The Daily Life of a Down-on-Hard-Life Medicine Girl Supporting Her Family

Chunnuan got the news about Dongmei from Aunt Zhong.

Sister-in-law Hu, along with her three sons, three daughters-in-law, two brothers from her own family, and four nephews, marched in a grand procession to the man's house. She was determined not to let her daughter stay in this ruthless place.

According to the regulations of the Great Xia Dynasty, the woman's dowry was to be taken entirely with her after a divorce.

Hu Dongmei's dowry wasn't much, but it still included a bed, a cabinet, chests, and quilts.

Grandma Fang naturally didn't want her things to be moved away.

"Your daughter has been married into the Fang family for three years. Even a chicken can lay eggs after three years of raising it. You've raised her for nothing for three years. Divorce? No way! We want to divorce her!" Old Mrs. Fang shouted. "If it weren't for my second son stopping us, we would have divorced her long ago. How dare you come to my house to make trouble?"

"Go ahead and make a scene, let everyone see, your daughter is a hen that can't lay eggs."

"Divorce her, and see who dares to marry a woman from the Hu family in the future."

"Shut up!" Sister-in-law Hu shouted sharply. "Fang Chenggang, are you even a man? You just let your mother spout such nonsense?"

"Mother, please stop making a scene here." Fang Chenggang knew he wasn't a real man, but he couldn't admit it now: "Mother-in-law, brothers and sisters-in-law, please don't be angry. We can talk things out as a family. Dongmei and I are a loving couple and living a good life. How could we possibly get a divorce?"

After the divorce, where will he find such an easy woman to fool?
"Fang Chenggang, are you two doing well?" Sister-in-law Hu trembled with anger at the thought of her daughter's bruises all over her body. "If you have any conscience and don't want to lose face, write a divorce agreement today. Otherwise, I don't mind taking you to court in the county."

"It's not that bad, Mother-in-law, it really isn't." Fang Chenggang felt a jolt of fear. He realized what it meant to lose face. He quickly turned to Hu Dongmei and said, "Dongmei, I don't know what I did to upset you so much. Please talk to her. I'm good to you, and we're going to spend our lives together. Don't worry about her."

Looking at the man like this, Hu Dongmei used to be very grateful, thinking that she had met a good man.

Looking at him now makes me want to vomit.

What does it mean to treat her well?
As her mother applied the medicine, she cried, saying that she and her father were blind to have married their daughter to such a beast.

Her body was covered in bruises, and she kept saying how stupid she was for not telling him sooner when he bullied her like that.

If the young mistress's maid hadn't mentioned it, no one would have known.

Hu Dongmei bit her lip tightly. She was really stupid. She didn't know what it was like for husband and wife to have sex. She only thought that it was because he hurt her so much.

It turns out that the good man in her heart was actually a wolf in sheep's clothing!

Now that people have come to their senses, they realize they've been kept in the dark for the past three years, and he's still pretending to be a good person.

"Dongmei, what's wrong? Please say something!"

Seeing that Hu Dongmei did not react, he reached out and pulled her.

"Don't come over."

Dongmei was so frightened that she hid behind her mother, screaming.

"What's wrong, Dongmei? It's me, Fang Chenggang, your man."

Dongmei shook her head. If he wasn't her man, she'd rather never have a man in her life!
"What's wrong, Dongmei? Haven't I been good to you? When my mother scolded you, I always stood by your side and protected you..."

"Stop pretending to be a good guy, you're a wolf."

Hu Dongsheng couldn't hold back any longer and stepped forward to pull him away: "If you know what's good for you, write a divorce agreement for my sister, otherwise, I'll make you regret it."

"Big brother..."

"Get lost, I don't have a brother like you."

"Brother, what's wrong with you? Let me die knowing why! What have I done to wrong you?"

What caused the bruises on my sister's body?

Sister-in-law Yang Liu stepped forward: "Don't tell me you don't know?"

"Ah, bruises? Dongmei, how did you get bruises? Who did this? How did it happen? Who bullied you? I'll go and fight them to the death! You're my wife, Fang Chenggang's wife. No one can bully you, not even your own mother or father, let alone outsiders."

She's still such a good actress!

The Hu family felt a chill run down their spines.

Three years! He didn't reveal a single flaw?
Winter plum blossoms are truly suffering!
"Stop acting."

