The husband I snatched halfway through his life is strange.

Chapter 185 My mother is so good, she shouldn't have to suffer.

The wooden door was clearly sturdy, but after landing heavily... it shattered into pieces. It even crushed and killed a chicken that was wandering in the yard.

Aunt Wu: ? ? ?

Yu Tingwan turned her head and spoke softly.

"To do this kind of thing."

Aunt Wu was astonished.

But Yu Tingwan had already gone inside.

Mrs. Wang was lazy, and Mrs. Xu had to take care of the children. The yard wasn't clean, and there was even a smell of chicken manure in the air.

The layout here hasn't changed much.

Yu Tingwan could even know where to go with her eyes closed.

She stopped in front of the dead chicken.

"It's so miserable."

“I used to feed them.”

Shunzi, always adept at reading people's expressions, respectfully asked, "Should I take it away for a ritual to help it pass on to the afterlife?"

Yu Tingwan: ? ? ?

What nonsense are you talking about?
"No need to bother, I'll take it back and make soup."

She went to the pigsty.

"I've fed them too."

Shunzi understood this time.

"Your subordinate will turn around and take him away."

Yu Tingwan walked towards the house she used to live in, and opened it with a push.

Upon seeing inside, the girl's expression remained unchanged.

Aunt Wu followed behind her and looked inside. The already tiny space had been converted into a storage room.

Aunt Wu was stunned.

"This……"

Her face was filled with anger.

"What did Hu Dazhu say a few days ago!"

“In front of so many people, he said that this will always be your mother’s home, and you will always have a place to stay when you come back.”

That's a very nice thing to say.

"Aunt Wu."

Yu Tingwan closed her eyes.

"My mother was engaged back then, wasn't she?"

Aunt Wu was taken aback.

"Where did you hear that?"

Yu Tingwan's voice was very soft, but loud enough to be heard.

"They were about to get married, but there was a severe famine that year. The Hu family was greedy and demanded that the other party give them two more bags of flour before they would marry off their daughter."

Aunt Wu: "...That's how it is."

She felt a pang of sadness when she thought about it.

It was supposed to be a good match, but it was the village head who brought them together.

But the old man and woman were hard-hearted. With their rice jar nearly empty, and seeing that their daughter-in-law, Wang, was about to give birth again, they turned their attention to their daughter.

But rice and flour can save lives, would the other family be happy to accept that?

The marriage was called off.

But rather...

Yu Tingwan's lips moved slightly: "But back then, it was not uncommon for people to sell their daughters for grain, so the old man had an idea."

"But Hu Dalang was born weak and difficult to raise, and the family had no money."

Aunt Wu wanted to say something, but she couldn't say anything.

This is a fact.

She could only be dry and lifeless.

"Your mother was able to meet your father later, and all the hardships she endured along the way were worth it."

Yu Tingwan shook her head.

"not like this."

“My mother is so good, she shouldn’t have to suffer.”

As dusk fell, the sun began to set.

The Hu family hurried home on foot. Compared to their joyful expressions when they left, their faces were now grim.

Mrs. Xu held her daughter tightly, barely daring to breathe.

"Big Pillar".

As soon as we entered the village, someone shouted.

"Your stepmother is back. She's been waiting for you at home for a long time."

Hu Dazhu froze, in disbelief, his sorrow suppressed. He could no longer care about anything else and hurried home.

Hu Yaozu followed. Wang frowned, her face showing annoyance, growing increasingly displeased: "What is she doing here!"

Hu Dalang: "Mother, it's a good thing that Wanniang is willing to come back. You mustn't make her angry and leave again this time."

Only Ms. Xu felt inexplicably uneasy.

Yu Tingwan is so strange.

Nothing good ever comes of it when we meet.

Meanwhile, Yu Tingwan was getting impatient waiting, and finally the person arrived.

Hu Dazhu was extremely excited to see her, and didn't even notice the wooden door.

He strode forward.

"Mom."

He looked Yu Tingwan up and down with suspicion.

It is said that clothes make the man and a saddle makes the horse.

