These young men were actually listening to Bai Guihua.

Zhu Xiaomin found this novel and amusing, and asked, "Didn't the widows object?"

Huang Xiaojuan smiled, "It's useless to object. I heard that Bai Guihua said something to the young men, telling them to listen to their wife when they are on the kang and listen to her when they are off the kang. She also said that if they don't go to work, they won't have food to eat. The young men are very obedient. The widows can't beat her, and if they want to join forces again, the men will stop them. They are also afraid that the men will run away, so they can only go to work with them."

This is the story of how Bai Guihua used her live-in son-in-law to win over a group of widows from the Qian family.

Zhu Xiaomin was laughing so hard that she couldn't catch her breath.

Xia Chunhua also laughed: "Bai Guihua is very proud, and asked me if it's amazing that she found such a few strong laborers for our team?"

Zhu Xiaomin's heart suddenly moved, and she asked back: "You said she found strong laborers for our team?"

At this moment, she remembered what Bai Guihua asked her a few months ago, and seriously suspected that it was related to what she had said about the lack of labor.

Huang Xiaojuan nodded repeatedly and laughed, "After these people came, the widows became very obedient. They happily took their husbands to work and back every day. The widows in the Qian family were jealous and tried every means to find out whether their husbands were dead. If they were dead, they would ask Bai Guihua to find a new one."

The few widows in the Qian family refer to those men in that case who were not sentenced to death and were thrown into labor camps.

Zhu Xiaomin couldn't help laughing when she heard this, and she also pointed out a way: "If they want to remarry, they don't have to wait for those men to die, they can just get divorced directly."

Also!

The two of them found it funny.

Before she could finish her words, Huang Xiaojuan said with a smile, "There's more. Seeing that those families are getting prosperous again, not only widows but even young girls in our village are interested in finding a son-in-law."

"No way?" Zhu Xiaomin was speechless.

"Why not?" Xia Chunhua smiled. "Think about it. When they get married, they only get a few dozen yuan as a dowry. Even if they can marry into the city, the dowry will be hundreds of yuan at best. And they still have to look after their parents-in-law. But if they stay in our village, they can get more than that much money at the end of the year, and they don't have to look after their mother-in-law. They can be the masters of their own house. Isn't that better than getting married?"

That sounds reasonable!

Zhu Xiaomin was surprised: "Are you all asking Bai Guihua for help?"

Xia Chunhua shook her head: "Bai Guihua said that she didn't owe them any money, so she didn't care. So those girls asked matchmakers to find them, but it's not that easy. Either the matchmakers were kicked out by the man's family, or the ones they found who were willing to come were either ugly, old, or too lazy to do anything."

Zhu Xiaomin couldn't help laughing: "This Bai Guihua is really a strange person."

The two of them immediately nodded frantically, and they could not express in words their admiration for the woman.

You know, no matter in this era or decades later, the more useless a man is, the more he will rely on the flesh under his crotch to support himself. A son-in-law cannot hold his head up high. As long as there is a little surplus food in the family, he will not marry into the family, let alone a son-in-law who is related to the wife.

Bai Guihua found eight of them at once, all of them high-quality men. How did she do it?

To talk about the matter of live-in son-in-law, we have to start with the marriage of widow Qian Zhuang and Nie Yifei.

Originally, one case created nine widows. Except for Aunt Qian San, who was almost 50 years old, the others were all young widows. They lost their husbands and the big umbrella of Qian Yuanfei. It was already difficult for them to raise their children on their own, and they were constantly exploited by Bai Guihua. It could be said that they were suffering terribly.

But days like this don’t happen every day. As we compete with each other, we just have to endure them day by day.

But who would have thought that not only was Widow Qian Zhuang not afraid of Bai Guihua, she also plotted against Nie Yifei. Then a fair, tender and beautiful educated youth ended up sleeping on Widow Qian Zhuang's kang. How could they bear the noise every night?

But it was too late to envy. Not to mention that they couldn't afford to offend Widow Qian Zhuang, even Bai Guihua couldn't afford to offend Widow Qian Zhuang.

However, it was Bai Guihua who turned them into widows.

The widows of the Qian family made a plan and joined forces to block Bai Guihua in a dead end.

The alley was too narrow for Bai Guihua to swing the axe, and the widows of the Qian family were all holding weapons. Bai Guihua was not afraid, she threw the axe away and curled her lips in disdain: "It's just that I killed your man. If you want it, I'll compensate you with a better one."

The widows were skeptical.

Bai Guihua assured him seriously: "What's so good about the men you have now? They are all as stubbly as bears. You wash clothes, cook, and take care of the children, and you still have to take their beatings. Besides, if they can sleep with me, why not others? I will bring you a live-in son-in-law who is both capable and obedient. Isn't he better than those bastards in the Qian family?"

The widows were naturally aware of the character of their man, and were persuaded by her words. After discussion, they decided to trust her this time.

Anyway, if she dares to lie, it won’t be difficult to stop her again.

So, Bai Guihua put forward a condition: if she wanted to find a son-in-law, she had to give the man ten kilograms of grain. After the deal was done, she would want five kilograms of flour and twenty yuan as a reward.

The labor fee she asked for was more than what she gave to the man.

However, in their village, the normal betrothal gift for marrying a wife is already thirty or forty yuan, not including the money to thank the matchmaker.

Her total cost was only 15 kilograms of food and 20 yuan, which was not too high.

The widows were moved by what they heard and no longer wanted to pursue the matter with her for scolding everyone in the Qian family. After confirming it again and again, they decided to give it a try. Widow Qian Gang became the first person to try it.

So the next day, Bai Guihua carried ten kilograms of food from Qian Gang's widow's house and left the village with an axe.

Bai Guihua grew up in the mountains. She had been running around in the mountains since she was a child. She knows the mountains better than anyone else. She can find the direction by the smell brought by the wind.

She knew that deeper and deeper into the mountains, in those dangerous places or on the cliffs, there lived some families who had few neighbors within dozens of miles and whose families had never left the mountains for generations.

These families have one characteristic, that is, they are poor, extremely poor, so poor that they have never eaten solid rice. From childhood to adulthood, they can only drink porridge, which consists of more wild vegetables than rice.

The family was so poor that they couldn't even afford a pair of trousers. The children had to run around naked since they were young. When they grew up a little, they would tie some dry grass around their waists with a straw rope to cover their key parts.

Another characteristic is that there are many people in the family.

Such families, if they have daughters, will exchange them for daughters from other families as wives. Often, there is only one wife for several brothers, and then they give birth to a bunch of children like them.

If there are no daughters, most sons will have to remain single.

She herself grew up in such a mountain area, so she naturally knew the situation of those people.

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