Chapter 66 Liu's sinister intentions

Yang Dazhu's face was not much better than Liu's and said, "Yes, that's what Liu did. I didn't expect her heart to be so cruel!"

"She's not ruthless, she's crazy!"

Except for Yang Dazhu and his wife, the children such as Yuer, Yang Dalang and Yang Silang did not understand the specific meaning of "keeping widowhood", so Yang Dalang took the lead in asking the three of them questions: "Father and mother, what is widowhood? Can this living person get married with the card?"

Before Yuer traveled, she learned from some documents that yin marriage was very popular in the Song Dynasty. Thinking of Liu's previous words that she would take Yang Qiniang to a place that could not be seen by the Yang family forever, she couldn't help exclaiming: "This Liu family is crazy and cruel. Is it possible that what she said about widowhood refers to yin marriage?"

The word "living widowhood" is a folk saying. It's normal that Yang Dalang and Yang Silang don't understand, but they have seen the "yin marriage" mentioned by Yuer in a miscellaneous book, so as soon as they heard Yuer's words, Yang Silang immediately recited what he had seen in miscellaneous books...

"Any unmarried man or woman unfortunately dies, his parents must ask the 'ghost matchmaker' to kiss, and then gossip. After getting married, they will make underworld clothes for the ghosts and tie all kinds of paper dowry dowry. After everything is ready, they will choose an auspicious day to hold a wedding sacrifice, and finally bury men and women together. This move is called 'yin marriage' '."

The more Yang Silang went down and sweated on his back. After reluctantly, he asked incredulously, "Is it possible that the Wang family wants to secretly kill Qi Niang, set up a card, and then let Wang Erlang's card marry Qi Niang's card?"

Yang Silang's words can be understood as soon as he heard it - to put it bluntly, it is to let two prematurely dead men and women who have been married in another special way after death. This way is to invite people to hold their cards to worship and get married, and some people call this kind of alternative marriage "underworld marriage".

The condition for a marriage must be that both men and women are unmarried and both die early! Wang Erlang and Yang Qiniang are indeed unmarried, but now only Wang Erlang has died early! Isn't this Liu completely delirious? Otherwise, how can you even think of such a sinister way to turn living people into dead people to get married?!

Just as the fish brothers and sisters were shocked and angry at their understanding of the word "living widowhood", Yang Dazhu and his wife, who were a little confused by their eager speculation, finally came to their senses. In order to stop the fish brothers and sisters from guessing randomly, Liu shouted loudly, "You don't understand. Don't keep guessing! Mother has been confused by you!"

When Yang Dazhu heard the words, he quickly said, "Yes, although being a widow is not a good thing, it is not as you think. No matter how crazy the Liu family is, the Wang family will not let her commit the great crime of murder! Who said that the dead can only worship the dead? Dead people can also worship the living! That's what Liu is thinking right now..."

When Yang Dazhu saw that the fish brother and sister no longer thought nonsense and looked at him together, Yang Dazhu slowly explained, "Liu doesn't want to withdraw from the marriage because he wants Qi Niang and Wang Erlang to become the position. After marriage, he will be the daughter-in-law of the Wang family and Wang Erlang for the rest of his life. This living man is widowed for the dead before the marriage. It has always been called 'widowed'..."

It turned out that in the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a more heinous marriage habit hidden under the custom of child bride - after the little girl became a child bride in her future husband's family, if the groom unfortunately died early and the bride's family could not afford money to take the bride back, the bride would also have to grow up. According to the previous marriage contract, get married as scheduled!

When she arrives at her husband's house, she will pay a visit to the deceased's "wood owner" (brand position). After marriage, her husband will buy a boy for her daughter-in-law and raise her as a son, so that she can live a widow from then until her old age! This inhumane marriage habit was accepted by many ancients, and widowed women are also known as "virgins".

This kind of little daughter-in-law whose husband dies before formal marriage is most likely to get a chastity archway after becoming a widow. Therefore, some selfish, weak and greedy people will even force their little daughters-in-law to stay widowed until old age. Even if the widows of the Northern Song Dynasty can remarry, they also prevent them from remarrying for the sake of the chastity archway. !

However, not every family with a child daughter-in-law requires girls to live as widows. Some well-hearted people will recognize girls as daughters or send them back to their mother's home...

After listening to Yang Dazhu's explanation, Yuer finally understood the real meaning of "living widowhood", but did not dare to relax in his heart - the Wang family obviously had been attributed to the half-crazy people of the Liu family, and wanted them to send Yang Qiniang back kindly. It is impossible for a family to be a daughter.

