Leisurely Farmer's Family: A Strong Man and His Broken Leg Son-in-law

Xu Hong looked at Yan who was staring blankly.

He mocked: "Not to mention the quilt ruler, now even the camphor wood box is gone!"

"Mother Mei Xiang, are the quilts given to you by your family red and indigo blue on the inside? Are the fine cotton tips red, ginger, orange and pine green? The coarse cotton ones are indigo? Four colors: gray blue, dark green, and ginger!”

A woman hesitated to speak!

"Sister-in-law, it's hard for you to remember that our Mei Xiang's dowry is just these colors!"

The onlookers couldn't help but be curious when they saw that this person remembered it so clearly. Mei Xiang married into the Wu family at the age of seventeen, and it has been twelve years now. It is really rare to be able to remember the colors of the flowers so clearly!

The woman waved her hand and glanced at Ye who wished she could shrink into a ball.

He said meaningfully: "It's not that I have a bad memory. When Mei Xiang got married, I helped Zhang Luo carry the dowry and sprinkle brown sugar and rice grains into the dowry. This is the first time in my life that I have seen a girl getting married with such a large dowry!"

This is quite true. Nowadays, whether you are marrying a brother or a girl, the mother's family usually collects the bride price and keeps part of it to make new clothes for the bride and groom. The kind parents will sew a new quilt and give some money for the wedding gift!

There are those who only want to exchange their children for betrothal gifts. Most of them will send people out with decent old clothes, not to mention quilts, and they don’t even have decent new clothes!

"Honglian Niang, please keep your mouth shut. You don't need to get involved in my family's affairs!"

Mrs. Yan looked at the woman who was speaking and glared angrily!

"You told me this ten years ago. At that time, you should have hired the second son of your family!..."

When everyone heard this, they knew there was some gossip, so they kept silent, preparing to hear the inside story that they didn't know!

The woman called Honglian Niang didn't care about Yan's attitude and continued to speak calmly.

"Auntie, thank you for speaking up for me back then!" Liu Meixiang interrupted Honglian Niang's words.

Then she continued: "When I got married, Wu Ping's mother first took away the money from the box. Soon after, she said it was cold in winter and took away two pairs of new quilts. Later she said that my brother-in-law's quilt was thin and took it away again. A quilt.”

"I was looking through the thin clothes I was making in the spring of last year. I was told that I, a little person, would be lucky to wear them. So I gave them some old clothes and took all the rulers from me. I was told to hold them first!"

"When winter comes, it's said that the quilts in the main house are hard to put away, and the big box made of camphor wood is also taken away. Whenever I say no, I will roll around and cry for my father and my mother, saying that I am unfilial!"

"Later, my brother-in-law said that the marriage was about to be arranged, and the camphor wood box and the ruler were also arranged together. He said that it was just a formality and that the newlyweds would return it to me when they got home!"

"But the bride came wearing old clothes. The camphor wood box and the ruler were left behind by the bride's family!"

"I went to my mother-in-law to argue, but she retorted that I had gone back to my parents' home, and now I came to her to ask for a ruler-headed box. She had never seen it before, and she asked me to ask which stupid wife in the village would lend her dowry to my brother-in-law! "

Liu Meixiang finished speaking with a cold face, and finally looked at the village chief and clan leader and said: "Everything I, Liu Meixiang, said is true. If I make a false statement, I will fall into the eighteenth level of hell after death, and I will never be able to stand up again!"

"Child! I'm sorry for you!"

The clan leader and village chief glanced at Yan, who had evasive eyes. Combined with what Honglian Niang had just said, they knew that Liu Meixiang had not wronged her a word!

The clan leader waved his hand at the village chief: "You make up your mind, these things are gone, discount them at the highest price and return them to the Liu family!"

The family brought the betrothal gift back, and after living like this for more than ten years, they gave the old Wu family a daughter to raise. Everyone has left, so there is no reason why the girl should not be holding back the dowry!

The entire Wujia Village cannot afford to lose this person!

"Let's do this, a camphor box, four quilts, eight rulers, and some other bits and pieces. I'll give you five taels of silver in total!"

The village chief felt embarrassed standing here. She didn't bother to calculate these things carefully to prevent Wu Boliang and Yan from bleeding. These people might cause some trouble in the future.

Thinking about the pregnant widow who was about to get married, the village chief had a headache!

"Why, village chief, don't forget, your surname is Wu, why are you helping outsiders blackmail my family!"

Before Yan became furious, Ye jumped up first. In her subconscious mind, all the Wu family's money belonged to her two sons.

When the big lala heard that Liu Meixiang could easily get five taels of silver, his eyes turned red with anger. He didn't care about pretending to be a grandson anymore. He glared and started to argue with the village chief!

"It's too late. Who are you arguing with? You have the ability to sort out the mess your family has caused. To tell you the truth, it's embarrassing for me to stand here!"

"You don't want to pay back five taels of silver, do you?"

The village chief turned around and pointed at Liu Yu and the others: "The box at the foot is gone. I think this quilt is on the bed of these people. Go and move it yourself!"

The village chief's chest heaved with anger. He was also the village chief, and the village chief of Zhuyuan Village could sit there with a calm face.

Because the family members of the same clan were wronged, he stood here for a long time and said nice words to apologize. As an outsider, he was cynicized and cowardly by the Liu family!

These culprits don't just want to settle the matter quickly, but they also try to talk to me.

When the village chief saw Wu Boliang and his wife standing behind Ye, who looked like they were old gods just now, but now looked panicked, they felt shameless and cold-hearted!

Liu Yu and others were eager to rush over and kick open the door of the house before the head of Wujia Village changed his mind, and they were beaten and kicked when they came in.

Pull off the bedding from Wu Boliang and his wife's kang, as well as the bedding from Wu Yong's kang, and throw them into the courtyard!

The original red quilt cover had faded and become dirty, and the cotton had become hard. Liu Yu and the others became even more angry when they saw it, and went into the room to beat it again!

"Bo Liang! Let your daughter-in-law's dowry sleep warmly!"

An old woman and husband of the same generation looked at the quilt thrown out of the house and joked with Wu Boliang.

Faced with the joking looks from his fellow villagers and the contemptuous looks from people from the Liu family, Wu Boliang's face turned red.

I wanted to scold but didn't dare, and I was worried that the place where the old lady had hidden her money would not be used by these people.

"Come out, come out, you robbers!"

The Yan family's eyes were all red, but the people from Zhuyuan Village who came with them were blocking the front with shovels and rakes.

They were in a hurry, but they couldn't get through it.

"Brother, don't smash things randomly. Let's see where these two old guys have hidden their money and get the eldest sister's dowry money back!"

Liu Yu's voice came from the wide open door.

Yan immediately ran around in a hurry, not daring to confront the rakes and shovels, and wanted to ask the village chief to stop them, but the village chief closed his eyes and didn't even look at them.

In desperation, Ms. Yan gritted her teeth, stamped her feet, and cursed angrily: "Village chief, village chief, don't touch my things, I'll give them, five taels of silver!"