Chen Cui was so shocked that she spat out all the hot tea on the table. She coughed and asked, "What, what remarriage?"

Zheng held out her hand to help her calm down while she continued, "Don't worry, my son. I will tell you slowly."

It turned out that on that day, Zheng took her daughter-in-law to the city to buy New Year's goods and heard a piece of news - the Wei family in the county town was looking for a wet nurse.

The Wei family is a well-known wealthy family in the local area, and their relatives do big business in the capital!

Although this Wei Yuanwai is only a illegitimate son of a branch family, he is also a well-known figure in this county.

His first wife had always been in poor health, and she finally got pregnant last year.

For women at that time, giving birth was like entering the gates of hell. Mrs. Wei did not make it and died of dystocia, leaving behind only a daughter.

Miss Wei's health was not very good, so Mr. Wei hired several wet nurses to take care of her. However, something went wrong at the beginning of winter this year, and Miss Wei caught a cold.

Wei Yuanwai was angry that the wet nurses were negligent in their work, but his daughter needed someone to stay by her side for the time being, so he put it aside and recruited people to fill their vacancies.

The monthly wages of the Wei family servants were not based on the county town's price level, but were based on the capital's price level. They were provided with food and lodging, quarterly tailoring of clothes, and an additional two taels of monthly wages.

If this job is found, wouldn't it be a great thing for ordinary people?

Fortunately, she had already found someone. Shen Cui slowly let out a long breath and said, "They are hiring a wet nurse. I don't have anything."

"Does the Wei family, which is so big, still need a wet nurse?" Zheng frowned and looked at Shen Cui from head to toe, wondering, "You and I always had a close rapport, how come you suddenly became so dumb after just a month of not seeing each other?"

Chen Cui really couldn't connect with the original body's weird mother's train of thought, so she said stiffly, "Then this matter has nothing to do with remarriage."

Zheng slapped her thigh anxiously and said rapidly, "The Wei family has lost its mistress, and Mr. Wei has no concubines. Miss Wei is not old enough to remember things. My son is handsome and of the same age as Mr. Wei. He can enter the Wei Mansion and win the love and admiration of Miss Wei. Are you afraid that he won't have the opportunity to climb up? You married Mu Cheng because you looked down on the country bumpkin and wanted to live a good life! Now that Mu Cheng is gone, you must make plans for yourself early on."

Shen Cui pretended to be hesitant. "Of course I know that mother is doing this for my own good, but since you can get the news, there must be many families in the city who share the same idea as you. Many young girls and wives are eyeing this good thing. My Erlang is so old, how can he compare to them? Besides... Mu Cheng has only been missing for a few months, maybe he will come back one day."

Shen Cui, who was familiar with the plot of the original book, of course knew that Mu Cheng would never appear again after his disappearance, but that did not stop her from acting as a shield for him.

"Why do you care whether he comes back or not?" Zheng stood up and stamped her feet in anger. "If he comes back early, you are just working in the Wei Mansion. If he comes back late, you are already a member of the Wei family. How can he, a poor carpenter, turn the world upside down?"

When the Shen family was not so prosperous in the past, Zheng thought that Mu Cheng had good conditions and helped her daughter to drug people.

Later, the Shen family washed the mud off their legs. Zheng looked down on Mu Cheng.

Now that he could find a new supporter, Zheng became even more rude to Mu Cheng and started to list her dissatisfaction with him over the years.

She said that she used to think that he was an honest man with good skills and the ability to earn money. Although he was a widower with a son, he was still better off than the rough men who worked in the fields for a living.

I didn't expect that he was such an ambitious person. What kind of family doesn't know how high the heaven is and how deep the earth is to want to support a scholar?

It would have been fine if she had lofty ambitions, but she was not destined to do so, leaving them alone as an orphan and a widow!

Zheng became more and more excited as she spoke, and her voice unconsciously rose higher.

Chen Cui touched the aching roots of her hair, not wanting to argue with her anymore, so she said firmly: "I had a serious illness before, and almost lost my life. After going through the gates of hell, I now understand many things. How can such a high branch be so easy to climb? I have suffered a loss in the Mu family, so why would I suffer a loss again? The Wei family looks like a gorgeous family, but there are many secrets in a wealthy family, which I can't handle well? Don't persuade me, mother, if it is a serious job for someone, I will agree. But if you want me to go to the Wei family with such an intention, I will definitely not agree!"

Seeing Zheng's sharp eyes erect, Shen Cui added, "Even if it's not for anything else, just for our Erpang? She has never left me since she was a child. If I go to the Wei family, I can't take my son with me, which means I have to separate from him and his mother. What will I do if he leaves me?"

When mentioning Mu Erpang, Zheng lowered her voice a little, but still insisted, "Are you stupid? I am here, are you still afraid that no one will take care of Erpang? You go and seek your future, and let me take Erpang home. I will take care of him for you, and I will definitely not lack him for the children at home! And it is for Erpang that you should make plans earlier. In this rural area, you don't have any skills, how can you and your widow live? Are you still waiting for the eldest son of the Mu family to take care of you and your son?"

"Of course not." Chen Cui said, "Life is made by people, I will naturally find a way in the future."

