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

In a blink of an eye, it was the sixth day of March. Lan Qiyan took the money and the children and set off for the town to prepare examination supplies for his eldest son.

Mainly pens, ink, paper, and inkstone, as well as food. Old Mrs. Yu also baked a few cakes for Yuze to eat.

Lan Qiyan found a few ropes, strung them together and hung them around Yu Xiu's neck, so at least he wouldn't starve to death.

Yu Xiu was confused, "Mom, what do you mean? Why are you hanging around my neck?"

"Let me try and see how it works. Take a bite and see how it tastes."

Yu Xiu took a bite and spit it out, looking at Old Lady Yu aggrievedly, "Grandma, is this a weapon you made for my big brother?

If you don't like someone, you can just kill them with a pie? This is too hard. My teeth are about to fall out."

Old Lady Yu rolled her eyes at Yu Xiu and said, "What do you know? You don't need a hard surface kang. It won't last long."

Lan Qiyan decided that this would be a good weapon, but if someone taking an exam were to chew on it, he would be exhausted before the exam even started.

Finally decided not to take it, too tiring.

Old Lady Yu stayed at home while Lan Qiyan took the four children to town.

After they left, Mrs. Yu’s older sister came.

"Wenjing, I saw Qiyan taking the children out of the village."

"They went to the town to see if there were any other vegetable seeds."

"Is that so? Why don't you go?"

"It takes several hours to go back and forth, which is too tiring. My daughter-in-law feels sorry for me and asked me to wait at home."

"This is the only thing you've ever done right in your life."

"Don't talk about me, how is your family?"

"Speaking of which, old sister, I have come to say goodbye to you."

"I'm going to the city with my son to enjoy life. Go ahead. We are old enough to enjoy life. We will meet again someday."

"Li Wenjing, can you please stop making me cry?"

"Who made you cry? Go quickly. Also, when you get to her place, you should control your temper. After all, the threshold of your daughter-in-law's family is high. A man who knows the current situation is a hero. Don't let yourself be wronged."

"Got it, got it, this is for you, I'm leaving now."

Old Lady Yu felt her purse and found what looked like silver. She hurried after her, "Manmei, what are you doing?"

"This is what I saved up myself. You can take it. I won't need it. I'll come to see you later."

Old Lady Yu didn’t catch up, so she stood there on the road for a while, holding her purse in her hand.

Yuhua came down the mountain carrying a backpack, "Aunt Wenjing!"

Old Lady Yu quickly wiped away her tears and said, "Hey, kid, why did you pick up so much firewood? I'll help you carry it home."

"Aunt, this is for you."

"I have it at home, why do I need yours? Just take it back to your house."

Yuhua walked in with the firewood on her back, followed closely by Old Lady Yu, "Listen to me, Auntie, when we three sisters were in trouble, it was Sister-in-law Qiyan who helped us.

"My eldest sister's health cost a lot of money, and we can't give anything to sister-in-law Qiyan, so we thought of using these things to repay sister-in-law, otherwise we would feel uneasy."

"You kid, Yanyan said that we are from the same village and we are all women, she can't bear to see your elder sister being humiliated like this.

You three sisters should live a good life in the future and don’t get married. It would be best if you could recruit someone else.”

"Don't worry, auntie. We won't get married. All men are bad anyway. I'll take care of the firewood here. I'll dig some wild vegetables and go home."

"Hua, wait a minute." Old Mrs. Yu ran to the main room, took out a few steamed buns and five eggs from the cupboard and stuffed them into Yuhua's backpack.

Yuhua wanted to escape immediately, but Old Lady Yu pushed her out and locked the door in one go.

Yuhua's eyes were red as she walked towards the place carrying a backpack and a small bundle of firewood at the door.

Yuni was already waiting at the door. She was worried because her sister had been gone for too long.

The eldest sister in the family is in poor health and she is small, so Yuhua has to go to collect firewood. She is worried.

When she saw Yuhua's figure, her heart, which had been beating in her throat, finally calmed down.

"Second sister."

"What took you so long?"

"I picked up a large bundle of firewood and sent it over to Sister Qiyan, so I was delayed."

"Thanks a lot."

"It's not hard. Oh, by the way, second sister, Aunt Wenjing gave me steamed buns and eggs, and she got angry when I didn't want them."

Yuni was so upset. Not only did she not repay the favor, but she also owed it again.

"Didn't Sister Qiyan say that we would collect the Imperata roots in mid-March? We won't charge you then!"

"You think she won't give it to you if you don't want it? They are helping us overtly or secretly."

"What should we do?"

Yuni sighed, "Otherwise, let's pray for her every day, hoping that she will have six well-behaved daughters-in-law in the future."

"Sister-in-law Qiyan is still young, why don't you bless her to marry another husband."

"There are few good men, but it is better to have a good daughter-in-law who honors him."

……

Lan Qiyan was helping Yu Ze choose pens, ink, paper and inkstone, and had no idea that the three sisters of the Yu family were praying for her.

Yu Xiu ate a big bun, his mouth bulging, "Mom, have you made your choice?"

"Eat yours."

"Just pick any set you want. Buy whatever my brother uses."

"Five taels per set."

"What? Five taels? Am I worth five taels? Why is it so expensive?"

Lan Qiyan glared at him and said, "Stop yelling, okay? Studying definitely requires investment."

"Mom, my eldest brother uses one wife at a time?"

The three Yuqi brothers retreated immediately because they didn't know this guy.

The little servant boy covered his mouth and laughed secretly, while Lan Qiyan looked embarrassed.

He quickly took out five taels of silver and asked for a set. "Have you three chosen the books? Once you have chosen, pay together."

The three brothers shook their heads, saying they didn’t need the book as it was too expensive and would go back to borrow their eldest brother’s book.

Lan Qiyan asked the little book boy what the book they three had just read was like.

The little book boy took out three books. Lan Qiyan was a good guy. Shouldn't he be reading Hundred Family Surnames and Thousand Character Classic now?

All the stuff she saw was so profound, but the kids liked it, so she bought it.

Ten taels of silver, it hurts, this investment is a bit big.

But worth it.

Yu Xiu watched his mother readily take out ten taels of silver and took a big bite of the bun. "Mom, wait for me. Buy me two more meat buns."

Lan Qiyan turned around and said, "Son, do you think I look like a meat bun?"

Yu Xiu shook his head. "No, you are darker now, and look skinny. You don't look tasty at all."

She sighed, handed the books, writing brush, paper and inkstone to the three children, and rolled up her sleeves, "Son, let's have some emotional exchanges."

Yu Xiu ran away, "Mom, my son and you have a very deep relationship."

"Stop."

The mother and son were chasing each other in front, and the three brothers were following behind with big and small bags.

"I reasonably suspect that Mom did it on purpose."

"Why do you say that, Sixth Brother?"

"Fourth brother, all these big and small bags are on us. Mother and second brother didn't take any of them."

Yu Qi was full of black lines on his head, "It seems to make sense."

"Fourth brother, my younger brother is right. Mother and second brother are already here."

The three brothers looked up to the sky and howled, their mother had only this little bit of kindness, and she used it all on them.