Chapter 15 No Marriage Certificate Information
Li Wanyue shook her head: "I'm fine, she can say whatever she wants, I won't lose a piece of flesh."
She had just remembered that the eldest lady of the Zhou family favored the eldest son's family, and even the children of the eldest son's family were favored more than the children of the second son's family. All the work at home and outside was done by the second son's family, but they never got any good face from the Zhou family's mother-in-law.
Li Wanyue shook her head. Most people couldn't treat their children equally. Li's parents did a very good job.
As they were talking they arrived at the entrance of the village.
There are only two families in the village that have cows. One is the village chief's family, and the other is Grandpa Li Fu's family. He is old and relies on recruiting people to earn some family income.
Grandpa Li Fu and the ox cart were already waiting at the entrance of the village. It cost one cent per person to go to Qingshi Town, and two cents per person to go to the county town.
Most villagers only go to the town because they have to pay a one-cent entrance fee to go to the county town.
The location of Daohua Village is pretty good. It takes half an hour to walk to Qingshi Town and an hour to walk to the county town. The speed of the ox cart is almost the same as walking. At most, it won’t make your feet tired and it is convenient to carry things.
Li Dachuan said, "Little sister, you take the bullock cart, and the two of us can just walk."
"Brother, let me take a walk too. It's a way to exercise my body."
"We are used to walking. How can you, a girl, walk such a long distance?"
Li Sandong: "Brother, let me walk. She just came back yesterday. There are two big mouths on the ox cart. If I sit with them, I'm afraid I'll hear some gossip."
Li Dachuan suddenly realized that his third brother was right.
Li Wanyue smiled, she was not afraid of gossip, she just wanted to make her body better. A journey of more than two hours was no problem.
The three men greeted the people on the ox cart, ignored their gazes, and left.
Several women in the car began to discuss in low voices.
A woman said, "This girl from the Li family was just divorced yesterday, and she went to the town right away. She didn't even know how to use the ten taels of silver she got as compensation to pay off her debts first. Her family still owes a lot of money."
Another woman retorted: "It was a divorce, not a divorce. Didn't you see that she brought her dowry back? Who can get their dowry back after being divorced?
How do you know they didn’t use it to pay back the money? I saw Dashan go to several houses yesterday. My neighbor Youcai said he went to pay back the money, and he paid back several houses.”
The woman who spoke first curled her lips, but still said stubbornly: "Since you are home, you should stay at home and work hard. But she can't stay here after returning. What kind of girl or woman always runs to the town?"
"Why are you so mean? You can't even let someone go shopping with his brother? No wonder your old lady always tells you to be quiet, for fear of offending others."
After saying that, he turned his head and ignored her.
Li Wanyue and his sister didn’t hear what these people were talking about, otherwise they would have really talked about it.
In a blink of an eye, we arrived at Anping County. On the tall city wall were three large characters of "Anping County" engraved on a stone tablet. The soldiers guarding the gate were wearing ordinary service uniforms, with big swords hanging around their waists, checking the pedestrians and vehicles coming in and out.
After paying three cents for the entrance fee, the three of them walked in.
The buildings in the county town are not as nice as those in TV dramas, but it is also very prosperous, with clean and tidy bluestone streets, quaint shops on both sides, bustling crowds, and constant hawking sounds.
This is also Li Wanyue’s first time to come to the county town.
Li Dachuan stopped and said, "Little sister, let Sandong accompany you for a walk. I'm going to work."
"Don't worry, big brother. I will take good care of you." Li Sandong promised.
The two of them went to the county government office first. Without waiting for the gatekeeper to speak, Li Wanyue was the first to hand over ten cents.
After the bailiff received the money, his expression immediately improved a little.
After hearing their purpose, he took them to the place where the deeds were managed.
The clerk took out the booklet of their marriage year and looked through it. Then he said, "Did you remember the wrong year? There is no record of your marriage certificate with Gao Zhiyuan."
"I remember correctly, it's this year."
"I looked for it, but it wasn't there."
Li Wanyue immediately said, "Then could you please help me check, is my household registration in Kaoshan Village?"
After reading it, the clerk shook his head and said, "Your household registration is in Daohua Village."
Li Wanyue and Li Sandong looked at each other, then thanked him and left.
After leaving the county government office, Li Sandong said angrily, "Well, Gao Zhiyuan is a bastard. He lied to us from the beginning and didn't even get a marriage certificate."
Li Wanyue recalled that after the marriage, the man was the one who handled the marriage certificate and the transfer of household registration. Gao Zhiyuan was a scholar, so the Li family naturally had no doubts. Who would have thought that he didn't even get a marriage certificate, and his household registration was only taken to Gao's house, and he didn't go to the county government to register and transfer his household registration to Gao's house.
But this is also good.
The two then went to a pawnshop, and Li Wanyue wanted to pawn the silver bracelet.
Li Sandong stopped her: "Sister, that is the dowry that mother bought for you, you can't accept it."
"When I saw this bracelet, I thought of the Gao family. What's more, Gao Conghui had worn it before, which was even more disgusting. It's better to pawn it and say goodbye to the past. When I have money in the future, I can buy a gold bracelet to wear."
After listening to it, Li Sandong also felt that it made sense.
After some bargaining, the bracelet was pawned for one or two taels of silver.
The two then went to Shou'antang Pharmacy and asked if they accepted deer antlers.
The drugstore owner said he would buy them at a price of thirty wen per catty. Yesterday, Sandong picked up two deer antlers weighing about eight or nine catties, which means they could be sold for around two hundred and forty wen.
Li Wanyue thanked him with a smile and asked the waiter to pack some soapberry, angelica, and Polygonum multiflorum for her, which cost her three hundred coins.
Seeing some spices such as star anise, cinnamon, and grass fruit, he bought some, spent sixty cents, and left with Li Sandong.
Li Sandong was surprised and said, "It's 30 wen per pound. This is too valuable. I'll bring it here to sell tomorrow."
Li Wanyue smiled and thought about the uses of deer glue. If it was boiled into glue, could it be sold for more money?
Soon she came to a shop called Moxiangzhai and walked in.
This shop is very big, divided into two floors. The first floor is neatly arranged with shelves, selling all kinds of stationery, books and paper.
I think the second floor should be filled with calligraphy and paintings.
The waiter saw that they were wearing patched clothes, but he didn't look down on them. He still smiled and greeted them: "What do you want to buy?"
Li Wanyue instantly had a better impression of the store. She asked, "Can I take a look around the store first?"
"OK."
Li Wanyue nodded and started walking around the store.
Seeing the books, she picked one up and flipped through it, feeling relieved, thinking that it was traditional Chinese characters, so she wouldn't be in the dark in the future.
After a quick tour, I found that the layout of this store is not divided by the type of items, but by the quality of the items, into three areas: high, medium and low.
She came to the counter and asked: "Excuse me, how much is a copy of Three Character Classic or Thousand Character Classic?"
"These two books are for beginners. They cost one tael of silver each. Of course, you can also buy handwritten copies for five hundred coins each."
Li Sandong was shocked. Five hundred coins? That's too expensive. How much brown rice and coarse noodles would I have to buy?
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