Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Wedding
Yu Li woke up from the darkness and instantly caught the sound of breathing in the house.
Someone!
She quickly reached out and grabbed the man's neck, and was about to break it when she suddenly felt the touch of her fingertips.
Yu Li’s hands froze.
At this moment, a flood of memories flooded into her mind, causing her head to ache. In a moment, she broke out in a cold sweat.
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Yu Li is a new human being born after the end of the world.
The so-called new humans are genetic warriors trained as weapons. They are all born in the research institute, have no parents or relatives, and are sent to training camps when they are three years old.
She stayed in the training camp for more than ten years. When she turned fifteen, she joined the cleanup team and went out of the city to eliminate pollutants and alien species.
From the age of fifteen to twenty-five, Yu Li fought against various pollutants and alien species until she unfortunately died in a clearing mission.
Yu Li was not surprised by this. In the past ten years, she had carried out countless clearing missions and suffered countless injuries. Her body had long been contaminated. Even if she did not die in the mission, her body would collapse and die one day due to the excessive pollution level in the body. It was just the difference between dying early and dying late.
But she didn't expect that she would be alive again.
She is now a peasant girl named "Yu Li", the eldest daughter of the second branch of the Yu family in Qingshi Village.
The surname Yu is a common surname in Qingshi Village, and there are quite a few people in the Yu family.
Old Man Yu and Old Lady Yu had five children, three sons and two daughters. One of the two daughters married in the county town and the other married in the next village. The three sons each married and had children, and the population of the Yu family increased.
Yu Lao Da was the first child and was loved extremely by Old Master Yu and his wife. Even the wife they married was the daughter of a scholar from the next village.
Yu Lao Da and his wife had four children, three sons and one daughter. Except for the daughter and the youngest son, the two older sons were sent to study in a private school in the county town.
Perhaps it was because the parents placed all their love and hopes on the eldest son. As the second child born in the Yu family, Yu Laoer's situation was completely opposite to that of his elder brother.
Yu Laoer is a dull person. He is not good at speaking and just buries himself in his work.
Old Master Yu and his wife did not like their dull second son, but they were not overly harsh on him. When the second son grew up, they chose Liu, a woman who had fled from the north, as his wife.
Yu Laoer and his wife also have four children. Unlike Yu Laoda who has both a son and a daughter, Yu Laoer's four children are all daughters.
Liu's personality is similar to her husband's, she is an honest and decent person. Perhaps it is because she gave birth to only daughters after marrying into the Yu family and has no sons, so she feels very insecure. She also only knows how to work hard, for fear of being disliked by her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law.
Especially since Yu Lao San and his wife got married after them and gave birth to three sons in succession, Liu became even more depressed.
As the eldest daughter of the second wife, Yu Li not only has to help with housework, but also has to take care of her younger sisters. It can be said that she eats little and works a lot, and is born to be a hard-working person.
When she was fifteen years old, she should have started looking for a marriage partner. However, because the Yu family had to support two scholars in the eldest house, which cost a lot of money every year, Old Lady Yu set her sights on her granddaughter. Because the betrothal gift she asked for was too high, all the people who had originally wanted to propose marriage backed out.
As a result, Yu Li did not get married until he was seventeen years old.
The Yu family didn't care about this. The Yu family hadn't split up yet, so keeping her at home to do the work would make things easier for everyone.
Until a few days ago, Yu Laosan's wife brought back a piece of news that the Fu family in the same village planned to spend twenty taels of silver to go to Wa City to buy a little girl to bring back as a blessing for their sick son.
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The Fu family moved to Qingshi Village three years ago.
The old lady Zhou of the Fu family was originally from Qingshi Village. When she was a child, she could not make ends meet due to the disaster, so she had to sell herself into a slave. It was said that she was sold to the north.
After many years, Zhou returned to Qingshi Village again. Not only was she a widow, she also brought back a sick son and two grandsons.
Zhou was also a miserable person.
The family she sold her body to was a wealthy family in the north. Later, when she was old enough, she redeemed her body and married a local merchant named Fu. She gave birth to two sons and lived a very promising life.
But suddenly, something happened to the Fu family and her husband and eldest son died unexpectedly.
The family suddenly lost its two pillars. Zhou was weak in character, the youngest son was frail, and the two children left by the eldest son were even younger. The huge family business was likely to be coveted by the jackals and tigers outside.
Zhou had no choice but to sell her property and return home with her youngest son and two grandsons.
Perhaps because she had lost her husband and eldest son, Zhou attached great importance to her youngest son.
Fu Wenxiao, the youngest son of the Fu family, was a sickly child. It was said that he had the disease since his mother's womb. He had taken many medicines since he was a child, but none of them could cure him. Thanks to the Fu family's wealth, they were able to provide him with good medicine and food, allowing him to live smoothly to adulthood.
As for her youngest son, Zhou would rather spend money to raise him well.
Unfortunately, Fu Wenxiao's health was not good. He was sick and recuperating all year round and rarely got out of bed. Villagers rarely saw him, and many said that he might not live long.
That’s indeed the case.
Not long ago, news came out that Fu Wenxiao was seriously ill, and this time his illness was particularly serious.
Seeing that the patient was about to die, even the doctors in the county town told them to prepare for his funeral. Zhou was so grief-stricken that she heard from someone that a wedding for a new marriage would be helpful, and she actually wanted to find a wedding for Fu Wenxiao.
When Yu Laosan's wife Wang accidentally learned that Zhou actually wanted to spend twenty taels of silver to go to Wa City to buy a little maid to bring back for Fu Wenxiao to get married, she became excited.
