Farmhouse life after traveling back to ancient times

Du Wenxiu's face turned red from coughing. She waved her hand to the side, telling Qiao'er not to worry about her. She drank two sips of soup and felt better.

Aunt Lu had already gone back to call Yulan in a proud manner. Fang also threw away her bowl and went into the main room, leaving Du Wenxiu and Qiao'er to clean up the kitchen.

Soon, Yulan appeared in the yard with a small bag on her shoulder, and she was eager to help her aunt and sister-in-law pack.

Du Wenxiu thanked her but didn't let her do it.

Boil the peeled bamboo shoots in water, look at the starry sky, and be careful of dew, so spread a mat on the open space in the kitchen and spread out the bamboo shoots.

Yulan asked where to put the bundle. Du Wenxiu pointed towards the main room while Qiao'er laughed secretly behind him.

"Ah?" Yulan hesitated. "I sleep with Aunt Fang?"

"What? Do you dislike my mother? But my mother asked you to come here. If you dislike her, then you are wrong." Du Wenxiu played dumb.

"Sister Fang Hai, let me sleep with you tonight so we can talk." Yulan came over and shook her arm, but then she remembered that she had used this trick in the afternoon and it didn't work, so she turned around and threw her small bag on the kang in the east wing.

Now, Du Wenxiu had no excuse to refuse, as Yulan's behavior was quite influenced by Aunt Lu.

Qiao'er also wanted to squeeze in to sleep, but Yulan disagreed. In addition, Fang was shouting in the main room, so she left with an unhappy look on her face.

"Sister-in-law Fang Hai, don't go to sleep yet."

After taking off her clothes and covering herself with a thin quilt, Yulan came over to shake her again. Du Wenxiu was tired after a whole day and just wanted to sleep, so he really didn't want to pay attention to her.

But she kept shaking, which made Du Wenxiu angry: "If you can't sleep here, go to the main room and sleep. I want to sleep."

Yulan sighed: "Sister-in-law Fang Hai, what do you think I should do?"

Du Wenxiu ignored her, and she didn't care. She just kept talking to herself, "My sister said today that it was the grandmother who made the decision for her to come back this time. She was afraid that she would be harmed by the newly favored aunt, so she asked her to go home and hide for a few days."

"The second son of the Wang family just took over the silk shop. My grandmother wants to marry him a concubine with a clean family background. My sister thought of me and wants to take me with her when she leaves in a few days."

"Dad didn't want to, saying that my elder sister served me and my younger sister served my son, and that people would laugh at me if that were spread out. My elder sister was unhappy, so Dad asked me to move out."

"Don't you think your sister knows that this is not decent? Why did she come back to tell her?" Yulan's soft voice sighed from time to time, and Du Wenxiu didn't know how to respond to her.

How could her sister not know? It was just that the walls of the rich family were too high, and the women in the backyard could only see the sky in the yard when they looked up. They only saw the little bit of profit and fought for limited resources. Sometimes greed got the better of them and blinded them.

I don’t know whether Yulan’s sister came back this time to hide from that aunt or to take Yulan back to Mr. Wang’s house.

But how can I tell Yulan this? I can't.

It is a taboo to talk about deep things with someone you just met.

Du Wenxiu used to be a working person, so she knew that no matter how she complained now, she couldn't say a word. Otherwise, when the family reached an agreement, she would not only be the bad guy for nothing, but also be targeted by someone with small minds. Even with Lu Fanghai's protection, it would be very troublesome.

"Mother said that Mrs. Jiao said she would come tomorrow to match me with Xie Dongcai. I thought about it and didn't tell mother what I saw today. Sister-in-law, if you were me, what would you do?"

"Mom wants to live a good life. If Dad doesn't agree with me becoming the mistress of Mr. Wang's son, I'm afraid she will cling to the village chief's family. I'm afraid that even if I tell her about what happened today, she won't care..."

The moonlight outside the window was like water, shining through the window onto the large table. Du Wenxiu lay on his side, listening quietly to Yulan's confession, but could not say anything.

This evil old society!

Du Wenxiu felt a little pain in his heart when he heard Yulan's suppressed sobbing.

She turned over and looked up to see Yulan sitting there with disheveled hair and her shoulders shrugging. It was late at night, how scary!

Du Wenxiu simply sat up, put his hand on Yulan's shoulder, and sighed slightly: "There is a saying that goes, when you are at the end of your rope, there is always another way out. Don't worry, you are good-looking and have a good temper. Although you have reached the right age to get married, your parents are probably a little anxious."

"But as the saying goes, good food is worth waiting for. Go back tomorrow and talk to them. With your looks, it's not impossible for you to find a better family than these two..."

As she was talking, she couldn't continue.

If we talk about families better off than Mr. Wang's and the village chief's, there is really nothing I can suggest as I have just traveled through time and don't know much about the surrounding area. Yulan is just a country girl, so naturally she doesn't have this kind of knowledge.

The two sat face to face and began to worry.

Du Wenxiu was so tired during the day that she couldn't sit still for a while. Looking at the confused face of Yulan in front of her, she yawned and said, "It's useless to think so much. Let's go to sleep first. You can worry about it tomorrow. It's not something that can be solved by just sitting here and thinking about it." After that, she turned around and fell asleep.

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Yulan's sister had only lived at home for a few days before she was taken back by someone sent by the lady. Yulan complained every day that her sister's maids and servants treated her family as servants and always made indirect accusations. Her sister listened in the room and didn't dare to say a word.

Since they came home, no one in the family dares to make a sound. Even the younger brother Xiaohu is sent out to play during the day and can only go home after dinner because they think they are noisy at home. They are really annoying.

Only Fang would occasionally interrupt her and join in the scolding. Qiao'er was instructed by her sister-in-law to pretend to be mute or change the subject whenever this happened. After a few days, Yulan and Fang became much closer.

After Sulan left, Yulan moved back. However, Du Wenxiu began to worry about Lu Fanghai. They had only prepared dry food for three or two days, but it had been six or seven days and he still hadn't come back. Did he encounter any trouble in the mountains again?

Although she was worried, she didn't dare to say anything. She had mentioned it before, but Fang threw a shoe at her, accusing her of having bad intentions and cursing her man to get into trouble. Du Wenxiu was also afraid that she had a bad mouth, so she spat twice before letting the matter go.

After lunch that day, Du Wenxiu and Qiao'er collected the dried bamboo shoots together, and gave some black fungus to Yulan. Aunt Lu said it was poisonous and refused to let them have it, but Yulan didn't listen and followed Du Wenxiu home, asking him to cook for her.

"Aren't you afraid that I will poison you to death?" Du Wenxiu laughed at her.

She smiled bitterly: "If my sister-in-law really poisoned me, I would really thank you."

Aunt Lu really wanted to marry her to Xie Dongcai. They agreed that the wedding gifts would be presented first, the engagement would be done in the autumn, and the wedding would be held before the New Year.

Du Wenxiu picked up a piece of the mixed fungus with chopsticks and ate it before passing it to her.

"Mrs. Fang, your Fang Hai is back! He hunted a lot of mountain products. Everyone has gone to see them. Let's go too..."

There was a woman calling Fang at the gate of the courtyard. Du Wenxiu heard it and ran out with her without even taking off her apron.