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

When Lan Qiyan ran over, Yu Xiaoya had been beaten by Liu Dani and was unable to get up.

"She's just a child, why was she beaten like this? Sister-in-law, what are you doing?

You can't see blood on a wedding day. If someone doesn't know, they might think you are killing a chicken to scare the monkeys to your daughter-in-law."

Liu Dani was already furious. When she heard Lan Qiyan's sarcastic voice, her anger immediately reached her head. "Fatty Lan, it turns out that the money she stole was not from your family."

Lan Qiyan said indifferently, "My eldest son has spent all his money on the school. I still have 42 coins. Erya, if you need it, I will give it to you.

Sister-in-law, this is your daughter, how can she be considered stealing if she takes your own things?"

"Blue Fat Man, it's not your turn to tell me how to educate my children."

Lan Qiyan looked down at herself and pinched her waist. She had lost at least ten pounds and now weighed only a little over 130 kg.

"My fellow villagers, have I lost a little weight? I've been getting up early and working late to get food. It's not easy to raise six children."

Lan Qiyan is so happy, come and praise her, come and praise her, she has lost weight, she has lost weight.

"I've lost weight, I really have. My big face has become a small one."

"It's not so dark anymore."

"The waist isn't that thick anymore."

"It's really hard work, six sons, six mouths to feed, especially the second son, one box of mouths can eat as much as a cow."

Yu Xiu: Are you polite?

Lan Qiyan took the opportunity to help Yu Erya up, "Good child, I believe you didn't do it on purpose. Tell us and we will take care of it for you."

Yu Erya nodded. Her aunt was so nice. Right now in the entire Yushi Village, her parents were probably most afraid of her aunt.

Seeing this, Liu Dani immediately yelled, "Yu Erya, there's no need for you to let others know about our family's affairs. Come here quickly. Mother doesn't blame you."

Yu Erya shook her head. "You sold my sister to Mr. Li's dying son, and once his son died, my sister would be buried with him."

"Shut up, Arya."

"I said that this matter was arranged by my eldest aunt and her lover. The total price was 50 taels. They split taels between them, and you got taels."

The villagers immediately started talking and pointing.

Lan Qiyan looked around and saw no sympathy in their eyes, only excitement and greed.

She was shocked to find out that they really didn't care about their daughter, they only cared about how much benefit she could bring to the family.

Yu Ziqing winked at Liu Dani, who quickly reached out to pull her away, "Er Ya, what are you talking about? Your elder sister has gone to work as a maid in a wealthy family in town."

Yu Erya sneered and ignored her mother's words, "Sister-in-law, you only asked for seven taels of betrothal gift, it's too little."

The bride, who had been indifferent to the matter, stayed in her room and did not come out. However, when she heard that they still had so much silver, they only gave her seven taels. It was too bullying.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She looked at the person who was staring at her and almost drooled.

"Yujin, is what Erya said true? You clearly have thirty taels, why did you only give me seven taels?"

Yu Jin was just thinking about whether to have the wedding night now. When he heard his wife talking, he said honestly, "Don't worry, wife. I'll ask them for another three taels later."

"Why don't you come over here."

Yu Jin was a little embarrassed, "Xiu Xiu, I have a younger brother, and he will need money to get married in two years."

Tie Xiuxiu pointed outside and said, "Don't you have a younger sister? She's a walking clerk."

Yu Jin was a little troubled.

Tie Xiuxiu suddenly approached him, and a fragrance entered Yu Jin's nose.

With a light puff of her red lips, Yu Jin assured, "Xiu Xiu, don't worry, I will come over."

Tie Xiuxiu smiled shyly, "My husband really loves me."

……

In the yard

Yu Ziqing walked over angrily, snatched Yu Erya from Lan Qiyan, and started beating her.

Lan Qiyan kicked him and said, "Child abuse will lead to the extinction of your family line."

It's really helpless. Why didn't there be laws to protect minors in ancient times? We can't talk to them about the law and can only scare them.

Yu Ziqing gritted his teeth and said, "Lan Qiyan, get out of the way and don't force me to beat up a woman."

Lan Qiyan rolled up his sleeves and said, "I just like beating up men."

The two were pushing and shoving each other when Old Lady Yu rushed out and slapped them twice, "Yu Ziqing, are you unable to eat or drink today?

You embezzled so much money from your brother, and now you are selling your daughter to marry your son. Where is your conscience? Have you let a dog eat you?"

When Old Lady Yu said this, she was looking straight at Dani.

Neither of these two things is a good thing.

"I tell you, if you sell Erya again, I will shout to the whole village that your place is a den of wolves and tigers. I want to see who is blind enough to marry into your family."

Yu Ziqing snorted coldly and glared at Lan Qiyan.

Instead of meddling in other people’s business, why don’t you take care of yourself instead?

Lan Qiyan also glared at him. What a shameless bunch of people. Why couldn't he deal with them?

In the end, the matter was left unresolved.

Old Lady Yu took Lan Qiyan and left, and started teaching her on the way.

"Yanyan, selling a daughter to marry a son, or exchanging a daughter for a son, these are all common practices.

If you don't say it and I don't say it, no one will say it. It's not just Yushi Village, Taohua Village, Dahe Village, but also Zhujiazhuang. It's all like this.

This exists in almost every household, but it is not the case with your two aunts.

I only need three taels of betrothal gift for a family, and add one tael of dowry.

Alas, even so they still resent me."

Lan Qiyan had indeed learned a lesson. No one had told the original owner about this, and she herself didn't know about it.

It turns out that everyone thinks it is a normal thing. Then she is like an ant fighting an elephant. She really doesn't know her own weight.

At this moment she just wanted to say one thing, Beauty in Troubled Times is worth half a pie, so the daily price of 50 yuan that Daya can sell for is envied by everyone.

The next day, she carried a backpack and carried Yu Xiu up the mountain, saying that she was going to find something delicious.

She remembered that there was a bamboo forest on the mountain, and the winter bamboo shoots should be out by now.

Last night before going to bed, she did some research and found out that winter bamboo shoots could be exchanged for lard. This made her so happy that she couldn't sleep for half the night.

Yu Xiu stared at her dark circles under her eyes for a long time in the morning.

Now he finally couldn't help asking, "Mom, did you do anything bad last night?"

Lan Qiyan was confused and asked, "Why do you ask that?"

Yu Xiu pointed at her eyes and said, "There are dark circles around your eyes. They can only appear if you do something bad and stay up late."

"Why can't you say it's caused by insomnia?"

Unexpectedly, Yu Xiu sneered, "Humph, you have insomnia? You fall asleep as soon as you touch the bed, and even thunder and lightning can't wake you up."

Lan Qiyan looked up at the sky. It was clear and sunny, suitable for educating children, but he was afraid of attracting wolves.

"Stop talking nonsense and start digging."

"Mom, this doesn't taste good."

"When you're hungry, even shit tastes good."

"Mom, I don't eat shit."

"If you keep on talking, I'll turn you into wolf shit."

Yu Xiu held the hoe and dug while mumbling, "Mom must have done something, why didn't she tell me? At least my eldest brother is not here, and I am the head of the family.

Alas, I am such a talented woman, but I don’t need her. I have to do it myself.”

Lan Qiyan stepped down with two claps, and Yu Xiu dug a full basket in one go, weighing about 40 kilograms.

Lan Qiyan smiled with satisfaction. Forty kilograms of winter bamboo shoots and twenty kilograms of lard made him drool just thinking about it.

"Son, how about selling these winter bamboo shoots for lard?"

So the mother and daughter went down the mountain with drooling eyes.