The sky gradually darkened, and the last wisp of smoke lingering above the village disappeared in the breeze along with the summer heat.
Most of the farmers went to bed early, and the whole village fell silent. Only the occasional muffled barking of dogs could be heard from afar.
Yang Donghu's consciousness gradually returned and he slowly opened his eyes.
He remembered that he was walking on the road when a brick flew towards him. He felt a pain in his head and lost consciousness. When he woke up, he was already here.
He forced himself to stand up and looked around carefully. It was a completely unfamiliar room.
The furnishings in the room were extremely simple. Apart from the relatively intact bed under him, there was only a table with a missing corner.
Suddenly, a few frames flashed through his mind like a movie. Just as he was about to take a closer look, he felt a sharp pain in his head.
The pain was so severe that I was about to lie down and rest for a while, when I heard voices coming from outside.
"Mom, you said he's been lying there for many days. Is he dead?"
Another voice sounded, interrupting the man quickly: "Pfft, ffff, ffff, stop talking nonsense. If he dies, who will marry that disaster star for you?"
"Mom, I didn't mean to do that. I just pushed him lightly, but he was so weak that he fell down immediately. What would I do if he died? Mom, please think of a way."
"If you want to blame someone, blame your useless father. You think you can control me with nothing but empty words? You're dreaming."
"Mom, please feel sorry for your daughter. If Dad insists that I marry that Zhao Luochuan, then I will just jump into the river and die. Rather than marrying him and being tortured by others, it is better to die in peace."
"What nonsense are you talking about, my dear girl? How could your mother not feel sorry for you? Your father, that damned fellow, dares to say anything. The old doctor said that he was just frightened and will be fine after waking up. Get up early tomorrow and go hide at your uncle's house. The Zhao family needs someone, right? There's someone ready waiting for him."
As the two people were talking, the footsteps gradually faded away.
As Yang Donghu listened, he felt an inexplicable anger filling his chest, and then his vision went dark.
In the boundless darkness, he understood the cause and effect as if watching a movie.
He traveled through time, or to be more precise, his soul traveled through time.
I traveled through time to a dynasty that never existed in history. There were three types of people in this world: men, women, and boys.
Although a boy is a man, he can give birth to children and his status should be the same as that of a girl. He just has some difficulties in conceiving, so most families prefer girls.
If an ordinary family has a boy, in order to prevent the child from being bullied by his husband's family after marriage, they will make more concessions on the bride price and dowry, just to make the couple live in harmony.
If the parents are more cruel and unwilling to spend the money, they may sell the baby as soon as it is born.
The original owner of Yang Donghu's current body was a boy, coincidentally also named Yang Donghu. His father, Yang Dali, was a useless wimp, and the head of the family was his mother, Wang Dujuan.
The Yang family has four children. The eldest sister, Yang Chunxiao, got married to a farmer in the neighboring village two years ago. The second sister, Yang Chunxue, is not yet betrothed. Yang Donghu is the third child.
He has a younger brother, Yang Yaoguang, who is studying in town. He passed the imperial examination last year and is the apple of his eye and the lifeblood of the whole family.
The original owner's life in the first ten years was worse than that of an orphan without parents.
Yang Donghu was born with a difficult labor, which almost cost Wang Dujuan her life. When she saw that it was a boy, she immediately wrapped him in a torn quilt and threw him out.
The old lady of the Yang family was a philanthropic person who ate vegetarian food and believed in Buddhism. She had never seen such a sinful thing and quietly picked it up again.
In the cold winter, the child was thrown by the river and was frozen blue. The old lady undressed and held the child in her arms to warm him all night, which saved Yang Donghu's life.
Wang Dujuan refused to breastfeed the child, so the old lady fed the child little by little with rice soup.
The old lady was kindhearted. Although she wanted to protect Yang Donghu, there were always times when she was unable to do so. She often saved her own food rations and secretly gave them to Yang Donghu, but it was a drop in the bucket. It was common for Yang Donghu to go hungry.
Ever since I can remember, all the housework fell on the original owner, and anyone who was unhappy could take it out on him.
The eldest sister, Yang Chunxiao, was not particularly attractive and had a rather dull demeanor, but despite this, her husband's family had given her a full ten taels of silver. According to custom, the dowry was half the betrothal gift, and Wang Dujuan was to return five taels as her dowry.
Wang Dujuan didn't want to return the money, and when her eldest daughter got married, she even wanted Yang Donghu to go with her as a dowry, saying that it was considered as an offset for the dowry.
Naturally, Yang Chunxiao's husband's family was unwilling to agree. Even if they bought a handsome boy from a man, it would cost less than five taels. Moreover, Yang Donghu was so pale and thin due to the abuse by Wang Dujuan that he could not be sold at a high price.
Wang Dujuan refused to take the money and had a quarrel with her in-laws because of it. It was only when Yang Chunxiao knelt down and begged her with tears that she reluctantly took out the money.
Yang Chunxiao's mother-in-law took advantage of this incident to give her a hard time. Her husband was a filial son and never disobeyed his mother. Yang Chunxiao's life was very difficult.
Wang Dujuan attributed all this to Yang Donghu being a jinx, a piece of junk that no one wanted, saying that he was born to be unlucky for her and that she was becoming increasingly mean to him.
A few days ago, the original owner went up the mountain to collect firewood, and Yang Chunxue went up the mountain specifically to find him.
She already had someone in her heart and was not willing to marry a hunter, so she wanted to persuade Yang Donghu to agree to the marriage.
Who is Zhao Luochuan? He is known for his fierceness in the surrounding villages. How could the original owner dare to agree?
The two started arguing while talking, and Yang Chunxue unexpectedly pushed the man down the hillside in anger.
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