Divorced woman with child travels through time

Everyone lined up around the table, and each person sat down in the main room to eat, holding a bowl of noodles.

Uncle Liu and Aunt Liu took a clove of garlic, and the two of them ate noodles and garlic at the same time, which smelled delicious.

The children, unlike Chen Wenfang, didn't like garlic and just ate noodles. They also had meat sauce, so it tasted very good.

After finishing their noodles, Aunt Liu and Uncle Liu Hai took the children and got up to say goodbye. Just as they reached the courtyard gate, they saw an old woman coming from a distance, accompanied by two servants carrying two boxes, and two maids following behind.

The two exchanged a glance, wondering what was going on, and stopped to investigate.

The old woman in the distance saw a group of people standing in front of the door, but she wasn't in a hurry and walked over at her own pace.

Upon closer inspection, Uncle Liu Hai realized that the old woman was dressed very elegantly, in silk, and the two servants and maids were also dressed quite well, clearly belonging to a wealthy family.

Uncle Liu Hai rubbed the rough corner of his clothes, clasped his hands in a gesture of respect, and asked with a forced smile, "What brings you here, sir? Who are you looking for?"

Aunt Liu was a little worried, so she nudged the stone with her elbow. The stone cleverly slipped into the yard to inform Chen Wenfang.

The old woman walked up to me, raised her chin, turned her nose up, and said with a sidelong glance, "Old woman, my surname is Feng. I've come to see Madam Chen. Go and ask her to come out and greet me."

Uncle Liu Hai smiled and asked, "What brings you to see Madam Chen?"

Granny Feng, looking impatient, said, "What's it to you? You're just a servant, you don't need to know. Go and tell her to come out and see me. If she doesn't come out, I'm leaving." This godforsaken place, the roads are all mud, and the cart can only go as far as the front. If it weren't for her master telling her to come, she wouldn't have come.

Uncle Liu was furious. He clenched his fist, then loosened it again. "Fine," he thought, "I'll just ignore this rude person."

She stopped replying and ignored him, refusing to leave. Standing at the door, she even closed it behind her, worried that Chen Wenfang might be too weak to handle anything alone if something happened. Dazhuang and Aunt Liu also remained silent, simply standing in a row watching the scene unfold.

Granny Feng was disappointed and thought to herself that country folk are just vulgar and rude, they can't even reply to a word.

Just as Chen Wenfang was about to come out, she saw that Uncle Liu Hai had closed the door, so she decided not to go out and stood behind the door to eavesdrop.

Seeing that the three people standing at the door were not paying much attention to her, Granny Feng said to one of the maids beside her, "Xiao Lu, go knock on the door!"

Xiao Lu glanced at her, slowly looking at his perfectly rounded fingernails, and said, "I am a servant of the Madam. The Madam sent me here to see what kind of person she is, that she can bewitch our Lue-ge'er so much that she insists on bringing her over from so far away. I am not here to be ordered around by you."

Granny Feng couldn't afford to offend her, so she called to the servant beside her, "Wu Si, go." Wu Si looked at the box he was carrying and said with difficulty, "Granny Feng, I'm carrying something, and the ground is all muddy."

Granny Feng glanced at them and scolded another maid, "Xiao Hong, can't you be a little more discerning? Hurry up and knock on the door!"

Little Red, the cannon fodder, had no powerful backing, so she obediently stepped forward to knock on the door, and Aunt Liu and the others automatically made way for her.

"Knock knock knock" "Is Madam Chen home?" Xiao Hong went up to knock on the door.

Chen Wenfang opened the door and sized up the people who had come in. Granny Feng was beautiful; she must have been a beauty in her youth. She had willow-leaf eyebrows and almond-shaped eyes, but with age, she had lost some of her natural beauty, and her high cheekbones, coupled with her sharp tongue and mean demeanor, made her seem particularly cunning.

Xiao Lu is a lively little beauty, curiously observing herself. Xiao Hong, on the other hand, has a round face, narrow eyes, and is a very plain-looking girl.

After they finished looking at her, Chen Wenfang said, "I am Madam Chen. What do you want with me?" She thought to herself, "Could it be that Zhao Lue sent someone?"

Granny Feng still spoke to her with an air of superiority, "I was sent by our general to pick you up. Pack your things and come with me."

"Who? I don't know any of these generals you're talking about," Chen Wenfang said calmly.

Granny Feng was getting impatient again and said loudly, "Our general is Zhao Lue, who recuperated here. Madam Chen, you really have a bad memory."