These days, the girls in the village are all wearing dresses that Wei Zhao ordered people to prepare.

It was a poor place, far from the prosperous Jiangnan region. While fine silks and satins were nowhere to be found, the clothes were all made of the finest cotton fabric, soft and supple.

She didn't like to dress up or wear makeup, but she was fair-skinned and good-looking.

Her hair was still loose, and she wore few accessories. Yet, standing there, Yingying seemed completely transformed.

Hu Dazhu didn't know whether to breathe a sigh of relief or feel heartbroken that when the girl followed him to the Hu family, the clothes she wore were ill-fitting and always patched up.

"Seeing you like this, I can see you're doing well in your husband's family, so I'm relieved."

Hu Dazhu: "Stay at home tonight, and I'll have your aunt prepare some good dishes. Let's have a good chat."

Aunt Wu couldn't stand it anymore: "You're too kind. You two should vacate the house and sleep in the yard."

These words made Hu Dazhu's face stiffen.

Fearing that Yu Tingwan might misunderstand, he quickly explained.

"That's how it is. Originally, we were thinking that since Erlang was getting married, his room would need to be renovated, and we had a lot of clutter that we didn't have room to put, so..."

He wanted to suggest that Yu Tingwan make do for one night, sharing a room with Xiao Xu Shi, while Da Lang and Er Lang could squeeze in, and that would be a good arrangement.

But when he met the girl's ambiguous smile, he swallowed the words that were about to come out.

"what happened?"

"Are you angry with your uncle?"

"It's my fault for making my stepmother suffer."

Yu Tingwan: "You've said that to my mother too, haven't you?"

She said in a cold tone, "If you talk about it too much, it loses its value."

Hu Dazhu felt a chill run down his spine for no apparent reason.

Yu Tingwan's tone was indifferent.

“The village head pitied me as an orphan, and he remembered that you had already brought me back to Xilin Village. He was afraid that if the old story was brought up again in the future, I would harbor resentment, and he was also afraid that if I didn’t raise me properly, it would cause a rift and make everyone’s face uncomfortable. So, he made the decision to have the whole village keep quiet.”

"The whole village has been playing along with your act all these years. How did you end up believing it to be real?"

Hu Dazhu's face turned deathly pale.

Yu Tingwan: "You were involved in selling my mother back then, weren't you?"

"The older brother agreed to his parents' suggestion for the sake of his son, sacrificing his younger sister whom he had grown up with. He disregarded her wishes and her pleas."

This is the thing Hu Dazhu least wants to talk about.

But it was Yu Tingwan who was revealed.

He couldn't accept it and staggered back a few steps.

Where did you hear about this?

"Back then... there was no other way. If there was another mouth to feed, the whole family might starve to death."

“Wan Niang, you haven’t experienced famine, you…”

Yu Tingwan originally thought he would at least feel some remorse, but she didn't expect that after everything was laid bare, he would still make excuses.

When Hu Dazhu went to pick her up back then, it was mostly out of guilt.

After spending a long time together, the girl wouldn't believe it if I said I didn't care about her.

She has indeed received Hu Dazhu's care over the years.

But the 'good intentions' that were not pure at the beginning were placed on top of her mother's suffering.

Yu Tingwan felt that all the little things they had done together over the years had become hypocritical and disgusting.

The girl couldn't stand it anymore and coldly questioned, "Then why don't you die?"

"If you die, one less mouth to feed, but at least there will be more food to eat?"

"Old Man Hu and Old Woman Hu are old and don't have many years left to live. What's the point of living? Why don't they just die?"

"Everyone wants to live, so you made my mother sacrifice herself?"

“There are also people selling their daughters in the next village, but they are still human beings after all. They would rather charge less money and ask the broker to sell them to a better place.”

Hu Dazhu: "We also..."

Yu Tingwan's gaze coldly passed over Hu Dazhu and fell on Wang Shi, who was shrinking her neck not far away.

"So what did she do?"

Are you ready?
The problems from before will probably all be resolved in the next few days.