Chapter 1: Soul Piercing
In June of the 33rd year of the Great Yuan Dynasty, Jingdezhen, Peach Blossom Village, was full of flowers and thriving, and all families were busy picking peach blossoms and making wine, but at the edge of the village, in a dilapidated adobe house, there were bursts of sighs.
"I didn't expect me to cross over, and I still ......" Looking at the yellow-faced and thin-skinned villain reflected in the water tank, Lin Yao sighed helplessly again and again from the beginning of disbelief to now.
God is too unfair to himself, and he doesn't want to be a princess, and he refuses to give her even a simple standard of living with food and clothing.
She Lin Yao was originally a top student of traditional Chinese medicine in the 21st century, and she was about to graduate from traditional Chinese medicine after studying Chinese medicine for six years, but she didn't expect to accidentally fall into the cliff when she went up the mountain to collect medicine, and she suddenly died, and she didn't expect that when she woke up again, she would become this tattered and thin little girl.
Through the residual memories of the original body, Lin Yao has learned that this original body is also called Lin Yao, but unlike her smooth life in her previous life, the father of the original body went into the mountains to hunt in order to subsidize the family and the villagers a year ago, but he didn't expect to encounter wolves, and in the end he didn't even bring back the corpse, leaving their orphans and widows to live with difficulty.
Yao Chu, the mother of the original body, fled here and was taken in by the original father and married him.
Lin Yao also has a younger brother named Lin Xiaobao, who is only five or six years old this year.
Most of the people in the village are kind people, seeing that the Lin family is so miserable, they all sent some eggs and vegetables to condolence at first, and her vicious aunt Lin Xingfang often came to take the opportunity to take away some things in the name of visiting, but her cowardly mother didn't dare to say anything, so she had to turn a blind eye and let her go.
Most of the people in the village are not wealthy, and they are powerless to gradually alienate them after a few days of help, and just a few days ago, Lin suddenly came to their house with great interest and said that it was for her Lin Yao to find a good family, the other party is a Liu butcher in the town who kills pigs and sells pork, and she took out a tael of silver on the spot and said that it was a dowry for them, and also took out a piece of paper, saying that it was a simple marriage list, coaxed Yao's mother to press a handprint on the spot, and left happily.
Although Yao's mother is cowardly, but she is very good to her children, in the face of her daughter's lifelong events, she thought about it and still wanted to know about the Liu butcher, so she walked to the town for a long time, and inquired only to know that the Liu butcher turned out to be a widower, and the people on the street said that he was usually irritable, and his deceased wife was probably beaten to death by him.
Yao's mother was naturally unwilling to marry her daughter to him when she heard it, so she went to the Lin family to ask for a divorce, but unfortunately the Lin family secretly accepted a bride price deposit of five taels from Liu Butcher, and she was unwilling to withdraw from this family business.
It turned out that at the end of the marriage list, it was written that if the woman quit without reason, she would compensate the man for double the dowry, that is, ten taels of silver.
Ten taels! The Lin family didn't know if they could save so much silver for the rest of their lives, and now that there were only three of them left, orphans and widows, how could they afford to pay those ten taels of silver!
Yao's mother fainted on the spot when she heard it, and it happened that the original body came to look for her mother, so she overheard this conversation, she was unwilling to marry Liu Butcher, but she was afraid of ten taels of silver liquidated damages, so she jumped into the river and committed suicide without thinking about it, which gave her the opportunity to wear her soul.
"Hehe, what a vicious aunt." Lin Yao looked at herself in the water and smiled sarcastically.
She is not the weak and deceitful stupid Bai Tian of the original body, since she occupies this body, then she will help her solve this matter, and will take good care of her relatives, which can be regarded as giving the original body a rest.
"Sister! You, you're not dead......" At this time, the exclamation of his younger brother Lin Xiaobao suddenly sounded behind him.
Lin Yao sorted out her emotions, smiled and turned to look at the door, only to see a tattered, thin and short little boy carrying a basket of wild vegetables, looking at her with surprise on his face.
Seeing Lin Yao, Lin Xiaobao was obviously startled, because in his cognition, his sister was obviously dead, and he cried for a while about it, but now that he saw his sister standing in front of him, it was okay, the child didn't know what to cheat the corpse or not, he only knew that his sister would not leave him, so he hurriedly and happily pounced on Lin Yao.
