Chapter 6 At this time, if she doesn’t go, who will?
Three months later, in a small border town in the northwest.
Dingxi County, Luobei Village.
"What?"
"Is this the kind of place we're going to live in?!"
Arriving covered in mud and sand, Second Aunt Xu collapsed and said, "This is just a small space? How can we possibly live here?"
Aunt Xu, who always maintained the pride of a scholar, couldn't help but say, "Yes, there are so many people in our family..."
But what stood before him was a hopeless hut.
Three months ago, this shabby house would have been looked down upon by not only the master of the Xu family but also the servants of the Xu family.
The jailer who had escorted them had already gone home. The man who had led the way smiled wryly and said, "Oh, my aunts, this is good enough!"
The Xu family has committed the great crime of treason. Although there are many old acquaintances and friends, who would dare to show up at this time and risk being punished by the emperor?
Although the emperor did not sentence the Xu family to do hard labor, according to the rules, the Xu family members were exiled to Dingxi and had to fend for themselves. Not to mention living in a thatched hut, even if they were left on the streets, they deserved it.
The small thatched cottage in front of us was provided by the old friend of the Marquis in the army who took the risk to help us.
There really is no more.
This man was a straightforward person. He couldn't bear to hear the Xu family women complaining about having their ears pierced. He pulled Xu Yu to the side and whispered, "Brother, this is all I can arrange for you."
"My general said, if you can endure and survive, then there is still hope for the future. But if you can't endure, then..."
"Thank you very much."
Xu Yu knew exactly what he was going to say next. He clasped his hands together, bowed deeply, and said hoarsely, "Xu Yu knows."
"Hey, hey, hey, I just did it by chance, I don't deserve your politeness."
The man glanced at the crowd at the door, sighed, and said, "Take care of yourself."
"This damn place is very quiet except for being poor. No one will come to disturb us. You will have to deal with the rest of the matter on your own."
It's a favor to take a risk and help once, but it's not your duty to take risks again and again.
Xu Yu had to walk the rest of the way alone.
Xu Yu felt that it was not easy to help at this time, so he thanked them again and again and personally saw them out of the village.
The despised Sang Zhixia sat under the big tree at the door, holding her chin and sighing quietly.
More than three months passed, and she and Xu Yu, the fake couple, maintained a close but distant relationship. They could talk to each other, but they were not particularly familiar with each other.
Of course, she was even less familiar with the other members of the Xu family.
After all the trouble, she was really tired.
But how come these people are so energetic???
There was a commotion in the courtyard of the hut.
Aunt Xu looked carefully. The thatched cottage had two entrances and two exits, one main room, an extension of the backyard, a slightly more spacious room on the east side, and three side rooms side by side on the west side. In other words, there were six rooms in total.
It would be enough for a small family to live in, but the Xu family is large.
Three months of exile had completely wiped out Aunt Xu's noble airs. At this moment, she didn't care about anything else and spat in the direction where the man was going away.
"Who can live in this chicken coop-like place?"
The old lady's face also looked very ugly.
"Is this really the only solution? Can't Xu Yu think of another solution?"
The old man said coldly, "You've lived in the wilderness before, so why don't you like this thatched cottage?"
The old man was completely devastated by what happened to his eldest son. He was sick and in low spirits on the road, and rarely spoke.
But he is the backbone of the family after all.
No one in the Xu family dared to refute what he said for the time being.
Aunt Xu bit her lower lip unwillingly: "But this house is not much better than the wilderness!"
Xu Wenxiu had been subjected to a lot of gossip over the past three months. Knowing she wasn't welcome, she quickly grabbed a child and whispered, "I can live with the children."
"What are you saying, sister-in-law? If you don't take it with you, who can help you take it with you?"
Second Aunt Xu said sarcastically, "You still think this is the main courtyard of the Marquis's Mansion? Not to mention that you want to take these two little ones with you, even Xu Yu and the others should find a place to squeeze in!"
"Anyway, we two will occupy one room. Minghui is sixteen now, and he might get married soon. He'll have one room, and Mingyang will have another!"
As soon as she opened her mouth, she was about to leave.
