"I told you earlier that although the eldest son of the Fu family is a sick man, the Fu family has some wealth. In the current situation of our Xie family, how good a family do you want to marry?"
"Even if you don't think about me, and you want your father and your brothers and sisters to survive, you should still get married."
Listening to stepmother Wang's words, Xie Ying's face showed a bit of resentment.
"Did my father say this himself?" she asked.
It doesn’t matter how big the Xie family is, but her ancestors also had officials. Her grandfather worked as a shopkeeper in a big restaurant in the town, and her father was a scholar.
Now this talented man has ended up selling his daughter.
To put it bluntly, the changes in the Xie family began after her father passed the examination to become a scholar.
My grandfather was agitated, suffered a stroke, and died three years later.
Grandma was worried, so she followed.
Her father, a scholar, was drinking with others in the cold winter, fell into a river, and his legs were frozen. According to the laws of the Zhou Dynasty, those with physical defects could not continue to take the imperial examination.
Xie's father fell into despair and became addicted to gambling, which soon ruined his family's fortune.
When my mother was in her parents' family, there was a young man whom she liked each other. Unfortunately, they were both merchants. In order to catch up with Xie's father, a talented scholar, her grandfather separated her mother and the young man. Therefore, since she was born, her mother has never given him anything. She smiles.
She died of depression when she was five years old.
Xie Ying can say that her father does not love her, her mother does not love her, and she is also the one who is not valued in the Xie family.
The mother passed away, and the father continued the Wang family.
Wang is the daughter of a rice and grain shop in the town, and she is always the most calculating.
Now that Xie Ying has reached the age of thirteen, he wants to marry her off. It is better to say that it is to marry her than to sell her for money.
Erlang from the Fu family in Changqing Village next door was fighting in the military camp and sent a lot of money to his family every year.
The elder brother of the Fu family is a medicine man. He has to take medicine all year round to save his life. But last year, bandits on the mountain robbed Changqing Village. All the two elders of the Fu family died in the hands of the bandits. Only the young man who followed his grandmother to visit relatives, He survived with the old lady from the Fu family.
The eldest son of the Fu family is in his mid-twenties this year and wants to marry a woman. He says it is a wife, but in fact it is just for happiness.
A normal family would send a girl to a wedding. If the gift passes, it's fine. If it doesn't, she will marry and become a widow.
But Xie's father was greedy for money, so he sold Xie Ying for the twenty taels of silver given by the Fu family.
The reason why I chose Xie Ying is because she is beautiful and capable, and she is famous in every village in the world.
Not only was the Fu family happy to marry her back, but they also asked Xie Ying to take care of the Fu family's sick sons, the Fu boss and the Fu family's young man, as well as the mentally ill and grumpy Mrs. Fu.
To put it bluntly, it means spending a penny to buy a servant girl to take care of the old, young and sick children of the Fu family.
Xie Ying is not stupid, she also inquired about it in private.
Mrs. Wang saw that Xie Ying was as calm as a piece of wood.
I couldn't help but get a little angry.
"If your father doesn't agree, how can I tell you these things? Your father has already collected the money. You can pack your things yourself and send them to you. This will look good in the village. If you don't want to, you can tie them up and send them to you." If you go there, you will always look a bit ugly..."
Xie Ying counterattacked: "Have you done enough ugly things?"
"You can pretend that I go to the Fu family and ask my father to write a letter of dissolution. Once I, Xie Ying, walk out of the Xie family's door, no matter whether I live or die from now on, I will have nothing to do with the Xie family."
If you are alive, you will not enter the Xie family, and if you die, you will not be able to enter the Xie family grave.
Wang didn't expect Xie Ying to have such backbone.
She turned around and entered the house to find her husband, Xie Wenxiang.
Not long after, a letter of divorce was given to Xie Ying.
Wang: "Are you satisfied now? Then pack your bags and go directly to Fu's house."
Packing your baggage? What can she have to deal with?
It's just a change of clothes with patches on top of each other, and a pair of shoes that are half-worn and not new.
She changed into clean clothes and shoes, combed her hair, and looked at the home where she had lived for more than ten years.
He turned around and left without any regrets.
There was no sedan chair, no gongs and drums, and no one to bring Xi Niang to marry, so Xie Ying just carried her baggage and went to the Fu family in Changqing Village.
When she arrived at Changqing Village, she asked the old man on the roadside where the Fu family was going...
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The Fu family took this marriage very seriously. They asked for help and prepared new clothes for the bride. Xie Ying thought, whoever she marries is either marrying or obeying.
She had the most filling meal ever since she could remember at Fu's house.
She thought, even if she died now, it would be worth it.
At least not as a starving ghost.
Halfway through the wedding, the eldest son of the Fu family coughed and vomited blood and was rushed to the back room.
Erlang of the Fu family married his brother, and then the wedding ceremony was successfully completed.
Then he was sent to his new house because the old man needed someone to take care of him.
Xie Ying thought that after joining the Fu family, she would become the Fu family's daughter-in-law, and it was her duty to serve her husband.
She had to do a lot of waiting work at home, not to mention taking care of people, even going up the mountain to chop firewood, even in the cold winter months, she had to go there, and her good strength was gained through this kind of training.
After working hard for half an hour, she finally got some time to rest when the Fu family's elder husband stopped coughing and finally fell asleep.
As soon as he sat down, he saw a pair of men's black boots walking outside the door.
She raised her eyes and saw a man with a sinister and cold look on his face. Xie Ying recognized the pair of black boots and it was this man who married her.
"I met my second uncle..." Xie Yingli said thoughtfully.
Fu Changhe looked at the woman. To be precise, she was a little girl who had just grown hair.
He came here now to make it clear to her that he was only marrying for his brother, and she was marrying Fu Changming, the eldest son of Fu.
Unexpectedly, she was quite upright and knew propriety and etiquette.
"I met my sister-in-law..."
The man's voice was particularly cold.
Having just taken care of the eldest son of the Fu family, Xie Ying saw clearly that although her husband was a sick man, he was exceptionally beautiful. Unexpectedly, her second uncle was equally beautiful.
Xie Ying looked at it, a little panicked, knowing that she had lost her composure.
He looked back in panic, and then said with a stutter, "Second uncle, you're welcome."
"My husband is already lying down. He looks tired and may want to sleep for a while."
Fu Changhe said: "I have something to tell my sister-in-law, and I would like to ask my sister-in-law to move outside."
The Fu family built three large tile-roofed houses. The eldest son of the Fu family lives in the master bedroom. This was originally the residence of the second elder of the Fu family. Now that the eldest son is married, he and his bride live in this room.
The other larger room is for the grandmother Fu Boss and the young man Fu Changrun.
Fu Changhe didn't come back often. Once in a while, he would stay in the smallest side house.
Xie Ying walked out.
The old lady of the Fu family and the young man of the Fu family were eating at the table outside. One old and one young were rushing to eat.
"I'm an old lady and I eat big food."
"I'm a young man, and I'm the tallest. I should be the one who gets the big one."
Fu Changhe frowned slightly when he heard the play over there, but he didn't say anything.
He looked at Xie Ying.
"I will rush back to the military camp early tomorrow morning. I'm afraid I won't be able to come back for half a year. I will leave the family affairs to you, sister-in-law."
"I will arrange for people to deliver what the family needs. I must take good care of my eldest brother, grandmother and young man."