Chen Wenfang: "Oh."

Granny Feng was furious, her eyebrows furrowed. "Hurry up and pack your things and leave. Do you expect to be carried in a sedan chair?"

Chen Wenfang sneered and said, "I wonder what excuse Zhao Lue gave you for picking me up?"

Granny Feng said sarcastically, "You've got some nerve, daring to call our general by his name!"

Chen Wenfang retorted sarcastically, "Didn't you just yell that too!"

"You! Forget it, I won't argue with you. It's definitely the title of concubine. What do you think it is? Are you going to be married off in a grand sedan chair? Do you think you can become the principal wife? Don't you know your place? A widow, yet you dare to dream of marrying up, and you even dare to call our general by his name? You've got some nerve!" Granny Feng shouted.

"Don't go too far! How can you talk like that?" Aunt Liu said loudly before Chen Wenfang could even speak. "Pah! You call yourself a wealthy family? You have no manners at all!"

Chen Wenfang was furious, but instead laughed. She said, "I'm not going. You can leave now."

Granny Feng shouted, "Are you really not going? If you're not going, we're really leaving!"

Chen Wenfang said coldly, "Goodbye and don't bother seeing me off." After saying that, Uncle Liu Hai and the others took turns entering the room and then closed the door.

The remaining five people, including Granny Feng, stared in disbelief at the door.

Xiao Lu laughed heartily, her body trembling with mirth, as if watching a good show. "Hahahaha, oh dear, you've really messed up now. Let's see how you explain this when you get back. Our Brother Lue didn't tell you to talk like that. He told you to politely invite them back. You've been too fierce. Haha."

Although Granny Feng was somewhat surprised, she didn't panic and told Xiao Hong to go and knock on the door again. Xiao Hong had no choice but to go and knock on the door again, "Bang bang bang." "Madam Chen, please open the door, please!" Xiao Hong shouted.

Aunt Liu angrily opened the door and said, "What else do you want? I already said I'm not going."

Granny Feng gestured for Wu Si to put down the box, and then said loudly, "Madam Chen, this is something you didn't want to do. Originally, one box was a thank-you gift and the other was a betrothal gift. Since you don't want to come with us, we can only give you a thank-you gift now. Just accept it, so I can explain things to you."

Just as Aunt Liu was about to say something like, "Who wants your weird stuff?", Chen Wenfang came out from inside the door, struggling to lift the box, and said expressionlessly, "Fine, I'll take it. You can go now." Dazhuang, who was standing next to her, quickly took it from her.

Granny Feng's face immediately changed, and she said sarcastically, "Tch, they're just from a poor family, all greedy for money. What's with the pretense of being high and mighty? Never mind, let's go. Anyway, the matter is settled, that's all that matters." Chen Wenfang ignored her, went inside, and closed the door.

Granny Peng and her group went back on their own. Chen Wenfang returned to the house, opened the chest, and found it full of silver ingots, each worth fifty taels, a total of twenty ingots, a thousand taels of silver, quite heavy. Chen Wenfang reached out and picked one up, weighing it in her hand; she could get money from it. That's fine, not a loss.

Everyone looked at so much money and felt a little envious. They had never seen so much money before, and couldn't help but touch it.

Aunt Liu noticed that she was not happy, so she comforted her, "Forget it, we can't afford to offend such a wealthy family." Uncle Liu Hai also advised, "Fang'er, don't worry too much, that A-Lue was never a good match for you."

Chen Wenfang forced a smile and said, "I'm fine. I'm just a man. I got a lot of money for nothing. This year will be better. I don't even need to do business. With this money, I can do a lot of things."

Aunt Liu looked at her and said, "How about we stop making sugar? I won't go to Wangjiazhuang to talk about collecting syrup."

Chen Wenfang said, "Yes, I definitely have to do it. This is a serious matter, related to my ability to make money in the future. I can't stop making money because of a man. I'll have to trouble you with this, Auntie."

Aunt Liu nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll go." Uncle Liu Hai also led the children to get up and say goodbye. Chu Yi, being very perceptive, took the two children out to play.

After everyone left, Chen Wenfang looked at the box of silver, feeling somewhat melancholy. Sure enough, no matter how much money you have, you'll still get hurt. Suddenly, Chen Wenfang laughed again. If this were her past life, with this much money, why would she be sad? She was just being dramatic. Forget it, this man isn't right for her.