You are unlucky and I am tough

Chapter 138 I Won’t Go Back

The next day, before dawn, Cheng Lao Da and Cheng Lao Er ran to Baijia Village. Their family waited for them to come back before having breakfast, a bowl of corn porridge for each person.

After sitting down, Boss Cheng looked at the porridge on the table. He remembered that when he went to Bai Jinhu's house, he saw that he could eat thick white rice porridge with pickles in the morning, and he felt a little disgusted.

Hu Chunhua asked, "How is it? Was he divorced?"

Boss Cheng picked up the bowl of porridge and took a sip. "It's almost the same as being divorced. I was sold out."

"Sold?" Hu Chunhua and Cao said in unison.

Although these two women were village women, they knew that according to Daliang law, if a man sold his wife, the marriage would be automatically dissolved, and if his wife's family went to the government office to file a complaint, he might even be beaten with a stick.

Of course, they would not go to the government office to sue Bai Jinhu for Cheng Guqiu, but they were still shocked.

Cheng Lao Er nodded and said, "It was sold to a wealthy family named Lu in the county."

"Lu?" Cheng Caipeng immediately grasped the key point. "Mom, isn't the surname of that rich young lady who came to the village several times before Lu?"

He met Guo Pan who was playing with the young lady in the village. She was dressed in silk and satin and was very pretty, with snow-white skin and big, beautiful eyes.

He thought at the time that if he could marry such a rich lady, he would be able to enjoy a life of luxury.

Hu Chunhua rolled her eyes. "Could it be that it happened to be sold to the Lu Mansion, which that little bitch knew, and then it was bought back?"

The others also thought this was the case and began to discuss what to do next.

Finally, they decided that Cao would go find Cheng Guqiu and persuade her to come back. However, there was no other way. Hu Chunhua and Cheng Guqiu were too hostile and had even fought several times. Neither side would listen to the other.

Cao thought that as the second sister-in-law, she still had some face, so after breakfast she went out with full confidence and headed straight for the bamboo house.

Cheng Shuang got up very early this morning because the pumpkins in the vegetable garden were ripe. She discussed with Manager Zhou of Taibai Tower and wrote five or six pumpkin recipes for him. Then she made a deal to sell all the pumpkins in the field at fifteen cents per pound.

There were only about 500 kilograms of pumpkins in one mu of land. After picking a dozen for their own consumption, the rest were all transported away by Manager Zhou at once, a total of 410 kilograms.

Including other dishes and twenty pounds of chili peppers, the total bill was nineteen taels and eight cents.

It takes a long time to prepare the bitter melon, eggplant, and tomatoes in the fields, so the two sides renegotiated the time and decided to send only one truck every few days, and the building could also provide limited supply of related ingredients.

Having gotten up early and slept late last night, Cheng Shuang lay on a lounge chair in the yard for a while after breakfast and then began to doze off. Next to her, Cheng Pan was holding a kitchen knife at the table, concentrating on peeling a pumpkin.

Because Cheng Shuang said she would teach her how to make pumpkin pie at noon, and she had to peel off the outer layer of skin first.

Everyone else was reading or writing in their rooms. Wei Xinyi was recently in charge of teaching Qiuyan and Dongyun to read. This was a task assigned to her by Cheng Shuang. When she had nothing to do, she would help her two sisters make up for the missed lessons.

After a few days of study, the two of them were able to write some simple characters quite well. Wei Xinyi felt a great sense of accomplishment. This young teacher was doing his job conscientiously.

Cheng Guqiu came out of the room, saw the relieved smiles on the children's faces, and then went to the vegetable garden alone to work.

Over the past few days, she has become very familiar with the entire vegetable garden. Whenever she has free time, she goes to the field to water and weed, taking good care of the vegetables.

All the pumpkins had been picked and sold in the morning, so she pulled out the remaining seedlings and leaves in the field and prepared to turn over the land.

When Cao came over, Cheng Guqiu had just picked up the cleaned pumpkin seedlings and thrown them outside, planning to dry them for two days and then burn them. But when he looked up, he saw the uninvited guest.

Cao was also surprised to see her and immediately quickened her pace to run over.

Cheng Guqiu didn't want to pay attention to her and pretended not to see her. He turned and went into the vegetable garden, and brought in a bucket of farm manure that he had diluted with water in the morning.

Cao followed in and shouted, "Gu Qiu, why don't you recognize your second sister-in-law?"

As she spoke, she looked at the vegetables in the garden, and found that they were all ones she had never seen before.

As she looked at it, she even reached out to touch the tomatoes. "What the hell is this? Why are there green, yellow, and red ones?"

