But before the carriage returned to the village, they met Doctor Lin coming out of their Zaoshu Village carrying a medicine box.

Jiang Ningning and the others have always respected Doctor Lin, so they naturally got off the carriage and greeted him.

Doctor Lin was also beaming. On the day Xiao Yanzhong hosted a banquet for the gentlemen, he had specially invited him to join the banquet first. "Why, are you going to the town or the county?"

Jiang Ningning and the others laughed and said, "We went to the county to check out the shops."

"That's good, that's good." Doctor Lin nodded repeatedly. He had seen firsthand how the two families came together. It had been hard in the beginning, but thankfully, it was all over. Now, not only was the family wealthy, but they also had a successful candidate.

Tian asked casually, "Doctor Lin, why are you in our village today? Is someone in the village sick?"

Doctor Lin immediately shook his head and sighed, "It's not really an illness. It's just Jiang Er'an. He had a foul mouth and cursed his new wife. He almost got into a fight with her, and then he was beaten by her brothers.

It's nothing serious, just some minor injuries. His wife's brothers obviously wanted to teach him a lesson, and now that he's been beaten up, he's really behaved himself and doesn't dare to curse anymore."

When Tian heard that it was about the eldest wife of the Jiang family, she stopped asking.

It was naturally even less likely that Sun and Jiang Shengcai would ask.

Jiang Ningning didn't say anything either.

Doctor Lin knew about the grudge between the second branch of the Jiang family and the other two branches, so he naturally stopped talking about it.

We just chatted a few more words.

Even after Doctor Lin left, Jiang Ningning and the others did not talk about anyone from the Jiang family's main branch, but got on the carriage and continued back to the village.

Jiang Er'an got married the day before yesterday.

My daughter-in-law’s surname is Yan, her maiden name is Xuezhi, and she is twenty-one years old.

Because there were three exiles and one murderer in his family, even Jiang Er'an's married sister Jiang Fangfang refused to come back to attend Jiang Er'an's wedding.

Anyway, the wedding ceremony was very simple, it was just about welcoming Yan Xuezhi into the house, and that was it.

Jiang Ningning and the others have been very busy these days because Xiao Yan passed the imperial examination and the family is holding a banquet. Logically, they should not care about what is happening in the first wife's house, but unfortunately, Miss Yan Xuezhi entered Jiang Eran's house with a big belly.

The news spread quickly throughout the village, and it was hard for Jiang Ningning and the others not to know about it.

In the eyes of some people in the village, Yan Xuezhi had been abused and had lost her chastity. So even if she was married off early, there was no need to make malicious speculations and think that she was unclean anyway.

In addition to the previous example of Li being paralyzed, naturally few people in the village said anything malicious.

But you were still pregnant and about to give birth... This really shocked many people in the village.

It was when Yan Xuezhi came in with a big belly that Jiang Eran and Shen Chunhua realized that Yan Xuezhi had actually been married once after being abused.

But not long after she got married, the man died unexpectedly, and her husband's family said that Yan Xuezhi was unlucky.

Not long after the man died, Yan Xuezhi was found to be pregnant again. Her husband's family believed that their son was killed by Yan Xuezhi, and they refused to admit that the child was theirs. They also said that Yan Xuezhi had cheated on her.

Some even said that Yan Xuezhi was pregnant with the child of the man who had abused her.

The Yan family also gave two taels of silver to the husband's family at that time. The husband's family was poor. When they saw the two taels of silver, they forgot their last name and immediately married Yan Xuezhi.

Yan Xuezhi had always been favored by her parents' side. The Yan family could not stand the slander Yan Xuezhi suffered in her husband's family, so the whole family went to smash the house of her husband's family, forcing Yan Xuezhi's parents-in-law to write a divorce letter on behalf of their dead son, and then took Yan Xuezhi back to the Yan family.

The original plan was to let Yan Xuezhi stay in her parents' home and not get married again, but Yan Xuezhi didn't want her parents' home to be manipulated by her, so she took the initiative to propose remarrying. Only then did the Yan family start arranging Yan Xuezhi's marriage again.

Because she was pregnant, no other matchmaker would take the job except Matchmaker Wang, so she entrusted the matter to Matchmaker Wang.

The Yan family also knew that Yan Xuezhi was in no position to marry a good man, so there was nothing to be picky about. They thought any man would be fine, and at most they would just ask her family for more help.

So even though a murderer later appeared in Jiang Er'an's family, they did not come to cancel the engagement.

However, matchmaker Wang did not tell Jiang Er'an that Yan Xuezhi was pregnant. But since she had already entered the house, the Yan family could only give an additional two taels of silver, a total of four taels of cash as a dowry to Jiang Er'an.

Without paying a penny for the betrothal gift, I still get four taels of silver for free?

Jiang Er'an was also a little blinded by money, so he didn't pursue the matter any further at the time and happily admitted the matter.

The villagers thought Jiang Er'an was weird, so naturally the news spread like wildfire, and every household in the surrounding villages knew about it.

Jiang Ningning, who was sitting in the carriage, was also speechless.

You paid money to admit the crime, but you are still cursing and slandering others. If you had the guts, you shouldn't have admitted it at that time.

But it’s good to be beaten. I believe Jiang Eran will be obedient in the future. He will not scold Yan Xuezhi anymore, and he will not dare to fight with Yan Xuezhi.

Jiang Er'an is the kind of person who won't be afraid unless you give him a good beating. And once he's afraid of you, he'll always be afraid.

She had almost chopped off Jiang Er'an's hand with a butcher knife before. Jiang Er'an was still like a mouse seeing a cat when he saw her, and he didn't even have time to hide.

Although she had never met Yan Xuezhi, she admired her because she was born and raised in such a world and had suffered so many misfortunes, but she still chose to live strong and did not choose to die because of rumors.

The original owner lacked Yan Xuezhi's courage to continue living, so he chose to jump into the river to end his life.

At this moment, in the eldest wife's house of the Jiang family, Jiang Eran was lying on the bed crying.

Yan Xuezhi's six brothers have already gone back, but they also said that if Jiang Eran dared to scold Yan Xuezhi again, or say anything else, they would come to their house again.

Jiang Er'an was severely beaten and is now scared to death of his brothers-in-law.

How dare I scold her again or do anything to Yan Xuezhi?

But the more I thought about it, the more wronged I felt, and since I was hurt so badly from being beaten, I started crying.

When he received the four taels of silver, he was very happy and didn't mind that his wife was pregnant.

But after all, she was the wife he married, pregnant, with a big belly, about to give birth, but the baby in her belly was not his, and he could still see it every day...

After only watching it for one day, he started to feel unhappy and disgusted.

Then he started scolding Yan Xuezhi and got angry at her.

But he forgot that today was the day Yan Xuezhi was due to return home. When Yan Xuezhi's brothers saw that Yan Xuezhi had not returned yet, they came to see her. They just happened to hear him scolding Yan Xuezhi in the yard and asking her to beat the child.

Then he was beaten by Yan Xuezhi's six brothers.

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