Chapter 416 Excusable

The sky was turning pale.

Liang woke up from her sleep, opened her eyes and turned her head to look beside her out of habit, but found that the man was not there. She touched the quilt with her hand, but there was no warmth at all.

Suddenly I remembered his murderous look last night, and my heart shuddered. Oh no, he must have gone to settle the score with Erdanzi.

She quickly sat up, put on her clothes, and prepared to get out of bed. Before she could even put on her shoes,

Then I heard footsteps in the yard and felt relieved. It seemed that I was overthinking.

She shouted outside, "Fugui, where have you been so early?"

Hearing Liang's cry, Liang Fugui did not speak, but walked straight into the house with his head down. He had been tossing and turning all night, but he failed to steal the secret recipe and was almost sent to the government.

He felt aggrieved and ashamed to face people. He really wanted to commit suicide, but he wandered around for most of the night and still couldn't bring himself to do so.

Seeing the man covered in mud and holding the kitchen knife he used to cut vegetables at home, Liang's heart began to rise again. "Fugui, what's wrong with you? Did you really chop Erdanzi to pieces? Say something quickly!"

Liang Fugui glanced at Liang Shi indifferently, feeling guilty and regretful. He felt sorry for his wife. If he had listened to her, he wouldn't have been caught. Now everything was over.

He shook his head weakly, "Wife, I'm fine, I didn't kill anyone."

Liang's heart finally settled down. "Then what were you doing? Why were you holding a kitchen knife? And what's with all the dirt on you?"

Liang Fugui sighed in self-pity, "Ah~~ It's over, everything is over. That girl surnamed Chen is too clever a liar. We are no match for her at all."

Then he recounted how he went to find Erdanzi last night, how he was caught, how he was almost sent to the county government office by Chen Qingqing, and how he was finally detained by Wu Baoan.

Liang's expression immediately changed after hearing this. "You damn bastard, I told you to be quiet, but you wouldn't listen. What should I do now?"

"What should I do? How would I know what to do? I did this to let you live a good life. How could I know that Qing girl had so many tricks? Now you blame me. When I said I would go it alone, why didn't you stop me?"

"Alright, is there any point in fussing over this now?" Liang said, rolling her eyes at him. "Right now, brown sugar is simply impossible to sell. The only solution is for us to go find Qing Yatou and sell all these sugar beets to her. Only then will our family avoid having to beg for food."

"No, I don't agree." Liang Fugui refused without a second thought. "Find someone else to continue making sugar. I'll go to town later. I don't believe that no one will want the 50-cent-a-pound brown sugar."

Liang knew that she couldn't persuade him, so she sighed helplessly and said nothing more.

Liang Fugui packed up his things, and came to the town market carrying fifty kilograms of brown sugar.

He found an open space, put the brown sugar in place, and started shouting loudly.

"Don't miss it if you pass by. The best brown sugar is only fifty cents a pound. If you miss this village, you will miss this shop..."

As the sun gradually rose, more and more people came to the market. He shouted until his mouth was dry, but no one paid any attention to him.

Liang Fugui was unwilling to give up, not believing that no one would recognize the value of the product, and kept asking to buy it...

Next to him was an old man selling eggs. He had brought a basket full of eggs when he came in the morning, but now all of them were sold out.

Seeing that Liang Fugui had not yet opened the shop, he could not help but speak,

"Come on, young man, stop yelling. The people who come here are all poor farmers. Who would spend fifty coins to buy a pound of brown sugar?"

These words happened to be heard by several women passing by, and they all spoke up.

"That's right. A pound of corn is only three cents, enough to feed a family of four for a day. Your brown sugar is fifty cents a pound. How can farmers afford such expensive food? It would be better to buy some refined rice with that money."

"That's right, this stuff won't satisfy your hunger. I'd better buy more corn to feel at ease."

.......

The old man selling eggs continued, "You hear me, selling this is totally impractical. Even if you wait until dark, I don't think anyone will buy it. I think you'd better go to a restaurant or a bakery and ask. Maybe you can still sell it there."

After hearing this, Liang Fugui's eyes suddenly lit up and his mind became clear. Such a precious thing would probably not be affordable for many people in such a common place.

"Thank you for the reminder, old man. I will try it now."

As he said this, he picked up the brown sugar and walked towards the most prosperous street in Qingshui Town.

Arriving at the door of a medium-sized restaurant, Liang Fugui straightened his clothes, encouraged himself, and then walked in.

"Shopkeeper, would you mind keeping some of your finest brown sugar? It's only fifty coins a pound."

"Do you have sugar? If it's fifty cents a pound, I'll keep twenty pounds." The shopkeeper said unhappily.

Liang Fugui shook his head. "If we don't have white sugar, consider brown sugar. It's only fifty coins a pound, very cheap."

"No, no, this is not about the money. Go away quickly and don't affect our business."

"Okay, I'll leave now."

After leaving the restaurant, Liang Fugui asked several restaurants and dim sum shops, but still no one bought anything.

He was not discouraged and went to the town to sell brown sugar every day. More than ten days passed, but the end result was that he did not sell a single pound of sugar.

At noon that day, Liang Fugui returned home with a tired face and drooped head like an eggplant hit by frost.

Seeing the man coming back, Liang hurried forward and subconsciously looked towards the backpack.

How she hoped for a miracle to happen, but the fifty kilograms of brown sugar in the basket stung her eyes.

"I can't do my housework, and I can't sell my brown sugar. I can't make ends meet."

Liang Fugui had been treated coldly these past few days, and he was extremely irritated. He said bluntly, "Just get out of here and go back to your mother's house. Who are you trying to show off your ugly face to?"

"Who are you showing it to? I'm showing it to you. If it weren't for you, would our family be able to live like this?"

Liang could no longer control her emotions and vented her dissatisfaction.

"I told you not to make sugar anymore, but you didn't listen. Now the room is full of brown sugar. If someone comes to your house and demands payment, what are you going to do?"

Liang Fugui felt bitter in his heart. He had overestimated himself. Now the brown sugar at home could not be sold. If he did not continue to hire people to boil the remaining beets, they would rot sooner or later.

Faced with these bad things, it is understandable that the daughter-in-law got angry.

With tears in his eyes and a look of self-blame on his face, he said, "I'm sorry, wife, I've caused trouble for you and the child."

.......