As soon as I woke up from my dizziness, I saw a short and fat woman in her fifties talking with her mouth open and spitting.
"I know your father has just passed away and you are not in the mood to think about this, but now is this opportunity. If you don't catch someone else, you can take it away! There are so many children in Zhou Wei's country, and they are all crying and need to find a mother-in-law. I'm going back to take care of the kids.
Don’t think that it’s difficult to marry him because he has four children. Let me tell you, he is very popular. After all, he works as a worker in the county town and gets a stable salary every month. This is better than farming in our village. The man is strong!
Think about it, if you marry him, you don't have to work in the fields. You only need to take care of several children and do housework. Isn't this much easier than working in the fields?
There are many girls in and outside our village staring at him. If you agree too late, it will be too late to regret. Let me tell you..."
Shi Chu was distracted while listening to the woman talking, while looking at the memory of the original owner, and soon understood that this was when the matchmaker Aunt Zhou came to introduce her to become a stepmother in Zhou Wei's country.
Aunt Zhou made exaggerated remarks about Zhou Weiguo's conditions, as if he was the best man in the world, and tried her best to persuade Shi Chu to agree to the marriage.
"I'm telling you, if you miss this village, there won't be this shop. Why are you so reserved? Do you want to marry these men in the village who work in the fields all day long? Then you will have to work very hard. Working underground, within a few years I was exhausted and turned into a yellow-faced woman..."
Shi Chu pressed her temples and said to Aunt Zhou, "Aunt Zhou, please stop talking. I'm not interested in being a stepmother. You'd better find someone else."
"Wha, what?" Aunt Zhou obviously didn't expect that Shi Chu actually rejected her. She was so shocked that her big eyes widened, and her expression suddenly became unhappy.
"You don't even like Zhou Weiguo? Who else do you want to like? What's wrong with being a stepmother? Those children have grown up and you don't need to take care of them, and you still dislike them? Zhou Weiguo hasn't disliked you for not having a father. What a bad luck!"
"Since his conditions are so good, Aunt Zhou, why don't you marry your daughter to him? I remember that you have a little daughter who is not married, right?" Shichu also turned cold. This matchmaker Zhou can put cowhide in her mouth. Those who brag to the sky can secretly hide the shortcomings of their loved ones for the sake of money, which has harmed many people.
"How can my daughter marry a widower?!" Aunt Zhou blurted out. After seeing Shi Chu's dark face, she said sarcastically, "I mean, my daughter is spoiled and pampered by me. She is only suitable for finding a husband. Family relationships are simpler..."
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"Zhou Weiguo's family relationship isn't complicated either. Don't they just have a few more children? Besides, men tend to love others when they are older, and your daughter is spoiled and pampered. Isn't this appropriate?" Shi Chu said with a half-smile but not a smile.
Aunt Zhou's face suddenly fell. She obviously understood that she was not so easy to fool, and immediately said in a sinister manner, "You don't need to take care of my daughter. She is destined to marry in the city. But you, your family is so poor. Even the thieves are too lazy to come here because of the jingle bell. Now that your father is dead, you don’t have any relatives to arrange marriage arrangements for you. I’ll see if you can find a good family!"
"Even if I can't get married, I'm still happy to be an old aunt!" Shichu snorted coldly.
Seeing that the marriage was unlikely to succeed, Aunt Zhou cursed and left.
Shi Chu glanced around, and sure enough he saw that the mud house was dark and dilapidated. It had only four walls and was very poor.
She found the kitchen and found no tea set such as a kettle, so she had to take a bowl and scoop out a bowl of water to drink.
After quenching her thirst, she had the time to understand the current situation of the original owner.
The original owner was Gu Shichu, who was eighteen years old. His biological father broke his leg half a month ago when he went up the mountain to hunt some wild animals to fill his stomach. It happened to rain heavily that day, so he broke his leg and could not go down the mountain, so he spent the whole night in the rain. Yu, when the original owner summoned the villagers to look for him the next day, he was already confused with fever and illness. He died within three days after being carried home.
The original owner's mother died of illness when she was ten years old. After that, she and her father depended on each other. Unfortunately, his father could not stay with her for long, leaving her an orphan at the age of eighteen.
She does have a few relatives in the village, but unfortunately her family is too poor and her relatives have long been estranged from her family. Even now that she is an orphan, other relatives are not shy about occupying her family property - of course, her family He has no property, and the only thing of value is a dilapidated house, the kind that no one else looks down upon.
This saved a lot of things at the beginning, otherwise she would explode if she came here and had to argue with the best relatives.
Unfortunately, the original owner was not as strong as she was at the beginning. Her only relative had just passed away, leaving her helpless and helpless all day long. So when Aunt Zhou told her about the marriage, she immediately agreed to marry Zhou Weiguo.
In fact, she had no interest in Zhou Weiguo himself or his enviable job in the city. She just didn't want to be alone and just wanted to have a family. When this marriage happened to come to her door, she was like a rootless duckweed. , immediately grabbed this life-saving straw.
Marrying into the Zhou family was far from as wonderful as matchmaker Zhou said. She had to take care of four young stepchildren. The two, seven and five years old, were already half-grown. They knew what was going on with her stepmother, so they were very resistant to her. , confronting her, causing a lot of trouble.
Although the two-year-old twins are not sensible, they are at the age where they need to be taken care of all the time. They are inseparable from each other. They wash diapers, feed them, put them to sleep...all are tasks, and they are so tired that they stand still. She can even fall asleep. It's a pity that she is only eighteen years old.
When she first thought of this, she couldn't help but shudder. The original owner's memory of the noisy crying of the child, as well as the basin full of dirty clothes and dirty diapers waiting to be washed... all made her shudder and daunted. How could the original owner persist? Go down, it's really tough enough.
Fortunately, she had just rejected Aunt Zhou, and Shichu secretly rejoiced. If she was really allowed to be the stepmother who took care of the four children, she would definitely die and escape from this world.
In the previous world, although she was a stepmother, she only served in name, and other things did not bother her. Even if she adopted Du Zhao later, there would be a maid and a mother-in-law who would take care of him without her having to do anything. Moreover, Du Zhao was a good child who was easy to take care of, so she didn't feel the hard work of raising a child at all.
But this world is not like that. Being a stepmother requires a down-to-earth job. She has to cook, bathe and dress people, wash clothes and change diapers, and do housework... she has to use her hands for everything. I came here to do it, how could she bear this?
When Shi Chu thought of this, he regretted that he had been too polite to Matchmaker Zhou just now. He only scolded her a few words instead of kicking her out. Just because she introduced such a deceptive marriage to the original owner, she deserves a beating.
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