Chapter 75: Not a Bodhisattva

The sun sets.

The dusk adds to the chill.

Jiang Yunyan and her family of three left in an ox cart.

Halfway through the journey, I noticed some movement in the woods beside the road.

"Mom and Dad, why do we feel like something is chasing us in the woods..." Chu Mingyuan grabbed his parents' arms tightly.

Jiang Yunyan's arm was pulled so hard that it hurt.

"Yuan'er, don't make a fuss. What could it be?"

She rubbed her waist, having just fallen and sprained it, and then her son pressed her down hard.

I can hardly straighten my back now.

My son is too fat. He needs to eat less. Otherwise, how can he find a wife?

I had originally planned to spend one night at my mother's house, but now that things have turned out like this, there's no point in staying.

Besides, the room at my mother's house is not only smelly, but the bed is also narrow...

My son couldn't even turn over when he lay down, which was really painful.

"Mom, it's true. Look at that forest..." Chu Mingyuan pointed nervously at the forest in the distance behind him.

Several dark green lights moved in the woods.

"Wolf...it's a wolf!" Jiang Yunyan exclaimed, "Husband, there's a wolf!"

Isn't it said that this road is crowded with people and rarely has wild animals? How could there be a wolf?

My heart is filled with sadness...

“Ouch~~~”

The howling of wolves was getting closer.

"Damn it! Go away..." Chu Yu whipped the old cow hard.

But the cow couldn't run as fast as the wolf, and it also dragged so many people with it.

Just as he was about to catch up, Chu Mingyuan kicked the cage containing the two live geese down.

Chu Yu slapped his son in the face.

"You bastard, what are you doing? I asked someone to call me with great difficulty!" You can even sell it for some money if you take it back.

Chu Mingyuan pouted with a look of grievance and hugged her mother and acted coquettishly.

Jiang Yunyan quickly protected the calf, "Why are you hitting him? If you don't throw the live goose down, are you waiting for the wolves to eat us?"

Although she was reluctant, it could at least delay the wolves for a while.

Otherwise, the whole family will be killed by wolves.

This trip was really a loss of both the wife and the troops...

unlucky!

My hands are wet...

Touched it.

Ugh! Damn boy, such a big man...

I was actually...scared to death!

…

The wind is particularly strong tonight.

Like a ferocious beast roaring.

The doors and windows creaked as they slapped the red lanterns at the door.

The room was quiet.

But no one mentioned the elder sister-in-law again.

Little Miaomiao nestled in her mother's arms, smiling as she drank the goat milk brought by her aunt.

Babies get hungry quickly and can’t eat anything else, so they can only eat more milk.

Seeing that the bowl was empty, Jiang Miaomiao raised her head.

Everyone was looking at her.

He seemed to be looking at her, but his eyes were somewhat empty and unfocused.

Uh... they're all staring at her...

The room was eerily quiet.

It was so quiet that the only sound you could hear was the crackling sound of the charcoal fire.

"Aa ...

The baby interrupted their musings.

Uncle suddenly stood up and went into the inner room, followed closely by Auntie...

After a while, the two men came out.

My uncle came out holding a wooden box in his hands, followed closely by my aunt.

Jiang Miaomiao felt that the box looked familiar.

Jiang Yunhu placed the box in front of Lu Qingyao and opened it...

A box full of silver.

"Brother, this is..." Lu Qingyao looked at him in surprise. Isn't this the dividend she gave to her brother and sister-in-law?

Selling winter bamboo shoots is quite profitable.

There are four carts, each fully loaded with 300 kilograms of bamboo shoots, which travel back and forth to Jiangzhou every day.

In just half a month, he sold it for more than four hundred taels of silver.

After deducting the cost of harvesting bamboo shoots, buying an ox cart, hiring people to dig bamboo shoots, and paying Old Man Liu and Wang Quan for pulling the cart, some capital was left.

She and her brother and sister-in-law each received 75 taels.

And now the seventy-five taels of silver were all in front of them.

