Chapter 4: A World of Scarcity

Aunt Mu looked at her with a serious look in her eyes, and continued: "I heard that your mother has kept you unmarried, because she wants to raise you as a big girl, so that you can't marry, and then give her her own eldest son in vain. His eldest son's family must know you, I don't need to say more, you should also know what kind of life you will live when you get married. In our family, although Papaya is a little stupid, but he has a pure nature, just like a child, at least he won't bully you. As long as you serve him well, you don't have to worry about food and clothing, and your life will definitely be better than your mother's house. "Her mother's eldest son?

Yan Qingyu's mind suddenly appeared with an ugly face with sharp-beaked monkey cheeks and yellow teeth.

That person is the child born to her stepmother Yan Lu and her original husband!

At the beginning, Yan Lu's original husband was addicted to gambling, and he was lazy and loved to beat his daughter-in-law. Because he lost the gambling and owed a lot of debts, he had to pull Yan Lu's family to pay off the debts.

It happened that Yan Qingyu's father, Yan Sheng was passing by, and seeing that she was pitiful, he paid for her to redeem herself.

Originally, Yan Sheng didn't think too much, it was purely a good deed.

Unexpectedly, Yan Lushi insisted on following Yan Sheng home.

It turned out that Yan Sheng was the ugliest and poorest man in Xilin Village, and he didn't marry a daughter-in-law when he was over thirty. I don't know when the pie fell from the sky, and a few servants from large families came, and gave him a handmaid named Xiaoxiao to be his daughter-in-law, and pasted a lot of silver.

That Xiaoxiao is Yan Qingyu's mother-in-law, she is beautiful, well-behaved and sensible, she doesn't make noise or trouble when she comes, and she really lives with Yan Sheng with peace of mind.

Yan Sheng spoiled her because of this, and she couldn't spoil her!

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and soon, Xiaoxiao became pregnant, and gave birth a year later, but she died of dystocia.

Yan Qingyu's mother has been dead for several years, and Yan Sheng has been taking care of the child alone, not because he wants to keep the festival so he doesn't marry another, but because of his ugly appearance.

Later, this Yan Lu insisted on staying at home and not leaving, which was the second woman who did not dislike Yan Sheng and took the initiative to follow him, Yan Sheng was actually reluctant to refuse, and then the two naturally became husband and wife.

Not long after Yan Lu got married, he added a son Yan Chunliang to Yan Sheng.

And Yan Lu and her original husband had another son and three daughters.

Those Yan Qingyu have never been in contact with, I heard that those who are married are married, and those who are sold are sold. And that son Yang Youtian is twenty-two years old this year, and he usually comes to the house to ask Yan Lu for silver when he has nothing to do.

Under the influence of his father, he was infected with the same lazy and gambling habits as his father.

coupled with his father's reputation as a scoundrel, he is in his early twenties and has not married a daughter-in-law.

And in the countryside, men and women as big as him, babies should run all over the ground.

This Yang Youtian stared at Yan Qingyu with sneaky eyes every time he came, and when Yan Lu was away, he also said frivolous things, saying that he wanted his mother to marry her to him.

Thinking of this, Yan Qingyu couldn't help but shudder.

However, before she could say anything, Aunt Mu said again: "Your household registration has been transferred to our family, and you will be a member of our family in the future. ”

Yan Qingyu was stunned, and suddenly remembered something.

I remember reading in the history books before, some dynasties have similar household registration to the future society, which can prove a person's identity, and if there is no household registration to prove identity, the city gate will not be able to get out.

And the purchase of land, family property, etc., is not like the future society, whose name belongs to whomever is registered.

In some dynasties, taxes were collected on a per-household basis, and in order to unify the taxes, only the head of the household could purchase, even if other family members other than the head of the household had the ability to purchase fields and houses, etc., they all belonged to the head of the household.

To put it simply, if she has the ability to make a lot of money and buy a house, but her household registration is in this family, and the head of the household is Aunt Mu. Even if Aunt Mu doesn't have a title deed, as long as she signs and agrees, she can resell the house.

Yan Qingyu was suddenly a little disheartened!

Although she didn't know where the property belonged to this world, the memory of the former lord told her that the tax rate of this dynasty called the northern realm was charged per household!

Aunt Mu specially reminded her of this sentence, obviously wanting to tell her: It is impossible to go back to her parents' house better than now, and the idea of running away from home is even more different.

Because no matter where she goes, she can't get rid of the fact that she is a member of this family. Let's not talk about whether she has the ability to buy a house, even she is the property of this family, and Aunt Mu wants to sell it is also a matter of one sentence.

And wasn't she sold to this house by her father and stepmother? Besides, how can she expect others to care more about her than her father?

Yan Qingyu thought that he was a person who knew the times very well, so he hurriedly pulled out a smile and said, "Mother...... What are you talking about, since I have married into this family, I am a member of this family, how can I have two hearts? You can rest assured! I will learn to serve the father-in-law......" Even if she has two hearts, she can't be stupid to say it to her face, and she has a handle with this mother-in-law!

She felt that it was better to stabilize Aunt Mu before making plans.

"Well, that's fine!" Aunt Mu bowed her head, still expressionless, and she didn't know whether she was satisfied or dissatisfied with Yan Qingyu's answer.

Yan Qingyu cautiously got off the ground and limped to the door, because he was injured in his leg, it still hurt a little to walk, so his face was wrinkled, but compared to last night, he was within the range of what he could bear.

When Aunt Mu saw her like this, she immediately came over to help her.

Yan Qingyu hurriedly said: "It's okay, mother, I can go by myself, you don't have to help me, you can go to breakfast with Xianggong first." I washed up, drank the medicine and went over by myself. ”

Aunt Mu glanced at Yan Qingyu when she heard this, but she didn't insist, she just said: "Then you should be careful, I will go to the Lu Family Medical Center to get some realgar back, you can stay in the house after breakfast, don't walk around, Doctor Lu said, you should not move around, you need to recuperate." ”

"Okay!" Yan Qingyu agreed, but she had other plans in her heart.

When Yan Qingyu came out of the bedroom, he saw Aunt Mu enter the main room and say a few words to Papaya and then went out.

Yan Qingyu stood at the door and looked at it, and found that this was a three-room thatched mud walled house, divided into the main house in the middle and the bedrooms on both sides. The house sits on a raised earthen slope surrounded by a bamboo fence on all sides.

And the kitchen is another thatched hut that is separate from the outside!

Yan Qingyu then walked out of the bedroom, walked to the kitchen, and just stood at the door of the kitchen, looking at the situation in the kitchen, he was disappointed.

I didn't think about it that much just now, but I used to think that I should wash up first in the morning.

But looking at the kitchen at this time, the memories of the past combined with the memories of the present to tell her: this world is short of all kinds of supplies!

After the despair of not having wifi, the other dilemmas in life seem to be nothing!

Yan Qingyu sighed and walked to the long table next to the earthen stove, on which there were a few pairs of simple dishes and chopsticks, and simple ingredients, and several incompatible willow sticks were inserted in a tall bamboo tube.

This wicker is used to clean the teeth.

And there was a wooden shelf on the table, on which hung a few towels, she didn't know which one belonged to whom, but fortunately there were a few brand new ones on the table next to it. Presumably Aunt Mu prepared it for herself!