Chapter 737: A Genuine Moral Kidnapping

Wang An did not know what Widow Li's name was, but he knew that he had to call her Aunt.

Because this Widow Li was from the old Li family in Kaoshan Village; after she married into another village when she was young, her husband died within a few years, fortunately without the burden of children.

Later, she remarried and even gave birth to two girls, but after a few years, the man she remarried also died. It must be said that this woman's fate was truly not very good.

As for why the two men she experienced died, it had always been a mystery.

However, according to rumors, they were all cursed to death by her, and other rumors said they were sucked to death by her alive.

The reason why it was said she sucked them to death was because she was very beautiful when she was young, and many people said she was a "fox spirit," meaning a reincarnation of a vixen.

Of course, these were all very superstitious and nonsensical claims, because at this time, many people were ignorant and uninformed.

To say it was just this time wouldn't be right, after all, there is never a shortage of ignorant people at any time.

In short, she was driven out by the people of her husband's family.

With nowhere to go, she took her two children and returned to her maiden home, Kaoshan Village.

It's just that whether it was superstition or ignorance, anyway, more than ten years had passed, and Widow Li had worn out quite a few pairs of "broken shoes" (had many affairs), but no one dared to marry her.

And one could imagine what kind of miserable life a widow leading two children would live.

But after Widow Li finished saying this, Liu Guilan was instantly dumbfounded.

Of course, Wang Dazhu and Wang An, the father and son, were equally dumbfounded.

Then, one could see Liu Guilan's eyes glare fiercely at Wang An, as if she had the urge to stare Wang An directly into her own eyeballs.

Seeing his mother glaring at him, Wang An blinked his eyes and lowered his head in shame.

It was very obvious that his action of agreeing to Widow Zhao might have poked a hornet's nest.

The main thing was that the reason Liu Guilan hadn't immediately agreed to Zhao Cuiyun before was because she was afraid that once this precedent was set, a whole bunch of people would have similar requests.

One must know that at this time, the grain of the vast majority of families was not enough to eat.

Therefore, chores like this where one could get their fill of food just by working were actually things that the vast majority of people were scrambling to do.

It was just that there was truly no shortage of people to cook!

Furthermore, Widow Li not only had two children, but they were also thirteen or fourteen-year-old children.

As long as Widow Li was allowed to come over to work, what would happen to her two children? The key was that Wang An had already let Zhao Cuiyun's children come over; could he just ignore Widow Li's children?

But children this big, while not entirely useless, really didn't have much use for the work of building a house.

To put it bluntly, if they came, they would just be eating for free.

As for chopping firewood, that was nothing more than a step Wang An gave Zhao Cuiyun; one must know that Wang An's family had a legitimately huge stack of firewood that couldn't be burned up in a whole year, damn it.

The most important problem was that their only relationship was being fellow villagers; they had no friendship at all, at most greeting each other when they met, and for a widow, there was no issue of Wang An's family owing her family labor that hadn't been repaid.

After glaring at Wang An, Liu Guilan turned her head to look at Widow Li but couldn't say a word. After thinking for a long time, she said: "Sister Li, we already have more than ten people cooking in our house, it's almost catching up to the number of people building the house; we really can't use those people."

Liu Guilan's words could be said to have made the refusal very obvious, almost explicitly saying, "Go home, we don't lack people to work." But one had to admit that when a person couldn't get a meal and their stomach was growling with hunger, they had no self-esteem or dignity, and their face was worth even less.

Just as Liu Guilan's voice fell, Widow Li did something that made people's jaws drop.

Because she actually knelt down in public, and said with her mouth: "Guilan, I beg you, my family hasn't been able to put food on the table for a long time, just let me come over to work."

It must be said that Liu Guilan's reaction speed was quite fast; she directly dodged to the side, avoiding the direction Widow Li was kneeling, and even cursed angrily: "Big Widow Li, if you want to die, go die further away, don't pull this stunt on me, I don't buy that crap."

Yao Ping, who was standing next to Liu Guilan, was also shocked and angry, subconsciously moving two steps to the side, mainly to avoid the direction Widow Li was kneeling.

Although Widow Li's knees weren't worth much, no matter how worthless they were, except for her own father, brothers, or elders, others wouldn't dare to accept it for no reason! Accepting someone's kneeling for no reason would truly shorten one's life! Just after hearing Liu Guilan finish speaking, Yao Ping also said very angrily:

"Sister Li, if you act like this, no one will treat you as a human being anymore, can you have some shame?"

Actually, it wasn't just Liu Guilan and Yao Ping who were angry; Wang Dazhu and Wang An, the father and son, were equally angry.

Because Widow Li doing this was clearly trying to latch onto Wang An's family, and at the same time, it was no different from putting Wang An's whole family on a fire to roast.

In the New Huaxia, and in front of a big group of people, what a shitty impact this would cause.

There is a good old saying: "Pitiful people must have hateful aspects, and hateful people must have tragic sufferings."

And Li Guafu's behavior at this moment perfectly illustrated this saying.

To put it bluntly, this was a genuine moral kidnapping! Such a person was truly quite hateful!

And the crowd who saw this scene also began to discuss it one after another.

"They're already so rich, why not just agree? With such a big family business, could they be short of one meal?"

"Yeah, Widow Li has already knelt down, what more do they want?"

"Exactly, once that 5th-grade leaf ginseng is sold, the whole village could eat for a long time."

"If you ask me, that big golden gallbladder is enough; that's over a thousand yuan!"

"Sigh, the morals of the world are declining, the rich are heartless!"

To tell the truth, who wouldn't be angry hearing these words??? Fortunately, there were still many sensible people, and they retorted:

"What a damn joke, did their money come from the wind? Should they die just because they have money?"

"Exactly, when they were risking their lives with mountain beasts in the mountains, what the hell were you doing?"

"Yeah, if they had died in the mountains, could you go and support their whole family?"

"Not to mention anything else, just look at Wang Li's face; if I remember correctly, he's only 17 this year, right? Your son is 18 this year, right? Your son is in that state, what kind of mood are you in every day?"

"Damn, what a bunch of bastards talking while standing and not feeling the pain."

Suddenly someone mentioned Wang Li, which made Wang Li, who was watching the crowd, freeze for a moment, subconsciously touching the scars on his face that had already faded a lot.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 738 =====