What these people were thinking was that Lin Zhiya might be able to give them some more money.
A woman came out holding children. She was holding one in her arms, and another about four or five years old was holding her legs.
Li Heitie hurriedly drove her away, "Widow Liu, please stop causing trouble. The Queen doesn't have time to deal with you."
Lin Zhiya felt that her name was very familiar. It turned out to be the Widow Liu whom she had heard of from Cai Fuyuan.
Lin Zhiya kindly asked, "Is your child sick too?"
Widow Liu was startled, her wrinkled face lit up with a smile, and she handed the baby in her arms to Lin Zhiya to see, "My queen, my baby can't drink milk anymore, and I'm short of money to go to the city."
Li Heitie's face turned red and he suddenly became hesitant.
Yesterday, he was the only one who received the ring given by Chi Xuanye. He sold it for some money and the villagers found out about it, so Widow Liu came to ask Lin Zhiya for money.
It was unknown how old the baby in Widow Liu's arms was. Her head was big but her body was very thin. Lin Zhiya couldn't tell her age.
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The child on the ground was squeaking and had a dirty red rope on his hand. Lin Zhiya could tell this time that the child on the ground was a girl.
She took out some change and put it into the little girl's hand, but the next moment it was snatched away by Widow Liu and stuffed into her arms.
Lin Zhiya frowned and looked at the fierce widow Liu with displeasure.
Widow Liu defended herself: "A child can't hold the money, I was afraid she would take it away!"
This village is so poor. Lin Zhiya looked at the eager-eyed people around her and curled her lips. She couldn't give any more today. If she did, she would only be able to give out banknotes.
She thought it would be most practical to send some food next time and then organize the villagers to relocate.
Lin Zhiya no longer had the intention to give money, and the surrounding villagers had no intention of leaving. Instead, they said timidly and expectantly, "Madam, please come to my house. My mother has picked vegetables and is cooking."
Li Daya was shocked, "The Fairy Queen is coming to my house."
The villagers looked at Li Daya with contempt and called her a little bastard in their local dialect. "Your house is leaking, how dare you let the queen pass by?"
In the end, Lin Zhiya went to Li Daya's house, and the rejected villagers wandered around the door in disappointment.
Widow Liu took the silver change and ran away, disappearing without a trace. The fourth daughter who was holding her legs could not keep up with her and was left crying where she stood.
Li Heitie was worried, "Let's just send it to Mr. Cai."
Li Daya told Lin Zhiya: "Widow Liu is so pitiful. She was beaten crazy. The uncle she married strangled two girls to death. The village refused to give Widow Liu any land because she didn't give birth to a brother. The uncle was so angry that he died. After she became a widow, only two of Widow Liu's six children were left alive."
A family with many members will become strong. The members here refer to men. Farming requires labor, and a family cannot do without a pillar.
So even the widow Liu, who gave birth to six daughters, was driven crazy by her husband. She changed from a shy girl to a woman with dry hands, a thick body, and became sharp, ugly, and disgusting.
Are women not considered human beings? For the first time, Lin Zhiya faced up to and hated this system.
What made her even more heartbroken was what happened next. After Li Heitie took the crying little girl away, Li Daya told Lin Zhiya: "People in the village said that Widow Liu couldn't give birth to a boy, and they wanted to drown her."
Lin Zhiya: "Her husband is dead. Anyone who wants to drown her is committing a crime."
Li Daya: "...Widow Liu ran away, and then brought back a baby boy who was still breastfeeding, saying it was my uncle's posthumous child. But my father said that the boy was stolen by her."
These words were shocking. Lin Zhiya asked the eunuch to go to the village to inquire, and then followed Li Daya to the Li family.
The Li family has two houses, one for living and one for storing miscellaneous items. Li Sanya is picking beans with her mother.
Li Sanya's mother ran up and wanted to kneel down to Lin Zhiya. She looked at Lin Zhiya, then at the steamed buns she had made, and felt that she was not worthy of Lin Zhiya at all.
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