"Mother, is Jiang Yuwei dead?"
"No... that can't be. I only gave her a light push. How could that slut be so easily pushed?"
"Oh, Mother! Look! She... hit the back of her head on the threshold, and it looks like she's bleeding..."
"Ah... keep your voice down, don't panic, let me take a look."
Li Cuihua pursed her lips and walked to Jiang Yuwei, who was lying on the ground, and tentatively kicked her a few times.
"Hey, stop pretending to be dead! Even if you die, you still have to marry into the Ning family to pay off their debts!"
"Mother, Mother, please don't let her die! If she dies, Father will insist that I marry that war dead man from the Ning family. I don't want to be a widow and raise someone else's child!"
As Jiang Yaoyao spoke, her face grew paler and paler. She stumbled over to Jiang Yuwei and squatted down beside her, using her fingers to check Jiang Yuwei's breath.
At this moment, Jiang Yuwei felt a flash of white light before her eyes, and her whole body ached as if it were falling apart. She could only hear words like "war dead ghost," "widow," and "raising children," and she felt somewhat confused.
Just now, wasn't I arguing with my parents who broke into my house with knives and guns, trying to steal my life-saving food to help my younger brother? Could it be... that my parents actually hit me because of that spendthrift brother?
Ha... Even in the apocalypse, even knowing that it was my only remaining life-saving food, they were unwilling to let their precious son go hungry even for a single meal. Ha... These are my biological parents.
Jiang Yaoyao squatted beside Jiang Yuwei for a long time before finally letting out a faint breath:
"Mother, Mother, she seems... to still be breathing."
Just as Li Cuihua was about to breathe a sigh of relief, she heard a commotion outside the courtyard. The Ning family had come to pick them up!
At this moment, Li Cuihua didn't have time to think, and picked up the basin full of water next to her and poured it on Jiang Yuwei's face:
"You worthless wretch, still playing dead! Get up right now!"
Jiang Yuwei was instantly jolted awake by the bucket of cold water. She blinked, looked at the dilapidated little house in front of her, and then at the stranger standing next to her. Just as she was about to speak, she was suddenly pulled up.
"Yaoyao, stop standing there like an idiot! Quickly change her into her wedding dress, bandage her head, and just put a veil over it. Hurry up! I'll go outside and deal with those old hags!"
After saying that, Li Cuihua threw Jiang Yuwei into Jiang Yaoyao's arms.
Jiang Yaoyao swayed slightly and barely managed to catch it. The thought that she didn't have to marry into the Ning family seemed to give her strength. Without looking back, she grabbed Jiang Yuwei and walked into the inner room.
Jiang Yuwei was already injured, and now she felt a splitting headache. Memories of the original owner kept flooding into her mind. All she could be sure of now was that she had transmigrated, but she had no strength to resist.
As soon as Li Cuihua pushed open the door to the woodshed, she was surrounded by a group of old women in the courtyard.
"My dear in-law! You can't go back on your word! We agreed that your daughter would pay off Old Man Jiang's gambling debts!"
Looking at Chen Guixiang's pockmarked face and the hairy mole near her mouth standing right in front of her, Li Cuihua felt a wave of nausea. Even though she was a notorious wicked old woman in Jiangzhuang, she was no match for Chen Guixiang.
Li Cuihua took a step back and said with a forced smile:
"Don't be impatient, in-laws. Every daughter needs to be dressed up for her wedding. She'll be out soon!"
"Oh, our eldest daughter Ning died on the battlefield. She'll just be a widow after she marries into the family anyway, so why bother cleaning up after her?"
After saying that, Chen Guixiang stopped urging him and found a chair in the yard to sit down comfortably. She crossed her legs and reached into her pocket to take out a handful of melon seeds and started cracking them open.
The villagers all gathered outside the courtyard gate to watch the excitement.
Li Cuihua couldn't wait a moment longer. She turned and ran into the inner room. Seeing that Jiang Yaoyao had already dressed Jiang Yuwei, she nodded in satisfaction and urged, "..."
"Yaoyao, you'll accompany her to Ningjia Village today. Hold her hand on the way so she doesn't run away!"
When Jiang Yaoyao heard that she was to go to Ningjia Village with her, she seemed to become interested. She wanted to see what kind of wolf's den this older sister, who was better than her in every way, had married into.
"Okay, don't worry, Mother, I'll keep an eye on her, she won't get away!"
After saying that, Jiang Yaoyao roughly dragged Jiang Yuwei into the courtyard, whispering in her ear as they walked:
"Good sister, you're going to the Ning family to be a widow today, hehe. But I heard that the war dead Ning Boss still has a son and a daughter, so I'm sure your days won't be easy."
In the original owner's memories, Jiang Yuwei discovered that her biological mother was driven to death by her gambling-addicted father. After Old Man Jiang married his current wife, Li Cuihua, and gave birth to Jiang Yaoyao, the original owner never had a good day in this family.
So Jiang Yuwei didn't tolerate Jiang Yaoyao and said coldly:
"Whether my life is good or bad is none of your concern. Now that my parents have married me off to the Ning family to pay off their debts, our family's reputation is ruined in the surrounding villages. Do you really think you can find a good husband?"
Hearing Jiang Yuwei's words, Jiang Yaoyao seemed to realize that her own situation was not much better. She suddenly stopped in her tracks and looked at the people inside and outside the courtyard, who were teasing and whispering. A thin layer of sweat broke out on her back.
When Chen Guixiang saw her long-awaited daughter-in-law finally emerge, she didn't care about anything else, threw the sunflower seed shells on the ground, and rushed over.
"Oh, you've really dressed up. Let's hurry up and go. We've already been delayed for quite a while, and the family must be getting impatient."
Jiang Yuwei looked through the red veil at her mother-in-law, whose tone was slightly sarcastic. Her thin lips and the hairy mole at the corner of her mouth made her look like someone not to be trifled with.
But considering her situation in the Jiang family, it couldn't get any worse. Although she was forced to marry into the Ning family, she thought that her husband had died on the battlefield and left behind two children. She could become a mother without pain and wouldn't have to serve a man. So she stopped resisting and let Chen Guixiang drag her towards Ningjia Village.
Seeing this, Li Cuihua quickly pushed Jiang Yaoyao, who was still standing there in a daze, from behind, signaling her to follow.
Jiang Yaoyao glanced back at her mother, hesitated, then quickly turned and followed Chen Guixiang. She took Jiang Yuwei's other arm with all her might, as if afraid she would run away.
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