At the end of the dynasty, rites and music have fallen into ruin, and chaos is on the horizon. Vagrants and bandits are everywhere. Women walking along the roads vanish in an instant all the time.
Faced with a world like this, Ning Xi, though a committed marriage-free advocate before she transmigrated, has no choice but to find a strong man and marry him.
As luck would have it, Cao Yin, the eldest grandson of the family at the head of the village, was disfigured while hunting. People were afraid of him, and at twenty-five he still hadn't found a match. He had sent a matchmaker to Ning's family twice to propose, which was quite a gesture. He had even agreed to her demands.
So Ning Xi gave it a quick thought and said yes.
On the eighth day of the following month, dressed in bridal red and with a red veil over her head, Ning Xi married herself off.
From then on, three parts of their fortunes were decreed by fate, and seven by their own efforts.
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When the eldest grandson of the Cao family married, he got a wife and two dependents as part of the bargain. Everyone in the village laughed about it, wondering if the Ning family's daughter was some kind of immortal beauty to make Cao Yin lose his head and take in both his parents-in-law as well.
The neighbors waited for a joke at their expense. Things were no more peaceful among the Cao sisters-in-law, who were all waiting for Cao Yin to lose patience so they could watch the show.
But they waited and waited, and what they got was Cao Yin returning from every hunting trip with a catch, so they could eat meat at every meal, while Ning Xi sold her cooking for a handsome price and made clothes and quilts.
From then on, the couple went into the mountains to hunt, fish, pick wild fruit, and dig up wild vegetables... Their lives visibly got better and better.
The neighbors had no choice but to change their tune and praise Cao Yin's bride for bringing such good fortune to the family. If they had known, they said, then supporting her parents would have been no trouble at all. They could have taken in seven or eight more brothers, too!
Theme: Striving against the odds is still striving.
I took a look at the column and found it was an ace pigeon.
I don't understand why the heroine knows that this village is full of poisonous insects but still doesn't leave. A gentleman won't stand behind a dangerous wall. Alas, I really don't understand. Safety is the most important thing.
When will you update?
Da da da, when will you write? It's really super pretty!
Didn't the hostess think about selling cookbooks? She can move out as soon as she has money.
Is the heroine stupid? Didn't she think that others would force her to do it, and even force would not be able to withstand it?
That is, can there be a little less psychological description of the villain (I can understand that the author wants to create a feeling of troubled times, but the yellow inner description of the villain looks a bit disgusting. I have no intention to guide the writing, it is just a little personal idea, no malice)
When can the heroine leave the village?
If you find traces of a wild boar, you will always keep an eye on it. If you find someone coveting you, you will put it in the back of your mind for a while. . . . Hit by force. ?
Another pit? Author, you have dug three holes.