Aunt Xu San saw this and quickly said, "We need two at home too! Yanran is already eight years old, she definitely can't come with us!"
There are only six rooms in total. The main room belongs to the old lady and the old man. After the division, there is only a cowshed that is uninhabitable!
Xu Wenxiu smiled awkwardly: "Mingxu and Jinxi can squeeze in anywhere next to me, but..."
"But Yu'er is already married. They can't live with us."
A married couple, even if their family is not well-off, should have their own room.
Where would a newlywed couple sleep next to the mother-in-law?
She mustered up the courage to say something, but as soon as she said it, Aunt Xu scolded her, "What does it have to do with us?"
"Sister-in-law, don't forget, for whom did we suffer all these hardships? If it weren't for my brother's stupidity, we would still be living peacefully in the spacious mansion of the Marquis!"
The fact that her husband had committed treason was the most painful thing in Xu Wenxiu's heart. Once Second Aunt Xu brought it up, she would always be successful.
Seeing his mother being stabbed and tears streaming down his face, and his two-year-old sister crying out of fear, six-year-old Xu Mingxu immediately said, "Don't say that about my mother!"
"Did I say something wrong?!"
Second Aunt Xu was furious: "I am your Second Aunt, the one implicated by your father! How dare you yell at me, you little bastard?!"
"Sister-in-law, why are you being so mean to the child?"
"What's wrong with me?!"
Aunt Xu's long-suppressed anger finally erupted, her face flushed and her neck thick with anger as she shouted, "If it weren't for your family, would we have fallen to this point?"
"Don't you see who caused this?"
Uncle Xu, who had wanted to interrupt, looked a little gloomier when he heard the voice.
The old lady and the old man were also silent.
Xu Mingxu was young after all, and was so frightened by her yelling that tears started to well up in his eyes. Xu Jinxi was already hiccuping from crying.
Seeing that the weak and young mother and her two children were about to burst into tears, and Xu Yu showed no sign of returning, Sang Zhixia outside the door could not bear it anymore.
No, she doesn't want to live with her mother-in-law.
She needs to stand up and speak out bravely.
"When you enjoy happiness, you have no choice but to shoulder your responsibilities. When you take responsibility, you divide it among yourselves. Does that mean that the suffering is borne by others, and the sweet fruits are enjoyed by all of you?"
She patted the wooden door, which had accumulated dust for who knows how many years, and said with a sigh, "Second Aunt is right. This shabby hut is probably not big enough for so many people. We might as well just scrape it open and bring the outside path in as well."
"It would be so nice if we could all go out and sleep on the pavement together. We wouldn't have to think the place was too small if we slept on the ground under the roof. We could see the sunlight during the day and the moon at night. Just imagine how spacious it would be."
After she had finished bullying her second aunt, she walked over and helped her mother-in-law, who was crying so hard that she couldn't get up from the ground. She hooked her foot and turned over a small broken stool, helped her sit down, and picked up a hiccuping baby.
She wiped the tears from Xu Jinxi's face with amusement, patted Xu Mingxu's head, and said subtly: "Okay, don't cry."
She cried so much that if you didn't know, you would think there was a funeral on the first day the family moved in.
Aunt Xu didn't expect her to be so aggressive. After a moment's pause, she angrily said, "Do you have the right to interrupt when the elders are talking?!"
"But Second Aunt also needs to act like an elder."
Sang Zhixia raised her eyebrows unwillingly, "Second Aunt, you were the one who started the quarrel."
She finally figured it out.
Xu Yu is a mute who rarely speaks, and his mother-in-law is a woman made of water.
The combined age of her brother and sister-in-law is less than two palms, and her role in the makeshift family here is to be the talker.
At this time, if she doesn't go, who will?
Fortunately, Sang Zhixia was experienced in talking nonsense, and with just a few words, he made Aunt Xu green with anger.
She ignored the gloomy expressions of the old man and the old lady and sneered, "I think Second Aunt is very dissatisfied. I'm afraid she won't tolerate the eldest family."
"If I say we can't go on, we should just split up the family and make our own. That way we don't have to hate each other."
"Grandfather, Grandma, what do you two say?"
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