Divorce the bad husband, store grain fields, and marry the emperor's uncle for the second time

This year's New Year's celebration was very lively in other families, with relatives visiting to pay New Year's greetings from time to time, making it very lively.

But Xia Xiaorou's house was deserted, in stark contrast to the outside.

Xia Xiaorou has no family, Song Yanbai's parents have long passed away, and Chu Xianyun is an orphan who wandered here and has no relatives in his hometown. Therefore, the three of them could only stay in this deserted house, sit around the stove and chat, and spend a peaceful New Year.

People in the village all thought they were very pitiful, but Xia Xiaorou and Song Yanbai didn't think so.

For them, this New Year is the best year they have ever lived.

Xia Xiaorou finally got rid of the in-laws who tortured her and made her live like a beast of burden. Song Yanbai's illness was cured and he no longer had to stay in bed like in previous years, and Chu Xianyun no longer had to worry about her son's future. The three of them felt that the future was full of hope and light.

Villagers usually visit relatives and friends from the first to the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, and they need to start working after the fourth day. Although the land is still frozen and not suitable for working in the fields, those who are engaged in hunting, chopping wood, digging herbs, and burning charcoal in the mountains have already started to get busy.

Xia Xiaorou had some money, so she didn't need to go dig herbs herself.

But the price Yan Heng offered for the herbs she collected was relatively high, so she decided to purchase the herbs in the village, arranging for the villagers to help collect them, and earning some of the difference herself.

She wanted a large quantity and a high price, so many villagers agreed to help her collect herbs.

On the afternoon of the fifth day of the New Year, Xia Xiaorou was getting ready to go out to the market street to look at the shops and ask where there was land for sale. Then the Xia family and Zhou Maoxun arrived.

"Xiao Rou, you bought a house? I just heard about it." Zhou Maoxun was holding a few boxes of snacks and a string of bacon in his hands.

Xia Chenshi and Xia Dequan came back empty-handed.

Song Yanbai discovered that everyone who came was Xia Xiaorou's family, so he hurriedly asked Chu Xianyunduan to bring tea, snacks and fruits, while he moved the chairs and the brazier.

"Uncle and Aunt Xia are here? Maoxun is here too? Come in and sit inside." Song Yanbai greeted with a smile.

Zhou Maoxun put the gift on the table, waved his hand and said, "You're welcome, you're welcome. It's New Year's Day, I came to see Xiaorou."

Xia Chen looked at Song Yanbai and his wife, raised her eyebrows and asked Xia Xiaorou in a cold voice, "This is your house, why did you let outsiders live in it?"

"Yes, Yanbai's family also has a house." Xia Dequan also said.

When Song Yanbai and Chu Xianyun heard what the Xia couple said, they knew that they had bad intentions.

"Uncle Xia, Aunt Xia, we will move out when spring comes and the weather is better," said Song Yanbai.

As a grown man in his twenties, he really shouldn't have taken his wife and son to live in the home of his best friend's sister.

Besides, my good friend has been missing for several years.

"Brother Yanbai, you have taken care of me, my brother and my sister in the past. You can rest assured to live in my house forever. This is my repayment for your kindness to me in the past." Xia Xiaorou said, looking coldly at the Xia family, "I remember grudges, but I also remember kindness. If someone treats me well, I will remember it for my whole life. If someone treats me badly, I will remember it for two lifetimes!"

"Xia Xiaorou, what do you mean by that? Are you blaming us for being mean to you?" Xia Chen sneered with narrowed eyes.

"Xiao Rou, how have we ever let you down?" Xia Dequan also frowned.

Xia Xiaorou sneered. What was wrong with her?

It's not getting better at all!

It was New Year's Day, and she didn't want to quarrel with the Xia couple. She couldn't win an argument with Xia Chen, a woman who was even more talkative than Song Liu.

She pointed to the door and said, "I'm going out now. You guys go now."

Xia Chen glared, "We just arrived and you chased me away? How can you treat your daughter like this?"

Seeing that they were on edge, Song Yanbai tried to mediate, "It's New Year's Day, Uncle Xia, Aunt Xia, calm down, sit down, and talk it over."

Xia Chen gave Xia Xiaorou a sidelong glance, then walked up to the chair above and sat down.

Xia Dequan also walked over and sat down beside her.

"Xiao Rou, your father and I came here today because we need your help with something. You are the most sensible child among the children in the family, and we trust you." Xia Chen said as she looked around Xia Xiaorou's room.

Xia Xiaorou smiled in her heart, it was true that no one would come to the temple for no reason.

If they don't ask her for benefits, the Xia family will never come to her.

She remembered that on the morning when Xia Chenshi and Xia Dequan were going to sell her to the Song family, they prepared delicious food for her and made new clothes for her.

She said she was sixteen years old and a grown-up girl, and should have her own new clothes.

She was deeply moved at the time.

I thought, they didn't like her before, beat and scolded her, because she was naughty.

She is a grown-up girl now, she is obedient, and they like her.

But who knows——

She was happy for only one night. The next morning, Xia Chen said that she had found a husband for her and they would get married that same day.

The groom is Song Tongsheng from the village.

She didn't like Song Tongsheng, a man with a proud look on his face and a bookish mind, and she refused to marry him.

Xia Chen beat her severely and said that if she didn't marry her, she would push her into the river and drown her.

I raised her, but she doesn't want to get married. Does that mean she wants to stay in her parents' home and eat free meals?

Xia Dequan said that the family owed a lot of money and hoped that she would be considerate of her parents.

She sympathizes with them, but who sympathizes with her?

In the end, she was tied up by Xia Chen, stuffed into a sedan chair, and sent to the Song family.

Now, they come to speak well of her again, what are they trying to do to her?

Xia Xiaorou waited for them to continue.

"Just say whatever you want to say, stepmother." Xia Xiaorou said.

She lost her mother at the age of four, and her father Xia Dequan asked her to call Xia Chen "mother".

She disagrees.

Because the first time Xia Chen saw her, she pushed her away, saying that she was blocking the way to the bedroom.

She was only four years old, how could she know any rules? When someone came, she would just stare at them blankly.

Xia Chen pushed her hard and knocked her down. Her mouth hit the door sill, breaking her teeth and causing her to bleed.

Fortunately, it was a baby tooth, and new teeth grew after it fell out.

But that time, she was really scared.

It was the first time she met a woman who was like her mother, but had a completely different character from her mother.

She was afraid of Xia Chen and deeply hated her.

He would rather be beaten to death than call Xia Chen his mother.

Xia Chen hated that she called her stepmother, but then she thought, Xia Xiaorou was not her own daughter, so she could call her that or not. "Well, there's a big event at home. Your brother has found a wife, and the girl's family wants a big brick house. I want your brother to get married here, and you come back to live with me. You're a single woman, and you don't have any children, so it's more convenient for you to live in your parents' home." She pointed at Song Yanbai and Chu Xianyun and said, "They have to move out too. Your brother's bride doesn't want to live with someone who has nothing to do with her."