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Chapter 159: The General's Farming Wife
The missing husband, the young child, the lame father-in-law, the blind mother-in-law, and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight brothers, uncles, and sisters-in-law, all of them open their mouths to eat and stretch out their hands to ask for money.
This was Zhang Shan’s disastrous start.
"Sister-in-law, we are hungry. Is there anything else to eat?"
"Sanniang, there's no firewood in the woodshed. Go up the mountain and chop a few bundles. We still have pigs to feed. They are our family's biggest source of income. Don't let them starve."
"Sister-in-law, why haven't I washed my clothes yet? I'm going to the city with Chuntao today. How can I go out with such dirty clothes?"
The son lying on the earthen kang was crying with hunger, and the steamed egg custard originally prepared for his son was eaten up by his brothers-in-law.
Zhang Shan picked up the basket from the ground and said, "Second sister, there is a lot of work to do at home. Why don't you not go to the city and go to the mountains with your sister-in-law to chop firewood."
Lin Ermei is fifteen years old this year. She is good-looking and has a well-proportioned figure. She wants to marry into the city and become the wife of an official.
When she heard that she had to work, Lin Ermei was unwilling to do it. She had worked so hard to make her skin whiter, and she didn't want to become as rough as before.
"I came to the city for serious business. Mother, please take care of my sister-in-law. She is always reluctant to wash my clothes. Is it because my brother is not at home that she has other thoughts?"
Blind old lady Lin said sternly, "Mrs. Zhang Sanniang, do you want to remarry? Once you marry into our Lin family, you are a member of our Lin family. We spent a lot of money to marry you. Do you want to run away? You have to step over me."
Zhang Shan put down the basket and immediately put Lin Ermei's clothes in the basket.
"Mom, I don't think so. I am a member of the Lin family in life and a ghost of the Lin family in death. Don't be angry. I will go wash clothes for my second sister now."
In the Lin family, Lin Ermei's clothes were the best, because she was the oldest and the prettiest among the girls, and Old Mrs. Lin also wanted to raise her well and send her to the city to be a concubine.
It was summer now, with abundant rain and turbulent river flow. Zhang Shan, carrying a basket of clothes, came to the place where she usually washed clothes.
"Sanniang, are you doing the laundry? Aren't these Lin Ermei's clothes? Why doesn't she wash them herself?"
The person next to him laughed and said, "Why else? You dress so fancy all day long, I don't know who you are trying to seduce."
"Who is she seducing? It can't be a man from the village. She wants to go to the city and become a concubine."
Zhang Shan smiled without saying anything, poured out her clothes, picked out a few of her newest shorts, and soaked them in the water.
Suddenly, huge waves hit the shore.
"It's windy, wash quickly."
Zhang Shan didn't keep a close eye on her and Lin Ermei's clothes flew into the river.
"clothing!"
These are new clothes that have only been worn a few times. If they are lost, not only Lin Ermei, but also the other sisters will be angry.
After all, the clothes that Lin Ermei can't wear will be passed on to other sisters.
It is not impossible for a piece of clothing to be passed down through three generations.
So, Zhang Shan reached out to get it, but was hit by a huge wave. While dodging, her feet slipped and she fell into the river.
"Help! Help me... Gulu~"
The aunties on the shore reached out with bamboo poles, but Zhang Shan had already been washed away by the river.
"The Third Lady is dead!"
An auntie ran back to the Lin family. "Auntie Lin, Dawang's wife was washed away by the water. Hurry up and ask your boy to go downstream to rescue her."
Old Mrs. Lin stood up suddenly, "What? Sanniang was washed away by the river?"
"Yeah, I'm afraid I would have died a long time ago."
Most of the people who were washed away by the river would not survive.
Old Mrs. Lin knocked the ground with her cane and said, "Third and fourth brothers, go tell the village chief to go downstream and help rescue the people."
Lin Laosan and Lin Laosi are twins who look exactly the same and are only twelve years old now.
Although she often went to the river to catch shrimps and went to the mountains to shoot birds, she was reluctant to let them rescue people from the river.
When Lin Ermei heard that Zhang Shan was washed away by the river, she ran out of the room nervously, "What? Where are my clothes?"
The aunt was stunned. "Second sister, you are so generous. Your sister-in-law washed your clothes and they were all washed away by the river. You still think about your clothes."
"She was careless. What does it have to do with me? Besides, she probably died in the river, but my clothes can still be worn after being fished out. I spent a lot of money on those clothes."
Lin Ermei’s idea is the same as that of Old Lady Lin. Does she think she is looking for someone to retrieve Zhang Shan’s body?
Do not!
She was going to get Lin Ermei's clothes.
The village salvage team searched downstream for a long time, but they couldn't find a body, not even Lin Ermei's clothes.
Lin Ermei went home crying. If you didn’t know, you would think that they were a very affectionate couple.
"Okay, stop crying. You can buy new clothes when you run out of clothes." Old man Lin knocked on the chimney with an impatient look on his face.
Old man Lin has had a stern face ever since he broke his leg.
After years of hard work, his face is weathered and frosted. He is not even forty-five years old, but his head is full of white hair.
"Sanniang is really something. She is so careless when washing clothes."
Old Mrs. Lin also grumbled in dissatisfaction.
But Old Man Lin had more to think about. Zhang Shan was gone. Without this eldest sister-in-law to take care of him, their family had many disabled children and the young were small. What would they do in the future?
Then, he looked at his second daughter who was still chattering away and made a decision.
The next morning, Old Man Lin borrowed the village chief's donkey cart and took Lin Ermei into the city.
Lin Ermei put on the new clothes that Old Man Lin bought for her. She couldn't let go of them and admired herself in front of the bronze mirror for a long time.
