There are many speculations in the village about why Chen Xiaomi became so successful so quickly, the most common one being that Chen Xiaomi found a treasure in the mountains.

This speculation also reached the ears of Old Mrs. Chen, which greatly excited her.

"Since Chen Xiaomi was able to find treasures in the mountains, can't others do the same?" The old lady suddenly brought it up during a meal one day.

Chen Shouxin was startled. His second brother had died in the mountains. He hoped that the old lady would not try to harm him! "Mother! These deep mountains are not so easy to go through. Chen Xiaomi is a freak. Several men could not beat him."

Grandma Chen said dismissively, "She's just a twin."

"Mother! Even if there were treasures, they would probably have already fallen into Chen Xiaomi's hands." Chen Laosan was also getting restless.

Chen Laosan and Chen Laoda didn't get along very well, but they were of the same mind when it came to going into the mountains.

"It's hard to say, some might have been missed."

Hearing the old lady's words, Old Master Chen became somewhat displeased, "Haven't you had enough? The second son is dead, isn't that enough?"

The old man still felt some guilt about his second son's death, but it was only a relative amount. He had agreed to send his second son to the deep forest in the first place.

Seeing the old man get angry, the old lady felt a little guilty, and her prejudice against Chen Xiaomi intensified.

The old lady secretly complained that Chen Xiaomi was just a hunter. Her eldest grandson was very learned, but she never expected that it was Chen Xiaomi who would make a fortune. If her eldest grandson had gotten the things from the mountains, he would definitely have earned more money than Chen Xiaomi.

The story of Chen Shouxin's disturbance spread throughout the village thanks to the Chen family's publicity.

Chen Xiaomi's reputation, which had just begun to improve, has deteriorated again.

Grandma Chen went around telling everyone that Chen Xiaomi was unfilial, disregarding her grandfather's life and death, only caring about her own pleasure, and spending her money recklessly! Buying people and buying cloth! What a terrible thing to do.

Some villagers were envious and couldn't stand Chen Xiaomi getting rich. They took the opportunity to chime in, saying that Chen Xiaomi was unfilial, earning so much money but not giving a single penny to her sick grandfather.

Chen Xiaomi doesn't care much about her reputation getting worse.

In fact, after her reputation improved slightly a while ago, some people approached Chen Xiaomi to talk to her.

At first, he found it quite novel, since after Chen Xiaomi separated from the Chen family, people in the village avoided him whenever they encountered him.

After a while, he noticed that those who approached him for conversation would quickly steer the topic to things he didn't know how to talk about, such as: How did you come up with the idea for the kang (heated brick bed)? Are you supplying wine to restaurants? How is wine made? How did you come up with the idea for gloves?

Lu Lin was afraid that the Lu family would cling to him, so he attributed all the credit to Chen Xiaomi. However, in reality, Chen Xiaomi couldn't explain the origin of these things and could only tell others with a straight face that she had no comment. Fortunately, those people just thought he was stingy.

Lu Lin knew about the old lady's behavior and inwardly despised her, but there was nothing he could do. In this land where filial piety was the foundation of governance, being unfilial was a very serious crime.

“Your uncle is a bit of a nuisance!” Lu Lin said.

Chen Xiaomi squinted and said, "That's right, that guy was actually trying to take advantage of me."

He's made a lot of money now, and he'll probably make even more in the future. We absolutely can't let this happen. Once he gives in, it won't be easy to get rid of those bloodsuckers from the Chen family.

Lu Lin frowned and said, "If we kick this guy out this time and let him know that you are rich, he probably won't let it go."

Chen Xiaomi said fiercely, "Ignore him, fight him every time he comes."

Chen Xiaomi was worried that her bad reputation would make it hard for her younger brother to find a wife, but now she's more open-minded. As long as she has money, why worry about not finding a wife? Even if no one does, she can just buy one.

That's how things are in this world. If you care about something and keep arguing with people, those who cause trouble will get more and more excited. If you don't care, others will gradually find it boring.

The matter between Chen Xiaomi and the Chen family has been going on several times already, and the villagers are no longer surprised.

After making a fuss for a while, everyone felt bored when they saw that Chen Xiaomi didn't react much.

Old Chen noticed that the discussions in the village had no effect on Chen Xiaomi, which made him somewhat disappointed.

After a while, someone else started talking about how Old Man Chen saw that Chen Xiaomi was making money, so he went to buy fox fur at a high price to make gloves, but he couldn't sell them and ended up with nothing. So he wanted to go to Chen Xiaomi to make up for it.

After this incident came to light, it sparked a lot of discussion among the villagers.

Good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels fast. Everyone wants to make money, but everyone is afraid of taking risks. When we hear that others are making money, we always feel a little envious, and when we hear that others are losing money, we feel a little schadenfreude.

After the news of Chen Laoda losing money spread, the villagers all thought he was just opportunistic, but compared to Chen Xiaomi, he was far inferior.

Old Chen was furious when he heard that the villagers had stopped talking about Chen Xiaomi's filial impiety and started talking about his incompetence.