Priceless: A widow with a baby asks the prince to marry again

The spring rain was lingering, and little Qin Hao had completely mastered the reading and writing of Lin Qian Yu Xiang. The leather boots with laces that Liu Rusi was making were also quite good.

She planned to make a pair of hard leather boots for Qin Lie. He often went up the mountain and walked in the fields, and ordinary cloth shoes would wear out after a while.

"hiss!"

"Mom! Your finger is bleeding!" Little Qin Hao hurried over.

Liu Rusi's face wrinkled into a ball. It really hurts to be stabbed by the awl...

After she recovered a little, she sternly warned her son: "Don't tell your father!"

She started making this pair of shoes last year, but because they were punctured, Qin Lie confiscated them and she was forced to stop working for more than a year. Only recently did she find the half-finished boots at the bottom of the box.

Washing her fingers with cold water, she prayed silently that her fingers would not swell up and that Qin Lie would not find out.

"Xiao Cui! Xiao Cui..." Aunt Zhao Chunfang's voice came from far away.

She ran in with red eyes, holding Liu Rusi's hand, her lips trembling but she didn't say anything for a long time.

"Aunt, what's wrong?"

"On the way back from the city, rocks rolled down... Qin Lie... he..."

She just felt like she fell from the clouds into a quagmire, and her mind went blank.

After being stunned for a while, Liu Rusi rushed out with a pale face. She ran very fast, bypassing the pond and passing several earthen houses.

She saw a crowd of people gathering on the flat ground in front of her uncle's house, which was also the door of the woodshed.

She quickly pushed through the crowd and squeezed in. She saw a person lying in the middle. It was a tall body that she was very familiar with...

She rushed over eagerly, groping his neck with trembling hands. His body, which had once been as warm as a stove, had lost its heat, and there was no trace of pulse in his carotid artery.

"Xiao Cui... Qin Lie is gone... He was hit on the back by a rock and died instantly." The uncle burst into tears and came up to pull Liu Ruoshi.

After the Qin family raised a few cows, they would rent the land to villagers when they needed it. On weekdays, the uncle would pull the ox cart back and forth between the city and the village. Yesterday, Qin Lie collected some ginseng of a good age while hunting, and today he and his uncle took the ox cart to the city to sell ginseng and other goods.

Liu Rusi pushed her uncle's hand away and folded her hands on Qin Lie's still chest... But as soon as she put her hands on it, she noticed something strange. She pulled open his clothes and saw that his chest was wrapped in thick gauze and there was a faint trace of blood red.

After roughly removing the gauze, Liu Rusi saw a knife wound so deep that the bone was visible. She looked up at her uncle in a questioning manner.

"We had just left the city after selling ginseng when we encountered bandits blocking the road... Qin Lie chopped down a few of them and the bandits ran away, but he was also stabbed. We immediately went back to the city to bandage his wound." The uncle narrated and began to cry again.

"If he hadn't been injured, he would have been able to dodge the falling rocks with his skills, and... he even pushed me first... um..."

Liu Rusi sat on the ground in a daze, looking as lifeless as a puppet.

After an unknown amount of time, she suddenly looked up at the sky and cursed: "Damn God! Are you sick?"

"why why!"

Liu Rusi asked like a madman...

Just after repelling the bandits, she encountered rocks rolling down... She didn't believe in fate, but now she couldn't help but believe it! But why? Why must Qin Lie die! ?

Why do her parents not want her even though she is so outstanding?

Why did she win 10 million and then be reborn into this world?

Why did she suddenly take Qin Lie away when she had already fallen into the happiness he had given her? !

Liu Rusi sat on the ground in a daze. Her beautiful face was as pale as a sheet of paper. Her petite body looked even more fragile, as if a gust of wind could blow her away from this world...

"mother!"

A tender voice rang in her ears, and the young child threw himself into her arms. She subconsciously reached out to hug the child.

"Mom...what happened to Dad? Wuuwuwu...do I have no dad anymore...wuuwu" Little Qin Hao seldom cried since he could talk, but now he cried like an ordinary child...

It was like I suddenly realized that this was not a dream! How could a dream be so painful?

Tears finally broke out, but Liu Rusi seemed to come alive. She motioned her aunt to help her take care of little Qin Hao. She then pounced on Qin Lie and touched his collar.

After checking his body, she raised her head and asked with red eyes, "Where's his money? Where's the money Qin Lie earned from selling ginseng?!"

Seeing everyone around looking in the same direction, Liu Rusi followed their gaze and saw a man with a bruised face limping and hiding behind the crowd...

Liu Rusi rushed over like a tiger or leopard, grabbed his scumbag father, and forcefully reached out to take out the bulging purse from his lapel!

She knew it belonged to Qin Lie at a glance. She had sewn it for Qin Lie. She could only sew but not embroider, and the pouch was bare, but Qin Lie had been using it for many years.

"This is the money Qin Lie left for the child to study! He paid for it with his life! If you use our money, be careful that Qin Lie will drag you down with him!"

