Zhao Chuchu was addicted to drinking and frequenting brothels. Naturally, she was unwilling to get married and be bound by family ties. This dragged on until she was now twenty years old. Not long ago, because Mrs. Zhao had damaged her health from hunting when she was young, she finally couldn't bear it and passed away.
Zhao Chuchu is the only one left in the Zhao family.
After burying Lady Zhao, Zhao Chuchu sold the blue-tiled house immediately. In this backward village where most people live in adobe houses and thatched houses, blue-tiled houses are not something that ordinary people can afford.
The blue-tiled house was sold for fifty-four taels. Today, the original owner took fifty taels. She planned to go to Renhe County to redeem the freedom of a young prostitute she liked.
Just as they were walking to the Zhang family, Zhao Chuchu, who came from the end of the modern world, came over.
There is no such thing as redeeming a prostitute.
She fell in love with Yuan Ge'er at first sight and thought it would be perfect for her to marry him.
Although I don't understand how she traveled into this body, the original owner's soul seems to be gone, and she will survive in this world in his place.
In modern times, she was an orphan who grew up in an orphanage and later went through great pains to get into college.
She is good-looking and many people confessed their love to her in high school and college, but she rejected them all.
The environment she grew up in made her long for a warm home, but she didn't like those people, didn't fall in love with them, and had no plans to start a family with them.
Later, the end of the world came and it was difficult to survive, let alone fall in love.
Now, she traveled to the Great Sheng Dynasty and fell in love with Zhang Xiuyuan at first sight. She thought that this was probably the fate that transcended time and space.
The adobe house in front of you is where Madam Zhao lived many years ago before the green-tiled house was built. After she moved into the green-tiled house, this old house became empty.
The middle of the adobe house is the main hall, with two main rooms on the left, and the kitchen, storage room, and toilet on the right.
The adobe house is surrounded by a fence forming a small courtyard with a wooden door installed on the fence.
Not long after Zhao Chuchu traveled through time, the original owner had just sold the blue-tiled house, and other necessities of life were thrown in the yard of the old house and had not been sorted out yet.
The old house had not been inhabited for many years and was covered with dust. When Zhao Chuchu walked around casually, the dust flew everywhere. She quickly covered her mouth and nose with her sleeves.
There is a wooden bed in the room, unlike the green-tiled house which has a kang, so you can burn a fire dragon to keep warm in winter.
There are two main rooms, and the house is narrow. Zhao Chuchu was dumbfounded when she thought that after she married Zhang Xiuyuan, several members of the Zhang family would come over.
This little shabby house is not big enough to live in.
Let’s talk about this later. Now let’s clean the house first, otherwise I won’t be able to sleep tonight.
Wrapping his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, Zhao Chuchu began to clean. He also cleaned up the storage room. The two rooms were not enough for sleeping, so the storage room could be used after cleaning it up, although it was a bit small.
While Zhao Chuchu was cleaning up the old house, the atmosphere in Zhang Xiuyuan's house was a little solemn and sad.
A strong smell of medicine filled the air in the house.
The Zhang family fled here with little money, so they settled in Zhaojia Village. They barely bought a small piece of land and built a simple thatched house.
At this time, a simple mourning hall was set up in the thatched hut, with a coffin placed there. Lying in the coffin was the wife of the Zhang family, Zhang Xiuyuan's mother, who had died of an acute illness two days ago.
On a wooden bed not far away, a man with a broken leg lay. He was the husband of Zhang's wife, and the father of Zhang Xiuyuan and the others. He had a handsome face, and even though he was middle-aged, his eyebrows and eyes were still beautiful.
At this time, he was lying sick, his eyes always fixed on the coffin, with sadness hidden in his eyes.
Mr. Zhang, who already had a broken leg, found it difficult to accept the sudden death of his wife and fell ill.
At this time, a little girl about seven or eight years old walked in cautiously with medicine in her hand.
"Dad, it's time to take the medicine."
Mr. Zhang slowly turned his head and asked, "Sister Lin, where are your elder brother and Brother Wen?"
"They, they are outside."
"Go and call your elder brother in."
"good."
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In the kitchen, Zhang Xiuyuan was cooking.
Although it is called cooking, it is actually just porridge made with brown rice, wild vegetables added in, and a few roasted sweet potatoes. There is no meat or spicy food at all.
Even though it was brown rice, there wasn't much grain in it, so Zhang Xiuyuan put some chopped wild vegetables in it to add a bit of green.
"Brother, are you really going to marry Zhao Chuchu?" The speaker was a little boy who was burning fire in front of the stove.
He was about seven or eight years old, thin, with sickly pale skin, and he would cough occasionally.
Zhang Xiuyuan had a pair of eight-year-old twins, Zhang Xiuwen and Zhang Xiulin. Zhang Xiulin was born a quarter of an hour earlier, the older sister, but Zhang Xiuwen became trapped in his wife's womb, leading to a difficult birth. Later, after much difficulty, his wife gave birth to Zhang Xiuwen, but the prolonged confinement in his womb caused him to develop health problems. Over the years, he suffered from numerous minor and occasionally serious illnesses, and his medications often cost him a fortune.
Zhang Xiuwen is precocious, well-behaved and sensible.
The Zhang family has always been poor. A few years ago, Zhang Xiuwen fell seriously ill and his family spent all their savings on him. In order not to burden his family, Zhang Xiuwen jumped into the river, and finally it was Zhang Xiuyuan who rescued him.
That was the first time in all those years that Zhang Xiuyuan got so angry at his beloved younger brother. The two of them talked for a long time, and Zhang Xiuwen gave up the idea of suicide.
Hearing Zhang Xiuwen's question, Zhang Xiuyuan paused for a moment, but soon returned to normal. There was a faint expression on his clear and elegant face, as if he didn't care much.
He picked up a pot, scooped up the cooked porridge, and replied casually: "Well, I have decided."
Zhang Xiuwen stirred the firewood, and the dancing flames cast a red hue on his pale face. He lowered his eyes and said slowly, "But I heard that man has a bad reputation."
That man is lazy and does nothing. It is said that he likes to go to brothels to eat and drink. Such a person is not a good match. Big brother is so good, he deserves someone better.
"No problem. All men have to get married, no matter who they marry. It's good enough that she can fulfill my requirements."
After serving all the porridge, he covered the pot with a lid and put it aside, then went to fetch some water to wash the sweet potatoes.
Zhang Xiuyuan knew that his request was very demanding and not many people could meet it, but Zhao Chuchu agreed and gave him fifty taels on the spot, which showed her sincerity.
He only wanted to live in the present moment. As for whether Zhao Chuchu was a good match for him or what his future would be like, that would be decided later. He was incapable of using his own abilities to change the current and future predicaments. The world was difficult and especially harsh on men. He could only survive in the cracks and seek the greatest benefits for himself and his family.
Fifty taels of silver may be a lot for others, but it is what he needs after careful calculation.
They fled to Zhaojia Village, bought land and built houses, and almost spent all of the Zhang family's savings.
My mother suddenly fell seriously ill and had to borrow money from a kind neighbor to see a doctor. Even so, she still went.
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