Chapter 40: Past Life Dream
When Niu Niu said this, she opened her mouth wide and made "Huha Huha" sounds to imitate the sound of a broom waving. She also bared her teeth and claws and deliberately made a ferocious look, as if she was going to bite someone in the next second.
Although she was trying hard to look fierce, Zhang Yuniang and Gu Mingda just thought she looked like a kitten having a temper tantrum, and they laughed even harder.
"Dad, Mom, what are you laughing at? I'm so fierce." Niu Niu said seriously.
Seeing her fierce look, the couple forced themselves to hold back their laughter and put on a serious look to cooperate with her.
"It's so scary. Mom is so scared." Zhang Yunniang said very cooperatively.
Niuniu suddenly stopped her action and said, "You are not afraid at all."
Zhang Yuniang chuckled, pinched her daughter's fair little face, and said, "Do you think little chickens are scary?"
Niu Niu shook her head.
Zhang Yunniang smiled and said, "Now your father and I look at you like a little chicken."
Niuniu clenched her right fist and said seriously: "When I grow up, I will be very powerful!"
Zhang Yunniang said, "It's normal for you to want to learn how to fight after seeing Aunt Liu fighting with others, but you are still too young. What you need to learn is not how to fight, but how to protect yourself."
Niu Niu looked at her as if she understood something.
Zhang Yunniang continued: "There are good people and bad people in this world. When we meet a good person, we can make friends with her, but when we meet a bad person, we must also pay attention to protecting ourselves..."
As Zhang Yunniang was talking, she suddenly felt depressed.
Her second son was abducted by bad guys.
Gu Mingda patted his wife's shoulder and continued to say to Niuniu, "If you meet a bad guy, Niuniu should run away from him. Don't eat anything handed to you by a stranger, and don't run around with strangers. Remember?"
Niu Niu nodded. She didn’t understand many things, but at this moment she keenly sensed that Zhang Yuniang seemed to be unhappy suddenly.
Niuniu threw herself into her mother's arms, pressed her little face tightly against Zhang Yunniang's, and said, "Mom, Niuniu will protect you when she grows up."
Zhang Yunniang didn't want to involve the child in adult affairs, so she forced a smile.
Gu Mingda suddenly came over and pointed at Niuniu: "Niuniu, why are you still biased? You only protect your mother and not me?"
Niuniu immediately said: "I will protect you too!"
The fight between father and daughter barely alleviated Zhang Yunniang's depression.
late at night.
In the small house in the northwest corner, Liu Xiaoru suddenly opened her eyes. She stretched out her hand and wiped the cold sweat from her forehead. Her eyes were wide open, and her face was full of surprise and doubt.
She had a dream.
There is no Niuniu in the dream.
Zhang Yunniang came to the city with three sons instead of two.
Mrs. Wang did not cause any trouble because of the children's fight, and she naturally did not overhear the conversation between her husband and mother-in-law afterwards, and she had no idea about her husband's plan to kill his wife and marry another one.
But when Wang Yaozu took part in the college entrance examination, only the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law were at home. Mrs. Wang touched her again, and Zhang Yunniang happened to see it, so she stood up for her.
In her dream, after she met Zhang Yuniang, she slowly learned to live for herself. She envied Zhang Yuniang very much and wanted to be a woman who lived as freely as Zhang Yuniang.
Wang Yaozu has a weird personality and is not popular among the scholars in this house. But on the contrary, Gu Mingda came late but quickly became a core figure among the scholars.
In the dream, Wang Yaozu was very jealous of Gu Mingda. He was so jealous that he forbad his wife to have any contact with Zhang Yunniang. As a result, Liu Xiaoru could only secretly talk to Zhang Yunniang when her in-laws were not paying attention.
Soon, Gu Mingda got the first place in the college entrance examination. Although Wang Yaozu also passed the exam, he was ranked last.
Wang Yaozu was jealous of Gu Mingda to begin with, and now there was a huge difference in their scores. He was filled with resentment and felt that Gu Mingda had gotten the top spot by cheating. Liu Xiaoru felt uncomfortable hearing this and made a few rebuttals.
Wang Yaozu was so jealous that he hit her and accused her of being a traitor and favoring outsiders. He also slandered her for having an affair with Gu Mingda.