"Sister, sister, you really didn't die, woo...... Mother, they all said that you are dead and you will never come back, Xiaobao is so sad, woo......" Lin Xiaobao hugged Lin Yao's waist tightly, and tears gradually seeped into Lin Yao's skin through his clothes, moist.
Looking at Xiao Douding, who was hugging him tightly, Lin Yao didn't feel so much emotion, she just felt that this child was also pitiful, he was going to suffer from this at a young age, and he would just be kind to him in the future.
Bending her lips, she squatted down, gently wiped Xiaodouding's tears with her sleeve, and said lightly, "Don't cry, manly husband, you're crying like a little flower cat, shame." After speaking, he lightly tapped Xiaodouding's nose.
Xiao Douding also seemed to feel shy, so he curled his mouth and stopped crying, only occasionally hiccuping, his big wet eyes stared at Lin Yao, and his little hands tightly grabbed the hem of Lin Yao's clothes and stopped talking.
Lin Yao hugged Xiaodouding to comfort him, and turned his head to look out of the house, "Xiaobao, where is my mother?" ”
In the memory of the original owner, the Lin family did not get the land when they split up, and they couldn't afford to buy the land, so they became poorer and poorer day by day, and Yao's mother rarely left her husband's children's side except for working and cooking in the yard.
Hearing this, Xiao Douding, who had just eased down, had tears in his eyes again, and said with a small mouth, "Mother, borrow money, go down, bury"
Most of the children from poor families are precocious, and Xiao Douding also knows the difficulties of his family, and knows that borrowing money will be looked down upon, so he feels a little uncomfortable.
Hearing this, Lin Yao frowned, this year, the people in the village saw that the Lin family avoided it, because they were afraid that they would borrow money, where did Yao's mother go to borrow money? She hurriedly led Xiao Douding to find Yao's mother.
As a result, as soon as I walked past a few houses, I heard a group of people in front of me chattering and not knowing what they were discussing, which seemed to be mixed with the voices of Yao's mother and her vicious aunt Lin.
Lin Yao hurriedly rushed over.
Through the gap, Yao's mother was standing in the middle, hiding her face helplessly and sobbing, while her vicious aunt Lin Shi pinched her waist and looked at Yao's mother with disdain, and there was a fat man who looked thirty or forty years old and had a shiny face staring at Yao's mother viciously.
"Sister-in-law, we have to make it clear today, I said it in black and white, if you want to break the contract and withdraw from your family, then you have to compensate Butcher Liu for double the dowry, that is, ten taels of silver, and the five taels of dowry was only transferred to you from Butcher Liu through my hands, and now that this family matter has been retired, I will return the five taels of silver to Butcher Liu, I am not greedy for money, sister-in-law, you can testify to me!" Lin pursed his lips and looked like he didn't care about himself.
"Yes, that's right, the Lin family has indeed returned the five taels of dowry to me, according to the contract, the man was dismissed without fault, and the woman wanted to give me ten taels of silver, and now there are still five taels left, Yao's, what should you do if you look at this?" The fat man with a shiny face on the side also spoke at the right time to help, and it seemed that he should be the original partner of the butcher Liu.
"Woo...... I, I don't know, I don't know about the contract, you, woo ......, our family doesn't have any money......" Yao's mother cried helplessly under the repeated questioning of the two, and her words were a little trembling.
Lin Yao knew that Yao's mother really didn't know about the contract, and the Lin family didn't tell Yao's mother about the contract at all in order to be greedy for the five taels of dowry, and only said that they would give their family one or two taels of silver as a dowry, but secretly hid the four taels of silver privately.
You must know that even one or two taels of silver is considered a good amount in the village, some people are poor and can even marry a yellow flower girl without a dowry, plus Butcher Liu's pig killing business sounds really good, so Lin believes that Yao's mother will agree to this family matter, and after the matter is completed, the four taels of silver will become her own.
But she didn't expect that Yao's mother, who had always been cowardly, would go to inquire about Butcher Liu, and Lin Yao would also happen to hear their argument and commit suicide by jumping into the river, thus making this situation today, so she can be regarded as stealing chickens and rice, but she will not admit it, and her timid and cowardly sister-in-law and niece can only admit it.
Therefore, Yao's mother didn't know about the contract from beginning to end, and the Lin family took advantage of Yao's mother's weakness and incompetence, and was sure that she would not explain things clearly, so in order to take herself out, she was trying her best to clear herself at the moment.
Oh, her vicious aunt is really impressive.