The road to wealth of a peasant widow

Chapter 131 Love for Daughter

Chen Cui was startled at first when she saw Mrs. Zhang's mysterious look, and then she inexplicably wanted to laugh, but fortunately she held it back in time.

This is someone else's sad story. She doesn't know how much courage it took for her to speak up. She can't be so rude.

So, she reorganized her language and told her the knowledge about the safe period and the fertile period, which is known to almost everyone in modern times.

She said that the reason she was able to keep all her babies healthy was because she calculated the time well. She would have sex during her fertile period after her babies were born and her body was well. She would deliberately avoid that time period to avoid pregnancy.

After hearing this, Zhang Ruomei covered her mouth in disbelief. How could this be exactly the opposite of what she knew before?

Originally, she would deliberately sleep with the master when she was just clean. If what Mrs. Liu said was right, then it would be strange for her to get pregnant!

However, Mrs. Liu had no reason to lie to her, and she also believed that Mrs. Liu did not have the courage to lie to her, and her healthy children were extremely strong evidence.

When Chen Cui took Sui Sui away, Zhang Ruomei was still a little dazed. She didn't know whether she was regretting her past mistakes or feeling melancholy about the past.

Chen Cui couldn't help but sigh that in this era, having children seemed to be a woman's business alone, and even a woman like Mrs. Zhang who came from a wealthy family was not immune to this.

It seems that the inability to conceive is the woman's only problem and the man is not responsible at all. He can find another woman to have a child. People like County Magistrate Wang, who had been married for several years without having a son and did not take a concubine, have become a moral role model.

As she interacted with Mrs. Zhang, Chen Cui also learned some things about her family.

She could not judge the right and wrong of it, but no matter what the process was, it was a war between women. Men often stayed out of it, and if they said a few words to comfort the women afterwards, they were considered to be models of good husbands.

The world today is too difficult for women. Mrs. Zhang was born into a wealthy family and married a government official. Her situation has surpassed 90% of the women in the world, who have encountered such difficulties, not to mention those female compatriots living at the bottom of society.

Take Mai, the servant of Chen Cui's family, for example. She was also a miserable person.

Mai was originally from Tianshui, and her ancestors had foreign blood, so she was born so tall.

When her husband's family married her, they had planned to use her as a laborer.

She was tall and needed more nutrition, but she had never eaten enough, either at her parents' home or at her husband's home. So, even though she was so tall, her body was weak.

Because of years of hard work, Mai's first pregnancy ended in miscarriage within two months. Her in-laws blamed her for being incompetent and unable to keep the baby.

When she was pregnant for the second time, it was the busy harvest season. She went to the fields before dawn and returned home only when she could no longer see the road at night. She did the heaviest work but ate leftovers. Naturally, she lost the baby who was only two months old.

This time, not only her husband's family, but her own family also began to blame her, blaming her for not even knowing she was pregnant and for not being able to protect the child.

Mrs. Mai lost two children in a row, so she should have been the saddest person, but no one came to comfort her. All she heard was blame.

From then on, she paid extra attention to her body. Once she found any signs of pregnancy, she paid special attention. She also got into trouble several times because she mistakenly thought she was pregnant due to irregular menstruation.

But after two consecutive miscarriages, Mrs. Mai seemed to be cursed. She either couldn't get pregnant or she miscarried after two or three months. Even after six years of marriage, she still had no children.

Her husband's family had long been impatient with her. If it weren't for her ability to work and her strong strength, they would have divorced her and married someone else who could give birth to a child.

When Mrs. Mai became pregnant with her daughter Xiaoya, it was already the seventh year of her marriage. After discovering that she was pregnant, she was extremely careful and finally gave birth to her daughter Xiaoya safely ten months later.

Mai was naturally heartbroken for her child, who she had gone through so much trouble to give birth to, but her in-laws disliked the fact that she gave birth to a girl, and her husband was also dissatisfied with her for not being able to give birth to a son.

In the whole family, only Mai was protecting this hard-earned little girl. The little girl grew up to be four years old. Because she inherited Mai's tall stature, although she usually ate poorly, she was almost as tall as her peers.

The reason why the mother and daughter appeared at the human trafficker's place was because Xiaoya was sick and Mai's husband's family refused to pay for her treatment.

Mai had no choice but to sell herself and give the money to her husband so that he could pay for Xiao Ya's medical treatment. However, her husband had never thought of saving his daughter. He just wanted to use the money to marry a wife and have a son for him.

In a fit of rage, Mai secretly took her daughter away, cured her illness and sold her to a human trafficker. Her husband's family wanted to pursue the matter, but they did not dare to confront the human trafficker with a powerful background.

After that, the mother and daughter finally broke away from the control of her husband's family. Unfortunately, Xiao Ya has never spoken a word since she fell ill.

Later, they were sold many times by human traffickers and finally ended up in Yinping County.

No matter where she was sold, Mai had only one request, which was to be with her little girl.

Chen Cui had seen from the beginning that the way Mai protected her daughter was so clear, and that there must have been a sad past for her, but she had not expected it to be like this.

While saying this, Mai tried her best to calm down, but she still couldn't help wiping away tears several times. Finally, she sniffed and said, "Xiao Ya and I have come to Madam's house. It's really a blessed place. We will definitely serve Madam and the young master and young lady well in the future."

In her opinion, being able to eat well, dress warmly, and not be beaten, scolded, or bullied is already the best life she has ever lived. The most important thing is that her little girl can live a stable life without having to worry all day long.

Chen Cui sighed helplessly. The world nowadays was extremely harsh on women. Both her natal family and her husband's family could make decisions for her at will. Only women themselves did not have such sovereignty.

The reason why she worked so hard and urged her sons to make progress was not only because she considered her own retirement, but also because she was planning for the future.

She could find ways to earn money and save it for Suisui's dowry so that she would have no worries about food and clothing in the future. But now it is a feudal society with male power supreme, and a woman's honor and disgrace all come from her father, brothers and husband.

What kind of person a woman can marry in the future depends largely on the level her sons will reach in the future.

Even if you have money and status, you may not necessarily be happy, just like Mrs. Zhang. She has both money and status, but she still has a lot of worries. But at least she doesn't have to worry about three meals a day or worry about money.

What Mrs. Zhang thinks about every day are things other than food and clothing. She is at least at the third level of the five levels of needs and pursues things at a higher level.

No matter what time it is, an economic foundation is necessary. Chen Cui hopes that her daughter can gain minimum freedom and respect in this era in the future, so she has to lay a solid foundation for her now. This is the best gift she can think of as a mother for her children.