Wang Qing and his wife also came out of the city to catch a ride. When they saw Lu Yunxing's basket, they were surprised. "Lu's second son, you bought so many things?"

Wang Qing's wife said sourly, "Your eldest brother and sister-in-law haven't been home these past few days. Did they come to the city to do business? Your Lu family is really something now! You've all started doing business. In a few years, you should be bringing your mother to the city to enjoy life too."

Zhao Chunhua and Zhao Fang were from the same village, but their families didn't get along. However, she was always jealous of Zhao Fang. Before she got married, Zhao Fang was the third child in her family and the only daughter. Her parents and brothers treated her well and always gave her the best food. Zhao Fang often wore clothes without patches and was the envy of many girls in the village.

Even the village chief's son from Zhaojiatai Village liked her, but unfortunately Zhao Fang didn't reciprocate his feelings. Later, she married Lu An, whose family was well-off, and Wang Lan was an easy-going mother-in-law.

Wang Qing had an older brother and a younger brother, and was sandwiched in the middle, so he was not valued by his parents. The family of ten or so people squeezed together, and the heavy work at home still had to be done by him and his wife. Zhao Chunhua was eight months pregnant and was still being bossed around by her mother-in-law. Zhao Fang was carefully raised by the Lu family for three consecutive pregnancies. She was provided with fine rice and grains every day, could eat fruit from the Xishan orchard as she pleased, often ate snacks from the city, and had chicken soup stewed every few days.

She's so well-cared for, no wonder she could get pregnant at 34 or 35.

Gradually, Wang Qing's wife became jealous of Zhao Fang's good fortune—good fortune as a girl and good fortune after marriage. As the saying goes, fortune's wheel turns; two years ago, the Lu family fell into ruin, selling everything. Finally, she had surpassed Zhao Fang for once!

Zhao Chunhua still felt that Chen Fang was lucky. She was five months pregnant and almost miscarried because of the bad news. She heard that she was bleeding. But eighteen-year-old Lu Yunfeng was willing to go bankrupt to save Zhao Fang. Zhao Chunhua had seen her a few times when she sold things. She had never touched that fur quilt in her life, and she didn't have those ten acres of land either.

It is said that Zhao Fang has been eating ginseng every day since then. The villagers said that it cost more than 300 taels of silver to save Zhao Fang and her son. Li Langzhong said that the most valuable life he had ever saved was Zhao Fang's.

In the countryside, life is cheap, and minor ailments are usually treated with inexpensive herbs. It's simply impossible for a family to spend hundreds of taels of silver on treatment; even if three generations of a family were to spend all their money, they wouldn't have that much.

Chen Fang's son is a filial son, which makes Zhao Chunhua extremely jealous. It seems that Zhao Fang has all the good things in life.