The old lady is reborn

It was not until the marriage proposals were exchanged that the Lu family realized something was wrong. However, the marriage with the Yao family had already been publicized by them and everyone knew about it. Would they cancel the engagement now?

Lu's mother wanted to back out. Wouldn't it be a loss if Lu Yiyi couldn't marry into a good family with her looks?

No matter how poor his family was, he still took good care of her. Her hands were so white and tender, but she just married the son of a farmer?

The Lu family felt that the Yao family was going too far. When the matchmaker first came to the door, he clearly mentioned the Yao family's second legitimate son. Who was this farmer from a side branch who appeared out of nowhere?

Isn't this a marriage fraud? The Lu family proposed to cancel the engagement, but the betrothal gifts would not be returned.

The Yao family asked the matchmaker to reply that the engagement could be cancelled, but all the betrothal gifts had to be returned. Moreover, the fact that Lu Yiyi had an ambiguous relationship with another man in the old house and was eventually abandoned by that man would not be concealed by the Yao family.

The Yao family claimed that they had some influence in the local area. If they wanted to cancel the engagement, they naturally could not bear the reputation of "breaking off the engagement without reason, or even deceiving the marriage".

If someone committed marriage fraud, it was not the Yao family.

When the Lu family heard this, they realized that the matter had not been concealed.

After much thought, no matter how beautiful Lu Yiyi is, she is not as stunningly beautiful as a fairy. Her family background is also weak. If her reputation gets out, it will be impossible for her to climb up the social ladder.

After all, once this happened, even the second son of the local wealthy Yao family was unwilling to marry her.

Who would want someone who was rejected by the Yao family? Do other families have no shame?

Thinking of this, Mother Lu was reluctant to give up the betrothal gift she had received. The Yao family had given her quite a bit. If she gave up this one and got another one, she was afraid that each one would be worse than the last.

The young man who was dragged into this inexplicably was also informed of the truth by the Yao family, who were furious and wanted to take revenge.

Afterwards, he felt sorry for this young man from a distant branch, so after explaining the situation to the young man, he let him make his own choice. If he wanted to cancel the engagement and not get married, then he didn't have to worry about anything.

If they decide to get married, from the betrothal gifts to the wedding ceremony and banquet, all the expenses of marrying a daughter-in-law, including the red envelope for the matchmaker, wedding money and wedding cakes, and other miscellaneous expenses will be paid by the Yao family.

After all, in the eyes of the Yao family, the young man was cheated by the Yao family by marrying this wife, so the Yao family should pay.

After hearing this, the man from the Yao family's branch was unwilling to marry at first, but after all, his family was not well off, and he couldn't help but be tempted by someone covering all the expenses for marrying a wife. After thinking it over, this man secretly went to see Lu Yiyi, and seeing that she was pretty, he agreed to the marriage.

The Yao family would not bother to marry Lu Yiyi. After all, it was not the host family who was marrying a daughter-in-law. They only asked the young man to give a total amount of the wedding expenses. The Yao family would take the money and would not care about anything else.

When the young man's family saw that the whole package was offered, they naturally only spent three or five taels of the ten taels of silver on the wedding (just an analogy, not really only ten taels), and the rest kept for themselves.

Seeing that Lu Yiyi could only marry a farmer, Lu's father and mother were obviously disappointed. But they were reluctant to give up the betrothal gift and did not dare to give up.

Those in the family who wanted to climb the social ladder ended up in vain. The Yao family thought that the money was a small amount and did not care much about it.

Lu Xiaolan, who ran away alone, passed through many villages along the way by doing odd jobs for daily wages, and finally arrived in Yancheng.

On a rainy day, she was taken in by an old lady who lived alone and stayed with her for a few days.

On the day Xiaolan was leaving, the old lady suddenly developed a high fever, so Lu Xiaolan stayed to take care of her. The old lady's illness was not serious, but she recovered slowly. It took her more than half a month to recover.

The old lady's son, who worked in Yancheng, sent a message through someone, asking her to rent a house in the village as soon as possible, and he would hire someone to renovate the old house.

He also repeatedly told the old lady to move out as soon as possible, as he had already agreed on a deadline with her for renovating the house.

Seeing the old man silent, Xiaolan asked in confusion, "Your son is filial and has spent money and effort to repair your house. Why do you look so unhappy?"

In the past few days, the old man and Lu Xiaolan got along very well, so she told him frankly: "I have lived in this old house for decades. The last time this house was renovated was four years ago, and it was also done by my old man a year before he passed away.

The renovations he made now look a bit old but are very durable. I live well here, and the old man has thought of every detail for me.

I don't want to move drastically. I just want to live quietly in this old house until I die.

But my son can’t wait to let his in-laws move in.”

"What?" Xiaolan was confused.

The old man said, "My in-laws are a few years younger than me. Their son is not very capable, and they dote on him. He has been neither high nor low these years. Whenever something goes wrong, my daughter-in-law asks my son to help with money and effort.

My husband and I saw that our son had a heavy burden and had to support himself. It was understandable that I, an old man, never enjoyed a single day of his blessing until my death.

My in-laws' son was a useless person, neither good at literature nor martial arts, and he didn't have a decent livelihood, so he never got married.

Finally, she found someone willing to marry her, but she made a request that her in-laws move out voluntarily before she would marry them. And she couldn't let anyone know that this was her request.

My in-laws were also poor people, so they moved into my son and daughter-in-law's house in Yancheng. The house was not big to begin with, and my wife and I saved money to help our son buy it.

They all rely on their son for support in their old age, not on a married woman. The couple also feel ashamed, so when they live in Yancheng, they act as my son's parents.

My grandchildren have called them grandpa and grandma since they were young. For this reason, my husband and I have never been to Yancheng.

But a while ago, it was said that their good-for-nothing son lost the house due to gambling, and their daughter-in-law was so angry that she couldn't say anything! My daughter-in-law and my in-laws asked my son for help.

When I found out about it, the house in Yancheng had already been sold. After all, it was more valuable than the house in the village. The money from the sale was divided into two parts. Half was given to my in-laws' son to buy a new house in the village, and the other half was used by my son and daughter-in-law to buy a very small house in Yancheng.

As a result, my in-laws will have no room to live in the house. My son renovated the house not for me, but for my in-laws.

My in-laws are going to move in with me. My son is in a hurry to do it because both the buyers and sellers have set a date for moving in. The buyer agreed that they can stay for a while, but not for long.

Lu Xiaolan was stunned: "So you don't want to repair this house, and you don't want to live with others, right?"

"Yes, I'm used to living alone, and I'm in good health and can take care of myself.

If I want to eat something, I can pick some vegetables from the front and back yards. The fields are contracted out to others to grow crops, and the food they give me is enough for me to eat for a year.

The old man had given up on his son a long time ago and left me some small things. I just wanted to live alone in peace and quiet.

When things really get tough, I'll go see the old man myself, but that won't work."