Why is everyone outside laughing? Why is she the only one crying?

And that stupid idiot...

Now the whole village calls her "Silly Grandma Kang"... Shameful! Disgraceful!

Why did her life turn out like this?

Ms. Wei became increasingly distressed! She couldn't get over that hurdle in her heart and was depressed every day.

Gradually, he grew thinner and thinner, becoming emaciated.

It's painful, it hurts! I'm going crazy! I'm desperate! I'm breaking down! My heart feels like it's being fried in oil all the time.

The following year, news came from the capital that Hu Xiuxiu had given birth to a baby boy there, and Xiuxiu's mother told everyone in the village about it.

Upon hearing this news, Mrs. Wei coughed up blood again.

My body is becoming increasingly weak.

Several years passed like this, until the summer when Kang Kang was nine years old.

Wei Xiaojuan has been smelling a faint odor in her house lately, and today the stench is unusually strong.

Unable to bear it any longer, Wei Xiaojuan kicked open the door to Wei's room with a "bang".

All that could be seen was that Mrs. Wei was already lying on the bed, infested with maggots.

Her face was withered, she was so thin she was just skin and bones, her eyes were wide open, and she left this world in pain, filled with all her resentment.

They were tormented to death by their own greed and desires.

Wei Xiaojuan felt a wave of nausea rise in her heart, gave a cold laugh, but then a string of tears fell, painful and numb.

Upon learning of Wei's passing, Ye Erquan felt a mix of emotions.

Finally, he sighed heavily and gave Wei Xiaojuan fifty taels of silver to handle Wei's funeral arrangements.

The dead should be respected.

On the day of the funeral, Yinhua and her husband returned with their son and daughter.

Ye Erquan also arrived with Kang Kang.

Even Grandma Ye and her husband, along with Uncle Ye, came to see her off on her final journey with mixed feelings.

Only Ye Peng, the son whom Wei loved most, was nowhere to be found.

In the sweltering summer heat, they couldn't wait any longer. So they hastily arranged the funeral and buried the body in a good location on the mountain.

At this point, the person dies and the lamp goes out.

The day after Wei's burial, Wei Xiaojuan came to Wei's room and dug out a large bag of silver from under the floor tiles at the foot of her bed.

It weighed over three hundred taels.

This is the money that Wei kept hidden for ten years, and even when he was eating chaff and sick, he was reluctant to take it out. He was so stingy that he was dying!

In fact, Wei Xiaojuan already knew she was hiding there.

Wei Xiaojuan couldn't help but give a mocking laugh: "Hmph, in the end, didn't I get the benefit?"

After receiving the money, Wei Xiaojuan spent two hundred taels to buy forty mu of land in one go. Adding it to her own ten mu, that made fifty mu.

She doesn't farm the land herself, but rents it out to others, charging 10% of the grain yield per acre as rent.

Each harvest season, she receives the equivalent of grain from five acres of land.

One person couldn't possibly finish it all, so the excess was sold.

They raise two pigs and a brood of chicks and ducklings, leading a comfortable and affluent life.

Spring came and autumn went, and several more years passed.

When Kang Kang was eighteen, Ye Erquan brought him to the brokerage firm.

Looking at the row of maids, Ye Erquan asked, "Which one of them is willing to marry his grandson and become his wife, the young mistress of the Ye family?"

There were actually five or six people willing.

In the end, Ye Erquan chose one who was plain-looking but meticulous and honest.

Two years later, she gave birth to a son.

A few years later, everything was peaceful and healthy.

Ye Erquan was quite lucky. Despite many disappointments in his life, he was able to achieve a relatively satisfactory ending.

......

The second wife's side story is finished. I'll write Hu Xiaosi's side story tomorrow! Those two lazybones should show their faces too; we can't let them remain unsolved mysteries.

The following section will describe the village and some changes in the characters from the perspective of Tie Niu's family.

Finally, I'll use one or two chapters to describe the capital city and how Li Jiaojiao got into trouble.