She was replaced by a husband, married the future tyrant and farmed to fight back

Chapter 58: His fame was taken away, and Luo Si'an was laughed at by the whole village

"Hey, Second Aunt runs so fast!" Liu Jiang walked to the gate to see.

"Hmph, he's probably going to the Huang family to deliver messages and curry favor with them." Madam Liu rolled her eyes.

"Mom, what does this have to do with the Huang family?" Liu Yingyue asked curiously.

"Of course it's because Mr. Huang married one of his cousins ​​to Widow Luo's son! That's why he doesn't want Huaiyue. Well, this time, it's the Huang family's turn to not want Widow Luo's son, and they deserve it!" Madam Liu rolled her eyes.

Liu Yingyue was happy in her heart.

She actually hoped that the Huang family would not cancel the engagement.

The cousin of Mr. Huang is not a good woman. If she were given to Luo Si'an, he would be in trouble.

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Madam Liu Er ran to the Huang family in one breath and told Mr. Huang what Liu Yingyue had said.

She made up her mind.

If Liu Yingyue told lies, the Huang family would only blame Liu Yingyue for talking nonsense, and it would not be her fault anyway.

If Liu Yingyue was telling the truth and asked the Huang family to break off the engagement with Widow Luo's family early, so as not to damage the reputation of the Huang family's relative's daughter, the Huang family would be grateful to her.

"Is it true?" Mr. Huang and his wife were skeptical.

Madam Liu Er slapped her thigh and continued, "My eldest wife's second niece Liu Yingyue said so. She came back from a relative's house in Market Street and said she heard the news from there. She also said it was said by a student in the county school."

"..."

"Mr. Huang, your family needs to think seriously about this marriage. If Luo Tongsheng is punished by the county magistrate, not only will he not be able to pass the examination for a scholar, but he will also not be allowed to take examinations in the future. He will only be a student for the rest of his life! What kind of future can he have?"

"..."

"A scholar can receive a two-liang-silver subsidy from the imperial court each year and is exempt from land tax, but a student does not have such benefits."

Everyone who wanted to marry into Widow Luo's family had this in mind.

A scholar can have one hundred acres of tax-free land under his name.

The old man of the Liu family already had all his names registered under his name. Lame scholar Yang had to stop taking the annual examination because of his lame leg and lost his title as a student on government stipend, but he still had to pay taxes.

Now, the whole village, no, the whole township, everyone is keeping their eyes on Luo Si'an who is taking the imperial examination.

If the story is true, the Huang family would not be willing to marry into the impoverished widow Luo's family.

After Mrs. Liu left, Mr. Huang immediately arranged for the family's farmhand to go to the county school to inquire.

It was just a coincidence.

After receiving the complaint, the county magistrate began to investigate secretly.

The investigation revealed that Luo Si'an had cheated in the exam and molested the daughter of the owner of a tavern in the county town.

Originally, Luo Si'an had passed the examination and the results had just been announced.

When Luo Si'an was being congratulated by his classmates, the county magistrate arranged for someone to cross out Luo Si'an's name from the list.

Luo Si'an was also beaten with twenty sticks and fined twenty taels of silver.

Luo Si'an did not return to the village, and the news spread to the village.

The whole village was in an uproar.

When the marriage proposal was made, the families that were looked down upon by Widow Luo all clapped and laughed with joy.

Especially Madam Liu laughed the loudest.

There were also those villagers who had given many gifts to please Widow Luo, hoping that she would agree to transfer their land to the Luo family. All of them came to Widow Luo's house and forcibly took back the gifts.

Some of the gifts that were used by Widow Luo had to be compensated with silver.

Widow Luo was certain that her son would pass the imperial examination and become a scholar, so she spent a lot of money on gifts. After calculating the difference, she had to pay more than ten taels of silver.

I also heard that Luo Si'an also had to pay twenty taels of silver, but he had no silver, so the county government arranged for him to do corvée labor to pay the compensation.

Widow Luo was so frightened that she fell to the ground.

Several kind-hearted neighbor ladies reminded her, "You should go to the Huang family and have a look. Don't let them cancel Si'an's marriage. If they want to cancel it, you can't refuse to do so."

Widow Luo suddenly came to her senses.

That’s right, the engagement cannot be cancelled. It was the Huang family who initiated the marriage proposal. Do they want to cancel the engagement on their own initiative? No way!

When Widow Luo arrived at the Huang family, she was surprised that Mr. Huang would say straightforwardly that he would not cancel the engagement.

Widow Luo was overjoyed to get Mr. Huang's personal consent.

