Chapter 246 - Chapter 246: Chapter 239: Women Eventually Leave Their Mothersl (2/2)

“Then thank you very much, uncle!”

Qin Niu climbed onto the cart and sat in the pit’ the uncle had made for him.

“Hey, being on the road, catching a ride is nothing! Sit tight now! ”

The uncle moved with agility.

He easily settled back into the driver’s seat and then shook the horse’s reins.

“Giddy up!”

The horse broke into a trot, starting down the main road.

“Young man, where are you planning to go?”

“I’m heading to Tian Shui!”

“After I’ve sold the grain, 1 should be able to take you another leg of the journey.”

“Won’t you return home after selling your grain?”

Qin Niu asked curiously.

“I have a sister who married into Tian Shui over two years ago. The journey is so long, she hasn’t returned home for over a year now, sigh, I don’t even know if she’s getting along well over there. As her older brother, I’m inevitably worried about her. Normally, I don’t have the time to visit her. This time, after selling the grain, it would be perfect to check on her. In case she’s facing hard times, as her brother, I would be able to help out a bit,” the uncle explained.

The distance from Mai City to Tian Shui is about sixty to seventy li, neither far nor near.

Qin Niu and the uncle met at a place more than forty li from Mai City.

Which means, for the uncle’s sister to visit her family, she would have to travel at least a hundred li or more.

In an era with underdeveloped transportation, if her family’s economic conditions were poor, returning home would be quite difficult.

“The uncle is a man of deep sentiment and loyalty. I truly admire that kind of affection among siblings, but it s a pity that I’m the only child in my family.” When Qin Niu spoke of this, his tone carried a bit of melancholy.

Not even knowing his own heritage, let alone having siblings.

In these times of continuous warfare, natural disasters were also highly prone to occur.

Parents fleeing with their children could easily become lost or might consciously abandon them.

It wasn’t necessarily heartless; sometimes it could be a helpless act.

Children like Qin Niu, who were taken in and raised by others, were not few in number.

His maid, Xiao Qing, was also abandoned by her parents.

“Not having siblings might not necessarily be a bad thing. There are some siblings who, out of self-interest, become like enemies. In my family, there are only my sister and me. Now my daughter is about to be married off, and both my sons have arranged marriage plans. The one I worry about the most is still my sister,” rhe uncle said, seeing these matters with clarity.

“Your sons are married, and your sister has only been married for two years; that makes your sister’s age…”

“That’s right, my sister is almost twenty years younger than 1 am. She’s a very strong-willed and ambitious person. At sixteen, when many girls of her age were getting married, she insisted on making her way in rhe world. She initially went to Shennong City, but due to fierce competition there, she later chose to develop her life in Mai City.

The job she had was actually quite good, working in an elixir pharmacy, where she self-taught a lot of knowledge about herbs and worked hard to become an herb identifier.

When she was 19, she would often come back to have meals with us and stay at home for a couple of days.

She told me she wanted to work at a planting association or in an elixir pharmacy because she believed there were better prospects and higher income.

She even said that if she became successful in the future, she would let our parents enjoy their old age with her, and buy a house for me, her brother, in the city. Wishing for the whole family to move into the city.

Just later on, she met a man she fancied, whose conditions were not good, and he didn’t leave a good impression on me or our parents.

She was determined to marry him despite our objections, so we had to agree.

My father was so upset by this, he fell ill and passed away less than a year later. When we held the funeral, my sister only came back in a hurry, leaving right after the seventh-day rites and never returned home again after that.

That time she came home, I noticed she had become thinner and sunburned, wearing old clothes from before.

I’m guessing she must not have had an easy life over there.

Sigh, my sister is good in every aspect; it’s just that she’s too proud. She never tells us when she suffers outside, always presenting good news and withholding the worrisome,” the uncle lamented as he talked about his sister, shaking his head.

Everyone has their own thoughts, and daughters are beyond their mothers’ control.

He could only watch powerlessly as his sister married someone whom both he and their parents disapproved of.

Males fear entering the wrong profession, females fear marrying the wrong man.

If his sister could have married a good man, she surely wouldn’t be in her

current state..