The peasant girl who escaped the desert: she cried when she found the cruel prince

Chapter 12 See if I have eyes with a knife

Jing Li slowly took off the knife: "I can't afford that thing. Now we, mother and son, rely on me to support each other. My grandmother and aunt want to marry me off, because they are interested in the gold and silver offered by others." "

"Forget it about taking people's money. You know clearly that my mother is weak and sick, and that Ye is too young to be in charge. Grandma, you are going to cut off our second wife's livelihood and force my mother and younger brother to death, right?"

Mrs. Jing slapped the table: "Who wants to kill your second wife? How can our Jing family not be able to support a woman and a child?"

"But after my mother-in-law became seriously ill, the Jing family separated us from the second house. Not only did they not give us half of the land and food, but they also asked my family to feed the third house and the third house all day long. Is grandma supporting us?"

Jing Li held a knife and glared at several people like a ghost: "I'm going to put it here today. If anyone doesn't let our mother live, I will drag her to death with her!"

Old Mrs. Jing's face turned pale and she trembled with her fingers: "You are a rebellious and unfilial creature, a beast struck by lightning. How dare you treat your elders like this? From now on, the Jing family will never have a villain like you!"

Sister-in-law Li was also horrified. She had never seen any girl so tough.

"Ms. Jing, I don't dare to accept this marriage in your family. I'll take the first step. If you and your family have any issues, tell them slowly, so as not to hurt the harmony."

As she spoke, Sister-in-law Li forced a smile and was about to leave, but was stopped by Jing Li. Sister-in-law Li turned back with a stiff expression on her face: "I wonder if Miss A Li has anything else to tell me?"

Jing Li held up the shining kitchen knife: "It's okay, it's just that Sister-in-law Li, you have to remember to pay back every penny of the bride price you brought from the Li family. If anyone is unwilling to pay back, there are two girls in the Jing family, you It’s okay to take one with you.”

"But if one day there is another incident where someone collects a bride price for me, Jingli, then you have to see if my sword has eyes!"

Jing Li looked around at the people. Mrs. Jing was so angry that she was breathing heavily, and Mr. He had a pale face but did not dare to say anything.

Sister-in-law Li looked at Mrs. Jing and said, "Ms. Jing, look at this."

Old Mrs. Jing took out a small cloth bag from her arms and squeezed it again and again. Seeing Jing Li's eyes staring at her fiercely like a wolf, she could only throw it to Sister-in-law Li in pain, and then snorted coldly. Went out and left.

Sister-in-law Li picked up the coins from the ground, counted them carefully, then spat in the direction where Mrs. Jing left.

When Mrs. He saw Mrs. Jing and Sister-in-law Li leaving, she braced her somewhat weak legs and prepared to get up and leave.

Unexpectedly, when he raised his head, he saw Jing Li looking at him with a half-smile but not a smile: "Ah Li, aunt also has good intentions. If you are not happy, why are you like this? I know you are still thinking about the boy from the Chen family, but after all, you have already and Let’s leave. If you keep pestering me like this, I won’t hurt your sisters!”

"Who told you that I still miss Chen Yuzhang?"

"If you didn't miss him, why would you have been flirting with him at the entrance of the village? Ah Li, my aunt is doing this for your own good!"

Jingli stared at Mr. He for a long time: "Without auntie's concern, I, Jingli, have decided to leave the Chen family, and there is no reason to go back. Auntie, don't learn to be a talkative woman all day long, and just go looking for her." Some rights and wrongs."

Mrs. He didn't dare to say any more words, and left with a stomach full of Huo Nuonuo. When she got home, she got angry: "It's really not a thing. I am an elder after all, and I threatened you with a knife. There is no girl at all." It looks like home.”

Uncle Jing squatted aside and said: "You just have nothing to do. The second wife is now orphaned and widowed. You have to come to find out what's wrong. If you are embarrassed, you will be unhappy when you turn around." Mr. He became even more angry. : "Oh my god! Who am I doing this for? Isn't it for our family's Anan and Aru!"

"My A'ru is no worse than Jing Li's bastard. Now I can't find a suitable family. Besides, my A' Nan is no worse than Jing Song from the big house. He is smart and lovable. How can the whole family support Jing Song’s education? My Ah Nan doesn’t even recognize a word.”

Jing Laosan sullenly said: "It's not that Anan is still young. If Asongchun is a scholar in the examination, even our fields can rely on his fame without paying taxes. Naturally, Anan will have a future as well. Ah! What's wrong with this?"

Mrs. He stomped her feet and beat her chest: "My blind old lady saw how helpful your brothers are, but only when you entered the door did you realize that there are so many brothers in the big room."

"In the past, when the second child was around, life was more or less decent. But after the second child passed away, the second house was also divided. Now we, as a family, deserve to be treated like cows and horses."

"A'Nan can't even smell the chicken, so he has to send them all to the big house. The money for the embroidery that Ah Ru stayed up all night to watch for is also going to the big house. It's my hands, look at them! Look at them!"

Mrs. He stretched out her hands, which were like the bark of a dead tree, and she was already crying: "These are not human hands at all. They are not as comfortable as Mr. Su's relying on her daughter all day long."

Jing Laosan suddenly stood up and shouted: "You want to imitate the Su family? Do you also think that your man is dead on the battlefield and the whole family should be working together to run to the same place, but you want to imitate the ignorant woman and argue? It’s short, there’s nothing about the world of vision!”

Jing Laosan cursed and left. He sat at the door and cried loudly. While crying, he cursed his dead mother for not having eyesight and causing herself to be treated like a cow.

Jing Ru pulled the embroidery thread and felt confused in her heart. If only Jing Li married Li Erlang, the family's difficulties would be solved immediately, and her parents would not be in constant trouble over money matters.

Anger flashed in Jing Ru's eyes, how could this bastard have such a good fortune? He could still fall in the eyes of a noble son without being the son of the Chen family, just to be a concubine, and even the Jing family would have their chickens and dogs ascended to heaven.

No, he has been defeated by her since he was a child. If Jingli remarries well, he will have to look up to her for the rest of his life, and he cannot swallow this breath.

When the family was in such trouble, Mrs. Su felt very sad: "Ah Li, those are your grandmother and aunt after all. You are a girl whose family already has a bad reputation due to unfavorable marriages. If you want to add another unfilial reputation, this Which matchmaker will dare to come to your door in the future!"

Jing Li put away the tables and chairs: "Mom, you worry a little too much. Let's see if our family can survive this winter!"

This winter in Dafeng Dynasty is destined to be difficult, and the lives of poor families are even more difficult.

The heavy snowfall in midwinter slowly fell, and the few elderly people in Jingjia Village were unable to survive the bleak winter. They left their food to their children and grandchildren and starved to death themselves.

Jingli walked back home through the snow, and Su brought a bowl of ginger soup to her: "Don't go to the mountains anymore, spring will be in one month. I made a guess, and our family will have no problem surviving until spring. "

Jingli sipped the ginger soup, and her body gradually became warmer: "What Aniang said is true, but look at the current situation, I'm afraid even spring will not be easy. It is said that many refugees have come to Qingzhou Prefecture, and some wealthy families are here." We started setting up porridge shacks to provide porridge.”

"My father is gone, I can't let my mother-in-law and my brother-in-law suffer forever!"

(End of this chapter)