When she got home, she said to her husband, "In our country, marrying a wife costs less than twenty taels. Aunt Zhou is willing to spend this much money to buy a girl in the city. With this money, it is better to find one in the country."
That's twenty taels, enough to buy an acre of good paddy field.
Yu Laosan's heart moved and he understood what his wife meant.
At this time, Wang said, "Didn't Li Niang from the second house never propose marriage? At the beginning, mother asked for 20 taels of betrothal money, and those who proposed marriage withdrew..."
When a countryman wants to marry, the dowry for some of them is only ten taels of silver. Even the poorest ones can marry a good wife with three or five taels of silver. Twenty taels is indeed an astronomical figure for a country family.
Yu Laosan is a man of quick thinking.
There was no other way. He had two older brothers. The eldest brother was the eldest son and was the most valued by his parents. No matter how hard he tried, he could not surpass the eldest brother. As for the second brother, he was stupid and only knew how to work hard, living like an old cow. He did not want to be like the second brother, working like a cow at home, living such a hard life but getting nothing good. So he could only find benefits for himself.
If this marriage can be made, he should be able to get a few taels of silver from his parents for the twenty taels, right?
Even if he couldn't get the money out, he could negotiate with the old lady and save the money so that he could pay it into the public treasury when he went out to work.
The Yu family had not yet split up, and all the family money was in the hands of the old lady. The brothers had to hand over the money they earned from doing odd jobs in the county town to the public treasury, and they didn't have much left for themselves.
Thinking of this, Yu Laosan became excited.
There is nothing wrong with this marriage. As for the opinions of the second wife and Yu Li? That is not important.
So Yu Laosan went to Old Lady Yu and talked to her, and successfully convinced her.
In the mind of old lady Yu, all the girls in the family were money-losing goods. When her two daughters were married off, she asked for a lot of dowry. Now it was her granddaughter's turn, and the dowry could not be less either.
Yu Li was her first granddaughter, and Old Lady Yu had already made up her mind that when she proposed marriage, the betrothal gift must not be less than twenty taels. With these twenty taels, the family would be a little better off. After all, their family had two scholars to support, and no amount of money would be enough.
Old Mrs. Yu went to find Zhou immediately.
When Zhou heard her purpose, she was very surprised, but she was not happy. Instead, she looked embarrassed and told Mrs. Yu truthfully: "My son Xiao is seriously ill. The doctor said that he may not live long. I can't delay an innocent girl. Why don't I go to the city of Tile and buy one..."
Nowadays, it’s not like they can’t survive, so which girl would be willing to marry a dying man?
Those who would sell themselves as slaves in Wa City were generally poor people who could not make ends meet and would not care about marrying a dying person. This was also the reason why Zhou wanted to go to Wa to buy a little girl to bring back for her son.
Old Mrs. Yu immediately said that Li Niang in their family didn't mind these things.
She said enthusiastically: "Sister, my Li Niang is a capable woman who can handle everything around the house. If she marries you, you will have a lot of work to do. She is very strong and can even farm... We are all from the same village and know each other well. Instead of going to the market to hire someone you don't know, you might as well hire my Li Niang..."
Zhou was a soft-hearted person with no ideas. How could she bear to hear what Old Madam Yu said? Besides, Fu Wenxiao was really seriously ill this time and had been in a coma for several days. She was tormented, otherwise she would not have thought of the idea of getting married to bring good luck.
Just as he was hesitating, he heard Old Lady Yu say mysteriously, "Oh, you don't know, actually, when Li Niang was a child, a fortune teller once said that she was destined to turn misfortune into fortune and turn disaster into blessing. No matter which man marries her in the future, he will benefit from it, so misfortune will turn into fortune... Otherwise, why do you think I want so much betrothal money to marry my granddaughter? It's because any man who marries Li Niang will take advantage of her, and I won't let him go..."
Turn misfortune into good fortune?
A blessing in disguise?
This is what Zhou wanted most now. She was so anxious about Fu Wenxiao's illness that she agreed to the marriage immediately.
Originally, she bought a little girl to bring good luck. If that's the case, then why not give her youngest son a girl with a good fortune to bring good luck. Maybe she can really save the person.
She doesn't expect anything now. As long as Xiao Ge'er can survive, she is willing to do anything.
In this way, Zhou gave the Yu family twenty taels of silver as a betrothal gift and married Yu Li to her unconscious youngest son Fu Wenxiao.
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This was a marriage decided by Old Lady Yu herself, and even Old Second Yu and his wife could not object.
As for Yu Li, no one would ask for her opinion.
Probably because Fu Wenxiao just couldn't wait any longer, it took only three days from the time the marriage was decided to when Yu Li got married. Yu Li just carried a small package and married into the Fu family to bring good luck.
Originally, Yu Li's personality was as dull as her parents. No one in the Yu family would ask for her opinion. She would just bury her head in work, and like her parents, she considered herself the workhorse of the Yu family.
Even on the day of her wedding, she was busy from morning to night.
The wedding was simple and was held in the evening. The Yu family would naturally not let her do nothing just because she was about to get married. She just did what she was supposed to do.
The summer sun was extremely hot. Yu Li still had to go to collect grass for pigs in the afternoon. The sun made her dizzy. By the afternoon, she began to feel uncomfortable, with a swollen head, nausea and vomiting, and her face looked very ugly.
When she was sent to the Fu family in the evening, it was late and no one noticed her ugly face.
At night, Yu Li lay in bed in a daze and never woke up again.
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