"Mom, I'm almost well now. I got up and walked around, and I felt more relaxed." Jiang Haoze spoke slowly.
"I can't argue with you, brat."
"Mother, is there no money at home?"
"Just focus on recuperating. Don't worry about the trivial matters at home. Your sister and I will take care of them. What's the matter? Do you want to buy something and are you short of money?" As he said this, he was about to open the cabinet and look for the silver.
"Mother, since you have the money and I'm well now, you can carefully choose a good family for my sister. After all, it's our family that has delayed her development." He knew his mother's plan. When she was desperate, she would definitely use her sister Nini to exchange for money.
"It wasn't me who delayed her, it was obviously you. I wanted to ask you to marry her, but you just wouldn't agree." Widow Jiang said what was buried in her heart.
"Mother, I know your plan. You want Sister Nini to leave me a descendant. If something happens to me in the exam, you and she will have something to look forward to." How could Widow Jiang listen to him say such discouraging words?
She covered his mouth with her hands, tears streaming down her face. Her son's biological father died on the way to the exam, leaving them an orphan and a widow, ostracized by their clan members and forced to leave their hometown. She was so scared!
With a bang, a bowl shattered. Jiang Dani pushed open the door and knelt before Widow Jiang. "Mother, I want to leave a descendant for Xiaoze. I want to."
Ozawa always treated her well, always thinking of her when he had something delicious to eat, and said that he treated her as his own sister.
But she knew that she was not. She was bought by her mother for two taels of silver. She was seriously ill at the time, and the human traffickers were afraid that she would die, so they sold her at a low price.
But A'niang was kind-hearted and threw the two taels of silver into the water, which saved her life.
She swore at that time that she would be a member of the Jiang family in life and a ghost of the Jiang family in death.
Although A Niang was strict, she would teach her many things step by step. In her heart, A Niang was her real mother, and she would do whatever A Niang wanted her to do.
"Sister, I only consider you my biological sister. How can siblings get married?" Jiang Haoze tried to dissuade his sister from her thoughts by using moral principles.
"When my mother bought me, she said she would be your child bride. I was your child bride for three years. It was only after we came to Xiashan Village that she told me I was your sister. But I am not included in the Jiang family's genealogy, and the indenture contract is still kept in my mother's cabinet." Jiang Dani said unconvinced. The Jiang family treated her well over the years, so she dared to speak loudly to them.
"What do you know? You know nothing. Do you know that if you marry me, there will be no marriage certificate, no matchmaker, no betrothal. If you have my child, mother will be relieved to let me take the imperial examination. If I die, you will take the child and repeat my mother's life.
If I'm lucky enough to pass the imperial examinations and become a scholar, juren, or jinshi, and marry a lady from a prominent family in the capital, you'll have to change your name and take your children with you to stay in the lower mountain village for the rest of your life, serving your mother until she dies. Your children won't have a future either. This was his mother's plan, so how could he agree?
That's not fair to Sister Nini.
She has given so much to this family, but she doesn't deserve what she deserves.
When Jiang Dani saw A Niang holding Jiang Haoze's hand tightly, she knew that what Xiaoze said was true.
"I do." Jiang Dani smiled, and her whole person became brighter, and all the dejection that was weighing on her disappeared.
"I do." she repeated.
Widow Jiang was left crying. Who is born to be a bad person?
While He the Hunter's first wife, Mrs. He, was waiting to die, Jiang Dani and Jiang Haoze consummated their marriage.
For this matter, Widow Jiang went to the village chief's house specifically, explained the situation, and took the indenturement to the village chief as a witness. She only said that she would go to the government office to exchange her indentures for a good name in a few days.
Country people have no secrets, and in just half a day, this matter became known to everyone in Xiashan Village.
Hunter He didn't bring back any prey that day. He lost interest in the Jiang family after listening to the gossip about it from the young wives who were looking for wild vegetables in the mountains.
"You're back so early? Did you beat up the big guy again?" He supported her sick body and felt that she could sit up.
Perhaps it was a last gasp of life? It looked like he really didn't have many days left to live.
"I didn't get anything good." Hunter He sat in the house, not even trying to lend a hand or help He.
After Hunter He drank a bucket of water, he said, "My marriage with Jiang Dani is off."
He was so frightened that she started coughing again. She hadn't coughed like this for several days.
"Why? Someone offered a high bride price? Then she would become the landlord's concubine!" The rumor in the village was that Jiang Dani had never married and that Widow Jiang was waiting for a good price and wanted to receive a generous bride price.
The reason she was able to marry Hunter He was because her family was greedy for the two taels of betrothal gift that Hunter He offered over ordinary peasants. Otherwise, she would have married a man without any land and was worried that he would never come back after going into the mountains.
As for her health, one reason is that she didn't take good care of herself after giving birth to the children, and the other is that she is worried all day long. How can she be well?
But no matter how poor the farmers were, few of them were willing to send their daughters to be concubines, as they could not afford to lose face.
He thought, the Jiang family claims to be a family of scholars, but she didn't expect them to be so shameless for money.
"How much will the landlord offer? Let's see, maybe we can come up with it." He said to herself. There is silver in their family's small treasury. She is a good wife.
But the fact that he had to spend so much more money to marry the woman he married later than her original wife made her feel a little uncomfortable.
She hoped that when Jiang Dani got married in the future, she would be able to justify the money she had earned from selling her body. If she could only be half as capable as her, she would be thankful to God and hope that in the afterlife she would be blessed with a daughter to cherish.
"You're not a landlord, you bitch. If you don't know, don't talk nonsense. You lie in bed every day, half-dead, wasting money on medicine."
Hunter He thought that if Mrs. He had died earlier, he might have used some trickery to marry her back.
There is no such thing as the Jiang family's current rumor of a wedding to bring good luck.
"Is it because I don't want to live? Damn it, I'm not even dead yet, but you already start to dislike me for occupying the back seat. Damn Jiang Dani, you are the reincarnated vixen, you actually sneaked into my arms. If I still had the strength I had a few years ago, I would definitely pin you down and ride you around, you cheap bitch, whore, shameless..." She doesn't look like a chronically ill person at all.
"Enough! Word has spread throughout Xiashan Village that Jiang Dani is not the Jiang family's biological daughter, but a child bride bought on the road fleeing famine. There's proof. After she was settled in Xiashan Village, people felt sorry for the girl because she was five or six years younger than the Jiang family boy, so they didn't want to delay her, so they just raised her as their own daughter.
Look, Jiang Dani is grateful. Seeing that the Jiang family boy was in trouble, she volunteered to marry him. They are both affectionate and righteous, one is kind-hearted and the other is grateful. What can others say?
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