So the urgent task of the Yang family is to urgently discuss countermeasures, and they must come up with a way to save Yang Qiniang! After all, Yang Qiniang volunteered to go to the Wang family to be the child bride in order to help the Yang family overcome the difficulties. At present, things suddenly became like this, and the Yang family had to redeem her back!

However, before Yang Dazhu's family came up with a solution, they first ushered in Yang Erzhu's daughter-in-law and Fang, who would be lazy if they had nothing to do and appeared as soon as they encountered something that cost money.

The Fang family had already heard that Yang Dazhu's family was going to redeem Yang Qiniang, and even kept the sentence "200 taels of silver can only be returned to Yang Qiniang" firmly in his heart. As soon as he heard the news, he kept rushing to the big house for fear of being late and suffering a big loss...

Therefore, as soon as Fang got on the new ship, he shouted bluntly without even saying polite words: "Brother, sister-in-law, this 200 taels of silver is not comparable to two taels of silver or two pieces of money! We have to settle this account first - if your big house really wants to borrow 200 taels of silver to redeem Qi Niang, don't let our second wife carry this debt together for no reason! This money will never be included in the public account we love! Otherwise, it will be extremely unfair to our second-bedroom family!"

When the fish saw Fang rushed into the cabin in a hurry, they couldn't breathe and said a lot of words. At first, they thought she had heard something related to Yang Qiniang. Unexpectedly, when Fang slowly finished speaking, the fish knew that Fang did not care about Yang Qiniang. Urgent, but concerned about their second wife's loss due to the redemption of Yang Qiniang!

Fang's selfish fish was not the first time to learn, but Yuer really didn't expect that after Yang Dazhu gave in the last time she dropped out of school, not only did not make Fang grateful, but also made her evolve more and more excellent! Fang can say such selfish and brazen words without blinking an eye!

Yuer really can't get used to Fang's selfish appearance of only money and no family affection, so she immediately refuted for Yang Dazhu and his wife: "How can aunt say that? When Sister sent the Wang family as a child bride, did the gift of hugging the daughter-in-law sent by the Wang family enter the private account of our big house?

Fang clearly knew that the gifts for holding his daughter-in-law were used to solve the urgent needs of the Yang family at that time. It was estimated that the Yang family would not be able to make it together for a while. The children in the family had already dropped out of school collectively.

However, the lower family can be brazen and quibiously and quibbled: "The gift of the Wang family's marriage to the seventh mother was handed over to the eldest brother and sister-in-in-law at the beginning, and the family's public account has always been in the hands of the eldest brother and sister-in-law. Therefore, only the eldest brother and sister-in-law know whether this daughter-in-law has been included in the public account. We don't know anything about the second room!"

This time, Liu, who didn't need to speak again and was impatient, scolded Fang: "Sister, at least we are a family. How can you say such ruthless words?! If the money exchanged by Qi Niang was not included in the public account, how did our family's food and clothing be solved at that time? Don't tell me that you don't remember that the weather has never improved, Dazhu and Erzhu couldn't go to sea for a long time, and their family has been so poor that they haven't had a meal!"

Mr. Liu had accumulated a lot of anger because the Wang family bullied people too much, so now he was angered by the selfish Fang, and immediately vented his anger on Fang. He roared that Fang was stunned for a while and couldn't find a rebuttal for a long time. In the end, he only said a sentence...

"Even so, our family can only draw money from the public account and the money sent by the Wang family as a gift to hug their daughter-in-law. The extra ransom can't be counted in the public account, otherwise won't this entry and exit be erased?"

There is no clue about how to save Yang Qiniang, which makes Liu waste more lips and tongues after venting his anger. He only curled his lips with a sarcastic face and asked, "Is there any money to scratch in our public account now? Your second room has always been full and warm. When did you care about whether there is money in your family's account? When did you borrow it from the same person because there was no money in the account at home?

"We..."

"Don't say any more. If your sister-in-law is here to help with ideas at the time, then our big house will welcome you. If you come to care about it, we won't welcome it."

Liu's words were obviously an order to expel guests. Fang saw that her face was full of anger and a very bad tone. Finally, she did not dare to touch her moldy head and chose to leave grayly, but she did not forget to leave a sentence before leaving: "In a word, you can't let our second wife suffer losses. You can't bully us honestly when you see our two pillars!"

After saying this, Fang immediately greased the soles of his feet. Yang Dazhu did not want the contradictions between the two families to expand and be embarrassed to meet in the future, so he took the initiative to bring up the matter of saving Yang Qiniang again. As soon as Yang Dazhu reminded them, the fish people immediately remembered the corresponding strategy. After carefully thinking about all the feasible methods, they could only take Yuer's first proposal - suing the official, and the government would judge the matter.