In the past, Fan's mother wouldn't have been worried at all, but ever since Hu Shuiqing hit her head and woke up, she has felt from the bottom of her heart that her youngest daughter-in-law is difficult to manage!
Her gaze fell on the two young girls, half threatening and half coaxing them: "Shuiqing, you are a sensible and reasonable person."
You should talk to everyone and make sure they give up the idea that our Fan family is selling our granddaughter to marry off our grandson. We are all honest and kind people; how could we do such a bad thing?
Da Ya and Er Ya nervously tugged at their mother's clothes, their wet eyes pleading for help.
They suddenly became very afraid, afraid that their mother would speak up for their grandmother and aunt and try to cover up the matter.
Fan Daya was especially afraid, because when her mother learned that her grandmother and aunt had the idea of selling her, she was only unhappy that the two wanted to use the money from selling her to help Dazhu get married, not that they had sold her.
My mother was oppressed by my grandmother and my aunt for over ten years...
Hu Shuiqing would speak up for her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, but she wouldn't!
She frowned and slowly said, "The two girls are still young; how can they distinguish between truth and falsehood?"
Fan Daya and Er Ya's hearts sank.
The expressions on Fan's mother and Sun Jinhua's faces immediately brightened, smiles instantly spreading across their faces, and they even straightened their posture more.
With her mother-in-law's gentle reminder, Sun Jinhua's uneasy heart finally settled down.
Hu Shuiqing, who had been timid for more than 20 years, could not become tough just because he fell down.
Whether out of fear of her mother-in-law and her sister-in-law, or for the sake of the Fan family and her own reputation, she would inevitably try to cover up the matter.
If we can just get away with this now, we can secretly bring the slave trader home again...
Shuiqing turned to Daya and laughed, "Silly children, were you scared? Did you really think your aunt was going to sell you?"
She was just teasing you. What elder, especially an aunt, could be so powerful as to sell you off? Don't worry, your aunt has money. How could someone who raises a son not have enough money to marry him off?
"How dare you keep having children if you haven't saved enough money to marry off your sons? Isn't that like a turtle determined to make its eldest and second sons bachelors and a laughingstock in the village?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Fan Dazhu and Fan Erzhu looked at Sun Jinhua with surprise and doubt.
Mother had previously said that selling Daya and Erya would be a good way to find them husbands; if they had enough money, they could choose a pretty one to marry.
According to my aunt, my mother must have had money in hand, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to keep having children. The money she saved must have been used to pay for the weddings of the third and fourth sons.
Why should I?!
They had to bear the stigma of selling their sister, while their two younger brothers did not.
How will they ever be able to hold their heads high in the village again?
"Besides, even if your uncle and aunt can't come up with the money, you still have your grandmother, right? She must have money on hand."
If all else fails, you can sell your land. After all, marrying your aunt meant selling your land, so it's not unusual.
The family still has twenty or thirty acres of fertile land, enough to support a bride in Sizhu.
Upon hearing this, even Fan Sanzhu and Fan Sizhu, who had been watching their two cousins being beaten and scolded without saying a word, turned to look at their grandmother.
They asked in unison, "Grandma, will you pay us money to arrange marriages for us?"
When Fan's mother heard that they were planning to take away her last twenty or thirty acres of fertile land, she felt a pang of heartache.
After she married into the Fan family, the family was quite wealthy, owning fifty or sixty acres of fertile land.
There is also a great deal of land, mountains, and forests.
So they had the means to send their two sons to school and teach them to read and write.
The only problem is that learning to read is like a death sentence for the eldest son; he only thinks about shirking his responsibilities every day.
The second son was a book lover and was often praised by his teacher when he was young. He was expected to bring honor to the Fan family, but he was already 28 years old and still hadn't passed the imperial examination to become a scholar!
The family's fifty or sixty mu of fertile land was sold off when they raised their two sons and they got married. Several mu were sold after the previous head of the household passed away.
She was truly reluctant to sell them again, which is why she strongly supported her eldest daughter-in-law's idea to sell Da Ya and Er Ya.
After all, compared to Liangtian, the two girls were outsiders.
She'll eventually get married and belong to another family; it's no different from being sold off.
She whispered to her grandsons, "Don't listen to your aunt's nonsense."
Shui Qing, with her sharp hearing, exclaimed, "How can this be considered nonsense? Mother-in-law, you need to think this through. You'll be relying on Da Zhu and his grandsons to take care of you in your old age and see you off in your final days!"
You have money but are unwilling to part with it, you have land but are unwilling to give it to them, aren't you afraid that no one will carry on the Fan family line in the future?"
My mother-in-law and father-in-law are not only selfish, but they are also lazy, good-for-nothing, and incapable of managing the household.
When I was young, life was good. No matter how good the harvest was, I spent it all on myself and never thought about saving a little money.
Spend it all, use it all, and get everything you get.
When her son grew up and needed to go to school, she sold several acres of fertile land. When he got married, she sold more fertile land. When he fell ill, she sold more fertile land. Now she can't bear to sell the fertile land, so she's thinking of selling her granddaughter.
Sun Jinhua knew that the Fan family used to live a good life and were one of the richest families in the village. She looked at her mother-in-law with suspicion and had some doubts in her heart.
Is my mother-in-law still hiding a lot of money and unwilling to take it out?
Shui Qing coldly observed the expressions of her sister-in-law's family.
Okay, very good.
Her father-in-law has passed away; she will have to separate from the family sooner or later.
Judging from her sister-in-law's expression, she clearly believed that her mother-in-law had money and would definitely fight for her mother-in-law's 'support rights' when the family proposed to separate.
She didn't want to live with her mother-in-law after the family split up.
With such an incompetent mother-in-law in charge, she'll probably have an endless supply of wild vegetable porridge and dark flour buns to eat.
She didn't want to eat any of it, whether it was wild vegetable porridge or dark flour steamed buns.
She wants to eat white flour steamed buns!
She wants to eat rice!
"Oh dear, that won't do, Sister-in-law Fan, you can't let the Fan family line die out."
"It's only right to give money to your grandson for his wedding."
Mother Fan felt like she was being roasted over a fire, constantly being stared at by her eldest daughter-in-law and several of her grandsons...
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