Jiang Yunhu showed a look of shame on his face, and slowly said: "Sister-in-law... I took this from you before, but it's still not enough..."

Lu Qingyao was stunned. Could it be that this couple was taking to heart what she had said to Jiang Yunyan?

"Brother, what I said before was just to make Sister give up the idea of ​​marrying Qiao'er. There is no other meaning. You don't need to think too much."

She is not a bodhisattva with lowered eyebrows.

The money she had given out before was of course given out with her own selfish motives.

When I came to Taoxi Village alone with my children, I had no relatives. If I wanted to gain a foothold in Taoxi Village, I had to find a stable and reliable family to help each other.

Silver is the best way to test the waters.

It is also the best thing to test people's hearts.

And Jiang Yunhu's family happened to be the most suitable one.

He was able to take out all his family assets and lend them to Jiang Yunze, whom he considered to be his family, to help him out in his urgent need.

This shows that he is a very sincere person.

Even though his efforts ended in vain and he became enemies with Jiang Yunze, he did not change beyond recognition because of the resentment he harbored.

This shows his firm mind.

They did not vent their resentment on Jiang Yunze's family because of his poor treatment of them.

Nor did they abandon themselves to despair or sell their children because of misfortunes...

Fan'er's family lives in harmony and the couple loves each other.

He was willing to take out the money that had been put into his pocket.

How could she not feel sympathy for such a family?

"Brother, this..." Lu Qingyao hesitated for a moment, wondering whether to accept it or not.

Jiang Yunhu placed the box in Xiuxiu's hands and said, "This book belongs to your elder sister. Please keep it for her!"

Seeing that Xiuxiu didn't take it, he said again: "Sister-in-law, we shouldn't have accepted this money. It was just that we were forced into despair by a basket of debts at that time. I didn't know that Jiang Yunze treated you like this..."

"Anyway, just accept it... We'll take every penny that's ours, and we won't take more than what's not ours. You've already helped us enough. It's not easy for a woman like you, raising several children..."

This sister-in-law had never mentioned anything bad about Jiang Yunze in front of them.

They still thought she still had feelings for her husband.

After all, the two of them had created a beautiful story, a noble lady from a wealthy family and a poor scholar, but it was Jiang Yunze who got the upper hand.

Now it seems that there is no possibility for the two of them to be together anymore.

Lu Qingyao kept calling him Jiang Yunze, and it seemed that she no longer considered him her husband.

Jiang Yunze never sent anyone to check on them, mother and son, and he never even sent them any gold or silver.

It seems that this couple has long been dead in name only, and it is only a matter of time before they go their separate ways...

In this case, the couple should not receive this favor.

Their cousin and sister, who also shared the surname Jiang, treated them like trash, but Lu Qingyao, who came from a different family, treated them like family.

It's so sad and ridiculous!

They are not ungrateful people.

"Sister-in-law, as the saying goes, brothers should settle their accounts. Thanks to your care, the family's debts have been repaid, and the money for medical treatment has been settled. You can use this money to do some business. If you leave it in our hands, it will be useless..."

"Okay! Big brother, if you need it, come get it from me." Lu Qingyao nodded and let Xiuxiu take it.

Although Liu Yu Niang's eyes were full of reluctance, she still took out something wrapped in red cloth from her arms.

Handing it to Lu Qingyao, "Sister-in-law, I have redeemed the hairpin, you can take it back!"

Jiang Miaomiao recognized the silver hairpin at a glance.

It was the one that disappeared from my mother's head. Later I heard that my aunt pawned it to pay off a debt.

Now it has been redeemed again!

Mother took the hairpin and inserted it into the bun of my aunt's hair. She chuckled and said, "Sister-in-law, there's no reason to take back what you've given away. This hairpin is a gift from me, and I'll give you something else... not just you, Qiao'er too..."

As she spoke, Xiuxiu took out two silk flowers from her sleeve pocket, one for each of the women in the family.

Even Old Mrs. Jiang has it, but little Miaomiao doesn’t.

Because she only has a few soft yellow hairs...