During famine years, I had a divination slip in hand, and my whole family ate chicken, duck, fish, a

Seeing that she couldn't stop him, even in the dead of winter, a layer of cold sweat broke out on Zou's forehead. She steeled her heart, gritted her teeth, and stamped her foot, saying...

"Fine! I'll call off the engagement, okay?!"

Even if she was reluctant to spend money to remarry her son, she had to consider the reputation of her son as a scholar!

Ye Qingqing stopped at the door, turned around and looked at her with a cold smile.

"Why didn't you say so earlier? Sister-in-law, could you please ask the village head to be a witness for me?"

Indeed, shamelessness knows no bounds!

"No need to invite me, I'm watching everything."

The village head, with his hands behind his back and a pipe in his mouth, strolled over and glanced at Ye Qingqing as if he didn't know her. "Hey, Er Yatou, have you thought this through? Once you sign the annulment papers, there's no turning back."

"Snap"

Ye Qingqing slammed the engagement letter on the door, saying, "Thank you for your trouble, Uncle Lizheng."

Zou pressed her fingerprint on the two crooked characters "reject marriage" written by the village head.

Leaving the Ye family home, she was seething with anger, her rough face contorted in a grimace. She turned and spat fiercely.

"What are you so smug about, you piece of trash! I'd like to see who dares to marry you in the future!"

"Once my son passes the imperial examination and achieves official rank, even if you, Ye Erya, crawl to my door and kowtow, I won't even glance at you!"

"Splash..."

A ladle of water with a foul odor was splashed over, instantly drenching Zou Shi.

The stench was overwhelming, making her gag repeatedly. "What is this stuff? It stinks! Ugh..."

"Shut your stinking mouth!"

Li Chunyan, carrying a chamber pot, pointed a dung scoop at her nose and started cursing.

"My sister is a perfectly innocent young woman, while your son is the real piece of trash!"

"Zou, if you dare spew filth again, I'll pour the water from washing the chamber pot into your mouth!"

"The water used to wash...wash the chamber pot?"

Ms. Zou let out a disgusting "wah" and vomited all over the ground.

The men from the Zou family she brought rolled up their sleeves, ready to beat her up, but Ye Dali, holding a pitchfork, stood in front of his wife, glaring angrily.

"I'd like to see who dares to lay a finger on my wife!"

Seeing this, the villagers also gathered around, speaking aggressively.

"What are you doing? This is our village, what do you want to do?"

"They started beating people up in our village, as if everyone in our village was dead!"

"She's spewing filth, and Er Ya's sister-in-law threw feces at her, so what?"

……

After driving away the Zou family, the villagers gradually dispersed.

Li Chunyan stood blankly in the cold wind, still holding the chamber pot, her eyes red and her body trembling slightly.

Ye Qingqing quickly took the things from her hands and asked softly, "Sister-in-law, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing."

Li Chunyan wiped away her tears, but more tears welled up in her eyes. She then choked out, "..."

"I just... miss my sister a little! Second sister, if my sister were half as fierce as you, she wouldn't have been worn down to the point of being barely human by her in-laws!"

She was in love with a boy in our village, but he couldn't afford a single penny as a dowry. My parents accepted a string of cash and married her off to someone else.

Later, her in-laws heard rumors about Dianzi and started calling her a piece of trash, torturing her relentlessly every day...

I can't stand hearing a perfectly nice young woman being called a piece of trash!

As she spoke, she opened her mouth and burst into tears.

"My poor sister! I'm useless, I can't help you..."

Ye Qingqing's nose tingled with tears as she listened.

No wonder Fang Jincheng and Zou Shi scolded her, and her sister-in-law threw excrement at her without saying a word. It turns out she was suffering so much inside!

Women in this era had a very low social status. If they were lucky, they would meet a man who knew how to cherish them; if they were unlucky, they might be even less than cattle or horses.

If you don't rely on yourself to make a living, you'll be like a fish on a chopping board, at the mercy of others.

She, Ye Qingqing, would never do that!

"Sister-in-law, don't cry."

Ye Qingqing opened her arms and hugged her, comforting her, "Once things get better for our family, I'll stand up for your sister, and then we'll see who dares to bully her!"

The sudden hug left Li Chunyan stunned, staring at Ye Qingqing in disbelief.

Has my sister-in-law's head really been ruined by the water of the Erlang River?

You have to understand that she has been married into the family for five or six years. Er Yatou, relying on her parents' support, not only orders her around to do chores, but also basically never gives her a kind look!

"Alright, sister-in-law, stop crying."

Ye Qingqing lifted her chin as she flushed the rabbit in the manure basket. "Cuicui and I caught four rabbits. We'll skin them, stew them, and have rabbit for dinner tonight!"

"Oh... okay."

Li Chunyan's tearful eyes suddenly curved into a smile as she looked at the rabbit in the manure basket and exclaimed excitedly.

"My goodness, four rabbits! Er Ya, where did you catch them? You, you're so lucky!"

"Auntie, Huanhuan wants to eat rabbit meat too."

Huanhuan tugged at Ye Qingqing's clothes with her little hands, looking up at her with longing eyes, a string of glistening drool hanging from the corner of her mouth.

"I've been really lucky lately; I saw rabbit droppings as soon as I went up the mountain."

Looking at the little baby, Ye Qingqing's heart melted. She took the baby's little hand and said, "Come on, Auntie will take you to see the bunnies!"

This little girl was initially timid and hesitant to speak to me, but after eating some pheasant meat yesterday, she was completely won over?

"This one weighs at least eight or nine pounds, it's quite heavy! Rabbit meat can sell for dozens of copper coins, but what's valuable is the skin, which is thick and shiny in early winter!"

"If you peel them and sell them separately, you can make more money."

Ye Youliang grabbed each rabbit by the ears and examined them one by one, unable to suppress the smirk on his face.

"Dali, take a wooden basin up to the roof, and tell your wife to boil a pot of water."

As he spoke, he struggled to shift his body, a sharp pain shooting through his leg, making him see stars.

"Father, you're still injured, don't move. Teach me how to peel the skin, I'll do it."

Ye Qingqing pressed his hand down and said quickly.

Ye Youliang took a breath and waved his hand.

"My injury is nothing serious. The bone has been set, I put it in a splint, applied some traditional Chinese medicine oil, and it will be fine in a few days."

Peeling is a delicate task; the skin must be peeled cleanly and neatly without any holes, otherwise it will be worthless.

"If you want to learn, Dad will teach you slowly, there's no rush."

Ye Qingqing looked at his swollen calves and couldn't help but purse her lips.

Every old hunter in the mountains has been injured, and they all know how to set bones themselves.

I don't know what kind of old-fashioned medicated oil is available, or if it will work. I should probably buy some proper wound medicine for my dad.

Ye Qingqing didn't know how much money she could get for the four rabbits, or how much she could save after buying some food. But she knew that ancient wound medicine was not cheap.

If she catches the silly roe deer tomorrow, she'll go buy her father some wound medicine!

Ye Youliang's hands, as bark-like as withered tree bark, gripped the rabbit's head, and with a swift motion, plunged the bone-carving knife into its throat, pressing it against a bowl to bleed it.

The rabbit struggled desperately with all four legs, and only stopped moving after a long while.

He wiped the blood off the boning knife with a rag, then cut down the rabbit's throat with unstoppable force, slicing its belly in two with a whoosh.

With two thumbs, I ran my fingers down the rabbit's leg and, at the bend of the leg, I found the tiny bone gap. With a quick swipe of the bone-removing knife, the entire hind leg skin was flipped up.