Liu Rusi was deliberately talking nonsense. She needed to scare others. Life in the mountain village was not peaceful. There were people who helped each other, but it was also common for the strong to bully the weak. If Qin Lie was here, she wouldn't have to worry about these things...

With the help of my uncle's family and Huang Dashi's family, the funeral went relatively smoothly.

A suona player was invited to play the instrument at the Qin family cemetery halfway up the mountain. Looking at the scattered graves, Liu Rusi suddenly felt that her previous words to comfort Qin Lie were inappropriate.

It is because the person you lost loved you and treated you well that it is even more difficult to accept...

Time began to become difficult.

Just one month made Liu Rusi feel like a lifetime ago.

The cloth bag contained salt and some sundries bought from the city. Liu Rusi was calculating Qin Hao's future expenses.

The family now has more than 200 taels of silver. If she lives a simple life, it is enough for her to raise Qin Hao. If she wants him to study, the tuition fee of ordinary private schools with inferior writing instruments is more than 20 taels a year, which is enough for him to study until he is ten years old. However, the teachers in such private schools are at most scholars, and the knowledge they can learn is probably limited.

Qin Lie had intended to send him to the famous Heguang Academy, which was founded by a Hanlin scholar who retired to the mountains. It had produced countless scholars and candidates. But Heguang Academy required eighty taels of silver per year, and two hundred taels of silver was enough for two years of study. What could he learn in two years?

Although Qin Hao is not yet four years old, it will not work without early planning... Or he can first go to an ordinary private school to drain his talent, and then transfer to Heguang Academy?

"Xiao Cui, we're home." The uncle woke Liu Rusi up. She let out a sigh and took off the veil on her head.

When she took little Qin Hao home from her grandfather's house, he said to her with great joy on the way home: "I can recite and write the Thousand Character Classic! My great-grandfather asked me to choose one of the Four Books to study, and I chose Mencius!"

"Well, Haohao is amazing." Liu Rusi changed the subject after praising him. "I left home early today. Did you do your exercises?"

"Yes..." Little Qin Hao avoided his gaze.

"Oh? You're not lying? I'll ask your great-grandfather tomorrow."

Little Qin Hao used his 90% new brain to think about it, and thought that the truth could not be hidden from his mother, so he said almost inaudibly: "I... I forgot to do exercises today..."

"Well, it's okay if you forgot. You can make up for it tomorrow. Doing exercises can make you taller. If you want to be as tall as your dad..." Liu Rusi felt a pain in her heart. She always forgot that Qin Lie was no longer there.

Swallowing the bitterness, she continued to teach him, "Lying is not good. Tell the truth to your mother from now on, okay?"

"Okay." Little Qin Hao replied sullenly, and walked forward to hold her hand tightly, leaning against her clingingly. There were still many things he didn't understand, but he could feel that his mother was in a bad mood...

Looking at the little kid who was almost hanging on her legs and seriously hindering her walking, Liu Rusi couldn't help but shook her head and simply picked up the child and held him.

After returning home, Liu Rusi no longer felt sad. The busy housework occupied the space in her mind. She sold the calf today and fed the cow more grain. The breeding in recent years seems to be useful. Thirty hens laid twenty-six eggs today! Twenty ducks were almost there, but they also laid eleven eggs.

It seems that there is no problem with the signed order. In the future, I can earn three or two taels of egg every month just by supplying eggs to large households in the city. Although it is not enough, it is a relatively stable income, and I can try to expand the scale in the future.

In addition, adult chickens and ducks can also be sold, which is also a big source of income. However, there are no orders at present, so they can only be sold to vegetable vendors at a relatively low price.

Since she had chickens and ducks at home, she naturally wouldn't skimp on cooking for her son. Children need protein to grow healthily. A bowl of tender steamed eggs sprinkled with chopped green onions was served on the table, and Liu Rusi shouted, "Qin Hao! Come and eat!"

"Here I come!" Little Qin Hao ran in from the backyard, stood on the small stool in front of the basin rack, and waited with his hands raised.

Liu Rusi scooped some water and slowly poured it on her son's hands. She said with satisfaction, "Wash your hands before and after meals. Haohao is great. You have developed a good habit."

The mother and son were eating when they heard strange footsteps approaching. A man with unsteady steps came uninvited. Liu Rusi remembered that he was a villager who often stole things and did not do any real work. The villagers called him a second-rate guy.

The second-rate guy walked into the room with a smile on his face, but Liu Rusi could see the lust in his eyes. "Xiao Cui is eating, it's just right, I made a roast duck, thinking that Brother Qin left and you might have a hard time, so I brought it to you."

"No need, Brother Lie left some money, so my mother and I won't starve." Liu Rusi's face was full of indifference. "It's getting late, and it's not convenient to entertain guests at home. You can take the roast duck home to eat."

Erliuzi didn't care. He put the duck wrapped in lotus leaves on the table, and reached out to hold Liu Rusi's hand, with a fake look of pity on his face. "You don't have to be so stubborn. A woman with a burden, alas, I feel bad for her, so I want to take care of her occasionally."

