Ning Meng, no, she should be called Tao Tao now.
She spent a whole month in confinement accepting the fact that she had been reborn as a baby and also learning about the era she had traveled to.
Although the scene before me is still incredibly blurry, at least my hearing is better than my eyesight. The nation of Huaxia was only established last National Day, and it's not even a year old this year.
Tao Tao was born on March 12, 1950, when the peach blossoms were at their best. Because of her arrival, her mother specially brewed peach blossom wine before her full moon and buried it under the peach tree in the yard.
She is currently located in a place where the north and south meet, because they grow rice, corn, and wheat here.
Her adoptive parents were business owners; they ran a small tavern. Her mother sold the liquor, while her father and grandfather brewed it. Her grandmother was in poor health, so she focused on taking care of her, the infant.
The old lady's voice sounded kind and gentle, unlike the sharp and sarcastic voice I heard when I was born.
The older brothers went to school in town; the oldest was ten and the youngest was only three.
The whole family is kind, harmonious, and respectful of each other; they are a rare and wonderful family.
She learned from their conversation that she was sent to this family because the lady of the house had a dream.
I dreamt that this lucky star was about to descend upon Peach Blossom Village, but I didn't know which household it would be, and the time would probably be around February or March.
So she inquired and met Xiao Jiu's grandmother while doing so, and that's how the connection was made.
Although it was a gift, how could a shrewd businessman like him possibly leave her a way out?
Since this child was a lucky star, and their family wasn't short of money, they bought her back for one million.
The first set of currency had a larger value; ten thousand yuan was equivalent to one yuan in the second set of currency. So, one million yuan sounds like an astronomical price, but it was actually just one hundred yuan.
One hundred yuan is nothing to the Tao family who are in business, but it is an astronomical figure to the Tang family in Taoyuan Village.
When I first brought the money home, it filled a whole large sack, and it was quite heavy.
Fortunately, Tang Cuihua wasn't stupid. She didn't dare to go back to the village during the day, but secretly carried a basket back to their own home at night. She didn't dare to let the news slip to her grandparents either.
That night, Tang's parents and three daughters squatted on the floor of the main room, staring at a sack of money. No one could believe it was real.
"Are you sure it's for us? Cuihua, don't try to fool me. How many lifetimes would it take us to earn this much money?"
Cuihua had already figured it out on the way home carrying the money.
"Mom, the reason they gave us money is because they don't want us to have anything to do with Xiao Jiu in the future."
I refused to accept the child at the time, but they insisted that I take the child back with me.
I almost took Xiao Jiu back with me, but they said, "Now that the child is with our Tao family, we will definitely raise her as our own. You've seen our family's conditions; aren't they better than yours? The child won't suffer with us. Just put your fingerprint on this piece of paper, and this sack of money is yours. We will also raise the child."
"The Tao family lived in a large courtyard, with a tavern in the front and residences in the back. They were very well-off."
The key is that they have four sons, so they'll definitely treat our Xiao Jiu well.
So I... pressed my fingerprint and carried the money back.
"Dad, Mom, this is the money from selling Xiao Jiu! You can't give it to Grandma!"
These words were like a wake-up call. Cao Amei suddenly realized what was happening, grabbed the sack in front of her, and glared angrily at Tang Youtian with red eyes.
“This is my daughter’s money. You won’t get a single penny of it. Don’t you think about how she almost strangled my daughters when they were born? If it weren’t for her, would I have been able to send my daughters away?”
"Back then, if I hadn't woken up early, she would have been eaten by pigs. That heartless old woman, she was the least qualified to call my daughter 'Grandma.' Is there such a vicious grandmother in the world?"
"Just because I can't have a son, look what she's done to our family!"
You have four brothers, and although you are the youngest, you have suffered the most.
Tang Youtian, I'm telling you this right now: if you want this family to fall apart, get out and take good care of your heartless parents!
Tang Youtian was a man of courage, and this was the first time he had ever been scolded by his wife. He grabbed her hair and pulled her up from the ground.
"Cao Amei, Cao Amei, you've gotten quite bold! You dare to yell at me like that?"
The family is broken up? Do you think we still have a family after you started giving birth to daughters for me?
Whose fault is it that I can't hold my head up in front of my parents and siblings, and that the villagers gossip and laugh at me behind my back?
How dare you insult my parents? Who do you think you are?
If I don't give this money to my parents and nephews, am I supposed to give it to you bunch of money-losing brats?
Get out of my way! If you dare block my way again, I'll beat you to a pulp!
"Also, don't talk about yourself so highly. You say my mother is heartless, but aren't you heartless too?"
