The sickly son died young? After the marriage exchange, I will bring prosperity to his entire clan f

Du Mingxian opened her mouth, and she saw pride on the woman's face, so being a shrew was something to be proud of?

Suddenly I don't understand some of it.

Seeing that Du Mingxian remained silent, the woman deliberately added a few more words in order to hitch a ride, "My husband died young too. If I weren't a bit more assertive, I wouldn't be able to live like this. I would definitely be bullied terribly."

Du Mingxian wholeheartedly agreed with this statement. Not to mention ancient times, even in her previous life when everyone was equal, she had encountered situations where women were bullied when there were no men in the family.

After walking about five miles, they came to another fork in the road. The woman directed them to go forward. Du Mingxian felt that the place was becoming more and more remote and the road was getting more and more difficult to walk on. It was only wide enough for a single cart to pass, and even a horse-drawn carriage had some trouble getting through.

"We told you it was on the way, but it feels like the road is getting more and more remote."

The woman smiled sheepishly, “Our village is small and remote, so not many people come out on weekdays. This main road has gradually become a small path.”

Du Mingxian suspected the man's motives. She glanced at the woman again, then turned back to talk to Ling Silang without saying anything more.

Du Mingxian gently tapped Ling Silang's hand with her finger: This person is strange. It's as if he deliberately encountered us, and the road he took became more and more remote.

Ling Silang: We're already here. Let's take a look around. This is also under the jurisdiction of Ping County. Let's be careful.

The two sat quietly, but the driver's face grew darker and darker as they drove on, and he became increasingly hostile towards the woman beside him. "This isn't on your way; you're clearly just trying to get us to give you a ride."

The woman smiled awkwardly, "It's on the way. You can drop me off and then go to Da Liu Village. It's just that my child can't walk, otherwise I definitely wouldn't have bothered you."

The driver still had a stern face, and the atmosphere became increasingly awkward.

To ease the tension, the woman said, "When you get to my house, have some hot water before you go. I won't keep you for dinner so as not to take up too much of your time."

Du Mingxian: "..."

“Sister-in-law, you’ve already wasted our time. Your place is quite far. We’re already here, and if we go out again, we’ll miss lunch. Why don’t you treat us to a meal as payment for the transportation?”

The woman turned around in surprise and all her dissatisfaction was on full display when she looked at Du Mingxian. "You, Madam, don't look like someone who lacks food at home. Why do you have to compete with a poor person like me for a bite to eat?"

“Sister-in-law, that’s not how it works. You flagged down a car right away, and when we said we were going to Da Liu Village, you said it was on your way. Whether it was on your way or not, only you know. We went all that way, so what’s wrong with you treating us to a meal?”

She didn't want to argue, but this woman... was a bit infuriating.

Upon hearing this, the woman grabbed the driver's arm and said, "Alright, alright, stop the car! We agreed to go the same way, and now you're asking me for payment? If I really had that kind of money, I wouldn't need to hitch a ride; I could just rent one myself."

She pulled the coachman, and the carriage stopped immediately.

The woman jumped down, turned around and took down her grandson and the basket on her back that she had placed to the side. "I won't sit down. Since you've been taking up your time, you can leave now."

Du Mingxian had never seen anything like this before. She was indeed the village's notorious shrew; most people wouldn't do something like this.

When the driver saw the woman shouting like that, he immediately got annoyed, jumped off the carriage, leaped over the horse, and landed in front of the woman, blocking her way.

“You woman, we gave you a ride because we thought you had a child, but when we got there you called out like this, which is disrespectful to our master and mistress. Since that’s the case, you should pay for the ride.”

"I won't get out. I don't have any money. I already said that if I had money, I wouldn't need to ride in your carriage. Besides, we agreed that it was on the way. Who charges for a ride on the way?" The woman tried to leave, but the driver blocked her way.

The driver hardened his stance, saying, "If you don't pay today, don't even think about going back."

"You...you're really bullying us!" the woman said, wanting to shout, but then she realized there was nothing around, and this was a road only used by people from her own village. There was no one around at this time, so she figured that even if she shouted herself hoarse, it would be useless.

"We're just asking for your bus fare, which is perfectly reasonable. We're not bullying you at all. No matter how you look at it, we're in the right."

Seeing the driver's tough attitude, the woman felt a little scared. "If you don't let me go, I'll shout 'molestation' and 'robbery'."

"Then shout it out, and let's see who's in the right."

The woman was speechless and immediately deflated, stammering, "You...you..."

"Let's go to your house for dinner, the cost of the meal will cover the fare for the ride."

The driver's attitude left the woman speechless. Her face was long and her whole body was filled with resistance. She didn't utter a word of request, and simply put her grandson back in the car and sat back down.

Seeing that the driver hadn't gotten on yet, the woman glared at him and said in a very unpleasant tone, "Come on, didn't we say we were going to eat? Why are you rich people so stingy?"

The coachman got into the carriage, but still retorted, "Even if we're rich, that's no reason for you to hitch a ride and act so arrogantly."

“This isn’t a free ride, I’m hiring you. I’m even going to treat you to a meal.” The woman felt increasingly cheated after saying this, so she stood up from the carriage shaft, picked up her grandson, and walked into the carriage.

The driver was truly astonished by her actions. "What are you doing?"

“What can I do? I’ve already been paid, I’m the employer, so I should sit in the carriage. What else can I do? Just keep driving.”

"You can't go in."

"Then let me down, and now you can leave."

The driver felt that the woman in front of him was really too difficult to deal with, and Du Mingxian felt that this woman was really... very interesting. "Alright, let's get going."

Ling Silang sat at the head of the table, with Du Mingxian to his left. The woman could only sit on the right when she came in, and she was holding her little grandson's hand, touching and looking at things here and there, and even lifting the curtain to look.

Du Mingxian watched the woman's actions without saying a word to stop her, letting her do as she pleased.

The woman's novelty wore off for a long time before they arrived at the village she had described. It was indeed remote and small, a village that even thieves probably wouldn't want to come to.

There were only about twenty households in total, and when the horse-drawn carriage entered the village, it caused quite a stir.

Many villagers gathered around. The woman who had been sitting in the cart with great interest was now sitting on the cart shaft and greeting the villagers.

"Yes, yes, my relatives in the county came to visit me."

"Never heard of it? It's a relative of ours. Why should you have heard of it? I think you're just jealous that I have such a good relative."

“They used to live in other places, and they only recently came to the county. They’re going to stay here in the county from now on, so of course they’ll be doing business.”