Seeing that she was unmoved, and hearing her say that she had just had a serious illness, Zheng felt distressed and angry. It was not good to force her at this time, so she stood up and said, "I have said all the good things to you. Think it over. Mother will not harm you. Erlang is still young, and you are incompetent. The man who is the head of the family is gone, and you are only 26. Can you wait for him for the rest of your life? You should marry a good family as soon as possible. When you have established a firm foothold in the Wei family, can't you take Erlang over and live a good life together?"

Chen Cui naturally still did not respond. Zheng finally said, "Since you don't listen to me, don't come back to your parents' home for the New Year!" and then left angrily.

Li quickly followed Zheng and stood up, walked out of the yard, but quickly turned back.

"Little sister, our mother is just hard on the outside but soft on the inside. She got angry today. I'll give her some more advice when I get back. By the time the year comes, she'll be fine."

Li said this in a tactful way, but it undoubtedly made her attitude clear: she supported her sister-in-law in not remarrying at this time.

There are still normal people in the Shen family!

Shen Cui raised her lips slightly, but before she could smile, she heard Li hesitate and say, "Mother just told you at the door that she gave you five taels of silver when winter came. Now we are short of money at home. Do you think you can return this part of the money first..."

Shen Cui: ...

In recent years, the Shen family has been doing well, while the Mu family has been doing poorly, and the original owner has often returned to her mother's home to beg for money.

Zheng had always given money privately and had never asked her daughter for money in return.

Suddenly asking her to pay back the money was obviously a warning to her, to let her know how difficult it is to live without money, and then she would listen to her!

If you don't return the money, who knows what kind of trouble might arise.

She asked Li to wait for a moment, then quickly walked into the bedroom, and the silver ingot came out.

Li blushed and whispered a few words to persuade her, saying that she would find a way to send the money to her later, and then she immediately took the silver ingot and went out to give it to Zheng.

The daughter was stingy by nature and never gave face to her sister-in-law. Zheng, who was standing at the gate, was waiting for the two of them to have a quarrel, and then she would come in and talk about letting her daughter go to the Wei family.

Unexpectedly, in less than half a quarter of an hour, Li got the money back.

Zheng had no reason to go back, so she angrily took Li away.

Hearing footsteps, Shen Cui came out and closed the door of her yard.

In fact, what happened today was not a bad thing. She had originally planned not to contact her original body's family for the time being.

But seeing that the Chinese New Year is just a few days away, it is obviously impossible not to take Erpang back to my parents' home.

This time she had a big fight with Zheng, which gave her a reason to temporarily stop contacting her parents' family.

But this matter is really strange.

Because this matter obviously did not exist in the plot of the original book, otherwise, according to the original body's personality being exactly the same as her mother's, she would definitely rush to curry favor with the Wei family.

The original body was thick-skinned enough and used despicable means, so maybe she could really become the Wei official's roommate and escape the identity of the male protagonist's stepmother.

Then Shen wouldn't have so many roles in the book.

How come all this trouble suddenly happened when she came here?

Wei Yuanwai’s family... Wei family!

Chen Cui remembered that Mu Yunchuan had a close friend. They knew each other when they were poor. He came to this county town from his hometown in Beijing to study and lived in the home of a relative. Later, he became his right-hand man after he rose to prominence. His surname was Wei!

If it was really Mu Yunchuan who was behind this, then this was a really great move—

He just gave the Shen family a tip, and what the Shen family did had nothing to do with him.

If Chen Cuihua really climbed into Wei Yuanwai's bed, she would be a member of the Wei family from then on, and would have nothing to do with him, Mu Yunchuan, and she would no longer be able to use filial piety to blackmail him.

If it fails, since the incident happened in the Wei family, Master Wei will definitely cover it up for him and will not ruin his reputation.

As long as the original body entered the Wei Mansion to work, even if it was a long-term labor contract instead of a contract to sell herself, she was still a servant of the Wei Mansion. Later, when she knew the relationship between Mu Yunchuan and Young Master Wei, she was able to keep quiet for a long time.

Otherwise, if Chen Cui disagrees to go to the Wei Mansion, then she will have a big fight with her mother like what happened just now, and will be extremely upset.

Perhaps the only thing he hadn't expected was that Shen Cui had changed her mind and was eager to draw a clear line between herself and her mother's family. Instead, he took advantage of it.

Thinking of this, Shen Cui felt a chill in her heart. The hero in the original book was only fifteen years old. She was born in an orphanage in her previous life, which made her precocious. But at the age of fifteen, she was far from being able to calculate people's hearts like this!

Moreover, she didn't do anything bad after she came here. She just gave him some silver and borrowed a book.

Is it worth his calculation? Could it be that I am just overthinking it? What happened today was just a coincidence.

Shen Cui was lost in thought, perhaps she was still thinking about Mu Yunchuan. The system connected to her consciousness considerately opened Mu Yunchuan's data panel for her.

A line of words immediately caught Shen Cui's attention——

Mu Yunchuan: Mood value +10

Mood value: 70 (I solved a small problem and my mood is a little better).

Shen Cui:! ! !

What monster is she standing against? !