That's not all. Since Xiaomai married into our family, she has been unable to conceive due to poor health.
Over the years, I have spent more than 20 taels of silver on medicine and recuperation, all of which can be verified at Qinghe Pharmacy in town.
This money must be returned.
Over the past three years, I've worn brand new clothes for two seasons each year, inside and out.
Over three years, the cost of clothes and fabric alone amounted to a little over three taels but less than four taels of silver.
Every year during Chinese New Year, I give each of my wives 200 coins and three catties of pork to take back to their parents' home.
Pork costs 18 coins per catty, and the total cost of the annual gifts over three years is 762 coins.
The minimum gift for the Mid-Autumn Festival is 100 coins, and it can be 300 coins over three years.
I won't calculate the cost of your wheat's food and drink over the past three years; consider that as a deduction for sleeping with my grandson.
Oh, I forgot to mention, the fabric I prepared for Xiaomai's two outfits cost 560 coins, and I bought the best quality fabric back then.
In short, if you want to take the wheat away, you'll have to return at least 31 taels of silver and 622 wen to my family first.
I won't argue with you. Forget about the 22 coins. Just return the 31 taels and 600 coins to my family first. We'll talk about other things after you pay back the money.
Liu Zhangshi, furious, pointed at the chili flowers, "You, you, you..."
You talked for a long time but couldn't get a coherent sentence out.
Liu Zhang was a woman who could curse anyone in their village without ever being able to defeat them.
Today, I was so angry with an old woman that I was speechless.
"You're ruthless. Humph, Xiaomai hasn't even had a baby yet, right? I'll curse your grandson to be born without an anus."
After saying that, he tossed his head.
"Go away, what are you doing sitting here? Hurry up and leave, don't you think it's bad luck?" At this moment, Liu Zhangshi also hated Liu Xiaomai.
Even after walking into the courtyard, he didn't forget to provoke Liu Xiaomai.
"Liu Xiaomai, you ungrateful bastard."
I should have kept you in the chamber pot from the start. What good are you, letting your in-laws treat you like this?
You don't even dare to fart, let alone have a child; you'd be better off giving birth to a pile of shit.
He strode out of his third uncle's courtyard with his family.
The onlookers were stunned. How much must he hate his daughter to curse her like that? How could his daughter ever stand in her husband's family again?
Liu Xiaomai knew that her mother's arrival was bound to be bad news.
In the three years since she married into the Zhao family, every time she went back to her parents' home, her mother would pull off even a silk flower from her hair.
Besides the gifts from the in-laws, if you don't bring back some extra money of your own, you'll get a scolding.
To save face, to prevent her mother from causing trouble at her in-laws' house, and to avoid being laughed at by them...
She worked tirelessly on embroidery, and gave almost all of her savings to her mother.
Every time, she doesn't even get a good review; she only complains that she doesn't give enough.
Although she knew it was wrong
Because her in-laws treat her well, she doesn't want them to know about her awkward situation at her parents' home; she would feel ashamed.
After her mother pulled this stunt today, she returned to her room feeling extremely uneasy. Then, her mother actually stood in the yard and cursed her.
She couldn't hold back any longer and burst into tears.
Because of excessive emotional stimulation, my stomach started to hurt, and I slid off the bed.
My stomach hurt so badly I didn't even have the strength to speak loudly.
With a great effort, he pushed over a stool by the bedside.
The woman next door heard the noise, called out but received no response, so she quickly ran over to check.
Liu Xiaomai was lying on the ground, her pants stained red with blood.
"Ah, Grandma, Mother! Someone come quick! My sister-in-law is bleeding!" cried Bai Qiushuang, the eldest sister-in-law.
Everyone at my third uncle's house who was home came out after hearing this.
La Zihua closed her eyes to calm herself down.
"Qiutong, go quickly and invite Old Man Wang, tell him to bring the medicine over."
Summer Solstice, go and call your brother back. Eldest daughter-in-law, Qiushuang, let's carry the wheat to the bed together.
Second son's wife, go boil some water.
After giving a series of instructions, La Zihua felt a bit overwhelmed.
They went into Xiaomai's room.
"Wheat, relax, relax, take a deep breath, you'll be fine when the doctor comes."
Don't worry about anything, I'll take care of everything for you.
From now on, you are no longer a daughter of the Liu family; you are a daughter-in-law of the Zhao family. You only have this one identity, remember that?
Liu Xiaomai gradually calmed down under the comforting words of La Zihua.
Old Wang also arrived. Country folk don't stand on ceremony, so he directly placed his hand on Liu Xiaomai's pulse.
After taking his pulse, he stroked his beard.
"You've had some miscarriage trouble, but the baby is still there. I brought some medicine to help maintain the pregnancy; take it first. Then I'll prescribe another medicine for you."
"Drink this for three days. During these days, except for urinating or defecating, don't get out of bed and stay in bed."
As he spoke, he took out a pregnancy-preserving pill from his medicine box. He had made it himself when he had nothing else to do.
Even after the child took the pregnancy-preserving pills, Old Man Wang was still not satisfied and gave the child a few more acupuncture needles.
A period of turmoil and chaos ensued.
When Liu Xiaomai's husband, Zhao Chunfeng, returned home, Liu Xiaomai's bleeding had stopped and her emotions had stabilized.
Zhao Chunfeng had already learned the whole story from her younger brother's account.
When he got back, he didn't say anything, but held his wife's hand tightly, as if to give her strength.
Spicy Flower was not feeling well; she hadn't expected that Liu Xiaomai would have a miscarriage because of this.
I didn't eat dinner, nor did I turn on the lights. I just sat on the bed in a daze.
Seeing that his wife hadn't come to eat, Zhao Qian knew she was in a bad mood. He took two bowls of food back to his room.
"Old woman, are you reflecting? Eat your food. You'll have the energy to reflect after you've eaten, won't you?"
There were dishes with chicken broth tonight, and they tasted pretty good.
"It smells delicious! You're not a little girl anymore, why are you ignoring your own stomach? Aren't you silly?"
When the old man interrupted her, La Zihua forgot her sorrow and rolled her eyes, saying, "You're the stupid one, your whole family is stupid."
Zhao Qianhe chuckled, "Yes, I'm stupid, my whole family is stupid."
Smelling the food, La Zi Hua felt a little hungry and picked up her bowl of rice to eat.
They ate and talked at the same time.
“Old man, do you think I did something wrong today? If I had lent the Liu family grain, the wheat wouldn’t have been affected.”
Zhao Qianhe shook his head. "There's no right or wrong here. The Liu family has never been a family that can see things clearly."
Over the years, every time Chunfeng delivers gifts during holidays, has it ever invited Chunfeng to stay for a meal?
If they don't even care about saving face, why should we fawn over them when they're cold to us?
Not to mention how expensive food is now, you can't buy it even if you have money.
The Liu family came today clearly to take advantage of us; they have no intention of repaying the loan.
He said 300 jin right off the bat. Do you think we have any surplus grain left?
Our family of dozens of people has been eating thin porridge every day, and we don't even know if we can last until the next harvest.
Therefore, we definitely cannot lend out this grain today.
Besides, the Liu family has no shortage of food at all.
After the summer harvest, her family bought a lot of grain. Qianci's eldest nephew said that he had seen the Liu family buying grain in town, and that they had bought a lot.
"Don't think so much. It's good that things turned out this way today; it saves us the trouble of having to send gifts when Xiaomai goes back to her parents' home."
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