The road to wealth of a peasant widow

Although the process of dividing the family was extremely difficult and involved many twists and turns, Liu Eryong still divided the family despite the tremendous pressure and the reputation of being "unfilial".

It is certain that he suffered losses, but with the whole family getting together over the years, he has never benefited from it.

When it comes to the life and death of his wife and children, he has to look at other people's faces, and he can't decide anything. He doesn't want to live this kind of cowardly life anymore!

Even if he has to eat coarse food after the division of the family, he will accept it. He wants to have a taste of what it feels like to be the master of the family!

Of the Liu family's 14 acres of land, five were given to him, as well as an old house at the foot of the mountain at the end of the village that had been abandoned for more than ten years. In addition, he received 22 taels of silver and some miscellaneous household items currently used by their second branch.

After Chen finished her confinement, the family moved into the old house with their luggage.

Although the house was dilapidated and located in a remote area, they were still very happy to be able to leave the old house.

Liu Eryong asked someone to repair the doors and windows of the house in advance, re-plastered the walls, patched up the holes, and re-covered the roof with grass, so that it could finally be lived in.

Although I have to do everything by myself after the separation, at least I can be the head of the family. I don't have to listen to my parents' orders for everything, nor do I have to be inferior to the eldest son in everything. This makes me much happier.

Liu Eryong looked at the happy smiles on his wife and children's faces and felt that he was right to divide the family business this time.

Although it is a bit hard to be together as a family, as long as life is going well, it is better than anything else.

No one would say anything if I made chicken soup for my wife or something delicious. Although the children still couldn't eat as much as they wanted, at least they didn't have to worry about other people's faces. If they ate one more bite, they would be called a glutton, and if they wanted to take one more steamed bun, they would be beaten.

However, in just half a year, the three boys have grown a lot taller. Although they are still dark and thin, they are obviously more energetic than before.

And her youngest daughter was Sui Sui, weak and needed careful care. Mrs. Chen Liu had to breastfeed, take care of the child and do housework, so she couldn't go out to work in the fields.

If it were in the old house, it would definitely not work, because everyone's work had to be assigned by their parents. A little girl was not worthy of being a laborer, so she could just be kept as she pleased.

But this is the little daughter that his wife had worked so hard to give birth to, the daughter that the couple had been looking forward to for a long time. He cannot bear to let his daughter suffer. He must raise her well, find a good family for her in the future, and let her live a good life.

Unfortunately, after only a few months of this, an accident happened: Liu Eryong died.

Because they separated and set up their own households, they had to pay their own labor service and taxes, which could no longer be paid together with the old house.

After the autumn harvest this year, the county government assigned labor to repair the canal. Their family either had to provide a person or money.

When they were in the old house, Liu Eryong was the one who did these chores in previous years. This year, after they divided up the family, the old house paid to redeem him.

Although Liu Eryong still had some money, he had three sons. As the eldest son was about to get married, he wanted to build two houses for his sons to get married.

He was reluctant to spend the one or two taels of silver, so he went to work with the villagers, taking dry food with him. He thought that it would only take a month or so at most and he would definitely be back before winter.

Who would have thought that after only seven or eight days, the originally healthy person turned into a corpse and was carried back.

People from the same village said that they found Liu Eryong lying on the side of the road early in the morning with a hole on the back of his head and a large pool of blood on the ground. Someone bravely stepped forward and touched him, and found that his body was already stiff.

Everyone guessed that he went out to relieve himself in the middle of the night, fell and hit his head, and died so suddenly.

Having lost their main pillar of the family, the second branch of the Liu family was in a state of panic.

When Chen Cui thought of this, she couldn't help but sigh.

Although Liu Eryong's foolish filial piety caused his wife and children to suffer a lot of grievances, he was still considered a rare good man in this era.

He loves his wife and children so much that he is willing to rebel against his parents and propose separation under such great pressure, cutting ties with his original family. This is already an extraordinary feat.

You have to know that in ancient times, corvée and taxes were very heavy. If you separated from the family and set up an independent household, you had to pay a separate household tax and corvée every year, as well as other miscellaneous taxes. These were all heavy burdens for farmers.

Therefore, at this time, people would not split up unless it was absolutely necessary. Some families had four generations living together, but dozens of people in the family were still squeezed together and counted as one household, in order to pay less taxes.

However, while Chen Cui was sighing, she was somewhat relieved that Liu Eryong was dead. If he were still alive, she would have become this man's wife and she really didn't know how to get along with this nominal husband.

Although she is a widow now, she is the only adult in the family. As a mother, she has absolute say over her three immature sons and infant daughter.

In other words, she will be the head of the family from now on.

Although this family is shabby and dilapidated and there is nothing great to be a wife of, for an independent modern woman, being able to make her own decisions instead of obeying and relying on men in everything is more important than anything else.

Chen Cui thought, even for her own sake, she would lead these children well in the future and help them get out of poverty and become rich as soon as possible.

At this time, Zhang Chen came in with rice porridge and put it on the table beside the bed.

"Let me feed it." said Zhang Chen.

"Let me do it." Chen Cui said in a hoarse voice.

She readjusted the way she held the child, so that Sui Sui was half sitting and half lying with her head upright. Then she picked up the spoon and began to feed rice porridge into her mouth one spoonful at a time.

The child had just woken up and finished peeing, and was hungry at this moment, so he accepted everything that was offered to him, eating one bite at a time, and finally finished most of the bowl.

Chen Cui thought the child was full, so she stopped feeding him.

She couldn't help but feel fortunate that because of Chen's poor health, she had completely stopped producing milk more than a month ago. Suisui had to say goodbye to breastfeeding completely and start eating foods such as rice porridge and egg custard.

This also allowed Chen Cui, who traveled through time, to avoid the embarrassment of breastfeeding.

Although she thought about raising a child, she didn't want to start with breastfeeding!

After Chen Cui divorced in her previous life, she never found another partner and lived alone until she grew old.

Looking at the clever and cute little girl babbling in front of her, her heart couldn't help but soften.

Now she has transformed from a lonely old woman into a young woman in her early thirties, with three sons and a daughter, making her a mother for nothing. This is considered a good deal, right?

Although the family conditions are a bit poor, this is not a problem. In her previous life, she was a helpless orphan who could start from scratch and work hard to become a wealthy person. Now in this ancient world, she is also confident that she can rely on her own hands to get rid of poverty and become rich and live the life she wants!

It was already mid-afternoon when Chen Cui woke up. Soon the sun set and the family started to have dinner again.

The remaining meat dishes from the lunch banquet were distributed to the aunts and sisters from the village who came to help with cooking, and only some vegetarian dishes were kept for home, which was the dinner.

Chen Cui couldn't accept eating those mixed leftovers for the time being, so she continued to drink porridge.

She drank some herself and fed Sui Sui half a bowl, which made up for her dinner.

After finishing the meal, the sky darkened completely.

After filling her stomach, Chen Cui felt that apart from the sore throat, there was no other problem with her. She felt embarrassed to let Zhang work any more, and rushed to do all the kitchen work.

After all, the old lady has been busy running around these days and has been very tired. Now that she has replaced the role of someone else's biological daughter, she should at least be considerate of her mother.