After hearing this voice, Li Yuehua quickly tidied himself up and quickly greeted the person who came: "It's Xiang Ling, why are you here."
Seeing Li Yuehua coming over in a hurry, the girl named Xiang Ling hurriedly took a few steps back and called Li Yuehua softly through the low wall: "Second Aunt."
Xiangling, whose surname is Chen, is just twenty years old this year. She married into the village five years ago, and she married the nephew of the village chief.
It's just that her man has been weak and weak since he was a child. He gets flustered and short of breath even if he takes a few steps.
At that time, seeing that the child's health was not strong and wanting to give him a child, he took the time to arrange a marriage from Xiangling's family.
Unexpectedly, when the child heard that he was getting married, he was so happy that he invited some of his close friends in the village to have a few more glasses of wine.
As a result, no one was there that night...
The wedding date had just been agreed upon, and the two children had not even met.
As long as it is not announced to the outside world, no one will know that there is such a thing.
But the people of Chenjiacun had always envied the chastity memorial arch in Wujiacun, and now that they had such an opportunity to show their faces, they would not let it go.
In order to prove that Chenjiacun also attaches great importance to rules and ethics, the village chief of Chenjiacun personally sent Chen Xiangling to Wujiacun.
Let her keep integrity for her husband.
Village Chief Wu was also very distressed about Chen Xiangling's arrival.
They didn't lack anything to eat, but although Chen Xiangling was a widow, she didn't get married at all.
This person is not suitable anywhere, especially since his younger brother's family has three unmarried sons. What if something happens...
Just thinking about it makes my scalp tingle.
After much deliberation, Village Chief Wu finally decided to send Chen Xiangling to the third grandma.
First, the third grandma lived alone in the ancestral hall all year round. Chen Xiangling used to help the third grandma.
Second, the third grandma is the one who gets the chastity arch. With the third grandma watching and taking care of her, I believe that Chen Xiangling will not be unable to keep it.
So, Chen Xiangling was sent to live with her third grandma and stayed there for five years.
She knew she was in trouble and never took the initiative to approach outsiders.
On weekdays, even if they see people, they just bark from a distance and then quickly avoid them.
He actually took the initiative to place himself in an inferior position.
Her only thought now is to stay here for another thirty-five years.
After that, you can get a chastity memorial like the third grandma.
By then, she would be able to survive.
Just like the third grandmother, she can still say a few words even in front of the clan leader.
Everyone in the village, except for a few clan elders, regardless of gender or age, must call Third Grandma.
This is her ultimate dream, but now, she has to wait for decades more.
Seeing Xiang Ling's timidity, Li Yuehua felt in a trance.
In the past, she always felt that people like Xiang Ling were pitiful, but they were forced to be widowed at such a young age.
But now she realizes that being a widow is not the most pitiable thing. Her Xing Niang doesn't even have a chance to be a widow.
Forced to hold back her tears, Li Yuehua's voice was choked with sobs: "Xiang Ling, why did you come here at this time?"
Xiangling shrank her neck again and suddenly knelt down straight: "Auntie, the third grandmother has hanged three envoys at the end of the village. I beg you to put them down. If they are hung up like this, something will happen."
Wujiacun is located by the sea, and the temperature difference between morning and evening is huge.
The third grandma was already very old, and if she didn’t get enough water or rice on this day, she might die if she didn’t.
Li Yuehua immediately reached out to pull Xiang Ling, but Xiang Ling quickly dodged it.
He just knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing: "Please, aunt."
At this moment, several more plainly dressed women rushed out from the corner and knelt on the ground together to kowtow to Li Yuehua: "Please, Auntie, have mercy on us poor people."
They are all widows in the village, their husbands died and they have no children.
According to the rules, they have no contribution to the family and do not own anything belonging to their husband's family.
Their natal family did not take them in. In order to avoid becoming refugees, they had to move to the ancestral hall to live with their third grandmother.
The third grandma is rigid, cold-tempered, and pays attention to rules, but she takes good care of them on weekdays.
Under the protection of the third mistress, they at least had enough food and clothing.
We can still support each other on weekdays, and our lives are actually more comfortable than when my husband was alive.
Therefore, the existence of the third grandma is very important to them, and they must not let anything happen to the third grandma.
Looking at the crowd of people kneeling in front of him, Li Yuehua subconsciously took a step back.
Before she could speak, she heard the girls crying together again: "Second Aunt, please have mercy on us."
Li Yuehua wanted to say that he couldn't make the decision, but after seeing the sad expressions of these girls, he suppressed these words.
As a woman, I know better the pain in a woman's heart.
Now that her daughter has offended the entire village, she still doesn’t know where to go.
Thinking of this, Li Yuehua's eyes turned slightly red, just thinking about how to persuade his daughter later.
Not only the third mistress, but also the village elders and strong laborers were hanging on the tree.
Just as he was thinking about it, he heard bursts of rattling sounds in his ears, and Li Yuehua subconsciously turned his head.
But she found that her daughter, who was as swollen as a cake, was squatting not far away eating melon seeds.
Li Yuehua's expression was stunned: Why didn't she remember that there were melon seeds at home?
Xiangling was stunned for a while before she came back to her senses: "Xing, Xing Niang..."
She had always known that Xingniang didn't like her. Not only Xingniang, but also the unmarried girls in the village would stay away from her for fear of getting into her bad luck.
Jin Qing was watching enthusiastically when someone suddenly called him by name.
Putting away the melon seeds subconsciously, Jin Qing wandered to Xiang Ling and said, "What benefits are you going to give me by asking me to put the person down."
This was the first time she had close contact with Wu Xingniang. After hearing Wu Xingniang's words, Xiangling stopped crying: "...Wha, what?"
Just when Wu Xingniang was in a daze, she heard another widow's voice suddenly coming from behind her: "As long as Xingniang no longer embarrasses the third grandma, I am willing to work as a cow or horse for Xingniang."
Everyone could hear the deep sadness in the widow's voice, and the sound of crying could not be heard for a while.
Afterwards, everyone responded: "We are willing to work as cows and horses for Xing Niang."
Only Chen Xiangling remained silent and just stared at Jin Qing blankly: she felt that something about Xing Niang was different from the past.
As if to confirm Chen Xiangling's thoughts, Jin Qing slowly opened her mouth and gave them a ferocious smile: "Deal!"
She loves helping people fulfill their wishes.
After night falls, the sea breeze becomes cooler.
After the third grandma was picked off the archway by Jin Qing, she was hurriedly carried back to the small courtyard next to the ancestral hall by the widows.
The small courtyard is specially reserved for the third grandmother to live alone, so the area is considered moderate.
But because the third mistress picked up a lot of women, when everyone moved at the same time, the area of activity seemed a bit small.
After putting the third grandma on the bed, Chen Xiangling hurriedly went out to boil water, while the other women rubbed the third grandma's skin vigorously, hoping to make her recover quickly.
After a few mouthfuls of hot soup, the third grandmother finally recovered and took a long breath. The third grandmother gritted her teeth and spit out three words: "Wu Xingniang!"