Hu Dongsheng leaned close to him and whispered, "You're the one who caused Dongmei's injuries. If you don't write a divorce agreement today, believe me, I'll expose you completely and see if you're any good."

"you……"

Fang Chenggang instinctively tried to cover his waistband.

His face showed fear and shame.

To write or not to write?

"You win, I'll write it!"

Fang Chenggang realized that he was no match for the stone.

Yes, he's useless!

He was bitten by a dog when he was eight years old. His parents took him to a doctor and applied medicine, and he recovered.

He had never thought there was anything wrong with it.

He didn't discover it until he was sixteen and went swimming in the river with some friends from the village.

Later, he secretly watched his friends urinate and found that they could urinate very far, while he could not even do half as far.

After making this astonishing discovery, he never dared to swim in the river with them again, nor did he dare to take off his pants in front of them.

When he reached marriageable age, he was restless. His mother asked a matchmaker to arrange a marriage for him with a girl from the Hu family. Although she didn't look like him, she seemed quite simple-minded.

On his wedding night, he was filled with panic; he knew his life was over.

However, things quickly calmed down; she herself didn't know, and this simple-minded girl wouldn't understand either.

So he did everything he was supposed to do, except for the final step.

He simply cannot do it!
For the past three years, he has been trying different things every night, and the naive girl has not noticed.

During the day, he was very considerate to her, and whenever his mother made things difficult for her, he would stand up for her.

The simple-minded girl was very grateful; they were truly a match made in heaven.

As long as he has one wife, if he can't have children, that's the woman's problem, and no one will notice that he has a problem.

Yes, what's the point of a man living if he can't perform?
How can a man live in the world if people know he is impotent?

This is the divorce agreement, which he wrote.

But he was unwilling to accept it!
How did that silly woman know?
His eyes turned to Hu Dongmei, with a hint of malice in them.

Dongmei was so frightened that she trembled.

"Fang Chenggang, you damn well better write this!"

We'll discuss everything once we get the divorce papers!
Grandma Fang tried to stop him, but Fang Chenggang yelled at her, "This is all your doing. You have no right to interfere in my affairs."

Grandma Fang was stunned and could only watch helplessly as her son wrote the divorce papers.

After receiving the divorce papers, Hu Dongsheng and his brothers moved the dowry together.

"Move out, all of us in our family are moving out."

They weren't left any dowry.

Finally, they discovered that the wardrobe and bed were actually in the old woman's room.

"This shameless bastard actually stole his daughter-in-law's dowry!" "You're talking nonsense, I had the carpenter make it myself."

Grandma Fang, of course, denied that she had put her daughter-in-law's bed and wardrobe in her room and used them.

"You had a carpenter make it yourself?" Sister-in-law Hu sneered, walked to the bedside and threw all the bedding on it, then pointed to a stamped "Hu" character on the headboard and asked, "Was the carpenter's surname Hu?"

That's right, Hu Dongmei's dowry was all made by a carpenter, and that carpenter's surname was Hu. Hu Dongmei's own father personally made the dowry for his daughter.

Every item in the dowry he made was stamped with the character "Hu".

Seeing this, Old Lady Fang was speechless.

She could only watch helplessly as the Hu family carried away the dowry.

Fang's wife had been childless for three years and divorced Fang Chenggang.

This news, even without wings, can travel far and wide.

Of course, the Hu family members also knew about this news.

When the head of the Hu family saw the dowry items, large and small, being carried back, he came over.

"Mr. Hu, what's going on here?"

“Grandpa, my daughter Dongmei married the wrong person and was abused in the streets for three years. There is not a single good piece of flesh on her body. We didn’t know about this. Now that we know, of course we want to bring our daughter back.”

"What do people outside say is that the divorce was because Dongmei couldn't have children?"

“Grandpa, I took Dongmei to see a doctor. She’s perfectly healthy. It’s not her fault that she can’t have children.” Aunt Hu stood up straight. “I don’t know if you’ve heard of it, but some women can’t have children after marrying into another family, but they can have a whole bunch of children after changing husbands.”

"you……"

The clan chief was momentarily speechless; he had heard about this before.

“A blessed person does not enter the door of an unblemished person. My Dongmei suffered for three years, and today we brought her back. It’s not that she is bad, it’s that we, as her parents, were blind.”

Hu Dasao didn't expose Fang Chenggang's privacy because he had just given her the divorce papers, but that doesn't mean that any slander can be leveled against Dongmei.

