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Upon receiving a response from her daughter, Chen Donghua quickly came over and helped her sit up.

She said softly, "Please sit down for a moment. I'll go get the medicine. Your forehead is injured, so please don't move around too much."

Hearing her mother's gentle voice, Ruan Mumu obediently replied, "Okay."

Soon, Chen Donghua brought over a bowl of dark, murky herbal soup, still steaming slightly.

Afraid of burning her daughter, she blew on it and it didn't feel so hot anymore.

He held it to his daughter's lips and said, "Mumu, come on, drink it while it's hot, your injury will heal quickly."

Ruan Mumu was not used to this action. She reached out and took the bowl. Looking at the bowl of dark stuff and smelling the bitterness, she frowned.

Chen Donghua quickly and gently comforted her, "Don't be afraid, just drink it all at once. After you finish the medicine, we'll eat."

Ruan Mumu knew she had to drink it; in this era, medicine was not cheap.

She closed her eyes and drank all the medicine in the bowl in one go.

In an instant, my mouth was filled with a strong bitter taste, which almost killed me.

Chen Donghua watched her daughter drink the medicine and called out, "Xiaohai, quickly bring the porridge over."

Soon Ruan Xiaohai brought over a bowl of porridge. "Little sister, drink your porridge quickly. Your second brother has already cooled it down for you."

Ruan Mumu took the bowl and quickly drank a large mouthful. The bitterness in her mouth was finally reduced a little. She took another sip and felt that the bitterness was diluted a bit more.

After repeating this several times, the bowl of plain porridge was empty.

She handed the bowl to Ruan Xiaohai and said softly, "Thank you, Second Brother."

Faced with his sister's sudden gratitude, Ruan Xiaohai said somewhat shyly, "Why are you thanking your second brother?"

Chen Donghua added, "He's your second brother, so it's only right that he's good to you."

After drinking the medicine and porridge, Ruan Mumu felt her strength return somewhat.

So she decided to ask what had happened and how they ended up living there.

"Mother, second brother, what exactly happened today? After Grandma hit me, all I know is that it hurt a lot, and then I don't know anything else."

Were we kicked out by Grandma?

"Where are we staying?" Ruan Mumu asked a lot of questions in one breath.

“Sister, we weren’t kicked out by Grandma, we separated from Grandma and the others.”

From now on, our family will have no connection with them.

"We're temporarily staying at the Ruan family's ancestral hall. Our patriarch said we can stay for a year," Ruan Xiaohai said excitedly.

When Ruan Mumu heard that the family had separated and that she had severed ties with that wicked old woman, she felt as if she had breathed in fresh air and finally left that suffocating family.

"Mother, no one will force me to get married anymore, right?" Ruan Mumu asked happily.

“Yes, no one will force you to get married anymore.” Chen Donghua said to her daughter with a smile, “From now on, we can make our own decisions.”

“Little sister, you don’t know what happened today…” Ruan Xiaohai excitedly told Ruan Mumu everything that had happened that day.

Ruan Mumu was stunned. She knew that the old woman had always been unreasonable, but she never expected her to be this extreme.

"Second brother, we won't have to suffer that old hag's torment anymore. The injuries I sustained today were worth it," Ruan Mumu said excitedly with a smile.

Chen Donghua covered Ruan Mumu's mouth with her hand, "Are you trying to die? Even if you've separated from your family and cut off all contact, she's still your grandmother."

How could you call her an old hag like that? What if that old hag heard you…?

“Mother, you yourself said she’s an old witch,” Ruan Xiaohai said with a smile.

"Hahaha..." The group burst out laughing at the same time.

Hearing the laughter from inside, Ruan Xiaojun, who was outside, came in and asked curiously, "What are you talking about that makes you so happy?"

Ruan Xiaohai repeated the nickname "old witch" again, and the whole family burst into laughter.

After they finished laughing, they fell silent for a while.

“Mom, don’t worry. My second brother and I can support you and my sister. Our family has divided up the land, and we will definitely live better than before,” Ruan Xiaojun comforted her.

