Chapter 828: Your Previous Husband Has Returned
The loafer quickly went to call for people.
Yun Jiao nodded at Aunt Wang and walked forward with a smile.
The village aunties at the entrance craned their necks to watch the group, then suddenly, one of them slapped her thigh hard, "I bet Er Gui’s wife doesn’t know that Doctor Gu has returned!"
"Oh my, there’s going to be a spectacle!"
"Let’s go, let’s head to Er Gui’s house and share this good news with her."
Several aunties chuckled to themselves.
Er Gui’s wife was none other than Ms. Li.
Ever since Yun Jiao went to the Capital City, she completely forgot about Ms. Li, including the annual twenty taels of silver.
Yun Jiao’s two uncles visited Renxin Hall the following year, only to be told that Doctor Gu had sold the shop and left.
When asked where she went, they were told she went to the Capital City, and nothing more was known.
The two uncles couldn’t possibly go to the Capital City to ask Yun Jiao for the silver, so they returned home upset.
Ms. Li stayed at home for a year; although the family didn’t ask much of her, their eating and dressing were worse than before.
She was constantly causing a scene at home, demanding her elder sister-in-law find her a good match.
The elder and second sisters-in-law were counting on the annual twenty taels of silver, so naturally, they refused to marry her off.
Once Yun Jiao went to the Capital City and the silver was gone, Ms. Li didn’t have to say anything; the elder and second sisters-in-law first took her golden bracelet to the city to exchange for silver, only for the Money Shop to say it was gold-plated copper, worthless.
The sisters-in-law were infuriated and quickly arranged a family match.
This family was in the same village as the Gu Family, the man named Zhou Ergui, whose wife had recently passed, leaving only a ten-year-old daughter at home. Zhou Ergui was three years younger than Ms. Li, and once the matchmaker brought it up, he quickly agreed.
Zhou Ergui had previously seen Ms. Li in the village.
Ms. Li was different from other village women.
With her fair and tender skin, a buxom figure, and a sashaying walk, she was quite appealing.
Zhou Ergui used to steal glances at Ms. Li, and hearing the matchmaker mention her, he was quick to assent.
On the other side, Ms. Li’s two sisters-in-law wanted her out as soon as possible, and after receiving two taels of silver from Zhou Ergui as a bride price, they didn’t bother preparing the traditional marriage documents and ceremonies before marrying her off.
Ms. Li’s satin clothes were stripped down to just two sets by her sisters-in-law, with the rest pawned for silver.
Ms. Li was willing to marry, though not to a farmer, but couldn’t fight her sisters-in-law, so she was tearfully stuffed into the wedding sedan and married into the Zhou Family.
Luckily, while Zhou Ergui’s family wasn’t affluent, they had a few acres of land and didn’t worry about food and clothing.
There was also a ten-year-old girl at home, who handled laundry and cooking, and Zhou Ergui pampered Ms. Li greatly, ensuring she was well-fed and clothed, so her life was quite decent.
A group of aunties, eager to see a commotion, made their way bustling over to Zhou Ergui’s house.
It’s now February, the time to weed and hoe fields; in a few days, it’ll be time to plant rice.
Zhou Ergui was working in the field, and Ms. Li, with her belly round, sat at the door munching on sunflower seeds.
On the ground, a nearly two-year-old child crawled around Ms. Li’s feet, occasionally picking up discarded seed shells from the ground and putting them in his mouth, which Ms. Li ignored.
This two-year-old was the child Ms. Li had with Zhou Ergui, and she was pregnant again, over five months along now.
The group of aunties reached Zhou Ergui’s doorstep, and one of them laughed and said, "Er Gui’s wife, your previous man has returned."