Traveling back to ancient times begins with the use of stone tools

"What are you arguing about? If you have the time, why don't you dig some wild vegetables and pick up some firewood?"

The village chief was very unhappy when he heard the noise.

"Village chief, I don't want to quarrel, but Liu took my money and refused to return it. She is so fat and gluttonous, and she wants to run away. Either she returns my money, or she serves Qinghe. You can't take my money for nothing. We have raised the child for half a year, and now my family is like this, and she is just running away?"

When Mrs. Wang saw the village chief coming, she felt more confident.

"Liu, what do you mean? Do you want to pay back the money or continue to follow Qinghe?"

When the village chief saw that the three men's clothes were not patched, and were neat and clean, he felt a little unbalanced.

Besides, after Liu entered the Wang family, Wang Qinghe never touched her. No matter how you look at it, the Wang family suffered a loss.

As the village chief, I cannot let the people in my village suffer.

"I was the one who was in the Wang family at that time."

Liu Ruxu was so anxious that she was sweating. If she had known earlier, she would have left Wangjia Village earlier.

"The divorce letter is still with me."

Liu Ruxu took out the divorce letter and said, "So many people in the village heard it. Mrs. Wang said she wanted to divorce me."

"The situation was urgent at the time, so the formalities had not been completed and cannot be fully counted."

The village chief was a little embarrassed and didn't dare to look Liu Ruxu in the eye.

"That's right, either you take the silver, or you serve Qinghe well."

With the support of the village chief, Mrs. Wang felt even more justified.

"That's right. If you don't return the money, you can go back to the Wang family!"

"But we also knew that the Wang family divorced Liu at that time!"

......

The villagers who were watching the fun began to discuss in low voices.

"We in Wangjia Village can't let outsiders bully us, right?"

Mrs. Wang was spitting everywhere.

"You can pay back the money, but it's not your Wang family that's divorcing my mother, it's my mother that's divorcing your Wang family!"

Leng Ruoxue felt disdainful when she saw the faces of these people.

"At that time, in order to save food, he deliberately asked my sister and me to go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables, and did not allow my mother to find them. He threatened my mother with a divorce letter, but now he can't threaten her. Is this the custom in Wangjia Village?"

"Okay, I'll let you go after you pay me back!"

When Mrs. Wang heard that she could return the money, she became happy.

"Grandma, you are old, didn't you hear what I said? The money can be returned, but if my mother divorces your Wang Qinghe..."

Leng Ruoxue looked at the village chief.

"How can a woman divorce her husband?"

"That's right, I haven't heard of it!"

The village chief coughed and said, "Wang family, what do you think?"

Anyway, I have already agreed to pay back the money, so there is nothing else I can say.

Liu Ruxu looked at the empty yard and said, "Yes, either I divorce him, or we... go to see the official!"

"Divorcing me is impossible. The best you can do is divorce me!"

Wang Qinghe, who had been hiding, came out.

"Divorce? If not, Liu will be divorced by my family!"

Mrs. Wang refused.

"Then let's go see the official!"

Leng Ruoxue said it with absolute certainty.

"mother?"

Wang Qinghe looked at Wang Pozi.

"She is a woman and doesn't dare to see an official."

Mrs. Wang refused.

"Haha, ask Uncle Liu how many times we have been to the county town these days. Village chief, if this matter is brought to the county government, what do you think the county magistrate will think of you, village chief?"

"Well, we just came back from the county town yesterday! We have been to the county town several times."

Although Liu Datong didn't know which direction the county government gate faced, they had been to the county town many times.

"If you ask me, just get a divorce. Each of you should take a step back. We're going to separate anyway. There's no need to make it so ugly, right?"

The village chief spoke.

If this matter gets brought to the county government, I will be disliked. I can't even handle such an obvious matter.

"That's fine, let's divorce."

Leng Ruoxue looked at Liu Ruxu.

"If it's done, then divorce."

Liu Ruxu's legs were trembling. She didn't dare to see the official.

The village chief wrote a divorce agreement and asked both parties to sign it. He also called the clan elders and had two witnesses sign and seal it.

Leng Ruoxue took out five taels of silver and gave it to the village chief.

Only then did he get on the ox cart.

"Bah, luckily she got a break. In this famine, everyone is so poor, but a widow with two children is still living so comfortably. Who knows what she did!"

Mrs. Wang spat and stuffed the silver into her arms with satisfaction.

People are cheap nowadays, and two taels of silver may be enough to buy a daughter, and at the same time, two burdens will be eliminated, so the family will not suffer a loss. Liu even worked as a laborer for the family for half a year.

"Mom, now you are finally free, my brother and I are still a little bit away."

Leng Ruoxue held Liu Ruxu's hand.

"You and your brother?"

Liu Ruxu didn't understand.

"Let's say the Wang family really takes my brother and me to escape famine, but my brother and I are registered in Lengjia Village, and without a household registration pass, we can't go far."

"Yeah! I wonder how your grandparents are doing."

"So, I think that my brother and I must get our household registration in our own hands."

"What are you..."

Liu Ruxu looked at Leng Ruoxue in confusion.

"We will definitely respect our grandparents, but the household registration will be made Yuxuan's. My mother and I will be registered under Yuxuan's account."

“But your grandparents may not agree.”

"So I need to make it clear to my grandparents. If we don't have a household registration during this famine escape, my brother and I might be left behind halfway. By then, we will be in the middle of nowhere and have no way to survive."

After Leng Ruoxue finished speaking, everyone fell silent.

Liu Datong didn't know what to say. Although he felt Leng Ruoxue was right, if a child under five years old was allowed to be the head of the household, and if their grandparents didn't want to raise them, what would these three people do?

He calculated that the money shared by Madam Liu for buying vegetables was probably less than 10 taels.

Buying a piece of land is not enough to make a living.

Moreover, I don’t know if there is a place to live.

After a long silence, he said, "Ruoxue, if the money at home is really not enough, I still have more than 10 taels."

Liu Datong took out his own silver.

"Uncle, we don't need it now, please take it back. Besides, we still have the ox cart. If it doesn't work out, we can sell the ox and get some money."

Leng Ruoxue was amused when she saw Liu Datong's conflicted look.

Liu Datong was able to help go up the mountain to find people at that time, and later he was able to share some of his own rations with everyone.

Already very good.

Especially later on, he took out a lot of his own food rations and worked hard without complaint.

"Ruoxue, tell me, if I also bought an ox cart, and then collected vegetables from the village and sold them in the county town, could it be a legitimate business?"

Liu Datong fell in love with selling vegetables. In just a few days, he could earn more money than he had earned in all these years. It was much easier than hunting.

"Not necessarily, uncle. Our vegetables sell well because no one else has them but we do. We won't be able to sell them at such a high price in the future. If the vegetables you collect don't sell quickly, they will go bad and you might not even be able to get back your investment."