Chapter 145.2: Ancient Farmers' Son (2)
Most of the other villagers felt the same way as her. Although they had no grudges against Li Lanlan, they didn’t have high hopes for this marriage either. The specific reasons were similar to what Zhou Daya had said.
Scholar Lin rarely left his house, but whenever he did, anyone with eyes could see that he was completely different from the villagers. Moreover, when the Lin family was still intact, Mother Lin never hid the fact that her son wanted to pass the imperial examination and marry a girl from the city. Now that the Lin family was facing difficulties, if he wanted to marry Li Lanlan, it was probably for the sake of having someone to work in the fields.
The Liyang village only had one scholar like Scholar Lin, but the villagers had connections with other villages and knew some gossip.
For example, there was the Wangjia village, which also had a scholar, but that was 20 years ago. Scholar Wang was just like Scholar Lin, constantly failed the exams. He didn’t understand household chores, and as the expenses for his education increased, the Wang family gradually showed signs of decline.
So, he married a wife, who thought she would become the wife of a scholar, but ended up serving the entire family. Scholar Wang didn’t know anything except studying, and with a father and mother who didn’t like the daughter-in-law, she had a difficult time. Now, 20 years had passed in the blink of an eye, and that wife was now an old woman. It was said that she complains every time she visits her family, and her life was extremely miserable.
In the eyes of the villagers, Scholar Lin was like a second Scholar Wang.
He was even worse than Scholar Wang. At least Scholar Wang doesn’t have a father who couldn’t do farm work and needed medicine to sustain his health.
Li Lanlan quietly endured the disapproval of the people in the village and waited until the agreed-upon day of marriage.
Father Li, who always does good deeds everywhere, didn’t go out to do any good deeds on this day. He stayed at home obediently, waiting for the Lin family to come and take away his daughter.