"Yes! We only have one Cen Daniu here. Cen Erfeng is his sister. She was sold to Yuanjialing by her stepmother and father. She's been dead for several years. Girl, what's your relationship to the Cen family?"
Yang Cui never expected this outcome.
"Miss, what's your relationship with Cen Daniu? You're not Cen Daniu's mistress, are you?"
Yang Cui didn't answer, but took out a handful of dried plums from her pocket and gave them to the woman, then asked her about the Cen family.
Upon seeing that there was food, the woman spilled the beans and told Yang Cui everything about the Cen family...
It turns out that Cen Daniu and Cen Erfeng are siblings born of the same mother. The two siblings have a stepmother, Liu, who is shrewish and vicious. When Cen Daniu was fourteen years old, Liu betrothed him to the Luo family as a son-in-law.
Cen Daniu was naturally unwilling, but Liu threatened him with Cen Erfeng's marriage. In addition, Cen Erfeng was in poor health and urgently needed money for medical treatment. Cen Daniu had no choice but to compromise. He married into the Luo family and received a dowry of twenty taels of silver. Cen Daniu knew that once the money went into his father's or Liu's pocket, he would not be able to take it out. So he did not give the money to anyone, thinking that he would keep it in his own hands so that he could find a doctor for his sister. However, he did not expect that he had just married into the Luo family and had not even consummated the marriage when the imperial court conscripted soldiers. Every household had to provide people, or they would have to pay money.
After Cen Daniu married into the Luo family, he was sent to the battlefield as a member of the Luo family. Cen Daniu gave the money to Cen Erfeng, but Cen Erfeng couldn't protect it. In the end, Cen's father and Liu tricked and coaxed it away.
Because the Cen family had this money, which they handed over to the government, they were able to avoid sending any members of their family to serve in the army that time.
In the end, the woman sighed, "Poor Cen Daniu, he became a live-in son-in-law and sold himself for twenty taels of silver, which ultimately benefited the Cen family, but he and his sister did not have a good ending."
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