Chapter 5: Initial Form
Li Taohua was reluctant to exchange Qin Huiyin's clothes for Wandou, so she went to see Wang with her oldest clothes.
Qin Huiyin stood by the wall, listening to the conversation on the other side of the wall.
"Thirty pounds? Your clothes are so torn that they can't be any more torn, and you still want to exchange them for thirty pounds of peas. Oh, your clothes are really precious. We can't afford them."
Wang hung the washed clothes in the yard and said some sarcastic words.
"Aunt, my clothes don't even have a patch. With this kind of material, this kind of style, and this kind of stitching, the ready-made clothing store sells them for 150 cents."
"Yes, the clothing store sells them for 150 coins, but are they selling used ones? They are made of brand new fabrics that haven't even been touched by water. We are all poor and can't afford to wear such good clothes. Huiyin, you should take your clothes and leave. I have a lot of work to do here and I don't have time to waste with you."
Li Taohua curled her lips and said reluctantly: "Then how many kilograms of peas do you think would be appropriate?"
"Well..." Wang looked back and said without much interest, "Five pounds, maybe!"
"Five catties? Ten cents?" Li Taohua said with a gloomy face, "Do you think I'm a rag?"
"Mother Huiyin, the clothes you have worn are worse than rags! Some of these words are not pleasant to hear. I didn't want to say them, but since you are so ignorant, I will just say them. Look at your fate. The first man died and there was a disaster in your hometown, so you had to flee to our place with your daughter. The second man was the hunter Song. He was alive and well before you came, but he died the next year after you married him. I won't go into details about the third one, because you know it well. Your fate is too unlucky. Anyone who has anything to do with you is afraid of bad luck. Who dares to use things you have used?"
"You..." Li Taohua was so angry that her beautiful eyes were full of anger. "Sister Wang, if you don't want to change, then don't change. There's no need to say all this, right? How could I not know what you were thinking? Originally, you wanted to introduce the girl whose husband died to Tang Dafu, but Tang Dafu didn't like her and fell in love with me. You are unhappy and hate me, and you are looking for trouble with me everywhere."
"Bah, who told you that? My youngest sister is so good, how could she be interested in Tang Dafu? Only a slut like you can be interested in that unlucky Tang Dafu. Look, you're unlucky right after getting married, right? There's no good end for a lustful man."
"Who do you say is a slut and who is the unlucky guy? I'll tear your mouth apart." Li Taohua pounced over angrily.
Wang was a strong woman and was pushed to the ground by Li Taohua, and soon they started fighting.
Qin Huiyin noticed something was wrong when the two were arguing more and more fiercely, and hurried over to stop them, but she was still a step too late. When she arrived, they were already tearing each other apart.
"Mom, stop hitting me..."
"Aunt Wang, if you tear my mother's clothes again, you will have to pay fifty kilograms of peas as compensation."
Wang said with a pah sound: "Pah, you are crazy because of poverty!"
"Mr. Wang, if you dare to grab my daughter, I will fight you." Li Taohua saw Wang's nails leaving a claw mark on Qin Huiyin's neck and pulled her hair like crazy.
"What's wrong with you?" Wang's man Tang Jiang came back carrying a hoe, and hurried over to stop the fight when he saw the situation.
Tang Jiang hugged Wang and said to Li Taohua and Qin Huiyin, "You guys go quickly."
Seeing this, Wang was so angry that she screamed and cursed: "You cheap man, you don't help your wife but help outsiders. Are you also bewitched by this vixen and can't walk?"
"Mother Kui, can you please stop messing around? We are from the same family as Dafu, and we live close to each other. Why can't we talk peacefully? Why do you have to make it so ugly?"
"Tang Dafu is not dead yet, and you want to flirt with that vixen now. Aren't you afraid that I will chop you to pieces?" Wang's scolding became more and more fierce and outrageous.
Li Taohua returned to her own yard and shot back from the other side of the wall: "Mr. Wang, you are blind. I will not be picky and will not eat what your wife Wang vomited. It's disgusting."
"Li Taohua, if you dare to step into my house again, I will throw shit all over you."
"Bah, who wants to go to your house? Even if you beg me on your knees, I won't step into your house."
"Haha, thank God for your blessing, otherwise my family would be in trouble if a jinx like you stepped into the door."
Seeing that Li Taohua was so angry that her chest hurt, Qin Huiyin quickly pulled her into the house.
She knew that Li Taohua was in a bad mood, and if she took her to Tang Dafu at this time, Tang Dafu would be the one who would suffer. She pulled Li Taohua into her and Tang Luwu's room.
"It's no use blaming me, blaming me..." Li Taohua hugged Qin Huiyin and started crying. "My daughter, is mom really a jinx? Why does everyone I marry always have bad luck?"
"If you have this ability, the court should use you very much. If they make you a princess and let you marry into a neighboring country, wouldn't the neighboring country collapse on its own? If you really have such power, then you will be a great hero throughout the country!"
"You naughty girl, when did you learn these tricks to fool people?" Li Taohua burst into laughter. "Luckily, mother still has you, otherwise life would be so boring."
"Mom, everything will be fine in the future. Let's live a good life and let everyone in the village see that you, Li Taohua, are never a plague god." Qin Huiyin said.
"What about the peas? I wanted to exchange some peas for you. No matter what you want to eat or do, I should satisfy you. Now that this has happened, I'm afraid the whole village is unwilling to exchange."
"Why don't we go to the pawn shop?" Qin Huiyin asked, "My clothes are so new, if they are in the pawn shop, they should be able to get a lot of money, right?"
"You're right." Li Taohua nodded, got off the bed, and walked outside. "Wait here for me, I'll go look for it."
Li Taohua returned to her room.
Tang Dafu was sitting on the bed, weaving a bamboo basket. When he saw Li Taohua coming back to the room, he looked at her anxiously: "Taohua, are you okay?"
Li Taohua was rummaging through something and said unhappily, “Is there something wrong? Can’t you hear me?”
"Blame me. I've wronged you." Although Tang Dafu is not young anymore, one can vaguely see the shadow of his youth.
Compared to the peasants in the village, he was indeed handsome. Otherwise, even if he had two taels of silver a month, Li Taohua would never marry him. Li Taohua was still very concerned about appearance.
Li Taohua originally wanted to make a few sarcastic remarks, but when she thought of what her daughter said and that she would be living in the Tang family for a long time in the future, she took back the words that were about to come out of her mouth.
She took out three sets of clothes that she didn't like to wear, as well as a solid silver hairpin, and said, "My family couldn't make ends meet, so I pawned these. Don't say that I, Li Taohua, only know how to suck your blood, Tang Dafu. I also want to live a good life with you."
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