"That scholar has a face that's barely acceptable, but the rest of him is really poor and ugly.
Anyway, despite all the objections from the family, my sister-in-law kept sending gifts to people every day. Today she would send a piece of cake, and tomorrow she would send a bowl of meat.
In order to bring food and other necessities to that scholar, my sister-in-law lost nearly ten pounds due to hunger."
"And then? Does the scholar ignore you and look resistant, but every time your sister-in-law gives you food or money, he acts like he'll accept it reluctantly?"
"Yes, that's what happened. Until one day, my sister-in-law braved the rain to deliver a pair of shoes, but she heard the man telling a few people that he was just teasing my sister-in-law's stupid woman.
Anyway, it doesn't matter if a man is romantic. The sister-in-law was so angry that she kicked the door in pieces.
Then she poured all the delicious food on the scholar's head, and turned around and swore that she would not look for someone easily. If she did look for someone, she would look for a real man like her father.
Xiushui: "Well... maybe your sister-in-law will be ruined at home."
Xiu Li doesn't care at all.
"It's okay. I get along very well with them all, and the sisters are very kind to me. If she doesn't want to marry, then she won't marry.
My parents-in-law said that daughters have a hard life in this world, and if marrying means suffering, then it’s better for me to stay in my parents’ home and never marry, even if it means being an old maid.”
"Wow, your in-laws are so open-minded?"
"Yes, it was only after I married into their family and felt their family love that I felt that there is still hope and a future in life.
Especially my husband. When he first married me, he was afraid of me and always looked at me cautiously from a distance.
In order to prevent me from being scared at night, he even put up a plank for me to sleep on..."
Xiu Li blushed when she mentioned her past with her husband.
Such a pretty and gorgeous young woman, no wonder my cousin's husband is always dumbfounded. Tsk, these are such loving couples.
"Sister, you... you're so happy it's written all over you. I'm bubbling with happiness. The sour smell of love, tsk... I've been fed so much by your family today."
"Well, I didn't want to say it, but I just couldn't help it. My husband's family is really great. My three sisters-in-law are also very good.
Since marrying into their family, I've learned that you can't judge a person by their appearance alone."
"Well, sister, I actually have a question. Before you got married, wasn't there a rumor that a brother-in-law would bring bad luck to his wife and children, and everything else?
What's going on in front of him?"
If my brother-in-law didn’t have such a bad reputation, why would my uncle and aunt always feel guilty!
Wen Xiuli was quite angry when she mentioned this matter.
“I didn’t know about this earlier and was frightened by his reputation as a tough guy.
Later, after being sold by the old man in disguise, I felt hopeless and thought it was better to die early, as the sooner I die, the sooner I will be reborn.
But after I got married, he was so nice to me.
The more I get to know him, the more I realize his reputation was deliberately ruined."
"Ah, did he ruin it on purpose? You can't say that the story about him having five wives is just a rumor!"
"Oh, of course it's a rumor. Didn't my mother-in-law say earlier that the villagers were jealous of us and wished us dead because we made money from slaughtering pigs.
Everything about our family situation can be described as badly as possible.
When my husband was young, he had a fiancée.
After that family became rich, they told him directly that the childhood agreement was no longer valid, and the two families broke up.
My mother-in-law was very angry about this and said that the family wanted to cancel the engagement, but they didn't even want to return the five taels of silver she had given as an engagement fee.
If my mother-in-law hadn't insisted on returning the money, the family would have just walked away."
Xiushui nodded. It seemed that Aunt Zhang was really a tough girl and would never do anything that would put her at a disadvantage.
"The money was returned, but the seeds of disaster were sown."
"Ah, could it be that this family is so angry that they feel they got a bad deal when they got the money back? So they're trying to ruin my brother-in-law's reputation?"
“Although it’s not all what they said, it’s also a root of trouble.
After returning the money, the family announced to the public that the fortune teller had said that my husband was a man of bad luck and any girl who married him would be unlucky.
Their family has become rich, and there are many people flattering them. Moreover, people all have the idea that since you are rich, what you say must be reasonable.
If it weren't for this, my parents-in-law wouldn't have been so insistent on moving to the city. They just can't stand the salty air here."
"Later, my husband rescued a girl who fell into the water and kindly sent her home.
Not only did the family not express their gratitude, they also turned around and said that he was unlucky and that he had caused his daughter to fall into the water.
From then on, all the villagers spread the rumor that if they saw my husband, they had to stay away from him. Otherwise, they would be cursed.
Xiushui was shocked when she heard this. How could people in the world be so evil?
"That family was afraid that if their daughter fell and was rescued by my brother-in-law, they would have a hard time explaining it, so they deliberately framed her like this!"
"Yes, human nature is so terrible. They completely disregard others for their own sake. Even if they are the saviors of their own family, these people dare to do this."
"My mother-in-law is not one to suffer in vain. She was so angry that she came to the girl's house with a butcher knife and asked her how she fell into the water.
They were also going to chop off the old woman who had been talking nonsense, but in the end the old man decided to give her five taels of silver as compensation and put an end to the matter.”
"Oh, considering that old woman is so talkative and cunning, it would be strange if she could swallow this anger.
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