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When it was getting dark that day, Liu Jiang told Liu Yingyue all the gossip in the village.

"It's really strange. The Huang family knew that Luo Si'an could not take the imperial examination, but they did not cancel the engagement. What on earth was the Huang family thinking? Or did he have a grudge against that distant relative? Did he deliberately harm the girl's daughter?" Liu Yingyue certainly knew the situation of the girl from the Huang family. She was a person who should not be underestimated.

Because Miss Huang was pregnant with another man's child, the Huang family was anxious to find someone to marry her off.

Before, the Huang family wanted to marry Miss Huang to an old bachelor, but Miss Huang refused to agree no matter what.

This time, Widow Luo took the initiative to refuse to cancel the engagement, which was exactly what the Huang family wanted.

"Well, who knows?" Liu Yingyue pretended to be ignorant and said with a frown.

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In order to prevent her son from suffering from hard labor, Widow Luo borrowed money from everywhere and finally gathered together twenty taels of silver to rescue Luo Si'an from the county government office.

When he returned to the village, those gossipers in the village made many sarcastic remarks to Luo Si'an.

Liu Dalang also specially found a lot of ruffians to block Luo Si'an on the road.

Everyone's tongue is as eloquent as a wheel, repeating harsh and sarcastic words over and over again.

Luo Si'an was so shocked that he wished he could dig a hole in the ground and hide there.

Fortunately, Widow Luo took off the soles of her shoes and waved them at the crowd, and the hooligans ran away laughing.

When they got home, Widow Luo comforted Luo Si'an, "Don't be afraid, it's just that you lost the title of scholar. We can take the exam again in the future."

Luo Si'an was feeling upset. His mother didn't understand, but he did.

Apart from fame and honor, there is no other opportunity to take the test.

He can only be a boy in this life.

He was feeling depressed. When he was molesting the blind girl, no one saw it and the blind girl couldn't recognize him. Who could have reported him?
Also, the examiner would not tell anyone about his bribery, so who told this?

The examiner was also implicated and scolded him severely!
Seeing her son bow his head and keep silent, Widow Luo smiled and said, "By the way, I have found a good match for you. She is the niece of Mr. Huang in this village, the one named Huang Xichun."

When Luo Si'an heard Huang Xichun's name, he jumped up and said, "I don't want it!"

"Now that you have lost your status as a scholar, it will be difficult for you to find a good marriage. The Huang family has chosen you, but you still don't want you? You fool!" Widow Luo cursed angrily.

"So old! If you're still not married at 22, there's probably something wrong with you!"

"What's wrong with twenty-two? Aren't you twenty-two too? Stop picking on me!" Widow Luo slapped her son.

After much persuasion, Luo Si'an finally agreed.

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According to the date, it’s time to remove the splint from Madam Qin’s leg.

That morning, Liu Yingyue carried a basket and walked towards the Qin family.

The basket was filled with some wild vegetables she had dug.

There was not enough rain this year, and there was a gap between the harvests and the summer harvests, so the villagers had to dig wild vegetables to eat.

She would look for wild vegetables, walk far away, and dig up plenty of tender wild vegetables.

When she arrived at the Qin family’s door, Liu Yingyue met Qin Yiran’s uncle Chen Qifu again.

Chen Qifu was carrying a bulging sack on his shoulder, looking furtive.

Seeing Liu Yingyue looking at him, he put the sack on his shoulder and ran away.

"Xiniu? Xiniu, where are you?" A young woman's voice came from behind Liu Yingyue.

Liu Yingyue recognized that this was a family living near the Qin family.

The young woman had a three-year-old son who suddenly disappeared when he was playing in front of Qin Yiran's house.

The woman insisted that the Qin family hid her son.

But a child is that big, and he is not a chicken or a mouse, so how can he hide? Even if he hides a dog or a cat, it will be exposed.

Of course the Qin family said they didn’t see it and they wouldn’t hide it.

As time went by, day by day, month by month, the young woman who couldn't find her son finally went mad and hanged herself at the gate of the Qin family.

That day was early in the morning of the original owner and Qin Yiran’s wedding day!

Perhaps it was a bad start, as not a single day of the original owner and Qin Yiran’s married life was smooth.

"Have you seen my Xier? Yingyue?" The young woman saw Liu Yingyue and asked anxiously, pulling her hand.

Liu Yingyue thought of something and secretly cried out in alarm, quickly chasing after Chen Qifu.

"Hey, Yingyue, have you seen my son? Why are you running?"

(End of this chapter)