Chapter 1: The Third Married Daughter Su Wanwan
On the seventh day of May, everything is unfavorable.
After a round of beating of gongs and drums, Su Wanwan was pushed by the crowd into the Pei family's small house which was leaky on all sides.
She was wearing a bright red cotton dress and had pink rouge on her face, which made her face look even whiter and more charming like a fairy.
The guests who came to watch the ceremony were whispering to each other, some of them were envious of the bride's beauty, and some of them were gloating over her misfortune.
"I've heard that Su Wanwan is beautiful. I didn't expect that she is really like a fairy. It's worth it for Pei Changfeng to die to marry such a beautiful bride!"
"But he only has one breath left. Who knows if he can make it to the wedding night."
"If I can make it through, then the three taels of silver will be worth it hehehe..."
"That's definitely not possible. Su Wanwan has killed two men! How can Brother Pei withstand her?"
Listening to the discussions of the crowd, Su Wanwan lowered her head lower and lower. This was her third time getting married.
An ordinary woman would be gossiped about for the rest of her life even if she remarried. But she not only married for the third time, but also killed two of her husbands. She will never be able to hold her head up high for the rest of her life.
Pei Changfeng's aunt held Su Wanwan's hand affectionately, hoping that she was really an unlucky star and would kill Pei Changfeng quickly. As long as Pei Changfeng died, all the things he left behind would be theirs.
"Go away, go away, what nonsense are you talking about!" Aunt Pei glared at the people around her, "Our Changfeng is fine, if you keep talking nonsense, I will tear your mouths apart!"
After being scolded by Aunt Pei, everyone around fell silent. In fact, they all knew in their hearts that Su Wanwan was a tough person and that the idea of fighting poison with poison was nonsense. She might kill Pei Changfeng soon.
It's a pity for Pei Changfeng. He was the only scholar in their area of the village, and also a student on government stipend. If he hadn't fallen off the mountain at the beginning of the year and then became bedridden, he might have passed the imperial examination and become an official.
Uncle Pei and his family just couldn't accept the reality. After all, they had raised Pei Changfeng as their own son. Now Pei Changfeng was no different from a dead person. They were still serving him diligently, hoping that he would wake up soon.
The village chief sighed, sincerely hoping that Pei Changfeng would get better. After all, the child was well-educated. Even if he could not study and take the imperial examination in the future, he could open a school in the village to teach the children.
Because it was a new bride who was married for good fortune, the Pei family did not hold a banquet. They only invited a few people to beat gongs to liven up the atmosphere. After everyone left, Aunt Pei looked at Su Wanwan expectantly, then closed the door and left, preparing to come and collect Pei Changfeng's body tomorrow.
After everyone left, Su Wanwan took a deep breath at the door, then pushed it open, ready to meet her third husband.
Her first husband was a hunter in the village. He was strong and powerful, with the muscles in his arms harder than rocks. However, before she even entered the house, she fell off the mountain and was eaten to pieces by wolves.
The second husband was a literate scholar from the next village, who worked as a waiter in a restaurant in the town. He was smart and tactful, and he worked hard to save up ten taels of silver just to marry her. However, as soon as she stepped into his house, he suddenly died with convulsions in his hands and feet.
From then on, Su Wanwan became famous for being a unlucky woman, and no one dared to visit her anymore. Even her first two pairs of parents-in-law kept their distance from her and refused to acknowledge her as their daughter-in-law.
The third husband now... No matter what Pei Changfeng is like, if the third husband is killed by her, she will shave her head and become a nun, and never bring harm to others again.
It was already summer and the air was filled with stuffiness. Su Wanwan stepped over the threshold and saw someone sleeping on the bed.
The doors and windows in the room were closed, and there was an indescribable strange smell. Su Wanwan dry-heaved and almost vomited. She hurriedly opened the window to get some fresh air, then looked at Pei Changfeng on the bed with a pale face.
She had heard of Pei Changfeng from the matchmaker in the village. He was said to be an extremely capable man, handsome and with a bright future. All kinds of praise were heaped on him, and all the unmarried women in the surrounding villages wanted to marry him.
