Zhang Hulan and the others walked a distance away, and then Zhang Hulan said, "Sister-in-law, is it worth it for you to be sad because of them?"
In fact, Li was not that sad.
I was still somewhat excited to see my parents whom I hadn't seen for many years.
However, Li also saw the behavior of her parents and elder brother.
Although her parents looked reluctant when they left, she knew in her heart that they didn't care about her that much.
Li said, "Don't worry, sister. I'm not too sad. After so many years, I can see clearly."
Daohe suddenly asked Li: "Aunt, is that your sister-in-law from your mother's family?"
Zhang Xinyue, Daohe Daoxu and others all came as well. The three of them are now an inseparable trio.
Li nodded, "Yes."
Daohe said, "Their family is probably going to be in trouble."
Zhang Hulan asked in surprise: "How did you know?"
Daohe said, "Aunt, have you forgotten what we do? Of course I saw it from her face."
Zhang Xinyue asked, "Why didn't I see that?"
"How long have you been learning? Besides, you haven't been studying seriously."
Zhang Xinyue was unhappy, "Why didn't I study hard?"
Zhang Xinyue turned around and asked Daoxu, "Daoxu, is what he said true?"
Daoxu said, "It's going to be bad luck, but it's not a big problem. It's just going to be a loss of money, and I'm going to have a hard life in the future."
Li was a little worried about her parents and wondered whether she should go and remind them. But when she heard that it was just a loss of money, she was too lazy to care.
After strolling for a while, the group returned to the inn to rest, and they started shopping the next day.
This time, Li brought all the one hundred taels of silver given by Zhang Hulan, intending to use it all to buy a dowry for Zhang Dahua.
Wang brought twenty taels of silver.
Zhang Hulan gave her about one hundred taels of silver, plus some pocket money she would give her from time to time, so Wang had more than one hundred taels of silver in her hands.
However, there were many children in the family, and she gave each child a share, so each child only got about ten or twenty taels.
Xiang Chunhua brought fifty taels of silver to buy Zhang Dahua's dowry, and this time Xiang Chunhua spent a lot of money.
They bought jewelry, cloth, porcelain and so on for Zhang Dahua.
Zhang Hulan bought two maids for Zhang Dahua as a dowry. Zhang Dahua couldn't go alone when she married into the Wang family. She took two maids with her so that she could send them there if she needed anything.
There is a difference between sending servants that you bring with you and sending servants from your husband's family.
Zhang Hulan gave the indenture contract directly to Zhang Dahua, and asked Zhang Dahua and Li to see how the two maids worked during this period of time. If any of them were not smart, they should be replaced as soon as possible.
Zhang Hulan did not buy anything else, as she would give other things to Zhang Dahua as a dowry.
However, Zhang Hulan bought some things for Wang and Old Man Zhang, including clothes and daily necessities.
After buying everything, Zhang Hulan and her friends played in the city for half a day and stayed overnight before going home.
It was already noon when they finished shopping. They probably wouldn't be able to get home in the afternoon, and it was not safe to walk at night, so they simply stayed one more night.
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Ye Hongling and Wang Xingyao played in Changning County for two days, and then went to Hekou County to stay with Wang Yaqin for a few days.
On her way back to Beijing, Ye Hongling came to Daping Village to see Zhang Dahua before leaving.
Before leaving, Ye Hongling told Zhang Hulan that she would come back as soon as she found a house.
Life returned to normal.
But less than a month later, Li's eldest brother and his family came to visit.
Li looked at the family, Li Chengjiang, Song, and Li Dawang and Li Erwang, who were bruised and swollen, and asked in surprise: "Brother, what happened to you?"
However, Li's parents and the wives of Li Dawang and Li Erwang were not injured.
Just a few days after Zhang Hulan and her friends returned from the provincial capital, a fire broke out in the Li family's restaurant.
The restaurant was burned down, and some of the shops next door were also burned down.
All the money that the Li family had saved over the years was lost.
The Song family didn't want to pay money to compensate for the losses of the neighboring shop, so the owners of the shops next door hired people to beat them up, and they also reported the Song family to the government.
The government ordered the Song family to compensate for the losses of the shop next door, otherwise they would be arrested and put in jail.
The Song family was scared and had to pay the money.
But even if they took out all the money in the family to pay the compensation, it was not enough, so they even sold the few small houses they had bought in a remote area of the city.
Finally, seeing that they really couldn't come up with any money, the two shop owners gave up.
The Li family had lost their money, their restaurant in the city, and their house, so they had no choice but to return to their hometown.
But the house in their hometown was also sold to the villagers, so they came to find Li.
The Li family stood at the door of Zhang Hujun's house, looking at the big house in front of them with some disbelief, some so shocked that they were speechless.
Mrs. Li asked in disbelief, "Yingzi, is this really your home?"
Zhang Hujun's house was built on the original foundation, but it was much wider.
The Li family had been here before and vaguely remembered the location of the Zhang family’s old house.
When they first walked to the front of the house, they thought they had gone to the wrong place, and then asked the villagers to confirm that this was Li's home.
Li nodded, "It's my home. Mother, why are you here?"
"We..." Li's mother didn't know how to answer.
Not long ago, Song and Li's mother asked Li the same question, and now Li asked the same question.
Both Song and Li Chengjiang felt a little regretful. If they had invited the Zhang family into the restaurant last time, they wouldn't have found it so difficult to speak now.
Li Chengjiang said: "Yingzi, we have lost our restaurant and our home. My parents have nowhere to go, so we..."
"Oh, who did I think it was? It turned out to be the eldest brother and sister-in-law of the Li family..."
Xiang Chunhua's voice came from behind the Li family.
Zhang Hulan also came, and the whole family came to inquire where Li lived. Immediately, a villager went to inform Zhang Hulan.
Seeing that the Zhang family had arrived, the Li family felt a little embarrassed.
Zhang Hujun said nothing and let Li handle the matter herself.
He would have no objection if Li allowed the Li family to stay.
Seeing the embarrassed look of the Li family, Xiang Chunhua spoke again, "Oh..., Li's eldest brother and sister-in-law, what happened to you? Did you get robbed?"
Xiang Chunhua couldn't help but sigh that Daohe was so right.
It's been said that the Li family is going to have bad luck, and it's been less than a month. How could it come true so soon?
Li was a little hesitant, mainly because she saw that her parents were old and now they didn't even have a place to shelter from the wind and rain, so she still felt a little soft-hearted.
Li's personality was gentle to begin with, and she usually didn't talk much at home, so how could she be so cruel?
Xiang Chunhua is better than Li in some ways. Although she was blinded by lard before, when she came to her senses, she spoke and acted decisively.
Zhang Hulan saw Li's hesitation, so she said, "Sister-in-law, come here..."
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