Not long after the two men left, an old man with a white beard came out from behind the screen with a few traces of red on his face.
"This figure is worth ten taels of silver."
Not long after, Mr. Huang in the city sent someone to the countryside to bring Lin Ermei into his house and she became Mr. Huang's eighteenth concubine.
Lin Ermei didn't know that Mr. Huang was very old. She thought he was still a young man, or at least a middle-aged man. After marrying into the city, he had good food and clothes, and he had a host of servants and was very powerful.
She married into the family happily, but in the middle of the night, she saw an old man in his seventies or eighties coming in. Lin Ermei was stunned and didn't know what to do for a moment.
"Eighteen, this is your home from now on. If you have any grievances, tell me and I will take care of it for you."
Noticing that Lin Ermei was somewhat resisting, Mr. Huang's face turned a little unhappy.
"The master is flattering you by liking you, don't refuse a toast and drink a forfeit!"
Pull the person into your arms, a moment of spring night is worth a thousand gold, a pear tree's blossoms overshadow the crabapple tree.
Mr. Huang was old and unable to do the torture, but he still learned to use props to torture Lin Ermei to the point where she was worse off than death.
The next day, Mr. Huang put on his trousers and left.
"Auntie, get up and serve tea to Madam."
Lin Ermei usually sleeps until noon at home. She was so busy last night that she couldn't get up this morning.
Thinking of what Mr. Huang said last night, Lin Ermei didn't want to serve tea to the lady. She turned over and fell asleep again.
It was not until noon that I got up and looked for something to eat because I was hungry.
Before the meal arrived, he was called to the main courtyard by his wife.
"Mrs. Lin is disrespectful to the mistress. According to the family rules, she will kneel outside for two hours to serve as a warning to others!"
"Why are you punishing me? I am the master's concubine. If you dare to touch a hair on my head, the master will not let you go!"
"Old witch, you are just jealous of my favor, and you are old and ugly, so you should give up your position as soon as possible!"
The old woman swiftly tied up Lin Ermei and made her kneel on the cobblestones in the small garden in the main courtyard.
Lin Ermei felt extremely aggrieved. She was deceived into marrying a man old enough to be her grandfather. She was tortured inhumanely last night and was forced to kneel on a stone by an old witch the next day.
Unable to hold back, Lin Ermei burst into tears, but her mouth was blocked and she could only make whimpering sounds.
In her previous life, Lin Ermei was the concubine of the county magistrate’s youngest son. She was favored for several years and even gave birth to the county magistrate’s eldest grandson.
Later, Lin Dawang became successful and returned home in glory. Lin Ermei was promoted to a co-wife, and after his original wife died, she became the only legal wife.
Talking two ends.
After Old Man Lin sold Lin Ermei, he put the money into a clay jar, but the next day he found that the clay jar was missing.
"Did you touch my clay pot?"
"A clay pot for money? I can't see, so I don't know where you put it. Did some kid take it as a toy?"
Old Man Lin limped out and stopped Lin Lao San and Lin Lao Si, but after questioning, neither of them admitted it.
So, old man Lin, who thought his children were lying, took a stick and beat the six children.
Zhang Shan was watching with great interest not far away, weighing the money she had stolen not long ago in her hand. As for the clay jar, it had been thrown into the river long ago.
The Lin family's home has become very lively since Zhang Shan was washed away by the river, with the sounds of old lady Lin wailing, old man Lin cursing, children crying and begging for mercy, and babies crying.
This baby is the original owner's son.
In her previous life, the original owner took care of the whole family for 19 years, and turned herself into a yellow-faced woman like Old Mrs. Lin. No one in the Lin family, young or old, remembered the original owner's kindness.
After being taken to the capital by Lin Dawang, she began to dislike the original owner, and the original owner's son persuaded the original owner to resign and make room for his beautiful stepmother.
In order to show his loyalty, he personally gave the original owner a bowl of poison.
In this life, without the original owner's careful care, I wonder if this little ungrateful person can live to the age of twenty under the hands of the big ungrateful person?
Old and young, Zhang Shan can foresee that the Lin family’s life will be even more lively in the future.
After collecting the money, Zhang Shan left.
She had just received a notice that Lin Dawang was seriously injured on the battlefield, but was reborn after a high fever.
Lin Dawang, who has the memories of his previous life, actually wants to steal the credit of others. How can that be possible?
If we don't suppress him, can we just watch him rise rapidly and achieve great success?
This must be impossible.
As a result, a young general who was both civil and military appeared on the border. He made great achievements on the battlefield, and the soldiers who followed him were more or less praised.
"Who exactly is this Zhang San? Why don't I have any impression of him? Could it be that my rebirth caused a change?"
Otherwise, why didn't such a capable person achieve great things in his previous life?
At first he was curious and wanted to make friends, but later he was filled with hatred because General Zhang had taken away the credit that originally belonged to him.
Lin Dawang was impatient, eager for quick success and instant benefits, and he showed off too much, becoming a conspicuous person on the battlefield and having his arm chopped off by the enemy.
Without hands to hold a gun or a knife, Lin Dawang was no longer suitable to stay in the frontier, so the army gave him twenty taels of silver as severance pay and sent him back to Dahe Village.
"Dawang?"
"Dad, Mom, I am an unfilial son!"
Lin Dawang knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Old Man Lin and Old Lady Lin.
The younger brothers and sisters surrounded Lin Dawang and expressed their longing for him.
After a long while, Lin Dawang finally remembered his wife, "Where are Sanniang and Ting'er?"
Everyone stopped smiling.
"Why don't you talk?"
Old Man Lin tapped his pipe and said, "Sanniang fell into the river five years ago and was washed away by the river."
"what?"
This didn't happen in my previous life, why did it happen in this life...
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