The Fierce Farm Girl Has A Secret Space Chapter 4 - 4 4 Tenacious Vitality_1
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Chapter 4: Tenacious Vitality_1In the courtyard, a gray-haired woman swung a rattan cane with savage fury, whipping it wildly across the yard toward another woman who frantically hugged several young girls, shielding the children from the brutal strikes.
Her own flesh was already marred by countless cuts and bruises…
The beater was this body’s grandmother, the Yang Family matriarch, Yang Anshi.
Her birth name remained a mystery, but in villages spanning a ten-mile radius, she earned fame as an utterly ruthless hag.
Her hallmark was igniting quarrels over nothing, landing her the moniker “Always Righteous.” Long ago, she stationed herself at the village entrance, unleashing a four-hour barrage of curses because someone gathered wild veggies near her garden.
Word has it her invectives never duplicated, and her onslaught was so merciless that the vegetable gatherer tried hanging herself from a roof beam using her belt.
Fortunately, discovery came swiftly, saving her life, though Yang Anshi’s notorious tirade forever etched her infamy.
As a result, villagers typically steered clear of angering that fearsome old crone.
The victim enduring the lashes was Xun Hui, mother to this body, also called Yang Xunshi.
She cut a sorrowful figure, bereft of her mother young, with her father soon remarrying.
The stepmother proved heartless, deeming Xun Hui a useless eater, so at age fourteen, she covertly “sold” her off to Dapu East Village.
Yet Yang Ruxin figured a stepfather lurked in the tale too, and Dad Xun must have endorsed his wife’s scheme; otherwise, why abandon his daughter silently for years?
In those ancient eras, literacy was scarce.
Boasting a single scholar in the family counted as a monumental triumph, usually demanding the clan channel every asset into fueling that one’s studies.
Yang Baiyue ranked among the village’s finest youths back then—strikingly handsome and bookish since boyhood, with his father harboring grand ambitions and staking all on his son’s learning.
True to form, Yang Baiyue aced the scholar exam and ascended to Scholar status.
He stood as the sole Scholar across Dapu East Village, convincing all that the Yangs would soon yield an official and soar in status.
Yet none anticipated a prodigy like Yang Baiyue succumbing to Xun Hui, the girl hauled in for sale.
He swore to wed none other, compelling the Yang family at last to shell out five taels of silver for Xun Hui.
Village norms then held three taels ample for a solid match, rendering five taels exorbitantly steep.
Procuring a bride, besides, stained one’s honor.
Desperate wifeless men alone turned to such measures, akin to starving mountaineers too broke for basics.
They’d scrape together funds for a bride, then circulate her among siblings to perpetuate the line.
Not even prosperous households eyed parentless girls for brides, fearing dire misfortune.
The Yangs lacked great wealth but commanded over twenty acres, while Yang Baiyue bore Scholar rank.
Marrying a kinless woman nonetheless left the elder Yangs humiliated in village eyes for ages.
This bred deep resentment in Yang’s aged parents toward Xun Hui.
They absolved their son, instead accusing Xun Hui’s vixen-like allure of deluding their heir.
Consequently, Yang Anshi simmered in endless ire.
Routinely she berated and battered, her scorn amplified by Xun Hui delivering three girls in a row sans a boy…