If anything is wrong, it's the mother's fault; she misjudged the person, not her daughter's.

"I'm relieved to hear you say that. Dongmei is a good girl, and all the girls in our Hu family are good." The clan chief nodded: "As long as our people do good deeds, none of the girls in my Hu family are bad."

He doesn't care as long as it doesn't affect the family's reputation.

At the Hu family home, Yang Liu specially cleaned up the room that Dongmei had lived in before her marriage.

"Dongmei, you will live in this house from now on, just like before you got married. This will always be your home."

"Sister-in-law..."

Hu Dongmei never expected that her parents, brother, and sister-in-law would stand firmly by her side and not abandon her even after the divorce.

At first, she was very scared.

After all, a married daughter has no home anymore; her parents' family treats her as a guest, while her husband's family treats her as an outsider.

Unexpectedly, after hearing about the grievances she had suffered, her family members all stood up for her.

"Don't overthink it." Yang Liu held Dongmei's hand. "Just stay home and relax. We'll make sure you don't go hungry. You'll always be our little sister."

These words brought tears to Dongmei's eyes.

How fortunate she was that even after marrying such a disgusting man, she was still valued by her family.

"Don't cry. Your health wasn't good to begin with. If you keep crying, your mother will think I'm bullying you." Yang Liu quickly took out her handkerchief to wipe her tears and whispered in her ear, "Take good care of yourself at home. Get well-fed and healthy, and I'll personally find you a good man who's both good-looking and capable so you can remarry and have ten or eight sons. Then who will dare to look down on you?"

"sister in law!"

These words really frightened Hu Dongmei.

My face turned bright red.

She just got divorced today, what was her sister-in-law saying?

And she said it so...it's so embarrassing for her.

"You're just too honest. Your sister-in-law really didn't know you lived like this before." Yang Liu grew angrier the more she thought about it. Three years, a full three years! That inhuman man had been so cruel to Dongmei, and Dongmei had to endure his mother's insults and abuse. The angrier she got, the angrier she became…

Wait, what were the three brothers saying just now?

It was getting dark, and he asked me to take good care of Dongmei, fearing that she might do something rash.

The three brothers went out.

These two brothers are going to...

Yang Liu guessed correctly.

Hu Dongsheng was not the kind of person to give up easily.

He found out that Fang Chenggang went to the town's tavern for a drink almost every day and wouldn't go home until it was almost dark.

Just as it was getting dark, Fang Chenggang, who had drunk a lot of alcohol that day, staggered back home when he tripped over something and fell to the ground, knocking out two of his front teeth.

Immediately afterwards, he felt something hit the back of his head, and then he lost consciousness.

When passersby found him, his entire body was covered in bruises.

I just can't remember what happened or what I suffered.

Moreover, he was bedridden for ten days before he could get out of bed.

"If it weren't for the principle of 'a life for a life,' I would have chopped him up and fed him to the dogs."

Hu Dongsheng said softly to his two younger brothers, "Although our family is neither rich nor powerful, Dongmei is our sister, the sister we have loved since she was a child. Why should she be bullied like this by him?"

"Big brother, don't worry, we will protect our little sister from now on."

"I heard Dongmei wants to become that young mistress's maid?"

This is something that Hu Dongsheng is a little worried about: "My aunt's family are all servants of the young mistress, does Dongmei still want to go?"

"Dongmei may have a point. In the midst of this chaos and war, it's good to have someone to rely on. Perhaps relying on that young mistress is a way out."

"Yes, if it weren't for that young mistress, Dongmei would still be suffering in the Fang family."

"Then let's go along with her?"

"We don't know yet whether the young mistress agrees or not."

In the village, Chunnuan looked at Aunt Zhong and sighed: Why would a perfectly good free person choose to sell herself into slavery?

This Dongmei is truly persistent.

"Since she wants to come to the manor, let her come. I don't need any more people around me right now, but the manor is so big, there must be a job that suits her. You can arrange it for her as you see fit."

"Thank you for your kindness, young mistress."

Spring is here... I really don't understand, why would someone be so grateful to sell themselves into servitude?

Dongmei got her wish and became the young mistress's maid at the manor. Aunt Zhong didn't know what to do with her niece, so she simply sent her to the school to clean and serve tea.

Dongmei then discovered that the young mistress was actually teaching apprentices how to treat women.

The young mistress is truly kind-hearted. (End of Chapter)