Liu Rusi pulled her hand out several times but didn't pull it out. After a pause, her tense face suddenly relaxed and she smiled softly, "Do you just come to take care of me occasionally?"

The beautiful woman suddenly smiled, and the second-rate guy was stunned. He had seen the courtesan in Fangchunyuan in the city from a distance before, and she seemed to be much inferior to Liu Cui...

Little Qin Hao sat at the table in silence. He felt that what was happening was wrong, but he didn't know what was wrong or what to do. His two little hands were clenched tightly.

Liu Rusi started to disassemble the roast duck and put it on her own plate, and stuffed the lotus leaves and rope into the stove.

The second-rate guy came to his senses and saw her accepting the roast duck. Combined with what she just said, he was overjoyed. "I... I'll go ask my father. He has wanted me to get married for a long time! Although you are a widow... I don't mind! You can bring your son with you. He just needs to change my last name!"

Xiao Qinhao suddenly became anxious. He didn't understand anything else, but he hated this person! He didn't want to change his last name!

"Mom! I don't..."

"Hush!" Liu Rusi winked at her son secretly, then turned to Erliuzi and said, "Don't worry, the child is here, let's go somewhere else to talk."

Liu Rusi turned and walked towards the chicken coop in the backyard. After taking two steps, she glanced back at Erliuzi and motioned him to follow. Erliuzi was already completely fascinated and followed her in a daze.

Walking to the backyard, Liu Rusi closed the door, and the second-rate guy suddenly became so excited that his eyes turned bloodshot.

She raised the corners of her mouth but her eyes were grim, and she kicked with all her might, hitting him right in the crotch!

All the blood drained from the scoundrel's face in an instant, and the pain from the egg made him unable to even make a sound!

Liu Rusi walked to the side leisurely, opened the chicken coop, took out a hen and threw it at the second-rate guy, then almost screamed: "Catch the thief! Someone stole the chicken!"

While shouting "Catch the chicken thief!" she picked up a stick and swung it at the scoundrel!

Soon, the nearest neighbor Huang Dashi and others arrived one after another...

In this world, if a second-rate guy came to tease her, she would be labeled as innocent regardless of whether he succeeded or not.

But if he was accused of stealing chickens, the farmers would all be united in hatred, after all, who doesn't have to worry about chicken thieves? And he couldn't reveal that he came to steal people, which was a more serious crime than stealing chickens. If Liu Rusi was shameless, she could have sent him to the authorities and had him beaten with dozens of sticks.

After all, Liu Rusi was a weak woman, so the egg didn't break. The tied-up scoundrel recovered and hurriedly explained, "I'm not here to steal chickens! I...I'm here to sell roast duck! The roast duck is still on her table!"

"That's the duck I roasted myself. My family has so many ducks. Why should I buy your roast duck? I think you smelled the roast duck I made and became greedy, so you came to steal the chicken." Liu Rusi said calmly.

"Why are you in the chicken coop if you're not stealing chickens?" Huang Caiyun, the little girl from the Huang family, suddenly spoke up. Liu Rusi couldn't help but raise her eyebrows. What others say is naturally more convincing than what the person involved says.

"Yes, when I came, I saw chickens next to him. The chickens should have returned to their roosts by now!" Mrs. Huang added.

Someone among the onlookers suddenly said, "He must have stolen the chicken! This scoundrel has stolen my chickens before!"

The second-rate guy saw that he was not the one who wronged him, and his face flushed as he stammered, "That...that happened many years ago..."

However, since he was caught in the act with "conclusive evidence" and had a history of stealing chickens, no one believed him anymore.

The scoundrel's father came over, made amends and apologized, and then took the boy back. In this era, people generally would not mobilize a large number of people to report such trivial matters as stealing to the authorities.

The chaos settled down and it was already dark all around. Liu Rusi lit the oil lamp and closed the courtyard door and the house door.

The dishes on the table were already cold. Liu Rusi heated them up, cut the roast duck into pieces, and gave the duck leg to her son. A roast duck must be worth a penny, and it would be a waste not to eat it if she didn't give it to him for free.

"Mom, you lied." The annoying person got beaten, and little Qin Hao smiled happily. But he didn't understand, lying is so useful, why does his mother say lying is bad?

Liu Rusi was stunned for a moment. She didn't think about the impact on the child.

"Does Haohao know the difference between love and like?"

Little Qin Hao looked confused.

"Mom likes peach blossoms all over the tree, and likes the fluffy little ducks. If you like them, that's great, but if you don't, that's OK. But love is something you can't give up, and you don't want to leave. I love you, Dad... and I love you too."

"Haohao, do you like or love your mother?"

Little Qin Hao made a judgment easily, how could it not matter if he didn’t have a mother!

"It's love, Haohao loves mother!"

Holding little Qin Hao in her arms, Liu Rusi gently touched his face. "Hao Hao, lying will make the people who love you sad, so don't lie to the people you love."