After Transmigrating, She Became A Little Widow In A Farming Family

"Early to bed and early to rise is good for health." Li Suniang muttered softly and turned to the kitchen on the left.

At this time, the sky was already slightly bright. In addition to the intermittent crowing of chickens, there was also the cheerful barking of dogs. It was estimated that someone was getting ready to go out.

"A group of ducks swam under the big tree in front of the door. Come and count them, two, four, six, seven, eight." Li Suniang hummed a cheerful song while lighting a fire to make breakfast.

Thinking back to the first breakfast she made when she first came here, it was simply a disaster. Fortunately, the kitchen was not burned down. Otherwise, she would have to spend a lot of money to build a new kitchen.

Li Suniang has seen it. As long as there are no natural disasters or man-made disasters, and she is frugal in her daily life, she, as a widow, can raise her children with the little money and a few acres of land left by her family. Of course, if she can make some extra money, the mother and son will live a better life. 

However, as for making extra money, she still needs to investigate. It is not that you can make money here just because you want to. After all, this is ancient times, an era of male superiority and female inferiority, not the era of gender equality in her previous life.

Li Suniang is very suspicious of where Niu Da married the original body. She didn't want to believe that she was a lady kidnapped from a wealthy family! But if it is a lady from a wealthy family, they will find her if she is lost. But she has never heard from Aunt Yang that anyone has come to look for her.

Li Suniang was seriously suspicious. After all, she has seen the appearance of this body. It doesn't look like she came from the countryside at all. It has fair skin and delicate fingers. It doesn't look like someone who has done farm work at all. Even if she was raised after marrying Niu Da, it is impossible to raise her so well all of a sudden.

Now that Niu Da is gone, the original body is gone too, and everything has become a mystery. And she has since replaced the original body and become a little widow of a farming family, and a pretty widow at that. She hoped that such an appearance would not bring her too much trouble. After all, sometimes it is not a good thing to be too good, especially when there is no one to protect her.

But Li Suniang thought that since God chose her to come here, he would definitely bless her to live a peaceful and stable life until old age, and at least give her a natural death! Otherwise, it would be meaningless to bring her here.

By the time she finished breakfast, it was already bright.

"Mom." A little kid at the kitchen door rubbed his eyes with one hand and held the door frame with the other hand, shouting and stepping with his short legs.

"Oh! Didn't Mom tell you not to rub your eyes when you wake up? Be careful not to rub your eyes blind, and you won't be able to see anything in the future."

Li Suniang put down the scoop in her hand, walked over, and pulled down the kid's hand that was rubbing his eyes, frightening him.

"Mom, I won't rub it anymore." The little kid hugged Li Suniang's legs and said softly.

Looking at the little kid's coquettish look, Li Suniang seemed to see her younger brother who also loved to act coquettishly with her. This is probably the unified standard for the little kids to act coquettishly!

She was a sister at the age of sixteen, and now she is a mother at the age of nineteen. There is a difference of three years, and the generation has grown fast enough, just like adding an accelerator. From sister to mother, the replacement of roles is not only about growing in generation but also about different responsibilities.

"Okay, okay, hurry up and wash your face and brush your teeth. Wash your hands and prepare to eat." Li Suniang couldn't stand the little kid's coquettishness. Just like when her brother acted coquettishly, she raised her hands and surrendered.

The so-called brushing teeth was actually Li Suniang getting a piece of soft cloth, smearing some light salt water on it, and then gently helping the little kid to wash his teeth, and then gargle with light salt water. Just do it two or three times and it's considered brushing. The child is too young to use a willow branch brush, or the gums will be broken if not careful.

It is not that there were no toothbrushes in ancient times, but the price was relatively expensive, so most people would not buy them. Basically, willow branches were used instead of toothbrushes. However, the original body had a toothbrush, so it can be said that Niu Da was excellent at doting on his wife.

However, since Li Yiyi replaced the original owner, she has never used that toothbrush. First, she found that the toothbrush had probably been used for a long time and was a little deformed.

Second, although she was using the original owner's body, she felt that she was not the same person as her, and the toothbrush was a more private object, so she could not accept it. She would rather use willow branches than the deformed toothbrush.

It is said that the willow branches are actually not bad after getting used to them. The softened willow branches are bitten open with teeth to reveal the willow fibers inside. Then use the willow fibers to brush your teeth. Although it cannot be compared with modern toothbrushes, it can also play a role in cleaning teeth.

Li Suniang thought that this was why many willow trees were planted in the ancient villages.

In fact, everything is just a habit. You know, not everyone in the village knows how to brush their teeth. Some people are afraid of trouble, so they only rinse their mouths with light salt water, and some use strong tea water that has been stored overnight. You know, salt was not cheap in ancient times. To reduce unnecessary expenses, strong tea water was used instead. After all, tea is not as expensive as salt, not to mention that the tea that the Village family drinks is the cheapest kind of coarse tea. 