One daughter after another comes along, and you've become numb to it all. You don't even want them anymore. You haven't drowned them because you're afraid of getting them involved. You don't let my mother do anything, and you call her heartless. But it's all for your own peace of mind.
"Stop pretending you're afraid of nightmares. You know perfectly well whether you sold those girls or gave them away."
"Tang Youtian, don't wrong me. Our eldest son sent our daughter away. She knows better than anyone whether we have money or not."
"You're kidding me. Your family won't ask for money in advance, otherwise how will your brother get a wife?"
"Given your family's circumstances, come on, tell me, where did your family get the money to pay for your wife's wedding?"
“You…” Cao Amei was speechless, unable to utter a word. Tang Youtian gave a disgusting sneer, “Keep pretending, keep pretending. You want my mother to be the bad guy while you play the good guy? Cao Amei, you’re the most ruthless one. But why is this time so strange? Your daughter actually brought back this million. Where did things go wrong? Hmm?”
The previous children were clearly sold for money as well.
As for why the money wasn't taken by the mother-in-law but taken back by Tang Cuihua, it was actually Cao Amei's own request.
She never intended to ask for money from the beginning. She already felt incredibly guilty after selling the previous five children, and she didn't plan to have any more after this one. So, with the idea of doing a good deed as the last one, she didn't let her mother ask the seller for money.
Unexpectedly, she didn't want it, but the other person gave it to her and even had her eldest daughter carry it back.
Cao Amei was momentarily dazed, and images of each of her daughters being born and being sent away suddenly flashed through her mind...
These girls were taken away by Tang Cuihua. Later, she also asked her girls to inquire about them. When she learned that they were not doing well, she was sad. But when she thought about her own life now, she realized that she was not doing well either.
Gradually, they stopped caring whether it was good or bad, and felt even less guilty.
They should blame themselves for being girls, for not being born into the right family. If they had been born as boys, they wouldn't have suffered so much in their lives.
So all of this is their own fault, and has nothing to do with her.
Tang Cuihua, Tang Zhaodi, and Tang Pandi, the three daughters, seemed to have long been accustomed to their parents fighting.
In the past, my mother would just hit me and not dare to fight back, but this time it was a whole sack of money. Would she let it go?
No matter how Tang Youtian hit her, she wouldn't give up, and even fought back.
While the couple was fighting, Tang Cuihua looked at her two younger sisters and mouthed to them, "What should we do?"
We definitely can't let Dad take the money away like that.
If the money is just given away like this, not only will this family not gain anything, but Tang Youtian's idea of having his nephews support him in his old age will also be a joke.
Why not rely on his own daughter, but on those nephews who only treat him like livestock?
Only Tang Youtian, who was completely bewitched, believed that as long as he treated his nephew well, his nephew would definitely treat him well in return.
If this matter hadn't been so significant, Tang Cuihua wouldn't have been able to get the money back so easily.
She initially wanted to leave it at her maternal grandmother's house, but she was afraid that her uncles would take it away.
After all, she couldn't really say she didn't know that her mother had sold several of her younger sisters to help her uncle get a wife; she was just pretending not to know.
She thought she was lucky to have stayed in the family and not been sold by her heartless mother.
But now it seems that they are no different from the other sisters.
They work like oxen and horses, from dawn till dusk, and even the chickens at home live better lives than them.
Now that her parents are fighting over this money, Tang Cuihua feels more and more that this money is a curse.
She had been unwilling to believe and resisted believing the things that happened in her dreams.
But now, one thing after another proves that these parents are extremely selfish, incompetent, blindly filial, and lazy...
She examined them meticulously, from top to bottom and from left to right, but couldn't find any redeeming qualities in them.
Even if there's just the slightest thing about me that deserves their respect, that would be enough!
Haha, no, that's really not true.
Money is indeed a scourge, but every household is inseparable from it. It's a scourge that can buy food, so who wouldn't want it?
So, taking advantage of her parents' inattention, Tang Cuihua picked up the sack and left, leaving her two younger sisters to cover her retreat.
"Quickly, lock them in the house and let them calm down. Ask them if they want the whole village to know. I'll be right back."
Tang Cuihua put the sack back into her basket, then picked up a hoe and went out in the dark.
"Second sister, where is eldest sister going?"
The two sisters stood in front of the door, ignoring their parents' shouts and curses from inside. Tang Zhaodi even cursed her own parents.
"You two can keep howling all you want, the better if you can make the whole village know that you sold my sister."
One wanted to give the money to her nephew, while the other wanted to leave the money to help her brother from her maternal family.
Father and Mother, open your eyes and look carefully. Who are your true family members?
"If you can count on your nephews, believe me, I'll cut my head off and let you kick it around like a ball!"
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