Sang Yu accepted the ten strings of cash and quickly knelt down to kowtow, saying, "Thank you, Madam! This ten strings of cash is my advance on my salary from you!"

As he spoke, he couldn't help but feel a little moved.

He grew up without a mother; she passed away when his younger brother was one year old, and later, his father also passed away.

He was very grateful to his uncle and aunt for taking them in at first, but little did he know that they only wanted to seize his family's ten acres of land and house.

He overheard them discussing selling his younger siblings in the middle of the night, and they later escaped from the pigsty.

Shen Yu smiled and said, "It's good that you have this intention! This money isn't given away for nothing; it's an advance on your salary!"

Sang Yu kowtowed three more times.

“The school is about to start, why don’t you tell your younger siblings to come here to study? That way, they can look after each other!” Chen Yu said.

In the evening, Niu Da, Niu Cuihua, Niu Yong, Sang Yu, Niu Meihua, and Xiao Fubao went out to set up a stall to sell iced drinks as usual.

Their juicer is dozens of times faster than the bench-style juicers on the market, and they sell several times more juice.

They didn't close up shop until 9 PM.

The Niu family had just returned home when a shadowy figure crept across the road. Niu Cuihua peeked out and asked, "Who's out out so late at night?"

The clever little Fu Bao laughed and said, "Big sister is mistaken! It's a cat!"

Niu Cuihua frowned slightly and closed the door.

Mo Xiaomei was startled by Niu Cuihua. She touched her chest and breathed a sigh of relief. After walking for about half an hour, she arrived in town, where a horse-drawn carriage was waiting for her.

"Is this Miss Mo? Master Liu instructed me to wait here for you, saying that you shouldn't trouble yourself!"

Although the carriage was a simple blue-green color, it was not something that ordinary people could afford to ride in.

Mo Xiaomei was a little dazed; she had never been served like this before! She stepped inside as if she were that rich lady herself.

She stretched her legs, which had been walking for half an hour, and thought about how she would be served by servants in the future, and she couldn't be happier.

The county magistrate's mansion wasn't particularly large, but to the naive and inexperienced Mo Xiaomei, it was bigger than ten Niu Er's mansions combined.

There was only an old man guarding the gate.

The old man had already received Liu Quan's money, so he opened the door and looked Mo Xiaomei up and down. He had originally thought she was a very beautiful woman who had asked Liu Quan to ask his wife for so much money.

So this is what kind of person they are.

But Liu Quan seemed to be blinded by the wind, thinking that Mo Xiaomei was so beautiful that she was unparalleled in the world, and he waited for Mo Xiaomei for most of the night.

"Master Liu"

Led by a servant, Mo Xiaomei arrived at the gate of Liuquan and called out softly.

Liu Quan's door was not closed; with a gentle push, he entered. The room was brightly lit and filled with tools.

Mo Xiaomei closed the door.

After taking a bath, Liu Quan came out from behind the curtain and carried Mo Xiaomei in to bathe as well. Although Mo Xiaomei was not particularly beautiful, she still had a good figure.

Liu Quan gently stroked Mo Xiaomei's cheek with his large hand...

After a night of turmoil, dawn gradually broke.

The July mornings were still hot.

Niu Er was sweating profusely with anxiety.

Zhang Min came to find Chen Yu early in the morning to talk about Niu Er's wife going missing. Since she regained her sight, her eyesight has been getting better and better.

I can see people clearly now.

"Oh dear, what kind of situation is this? A perfectly healthy person, how could they just disappear like that?" Zhang Min said.

Chen Yu said, "If it's going to rain, it'll rain; if a mother wants to remarry, she'll remarry. What isn't yours will never truly be yours!"

Xiang Jinlan asked, "Could it be that you really ran away with the man who proposed to you yesterday?"

Zhang Min slapped his thigh and exclaimed, "Oh dear! This is terrible! If they really run off with someone, I'll have to stop them!"

Niu Er is actually Niu Yaba's nephew, though not by blood, but Niu Yaba and Niu Er's father share the same grandfather.

Niu Yaba's grandfather had two sons. Niu Er's grandfather was the eldest son, and Niu Dayou's grandfather was the second son.

“Niu Er has a bad temper, we still need to keep him in check! We don’t want anything to happen!” Chen Yu said, then she called Niu Da and Xiang Jinlan, and they went together.

When Niu Er arrived, he was planning to take two knives to the county magistrate's residence and chop Liu Quan up. "I'm going to kill them, you bastard and your mistress!"

Neither Niu Aiguo nor Mei Saihua could hold onto Niu Er. Mei Saihua was even thrown off balance, while several men, including Niu Da, grabbed Niu Er.

Looking at Niu Er's appearance, Chen Yu felt a bit disappointed and said:

"For a woman, you'd go to such lengths, abandoning your father and mother? Even if you killed them, you'd still lose your head! You're the only son in the family, have you thought about what your parents will do?"

Several women chimed in, "Yes! Niu Er, you mustn't act impulsively! It's not worth it for a woman like that!"

"Can you bear to let them lose their son in their old age? You are a commoner, and he is a relative of an official. Can you fight against them, or what?" Chen Yu said.

Niu Er, a burly man, burst into tears. "Auntie, I know I can't fight them, and I know I can't kill anyone, but I can't stand this humiliation!"

“Niu Er, we’re both men, I understand how you feel. Evil people will be punished by heaven. You’re only twenty years old. It’s not worth getting into trouble because of a woman like that!” Niu Da said.

“Look at your parents. They’ve already lost one son. If they lose you too, how will they live?” Chen Yu said.

The beef bait was slowly lowered into the knife.

Niu Da took the machete and axe, and the burly men released them.

Mei Saihua was so frightened by what she had just witnessed that she almost fainted. Niu Er went over to support her, saying, "Father, Mother! Your son is a good-for-nothing! I've caused you so much worry!"

Niu Aiguo, holding the cow bait, said, "Son, don't act impulsively! You're only twenty!"

Niu Er picked up the box of copper coins and said, "I'll distribute this money among the villagers! After all, this is a disgrace to me! Everyone works hard for their money, and it would be a shame to lose it!"

The 20,000 copper coins were thus distributed among those who came to offer advice.

Chen Yu said, "Niu Er, our family's iced drinks have been selling well lately, and our pickled vegetables are doing quite well too. We're short on jars, so could you make us five large jars, the kind that can hold fifty catties of iced drinks, two with openings so they can be poured out, and three without?"

"Make another hundred jars, each weighing one jin (500 grams)."

"A hundred? Auntie, you must be joking!" Niu Er said. "I know you mean well, Auntie, you're afraid I'll do something rash and cause trouble again..."

"It's true that we're worried you might do something rash, but we also need those jars! Once all the pickled vegetables we have are ready, we'll have the Black people transport them over!" "By the time the next batch of pickled vegetables is ready, winter will be approaching again, and we'll likely need a large quantity!"

“Alright, Auntie! We’ll make it and send it to you!” Niu Er said.