Chu Yunli sat on the bed and looked at Yu Chengfu, who was opening his trousers to check his injuries. In just a short time, they were already swollen, which showed how cruel Yu's father was. She said with great interest, "I am willing to admit defeat."
Yu Chengfu: "..."
He said in embarrassment, "Can you please stop mentioning this?"
"How can you not mention it? You have to keep your word." Chu Yunli crossed his arms, "Have I given your parents a chance? If they have you in their hearts, they won't be so straightforward. It's obvious. I don't think you will
It will disobey them. What’s yours is theirs, and what’s theirs is still theirs!”
Yu Chengfu looked ugly, but he had to admit that what she said was true.
Yu Chengfu was hit by a stool just now and ran back while jumping, but there was no reply yet.
He leaned against the wall and came over to sit on the edge of the bed, then fell asleep.
Chu Yunli snorted coldly, "Remember to get up early to chop wood!"
The purpose of keeping him is to make him work as an ox and horse for the three sisters. Just drive him out and give him an advantage!
Yu Chengfu turned his face inward and said sullenly, "Don't you feel sorry for me?"
Chu Yunli sneered, "I feel sorry for you when you help your parents set up such a marriage for Yu'er? If I have time, I might as well braise more meat and sell it to Yu'er and the others to make new clothes!"
When the marriage of his eldest daughter was mentioned, Yu Chengfu felt guilty again.
In the next two days, the steward did not come. When someone from next door came to discuss with Yu Chengfu, he refused directly and even became much colder to the Yu family. He used to take the initiative to call people, but now he basically just asks and answers, or simply
In silence, Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Zhao even said suggestively in the yard that some people look down on their brothers when they are rich.
Chu Yunli took the remaining grain to the town as usual, and business was getting better day by day. On the eighth day, he was just going to the market. Chu Yunli stewed two hundred kilograms of pears, but they were all sold out in half a day.
After this time, the reputation of soy sauce pork has become even more famous. Even on ordinary days, some people come to town specially to buy it in the morning, and they can sell more than one hundred kilograms every day.
With so much meat, it adds up to a lot of work. The most important thing is firewood. More than 100 kilograms need to be stewed in four or five pots. The meat needs to be stewed slowly over low heat. It cannot be finished during the day, and it has to be kept at night. It needs to be cooked all day and night.
Big pile.
Therefore, Yu Chengfu had to chop wood during the day and watch the fire at night. He was so exhausted that he could fall asleep just by leaning against the wall.
It was another day at the market. After Chu Yunli sold out the sauced meat, she went to pick out a set of tables and chairs. The owner was a regular customer of hers and the price was much cheaper.
On market days, there will be large carriages pulling people from the town to the village. You only need to pay one or two copper coins to save yourself the trouble of walking.
Chu Yunli had a lot of things. She wanted to find an ox cart, but Yu Liang wanted to save money, so she ran to the carriage and negotiated the price, and pulled her into the carriage.
After sitting down, she quietly wiped off a cold sweat. Just now she saw her mother's intention, but it cost more than ten cents to book an ox cart. This carriage carried so many things, and it only cost five cents, which was half the price.
Most of the people in the big carriage were from Liucun and Wangcun. There were more than a dozen women crowded together. They got together and started chatting with acquaintances. They were all about family affairs and crops in the fields.
Chu Yunli has met a lot of people recently, and was listening to each other. Suddenly, a woman mysteriously whispered, "Do you know about Boss Chen who got married two days ago?"
Mr. Chen's reputation is so great that people in the surrounding villages have heard of him more or less. He was suddenly curious, "I know, he married the daughter of Yu Cun's family. What's wrong?"
Chu Yunli raised her eyebrows slightly, and patted the remaining grain beside her comfortingly.
The woman lowered her voice, "The one in front was beaten to death by him. I thought he had improved over the years, but he did it again yesterday. Poor little girl, he had her hand broken. Not only that, she was left hanging."
How pitiful it is to have only one hand to take care of the family and outside the home! I don’t know what the Yu family thinks..."
"What else can you think of? Boss Chen has said that he will spend five taels of silver to hire someone."
"Then you can't ignore your own children for the sake of money!"
"You're wrong. There are always those with bad intentions in this world who use their own girls to change their son's future..."
Some people agreed with this, "Isn't that right? The Lin Sanjia in our village..."
Then it went sideways.
Chu Yunli gave an extra penny, and the carriage was delivered directly to the door of Yu's house. Yu Chengfu and his two daughters were already waiting to move things. They were used to it these days.
Yu Chengfu looked at the bucket of sauced meat and said happily, "Sold out again?"
Chu Yunli hummed and drank water first when she entered the house. She leaned against the door frame and looked at Yu Chengfu who was filling the basin with water.
The newly married daughter-in-law’s hands are discounted.”
Yu Chengfu paused in his movements. If it weren't for his wife's epilepsy...or maybe it was her great aunt who appeared to her, the marriage would have really happened. After receiving a large betrothal gift from the Chen family, the Yu family didn't have the confidence to come to ask for an explanation after their daughter was beaten.
