Houmen's concubine

Chapter 277
Wang Tong'er asked strangely: "Since his father was killed by Japanese bandits in the saltworks, the saltworks didn't give him a pension?"

"Yes, 20 taels of silver per person for the deceased, ten taels of silver for serious injuries, and five taels of silver for minor injuries." Manager Zhu shook his head: "It's just that so much money is only enough for the coffin and tomb. Not much left."

When Wang Tong'er heard this, her heart was filled with sympathy.

She can't see others suffering the most. It's fine if she doesn't meet her. Now that she has met, how can she let go?
"Officer Zhu, I want to help the family members of these salt farmers who were killed by the Japanese bandits, can I ask you to help?"

In this world, the life of the poor is really worthless!

You just go to Liji Teahouse to have breakfast and sometimes you have to spend ten taels and twenty taels of silver.

Manager Zhu didn't expect Wang Tong'er to say such words, so he hurriedly dragged the kid named Agui to kneel down in front of Wang Tong'er, grateful: "On behalf of the family of the deceased brother, I thank Young Master Qin for his great kindness!"

In this world, few rich people are willing to stand up and help the poor and poor.

"Hey, Manager Zhu, get up quickly." Wang Tong'er said while pulling them up.

Unexpectedly, the woman who just poured tea for Wang Tong also brought her two four or five-year-old daughters to kowtow to her.

Wang Tong'er hurriedly pulled her up, only to realize that she was a sallow and thin young daughter-in-law in her 20s, but her face was full of vicissitudes due to the hardships of life.

Seeing Wang Tonger staring at the woman in front of him, Manager Zhu hurriedly introduced to her: "Her man is Wang Dashan who works as a small steward of the saltworks with my little one."

"Is that the tall thin one?"

No wonder I didn't see him today, it turned out that he was killed by Japanese bandits.

Wang Tong'er remembered clearly, the reason, of course, was that one was tall and the other was short.

"Yeah, it's just that Dashan died, and the three of them suffered a lot. She was kicked out by the cruel mother-in-law and uncle, saying that she was ordered by Kefu..."

Seeing that the three mothers had nowhere to go, the kind-hearted steward Zhu kindly took them in, so he had to temporarily live here in the salt farm to help cook and do chores.

Anyway, there are seven or eight cooks who cook every day in the salt field. She helps cook the stove, wash vegetables and other chores, and barely keeps the mother and three from starving to death.

The salt farm manages two meals a day, which are corn or corn rice, and most of the dishes are pickled vegetables, radishes and salted fish.

After all, it is cost-effective to dry salt on the beach, buy some worthless small sea fish, marinate them with salt, and then dry them into dried fish and cook them for salt farmers.

Hearing what he said, Wang Tong'er couldn't help thinking of the widows who didn't have sons who were exterminated by their relatives and neighbors, so she asked: "Is there still a situation of "exorcised households"?"

Hearing what Wang Tong'er said, the young widow immediately looked up at Wang Tong'er with astonished eyes. She didn't expect this rich young master to know about eating 'extinct'.He murmured: "The mother-in-law of Li Qiang's family was 'extinct'. The mother-in-law was kicked out by relatives, and now she is still living in the ruined temple in Xishan, begging for a living."

The widow of the Wang family was fortunate to have met a good person who helped out at the saltworks, so she didn't have to go begging with hunger and food, and she also had a place to shelter from the wind and rain.Don't want to live in a ruined temple with no door like Li Qiang's wife...
It will be hard to wait until winter!
It is said that Li Qiang, who died, was strong and strong as his name suggests, while his wife, on the contrary, had a slender body, so the fields at home were planted for Li Qiang's brother, and some rations would be sent when the harvest was harvested.

Li Qiang's daughter-in-law usually embroiders and sells embroidery at home, and her life is not bad.

It's just that their family, like Wang Dashan, failed to have a son.It’s okay that Li Qiang is alive, but no one talks about it. As soon as Li Qiang died and the coffin was buried, the uncle and uncle came to the door in a grand manner, sweeping up her house, and then the house was taken in by the uncle’s family. I left the original house for my son to marry and live in...

The land at home was taken over by my uncle's family as a matter of course.

Due to the constraints of the times, it is a last resort!A woman can only gain a foothold by giving birth to a son.

In such a world, who can resist?
For a family without a son, it is a trivial matter that no one goes to the grave after death. However, no matter how many daughters are alive, they cannot keep their family business, and they can be taken advantage of by others.

If you are recruiting a son-in-law, some son-in-laws, after the daughter-in-law goes to Gaotang, will mostly be the son-in-law who secretly reveals his hateful face, seizes the family property, fights for children, divorces his original spouse, and accepts a bride.From poverty to wealth, from nothing to existence, the dangers of human nature are revealed more and more clearly.

Needless to say, recruiting a son-in-law is also risky.

So, why are you working so hard to have a son? !It's not that ordinary people have to do this, there are so many patriarchal patriarchs.Rather, the benefits of having a son have been obvious since ancient times.

this is the truth!cruel, cruel.

And over time, there are rules.No one can change it, nor can it be shaken.

"Officer Zhu, please work hard. Take a night to count the family members of the deceased. I will send someone to collect the roster tomorrow morning. I will make an appointment for them to go to the front of the Qin family to collect the money."

Wang Tong'er only stayed in Qinzhou for a few days, so she asked Guanshi Zhu to make up the list of the family members of the deceased in these forty households overnight.Originally, I wanted them to go directly to the saltworks to collect the money, but after thinking about it, they probably belonged to the old and the weak, women and children. The saltworks are too far away, and it takes nearly an hour to take a carriage by myself. Wouldn’t it take half a day for them to walk on two legs? arrive?
"Okay, okay, thank you Uncle Qin on behalf of those dead brothers and mothers!" After Zhu Guanshi finished speaking, he knelt down and kowtowed three times to Wang Tong'er firmly.

Wang Tong'er was caught off guard, and before he could stop him, Guanshi Zhu had already knelt down.

Agui and Sister-in-law Wang, who had been standing by his side all the time, quickly pulled the child down and knelt down...
Wang Tong'er had no choice but to rest her forehead with one hand.

If she held Agui, the daughter-in-law of the Wang family led the two children and knelt down again, and held the daughter-in-law of the Wang family, then Agui still had to kneel for herself when she bent her knees.

Forget it, just kneel down.

"I will repay my benefactor's great kindness and virtue in my next life."

"Okay, sister-in-law Wang, get up quickly."

Since I wanted to help you, I didn't expect to report it.

"Sister-in-law Wang, I would like to trouble you to take a trip to pick up Sister-in-law Li from the ruined temple in Xishan, and find Gu Xiucai Gu Yiming at the end of Zucchini Street. He will arrange for your family to live with that Sister-in-law Li."

Based on the principle of doing good things to the end, Wang Tong'er simply took the house on Zucchini Street that was originally used as Qin Yu's tomb, and let their two families of orphans and widows live, wouldn't it be better?It's a waste to be idle there anyway.

As for the yard where the tomb is buried, it is better than living in a ruined temple with orphans and widows.

Also, it's too inconvenient for the young sister-in-law Wang and her two daughters to live among the men.

　Wang Tong'er thought of some widows who had no sons by their relatives and neighbours, and felt pity for them.Since you have met yourself, please help me.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)