[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law":3,"chapter-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-47":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1543432,2006,"Chapter 47 - 47 47 Sold the Dowry","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-47",47,"\u003Cp>47: Chapter 47 Sold the Dowry 47: Chapter 47 Sold the Dowry Gu Youyou figured that Wang Shun should be delivering firewood today, so she had been waiting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a pile of fabric on the bed, prepared in advance by Gu Youyou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Wang Shun had stacked the firewood, she called him over, “Shunzi, come here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s the matter?” Wang Shun asked, puzzled, but hurried over nonetheless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Shunzi, are you free today?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you are, please help your sister out!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shun was the typical honest villager.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling embarrassed when Gu Youyou said this, he replied hurriedly, “Sister, just tell me what you need; I’m free.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There isn’t much farm work to do right now, I’m very free.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou sighed, “Didn’t I say not to call me ‘sister-in-law’?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just ‘sister’ will do.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou was two or three years older than Wang Shun, who was of age to speak of marriage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She felt that sooner or later she and Jin Zijin would have to part ways, as they weren’t cut from the same cloth, so she didn’t like being called ‘sister-in-law’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shun didn’t understand Gu Youyou’s insistence, but being the straightforward man he was, he didn’t ask further and simply called her ‘sister’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sister, what do you need help with?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou, pointing to the fabrics she had laid out, said, “These things here, could you help me take them to town and sell them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the money from the sale, help me buy some medicine.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shun was taken aback and looked at the fabrics, exclaiming, “Aren’t these your dowry items?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, no, sister, you can’t sell these.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What kind of medicine do you need to buy?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ll buy it for you first.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you talking about, where are you going to get the silver?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said, embarrassed, “Jin big brother will give it to me later.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou sighed, “It’s getting colder each day now, and I’m afraid hunting in the mountains is also becoming more difficult, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scratching his head, Wang Shun nodded and said, “Yes, in winter the animals are not often seen, sometimes you can go a whole day without catching a single one.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Exactly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When hunting is not an option, and we don’t have any farmland, how are we supposed to get through this winter?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sister-in…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>sister?” Wang Shun’s eyes widened as he looked at Gu Youyou, feeling somewhat disheartened, his heart also conceding that these times were tough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin big brother will find a way.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The simple villagers all believed that supporting a wife was a husband’s duty, but he spoke in a low voice when he said this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Shun of course knew about Jin Zijin’s difficulties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The game he hunted each year was just enough to support himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there was any extra money, it would definitely go towards fixing the house or remarrying to a wife who could bear children.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could he have married Gu Youyou for a few dowry items?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now with an additional person, the money Jin Zijin made from hunting surely wouldn’t be enough for two people to survive the winter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was truly…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if Gu Youyou were to sell her dowry to get through the winter now, wouldn’t that just prove the village gossips right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He married Gu Youyou because he valued the dowry given by Old Master Gu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Zijin was such a good man, he truly felt sorry for Jin Zijin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou said, “The mountains are unsafe during the harsh winter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there were enough provisions for the winter, he could make fewer trips to the mountains, couldn’t he?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Do your sister a favor, sell these things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Look at my health.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I can’t go on without medicine, I’ve already caused Zijin a lot of trouble since I came here, and I don’t want to make him suffer more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Life is more important than these items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I don’t take my medicine, I might not survive this winter, then what use would these things be?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps it was the last sentence that convinced Wang Shun, as he finally gritted his teeth and nodded, saying, “Sister is right—what does face or extraneous belongings matter?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are not as precious as life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the money from these items can save sister’s life, and allow Jin big brother to make fewer trips to the mountains, then it is a good thing.”\u003C\u002Fp>",731,"2026-06-06T06:54:47.407Z",1,"novelbin.me","04659e14a0abb23f82bb65ed9d2aa1b0f91e24d3d776fa7ae75af0ac2863a1f0","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-48","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-46",1812,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-cover.jpg"]