Although she is not my biological daughter, I have called her mother for so many years, so there must be some true feelings between us.
"Then let's go with Hunter He. He has the highest gift among the rest."
Widow Jiang hesitated. The bride price was 40 taels, which was indeed beyond the common people's understanding. After all, a normal marriage in the countryside would only cost 2 or 3 taels of silver.
"There are too many children in their family, and it's hard to be a stepmother." Widow Jiang wanted money, but Hunter He's family was a hell of a place.
"I'm not afraid. I don't want to have too many children. You are not my biological mother, but you treat me better than your own daughter." Isn't a foster mother better than a biological mother?
Her mother watched helplessly as her father sold her and her sisters. She cried and said she was useless and could only beg the man not to sell them to brothels. Then she turned around and helped count the money.
"The hunter doesn't have any land under his name. If something happens to him, how will the whole family survive? They all depend on you. How are you going to live your life?" Widow Jiang had lost her husband herself. She knew that life was not easy for a widow, not to mention that she had so many children who were not her own.
In the end, Jiang Dani married He the Hunter, who was eight years older than her.
Jiang Haoze successfully passed the examination to become a scholar. Thinking of his sister's sacrifice, his mother's increasingly blurred eyes and deformed hands, he prepared to make a final effort to pass the examination to become a juren so as to save some money.
However, he had just recovered from a serious illness and his body was not fully recovered. He had to go through the county examination, the prefectural examination, and the imperial examination one after another. He was already at the end of his strength and was carried out directly from the examination room of the provincial examination.
Because of the lack of timely treatment, he died within half a month of returning home.
Widow Jiang couldn't bear the pain of losing her son, and secretly blamed herself for being too impatient, which led to her son's death at a young age. She eventually died in front of her son's spirit.
Hunter He married Jiang Dani. Relying on the large number of people in his family, he took over the Jiang family's houses and fields, and spent a lot of money to transform himself from a mountain villager to a good citizen.
Jiang Dani has always known that Jiang's mother's greatest wish is that Xiaoze can pass the imperial examination and become an official. Although they are no longer with us, Jiang Dani wants the Jiang family to have a scholar.
Hunter He saw Jiang Dani's intention and said that he would choose whichever of his three sons he liked and send him to school. If he became famous in the future, one of his children would be named Jiang.
Jiang Dani was deeply moved and secretly vowed to be good to these children. She would train them to become talents and open the Jiang family's collection of books to the boys in the family.
Hunter He lived a life with fields and a house at the foot of the mountain, so he rarely went hunting.
Firstly, he is now over 30 years old and his strength is not as good as before; secondly, he values his life and he also wants to see his son become an official and come back to enjoy the blessings of his grandfather.
Xiaoliu's son is eight years old now. He looks smarter than his older brothers. A fortune teller said he has a good chance of studying.
He had paid a large sum of money to marry Jiang Dani because he took advantage of the fact that there was a scholar in the Jiang family and he would be in a better position to get the upper hand.
But I never thought that my brother-in-law was in poor health and passed away early.
Although he no longer has a free teacher, with the help of the Jiang family and a room full of good books, his son will definitely do well in the exam.
Jiang Dani gave He the hunter a detailed account, and He gritted his teeth and decided to go out and run a courier. Hunting was out of the question, as the income was unstable and risky, and he also wanted his sons and grandsons to become scholars.
After He the Hunter left, all the housework fell on Jiang Dani. Several boys were sent to school to see who had the best talent for studying.
The girls were capable of doing some work, but as soon as Jiang Dani assigned them some work, the older ones would take the younger ones with them and run around the village calling their stepmother a bully.
What else could Jiang Dani do? She had to do it herself. Hunter He was gone, and without the Five Finger Mountain, she didn't have a reputation as a stepmother anymore. She still had to think about her own children.
After working in the fields every day, she had to come back to take care of the children. Jiang Dani didn't even know she was pregnant. When she found out, she was bumped into by a child from the He family while playing. She fell hard and rolled around in pain until her stomach turned into a pool of blood.
But she herself didn't even know she was pregnant, so how could she blame the child?
The village chief's wife couldn't stand it anymore and came to take care of Jiang Dani for three days.
Since then, Jiang Dani has never been pregnant again. I wonder if it’s because she didn’t recover well from the miscarriage she had the first time.
After a few years, he gave up and put all his attention on his stepchildren. With his ruthlessness, he really raised these children into talented people.
Some of them were doing business, some joined the army, some became officials, and several girls married into good families thanks to their good embroidery skills and ability to read and write. Everyone had a happy ending, except Jiang Dani.
Hunter He is away on the escort mission all year round and is not at home. All the heavy work at home depends on her. Now that her children have become successful, she has also worked hard.
Lao Liu, an official, requested an imperial decree for his mother, but Jiang Dani was not included.
As for adopting a son with the surname Jiang, that is even more impossible.
After Jiang Dani learned that the aborted child was done intentionally by the He family's children, she died with hatred in her heart.
Then, Hunter He hastily buried his step-wife on a mat and married the young widow he had been having an affair with for many years.
With the filial piety of his sons and daughters, the old man lives a very good life.
The original body that Changsheng reincarnated into was the main culprit who caused Jiang Dani's miscarriage. It was she who risked her brothers and sisters to make things difficult for her stepmother, leaving all the housework to her stepmother alone.
My father only comes back once every few months or half a year, but they still complain, saying that my stepmother is not good in this or that way.
Hunter He was even more dissatisfied with Jiang Dani. He already had a lover outside, and when he came back and saw Jiang Dani's old woman look, he couldn't sleep with her.
When his first wife was lying on her deathbed, she discussed with him the matter of remarrying, and it was Jiang Dani who was favored by his first wife at that time.
He the Hunter has been taking care of his sick wife for so many years, and his mind has become active.
Seeing the beautiful Jiang Dani, how could he not be moved? Although forty taels of silver is a lot, he is marrying a virgin girl, and his brother-in-law is promising.
Although half of the plan failed, the money she had spent on the betrothal gift was well worth it. Jiang Dani also taught her daughters embroidery, which also helped her son's education. She was a capable homemaker.
He only needs to bring a little money home every once in a while, which is much better than his life as a hunter. He doesn't have to worry about his children, and they will have a good future.
As expected, marrying the daughter of a scholar is not a loss at all.
Jiang Dani's selfless dedication did not change the heartless He family.
And now Changsheng has become a member of this heartless family, and he feels so sick that he wants to vomit.
He could also hear He the Hunter and his first wife, who was coughing intermittently, whispering in the room, plotting how to marry Jiang Dani, and who to marry if they failed to marry Jiang Dani.
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