Chapter 51: Taking advantage
And embroidery, Mrs. Li has never seen it again, and she also knows that this is a very good craft for women, which can not only raise the price, but also after getting married, with this craft, even if she meets a bad mother-in-law, she will not starve to death.
Mrs. Li promised Wen's marriage to the third child, in addition to part of the reason that she could almost get a daughter-in-law for nothing with a small dowry, and more because she quietly went to Wen's mother's house to inquire.
I know that Wen's mother used to be an embroidery girl from a big family, and then I don't know what happened to the master's family, the slaves and maids in the family were sold, Wen's mother was bought by someone's teeth, she was clever, she didn't wash her face all day long, pretended to be ugly, compared to a few girls around her, she was too negative, and the traffickers took Wen's mother to the town after selling other girls.
Wen's mother seized this opportunity, because she looked inconspicuous, and the big families in the prosperous and wealthy land did not look down on this, so when she passed through Shiqiao Town, she thought that the countryside had never seen the world, and such a girl was cheaper, and maybe she could coax someone to sell it.
Jiang Chengye was still a poor scholar at that time, and in order to provide for him to study, his family was already surrounded by four walls, and he couldn't afford it.
The burden on the family was heavy, and the Wen family was powerless, so they simply moved to the town and barely starved to death by writing letters to people or something.
I just happened to have a little money in hand, and when I heard Renyazi say that he was selling people, I didn't know how to look at Wen's mother, and threw out the money on hand and brought Wen's mother home.
It is said that at that time, it was the most sensational thing in the nearby ten miles and eight towns, and it made people talk about it for many years.
After Wen's mother entered the door, she worked hard to keep the house, and because of her good embroidery work, the Jiang family's life was better, and they could afford Jiang Chengye to study.
Jiang Chengye did not live up to expectations, after marrying Wen's mother, he took the exam for more than ten years, and finally lived up to expectations and was admitted to Xiucai.
At that time, Wen was Jiang Chengye's eldest daughter, and she was already eleven or twelve years old.
It stands to reason that Jiang Chengye became Xiucai, and Wen's mother should have worked hard, but she was not blessed, and within a few years, because of overwork over the years, her body had already been pregnant, leaving Wen and her three sons behind.
The Jiang family relied on Wen's mother to preside over the overall situation, married two sisters-in-law, and supported her in-laws on weekdays.
The family is old and small, Jiang Chengye is a person who has no power to restrain chickens and is not familiar with popular affairs at all, but because he still has the name of a showman, it was only five or seven years after Wen's mother died, and someone came to propose marriage.
I don't know if Jiang Chengye is pumping his brain, among a bunch of people, there are those who are wealthy and willing to dowry, and there are also diligent peasant women who have an innocent family background and just delay the marriage for their younger brothers and sisters.
Thousands of choices, I chose a family surnamed Yang whose family was so poor that he sold his little girl to his son to marry his daughter-in-law.
The little daughter of the Yang family is young, but she is good-looking, for this, Jiang Chengye gave almost half of the family business accumulated by the Wen family to the Yang family, and then married this little wife into the door.
Within two years, the Jiang family was defeated, and he could barely afford to eat, Jiang Chengye now holds his own identity as a showman, and he can't do the job of writing letters to make a living, so he found a job as a private school teacher, but they are all teaching villagers, how much can he give?
I still can't open the pot at home.
The daughter of the Yang family stayed up for less than a year, and she couldn't stand it anymore, so she eloped with a seller who didn't know when she hooked up with Jiang Chengye while Jiang Chengye was not at home.
After Jiang Chengye fell seriously ill, his body also collapsed, and he couldn't do the work of Mr. Private School, so he drank at home all day and was drunk.
It all depends on Jiang Chengye's father and mother, who are about to enter the earth, and they have to drag their bodies with their grandchildren, barely working to support Jiang Chengye.
Wen's marriage, after Wang Yongan was admitted to Xiucai, Jiang Chengye drank too much, and he didn't know who he listened to, so he had a ridiculous idea, thinking that marrying his daughter to the Mei family, counting on Mei Changgui to become a lifter, maybe he could pull himself after high school, and when the time came, he could borrow light, and maybe he could also be admitted to the lifter.
The father and mother of the Jiang family love this eldest son the most, and they should do everything, and Jiang Chengye said that the Wen family married into the Mei family to save the family's rations, and secondly, to rely on the Mei family in the future and bring their own son, where is there any reason not to agree.
Regardless of it, he took the initiative to come to the door to propose.
It was also Mrs. Li who inquired around, and they all said that Wen's temperament was good, and she was doing almost everything at home, and she was a diligent girl, so she was a little satisfied in her heart.
I also heard that this girl can also embroider to subsidize the family, and she has the true inheritance of her mother, so she is even more tempted.
Later, I found a chance to meet and found that Wen's was weak, although she didn't think much of this, but at first glance, she was a good character, and she could stand it.
What's more, it is best to be able to embroider to subsidize the family, and his third son knows that he is a master with low eyes, unwilling to endure hardships, and idle.
If you don't find a capable daughter-in-law who can support the family, I am afraid that when the time comes, the family will starve to death.
Although the old Zhou's people are stupid, they have a lot of strength and can work in the field, although their temperament is not good, they will be separated in the future, they can keep the family's fields, and they are dedicated to planning for the small family, and the future will not be bad.
Not to mention the second child, if you win Xiucai, the daughter-in-law you marry is from the county, not to mention the rich marriage, the second child has the name of Xiucai, as long as you don't be a demon, you won't starve to death.
The fourth family is still young, you can take a look at it, the candidate of the third family, she has been thinking about it for a long time, and it seems that now only the Wen family is the most suitable.
