"This jinx is really persistent. Now it's even coming to bring bad luck to our family, and it's even affecting Guohong."

They forgot to sell her directly to some remote mountain village, and instead let her run away and cause trouble.

Miao Cuilan felt a surge of hatred for Xia Enruo when she thought of her; her mouth was crooked as she spoke, and she gritted her teeth in anger.

"By the way, Baozhu. What did you mean by the sentence of eight months in prison?"

What is imprisonment? What exactly is that?

Zhang Baozhu groaned and sighed.

"It's because Guohong has been imprisoned and will be locked up for eight months without being allowed to come out!"

Zhang Tieniu was stunned when he heard this. Even though he couldn't read, he knew from everyday conversations what it meant to be in prison!

Going to jail! Wouldn't that make you a criminal from ancient times? In serious cases, you could be beheaded!

He loosened his grip, and the pipe fell directly to the ground, sparks flying everywhere!

Miao Cuilan's face changed instantly, and she fell off the kang (a heated brick bed) with a look of terror in her eyes.

She had only heard that her grandson had gotten into trouble outside, but she never expected that he would actually be in jail.

"Baozhu, what did you say? Say it again, say it again, what happened to Guohong?"

Miao Cuilan rushed to her son and shook him vigorously, her voice trembling as she spoke.

"Mom, what Baozhu said is true. Guohong was sentenced by the court and is in prison."

"It's all Xia Enruo's fault. That woman has no good intentions; she just wants to see our family destroyed."

Wang Yue'e wiped away her tears and cursed while crying.

Miao Cuilan sat down on the ground with a thud and started howling.

Zhang Guohong was admitted to university, and his family was extremely proud in the village. He was the only university student from the entire village, and he was studying medicine. He was certain that he would stay in the city and not come back.

Miao Cuilan walks around the village with an air of self-importance; her son is the village chief, and her grandson is a college student.

This life can be considered a great honor for my ancestors.

I never expected that Xia Enruo, that wretched girl, would drag me into this mess.

"My goodness, how did my Guohong get into this mess? Xia Enruo, that slut who's been ridden by a thousand men and trampled by ten thousand, how come she's still alive and well!"

Hearing the family in such a mess, Zhang Tieniu felt terrible. He knew he could never be in charge of his wife Miao Cuilan's life, and when faced with major issues, he could only let things take their course.

He sighed, wiped his face with his hand, got down, bent down to pick up his tobacco pouch, and stood up the moment he did so.

He fainted from a sudden surge of anger and anxiety.

The family was in a flurry of activity, and hurriedly helped him onto the kang (a heated brick bed).

Zhang Baozhu hurriedly summoned the village's barefoot doctor, who examined the patient and said he couldn't treat him and told him to send him to the county town.

He was rushed to the county hospital and saved, but the doctor said that Zhang Tieniu had suffered cerebellar atrophy after the fall, and would need a lot of medical expenses for treatment. If things went wrong, he could easily become paralyzed and never get out of bed again.

When Wang Yue'e heard that it would cost a lot of money, she was extremely unwilling.

My son is now in prison and has lost his education. He'll probably have a hard time finding a job when he gets out. Now we also have to take care of an elderly man who is partially paralyzed. What if we spend money on his treatment but he can't be cured? Wouldn't that be a waste of money?

Besides, her mother-in-law had bullied her a lot when she was young, and her father-in-law would just keep quiet about it. Now that her mother-in-law was going to use her own money to pay for his medical treatment, she couldn't bear to do it.

“Baozhu, Dad needs so much money for medical expenses. We have to make that wretched Xia Enruo pay for it. If she hadn’t made such a mess of our family, Dad wouldn’t have fainted from anger.”

Wang Yue'e's eyes darted around, and she started calculating in her mind.

Xia Enruo looks like she's made a lot of money. Guo Hong said she sells boxed lunches at the school gate and her business is booming.

On the day she appeared in court, she was dressed very elegantly, clearly at a high price. Even if she didn't have money, she still had a man.

“That’s right, Baozhu, your wife is right. Your sister raised that wretched child to adulthood, so our Zhang family has done her a favor, and she has to repay it.”

"Besides, this whole thing started because of her. Just like your wife said, if she had said a word for Guohong back then, Guohong wouldn't have ended up in jail. Your father is like this now because of her, so she has to take responsibility."

Miao Cuihua echoed her daughter-in-law's words and encouraged her son to go and ask Xia Enruo for money.

She has no choice but to pay this money; otherwise, her reputation will be ruined. Let's see if she'll pay it!

**

Yongning City

Xia Enruo was busy procuring kitchen and bathroom supplies, furniture, and washing machines and spin dryers for the laundry room.

The work at the three shops and the company compound has been completed, and she was very satisfied with the construction quality of Meng Fei's engineering team after her inspection.

I was able to recreate 95% of the design ideas in my mind, but the rest was simply impossible to realize due to the limitations of materials and technology in this era.

In order to save money and reduce costs, she had no choice but to go to Wu Shaojun.

Wu Shaojun is the most professional person she knows in this field.

"Sis, you've really become a big boss now. You can open branches whenever you want, and you even have your own company."

Wu Shaojun dragged Xia Enruo around the market, and he was willing to do it no matter how tired he was.

After all, his god-sister is not only good-natured and beautiful, but also very good to him and his older sister.

After being discharged from the hospital, she made a special trip to visit her older sister at home and cooked a table full of delicious food, even bringing her own ingredients.

Just thinking about those dishes makes my mouth water.

Before the Lunar New Year, they also fried meatballs, braised pig's trotters and pig's knuckles from the store, and bought two bottles of wine to deliver to my home.

The etiquette was impeccable, making the eldest sister's eyes crinkle into crescents with delight.

Xia Enruo truly treated their family like relatives, and even her eldest sister, Wu Meixia, told her that.

As long as it concerns Xia Enruo, she must do everything in her power to help.

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