The rules are like this. The three girls will stay at his house tonight, and tomorrow they will go home to pick up their dowry luggage, wear a red hijab and enter the house, and they will be considered married.
The old house is a large blue brick house with tiles, an upper room, three side rooms, and a complete kitchen, pig and chicken pens.
There is also a hut behind the house and a vegetable patch behind the house.
The yard in front is used for drying, and there is a well in the middle.
It can be said that the most valuable thing in the entire Bai family is this blue brick house with large tiles.
Naturally, the second and third uncles of the Bai family also wanted it, but Father Bai once said before his death that the house was for the eldest, so they could only divide more of the land.
Because they knew that they could not win this old house, the patriarch could not favor them.
So now Bai Yongming lives in the upper room. His grandma's room used to be the largest and brightest in the whole house.
Then his sister lived in a room by herself. She originally lived with his mother, but after his mother passed away, she lived by herself.
There are only two rooms for three girls. Bai Yongming asked the thin girl to live with the sick girl, and then the fat girl lived by herself.
It's not because the fat girl is rich, but because she is big and can't fit in with others.
After introducing each other, Bai Yongming learned that the thin girl was named Zhang Dujuan and was not from their county.
Because something happened to her family, she was an orphan and helpless, so she walked along the road begging for food.
Before, she had always dressed in men's clothing and mingled among beggars. This time she was recognized in the temple, so she was forcibly brought in to get married.
The sickly girl is called Du Qingliu, the daughter of Du Xiucai from the village next door.
At home, I have a mother, two aunts, an elder brother, a younger brother, and a younger sister.
She is the second child.
Then the butcher’s daughter was named Zhao Baozhu, and she had only one younger brother and one younger sister.
These days, no family dares to have a baby of ten or eight, after all, it is very expensive.
Especially for a butcher, who does not make a lot of money, but is still considered a merchant and pays a merchant head tax.
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Logically speaking, there is no need to hold a wedding for a government marriage like this.
But Bai Yongming prided himself on being a scholar and wanted to save face, so he sold an acre of his family's land and held a wedding banquet.
Take three wives at once.
Because he didn't know who to take as his wife, what a coincidence, the government didn't know who his wife was, so they simply wrote that Du Qingliu was his wife, and the other two were equal wives.
Three wives and four concubines, just like that, the status of the three wives is gone.
However, he discovered it after the marriage.
Zhang Dujuan was able to work well and endure hardships, but her body was an empty shell. After a few more days in the sun, she fainted in the field.
Du Qingliu is indeed Du Xiucai's daughter, but she was born from a concubine, although the manuscript was indeed brought.
But I could only see him for one day, and I had to kneel all night to get it back. After that, his condition became more serious.
In addition, she became pregnant three months after the marriage, and the child died of illness before she even showed her belly.
Then there is Zhao Baozhu, she is the eldest daughter in the family. Judging from her name, we know that she was indeed favored when she was born.
It was different after I had a younger sister.
She has been fat since she was a child, but her sister is thin and well-behaved.
Butcher Zhao doesn't care about his tall and thick looks, but he likes weak women.
So he doesn't like his eldest daughter who looks more like him.
I prefer my younger daughter.
Zhao Baozhu's mother loved her very much, but she was weak without a son by her side.
The dowry was indeed generous originally, but after Zhao Caizhu interfered with it, it became only five taels of silver.
Her mother was so angry that she secretly subsidized her by another five taels.
In the end, she was married with ten taels of silver, which was very different from the so-called rich dowry.
In fact, among women, it is indeed considered rich, but it is far from what Bai Yongming imagined.
One can imagine what will happen to her in the end.
More than a month after the marriage, Zhao Baozhu first broke the good news that she was pregnant.
Then in February after the wedding, Zhang Dujuan became pregnant.
In March, Du Qingliu became pregnant.
A hot-blooded man marries three wives at one time. Although none of them are too stunning, they are all young ladies after all.
Bai Yongming has been curious about it for a long time. There are people in the room almost every night.
The kind that is evenly stained by rain and dew,
He liked Du Qingliu more, but she was in poor health and couldn't help having fun every night, which was a bit disappointing.
The reason why I like Zhao Baozhu is because she knows more, is more open-minded, and enjoys herself more.
Zhang Dujuan is very well-behaved. She is better at being obedient and doing whatever she is told.
But in the end, there was no good result.
In order to pay the poll tax and continue his studies, Bai Yongming sold three acres of fertile land and kept three acres of inferior land for the women of his family to cultivate.
And let them open up wasteland.
Du Qingliu is weak and favored, so it is not easy to take charge of family affairs.
The other two women are responsible for the heavy lifting.
Since they were pregnant, Bai Yongming hasn't been home much. He lives near the school and doesn't care what the women at home eat or use.
Anyway, they have said that they are responsible for their own poll tax.
He lives the luxurious life of a scholar in the town with peace of mind, and has to go home every month to ask for money...
As for his sister, he also has no control over her.
His life was like this before. No matter what happened at home, the elders would not allow anyone to disturb his studies.
If he is at home, the chickens passing by must tread lightly.
So he has long been accustomed to this, only caring about his own life, and has no intention of changing his mind.
In the end, Du Qingliu died of illness, leaving one dead and two dead.
Zhang Dujuan suffered a miscarriage due to overwork, and then became a little crazy. Her family had no time to pay attention to her. She left home one day and never came back.
Only Zhao Baozhu was left. Her dowry had been taken away by Bai Yongming a long time ago, so she could only rely on herself.
Occasionally, if I have no choice, I will go home and look for her mother secretly.
But the second time, her good sister stabbed her father, and Butcher Zhao directly severed ties with her.
Qiu Feng said that she was not allowed to go home and beat her parents' family, and even received a beating. That's how the child died.
It had been six months at that time and it was still gone.
When Bai Yongming learned about this, he didn't even return home. He complained about her when he returned home from vacation.
Because this incident had already spread a lot in the town and made him lose face.
Zhao Baozhu asked him, "What about our children? Don't you ever feel the slightest bit of heartache?"
"If it's gone, it's gone. It just so happens that I don't have to pay taxes. I'll have a few more when I get the honors."
That indifferent attitude completely made her give up. She couldn't see any light in this miserable life.
Her family abandoned her, her husband didn't love her, and her children left her...
Thinking of this, she threw herself into the well in the village where countless women had been buried.
All three sisters-in-law are gone.
Only Bai Yongming's sister is left in the old house, and Bai Guihua lives by herself.