The original owner never imagined that his mother would truly hate him and his brother so much.
They showed no mercy in dealing with him.
These people threw the original owner's mangled corpse to his younger brother and gave him ten taels of silver.
"Consider this your brother's funeral expenses. My wife said not to go looking for her anymore. Honestly, the two of them are so poor, all they know is to ask her for money."
The man, sitting on his horse, spoke extremely harshly, chilling Ning Anuo to the bone.
"elder brother--"
Ning Anuo shook the original body's corpse.
"Wake up, I'm not getting married, wake up."
He knew that his brother must have gone to find that woman for his sake. Because the Qian family demanded a large dowry, his brother had gone to find that woman.
He really didn't care about her money.
"Brother—wake up."
"elder brother--"
Ning Anuo called out again and again, but the original body was already cold, and its chest had long since stopped beating.
"You are utterly depraved, utterly depraved—"
He actually beat his brother to death.
Ning Anuo gritted her teeth, her eyes filled with resentment.
"Hmph, it's your own fault for being so ignorant. Madam said you shouldn't even think about reporting this to the authorities. This man was beaten to death because he tried to trespass on our property. He got what he deserved. We have witnesses."
After saying this, the man turned and left.
Actually, their wife wasn't afraid of them going to the authorities; she just found it too troublesome. Most importantly, this way, everyone would know that she was a second wife.
This is not a good thing.
Ning Anuo was naturally unwilling to accept this, so he took the original owner's corpse and sued his mother.
But, just as those people said.
The government sided with his mother.
He was severely beaten with thirty strokes of the cane and thrown out of the yamen in a sorry state.
He limped back home with his brother's body, but fainted as soon as he reached the door.
It was fortunate that Qian Duo had been secretly waiting for her all along.
Qian Duo looked at his bloodied and mangled buttocks, and tears streamed down his face.
"Now that you've seen my butt, you have no choice but to marry me."
Ning Anuo, who was awakened by the pain of the inferior wound medicine, felt a burning pain on her buttocks and couldn't help but twitch her lips and speak.
"If I don't marry you, who else can I marry?" Qian Duo sniffed, and two more tears fell down her cheeks.
"Duoduo, I will be good to you from now on."
He is now all alone.
My father is gone, my grandmother is gone, and now even my brother is gone.
"Yes. I believe you."
Qian Duo lowered her head and kissed his forehead. "I believe you will treat me well."
What can ten taels of silver do? Although he didn't care about his mother's silver, he did care about silver.
He can't be tough right now.
He didn't want to be like the others in the village, who simply wrapped his brother in a straw mat; he wanted to give his brother a proper burial.
If they lived in their village, these ten taels of silver would last them two years, but if they wanted to hold a funeral, it wouldn't be enough.
Ning Anuo sold all the valuables in her house and scraped together the money to order a fine coffin for her brother and bury the original owner of the body.
At this moment, he only had a few dozen copper coins left in his hand.
Ning Anuo was practically raised by his older brother. The eldest brother was like a father to him, and his brother truly lived up to that.
He decided to observe three years of mourning for his brother.
Therefore, he became increasingly cautious when interacting with Qian Duo.
However, no matter how careful they were, their relationship was still discovered.
They were discovered by Qian Duo's younger brother, Qian Jin.
Qian Jin's shouts became known throughout the entire village.
Mr. Qian felt he had lost face.
They beat Qian Duo up and locked her up.
And it was made clear that the two of them were not allowed to have any further contact.
"You have a lot of money? Let me tell you, I will absolutely not marry you off to Ning Anuo." How could you marry such a poor boy?
I doubt they can even afford the betrothal gifts.
Anuo knelt at the Qian family's door for a day and a night.
He kept promising his father that he would make a lot of money and treat money very well.
But Qian's father ignored it.
Qian couldn't stand it anymore and secretly told Qian Duo.
Qian Duo was crying uncontrollably in her room.
Her Anuo, such a proud person, is now kneeling before her parents.
Let them humiliate us.
她哭着，喊着，告诉她爹娘，说她想要嫁给安诺，可是却被她娘又狠狠地揍了一顿。她娘说，安诺没出息，没有钱，她嫁给他只会受苦。
But she wasn't afraid of hardship. Her mother slapped her and locked her in her room.
She frantically pounded on the door with her body; she had to see Anno, she had to see Anno—
Qian Lai, suppressing her tears, applied the medicine to her and advised her to give up on the idea.
Her parents would never let her go out to see Anuo, and they would never agree to let her marry Ning Anuo.
The two sisters could only dedicate everything to their brother.
With tears streaming down her face, Qian Duo told Qian Lai: "I said I would wait for him, I will wait forever. Sister, please tell him to go out and make his way in the world, to leave this place. I will not go anywhere, I will not marry anyone, I will just wait for him at home."
Her refusal to leave the mountain village was all for her own sake.
He wanted to leave back then.
But because of his brother, because of her, I can't feel at ease.
Now that Ning Hongze is gone, only she remains.
Qian Lai relayed these words to Ning Anuo.
Ning Anuo silently lowered her head.
On the evening of the second day, when Ning Anuo was teetering on the brink of collapse, Qian's father finally softened.
He sighed and made a promise to Ning Anuo: give him three years. After three years, if she brought him one hundred taels of silver, he would marry her off to her.
One hundred taels of silver—this dowry is outrageously high in Dashan Village.
In the mountain village, the highest dowry a girl could receive was only eighty taels of silver, and that was only if she married into the town.
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But Anno agreed. Many people thought it was too much money and not worth it, but in Anno's heart, the little girl who comforted him and cried for him was worth it.
Ning Anuo nodded, slung her bag over her shoulder, and left the mountain village. Little did Anuo know that this would be the last time they met.
Anuo was unaware that a year after he left, Qian Jin fell in love with a girl from the next village. The girl's family demanded a large dowry, and in order to raise the money, Qian's parents sold Qian Lai and Qian Duo.
Qian Lai was beautiful enough to be chosen by a wealthy family in the town, while Qian Duo was married off to the twelve-year-old mentally challenged son of the only wealthy family in the village as a child bride.
They gave Qian Die a full 150 taels of silver, more than the 100 taels Anuo had promised.
Most importantly, it remains to be seen whether Anno can return, and this family has already delivered the money to them.
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