Chapter 403: Dressed as a Widow Without a Man (8)
Chapter 403: Dressed as a Widow Without a Man (8)
"That..." Yuan opened her mouth twice, but still couldn't say anything.
Shuangshuang advised, "Aunt, we are all family, what is there to be embarrassed about?"
“It’s like this, your three cousins are all in their 20s this year.
But outside, I am neither too high nor too low. I like other people's things, but other people's families don't like my family.
Others like your cousin, but I think that woman is shabby and I feel uncomfortable.
Wouldn’t this cause delay?
Look...can you please ask your mother to find me a wife from the mountains?"
"But aren't you afraid that your cousin will be laughed at if he comes out of the mountains to find a wife?"
"What a joke! If it weren't for you, the Dashan family would have broken up long ago.
These aunts have all seen it, as well as the girls your mother helped find before. They are all very efficient at work and can take care of everything at home and outside.
She can also go to the mountains to make traps from time to time to improve the family's food. Where can I find such a good daughter-in-law?"
"But what about Xu Dong?"
Before, Xu Xiaocao was indeed keen on talking about girls in the mountains, and then talking about girls outside the mountains into the mountains.
She has indeed helped many single couples find love.
At the beginning, everyone was happy. The girls from the mountains were very organized and efficient in doing things.
He can hold a shovel at home and farm tools outside.
Girls from outside the mountains marry into the mountains, and the men in the mountains also cherish them and are willing to pamper them. Most of them actually live quite well.
But the bad thing is that there is always a bad apple that spoils the whole barrel.
Xu Dong had had enough of his poor life, and suddenly he married a good wife. After living a good life for two days, he lost his mind.
He didn't know when he started getting involved with the widow from the next village.
The most important thing was that he was stupid enough to send the rabbits his wife had caught from the mountains to please the widow.
As a result, her daughter-in-law couldn't find the rabbit when she was cooking.
Once or twice, his wife thought that the Xu family had eaten it all by themselves, or had exchanged it for money.
But she was not a fool. Later, whenever she caught wild animals, she would hide and watch to see who ate them.
It turned out that it was Xu Dong who took it away. After tracking it, they found that it was actually sent to a widow's house.
Is this okay?
His wife immediately took a knife, ran to the widow's house, and stabbed Xu Dong and the widow several times.
However, she was still sensible and only chopped off their hands and legs, without taking any lives.
Then his wife ran back to the mountain with the girl they gave birth to. Xu Dong and the widow could only blame themselves for their bad luck.
After all, there was no one to lead the way in the mountains, so they couldn't get in, or even if they got in, they couldn't get out.
But unexpectedly, after a month or so, everyone thought things had calmed down.
One night, a group of mountain people broke into Xu Dong's house and the widow's house at the same time.
They smashed both families to pieces, forced Xu Dong's father and the widow's family to pay Xu Dong's wife 20 strings of copper coins each, and forced Xu Dong to write a divorce letter.
That night the group went into the mountains.
The next day, Xu Dong's family went to the county to report the case, but the county magistrate was also helpless.
Just say, "If you can find someone to lead the way, I'll send someone to go with you."
Who could he find to lead the way?
Girls who get married in the mountains all recognize their mother's family.
The reason why I didn't join in beating him up was because I had children to take care of here.
As for those who marry into the mountains, there is even less hope.
I've walked that mountain road dozens of times. You want to get out of it? What a dream!
From then on, Xu Xiaocao no longer dared to meddle in these trivial matters.
But I didn’t expect that Yuan had such a big vision and even dared to marry a girl from the mountains.
"Aunt, you must think this matter over carefully, and be sure to discuss it with my third brother.
Marriage is a union of two families. If my third brother is really willing to marry, I can go back and take a look.
Or you can ask those bad boys in my family to go back for a while, but they really can’t come back if they are doing evil things like Xu Dong.
The little flower last time was good-tempered, so Xu Dong was lucky.
If she really had a violent temper, she would have chopped off the heads of that widow and Xu Dong, and still not been able to find her."
Yuan nodded, Shuangshuang was right.
For mountain people, entering the mountains is like swimming into the sea. How can they possibly find it?
"Don't worry, I've already told your cousin about this. Besides, you know what kind of person your cousin is. He will definitely love his wife in the future."
Just then, the younger cousin came back, and Shuangshuang asked directly, "Third brother, your mother just told me about your situation. It depends on what you think.
I’m also going to mention what my sister-in-law said here. The girl I find for you will definitely be the best.
But you absolutely cannot do anything to let her down, or else if you really follow in Xu Dong's footsteps, it will be difficult for your sister-in-law to face both sides."
"Don't worry, sister-in-law, I know."
"Okay then. I'll take your matter to heart and write to you in a few days."
Two days later, some blessings and wealth came to the family.
This time, they cleared out all the bacon from their own home, the homes of several uncles, and several neighbors and sent it over.
Looking at those big sacks, they probably weigh thousands of pounds.
There were also about a hundred chickens raised by the neighbors, and they were all picked out.
Qi Dafu said to Shuangshuang, "These are not ours, they are all collected by everyone.
Dad said, if there's still something missing, go check in the next valley."
The next valley that Qi Dafu mentioned would take at least an hour to walk to.
There is no village in the mountains, just a valley where a few families of the same family live, ten or twenty families, no more.
If there are more, they will branch out to find other cols.
There are quite a lot of people living in their valley, but if you count the big households, there are only about twenty or so.
"Okay, I'll send it over tomorrow and ask him if he wants it back."
Shuangshuang didn't think there was anything wrong with going to other valleys.
Speaking of the other valleys, they were all refugees who fled into the mountains together.
Even though they don’t have the same surname, I heard that their ancestors were sworn brothers.
Then everyone gathered around the smokehouse in the backyard and showed interest.
"Sister, this is really good. I think you can hang several pigs here at once."
"Well, this is mass-produced, so it's fine. If it's just for cooking and eating, who would make this? Just hang it in the woodshed."
"That's true."
When the Fu family heard the little ones reciting the Three Character Classic, smiles appeared on their faces.
"Will they disturb Dunzi's studies?"
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