Divorced by her husband's family and rejected by her own! She defiantly turned her life around

On the way back to the village, Liu Siyue asked Zaohua, "Sister Zaohua, would you like to live closer to your parents' home? That way you can take care of each other."

"Yes, I want to, but what's the use of wanting to? But I'm very content now. I can often go to my parents' house to see them, unlike before when it was so difficult to go back to my parents' house. So in the years since I married into the village, I've rarely gone back to my parents' house."

My parents were afraid of gossip and also didn't want to cause me trouble, so they rarely came.

"Uncle Village Chief, are there any vacant houses near Uncle Bai's house?"

"Tiedan's house is empty, and it's only two houses away from Bai's house."

"Sister Zaohua, if you're willing, I'll buy Tiedan's house, have someone repair it, and you can move in there. I'll leave your house to you."

If you don't want to, that's fine too; you can live at the end of the village.

"I've already troubled you a lot in April, I can't trouble you any more."

"It's not troublesome at all."

"Okay, it's settled then, Uncle Village Chief. I'll buy Tie Dan's house. We'll exchange the deed later."

"I'll also need to trouble Uncle Village Chief to find someone to repair that house; I'll pay for the labor."

"It's not a big deal. The rest of their house is fine, it's just that the thatched roof is a bit old and needs to be replaced."

"Uncle Village Chief, let's not change the thatch. Let's just replace it with roof tiles. I'll pay for the tiles. Please find someone to buy them for you."

"Okay, leave it to me, I'll get this sorted out as soon as possible."

"In April, I plan to go to the county town tomorrow to get all the household registration, house deeds, land deeds and so on for Zaohua."

"After your outburst at the restaurant today, Yu Feng will probably find out soon. I'm afraid things might get complicated if things drag on, and he might come back to the village and cause trouble."

"Uncle Village Chief is absolutely right. I'll send someone to take you to the county town tomorrow."

"Okay, Zaohua has to come with me too."

"Okay, Uncle Village Chief, I'll leave Gouwa with my mother and have her look after him for a day."

The group soon arrived at Liujia Village. Qingwu paid Niu Qianchuan the fare, and he drove the carriage away.

"Qingwu, deliver the things to Sister Zaohua and Uncle Village Chief's house."

"Yes, Miss."

Qingwu first helped Zaohua deliver the cloth to her home, and then drove the horse-drawn carriage to the village chief's house.

She helped the village chief carry the cloth home. When Pan Dongmei saw her husband bring back so much cloth, she was both happy and distressed about the money spent. "Husband, why did you buy so much cloth? How much money did this cost?"

The village chief chuckled, "Dongmei, what do you think of these fabrics?"

"These are all top-quality fine cotton fabrics; they'll definitely make comfortable clothes."

"Guess how much these fabric flowers cost?"

"This bolt of fine cotton cloth costs five or six hundred coins. You bought six bolts, so it must have cost at least three taels of silver."

"I benefited greatly from going to the county town with April today. Each bolt of cloth cost only 200 wen, and the total cost was 1 tael and 2 mace of silver."

"What? 200 coins a bolt? How can it be so cheap? Are you kidding me?"

"How could I lie about this? I need to ask you for reimbursement and money. I didn't have enough money on me today, so I borrowed some from Zao Hua."

If I say it's too cheap, where am I going to make up for the shortfall in silver?

There's a slight flaw in this fabric; please check it when you're making the garment.

"Even so, our family got a great deal. I made the flawed parts into linings and wore them underneath, so no one could see them."

Didn't you go to the county town today to get your household registration processed in January? Is it done yet?

"It's all taken care of, but another big thing has happened in our village. Sigh! It's really giving us a lot of trouble!"

"What happened in our village? I'm here and I didn't know anything about it!"

"This didn't happen in the village, it happened in the county town."

Pan Dongmei was even more confused; how could something that happened in the village happen in the county town?

"Husband, tell me quickly, what exactly happened?"

The village chief took a sip of water and then kept Yu Feng as a mistress. Aunt Yu helped her son cover it up. Zao Hua came to the door, and in the end, the two divorced. Moreover, Gouwa was given to Zao Hua, and she also broke off her relationship with Yu Feng.

Pan Dongmei's head was buzzing. How could such a big thing have happened all of a sudden?

"That Yu Feng and his mother are shameless. They bullied Zao Hua. It's good that they broke up. Anyway, Zao Hua's family is still in the village, so she will have someone to take care of her in the future."

If Zaohua is willing, we will help her find a good family later. If she is not willing, it is not impossible for the mother and son to live together, but it will be hard for her.

These men, not one of them is any good. They should just stay home and behave themselves.

Once you have a couple of coins on you, you can't control your lower body.

"I'm a man too, I haven't done anything to betray you."

"It's not there now, but who knows what it might be in the future."

Now that the village's charcoal has been sold, if our family gets a share of the silver, you have to give it all to me. You can only keep a maximum of 200 coins for emergencies.

"I'm already so old, and my kids are all grown up. I don't have that many tricks up my sleeve. Do you think I'm still a young person?"

From now on, all the money in the house will be in your care. Is that alright?

"That's more like it."

"Yu Feng and his mother are probably going to suffer in the future."

"Does Yu Feng work at a restaurant in the county town? Does he earn money there? What kind of hardship can he endure?"

He's been working in the county town all these years, but he hasn't brought much money home; he must have saved quite a bit.

"I have indeed saved some money, but the expenses in the county town are also high."

Now the house and land have been given to Zaohua, and she has also been given five taels of silver as compensation.

The most important thing is that he caused a scene in the county town in April, which ruined Yu Feng's job. I just don't know if he knows about it now.

"If he loses that job, how will he support his mother, that woman, and the child in the county town?"

"You mean they both have children? That mother and daughter are really tight-lipped, keeping Zaohua completely in the dark and keeping her completely fooled."

"April made a good fuss, that's how a jerk like that should be treated."

April was truly outstanding! She accomplished so much, making us women proud.

If the mother and son can't make a living in the county town, they'll definitely have to bring their mistress back to the village, which will surely annoy Zaohua!

You need to think of a way to prevent them from coming back, lest they corrupt the atmosphere of our village.

The village chief's lips twitched as he listened. The women in the village were all being led astray by April; things were probably about to turn upside down.

"They're not coming back!"

"What do you mean by that?"

"They have no houses or land in the village now, so according to the laws of our dynasty, they are no longer considered people of Liujia Village."

I have to go to the county town tomorrow to re-register Zaohua's household registration and cancel her and her son's household registration in the village.

You absolutely must keep this a secret. You can't tell anyone before I announce it.

"Our village now has some profitable businesses, but if things aren't handled properly, trouble could easily arise."

"Don't worry, I will keep it a secret. I won't even tell my son and daughter-in-law."

"Honey, that mother and son might come back and cause a scene again."

"Let them make trouble if they don't care about the shame. I'll make sure they can't even get into the village."

"Dongmei, after I became the village chief, I built a good relationship with the clan chief and Siyue, and I also helped the villagers to ease tensions with Dawang's family. Have you noticed that all those petty, trivial matters in the village have disappeared?"

"Yeah, I didn't even notice until you mentioned it. Everyone's busy making money these days, who has time to think about anything else?"

"Back then, we were both poor and idle, so we'd gather together all the time, gossiping and stirring up trouble. We'd make trouble out of nothing."