Chapter 141: Deep Dive
In the row behind the maids, there were three mothers-in-law.
Meng Zhen bought the sister-in-law Li who was summoned by Hao Mengyun, her husband's surname was Wang, and she was an Orion family who lived in the mountains far away.
Because her daughter is not valued by her grandparents and father, she does not have a big name, so only Sister-in-law Li named her Yaya.
Now that she is being sold with her daughter, Yaya will directly follow her surname Li.
According to Li's sister-in-law, when she was in her parents' house before, she was once sent by her family to work as a maid in a wealthy family in the town.
During the ten years in the main family, she not only did rough work such as sprinkling, cleaning, and laundry, but was later transferred to serve an aunt and grandmother in the family.
When the aunt was out of confinement, she was assigned to the newly-born little lady again, responsible for taking care of her eating, drinking, and Lazar.
By the time her employment expires (the merchant can't use a subordinate who has signed a death deed, but can only sign an employment paper), the young lady she is responsible for taking care of is almost four years old.
At that time, if it weren't for her father and mother who were in a hurry to exchange her for dowry money, she would probably still be working in that family now.
If this is the case, she will not be sold by her mother-in-law for silver after her husband's death.
Similar to what happened to her, was abandoned by her in-laws and disgusted by her mother-in-law's sister-in-law because she had not been out for many years.
Sister-in-law Guo is also a hard-working person, although she was not sent by her family to be a servant, but she has been living carefully in her mother's house.
Her grandparents and parents are also exceptionally patriarchal, and her marriage is the same as Sister-in-law Li, which is completely a transaction.
The only difference is probably that Sister-in-law Li died of her husband and was then sold by her in-laws, while she was directly divorced by her in-laws because she had not been out for many years.
In this era, a woman who can't have children has basically lost her greatest value of existence, so Sister-in-law Li will be kicked out of the house by her own family after being abandoned by her in-laws.
According to her, the reason why her parents, brother and sister-in-law were so eager to kick her out of the house was actually because of her niece's marriage.
Her sister-in-law was afraid that her niece's future in-laws would have questions about her niece's physical condition, so the day after she returned home, they took Guo's sister-in-law's father and mother and drove Guo's sister-in-law out of Guo's house.
Sister-in-law Guo was penniless, and in desperation, she could only find Aunt Jiang, whom she had met several times before.
She knew that Aunt Jiang was a kind-hearted person, and she would not treat them as desperate hard-working people just because she was engaged in human trafficking.
Aunt Jiang really did not disappoint Sister-in-law Guo, she not only took in Sister-in-law Guo, but also helped her choose a good host as much as possible.
What she didn't know was that her parents, brother and sister-in-law had already regretted their impulsiveness and thoughtfulness after they drove her away.
Because her niece's future mother-in-law suddenly asked their Guo family to marry her niece at least twenty taels of silver, her pair of unscrupulous brothers and sisters-in-law started the idea of finding a home for Guo's sister-in-law again.
Although Sister-in-law Guo was abandoned because of the "crime" of having no children, her diligence, ability, honesty and obedience are famous in all ten miles and eight villages.
Those widowers who have children and daughters and don't have to worry about inheriting incense actually like women like her who can't give birth.
Because of marrying such a woman as a continuation, the children they left behind will basically not be tortured by their stepmothers anymore.
After all, such a woman cannot have her own biological children, so she will not have to count on her stepson to support her in the future.
It was precisely because a butcher with a clear mind came to the door to propose marriage, and he happened to promise to give the Guo family a dowry of twenty taels of silver, so the Guo family regretted their bowels.
It is also because of this that Aunt Guo will have a lot of trouble waiting for her and Meng Zhen in the future.
Of course, that's for later.
Right now, Meng Zhen is listening to Sister-in-law Li talk about her own personal situation.
Sister-in-law Li's real surname is Deng, and the reason why she is called Sister-in-law Li is because her husband's surname is Li.
She is luckier than Sister-in-law Li and Sister-in-law Guo, although when she was in her parents' house, Sister-in-law Li's life was not easy, but her married life was still very happy.
She has a good husband and a good mother-in-law, and her children are also well-behaved, obedient, diligent and sensible.
If it weren't for the fact that the youngest daughter was sick and the family had no money to treat the child, Sister-in-law Li would not have thought of selling her own.
“... In the early years, my mother-in-law cried a lot for my father-in-law and uncle, but now her eyes are very bad. Besides, how old she is. ”
"My man is lame again, he is like that, even if he wants to sell himself, people will not give him much silver."
Sister-in-law Li's words, Meng Zhen was sad for a while, but Sister-in-law Li herself still smiled slightly.
In her opinion, as long as their family can live a good life together, then she has nothing to be sad about.
What are you afraid of? She can do it.
With her money from selling herself, she believed that her little daughter would definitely be cured, and then their family would definitely have hope again.
"Sister-in-law Li."
Seeing Sister-in-law Li and Sister-in-law Li raising their heads at the same time and looking at herself, Meng Zhen couldn't help but be a little speechless.
She coughed, "I'll still call you Sister-in-law Deng in the future, otherwise it's easy to get confused with Sister-in-law Li." ”
Li Deng answered "yes".
Meng Hao continued: "Sister-in-law Deng, although your family's situation is special, since you have come to my house, then you must abide by my family's rules in the future, you should be very clear about this, right?" ”
Sister-in-law Deng was busy and answered "yes", "Don't worry, the slave can save it." ”
She has also been working as a domestic helper for a long time, where can she not understand this rule?
The deed of sale has been signed, strictly speaking, she is already Meng Zhen's even her own life, and it is her duty to abide by the rules of the master's family.
Meng Zhen was very satisfied with Sister-in-law Deng's attitude.
She bowed slightly, then motioned for the two young men in the third row to begin to introduce themselves.
"The villain Qi Saburo, the family is poor, the eldest brother can't marry a daughter-in-law, the villain doesn't want the eldest sister to change relatives for the eldest brother, so he found Aunt Jiang and sold himself to her."
Qi Saburo was dark and thin, but his face always had a pleasant smile.
Meng Hao likes his character very much, "It seems that you have a good relationship with your family." ”
Qi Saburo nodded vigorously, "My grandmother, my father, and my brothers and sisters all love me." ”
Meng Hao smiled and said nothing.
It can be seen that otherwise this child would not be such a character.
She turned her gaze to the stubborn boy who had been put in a cage by the tooth man, and the child noticed Meng Hao's gaze, tugging at the corner of his clothes and began to report to his family, "My name is Feng Shouli, my father went out to do business, and my stepmother sold me to Renyazi." ”
What he didn't say was that his stepmother, who was actually also his aunt, was his biological mother's sister-in-law.