Transmigrated Leftover Woman in Rural Style

After Prince Jing's whereabouts were exposed, he received invitations from all over the country, requesting him to treat the patients in his family. Prince Jing, annoyed by the constant requests, simply pushed the matter onto Wei Yu, asking him to find a way to deal with those people. Meanwhile, he hid in the inner courtyard of the herbal medicine shop, focusing on treating the two brothers, Li Die and Li Chong.

The house where Li Xiaonuan and her family live now was built fifteen years ago. At that time, it was a large family living there, so it had five rooms. Apart from the main hall in the middle, all the rooms were divided into inner and outer rooms.

Therefore, even with the addition of her second aunt and her three daughters, the house was still spacious enough. Because Li Xiaonuan's room contained drawings, it was always locked. To avoid unnecessary trouble, Li Xiaonuan didn't unlock it to let her cousins ​​stay, but instead prepared another room for them.

Over the past two months, Li Xiaonuan has added a lot of furniture and other items, mostly beds and bedding. The doors and windows have also been repaired, so the shabby conditions she experienced when she first transmigrated are gone. Although it still has mud walls and a thatched roof, it has a strong pastoral feel. This is something Li Xiaonuan longed for in her previous life but could never experience.

Summer farming is quite busy. The rice seedlings that have already been planted need to be weeded and fertilized, and the broad bean and mung bean fields need to be checked to see if the seedlings are emerging evenly. If any are missing, they can be replanted in time. Therefore, Xiao Yang and Su Shi are busy again.

Li Xiaonuan also wanted to help. Li Xiaogang was going to hold an apprenticeship ceremony the day after tomorrow, and he needed to invite some relatives and friends to witness it. However, there were many things to do at home, and they couldn't spare anyone to invite the other uncles.

When her twin cousins ​​found out, they volunteered to help ask for help. Su and her second aunt, Tang, initially thought this was a good idea. However, Li Xiaonuan felt it wasn't safe for her two cousins ​​to go out alone, so she refused. She asked Li Xiaogang to go and ask for help himself.

Firstly, Li Xiaogang's personal invitation would demonstrate his sincerity; secondly, Li Xiaogang had some ideas of his own, and having him go might save a lot of trouble. Leaving aside his somewhat biased grandmother, even his stingy and selfish fifth uncle and his wife might want to cause a scene.

Previously, when Uncle Li fell ill, it was just before Uncle Wu's wedding. At that time, Grandma was still living with Li Xiaonuan's family, and in order to help Uncle Li with his medical treatment, she even diverted part of Uncle Wu's wedding funds. Because of this, Uncle Wu and his wife hadn't visited Li Xiaonuan's family for several years.

Previously, the story of Li Xiaonuan and her siblings making money selling Ganoderma lucidum was spread by someone with ulterior motives. Although it wasn't explicitly stated how much they made, ever since Li's father moved into Cangbaicao, all sorts of news about the Li family's prosperity have been circulating.

At the time, rumors circulated on the street that Li Xiaonuan's family was ungrateful, claiming that their relatives had gone to great lengths to help raise money for Li's father's medical treatment. Now that they were successful, they had forgotten all about their relatives. Some even said that her fifth uncle's wedding expenses were borrowed from her family, and they still hadn't paid it back.

When Li Xiaonuan heard those rumors, she laughed. Back then, of the ten taels of silver that her fifth uncle received for his wedding, seven taels were earned by her father working day and night at the landlord Zhou's house, carrying water to save the fields. That year, there was a drought, and everyone had to carry water from the river to prevent the crops from dying.

That year, Li Xiaonuan's family owned seven mu of land. During the day, Li's father helped out at the landlord's house, and at night he would fetch water for his own family during the first half of the night. He would only sleep for less than two hours during the second half of the night. He did this from May until mid-August.

Uncle Wu's wedding was set for the twelfth day of the eleventh lunar month. On the seventh day of the tenth lunar month, Father Li went up the mountain to set traps to catch rabbits, hoping to add a dish to Uncle Wu's wedding feast. Unfortunately, it started raining that noon. Father Li was soaked in the rain for half a day and fell ill that night. The next day, he couldn't be woken up no matter what he did, and he was also burning up with fever and sweating profusely.

The family called a doctor, who said that Li's father was severely weakened and had caught a cold, requiring about six months of proper medicine and recuperation. At that time, the Li family was managed by the grandmother. Therefore, Li's father's private savings did not exceed one tael of silver.

But a six-month supply of tonics would cost twenty or thirty taels of silver, a huge pittance. For the first half month, Grandma was willing to pay for the medicine. But as the money dwindled and her pockets emptied, she began to refuse.

She and her grandfather had five sons and one daughter, and she favored her youngest son. In order to enable her fifth uncle to get married with dignity, she gave him all the remaining thirteen taels of silver in the family. Of that silver, three taels were earned by her fifth uncle in recent years, three taels were gifts from her other uncles, and the remaining seven taels were her father's silver.

Li's father's medicine cost half a tael of silver every half month. Therefore, after paying five hundred coins for medicine again, Grandma announced that she had no more money. At that time, Li Xiaonuan was still very young, not yet fifteen years old, and she quarreled with her.

Grandma was heartbroken. She said Li Xiaonuan was disobedient and even asked the village head and the village elders to judge the matter. Of course, the village head and the others knew how much money Li's father had earned from the landlord's house, plus the fact that he had earned quite a bit by doing odd jobs for the landlord every year. Therefore, they could only offer the old woman a few words of advice.

But Grandma, relying on her age and seniority, pretended to be sick in bed for several days. Having no other option, Fifth Uncle had to ask his three other uncles and aunt for help. After discussing it, they decided that Li Xiaonuan should kneel down and kowtow to apologize. Fifth Uncle then paid three taels of silver for medicine, and that was the end of it.

Because during previous water-fighting incidents, Father Li often went out at night to help his brothers and sister fetch water. Therefore, the brothers and their aunt jointly contributed seven taels of silver, making a total of ten taels for Father Li.

At the time, Father Li didn't show any dissatisfaction on his face. But privately, he was disappointed and angry. He was just helpless, these were his relatives. So, after his fifth uncle got married, Father Li took out five taels of silver and let him move to the left village that he had chosen himself.

Previously, because Fifth Uncle was unmarried, he naturally lived with his parents. But in fact, the Li family had already separated three years before Grandpa passed away, when Li Xiaonuan was eleven years old.

At that time, the imperial court readjusted the land allocation for those who had fled the disaster. An investigation revealed that the five Li brothers had settled in five different villages near the prefectural city and received land. However, they continued to live in Xinzhou Village.

The officials from the government office came to ask if the Li brothers would be settling in Xinzhou Village from now on. If so, they could take this opportunity to complete the formalities. However, the uncles all felt that the place they had chosen was better, so they insisted on dividing the family property and moving to their new place of residence.

And so, the five brothers lived in different villages. All of this was based on Li Xiaonuan's own memories, combined with snippets of information Su Shi had given her.

Three days after Uncle Wu moved away, Grandma also moved away, saying she needed to go to Uncle Si's house to help take care of the children. At that point, Father Li, who had already reached his limit of tolerance, coughed up blood. For the next two weeks, he refused to take his medicine and even threw it away.

After that, Li's father's health deteriorated. He went from being able to go for walks to needing help even to use the toilet. Meanwhile, his grandmother lived with his fourth uncle from then on. She said that if Li Xiaonuan and her family knew how to be filial to their elders, they could simply bring gifts to visit her at his fourth uncle's house during the Lunar New Year.