He Lizheng pointed at the old lady Wu who was sitting on the ground and crying, and said to the women who were watching the fun, "Drag her up and take her to the Wu family. She is such a disgrace."
Wang Cheng, Li Ma, and two guards followed He Lizheng to Wu's house, followed by a group of villagers who were watching the fun. Wang Xiaodi was worried about his father, so he ran to follow.
It finally quieted down outside.
Chen Afu looked at the scene outside the window. The old Wu family was a blood-sucking worm, wanting Wu to support them for life. Even if the nine taels of silver were paid off, they would still ask them to continue paying money under other pretexts. This old lady Wu was even worse than Ding. Ding abused her stepson, but she abused her own daughter.
Seeing Wu crying so hard, Chen Afu advised, "Aunt, please stop crying. Doctor Huang just said that you can't waste your eyes anymore and you can't cry."
Mrs. Wu cried, "Don't be afraid of Ah Fu laughing at me. When I was a girl, my parents didn't want me to get married and asked me to comb my hair by myself. They said that since I learned embroidery from my grandmother, I would be a member of the Wu family in life and a ghost of the Wu family in death. When I was eighteen years old, I met my head of the family and I begged him to marry me without any shame. I wanted to leave my mother's family, but my parents didn't agree. I had to hang myself to scare them away, and then I promised to give them 100 taels of silver before they agreed to let me get married..."
Wu's grandmother was a maid in a wealthy family and had a good embroidery skill. Somehow she offended the grandmother who was in charge of the family and was sold to Wu's grandfather after her wrist was broken.
Wu's grandfather was a hunchback, and people called him Wu Hunchback. He was over 30 years old and still hadn't married. He was so happy to have such a fairy-like wife that he loved her very much except for the first night when he raped her. He also watched over her all the time to prevent her from committing suicide. After more than a month, his wife became pregnant. Because of the child, Wu's grandmother felt that she had hope again, so she gave up the idea of suicide and lived with Wu Hunchback.
Their son was Wu's father, who was spoiled and lazy. When Wu's father grew up, he married a wife, who was also lazy. The two relied on their father to farm and their mother to do embroidery to support them.
Wu's grandmother had injured her right wrist. Although it healed later, it was still not flexible. She could only sell her embroidery work to small embroidery shops to earn a little money. When Wu was five years old, her grandmother taught her step by step. Wu was smart and not only learned her grandmother's skills, but also carried them forward.
When Wu was twelve years old, her grandparents passed away one after another. Her parents gave birth to three younger brothers, and the burden of the family's life fell on her.
When Wu was fourteen, she sold her embroidery work to Shui Linglong, and her family became wealthy, so they built a house and bought land. Wu's reputation spread far and wide, and young men from all over the country came to her to ask for marriage.
Wu's parents didn't want their daughter to get married. If their daughter left, who would support them? As their daughter got older, they thought of letting Wu comb her hair by herself. Wu knew how selfish and cruel her parents were, so she refused to comb her hair by herself and secretly looked for a young man who suited her taste.
On her way home from visiting her grandparents' graves, she was molested by a homeless man and was saved by Wang Cheng who passed by. Although Wang Cheng was disabled, he had a knife in his hand and still scared the homeless man away.
Seeing that Wang Cheng was upright, kind, and a military officer, Wu did not care that he was disabled and old, and took the initiative to confess her love...
Chen Afu sighed after hearing this. In that evil feudal society, there were so many miserable women.
However, Wu was not only skillful, but also thoughtful. She did not succumb to her parents' tyranny and eventually married herself off. She was much smarter than her honest uncle. With this wise helper and her own help, her uncle's family should be able to make a living.
I can help for a while, but I can't help for a lifetime.
Originally, Chen Ahfu wanted to ask his uncle's family to prepare and set off with them to Tong County the day after tomorrow. Now it seems that he will have to take them back to the capital in the afternoon. There are some empty courtyards in the Marquis's Mansion, so they can stay there for two days.
So he told Mrs. Wu about his idea.
Wu heaved a sigh of relief and said happily, "Great, great, the head of the family can finally be reunited with my sister, and I can finally get rid of them completely..." Then she said worriedly, "My father is more difficult to deal with than my mother. Can that account be settled?"
Chen Ahfu smiled and said, "Don't worry, Auntie, we will be able to settle it."
You must be kidding. The people in the Marquis' Mansion can't even handle a rogue. They might as well kill him with a piece of tofu. Besides, the Wu family was unreasonable.
Doctor Huang came over from another room and said that the prescription had been written. He also told Mrs. Wu what kind of tonic medicine she should take and some precautions.
Chen Ahfu thanked him, asked someone to pay the consultation fee, and gave him two more taels of silver. He asked Yuzhu to go to Huichuntang with her old husband to get medicine, and then go to the dental clinic to buy a maid. My uncle's family is disabled and weak, so they need a servant to serve them.
The aroma of meat from the pot wafted out, making Wang Xiaomei drool with greed.
Chen Afu seemed to see the Dabao who was licking his lips with greed two years ago. She stood up and took Wang Xiaomei to the kitchen to take a look. The dried tofu, pork liver and pork head in the stew pot had been braised. She asked the maid to take them out and cut them into a small bowl.
She handed the small bowl to Wang Xiaomei and said with a smile, "Eat it."
Wang Xiaomei smiled with her eyebrows curved and said loudly, "Thank you, cousin." Then she held the small bowl and went into the east room and said to Wu, "Mother, eat some meat, so much."
Wu smiled and said, "Mother won't eat it, but my younger sister will."
After Wang Xiaomei fed Wu two mouthfuls of meat, she took the small bowl and started eating.
About half an hour later, Wang Cheng and Nanny Li came back with happy faces.
Wu asked nervously, "Did they break it apart?"
Wang Cheng nodded and said with a smile, "Mom, we are finally even with your family. We don't owe them a penny anymore. You don't have to do embroidery work anymore."
After hearing this, Mrs. Wu burst into tears of joy again.
Nanny Li whispered what happened. As expected, Old Man Wu was more difficult to deal with than Old Lady Wu. Even though He Lizheng was holding him, he still cried and made a fuss, saying that his daughter had learned the family's ancestral craft and couldn't only care about her husband's family and not her own family...
It was the two guards who threatened and scolded him, dragging him to see the county magistrate, saying that he had violated the laws of the Dashun Dynasty and that he would not only be beaten with a stick, but also be put in jail. Only then did the old man get scared and took out the loan note...
Chen Afu told Wang Cheng what he meant again.
Wang Cheng nodded in agreement. He also realized that once Chen Afu and the others left, the Wu family would definitely come to cause trouble again. He was not afraid, but he was afraid that Wu's body could not bear it.
Several people discussed that since this was their family's last meal here, they would invite the village head and everyone who had helped his family to come and have a drink. Chen Ahfu asked someone to bring two days' worth of food for Wang Cheng's family, enough to invite several tables.
If we keep this small courtyard, it will be occupied by the shameless Wu family. So we asked the village head to help sell it, and let the guards come to collect the money after a while.
After the discussion, Wang Cheng and Wang Xiaodi went to invite people separately, and the maids became busy again.
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