She had never been to Li's house before, and she found the door of Li's house after asking around for a long time.
Huzi was turning over medicinal herbs when she came in. Li Xi had collected a lot of medicinal herbs from the mountains these days, and they all needed to be dried before they could be preserved.
Huzi frowned when he saw the strange old woman entering his home without saying hello, "Who are you!"
Mrs. Liu knew who Huzi was by looking at his similar appearance to Li Tiezhu. She smiled with a smile on her face, "I am your grandma."
Huzi's little face wrinkled, "I don't have a grandma."
The movement outside alarmed Madam Liu in the room. Madam Liu came out and looked at Mrs. Liu standing in the yard, and said in surprise, "Mother?"
Ms. Liu looked at her, her eyes suddenly turned red, and she wailed and stepped forward to hug Mrs. Liu, "My dear Xinghua, I've suffered so much for you.
God, why are you so blind? How can Xinghua and her son survive after taking away Tie Zhu? "
Mrs. Liu's eyes were also red. She had not seen her mother for more than ten years. She remembered her kindness in her heart. Since her father passed away after giving birth, she had been living in trepidation and fear. Now that she sees her relatives, she feels better. The child came up and cried non-stop.
Huzi was a little scared when he saw Mrs. Liu crying into tears, but he still rushed over and pulled at the corner of Mrs. Liu's clothes, "Mom, stop crying. What's wrong with you?"
Mrs. Liu wiped the corners of her eyes in time, "Xinghua, this is your son, he is a filial child."
Hearing Mrs. Liu say this, Mrs. Liu wiped her tears and nodded, "Yes, my name is Huzi, Huzi, this is grandma, my name is grandma."
Huzi looked at Mr. Liu with a wrinkled face, his mouth closed and silent.
Madam Liu looked at the stubborn Huzi and frowned, "Calling someone, Huzi!"
Huzi still didn't speak, so Madam Liu slapped him on the back, "Why are you so ignorant!"
Madam Liu stopped Mrs. Liu, "Okay, Xinghua, the child is still young, why are you hitting him?"
"Mom, this is the first time Huzi sees you, so I might be a little embarrassed." Madam Liu was a little embarrassed.
Ms. Liu waved her hands, looking unconcerned, "It's okay, it's okay. Just have more contact with her in the future."
The more she looked like this, the more embarrassed Mrs. Liu felt.
"Xinghua, it's so hard on you that Tiezhu is gone like this.
You also know the situation at home. Mom didn’t bring you anything good when she came this time. She just brought a few eggs for you to eat to replenish your health. Mrs. Liu handed the basket to Mrs. Liu.
Tears welled up in Mrs. Liu's eyes, and she spoke with a slight sob, "Mom, what are you doing? I don't want you to take it back to Yaozu."
"What are you taking? Your brother asked me to bring this specially for you. Your brother is thinking of you."
Madam Liu was deeply moved by Mrs. Liu's words. She pulled Mrs. Liu into the house, "It's cold outside, let's go inside and talk."
Huzi stood there, watching Madam Liu turn around and enter the room as if she hadn't seen him, feeling a little at a loss.
He thought for a moment and chased after him.
Both Madam Liu and Mrs. Liu thought he was a child, so they didn't care.
From Mrs. Liu's heartache for Mrs. Liu to the fact that the Liu family was having a hard time, Liu Yaozu fell in love with a girl from a neighboring village. The girl from that family was misbehaving and hooked up with Liu Yaozu and committed scandalous acts before they got married.
Now that family is forcing Liu Yaozu to marry that girl, and the family is in chaos.
Mrs. Liu also felt that the girl was indiscreet, but now it was settled. Since the girl was pregnant, it was indeed troublesome.
"Mom, what did sister-in-law say?"
Liu Yaozu and Lady Liu were twins. He got married a year earlier than Lady Liu. When she got married, he already had a daughter.
Hearing what she said, Mrs. Liu frowned and said with disgust, that was just a useless snack, and she died in childbirth when she was giving birth to her third child.
"Ah?" Although Mrs. Liu didn't like her sarcastic younger sister, she was still a little sad to hear it at the moment, "How pitiful."
"It's fine for other people to give birth, but she had a dystocia. She was destined to fail, but she still has a conscience, and finally gave birth to a baby for our old Liu family." Mrs. Liu said and smiled again, "You haven't seen her yet. As for your nephew, next time you go home and take a look, let him know what his aunt looks like."
After Mrs. Liu finished speaking, she glanced at Madam Liu with eyes filled with tears. She didn't believe that she would go empty-handed.
"Since my younger brother and sister are gone and the girl is pregnant again, I just want my younger brother to marry her, so that my younger brother can have a woman by his side to take care of things."
Mrs. Liu slapped her thigh and said, "Hey, your father and I thought the same thing, but that lion said loudly that he would only agree to marry me for fifty taels of silver."
"Fifty taels?!" Mrs. Liu's eyes widened. Now in the village, ten taels of silver is enough to marry a daughter-in-law. Normally, people get married with only two taels of silver. Fifty taels is enough to get twenty-five wives. .
Madam Liu sighed, all the wrinkles on her face wrinkled, "Your father and I both think this gift is too high. How can anyone in the countryside ask for such a high gift?
But Yaozu has taken a liking to her and has identified her. Now that we have children, your father and I can't do anything about her. "
In fact, Mrs. Liu didn't tell the truth. The girl was the daughter of Mr. Cao's family in the neighboring village. She was only eighteen years old. Naturally, she would not be interested in Liu Yaozu, who was the same age as her father.
It was Liu Yaozu who forced her to do so after drinking. Cao Laobao took advantage of this and demanded thirty taels of bride price from the Liu family. He threatened that if they didn't give it, he would report it directly to the official and send Liu Yaozu to jail.
Naturally, Liu Gen and Mrs. Liu couldn't watch their son go to jail. Logically speaking, the Liu family should be rich. The total betrothal gifts of Madam Liu and her sisters must have amounted to more than a hundred taels.
The fathers of the daughters' families are in charge of the money, and most of them just send food to their homes.
Both Liu Gen and Liu Yaozu were prodigal. After spending so many years, they only had about twenty taels of silver left at home. They could definitely get it together, but at this time they heard that Li Tiezhu was dead, so they wanted to have sex with Lady Liu. Money in hand.
They didn't know how much money Mrs. Liu had in her hands, but no matter how much she had, it was all in vain for them.
Before Mrs. Liu came, Liu Gen specifically told her to tell Mrs. Liu that the Cao family wanted fifty taels of bride price, and the extra money would naturally go into their pockets.
"Then what should I do?" Madam Liu also frowned, the gift was too high.
"We have a few taels of silver at home, and your sisters have scraped it together, but we are still short of forty taels.
Xinghua, you don’t know that your brother is on a hunger strike at home and doesn’t eat every day. He said that if he can’t marry that indiscreet man, he will starve to death. Mom doesn’t know what to do, wuwuwu— —" Madam Liu started to cry as she spoke.
