Traveling through life as a widow: six sons to support her in her old age

Yu Xiu looked around, rolled up his sleeves and put his hands on his waist, "Each of you, can you use your brains? If my mother has any selfish motives, she won't tell you the composting method.

Let your land continue to be barren, let your crop yields decrease, and let you go without food.

Now you are talking about my mother together with a few idiots, where is your face? Don't you care about your face?

Don't you know what Liu Dani is? Did you know that Sister Daya is dead? She was stuffed into a dead person's coffin and suffocated to death.

How desperate and scared she was. This was what her own mother sent her to. Seventy taels bought out her life.

Erya was sold to the provincial capital as a maid, where she was either beaten or scolded. She was bought out and could not go home.

What is Malay flower? I saw her sneaking around that day, planning to sell Sanya and Siya.

She wants to learn from the eldest wife, but she has tasted the sweetness. Those of you who have daughters in your families should be careful.

And that Cheng Panpan, she is not a good person either, she instigated Cheng Dahong to have an affair and even asked her to sell her two sons left behind."

After Yu Xiu finished speaking, Cheng Dahong's mother-in-law and husband started beating Cheng Dahong and scolding Cheng Panpan.

The others all moved away from the three sisters-in-law. Liu Dani and Ma Laihua glared at Yu Xiu with ferocious looks.

Lan Qiyan rolled up his sleeves and stood in front of Yu Xiu, "Sister-in-law, did you dream about Daya in the middle of the night?"

Liu Dani looked around and found that Yu Ziqing had left at some point and there was no one behind her.

"Don't look at them anymore. They ran away a long time ago. You are just a cooking maid to Big Brother now. Otherwise, he would have divorced you long ago."

"You're talking nonsense. How can I just give up on the relationship he and I have had for more than ten years?"

"Oh, you and Daya have been in love for more than ten years, and you let it go just like that, right?"

Liu Dani had nothing to say and kept backing away. Daya, the relationship she had with Daya for more than ten years?

But she had no choice, because she was a money-loser.

Wasn't I also sold to the Yu family by my parents at a high price?

Whose daughter can be sold for seventy taels? Daya should be happy.

"That's my daughter, it's none of your business to say anything."

Lan Qiyan clapped his hands and said, "Remember what you said, and it is not your turn to comment on other people's affairs.

Otherwise I will always mention Daya in front of you. By the way, have you seen Daya’s grave?

I heard that at night, heart-wrenching cries could be heard from the grave."

Liu Dani covered her ears and shook her head, "I didn't hear anything. I didn't hear anything." Then she ran away.

Ma Laihua saw her sister-in-law running away, and Cheng Panpan and Cheng Dahong's mother-in-law started fighting, so she also ran away.

Yu Xiu laughed loudly, "Look, mother, it's too early to fight with us."

Lan Qiyan reached out and tapped his head. "You go out to play every day just to listen to these gossips?"

"Yes, actually, this is something that everyone knows, but they just can't bear it when I say it directly.

Take Cheng Dahong for example. The man she had an affair with was her brother-in-law. In fact, her parents-in-law knew about it. Anyway, four of their five sons had no wives, so it didn't matter who got pregnant.

But I said it out loud, and they were embarrassed, so they could only vent their anger on Cheng Panpan."

Lan Qiyan looked at Yu Xiu suspiciously. This guy didn’t seem stupid at all.

However, the most urgent task now is not to study whether Yu Xiu is stupid or not, but what else can be planted?

However, it seems that except for her family, the rest of the wheat was destroyed a lot, but fortunately it can all grow well in the spring, but the yield will be lower.

What she has to worry about now is her own family. There is nothing left on the two plots of land. The annual tax will start to be collected next year. How will she pay it then?

If we really can't produce grain, we can only pay taxes with silver.

Fortunately, Yuze will be 13 years old during the Chinese New Year, so he doesn’t need to pay the Ding tax for the time being.

Fortunately, I don’t live in a town, otherwise I would have to pay property taxes.

She didn't plan to let her children do corvée labor either, as they all wanted to pursue official careers, so they could just pay money to solve the problem.

By this calculation, there is a grain tax once a year in the spring, and there is also a poll tax, and if you don't get married when you reach a certain age, you still have to pay taxes, perform labor service, and there is also a property tax. It's a mess.

There is a reason why the people are so poor. People starve to death every day throughout the year.

She has a Taobao space, so she won't starve to death. She also has the help of Yu Zian's friends and has no shortage of money. She is an exception.

What about the remaining people?

There are many people like Liu Dani who sell their daughters, and it seems normal to them.

Women are really just objects. They have no so-called human rights, no right to marriage autonomy, and no right to education. They can only be arranged by their parents and picked by men.

When you think about it this way, this dynasty is really suffocating.

Lan Qiyan suddenly had a great dream of rebelling and becoming emperor.

"Mom, what should we plant?" Yu Xiu's words brought her back to reality from her ambitious fantasy.

Looking at the bare land, she shook her head and said, "I'll go to town tomorrow to see if there are any seeds left. Anyway, I won't let you starve to death."

Walking on the way home, feeling the cold wind, Lan Qiyan finally realized that life in ancient times was not so easy. The heavy taxes could drive people to death.

She racked her brains and thought that the taxation system in this dynasty was a bit like that in the Tang and Song dynasties.

Why didn't we have a good system like the Qing Dynasty's system of equalizing the land tax? Alas, the emperor we dealt with was different, and life was so damn hard.

Potatoes and taro can be planted in December, so she is going to the town to see if anyone is selling them.

If she has them, she can buy the seedlings from Taobao. If not, she can't just take them out abruptly. She needs to find a reasonable solution.

"Mom, should you be angry? Or should I go beat them up?"

"I'm not angry, who are you going to hit? You performed well today.

I was just thinking about what to plant and not letting the land get in such a hurry."

It's a pity that there are no plastic films, fiberglass rods, film clips and buckles.

Maybe she could try it at home.

The children didn't know what their mother was trying to do. They just saw her going up the mountain with a hatchet. An hour later she came down carrying a bundle of bamboo.

Then cut the bamboo into equal lengths, bend them and bury them in the vegetable garden. Finally, place the longest bamboo in the middle and tie it tightly with rattan.

Then, a large piece of cloth 5 meters long and 2 meters wide was laid on it, which was made by asking Old Lady Yu to sew using rags from home before cutting the bamboo.

Lan Qiyan looked at the simple greenhouse he had built with sweat all over his forehead, wondering how effective it would be.

Several children were running around this thing.

"Mom, are you building a house for me?" Yu Qi said.

"Yes, keep them warm so they grow faster."

Yuqi didn't want to discourage his mother. How could it keep warm? It was just rags that had been sewn many times in some places. If it rained or snowed, more water would accumulate.

However, seeing Yu Qi hesitating to speak, Lan Qiyan seemed to have realized that if the food was not kept warm, especially when it rained or snowed, it would be devastating to the vegetables.