Chapter 655 - 656: Ancient Mountains were full of Polyandry
""Eavesdropping, that’s what I heard."
"Eh, you’re eight years old, and you still went eavesdropping?" Yang Chuxia looked at her incredulously, "Dongxue, you’re a big girl now, you can’t do that in the future." After saying that, she asked, "By the way, what did you hear?"
Yang Dongxue looked at her as if she had seen a ghost, then said, "My second cousin’s mother-in-law wants my second cousin to give birth to a child for her brother-in-law."
"Um"
Upon hearing this, Ms. Wang said, "What are you talking about, child?" Ms. Wang couldn’t understand it for a moment.
Yang Chuxia turned her head and said incredulously, "Mother, didn’t you understand?"
Well, what Yang Dongxue said was a bit confusing, but it didn’t prevent her from understanding.
It’s just that the people in Yang Dongzhi’s husband’s family were a bit disgusting.
From what Yang Dongxue said, Yang Dongzhi’s mother-in-law wanted her to help her brother-in-law have a child.
What the hell were they thinking? Who would the child belong to? Would it be enough just to have the same bloodline, no matter who it belonged to?
Before she knew it, Yang Dongxue spoke up again.
"Also, my second cousin’s mother-in-law wants her to have a child for her brother-in-law’s elder brother."
"Pfft..."
Yang Chuxia spat out a mouthful of water. Ms. Wang couldn’t stop choking either, and now she understood.
Yang Qingbao was even lowering his head, unwilling to speak.
"If that’s the case, how could she return?" Yang Chuxia was puzzled, "Her mother-in-law was planning to have her give birth to children for her husband’s elder and younger brothers, so she shouldn’t have let her run away. What if she runs away for good?"
"My second sister sneaked back." Yang Qingbao finally spoke, but his voice was low and his head down.
Yang Chuxia thought to herself, no wonder people in ancient times didn’t like to marry into the mountains, it turned out that there was a lot of sharing wives in ancient mountains. If Yang Dongzhi gave birth to children for both her husband’s elder and younger brothers, wouldn’t she become a shared wife?
Well, as a modern person, she couldn’t accept it, and Yang Dongzhi, as an ancient person, couldn’t accept it even more.
"What do your parents plan to do?" Yang Chuxia asked.
If Yang Dongzhi’s husband’s family had such an idea, they wouldn’t let her go easily. They might come to her parents’ house to take her away soon. Once this happens, the whole Yang Family’s reputation would be tarnished, and Yang Chuxia couldn’t help but think that Yang Dongzhi really was determined to give Yang Family some gossip even in death.
Yang Qingbao shook his head, "My parents don’t know, they haven’t said anything, my mother is crying at home."
At this moment, Ms. Wang was also furious, "This family is really too much. Although it’s in the mountains, they’re not extremely poor. If it’s really difficult to find a wife in the mountains, they could have bought a couple from outside, right? At the beginning, looking at the betrothal gifts for Dongzhi, their family didn’t seem poor at all."
"It’s not necessarily. Maybe they’re not poor, but what if her mother-in-law is stingy about money?"
As it happened, Yang Chuxia’s guess was spot on. In fact, Yang Dongzhi’s mother-in-law was thinking the same way – one wife, three uses, it’s so cost-effective!
While a few people in Yang Chuxia’s family were discussing this matter, the old house was already in chaos.
It turned out that Yang Dongzhi’s husband’s family had arrived, including her mother-in-law, husband, her husband’s brothers, and all their cousins.
They were determined to take Yang Dongzhi away, but Yang Da’an and Ms. Liu refused to let them take her.