Although she had never seen Pei Changfeng, she knew that the skinny man on the bed was very different from the Pei Xiucai that everyone talked about!
A thick quilt pressed against Pei Changfeng, and his breathing became weaker and weaker. Although his face was thin, his bone structure was superior and his features were beautiful. In this situation, he looked even more pitiful.
Su Wanwan couldn't bear it. It was like seeing the cat she once took care of. She suddenly felt pity for the husband she met for the first time.
It is really unfortunate that such a person was tortured by illness and became like this.
Su Wanwan carefully pulled off the thick quilt on him, her brows furrowed tighter and tighter. She could smell the unspeakable odor getting stronger and stronger, and she couldn't help but run to open the window.
Pei Changfeng was wearing old clothes that were from an unknown time and had not been washed for who knows how long. They were soaked with sweat and smelled sour.
Su Wanwan was very sad. Everyone in Peijia Village said how well Uncle Pei's family treated Pei Changfeng after he fell ill, but if they were really well, they wouldn't have kept him like this!
Seeing Pei Changfeng's sunken belly, and wondering how long he had not eaten, Su Wanwan wiped her tears. Since she had married into the family, even if she was only Pei Changfeng's wife for one day, she had to take good care of him!
She held Pei Changfeng's dry and thin hand and said, "Don't worry, since I'm marrying you, I will definitely take good care of you!"
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It was afternoon and every household was cooking. When they saw Su Wanwan coming out, they all poked their heads out of the house. Could it be that Pei Changfeng died so soon?
Su Wanwan asked all the way to Uncle Pei's house. When Aunt Pei opened the door and saw her, she immediately pinched her thigh and burst into tears, "Changfeng! How could you just disappear like this!"
Uncle Pei and Pei Yaozu, who were eating in the room, looked at each other and ran over, "Is the person really gone?"
Seeing their reactions, Su Wanwan felt more and more that her guesses were correct. Seeing that everyone around her was looking over, she calmly said, "Changfeng is still alive."
Uncle Pei's family felt a little disappointed. Uncle Pei's wife wiped away her non-existent tears and scolded, "Why don't you serve him well? Let me tell you, our family spent three taels of silver to marry you, so you have to treat Changfeng like an emperor and serve him! Don't leave him even a step!"
Hearing what Aunt Pei said, Su Wanwan smiled with a bright face, and Pei Yaozu stared at her.
"It's like this, my husband's room is empty, there's nothing in it, I came here to ask if my aunt helped to put it away before?"
An aunt nearby couldn't help but ask, "What do you mean, Changfeng?"
"My husband..." Su Wanwan choked up, her eyes red. "There's not even a quilt or a grain of rice in the room. There are only a few sets of clothes. But this is my husband. Even if he's poor, I accept it. I'll go borrow some rice from my aunt first. But if she helps me put it away, I'll move back."
Aunt Li stared at Uncle Pei's wife and said in a bad tone, "Mr. Pei, Changfeng is a scholar. He gets a subsidy from the government every month. How could his family not have a grain of rice? Where did you collect the money for the child? Give it to him!"
The people around also echoed the sentiment. Uncle Pei's family looked unhappy. They had moved all their things here after Pei Changfeng fell into a coma, but they had never thought of moving them back.
Aunt Pei murmured reluctantly, "What a good daughter-in-law. She knew to ask for something for her husband as soon as she entered the house."
Uncle Pei coughed unhappily and smiled kindly at Su Wanwan, "Okay, we're afraid that the things will accumulate dust in the house, so we moved them here first. Wait, we'll move them out for you."
As soon as she entered the house, Aunt Pei cursed in a low voice, "Are you crazy? Do you really want to return all these things?"
Uncle Pei glared at her and said, "Pei Changfeng won't live for many days anyway, so won't all these things belong to us? You idiot!"
Aunt Pei agreed, but she still didn't want to return it, so she took out a thin quilt and half a bag of rice from the house and said, "Good boy, you can't take more, so take these back first."
Su Wanwan felt that her fate was miserable. Every man she married died, but she was well-known in the neighboring village for being a tough girl who was not easy to bully. She looked at Aunt Pei with tears in her eyes and said with thorns, "So, there are things from my family left here, Aunt?"
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