Recalling this point, Xiao Yunying stared at the roof beam and muttered to herself:
"This girl is so naive. She doesn't know what's so great about this man. He's bewitched her with just a few words."
Xiao Yunying was still trying to piece together the original owner's relationship with the villagers by searching through her memories when, probably because she had taken the medicine, she yawned and fell asleep immediately.
That night, Xiao Yunying had a dream in which she saw the scene of the original owner's wedding night from the perspective of a third party.
“My mother has been ill for a long time and her health is about to collapse. The doctors in the city are not good at treating patients. I heard a couple of days ago that the Zhang family, a family of doctors, is going back to their hometown to pay respects to their ancestors. They will pass through Donglin City and arrive tomorrow. I want to take my mother to seek medical treatment. We can’t keep them waiting when we need their help, so I think I’ll go to the city tonight to keep watch so that we don’t miss it.”
With just a few simple words, he successfully persuaded the original owner.
Xiao Yunying stroked her chin beside her and said, "What a coincidence! On your wedding night, she happens to be passing by. Since you've already said so much, do you think she'll stop you from going? If she doesn't let you go, will you just stay? If things get out of hand, people won't say anything about you, they'll just say she's disrespectful to her mother-in-law and unfilial!"
On their wedding night, when her husband wanted to take his mother to the city for medical treatment, the spoiled original owner not only didn't stop him, but also stuffed all twenty taels of silver from her dowry into Luo Sheng's hands, fearing that they wouldn't have enough money.
Luo Sheng clutched the money pouch in his hand, his expression inscrutable.
The original owner thought that Luo Sheng was worried about the family, so she comforted him instead: "Go with peace of mind. Taking care of Mother's illness is the most important thing. I'll take care of things at home, so don't worry."
Xiao Yunying said to the original owner, "Don't worry. You should tell him that if he doesn't come back, I'll sell the child! Make him worry about it and come back soon."
Luo Sheng finally accepted the money pouch: "It will take at least one or two days, and at most seven or eight days. Please take good care of the children for a few days. You can stay at home and wait for me to come back."
Xiao Yunying pouted: "Liar, it's been almost two years and you still haven't come back."
"good."
After seeing Luo Sheng and his mother-in-law off, the original owner changed out of her wedding dress and prepared to wash up.
She didn't know how to start a fire, and was too embarrassed to ask the children to come, so she just washed herself with cold water and went back inside.
Lying in bed, I kept thinking about those words, "You can stay home and wait for me to come back."
She blushed with embarrassment and covered her face with the blanket for a long time before finally falling asleep.
Seeing the original owner like this, Xiao Yunying sighed again.
The original owner never imagined that this would be the last time they met and the last time they spoke.
Then I dreamed about a few more fragments.
I dreamt that the original owner was learning to cook, do laundry, and take care of children. Her hands, which she had taken care of since childhood, became rougher day by day, but she never complained.
In the dream, the original owner overheard gossip in the village, saying that people disliked her as their daughter-in-law and abandoned her overnight.
Some even say he's a jinx to his husband, and that something might have happened to him, causing the mother and child to die outside.
During the day, she tried to comfort her anxious parents, saying that her mother-in-law had been taken away by the Zhang family to see a doctor. Her mother-in-law was seriously ill and needed to be recuperated for a long time. It was inconvenient for her to stay at someone else's house, and they didn't have time to send a message. She also said that even if they didn't want her, they couldn't abandon their children.
At night, my heart races with anxiety, and despite all my grievances, I can only bite the corner of my blanket and cry silently.
In her dream, the food at home was all gone, and the remaining five hundred coins were almost spent. With no other option, the original owner went back to her parents' home to borrow money, but her second sister-in-law overheard her and made a few sarcastic remarks.
The original owner of this body had an extremely strong personality. As if in a fit of pique, in order to prove to everyone that she did not regret marrying Luo Sheng, she never accepted a single penny or grain of rice from her parents again from that day on.
She took on embroidery work at a clothing shop in the city, which was enough to support herself and her children.
The gossip in the village, the responsibility of raising four children, and her parents' care formed an impenetrable net that suffocated her.
In mid-December last year, she went to the city to deliver her embroidery. When she returned, she found that Luo Li had left her daughter Luo Xin, who was less than two years old, sleeping alone in bed while she went out to play in the snow. As a result, Luo Xin fell off the bed and broke her head.
He carried Luo Xin to his third grandfather's house as fast as he could. Only after learning that she was not in any danger did he collapse to the ground in a cold sweat.
After the initial fear came overwhelming rage, and that night, she hit her child for the first time.
In early February this year, Luo Yang went into the deep mountains alone, fell into a ravine, injured his leg and couldn't climb out. The original owner and the villagers searched for him for most of the night, and finally found him in the early morning when only his own family was left.
After being exposed to the cold wind all night, Luo Yang caught a cold and developed a high fever. It took him a long time to recover.
After Luo Yang recovered from his illness, the original owner of the body collapsed.
The family's hard-earned savings were completely spent on the child's medical treatment, and they even owed the owner of the clothing shop three taels of silver.
The long-accumulated pressure was triggered by these two events, which completely overwhelmed the original owner, and she had to stay in bed for a month to recover.
The original owner's personality changed drastically after recovering from the illness.
She used to be spoiled, willful, and unreasonable. After marrying into the family, she tried to change her ways and was more tolerant of the children. Now, however, she is unpredictable, has a bad temper, and takes her anger out on the children by hitting and scolding them at the slightest dissatisfaction.
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