During the famine year, eight-year-old Ali was sold to the Xie family as a child bride and had a four-year-old husband.
The young husband has been frail and sick since he was a child. He is the only child of his widowed mother-in-law. He is spoiled and stares at Ali with his lips curled up, with a look of displeasure on his face.
Ah Qiao ignored him. The Xie family is well fed and clothed, and her mother-in-law is kind. In addition to learning to take care of her young husband, Ali raises chickens, ducks, and vegetables, and his life is quite satisfactory.
Four years later, when her mother-in-law fell ill, her family became jealous, and her neighbors bullied her. Seeing that her stable life was in jeopardy, Ali gritted his teeth and entered his young husband's house with a stick.
Xie Changling had looked down on his child bride since she was a child. She did one thing in front of others and another behind her back, and she also liked to complain.
But after his mother died of illness, the two of them were left to depend on each other. Twelve-year-old Ali raised a family for him. Ali poked his head with a stick and said, either wait until they kill us two, or you can study hard for me.
At first, Ali didn't expect anything from him. She hoped that he would become a scholar and be able to scare off the ill-intentioned tribesmen, allowing her to save the family property and exempt the family from labor and taxes.
On the day of her high school discovery, Ali took the account books of the Xie family and told him that marriage could not be forced, and she just regarded him as a younger brother. Now that she had saved a little money, it was enough to buy him a decent house in the capital, and prepare a dowry for herself. The two of them should find a suitable marriage.
Xie Changling gritted his teeth, walked into Ali's room in the middle of the night, and climbed into bed secretly.
(The copy has been saved on January 1, 2026)
Purpose: Study hard