The mother and son talked heatedly about how they would renovate their house, find a wife, and buy two girls after getting the money...

By then they would eat white rice, fish and meat every day and drink a little wine, and they would be as happy as the landlords in the village.

Those days were wonderful!

The Zhang family was used to being poor and had no concept of money. If they spent money as they wanted, renovating the house, getting a wife and buying a maid, and not working and living on rice and meat every day, they would probably spend dozens of taels in a year...

The Zhang family was in a good mood and had a sweet dream, so they stopped insulting Huang Yaning.

At noon, Zhang cooked a bowl of porridge and reluctantly gave one bowl to Huang Yaning.

Huang Yaning saw Zhang's hands that had held filth but never washed, and the Zhang family's dirty kitchen...

He almost couldn't hold it in and vomited again. He refused Zhang's "good intention" and asked for a roasted sweet potato. He ate another roasted sweet potato in the evening.

Zhang left as soon as it got dark, Zhang's mother said to Huang Yaning.

"My son has something important to do tonight, so you're lucky. Go to bed."

Zhang's mother had such an appreciative expression and tone that Huang Yaning's scalp tingled.

She shook her head like a rattle and refused.

She could sleep in the Feng family's woodshed, on a bench, or even on the grass, but she would never sleep on the Zhang family's "bed" even if she was beaten to death...

*

Early in the morning, the people of Taohua Village witnessed another joke.

It turned out that the Feng family "gave" their granddaughter to the Zhang family in the neighboring village as a child bride.

Everyone knows the Zhang family in the neighboring village!

The Zhang family consists of three people. Zhang's father and mother were in poor health when they were young. They gave birth to three children but failed to raise two of them.

Later, the third child, Zhang, was born. The villagers felt sorry for the child and every family helped to raise him.

When Zhang was three or four years old, his father became completely paralyzed, and later his mother also became partially paralyzed...

Therefore, Zhang began to take care of his parents from a young age, washing clothes and cooking for them, cleaning their excrement and urine, and when he was a little older, he started farming...

This boy is quite filial. He goes out early and comes back late, working very hard. The 20-year-old boy looks as weathered as a 40-year-old man.

It is pitiful, but who is not pitiful?

In the past two years, people have noticed that Zhang has gradually changed. He always has a gloomy face that makes people scared.

Some children and girls didn't dare to pass by the Zhang family's door.

Even if an ordinary family cannot afford to raise a girl and has to send her away as a child bride, they will still give her to a family that can provide food.

Who would send their child to a hellhole like the Zhang family?

The key point is that the Zhang family didn’t want the gift for free, so early in the morning, Zhang boy brought the sixth girl back to the village.

Zhang kept saying that his family was in a very difficult situation. He could barely make ends meet by supporting his parents alone and was unable to raise another child, so he sent Liu Yatou back home.

When the people in Taohua Village heard this, they felt that this boy was much more humane than the Feng family!

The Feng family thought they had sent away a plague god, but before they could be happy for a day, the dead girl was sent back! And the whole village laughed at them.

Old Mrs. Li was so angry that her nose was almost crooked. She blocked the door and screamed.

"Zhang, I've given her to you. She's a member of the Zhang family now!"

"Aunt Li, if my mother hadn't been unwell yesterday, I would have sent her back to you yesterday.

"My family is so poor that we can't afford to raise a little girl like this. I see that your family is much richer than mine, so I guess it's not that difficult for you to raise a child...

"I have sent the child back to you. I will go home to look after my mother first."

Early this morning, Zhang's father taught Zhang how to speak.

Zhang's father was afraid that Zhang would talk too much and make mistakes, thus he told Zhang to attract the attention of the villagers when he arrived in Taohua Village, and to just say that he sent Liu Ya back because he could not afford to raise her.

When you arrive at the Feng family’s door, say a few words and leave. Don’t go in!

Zhang was very obedient. He recited his father's words word for word in front of Feng's house and ran away, running faster than a rabbit.

The people of Taohua Village gathered outside the Feng family's door again, looking at the Feng family with contempt or disgust. The eldest and second Feng wanted to stop Zhang boy, but the villagers refused to let the Feng family succeed.

After a while, the village chief also came.

This time the village chief's face looked very ugly.

It would be strange if she could be pretty! Last time Liu Ya said her family wanted to sell her to a brothel, the village chief warned the Feng family.

As a result, Old Man Feng agreed in person, but two days later he "gave" the sixth girl to the Zhang family as a child bride. It seems that the Feng family did not take him, the village chief, seriously at all!

The village chief said in a deep voice to Old Man Feng.

"Mr. Feng, it's all my fault that I, the village chief, cared too little about your family.

“I thought your family had more than ten acres of fertile land, with a good harvest every year; and a daughter-in-law who worked as a wet nurse in a wealthy family, and she always brought home a lot of gifts.

"Your house is also the best house in Taohua Village. Some time ago you were discussing how to provide for your two grandsons to go to school.

“Your family has land, a house, and people who make money. I thought your Feng family was quite wealthy, but I didn’t know that your family had bad news recently. Now you are so poor that you can’t even support a little girl!

"Tell me what bad news has happened. As the village chief, I will definitely help if I can!"

"Puchi", someone in the crowd laughed out loud, and then more people started laughing.

Huang Yaning was also trying to hold back her laughter.

The village chief is cursing the Feng family in a roundabout way.

The men in the Feng family were all blushing, and it was unclear whether they were angry or ashamed.

They thought that Zhang would be happy to "raise" Liu Ya, to tease her, and keep a close eye on her to prevent her from running away.

After all, you get an extra free laborer, who can become your wife and have kids in a few years. Who wouldn't want this lucrative business?

The Feng family never dreamed that Zhang would send the person back! Therefore, they were caught off guard without any preparation.

There was a young woman in the crowd who pretended to be whispering, but her voice was so loud that people 500 meters away could hear it.

"The Feng family smells of meat every other day, and their two grandsons are almost as fat as balls. How many families in the village are as wealthy as them?

"I think what the village chief said is correct. Something bad must have happened to the Feng family that filled up their coffins. Otherwise, how could the Feng family be so poor that they can't even afford to raise their little granddaughter?"

Old Mrs. Li and Young Mrs. Li did not dare to confront the village chief, but they had no scruples towards the young woman. Old Mrs. Li put her hands on her hips and raised her head and roared.

"What are you talking about? Whose family is unlucky——"

Before he could finish his words, Old Man Feng pulled him back forcefully and he said angrily.

"You ignorant woman! Big brother, second brother, take them both back and don't embarrass yourself in front of others—"

Old Man Feng clenched his fists tightly. How could he not know that the village chief was cursing his family to express his dissatisfaction? !

But if he refuted that nothing bad had happened at home, it would mean that they had deliberately pushed their granddaughter into the fire pit, and she would probably be drowned by the villagers' spit.

If I didn't refute, listening to the curses from the village chief and villagers, I would be so angry that I wanted to vomit blood.

It was an extremely frustrating feeling. Old Man Feng felt that he had never felt so frustrating in his life.

He forced a smile and waved at Huang Yaning: "Come back soon Liuya, your grandma was just joking with you——"

Of course, no one believed this.

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