Chen Donghua sighed and said, "Mother is not worried about that. With you and Xiaohai here, farming will not be a problem."

"What I'm worried about is the future. You'll be seventeen next year, it's time for you to get married and have children, but since we separated from the family, we don't even have a place to live. What girl would want to marry into our family?"

"Mom, don't worry. I won't get married if I can't find a wife. As long as our family is safe and sound, I'll be content," Ruan Xiaojun said reassuringly.

“Mother, I won’t marry either,” Ruan Xiaohai chimed in.

Seeing that her two older brothers were both saying they wouldn't get married, Ruan Mumu said, "Big brother, if you're not going to get married, what about Sister Jinhua? She said she wouldn't marry anyone but you..."

Upon hearing his sister's words, Ruan Xiaojun rushed over and covered Ruan Mumu's mouth.

"Little sister, where did you hear that? Don't talk nonsense, lest you ruin the girl's reputation."

Ruan Mumu pulled Ruan Xiaojun's hand away and said, "I'm not making this up. That day, when I went to the mountain with Sister Jinhua to pick wild vegetables, she told me it herself."

She said her grandmother wanted to marry her off to the wealthy Lu family in town as their sixteenth concubine.

You offered her five taels of silver as a betrothal gift to her cousin, but she said she would rather die than marry him; she would marry no one but you in this life.

"What... Jin Hua's grandmother wants her to marry that old man who is almost sixty years old?"

"What did her father and mother say?" Chen Donghua and her two sons were all astonished and asked in surprise.

"Jin Hua's parents definitely wouldn't agree! But her grandmother is just as bad as our old hag."

That's what Sister Jinhua told me that day." Ruan Mumu recalled carefully, and realized that she had indeed heard about this a few days ago.

“Mother, Jinhua absolutely cannot marry that rich man Lu. He’s old enough to be her great-grandfather,” Ruan Xiaojun said anxiously.

“Son, don’t worry. If you really like that Jin Hua, I’ll ask someone to go and ask if the bride price can be reduced a bit.”

Chen Donghua comforted her, "But look at our family's current situation..."

“Mother, didn’t Grandma give you five taels of silver today when we separated the family? Use that as a betrothal gift for my eldest brother,” Ruan Xiaohai said hurriedly.

"No!" Ruan Xiaojun said loudly, "This money is the lifeline for our family to survive, and we can't touch it."

"Mother, how about we sell the land?" Ruan Xiaohai suggested again.

“No, this field is our family’s only way to survive,” Chen Donghua said.

"Stop arguing! Let me ask someone about the bride price first."

"I'll feel better in a couple of days. I'll go up the mountain and see if there's anything I can sell for money," Ruan Mumu said in a low voice.

"After being hit by Grandma today, I felt like I went to some kind of place."

A very menacing-looking man said to me, "Who sent you here?"

I said, "Because I starved to death due to poverty," and the man said, "Poverty my foot! Your mountains are full of good things, how could you starve to death? Go back and come back with another reason." Then I woke up.

Ruan Mumu made up a reason, after all, having had her core replaced, she would eventually show something different.

She refused to believe that someone who had undergone wilderness survival training could actually starve to death in ancient times.

"Sister, did you see the King of Hell?" Ruan Xiaohai asked in surprise.

"Could it really be the King of Hell?" Chen Donghua wondered. "Mumu did seem to be lifeless for a while today. Xiaohai, right?"

“Mother, yes, didn’t several people say that my sister had stopped breathing?” Ruan Xiaohai also said.

Ruan Mumu looked at them with amusement, easily getting away with any excuse.

Fortunately, this is ancient times, and people there tend to believe in these supernatural beliefs.

"Mother, eldest brother, second brother, don't worry, I'm someone even the King of Hell wouldn't take, and I also know the secret that there are good things in the mountains."

"I will definitely make sure you live a good life in the future," Ruan Mumu comforted her family.

She, Ruan Mumu, is about to start a new life in ancient times.