At this moment, he was really scared and thankful, "Xiniang, I was wrong!"
Chu Yunli'er said, "Your parents only have a few eldest grandsons in their eyes. They want to use the flesh and blood of the three sisters to provide them with education."
The truth is always unpleasant. Yu Chengfu put down what he was doing and said, "I understand, please stop talking, in front of the children."
"What happened in front of the children?" Chu Yunli said seriously, "I not only want to remind you, but also remind them. Your parents and two eldest brothers are crazy about being a scholar. There is nothing they can't give up. I won't allow it.
You mix it in!"
Two days later, when the mother and daughter went to town again this morning, they met a thin girl on the road. She was wearing old clothes full of patches and a sad face. She cried silently as she walked on the road, and occasionally sobbed.
Chu Yunli took a curious look and glanced at her arm... There were not many people with broken arms in the whole town. Could it be that she was Boss Chen's wife?
Mrs. Yu wiped her tears and asked shyly, "Sister-in-law, do you want to help?"
With more than a hundred kilograms of meat, the mother and daughter did not have any trouble. On the day when they had the most meat, Yu Chengfu went with them to deliver it.
Chu Yunli shook his head, "No need!"
Mrs. Yu's eyes were full of disappointment, but she asked expectantly, "Does your family want to hire someone to help with the work?"
Chu Yunli suddenly realized that she wanted to help because she wanted wages?
Although she wanted to help this girl, she didn't need to hire anyone! After leaving her behind, wouldn't Yu Chengfu be more relaxed?
"No need." Chu Yunli refused and asked curiously, "Did you encounter any difficulties?"
Yu's tears fell even more fiercely, "My arm is broken. An old man who can touch bones said that I have to go to the town to find a doctor to set the bones, otherwise... this hand will be useless in the future..."
Yu Liang whispered, "Mom, let's lend her some copper coins? At least the bones can be reattached."
With just one glance, Chu Yunli understood what Yu Liang meant.
If the Yu family had not broken off the engagement, she would be the one suffering and being beaten and scolded now. Seeing this girl, she felt that if she fell into such a situation, she would definitely want someone to help her.
When they parted, Chu Yunli gave her twenty copper coins, which Yu accepted with great gratitude. The frayed cuff of her stretched out left hand was covered with bruises, and some of the skin had ulcerated. She still wanted to kowtow.
, was pulled by the remaining grain.
After sending the person away, the mother and daughter went to the vegetable market. Yu Liang cried, and she was afraid that her mother would see it, so she had to take a deep breath to hold it in. It was inconvenient to wipe it with something in her hand, and her eyes were red when they got there. After putting down the thing in her hand, she couldn't help but cry.
Zi Zi said, "It's so sandy today, my eyes are red..."
Chu Yunli took out a handkerchief and wiped her tears, "You don't have to force yourself in front of me, just cry if you want."
So Yu Liang cried. She lay in her mother's arms and cried heartily.
As the sky grew brighter, someone came over to buy soy meat. Yu Liang immediately calmed down her emotions and started doing business skillfully. When the meat was sold out, she was so excited holding the box containing the copper plates that she no longer had those sad emotions.
Over at Wenxiang Building, seeing that Chu Yunli never took the initiative to look for him, he had to come to sign the deed. Just as Chu Yunli said before, he took the prepared ingredients and cooked them himself. Wenxiang Building was rich and wanted Chu Yunli.
Apart from selling pears myself, I only sell his ingredients in packages, so the price is very reasonable.
Unlike the smooth sailing of the third house, the sisters-in-law and sisters from the Yu family still went out to borrow money every day, but they probably didn't get it. They often heard the Yu family sighing.
Two days after borrowing the money, it was morning again, and the mother and daughter went to the town again. Not long after leaving the village, there was a small forest. The forest was not dense, and the mother and daughter had to pass by it every day recently, so they were not afraid.
Not long after entering the woods, a tall and strong figure suddenly rushed toward him on the left. Chu Yunli subconsciously raised his leg and kicked it.
Because she was holding many things and was not strong enough, the man just took a few steps back and leaned against the tree to steady himself.
The sky was hazy, Chu Yunli took a closer look, and suddenly found that the person in front of him was Li Fengxi's eldest son-in-law in his previous life.
She immediately put down her things, started to roll up her sleeves, and told Yu Liang, "Go ahead and wait for me!"
Yu Liang was a little uneasy and wanted to speak, but his mother scolded him, "Be obedient!"
When she left, Boss Chen chuckled, "Keep the meat and I'll let you go!"
Chu Yun rolled up his sleeves and asked curiously, "What if I don't keep them?"
"Then we can only..." Mr. Chen touched his chin with evil intentions in his eyes, "I didn't notice it. You're pretty good-looking. Why don't you have some fun with me and I'll let you go?"
"Okay!" Chu Yunli agreed with a smile, clenched his fists and rushed forward.
After a violent beating, she kicked the man who was on the ground with a bruised face and his head bent like a shrimp, and asked with a smile, "Do you feel good?"