Chapter 174: No Borrowing (Minor Revision)
"If I don't agree with what you said, I won't feel sorry for you even if you break your legs kneeling here. Come in and tell me what you want first." Li Taohua said calmly.
Tang Caiyun choked up.
Deng Shaoyao helped Tang Caiyun up.
"Mom, get up first!"
Qin Huiyin glanced at Tang Luwu and gestured to the side.
Tang Luwu went over and said, "Aunt, cousin, it's cold outside. Come in and have a cup of hot water first."
Qin Huiyin went into the kitchen, scooped water to wash the pot, and then lit the fire after the water seeped out.
Tang Luwu came in and saw her cooking. She asked, "Yinyin, what do you want to cook?"
"Sugar-water eggs." Qin Huiyin said, "They must be hungry after all the walking. Cook something for them."
Tang Luwu took out the eggs, washed the bowl again, and waited for the water to boil.
"What are they saying over there?" Qin Huiyin pursed her lips towards the main hall.
Tang Luwu came over and sat in front of the stove with Qin Huiyin. She broke off a dry branch beside her and stuffed it into the stove. She lowered her voice and said, "Borrow some money."
"How many?"
"Ten taels."
"You asked for ten taels right away?" Qin Huiyin was surprised. "An ordinary family doesn't even need one tael of silver a year. Ten taels of silver is not a small amount."
"My aunt's in-laws' family has more than a dozen people living together, and they haven't separated. The eldest branch of the family sent people to repair the dam this time, and my uncle is the second oldest. Last time, my aunt threatened to commit suicide, but my uncle was unwilling to hire a doctor for her. My cousin came to ask my parents for help, but the doctor said that if it had been a step later, my aunt would have died. Maybe it was because my parents were generous last time, so the Deng family knew that we were not short of money, and they wanted to force my aunt to borrow money. It's called a loan, but with the shameless Deng family's style of doing things, it's like throwing meat buns at a dog, and it won't come back."
"Sister Luwu, you have improved a lot!" Qin Huiyin said, "Not only can you analyze their family's situation, but you can also predict what will happen next."
Tang Luwu said embarrassedly: "Is it not nice for me to say this?"
"No, that's it. When something happens, we should not only look at the cause of the incident and the current situation, but also predict what will happen next." Qin Huiyin said, "Have you been to the Deng family?"
"No." Tang Luwu shook her head. "Our family's life was not good before. We couldn't even take care of ourselves, let alone care about how others were doing."
There was a cry coming from the direction of the main room.
Qin Huiyin and Tang Luwu looked at each other, then quietly moved over and listened to the conversation in the next room.
"Sister-in-law, I really have no other choice." Tang Caiyun cried, "I know if it weren't for you, I would have died long ago. You are my lifesaver, I should remember your kindness and not embarrass you again."
"Since you know, why come?" Li Taohua said indifferently.
"I... I can live like a ghost, but Shaoyao is the only girl I have left. If you don't come to borrow money, he will sell Shaoyao. Da Niu and Er Niu are suffering somewhere else, and Shaoyao can't follow in her sister's footsteps. Sister-in-law, you can keep Shaoyao as a servant. She is very hardworking and can do the work of two people."
"We are just ordinary country folks. If we let our relative's daughter be our slave, what will the villagers think of us?" Li Taohua was so angry that she laughed. "If you really care about this girl, you should have stood up earlier. Now you have two options. One is to go back and separate from the family, and the other is to divorce with your daughter."
Without waiting for Tang Caiyun to speak, Li Taohua continued, "But there's no point in dividing the family. Not only do you have a wicked mother-in-law, but you also have a worthless man. Not only does your man beat his wife and sell his daughters, he also gambles. If this continues, I'm afraid your remaining daughters will also become his gambling money."
"He promised me that he would find out the whereabouts of the eldest and second girls after borrowing the money." Tang Caiyun cried.
"To say you are naive is to insult naivety. What's in your head? Is it mud? Do you believe such words?"
"sister in law……"
"I saved you last time not because I was kind, but because your daughter fell into the river and climbed up again in order to ask for our help, covered in mud. I thought of my daughter, and my heart softened, so I ran with her. You don't know much about me, but you can go to the village later to ask about me, Li Taohua. I have never been a kind person."
Seeing Li Taohua's firm attitude, Tang Caiyun gave up.
Deng Shaoyao knelt down.
"You're making such a fuss too?" Li Taohua's eyes flashed with impatience.
"Aunt, you are the smartest woman we have ever met. Please give us some advice and find a way to survive." Deng Shaoyao kowtowed.
Li Taohua's eyes were full of surprise. She looked at Deng Shaoyao again and found that this little girl had bright eyes and was quite heroic.
"There is no place for you in your home. Last time I went to your house, I saw you sleeping on the floor in the kitchen. Do you still want to live like this?"
"I don't want to." Deng Shaoyao said, "But I'm a girl, and I'm still young. I really don't know how to get out of this kind of family."
"Peony..." Tang Caiyun said tremblingly, "Don't you want your mother either?"
Deng Shaoyao looked at Tang Caiyun and said, "Aunt is right. If we continue to stay at home, we will become my father's gambling stake sooner or later. Mother, you either leave that home with me, or I will be unfilial."
"No, your father will beat us to death." Tang Caiyun trembled.
"Then just beat them to death. As long as they are not beaten to death, I will leave." Deng Shaoyao said. "Mom, I don't know where my elder and second sisters are suffering. Have you forgotten them so quickly? If I don't find a way to survive, I will be the next one to be sold. I was almost sold last time. You don't think Dad has compromised, do you?"
"People like your father bully the weak and fear the strong. Who do you think he wouldn't dare to mess with?" Li Taohua suggested.
"There are people who are more arrogant than him, people who are taller than him, people who have money at home, and people who have power and influence..." Deng Shaoyao said, "But how can I approach such people?"
"When I passed by the county government office that day, I saw a job recruitment notice posted at the gate. It seemed that the county government office was in need of cleaning maids, and they could sign a working contract. If you can enter the county government office, you will be working for the county master, and your father would not dare to take advantage of you even if he was crazy." Qin Huiyin lay at the door and said to the people inside.
"How dare you make a sound while eavesdropping?" Li Taohua scolded.
Qin Huiyin stuck out her tongue and said, "You guys didn't close the door when talking, so it's not like you can't listen to what they said. We are listening openly."
Deng Shaoyao looked at the bright and lively Qin Huiyin, and then glanced at Tang Luwu, whose face looked much more rosy with the new clothes and hair accessories, and her heart was filled with envy.
They were both women, so why did they have to live such a hard life? Since her parents didn't know how to cherish her, she should change her fate and live like a human being.
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