Farming: I dressed up as a widow and beat my parents-in-law violently

Xu Chunxia took a breath when she heard this.

Twenty acres of land?

Even if it is calculated as three taels of silver per acre, it can be sold for sixty taels.

Oh my God!

How much betrothal gift is needed to match this?

The money saved by the family, plus what the son earned from delivering goods to his mother-in-law, was only ten taels in total.

She originally thought of giving five taels as a bride price, which was considered a lot in the village, and it was also reasonable in the town.

Then buy another red cloth and make new clothes for your son and daughter-in-law.

Now it seems that it is impossible to take action.

Xu Chunxia silently crossed out Liu Zhuzhu from the list of candidates for daughter-in-law.

Liu Yunwan would not have thought that what she thought was an advantage would actually turn into a disadvantage.

Qian Yulan, who was sitting on Yan Xia's left, was in a depressed mood.

Twenty acres of land! !

Her niece couldn't compare. Even with her help, it would only be a dowry of four or five taels of silver. No more would be lost. Qian Yulan sighed softly.

That's it.

Just think of bringing your niece to Yan Xia's house to play.

She no longer had hope.

Yan Xia was also silent.

She didn't expect Liu Zhuzhu's dowry to be so large, and it didn't match the distant mountains. She underestimated the Liu family, originally thinking they were just a small landowner.

At most, I can give my daughter a dowry of seven or eight taels.

With twenty acres of land, most of them have dozens of taels. This is not a small landowner. He either pretends to be a pig and eats the tiger, or he spoils his daughter to the point of pampering.

"Ah, help -" Just as the four of them were thinking, a scream came from the pond.

"It's not good, Miss Liu fell into the water -" Jing Shui also called for help.

After Yan Xia heard this, she reacted quickly. She immediately stood up, ran down the steps and rushed to the pond.

The three of them stood up immediately.

After Qian Yulan lifted the veil of the pavilion, Liu Yunwan saw her niece falling into the pond, pulling her arms, crying and shouting. Liu Yunwan was trembling with fear. She didn't know the depth of Yan Xia's pond and thought her niece was Drowning.

His whole body was shaking like a sieve, and he couldn't control his body and fell limp to the ground.

Qian Yulan and Xu Chunxia helped her up and comforted her.

"It's okay. How deep can the pond be? Someone has already rescued him. The distant mountains are also there. The distant mountains meet the water. Don't worry. I saw him running towards the pond."

"Yeah, don't be afraid. I'll help you up. Let's get there quickly. Zhuzhu must be scared."

Liu Yunwan's eyes were a little dull, and she nodded.

"Yes, you are right, everything is fine, it must be fine, help me up quickly, hurry, I want to save Zhuzhu——"

After saying this, Liu Yunwan burst into tears instantly.

Her vision became blurred, but she remembered that her niece was still in the pond. She stood up and, with the support of Qian Yulan and Xu Chunxia, ​​walked down the steps step by step.

And Yan Xia has already jumped into the pond.

She grabbed Liu Zhuzhu and pushed her ashore. Jingshui and Xiaoji pulled her up. After seeing her successfully ashore, Yan Xia climbed up.

"I'm sorry, auntie, I don't know how to drink water."

"Mom, I don't know how to swim. Fortunately, you came quickly." Jingshui and Xiaoji said to Yan Xia with guilty faces.

"It's okay, our pond is not deep and we can't drown anyone." Yan Xia comforted them.

When her family dug the pond, she was worried that someone might slip and fall into the water, so she changed the depth from two meters to one and two meters.

Liu Zhuzhu is relatively tall, about 1.65 meters according to modern measurements.

Yan Xia guessed that she might not know how to swim, so she fell in and panicked, so she started thrashing around, thinking she was going to drown.

"Zhuzhu, are you okay? You scared my aunt to death -" Liu Yunwan calmed down and ran over. She threw herself on Liu Zhuzhu, dripping with snot and tears.

"She's fine, she's just scared. The pond in my house is not deep. It only reaches your waist when you stand in it. Don't worry. Fortunately, it's summer and the weather is hot. If it's winter, it'll freeze. Jingshui, take your Liu My sister went to the house to change into clean clothes. Xiaoji, hurry up and boil water, wash Miss Liu, and then tell the kitchen to cook a bowl of ginger soup. The water in the pond is relatively cold. Drink a bowl of ginger soup to keep warm. Sister Liu, stop crying. , It’s okay, I’m here and nothing will happen to the girls.”

Yan Xia winked at Xiaoji and Jingshui, and after giving her instructions, she knelt down to comfort Liu Yunwan.

"Auntie, you are also soaked. I'll ask Xiao Su to help you go back and change your clothes." Xiao Ji was very worried.

She was afraid that Yan Xia would catch the cold. Before noon, a small wind blew up again, which made her whole body feel chilly.

"Okay, I'll change. Jingshui, take Miss Liu to your house quickly."

"Hey, I understand, mother, sister Liu, get up. I'll help you go to my place and change your clothes. Don't freeze." Wang Jingshui picked up the frightened Liu Zhuzhu and took her out of the courtyard. Liu Yunwan couldn't help but I followed him with confidence.

Yan Xia was also served by Xiao Su and returned to the house to change clothes.

"Yuanshan, aren't you watching from the side? What's going on? Miss Liu has fallen into the water. Why don't you know how to rescue her? Your sister can't swim, but you can!"

Xu Chunxia took her son aside and asked him in a low voice.

"Mom, I am a man. Men and women cannot be intimate with each other. If I jump in, wouldn't I have to marry Miss Liu? I don't want to marry her, and when Aunt Yan dug the pond, I also knew that the water was not good at all. It's not deep, how could she drown someone, so I found a branch and tried to pull her out, but she was like crazy, yelling and ignoring me, and just then Aunt Yan came, and the next step was You saw it."

Wang Yuanshan told the truth.

It doesn't matter if Xu Chunxia scolds her, or if she doesn't scold her.

"You, you, then you can't just watch. Forget it. Fortunately, it's okay today. You can't do this in the future. Do you understand? Human life can be more important than these trivial things? Everyone is here. It's not about giving or receiving, but it saves her. It doesn't mean that you have to marry her, and if you want to marry, she doesn't have to marry you. Her aunt just said that Miss Liu's family has twenty acres of land as a dowry, and our family can't reach it. What do you mean to her? If you don’t want to be happy, my mother doesn’t want you to marry her.”

Xu Chunxia breathed a sigh of relief when she learned that her son didn't like Liu Zhuzhu.

The family only has so little money.

She was so ashamed that she was given less, and she felt sorry for Miss Liu. After all, the dowry was so large. If she had given more, where would she get the money?

Even if the family is empty, it only costs ten taels of silver. You can't sell the land or the house and borrow the money to marry a wife.

Forget it, she didn't dare to have any delusions.

After Xu Chunxia finished speaking, she turned her head and looked at the two sisters by the pond.

I saw that they were also frightened and were comforted by Qian Yulan.

"Auntie, I was scared to death. I thought she was going to drown."

"Sister, please don't talk nonsense. How could you drown? Didn't you listen to what Aunt Yan said? The pond is not deep at all, it only reaches the waist. It was Miss Liu who was frightened, so she couldn't stand. You can't say unlucky words. Fortunately, Aunt Liu is not here, otherwise, what would she think if she heard it?"