Chapter 13 Yang Lianer
Li Xiumei listened with a look of gloating on her face. When she knew that Li Wanyue was going to marry the scholar from the Gao family, she was extremely jealous. Why could Li Wanyue marry a scholar?
Now that she was divorced, she felt much better. After all, her husband was working in the town and earned 600 coins a month. The anger that had been pent up in her heart for three years finally subsided.
Old Lady Li nodded thankfully and looked at Old Man Li: "Girl Yue is really something. I asked you to persuade the eldest brother to let the girl find a farmer to live a stable life. Gao Zhiyuan is a scholar and she is a peasant. They are not of the same style. How can they live together?
But that girl is so arrogant, she doesn't even look at herself. Even if she pesters him and gets him to agree to the marriage, isn't it still a divorce? If she marries again in the future, there won't be any good conditions for her to choose from."
Liu Jinhua immediately agreed: "Mom is right. It's also thanks to Dad's foresight that he only gave three acres of land to my eldest brother. If he had given him ten acres, I'm afraid my eldest brother and his family would have sold the land to subsidize the Gao family."
This flattery touched Old Man Li's heart. When the eldest brother's family was separated out, the villagers said that he was cruel to the eldest brother's family. They clearly had 13 acres of land, but he only gave the eldest brother 3 acres of medium-sized land and nothing else.
But he felt that he had done nothing wrong. According to the rules of the village, the eldest son took most of the family property because the old couple lived with him. But they wanted to live with the second son, so naturally they should give the majority to the second son.
The villagers were still talking about it, so he didn't dare go out for a long time.
Now they knew how right he had been.
Old man Li knocked on the pipe and snorted coldly: "The boss is such a blockhead. For a money-losing commodity, he kept sending money to the Gao family, and he even lost a leg. Fortunately, the leg was saved, otherwise I don't know if he would still be alive now.
If you had listened to me and sent the girl to a wealthy family to be a maid, she would have learned some etiquette and earned some money to support the family. She could have also received a dowry when she reached marriageable age. But now, you've invested all your money and gained nothing.
Now that I have brought her back, I am not afraid that she will make the house worse. It is worth bringing a little girl back. I can just find a family to take her away. Why did I give birth to such a fool in the first place? "
Seeing his expression, Mrs. Li wanted to laugh in her heart: "Old man, I have no objection if you want to help the eldest brother, but the premise is that we have to be better off. Right now, we can't take care of these children. Our eldest grandson Xiangyu (Li Youfu's son) is still in school. It's expensive for our family to live in town. Shizhu is eight years old and also wants to go to school. We can hardly make ends meet. Don't let us go into debt just to help the eldest brother."
"Come on, when did I ever help him? Wasn't this all his own fault? He would rather use the money to subsidize the Gao family than to give it to Xiangyu. Now he wants me to help? No way."
"It's good that you know. If they don't ask us for money, it means they haven't reached the end of their rope yet."
Liu Jinhua rolled her eyes and stood up: "Mom, I'm going to go borrow a pair of shoes from Lian'er's mom. I'll be back soon."
"Go ahead."
Liu Jinhua walked briskly to Yang's house.
Looking at Yang Zhou who was hanging clothes in the yard, she walked over with a smile and said, "Madam Da Zhuang, where are the clothes hanging?"
"Oh, it's Sister Jinhua, why are you here?"
"I just want to borrow a pair of shoes from you. Where's your Lian'er?"
"I'm embroidering in the room, are you looking for Lian'er?"
"No, Lian'er has been engaged to Sandong from our Li family's main branch for a year. Did they say when the engagement will be made?"
Hearing this, Yang Zhou's smile faded a little: "No."
Originally, I was attracted by Li Sandong's appearance, which was the best in the surrounding area. Although his skin was a little rough, it was white. There was no man whiter than him in the whole town.
Li Youshan is also good at hunting. He was only allocated three acres of land at the beginning, but he relied on his own ability to buy another five acres of land over the years, and his family is not poorly off.
Li Wanyue married a scholar. If he passed the imperial examination and became an official in the future, their family would also benefit from it.
Who knew that Li Youshan was injured last year and not only could he not hunt, he also owed a lot of debts. His son-in-law had just passed the examination for a student and it was said that he was still a long way from becoming the top scholar and might not even pass.
Right now they haven't paid off all their debts, and they're still trying to get a betrothal gift. Who knows how long it'll take.
Liu Jinhua was overjoyed, but sighed: "Da Zhuang Niang, you may not know, my eldest uncle's daughter Li Wanyue was divorced and sent home."
"What? Divorced?" Yang Zhou was shocked.
"Some said they were getting divorced, some said they were being divorced. You know, after the family split up, the eldest wife didn't interact much with the people in our old house, so we didn't ask. You see, being divorced is almost the same as getting divorced.
I also heard that my eldest sister-in-law beat up her in-law, Aunt Gao. She usually looks so smiling, but I didn't expect her to be so fierce. It was obviously because Li Wanyue couldn't have children, so it was reasonable for her to divorce her. She couldn't have no descendants. Her own daughter was not in the right, but she beat others. Tsk tsk." Liu Jinhua said, and when she saw that Yang Zhoushi looked unhappy, she stopped talking.
Yang Zhou looked at her and said, "Sister Jinhua, please wait a moment. I will go to the house to get you a pair of shoes."
Soon, Liu Jinhua left with the shoe pattern.
Yang Zhou entered the room, looked at Yang Lian'er who was embroidering, and said, "You heard everything, right?"
Yang Lian'er nodded.
"Not only is the Li family in debt, they also have a divorced sister-in-law. The mother-in-law looked kind, but I just found out yesterday that she is a fierce woman. Can you expect anything good from marrying her? At home, your mother didn't let you work in the fields, but if you don't work in the fields after you marry into your husband's family, the villagers will spit on you."
Yang Lian'er didn't say anything, so Yang Zhou continued, "Why don't you just listen to your aunt and call it quits with Sandong? Your aunt said that the family in town is offering a betrothal gift of ten taels of silver. The man has a good temper and his family owns a grocery store. If you marry him, you will have good food, clothes, and daily necessities, and you won't have to do anything. It's much better than living in the countryside."
"Mom, let me think about it again."
"You are already sixteen years old, and the Li family has a lot of foreign debts. We don't know when they will be able to make a betrothal gift. If they drag you down to be an old maid and it's hard to get married, they will use this as an excuse to give you less betrothal gifts. You will be at a great disadvantage.
You are so good-looking, you should be paired with a rich man. There was no suitable one before, but now there is one. Do you still want to choose that hellhole?"
Yang Lian'er frowned. Since she reached the age of marriage, she had seen many men, but none of them was as handsome as Li Sandong. Moreover, they grew up together and knew the family style and character of the Li family very well. She would definitely not be tortured if she married him.
But his family's situation is really bad now. I'm afraid they can't give much dowry. If she marries, she will have to help pay off the debts. The thought of it makes her worried and she is very conflicted.
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