"Oh my goodness, isn't this the Black Widow? Why is she back?"
"Look, look, the white-faced scholar following her is really weak! Is he the head of the family?"
"Who else could be in charge if she wasn't her? Look at her small body, I'm afraid she won't be able to hold on for even half a year before she burps!"
"Hey, why do you think Black Widow is back? Her boss is still following her. Could it be that she was sent back?"
"It shouldn't be possible, it's been a month since we got married."
"I can't see it. Look at them talking and laughing. They don't look like they are about to be sent back."
"I feel like she was sent back. Look at the baggage she's carrying. Isn't it the same baggage she carried on the wedding day?"
"Black Widow, who dares to ask for it! It's probably because of her that the head of the family is like this."
"Can't you think of something better? Maybe the baggage is a gift for the mother-in-law? It looks very heavy."
"Gift?"
Several other village women burst into laughter.
"I said, do you really not know or are you pretending not to know? Linjia Village is notoriously poor and remote. What can you bring to your mother-in-law?"
"Could it be chaff?"
"Hahaha, I think it looks like it!"
…
Li Yuyan, who had just entered the village, felt even more unhappy due to these rumors.
I really want to go up and tear the mouths of these tongue-tied women apart!
"Don't be like this group of unqualified talkative women. It will lower your status and grade."
Lin Xiao saw Li Yuyan's dark face and knew that his heart was filled with anger, so he quickly took his hand and comforted him.
"good!"
Li Yuyan felt the warmth coming from Lin Xiao's delicate hands, and his mood instantly calmed down.
The two stopped in front of the door of a dilapidated courtyard made of yellow mud and wild grass.
This is Li Yuyan’s “natal home”.
In the yard, a child under one year old was running around in a bamboo cart made of bamboo, having a great time.
Sitting on one side of the yard, a stooped middle-aged woman was arranging dried wild vegetables while looking at the children.
When she saw the two people standing outside the courtyard, she stood up tremblingly and shouted in disbelief: "Yu Yan?"
"Well, it's me."
Li Yuyan walked into the courtyard coldly and put all the baggage he was carrying on the gray ground.
"Why are you back?"
The middle-aged woman seemed to understand something when she saw Lin Xiao following Li Yuyan. She knelt down towards Lin Xiao with a plop, and no matter how hard Lin Xiao pulled her, she refused to get up.
She held Lin Xiao's hand and begged with a slight cry:
"Son-in-law, my good son-in-law, please, please don't divorce my poor daughter!"
"She has had a hard life since she was a child. She has only returned to me in the past few years and lacks the discipline of her parents. Don't worry, I will discipline her well and let her know how to be a good wife!"
"Although she is not sensible, she is very diligent. If it doesn't work out, you can just treat it as if you have a working dog in the house. As long as you don't divorce her and leave her a way to live, okay?"
It is said that parents in the world are pitiful. Mother Li's kneeling down evoked the softest part of Li Yuyan's heart.
He began to feel a little pity for the woman in front of him who was kneeling in front of Lin Xiao and begging.
She loves her daughter, but she is too weak to protect her daughter!
"You misunderstood, Yuyan and I came here specifically to visit you!"
"Misunderstand?"
Mother Li looked at Li Yuyan in disbelief, and Li Yuyan nodded with a smile.
Mother Li slowly stood up with the help of Li Yuyan and confirmed again:
"Are you serious that you want to divorce my Yu Yan?"
Lin Xiao smiled and said: "Yu Yan is smart and hard-working, how could I be willing to divorce her!"
After hearing these words, Mother Li's heart finally dropped.
"Yes, mother, the master even brought you a gift specially."
Li Yuyan opened the baggage placed on the ground and displayed it one by one in front of Li's mother and the villagers who followed and gathered outside the yard:
"This is twenty kilograms of rice. The master asked me to bring it back to replenish your health."
"Here's maltose, salt, and a good piece of cotton cloth."
"And this is the wild boar meat that the master brought here specially this morning. It's very fragrant."
"These are all for me?"
Mother Li's eyes widened.
She has lived for most of her life, and this is the first time she has received a gift from someone else, even though half of her body has been buried.
The person who gave the gift was actually her son-in-law!
"Auntie, I'm sorry. We rushed here immediately after receiving the news that you were sick. We were short on time and had nothing to prepare."
As a modern person, Lin Xiao is really not used to calling a strange woman "mother", even if this person is the mother of her nominal wife.
After thinking about it for a moment, I still realized that the title "aunt" was not conventional.
Faced with Lin Xiao's modesty, how could the knowledgeable Mother Li be ignorant? She waved her hands repeatedly: "This thing is very expensive, and it cost you money, son-in-law."
In the Xia Dynasty, where there were more girls than boys, there were very few sons-in-law who could give gifts to their mother-in-law's family, not to mention the best rice, salt, maltose, wild boar and cotton cloth.
She couldn't help but guess that her son-in-law was a blacksmith or an Orion. Otherwise, how could he be so generous?
"It doesn't cost anything, it doesn't cost anything, it's all what I deserve."
Lin Xiao's humble and polite appearance, coupled with the fact that she brought such valuable things to honor Mother Li, made the villagers surrounding the yard extremely jealous.
Is Black Widow in luck?
She unexpectedly met such a good husband!
"Oh, I'm too confused. Come on, come in and drink a glass of water. I'll cook for you!"
When Mother Li was about to welcome Lin Xiao and Li Yuyan into the main room, a man and a woman walked in quickly, cursing.
The two of them are Li Yuyan's eldest brother Li Yugua and sister-in-law Liu Ruyan.
"You're a man who has been stabbed a thousand times. Our life is just getting better. Why are you back again?"
When Liu Ruyan saw Li Yuyan, her face immediately turned pale.
"I heard that my mother was sick, so I came back to see her."
"What's so interesting about an old immortal who is about to die?"
Liu Ruyan crossed her hands on her chest and shouted in a sharp voice:
"My family is just getting better. Don't think about coming over to get a share of the pie. I'm telling you, it's impossible!"
After Li Yuyan married to Linjia Village, the family's life did start to improve a little.
Li Yugua never returns empty-handed when she goes hunting in the nearby mountains, and the growth of her crops is also extremely gratifying.
The family's life is slowly developing for the better, and she doesn't want to be ruined by anyone!
She and Li Yugua were weeding crops in the field just now, when they heard that Li Yuyan was back.
Her first thought was that this man who had been stabbed a thousand times could no longer survive in Linjia Village and had come to join them.
This is not possible!
Without thinking, she pulled the man and ran back as fast as she could.