Wen's life at home is also difficult, as a daughter, she naturally knows that with a stepmother, there is a stepfather, and the mother's body is not cold, only after five or seven, the father married a little wife, and the money is spent on the family business saved by the mother's life.
Wen was already sensible at that time, and anyone with a little conscience would hate it.
In addition, Wen's three younger brothers were all raised by their grandmothers to be useless, and they couldn't help Wen's by half a point, and they would only hold her back.
This kind of daughter-in-law is good, after marrying into her own family, as long as she is a little clear-headed, she will not dig her mother-in-law's house and stick it to her mother's house.
I also observed that this Wen does not seem to be innocent.
Therefore, after the investigation, Wen's was directly determined.
After Wen married into the door, it was really as Mrs. Li expected, soft and easy to handle, plus her mother's family had no one to support her, and she was not liked by men, so she soon became mud in Mrs. Li's hands, and she was allowed to rub it.
Only one point Mrs. Li was not satisfied, the third child was not at home, she thought that Wen would embroider to make money by herself, so she could find an excuse to let Wen hand over the money, and the family also had more inputs.
The Wen family seems to have forgotten this, no matter how sad the day is, it is okay to cry silently, and it is okay to beg Mrs. Li, that is, except for sewing clothes, he never takes a needle and thread.
Seeing that Wen's was guarding herself and the Mei family, Mrs. Li was not angry in her heart, so she tossed Wen more and more, withheld her rations, and wanted to force Wen to comply.
Wen looked weak, but his temperament was very stubborn, and he was almost starving to death, and he never took a needle and thread in front of Mrs. Li.
He also never taught Xiaoque needlework.
Mrs. Li thought that the Wen family would stick to the embroidery craft like this, and would rather starve to death than show it.
Unexpectedly, she is now willing to teach her old daughter, isn't this a good thing from heaven?
Although Mrs. Li didn't understand why Wen was willing to teach her daughter, she was a bastard if she didn't touch it cheaply.
Because of this, Mrs. Li consciously won the battle between Wen, and in any case, Wen's softened, which was a great psychological satisfaction for being a mother-in-law.
For a few days, he gave Wen a few smiling faces, and he didn't deduct Wen's rations, and his tone of voice was much kinder.
Zhou saw it in his eyes, angry and anxious.
Originally, in this family, between the three concubines, the second daughter-in-law didn't see each other once a year, and there was no threat, so the family was by herself and the third family.
I am the eldest son and daughter-in-law, it stands to reason that the Mei family and other in-laws should be in a big house after a hundred years, and the elderly are also their big house, don't look at the mother-in-law who is now in control of the family, and when he is older, his son is an adult, don't the two elders have to count on the big house?
Who doesn't value the boss? Therefore, she has always had a sense of superiority, except for listening to her mother-in-law and loving her sister-in-law, she has no other shortcomings, she is honest and willing to work, and she also hurts people, and she is no longer dissatisfied.
Even if her mother-in-law is eccentric and always picky, she feels very satisfied compared to the third family.
Who would have thought that the third family looked silent, hiding treachery in their hearts, and quietly coaxed the sister-in-law to teach her what needlework and embroidery to learn.
Bah! Who wouldn't be able to needle and thread? Do you still need the teaching of the third family? It must be something bad behind the scenes of the third family.
Now that I look at it, the status of the third room has come up, but that's not good! This home is earned by her and her own man and son, if the third room is up, and it takes advantage of more, there will be no less big houses in the future?
Zhou couldn't sleep well for a few nights when he was worried, tossing and turning, and Mei Xiaoque couldn't help it: "Damn, you haven't slept in the middle of the night, what are you tossing?" β
Zhou simply turned over and sat up, in the dark night, under the moonlight shining through the window, her eyes were terrifyingly bright: "Master, have you noticed that my mother has been much better to her younger siblings recently?" The three brothers and sisters don't work in the fields, and they don't make money, so they can get half a bun per mealββ"
Mei Xiaoque didn't understand, so she continued: "That's not very good, in the past, my younger brothers and sisters could only scrape the bottom of a basin, and they were so hungry that they were out of phase, but now my mother allows my younger brothers and sisters to eat steamed buns, and my younger brothers and sisters will not be hungry, otherwise the third brother will come back, how can I, the eldest brother, explain to him." β
Zhou was so angry that he slapped the kang edge: "You are a big uncle, are you hungry when you are a younger brother and sister in charge of others?" I mean, what do you mean, mother? Why is it suddenly so good to the third family? I used to be an honest person in the third family, but I didn't expect that as the saying goes, the dog that will bite people doesn't bark, she quietly coaxed her sister-in-law to learn embroidery and needlework with her, and now she is intimate every day, but it seems that she has the most face in front of her father. I can tell you, we have to be careful, this can't be the ten taels of silver that the third family took a fancy to the fourth child who came back from his relatives, right? Do you want to coax your father and mother, and when you split up in the future, give them more? β
"This is not good, we are the eldest sons, and we will support our father and mother in the future, and this family will be divided among them, what about our family Tianlong, Tianhu and Tianbao? Did you hear that? Bossβ"
"Huh~Huh~" Mei Xiaoque, who was beside her, was about to go to the ground during the day, and she was already too tired to do it, and at this moment, she was chanted by Zhou's as if she were chanting, and suddenly she fell asleep and died.
Zhou was so angry that he gritted his teeth and wanted to kick Mei Xiaoque awake, but his feet were stretched out, but he was still reluctant, his own man, he was distressed, he was busy working in the field during the day, and if he didn't sleep well at night, he couldn't bear his iron body.
Zhou, who was humming, rolled over and lay down.