Quick Transmigration: The Love Rescue Plan

Chapter 143 Dragon Travels the World (2)

Of course, while a family with a scholarly tradition might be enviable in the eyes of ordinary people, it certainly doesn't amount to much compared to aristocratic families.

Many officials were produced by prominent families. These families had rich cultural heritage, and children received their early education in family schools or clan schools.

Unlike children from ordinary families who couldn't even afford to attend a private school or village school.

Despite all the thoughts Dong Xiaoli had, it hadn't even taken half a cup of tea to finish.

Yang Linxin also made a decision: "Uncle Li, she is a distant relative of my father's, and by all accounts... she is also my... sister."

After Dong Xiaoli's extensive network of connections, even someone as intelligent as Yang Linxin would find it difficult to summarize a single relationship from these seemingly unrelated connections: sister.

That's right, they're completely unrelated.

Dong Xiaoli said she was the wife of Yang Linxin's father's younger brother.

Once you remove the blood relation to Yang Linxin, all that's left is "someone's wife".

Furthermore, the word "someone's wife" can be added, meaning "former." After all, Dong Xiaoli is now a divorced wife. Therefore, Yang Linxin cannot say that she is his aunt, and can only vaguely say that she is his sister.

“My sister recently got married but became a widow. She was kicked out by her husband’s family, and her own family didn’t want her to go back. So she came to me for help.”

Yang Linxin briefly explained Dong Xiaoli's background and even softened Dong Xiaoli's description of her as a "husband-killer" to some extent.

"Uncle Li, please prepare a room for this lady," Yang Linxin said calmly.

Old Li wanted to say something, but after glancing at Liu Menglong, he said nothing.

The family wasn't well-off to begin with, and having two more people would definitely make things even more difficult. But having two more laborers would be a good thing; maybe they could save up enough money for the young master's tuition sooner so he could go to the village school.

Old Man Li didn't expect Dong Xiaoli to do farm work, but young ladies from wealthy families all knew needlework. Doing some embroidery in their spare time could supplement the family income.

Old Man Li didn't even bother with the hairpins in Dong Xiaoli's hair. These were clearly part of Dong Xiaoli's dowry, belonging to the bride's family. Even in their most impoverished circumstances, they wouldn't harbor such malicious intentions.

Neither Old Man Li nor Yang Linxin would have any designs on Dong Xiaoli's money, but Dong Xiaoli came to them not to spend money, right?

After getting to know her, Dong Xiaoli realized that Yang Linxin had taken in her, a complete stranger, for some reason. He probably didn't believe she was his aunt, but he believed she was a homeless widow and took her in out of pity.

"No need to tidy up the room." Dong Xiaoli stood up, glanced at Yang Linxin and Old Man Li's clothes, and said, "I guess you don't have much left to pack. Take the household registration documents with you!"

"Leave?" Yang Linxin frowned and looked at Dong Xiaoli: "Didn't you come here to seek refuge with us?"

“I did come here to seek refuge with you, but…” Dong Xiaoli smiled and said, “We don’t need to live in this poor, remote place!”

Originally, Dong Xiaoli did intend to stay here, send Yang Linxin to the village school first, and then move him to the county school after he finished the village school.

But judging from the way the Yang family master and servants acted, they had absolutely no intention of touching her dowry. They might as well have started decisively from the beginning and simply moved to the county seat now.

Seeing the wary looks on the faces of the Yang family master and servant, Dong Xiaoli burst into laughter: "What? Afraid I'll kidnap you?"

Dong Xiaoli gestured to Liu Menglong beside her, and Liu Menglong nodded, then slowly opened the bundle he was carrying on the stone table.

The dusty package was filled with gold hairpins, silver hair ornaments, gold jewelry, jade bracelets, and strings of pearls.

Dong Xiaoli deliberately said with an arrogant expression, "I wouldn't even look at a place like this. With all this gold, silver, and valuables, let's move to the county seat together."

Yang Linxin shook his head: "This is your dowry, it's not appropriate for us to use it."

"There's no such thing as inappropriate!" Dong Xiaoli said without further ado, inserting the pearl and silver hairpin from her hair into Yang Linxin's hair bun: "Don't worry about me kidnapping you to sell. You can keep this hairpin as collateral."

Dong Xiaoli said arrogantly, "Let alone this county town, even in the capital, there aren't many people who can afford this hairpin."

"This is not appropriate..." Old Man Li was about to step forward to stop him, but was frightened by a look from Dong Xiaoli.

"None of you can stop me!" Dong Xiaoli said with a sneer. "Just because my husband drank alcohol and fell into the lake and died on our wedding night, I have a reputation for being a jinx. My husband's family divorced me, and my own family is ashamed of the family and won't let me go back."

"Heh~" Dong Xiaoli looked sharply at Yang Linxin and Old Man Li and said, "I'm not some kind-hearted person here to help the poor. I just want to make the Lin family regret what they've done!"

“Those whom they discard like worn-out shoes will one day become people they can never reach.” After saying this, Dong Xiaoli gestured for Liu Menglong to repack the bundle.

Dong Xiaoli squatted down in front of the silent Yang Linxin, looked him in the eye, and said, "What do they care about most? What do they desire most?"

Before Yang Linxin could answer, Dong Xiaoli stood up, her eyes filled with undisguised sarcasm: "Stay in this small mountain village, a place without even a village school, how far can you go?"

Dong Xiaoli deliberately used reverse psychology on Yang Linxin, a clever little boy.

The other party is too intelligent; the more they think, the more cautious they become, and the less likely they are to take the first step.

“Even a gambler needs capital to gamble, so why shouldn’t I?” Dong Xiaoli looked down at Yang Linxin and said, “I know that it’s easy to repay a debt of money, but difficult to repay a favor. If you don’t want to owe me this favor, just consider it a loan from me.”

“Every penny spent in the future, I will pay back every single penny. If you achieve success one day, you can repay me tenfold or a hundredfold.” Dong Xiaoli pointed to the dilapidated courtyard and said, “You can’t expect to save money for your studies from this run-down courtyard and that tiny plot of land! You can save for tuition, but what about your stipend?”

"How much does the land yield in a year? Even if you don't eat or drink, it would take several years to save up the two taels of silver needed for a stipend!"

Seeing the disheveled appearance of the Yang family master and servant, Dong Xiaoli continued, "Those who achieve great things do not concern themselves with trifles. If you continue to worry about so many things, how can you accomplish great things?"

Dong Xiaoli knew that getting them to use her dowry wouldn't be easy. In her previous life, Dong Ping had only agreed after she said it was a loan to the Guo family.

The laws of this world are somewhat similar to, yet also different from, those of the world Dong Ping lives in.

In terms of marriage, Dong Ping's world is similar to that of the Tang Dynasty.

A woman could remarry after being divorced, and even if she didn't remarry, she could use the excuse that "her parents are old and need to be taken care of" to stay at her parents' home and live off them for the rest of her life.

After her death, her descendants erected a monument and epitaph, saying that she was a filial daughter who returned to her parents' home to live with them in order to serve them.

However, in today's world, it is a very shameful thing for a woman to be divorced. Her family usually does not accept her back to her parents' home because it will affect the marriage prospects of other women in her family.