She was so emotional that Gu Xin had never seen her like this before.
Grandma Gu comforted her for a while, and after she calmed down and slowly recounted what had happened, she learned what had occurred.
After Sun Yumei divorced Wang Tiezhu, she was taken home by her seven older brothers.
Her brothers are all married with children and live in their own homes.
She used to live at her eldest brother's house. Once, her sister-in-law's cousin came to visit and took a liking to Sun Yumei.
He was so determined to marry her that he even tried to grope her. Her older brother beat him up, and her sister-in-law didn't get any better treatment from her family either. Feeling awkward, she went to stay at her second brother's house.
Her second sister-in-law was quite assertive, so she stood up and said that since her parents-in-law had passed away and her sister-in-law had divorced and returned to her parents' home, they, as the older brother and sister-in-law, should take care of her. But how should they do it?
The sisters-in-law discussed it first, and then told the brothers, meaning that Sun Yumei's family should stay for a month until she remarries.
Sun Yumei had a considerable dowry, but it was almost entirely squandered by the Wang family. She was the same age as her eldest brother's son, truly a late-in-life daughter. Her sisters-in-law had witnessed how much her parents pampered her, so naturally they were somewhat resentful towards her.
Helping her vent her anger at the Wang family's house is a completely different concept from bringing her home to live.
She felt guilty for ruining her brother and sister-in-law's family relationships and was thinking about finding a good family to marry into. However, after her experience with the Wang family, she seemed to have lost faith in men.
So it dragged on for more than a year.
In September of this year, she stayed at her fifth brother's house. Her fifth sister-in-law's father was the manager of a restaurant. Once, when she and her fifth sister-in-law went to the city, they passed by the restaurant and went in to rest for a while.
Then she caught the eye of the restaurant owner.
The restaurant owner wanted to take her as a concubine, so he asked her fifth sister-in-law's father to mediate. The owner was almost fifty years old.
Sun Yumei naturally didn't want to, and her brothers were also unwilling; they would rather she be someone's second wife than a concubine.
Then, her sixth brother and eldest nephew got into trouble. They got into a fight with the restaurant owner's son, injured him, and were arrested by the authorities.
Her eldest sister-in-law and sixth sister-in-law begged her to become the master's concubine, saying that the master would surely not sue her.
Sun Yumei also felt that it was because of her own actions that she decided to sacrifice herself for her sixth brother and nephew.
But her eldest, second, and third brothers stopped her in time. These three brothers used almost all the family's money to resolve the matter.
However, apart from her brothers, her sisters-in-law and nephews and nieces have come to hate her.
In October, her third sister-in-law introduced her to a man who had lost his wife and had no children. She met him, thought he was a good person, and agreed to the marriage.
Because she didn't want to drag her brothers down and cause discord in their families.
Her third sister-in-law told her not to tell her brothers, otherwise she would be stopped again, because the man was not well-off, just a peddler, and from the village next to her third sister-in-law's.
She agreed, but she still wanted to visit the man's family and see what his parents were like. Having experienced the Wang family before, she knew very well that when it came to marriage, it was important to consider whether the other person's family was easy to get along with, especially since this man was a peddler who was often away from home, meaning she would be spending more time with her in-laws in the future.
And so, she followed her third sister-in-law to the man's village, and then suddenly fainted. When she woke up, she was on the way to Kuncheng.
She screamed and shouted, and the driver told her that she had been sold by her third sister-in-law, who wanted no money and wanted to take her to the farthest place.
She stayed in the Jieyou Pavilion for three days. Tonight, because everyone was discussing the newly appointed magistrate, she finally found a chance to escape.
She didn't want to die in the Jieyou Pavilion; she wanted to find a secluded place to end her life and fulfill the wishes of her sisters-in-law.
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