Yu Xiaolian knew what Sun Wulin's wife was worried about. She was simply afraid that she would lose her source of income and leave her family with nothing to gain.

"Fifth Aunt, I think you should ask Man Sheng for his opinion. If Man Sheng is determined to continue reading, you don't have to worry about Shu Xiu. I will take care of him."

The reason why the gap between the rich and the poor is huge is that some people are very content with the status quo. They are satisfied with some small achievements and are unwilling to struggle anymore.

In the eyes of Sun Wulin's wife, Sun Mansheng already knows a lot more words than other grandchildren in the Sun family, and he can also write. This is enough. She has never thought about asking Sun Mansheng to come back with a top score, let alone a top scorer. , even if she is a scholar, she dare not even think about it.

At the beginning, Sun Wulin was considered the smartest person in the Sun family, and he had never even passed the exam as a child student!

People should not fantasize about unrealistic things. Sun Wulin's wife just wants to live a down-to-earth life. She is very content if she has unpatched clothes to wear and white rice that doesn't irritate her throat.

It’s always happy to be content!

When Yu Xiaolian saw Sun Mansheng standing not far behind her and Gao, she simply reached out and called him over.

I thought Sun Mansheng would choose to continue studying, but he actually said, "I will listen to his mother."

Yu Xiaolian frowned, and suddenly she felt like Sun Mansheng was an Adou who couldn't support him. Someone offered you some money to go to school, shouldn't you happily agree?

Yu Xiaolian did not ask Mr. Gao and Sun Mansheng to thank her in any way, but she only wanted Sun Mansheng to seize the opportunity in front of him.

What Yu Xiaolian didn't know was that it wasn't that Sun Mansheng didn't want to continue studying, but he didn't want to disobey his mother and make her sad. His mother was actually very sad that his eldest brother didn't come back with them.

Sun Wulin's wife didn't notice anything wrong with Sun Mansheng's expression, but she was happy that her youngest son listened to her and was filial to her.

Yu Xiaolian sighed in her heart and said nothing more. She respected everyone's choice.

Life is short, and everyone should live it the way they like.

Yu Xiaolian also left some pepper seeds for the Gao family and told them how to plant them, then left Zhao Ping and Caogen alone.

The next destination, Yu Xiaolian planned to go to Dajing Village, the natal home of Sun Daji's wife. Dajing Village was downstream of Xiahewan and not too far from Canghe River. It only took them a quarter of an hour to drive there.

Yu Xiaolian has been to Dajing Village. Sun Hu's maternal grandmother's family, the Xu family, is from Dajing Village.

Back then, Mrs. Xu left the sick Mrs. Sun and Sun Hu and returned to her parents' home alone, causing Mrs. Sun to almost die. Sun Hu refused to believe that his own mother was such a vicious person and insisted on running to Dajing Village to seek confirmation. Lian had no choice but to take Sun Hu to Dajing Village.

It was a coincidence that as soon as Yu Xiaolian entered the village, she immediately saw Mrs. Xu.

In the blink of an eye, after not seeing her for eight years, Mrs. Xu is much more haggard and older than before, but she is less than forty years old, but she lives like an old woman.

Why is Mrs. Xu still living in her natal family? Could it be that she has not married for so many years?

Yu Xiaolian knocked on the carriage board to signal Cao Gen to stop.

After getting off the car, Yu Xiaolian went straight to Xu's house.

Sun Hu cared deeply about his mother, Mrs. Xu. Although Mrs. Xu was unfilial to Mrs. Sun, she truly loved Sun Hu.

Yu Xiaolian thought that helping Xu would give Sun Hu some comfort.

Over the years, although Sun Hu has been very respectful to Qi Dalian, his stepmother, the two people's hearts are actually not in harmony.

Mrs. Xu was pushing the millstone at the entrance of the village. The millstone was grinding corn particles. Every time Mrs. Xu pushed it a few times, she would stop and take a deep breath.

It was noon, the hottest time of the day, and Mrs. Xu actually chose this time to grind corn noodles. This is puzzling. Stone grinders at this time are probably very hot, right?

As soon as Yu Xiaolian stood in front of the stone mill, she met Xu's eyes.

Mrs. Xu looked at Yu Xiaolian in confusion, "Who are you looking for? Why did you come to our village?"

"You don't recognize me?" As Yu Xiaolian spoke, Caogen had already taken an oil-paper umbrella from the car and handed it over.

Yu Xiaolian opened the oil-paper umbrella to protect herself from the sun.

Although Yu Xiaolian's face seemed familiar to Mrs. Xu, she didn't dare to recognize it as Yu Xiaolian. Didn't the Sun family and the Yu family move to the south together? How could it appear here?

"Are you Yu Xiaolian?" Xu asked tentatively.

"It's me!" Yu Xiaolian nodded.

Mrs. Xu suddenly became excited, "Why are you back? Where is my tiger? Where is my son?"

"Huzi has not come back here, he is still in the south. Auntie, how are you doing now? Are you okay?" Yu Xiaolian didn't know what happened, but she felt a little sad when she saw Mrs. Xu's pitiful appearance.

Mrs. Xu's nature is not very bad. She only had bad thoughts towards her mother-in-law after listening to her parents' instigation. When she was abandoned by Sun Fengshou, her parents' attitude towards her immediately changed. She

Her parents refused to spend any of the money she stole from the Sun family to her parents' family, and even forced her to marry an old bachelor from the next village in exchange for a bride price of three taels of silver.

Ms. Xu was forced to have no choice but to beg her parents to let her stay at home for a while until she could choose someone to remarry before leaving.

Because Xu promised that the person she would choose to remarry would definitely be higher than the old bachelor's three taels of silver as a betrothal gift, she was treated leniently by her parents.

"Before I could find someone to remarry, there was a drought here. From autumn to the next summer, it didn't rain. Even the river water was getting less and less. By the next autumn, the wells were drying up.

There is not much water to fetch, and the people in the village are fleeing south in large numbers. My parents and brothers left me here. When they fled, they didn’t take me with them... Wow..." Although many years have passed,

But as long as Mrs. Xu thinks about the desperate scene that day, she can't help but feel heartbroken.

Mrs. Xu was penniless and unable to move. She also lost the confidence to live, so she simply stayed in Dajing Village. However, there was no road ahead. Mrs. Xu discovered that the well in the village could no longer provide water.

Some water seeps out every few days, and only the Xu family and a few elderly people who were abandoned by their sons are left in the village. They live guarding the well every day.

There was no food in Mrs. Xu’s home. All the grain was taken away by her parents, leaving nothing for her. Fortunately, there was still more than half a bag of rice bran left over from feeding the pigs. Mrs. Xu relied on the rice bran to survive.

of.

After surviving the worst year of drought, in the third year, God began to snow in winter and rain in summer, and Yangcheng seemed to have returned to normal.

However, most of those who ran away stayed in coastal cities and were unwilling to come back.

"I heard them say that Bohai City is much better than our Yangcheng city. It is close to the sea and you don't have to worry about water. There are fish and shrimps in the sea, so you don't have to worry about starving to death. And the fishermen don't have to pay taxes. There are many in our village.

People settled there.”
Chapter completed!