My best friend is living a famine-stricken life; you're going crazy, I'm farming.

Shen Yu took the embroidered handkerchief to the embroidery shop. The pattern she embroidered was neither simple nor very complicated. It cost four coins.

He exchanged ten handkerchiefs for forty coins, then took ten new handkerchiefs home to continue embroidering.

Shen Yu is skilled with her hands and has worked with the embroidery shop for two years without ever making a mistake. She doesn't need to deposit any money when she wants to take samples home.

With the copper coins in hand, Shen Yu bought herself a new carved peach wood hairpin for five coins, spending it without hesitation.

When her friends from her maternal family saw this, they looked surprised and said, "You've gone too far! Won't your mother-in-law scold you when you get back?"

Shen Yu blurted out, "No."

Then she froze.

In the first few days after she got married, she went to the market and spent ten coins to buy herself some good fabric to make shoes, which made her mother-in-law nag her.

She said ten coins would be enough to buy several kilograms of grain, but she bought a small piece of cloth instead, which was a waste.

Then, her mother-in-law rummaged through her cupboard and brought out two pieces of dark-colored, old-fashioned cloth for her.

That day, Shen Yu hid under the covers and cried for a long time, feeling wronged.

She had wanted these embroidered shoes for a long time.

When she was at her parents' home, all the money she earned was taken by her mother, and she secretly saved a string of cash as her private savings.

I thought that getting married would allow me to spend my own money as freely as my parents.

Yet they still get criticized.

That was money she had saved up herself, and that was a piece of fabric she had liked for a long time.

She didn't buy much, so why is she so displeasing to the eye?

At the time, Zhou Jingyi said, "Mother said that for your own good..."

That was the first time Shen Yu had made Zhou Jingyi spend the night in the woodshed.

Yang kept saying that she was good to her, that she couldn't bear to let her do any work, and that she always gave her the best food.

But was that genuine kindness towards her?

The intention was to have her produce offspring for the Zhou family as soon as possible, thus preserving the bloodline of the second branch of the Zhou family.

From then on, Shen Yu became determined to get a divorce.

She didn't want to live under someone else's roof and have to be at their mercy; she wanted to be her own master and wanted freedom.

That's how all those troublesome things happened.

If she had spent five coins to buy a hairpin before Zhou Jingyi broke his leg, Yang would definitely have said something when she got back.

But now?

Shen Yu had never tried it before, and she didn't even know why she blurted out "I can't".

Probably not.

They agreed to go into the mountains together, find something, sell it, and split the money. Apart from household expenses and Zhou Jingyi's medicine money, the remaining amount was all given to her by her mother-in-law for safekeeping.

During this time, Yang never said anything about her.

The girl looked on with envy, "Really? That's so great! If it were my mother-in-law, she'd definitely say I neglect my family, sigh~"

Shen Yu frowned and started asking her girlfriends about life after the wedding.

Every sentence the two girls uttered was a rant about their mother-in-law being biased, their father-in-law being irresponsible, and how the whole family was difficult to deal with.

Then he asked about Shen Yu.

Shen Yu didn't know how to answer, and hesitated for a long time before finally saying, "Is it considered a benefit?"

Yes, after Zhou Jingyi broke his leg, Yang was traumatized and her personality changed, which brought her many benefits.

The two girls' husbands' homes were half an hour away from Qingshui Village, and they parted ways halfway there.

Shen Yu walked alone on the road back to the village.

She has money, but she's empty-handed and reluctant to spend money on transportation.

Most people going to the market are reluctant to spend money on transportation, and along the way you can see people from various villages walking at different speeds.

People from Qingshui Village also came from behind and wanted to travel with Shen Yu.

Shen Yu kept her head down and walked without talking to anyone, so the person got bored and left first.

Shen Yu seemed unaware that someone had accompanied her for a while, and naturally did not respond to the other person's farewell.

She was thinking about what her friend had just said.

Her friend got married a few months before her, and all she could do when talking about her in-laws was curse. She cursed her parents-in-law, then her husband, and then the villagers.