so good at my eldest aunt's house. In rainy weather, no matter at my parents' or my husband's house, we can only eat sweet potatoes. It's better at my husband's house because we can eat as much as we want.

When she was at her mother's house, she only had a small piece of sweet potato to fill her stomach in such weather, which was not enough to fill her up.

But there was a smell of meat wafting from my aunt’s house, it was so fragrant!

"Mom, I brought my uncle and the others back with me."

After Li Chengjin finished shouting, a group of people came out of the house and helped push the cart under the shed.

"Zhu Zi, Yun Niang, please come into the house quickly. The food has been prepared and we are waiting for you to come."

Li Zhou was naturally happy to see her younger brother. She was afraid that her younger brother would not want to go with them. Now she could finally put her mind at ease.

"Yun Niang, this must be Tian Ge'er's wife Xiao Mei. She is so pretty. Come sit down and have a cup of ginger sugar water to get rid of the cold."

Looking at the bowl of sweet ginger sugar water in front of her, Li Xiaomei lowered her head shyly.

"Thank you, aunt."

"We're all family, what are you thanking me for?"

As the eldest aunt, she felt relieved that her only nephew had also married.

Yu Suihuan brought his eldest and second sisters-in-law to quickly bring the prepared meals to the table, including boiled dumplings and dumplings fried with lard.

I made scallion pancakes made of cornmeal and white flour, cooked a pot of sweet potato and millet porridge, and fried several green vegetables that were available in the vegetable garden at the time.