"Don't touch them." Cheng Guqiu stopped her when she saw her trying to touch the newly grown tomatoes. "If you touch them, they won't grow. The vegetables in this field are all ordered by the restaurant and need to be sold."

Cao retracted her palm and said, "What's the big deal?" But thinking about the purpose of her visit, she put on a smile and said, "I'm just curious to take a look. I won't touch it."

Cheng Guqiu swung the hoe and started to hoe the ground, continuing to ignore her. If Hu Chunhua was a shrew, Cao was a dog that would bite without barking. She usually hid behind the scenes to give advice and pretended to be innocent.

Cao walked over and said, "Gu Qiu, everyone in the family knows about you."

Cheng Guqiu paused while swinging his hoe. "What's wrong with me?"

"You haven't been back for so many days. Your second brother was worried about you, so he went to Baijia Village early this morning."

Cao pretended to be distressed, "That Bai Jinhu is such a piece of shit! He actually sold his wife. Your second brother was furious. He asked me to come and take you back immediately. You are a member of our Cheng family, and we will support you."

Cheng Guqiu looked at her calmly, "I won't go back."

Cao went over and grabbed her hand. "You're the married daughter of the Cheng family. How can you live with your married niece without a husband? It won't sound good if people tell others about it. Just listen to your second sister-in-law and come back with us. When she left, she asked the family to prepare a room for you. From now on, you can live with us, bringing your child. After your daughter gets married, I still have two sons who can take care of you in your old age."

"Second sister-in-law, what you said is not honest."

Cheng Guqiu pulled his hand away expressionlessly. "Hu Chunhua and I have long been at odds. I remember how many times my eldest brother hit me because of her. You and second brother watched and didn't even help me. Now you're suddenly showing off your brotherly love. Do you think I'm a fool? You're just trying to trick me into going back so you can use me to get some benefits from Shuang'er."

Although Cheng Guqiu is weak, she is not stupid, especially her two brothers. She knows very well what kind of people they are.

"Why do you speak so harshly?"

This blunt remark made Cao's smile disappear. "What do you mean we want to benefit from it? She got married and became rich, but did our family get any benefits from her?"

"Because you didn't get it, you want to use me to control her. Do you think I don't know what kind of filthy bastards you are? You used to suck Fourth Brother's blood, and now you don't even let his child go. Bah! I won't go back even if I have to beg on the street. Forget this idea."

"You, you, you..." Cao pointed at her, furious. "Cheng Guqiu, I haven't done anything wrong to you. Why are you speaking so viciously? Your second brother asked me to take you back because he didn't want you to live with your married niece and bring shame to the Cheng family. You took my kindness for granted. You just despise the poor and love the rich. Just because your niece's family is prosperous, you want to stay at their house and enjoy the best food and drink."

Cheng Guqiu waved the hoe in his hand to drive them away, "Whatever you think, just leave now and don't get in the way."

Cao thought Cheng Guqiu was going to hit her with a hoe, so she was so scared that she ran a few steps quickly, but stopped when she saw that Cheng Guqiu was not chasing her.

She said indignantly, "Cheng Guqiu, I just felt sorry for you being abandoned by your man, but you didn't appreciate it. Remember this. We have a talented man in our family. He will pass the imperial examination and become an official. We will have a good life. Who cares about her family's money? Don't think you can live a good life just by living in the Wei family. They will use you as a servant to work for them. You and your two daughters are just slaves to the Wei family."

Cheng Guqiu threw away the hoe in his hand, glared at her, walked over quickly to open the lid of the bucket, scooped a spoonful of farm manure and poured it directly over.

“Ahhhhhhhh…”

A scream was so loud that it shook the earth, frightening Cheng Shuang, who was half asleep in the yard, so much that she sat up with a start.

Wei Qinglang also came out of the house, "Who's calling?"

Cheng Pan pointed outside, "It seems like the sound comes from the vegetable garden."

Thinking that Cheng Guqiu was in the vegetable garden, several people hurried out. As soon as they ran out, they saw Cao running out of the vegetable garden screaming in panic, with Cheng Guqiu chasing her with a wooden bucket in her hand.

Cheng Shuang recognized the wooden barrel. A few days ago, Cheng Guqiu said that he wanted to apply organic fertilizer to the thin-skinned peppers and screw peppers in the field. After asking her, he chose the oldest wooden barrel from several wooden barrels at home and used it.

The foul smell made several people retreat one after another. Cheng Shuang looked at the things on Cao's body and immediately understood what was going on. She covered her mouth and nose and almost vomited.