Chapter 257 I Fell on My Own

"What happened to her?" Xiao Jiuyue dug her out of her memory. Ever since the last autumn harvest, Aunt Xiang had bumped into the pillar at the entrance of the village in order to force her son to give up the idea of ​​marrying Huang Chunxi. The scar as big as a bowl was still very hideous when she saw it yesterday.

"She's married," Luo Kui said gossipingly, "It took less than two weeks from the engagement to the wedding. I heard the man is a butcher in the county, so she won't have to worry about meat in the future."

"Who arranged a marriage for her?" Xiao Jiuyue's mind couldn't help but emerge the first time she met Huang Chunxi in the mountains. At that time, she was simple and timid, like a little rabbit in need of protection!

In Fu'an Village, Huang Chunxi is very pretty. She and Xiang Tiegen are like a pure first love, beautiful and innocent.

"I heard that the Huang family found her a bride price, and they gave quite a bit, ten taels of silver!" When Luo Kui mentioned the ten taels of silver, she said, "Here in Fu'an Village, most people give five or six taels of silver. Some of the poorer ones even exchange marriages!"

When Luo Kui has nothing to do on weekdays, he will take the initiative to chat with the aunts in the village. Sometimes he goes to the workshop and gets to know a lot of people.

"Miss, it is a blessing for me to be your maid in several lifetimes!" Luo Kui squatted in front of Xiao Jiuyue, looking up at her with eyes full of dependence, just like relying on family members.

"Are you stupid?" Xiao Jiuyue pinched her nose and said, "Are you satisfied with being a maid?"

"Of course I'm satisfied. I have food and drink, and the lady protects me. I don't have to worry about being sold out by my own father like Huang Chunxi!" Luo Kui is not stupid. Huang Chunxi married her off within half a month. How could she be truly satisfied?

"Miss, I will serve you for the rest of my life!" Luo Kui hugged Xiao Jiuyue's legs and didn't think there was anything wrong with being a maid.

"That won't do." Xiao Jiuyue smiled and shook her head. "From now on, your husband will blame me, a young lady, for being too harsh. What will you do if you and your wife can't be together every day?"

"If he dares to say that to my lady, I definitely don't want such a husband." Luo Kui said with a blushing face: "How about, like Lian Xin? No, no, no, there are several young men in the mansion. Yu Ge is too cunning and smooth-talking, and Song Fang is too wooden. He has nothing to say all day long!"

"Don't be in a hurry, take your time to look for her." Xiao Jiuyue smiled as she watched Luo Kui complaining one by one. The little girl was not very old, but she wanted to find a husband?

Luo Kui was so anxious that her face turned red, afraid that Xiao Jiuyue would misunderstand her: "Miss, I'm not anxious!"

"Are you really not in a hurry?" Xiao Jiuyue teased her deliberately, making her face red, and then she smiled especially happily.

"Miss!" Luo Kui took a long time to react and stamped his feet anxiously.

"I'm sleepy. Let's go to sleep." Xiao Jiuyue likes to tease the two maids. They are too thin-skinned and blush at every turn. They need to change. It's not okay for girls to be so thin-skinned!

Xiao Jiuyue stretched lazily, feeling tired after a long day, and fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow.

Xiao Jiuyue had a good night's sleep and slept particularly comfortably.

The next day, the workshop entrance was already crowded with people from Wan'an Village.

"Didn't you say yesterday that you would rather sell it to the county than to our workshop?" Aunt He recognized Ma Laoliu at a glance. The man who was here yesterday and wanted to chop her with a knife is here again today?

"I, everyone is here to persuade me, so I have to sell the sugarcane to you." Ma Laoliu has changed his arrogance from yesterday. Today he seems to be particularly easy to talk to, even flattering.

Aunt He looked at the wound on his face and said, "Oh, I'm afraid someone hit you. Our workshop is small, so we can't harvest your sugarcane."

"I just fell down, but no one beat me!" Ma Laoliu covered his neck, which was already wrapped in cloth. When he mentioned what happened yesterday, Ma Laoliu felt that the woman was a little weird. She said that he would have a bloody disaster, and he really did have a bloody disaster!

He was going to drag the sugarcane to the county to sell it, but who knew that the other party refused to buy any of his sugarcane because their village no longer sold sugarcane and they thought his sugarcane was too little!

Finally, after much coaxing, they agreed to accept the sugarcane for a penny and a half, but the way they collected it was even stricter than the Xiao family's workshop!

Ma Laoliu sent a cart of sugarcane, but after careful selection, he couldn't collect even half of it. Ma Laoliu was so angry that he started quarreling with others. In the end, he was cut by someone with a knife and bled!

Fortunately, he was lucky. Later, people gave him money for the truckload of sugarcane. However, his family harvested sugarcane every day, so Ma Laoliu thought about it and decided to bring the sugarcane to the Xiao family workshop!

What's the point of saving face? It's not as valuable as the coins in your pocket!

"Third Young Master, my sugarcane today is particularly good, there's not a single bad one!" Ma Laoliu saw Xiao Jiayuan busy at work and immediately spoke up, "I'm from Wan'an Village too. Your Xiao family can't just refuse to accept sugarcane!"

Today, Ma Laoliu acted as if nothing happened yesterday!

After Xiao Jiayuan finished recording an account and signing his fingerprints, he sent someone to Xiao Jiachen to collect the money. Hearing what Ma Laoliu said, he was about to speak when Ma Laoliu sat down on the ground, wiping his eyes and saying, "Third Young Master, the sugarcane in my family's fields, which we produce several carts of every day, will rot in the fields if we can't sell it."

"I have an 80-year-old mother and several children who need to eat. If you don't take me in, I'll be dead!"

Ma Laoliu said as he ripped open the scarf tied around his neck, revealing the blood-stained scarf in front of Xiao Jiachen. He said, "If I can't sell the sugarcane for money, I might as well die!"

Xiao Jiachen had seen women throwing tantrums before, but he had never seen a man throwing tantrums, especially an older man. He stood up and looked up at everyone. Everyone's eyes were on him. He tried to straighten his body, holding the pen tightly in his hand: My sister said, you have to stay calm when encountering things!

Xiao Jiayuan went over everything his sister had taught him and said, "That's not what you said yesterday. You said..."

Before Xiao Jiayuan finished speaking, his embarrassed look at the onlookers made them remember how arrogant Ma Laoliu was yesterday. He said that he would rather let the land rot than sell it to the Xiao family!

"Although the Xiao family isn't a prominent family, they are a family that sticks with their words. As the teacher said, when people interact with each other, they should treat each other with sincerity." Xiao Jiayuan pursed his lips and gave Ma Laoliu a student's salute. "I'm going to collect the villagers' sugarcane first. If the quantity is not enough, we can talk later."

"Yes, otherwise, what will you do with the excess sugarcane in your village?" Aunt He said repeatedly, sighing, "Please don't make things difficult for a child. He still has to go to school!"

"Ma Laoliu, you're so injured, you should go back first." Wang Lizheng couldn't stand it anymore and dragged Ma Laoliu away. Ma Laoliu refused to accept it and said, "Lizheng, I don't care. If I can't sell all this sugarcane, I won't even have money to buy medicine."

Ma Laoliu sat directly at the door of the workshop, looking like he would not leave unless his sugarcane was collected.