In fact, let alone ancient times, even in her previous life, when she was still Li Yiyi, she heard her great-grandmother say that when they were young, they didn’t brush their teeth at all. At that time, where did they get the spare money to buy toothbrushes and other things? It’s good to think about how to fill your stomach all day long. If your teeth are not clean, just rinse your mouth with water more.

So the stomach must be filled before thinking about other things. People were actually very realistic.

"Okay, now that your face is washed, let's wash your hands."

"Wash your palms, rub the backs of your hands, and cross your fingers before washing."

"Oh, that's right. Okay, wash your hands and dry them. Let's get ready for breakfast."

After helping the child dry his hands, the mother and son prepared to have breakfast. Today's breakfast was brown rice porridge with egg pancakes. The eggs were laid by the hens at home. The original owner had three hens. Sometimes there was one egg, sometimes there were two eggs, but there was never a day with three eggs.

"Mom, it's delicious." The child's mouth was bulging as he ate.

"Eat slowly, be careful not to choke." Seeing the child eating with a satisfied look, Li Suniang felt a sense of accomplishment in her heart and was happier than when she knew she had been admitted to a second-tier university.

You know, although she took care of her younger brother more in her previous life, the food was ready, and the food was prepared by her grandmother at home, so she was responsible for coaxing the child. But here, she has to do everything by herself, plus she has to take care of a child. It can be imagined how busy she will be.

Fortunately, the child is not picky about food, and she has some talent for cooking, plus the original owner's cooking skills, so no food was wasted.

"Mom, will you really take me to town today?" The little kid asked in disbelief. After all, when his father was still alive, he rarely took him to town but always took his mother with him and always left him at Grandma Yang's house next door.

"Why? Don't you believe what your mother said?" Li Suniang smiled, looked at the hesitant little kid, and answered.

"No." The little kid shook his head and denied it, then quickly lowered his head and drank a mouthful of porridge.

"Eat well, be careful not to choke."

The mother and son were satisfied with the breakfast, and after cleaning up everything in the kitchen, they walked out of the kitchen together.

Perhaps because he heard that his mother was going to take him to the town, the little kid was even more attached to Li Suniang than usual. Wherever she went, the little kid followed her, as if Li Suniang had grown a tail behind her.

The original owner had been to the town several times with Niu Da, but as the current Li Suniang, this was her first time out of the village, and she was quite excited.

She didn't know which dynasty this belonged to. She always felt that it didn't match the history in her impression. Her history was barely passable in the past. If she had known that she would be brought here, she would have studied hard at the beginning. Now it's too late to regret. 

There is an old almanac at home, which is almost all traditional Chinese characters. Li Suniang flipped through it and found that she could barely understand the characters in it. This is thanks to her previous life when she loved to flip through her grandfather's antiques.

She had seen this thing at her great-grandmother's house, and later it was passed to her grandfather. Not to mention that the things on it are not something that ordinary people can understand. When she had nothing to do, she would flip through it. Anyway, she didn't understand it. However, she did ask her grandfather about the words on it.

She didn't know why her grandfather, who had only studied for a few years, could understand the words on it. It was probably passed down from generation to generation!

Since the whole village is close to Lin Mountain, the village is called Linshan Village. There are fifty or sixty households in the village. The village chief's surname is Liu, and he is quite fair. Under his management, the whole village is relatively peaceful. Of course, no matter how peaceful the village is, there are always some trivial matters. As long as there is no big trouble, the village chief will generally turn a blind eye. The tongue is as good as the teeth, but sometimes it will be bitten. So those trivial matters are nothing in the eyes of the head of a village.

It's nothing more than someone's chicken running into someone else's field, someone's dog biting someone else's chicken, etc., which is nothing more than these things in the countryside.

Of course, there have been some things that the village chief couldn't turn a blind eye to, just like the incident when Niu Da made a scene at the door. Fortunately, no one died in the end, but the family was embarrassed. During that period, the family kept their heads down when they went out, and the girl stayed at home for a long time.

She heard that the girl later married far away, probably because of the incident with Niu Da, and the people around her were unwilling to marry her.

In ancient times, the reputation of women was very important. If there was any bad news about her, she probably wouldn't be able to marry a good family. Especially the people in the nearby villages would not want her at all unless she was not well-off and her family was very poor. In addition, the men they married always had problems like bad tempers, disabilities, or were widowers with several children. 

In short, once a woman in ancient times had a bad reputation, what awaited her was even more miserable than death, which is why women in ancient times regarded reputation as more important than life. Of course, there are exceptions, but such exceptions are very rare.