The mother-in-law also helped her husband beat her.
In the dream, after being beaten several times, she couldn't bear it anymore and hit back.
Only after the fight did she realize that her husband was very weak and that both mother and son together were no match for her.
After giving the mother and son a good beating, she lived a comfortable life for a while. From then on, the mother and son never dared to bully her again.
When the family returned to their hometown, one day the mother-in-law suddenly felt like cooking for her. She thought that her mother-in-law had finally become diligent, but she didn't expect that she was trying to drug her.
She is dead.
My brother and sister-in-law from my mother's side came to Wang's house and made a fuss, but after getting two taels of silver, they let the matter go.
However, the news of her death somehow reached Zhang Yuniang's ears, and Zhang Yuniang and her husband rushed to pay their respects.
Zhang Yunniang never believed that she committed suicide, and Gu Mingda found an experienced coroner from somewhere who insisted on opening the coffin for an autopsy.
Naturally, the mother and son of the Wang family refused, and even asked the Wang clan members and Liu Xiaoru's brother and sister-in-law to stop them. If Gu Mingda had not had the title of scholar, he would have been driven out of the village by these people.
Even faced with such great resistance, Zhang Yuniang did not give up. She and Gu Mingda thought for a long time before coming up with a solution.
Gu Mingda used the excuse that his wife dreamt that her younger sisters complained and sought justice in their dreams, and asked to see the county magistrate several times. Finally, he persuaded the government to intervene in the matter and forced the mother and son of the Wang family to accept the exhumation of the coffin.
Before the coffin was opened, the neighbors were talking about it, saying all kinds of things, and some even suspected that there was something going on between Gu Mingda and Liu Xiaoru.
But after the coffin was opened, the coroner's examination results came out, causing an uproar.
In the end, Wang Po took the blame for Wang Yaozu after he cried and admitted to the crime of murdering her daughter-in-law.
Although Wang Yaozu escaped the disaster, the incident caused such a big fuss and had such a bad impact that no good family dared to marry their daughter to him as a second wife, and the local scholars were unwilling to make friends with him.
Wang Yaozu was a man who did not work. Without the support of his wife and mother, his life was confused. He placed all his hopes on the provincial examination.
He felt that as long as he passed the provincial examination, all his difficulties would be solved.
However, he sold his property and land to prepare for the imperial examination, but he never passed. After he ran out of money, he wanted to open a school and recruit disciples.
But no one dared to let their own child, the son of a murderer, be a teacher.
Wang Yaozu lost his livelihood and his life became worse and worse.
Liu Xiaoru's dream lasted until Wang Yaozu froze to death one winter, and then it came to an abrupt end.
Even though she saw her enemy being executed in her dream, Liu Xiaoru was still filled with fear.
Although she had never experienced this kind of dream, she had a vague feeling that everything in the dream was real! It was something that had not happened yet!
She couldn't imagine that if it weren't for Zhang Yunniang and Niu Niu's childish words to wake her up, she wouldn't have accidentally heard the mother and son's conspiracy to kill. Who knows, she might have gone down the same old path!
Niuniu!
Liu Xiaoru kept talking about Niu Niu. If it weren't for Niu Niu, she wouldn't have asked Zhang Yunniang for help, and she wouldn't have divorced so quickly.
She has now successfully divorced and received a large sum of money. She was originally hesitant about whether to return to her parents' home, but now she has only one thought in her mind:
She must follow the Gu family! Follow Niuniu, follow Zhang Yuniang!
After she died in the dream, Zhang Yunniang went to the funeral without any hesitation, and insisted on performing an autopsy under great pressure to redress her injustice. Liu Xiaoru felt that no one in the world was more trustworthy than Sister Zhang! Even if she died for Sister Zhang, she was willing!
As for Niuniu, the person who brought a turning point to her life, Liu Xiaoru also secretly made up her mind to treat Niuniu as her own daughter in the future.
The next morning, Zhang Yunniang had just finished breakfast when she saw Liu Xiaoru coming over with silver in her hands.
After hearing her intention, Zhang Yuniang was confused and said, "This fifty taels of silver is the foundation of your future life. You should keep it for yourself. Why do you want to give it to me?"
(End of this chapter)
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