The road to wealth of a peasant widow

"Why are you making up stories instead of just washing your clothes? Look how high the sun has risen. Are you planning to wash your clothes until the sun sets?"

A tall woman with her hair tied up came to the river with a basin in her hand and shouted angrily at a group of women gathered together.

This is Chen Meihua, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Muramasa family, Changgen's mother. She took advantage of the good weather to come to the river to wash clothes. Before she even reached the river, she vaguely heard this group of women gathered together and whispering, as if they were saying bad things about Changping's mother.

Chen Meihua is also a girl from Chenjiagou. She is a few years younger than Chen Cui. They played together from time to time before they got married and had a pretty good relationship.

Later, the two of them married to Liujiaping one after the other. The men from the two families could barely be considered cousins ​​within the fifth degree of mourning, so their relationship was naturally closer than that of others.

Besides, Chen Meihua felt that Chen Cui was a really good person, and her husband Eryong was also a good person. It was just that she had a pair of biased in-laws, which made her life a little difficult.

They separated and lived on their own this spring. Chen Meihua was relieved for them and even asked her husband to help with the house renovation.

Later, the two families visited each other more frequently, and the children loved to play together.

Alas, who could have thought that Eryong was so unlucky. He could lose his life just by falling.

Her own sister Cuicui has had a hard enough life, and these women are still making trouble for her. Chen Meihua naturally couldn't stand it and couldn't help but shout at them to stop them.

If someone else said this, these women might not pay attention and might even retort sarcastically. However, Chen Meihua's father-in-law is the Muramasa, and her husband is in charge of many things. He often follows the Muramasa to the countryside and has considerable prestige in the village. Maybe he will be the next Muramasa.

As the daughter-in-law of the current Muramasa and very likely the wife of the next Muramasa, Chen Meihua is naturally more prestigious than ordinary wives in the village, and no one will offend her easily.

Everyone knows the power of pillow talk. If you offend this woman, be careful that she will make things difficult for you when you go to Muramasa for help.

The group of women quickly dispersed and went to wash their own clothes, and the storm ended there.

The central figure of this incident, Chen Cui, knows nothing about it.

In fact, Chen Cui vaguely heard Chen Meihua's shouting, but it was a little far away, so she couldn't hear it clearly, and she didn't know that the reason Chen Meihua shouted was because of her.

At this time, Chen Meihua also saw Chen Cui washing clothes alone, and hurriedly walked over a long distance, stepped over the large and small stones by the river, and walked over with the basin.

"Cui, why are you washing here alone?" Chen Meihua thought that maybe it was those women who forced her to come here. Cui was so honest that she was no match for them.

Chen Cui was bending over and tapping her clothes. When she heard this, she stood up and said, "There are too many people over there. It's too noisy. I don't want to go."

"Yes, those women just do nothing but talk nonsense. There is nothing good to say to them." Chen Meihua nodded in agreement.

She put down her basin and soaked the clothes to be washed in the water. While swinging the clothes, she scolded Chen Cui in a low voice: "Look at you, everyone has something to cook for the seventh day of the seventh month, but you are the one who pretends to be the boss and runs to the county town to sell meat and buy vegetables. Eryong is gone, and he won't be able to eat no matter how much delicious food you cook. You have such a big hand, and you are raising several children. How can you live in the future!"

Chen Meihua was one of the few friends of Chen in Liujiaping. The two of them visited each other frequently and had a close relationship, so she was so familiar with him.

Seeing that she seemed to be scolding him but her face was full of concern, Chen Cui whispered back, "I know you are doing this for my own good. I know what I am doing and I will definitely not let the children suffer."

Chen Meihua sighed, "I'm not afraid that you'll hurt the child, I'm worried about you. Changping is already thirteen, and some people were asking about marriage. But after Eryong's incident, no one asked anymore. It may not be easy to find a marriage in the future. You have three boys at home, and in a few years, they will all have to find wives and start a family. What are you going to do?"

Chen Cui was a little dazed when she heard this. Yesterday, she thought Changping was just an elementary school student. How could this elementary school student want to get married?

Yes, it’s normal for people here to start dating at the age of thirteen or fourteen, get engaged at the age of fourteen or fifteen, and get married at the age of sixteen or seventeen.

Even Chen herself got married at the age of seventeen. The seventeen here refers to the age in lunar calendar, so she was actually not even sixteen.

Chen is only 32 years old this year and has been married for 15 years.

Chen Cui forgot which video she saw it in, but it said that in ancient society, due to low productivity, low grain production, backward medical conditions, as well as wars and famines, the average life expectancy of people was extremely low.

If ordinary people don't get married and have children early and reproduce, they are very likely to encounter a disaster and die, and there will be no chance to pass on the family line, and this branch will be cut off from descendants!

Therefore, for ordinary people who can live in modern times, their ancestors are considered to be extremely capable. Their descendants have multiplied for so many generations. If something went wrong in the middle, it is very likely that the generation line would be broken, and you would not have the chance to come into this world.

"Hey, Cui, I'm talking to you, why are you standing there in a daze?"

Seeing that Chen Cui did not reply but was stunned, Chen Meihua tugged at the corner of her clothes as a signal.

Chen Cui then realized that her thoughts had wandered too far and she quickly came back to her senses.

She thought of what Chen Meihua had just said about the marriages of Changping and the others, and couldn't help feeling a little melancholy. They were still a group of little kids, and already they had to consider getting married.

Chen Cui's tone was a little depressed: "Well, let's just live it up. Anyway, they can't get married before they are 18 years old. As for the future, it depends on fate. If we find a suitable one, we will marry her home. If not, we won't force it."

What she said was genuine. If a person is young, he is not mature either mentally or physically, and there is no benefit in getting married too early. Even in ancient times when everyone married early, she did not want her son to get married early.

In addition to considering our health and the next generation, there is another very realistic issue, which is money.

Regardless of ancient or modern times, in China or abroad, marriage has always been linked to economics. If you want to get married, you cannot do so without a certain economic foundation.

At the very least, we should wait until their family has a certain amount of financial resources before talking about marriage. Then there will be more room for choice, and life after marriage will be more relaxed, which can avoid many unnecessary conflicts.

This was Chen Cui's sincere understanding, but Chen Meihua obviously misunderstood it.

She thought Chen Cui said this because her family was in real financial difficulty and she was unable to find a wife for her son in the next few years.

Chen Meihua sighed and consoled him, "Don't worry. After Eryong's hundredth day, I'll ask Changgen's father to ask around. If there's any job opportunity, I'll definitely not forget your father Changping. No matter what you do, it's better than digging the ground at home."

Although Chen Cui had her own plans and did not expect this so-called job opportunity, she was still very grateful to this enthusiastic woman.