Chapter 1 Crossing the way of jumping into the river
"Jump, you've been standing on the bridge for half an hour, can you still dance?"
"Whether you want to dance or not, everyone is waiting!"
"I told you a long time ago that she didn't dare to jump, she was just trying to scare people."
In the center of the bridge, outside the stone railing, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old woman dressed in coarse linen stood there, with tears on her face, and collapsed, listening to the booing around her.
There is a surging river at your feet, and you won't even be able to find anyone if you jump in.
Qin Yue was scared and desperate. She had been forced to survive, but she didn't have the courage to jump.
On weekdays, she takes care of a paralyzed man and has to feed four little cubs. She is disliked by others in front of her stepmother and has no one to help her. Her parents' family asks her to 'support' her from time to time.
Now her mother even asked her to sell her four little cubs to get some money so that she could collect a dowry for her third brother.
She is the stepmother, and her spine is stabbed every day. If she really sells the four little ones, how will she survive in the village in the future?
Go back to your parents’ home?
She knew very well that her parents' family would never let her go back. If she had another mouth to eat, she would be burdened a lot more.
Doesn't this push her to a dead end?
Mrs. Qin came to find her today and told her that if she didn't get enough gift money, she would be killed in her home.
Life was so sad, and her mother was so persecuting, Qin Yue collapsed at that time, and ignored the persuasion of her two sisters-in-law, she ran all the way to the bridge and wanted to jump into the river, crying.
Mrs. Qin didn't believe she dared to jump into the river, but she was furious when she thought that her daughter would be raised so well and had no hope at all.
Those children were not biological, so they were sold as soon as they were sold. Which bastards were more important, or were the brothers?
Things I can’t carry clearly!
Every time she thought of this, Mrs. Qin couldn't help but howl.
"Oh, my God, this is the daughter I raised! How unfilial..."
"What kind of evil have I done? I have raised such a white-eyed wolf. My mother's life is so difficult, so I want to borrow some money from you. You will fight to the death with me. I have raised you so big in vain..."
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The onlookers pointed at Qin Yue.
"Girls are all losers. Don't expect anything from your married daughter."
"Let her dance. What do you want her to do with such a white-eyed wolf?"
"I'm borrowing money from you, but I'm not asking you for money. That's your mother. Why are you so heartless? Even if you belong to someone else's family, you crawled out of your mother's belly!"
"It's really nothing. Let her dance. There's no one to stop her. Why are you waiting?"
Qin Yue cried and shook her head: "No, it's not like this..."
When she had troubles, her filial piety came first. She could not accuse her own mother, let alone tell the truth, otherwise her mother would be criticized and gain a reputation as a vicious person.
But how could she really sell her four children for money, just to get a gift for her brother?
A village woman from the same village as Qin Yue sighed and said, "Actually, she is in a very difficult situation. It's hard to eat at home, so how can she still have money to go out?"
The village woman's words made the people in the same village nod. For a moment, they looked at Qin Yue with pity in their eyes, and looked at the Qin family with condemnation in their eyes.
The eldest sister-in-law of the Qin family quit. She rolled her eyes and said loudly: "Sister-in-law, if you don't have money, just tell your mother directly. I can't make things difficult for you. If you insist on selling a few children for money, it's not a success.
Are you angry?"
Looking at Qin Yue's attitude, they will never get the money, so no one can have an easy time.
Qin Yue suddenly opened her eyes wide and looked at her sister-in-law in disbelief, "You are talking nonsense! I didn't say these words, mother!"
She turned to look at Qin, hoping she could prove her innocence.
There was some hesitation on Qin's face, but she finally turned her head away.
Qin Yue was stunned, and her heart suddenly felt cold.
The village woman who just spoke to Qin Yue dropped a mouthful of phlegm to the ground.
"Bah! It's a shame that I still speak for her, you're so arrogant!"
"You said that someone who becomes a stepmother can have some good things."
The discussion suddenly grew louder, but Qin Yue couldn't hear anything, and his head was buzzing.
Faced with the accusations from thousands of people and the slander from her mother's family, Qin Yue looked at the rolling river water at her feet and suddenly felt that it was not so scary.
Qin Yue looked back blankly, and all she saw were faces of disgust and hatred.
Suddenly, she saw four young faces, all expressionless, looking at her indifferently, with eyes that wished her to die immediately...
"Since you all want me to die..." Qin Yue murmured to herself, closed her eyes, took a step in the air, and disappeared by the bridge.
Screams came and went.
Mrs. Qin didn't expect that she would dare to jump. She was so frightened that she stood there without any thought of saving anyone.
However, Qin Yue, who was falling rapidly, suddenly opened her eyes, a sharp look flashed in her eyes, and before she could realize where she was, she plunged into the fast river.
Qin Yue fell into the water and was confused. Wasn't she dead?
She was kidnapped by a competitor and died together with him in the port warehouse. Why was she committing suicide when she opened her eyes?
Qin Yue suddenly guessed that she had traveled through time, but she didn't expect that she would face a life-and-death crisis as soon as she crossed over.
The river flows extremely fast and there are undercurrents in the water. An ordinary person would probably just drift with the current and eventually drown.
As a decathlon elite, Qin Yue immediately found a way to save herself.
The water was rising and falling, and she vaguely saw the bridge piers next to her. She reached out and touched only the smooth stones washed away by the river water.
Suddenly, she caught a faint sound in the rapids, fished it out, and grabbed a hemp rope as thick as her thumb.
"She's got it! Pull it!" someone shouted from the bridge.
With the combined efforts of several men, Qin Yue was finally pulled up.
Qin Yue, who was lying on the ground coughing up water, felt a sudden pain in her head, and memories belonging to 'Qin Yue' flooded in crazily.
She really traveled through time, into a book, and into the body of this seventeen-year-old village girl.
A year ago, Mrs. Qin, the biological mother of the original owner, promised her to a foreigner in a neighboring village for two taels of silver.
The immigrant was a lame man with four children. When he married, he not only had to serve a large family, but also had to be a stepmother.
No other family would want to ruin their daughter like this, but the Qin family is a money-hungry person.
The original owner was very resentful about this, so she vented her anger on the four children. The children as young as three and as old as seven were often beaten with bruises all over their bodies by her, and it was normal for them to be deprived of food for a day or two.
Misfortune always has its favor.
A crippled man accidentally rolled down a mountain and barely managed to save his life. However, he was half-paralyzed and unable to leave his bed.
In the past, he could barely make ends meet by writing, but now his income has dropped significantly, and his family is even more stretched.
Originally, her parents-in-law had never helped her, and Mrs. Qin often brought her two sisters-in-law over to enjoy the autumn breeze. They would take away some of this today and some of this tomorrow.
In this situation, knowing that he would not get any money in the future, he encouraged Qin Yue to sell the four little ones for some money. The third brother of her mother's family was going to get married, but there was still a lot of gift money left, and the house had not even been built yet.
Woolen cloth.
Four of them with handles can probably be sold for a lot of money.
Qin Yue was a bit foolish and filial, but she was not stupid either. The Qin family never mentioned letting her return to her parents' home, let alone her future options. If she really sold her four children, she would lose her own livelihood.
Can the villagers still tolerate her?
From the coaxing at the beginning, to the coercion and inducement later, to the Qin family forcing him to death, things developed like this.