Poor family farming: the sick and weak scholar's wife is very sturdy

Chapter 20 Back to Mother's Home

"Oh my dear, isn't this the Black Widow? Why is she back?"

"Look, look, the white-faced scholar following her is really weak! Is she the head of the house?"

"Who could it be if she isn't the head of the house? Look at this small body, I'm afraid I'll have to burp if I can't last half a year!"

"Hey, why did you say that the black widow came back? She is still in charge of the house, so she must have been sent back?"

"It shouldn't be possible, we've been married for a month or so."

"I don't think so. Look at the two of them talking and laughing. Does it look like they are about to be sent back?"

"I think it was sent back. Look at the burden on her body, isn't it the one she carried on the day she sent her off!"

"Black Widow, who dares to ask for it! Most of the people in charge of her family are restrained into this state by her."

"Can't you think of something better? Maybe the package is a gift for the mother-in-law? It looks strange."

"Gift?"

The other village women burst out laughing.

"I said, you really don't know or you don't know, but the Lin family village is notoriously poor. What can you bring to your mother-in-law?"

"Could it be chaff?"

"Hahaha, I look like it!"

……

Li Yuyan, who had just entered the village, was even more upset by these rumors.

I really want to go up and tear the mouths of these gossips!
"Don't be as knowledgeable as this group of unqualified gossip women, it will lower your identity and grade."

Seeing Li Yuyan's dark face, Lin Xiao knew that his heart was already filled with anger, so he quickly took his hand and comforted him.

"it is good!"

Li Yuyan felt the warmth from Lin Xiao's tender palm, and his mood calmed down instantly.

The two stopped in front of a dilapidated courtyard made of yellow mud and weeds.

This is Li Yuyan's "natal home".

In the yard, a child less than one year old is running around in a bamboo cart made of bamboo, having a great time playing.

Sitting on the side of the yard, the stooped middle-aged woman was arranging wild vegetables and looking at the children.

Seeing the two people standing outside the courtyard, she stood up tremblingly, and called out in disbelief: "Yu Yan?"

"Well, it's me."

Li Yuyan walked into the courtyard coldly, and put all the burdens he was carrying on the gray ground.

"Why are you back?"

Seeing Lin Xiao following Li Yuyan, the middle-aged woman seemed to understand something, she knelt down towards Lin Xiao with a plop, no matter how Lin Xiao pulled her, she refused to get up.

She held Lin Xiao's hand, and begged with a slight cry:

"Son-in-law, my good son-in-law, please, please don't divorce my poor daughter!"

"She has had a hard life since she was a child, and she only came back to me in the past few years. She lacks the discipline of her parents. Don't worry, I will discipline her well and let her know how to be a good wife!"

"Although she is ignorant, she is very diligent. No matter how bad it is, you can just treat it as if you have a working dog at home. As long as you don't divorce her and give her a way out, okay?"

It is said that the hearts of parents in the world are pitiful, but Mother Li's kneeling down aroused the softest part of Li Yuyan's heart.

He began to feel sorry for the woman who was kneeling in front of Lin Xiao and pleading.

She loves her daughter, but she has more than enough heart but not enough energy to protect her daughter!

"You misunderstood, Yuyan and I came to visit you specially!"

"Misunderstand?"

Mother Li looked at Li Yuyan in disbelief, and Li Yuyan nodded with a smile.

Mother Li stood up slowly with the support of Li Yuyan, and confirmed again:
"Aren't you really going to divorce my Yuyan?"

Lin Xiao smiled and said: "Yuyan is smart and hardworking, how can I be willing to divorce her!"

Hearing these words, Mother Li's hanging heart finally fell.

"Yes, mother, the head of the house even brought you a special gift."

Li Yuyan unwrapped the bundles on the ground, and displayed them one by one in front of Li's mother and the villagers who followed her around outside the yard:
"This is twenty catties of rice. The head of the house asked me to bring it back to make up for you."

"Here's maltose, salt, and a good piece of cotton."

"And this, it's the wild pork that the head of the house brought specially this morning, it's delicious."

"These are all for me?"

Mother Li's eyes widened.

She has lived for most of her life, and this is the first time someone who has buried half of her body in the ground received a gift from someone else.

The person who gave the gift turned out to be her son-in-law!

"Auntie, I'm sorry, we rushed over as soon as we received the news of your illness. Time is tight and there is nothing to prepare."

As a modern person, Lin Xiao is really not used to calling a strange woman "mother", even if this person is her nominal wife's mother.

After thinking about it for a moment, the title "aunt" is still unconventional.

Faced with Lin Xiao's modesty, how could the knowledgeable mother Li not know, she waved her hands repeatedly: "The things are very expensive, let the son-in-law cost you a lot."

In the Great Xia Dynasty where there were more women than men, there were very few sons-in-law who could give gifts to their mother-in-law’s natal family, not to mention the best rice, salt, maltose, wild boar and cotton cloth.

She couldn't help guessing that her son-in-law should be a blacksmith or a hunter, otherwise how could he be so generous!

"Not spending money, not spending money, that's what I should do."

Lin Xiao's modest and polite appearance, and the fact that she brought such precious things to honor Mother Li made the villagers around the yard jealous.

Black Widow has changed her luck?

She actually met such a good husband!
"Oh, I'm too confused, come in and drink a glass of water, I'll cook for you!"

When Mother Li was about to welcome Lin Xiao and Li Yuyan into the main room, a man and a woman walked in quickly, cursing.

The two are Li Yuyan's elder brother Li Yugua and sister-in-law Liu Ruyan.

"You cost a thousand knives, our days are passing, why are you back?"

When Liu Ruyan saw Li Yuyan, her face immediately turned long.

"I heard that my mother is ill, so I came back to take a look."

"What's so good about an old immortal who is about to fall into the ground?"

Liu Ruyan folded her hands on her chest, and shouted in a sharp voice:
"My family is just getting better. Don't even think about coming over to take a share. Let me tell you, it's impossible!"

Since Li Yuyan married into Lin Family Village, the life of this family has indeed begun to improve a little.

Li Yugua will not return empty-handed when she goes hunting on the nearby hills, and the crops she planted are also growing very gratifyingly.

The family's life is slowly developing for the better, and she doesn't want to be ruined by anyone!

Just now she and Li Yugua were weeding the crops in the field when they heard that Li Yuyan had returned.

Her first thought was that the man who had suffered thousands of knives couldn't survive in Linjiacun, so he came to join them.

This will not work!

Without even thinking about it, she pulled the man and ran back as fast as she could.

　Recently, I am chasing stars, empress yyds!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)