Chapter 163 The Rich Lady Who Only Earns Fifty Taels
"Oh, then listen to me." Mrs. Zhao became more and more demanding.
Li Zhiyuan was so angry that his lips trembled, but he couldn't utter a word.
"Cai Ping's workshop can earn hundreds of taels a month. Can your family earn that much?"
One hundred taels...
Li Zhiyuan felt as if his heart was stabbed by a knife.
The batch of annotated books he handed over to the bookstore did not sell very well, and he could only get a little over one or two taels of commission a month.
He had to constantly publish new annotations in order to barely maintain an income of four or five taels of silver a month.
But this money is barely enough to cover their family's expenses.
If you want to buy an extra piece of cloth, you have to think again and again.
If it were in the past, if he wanted to buy new clothes, Ye Caiping would go back to her parents' home and ask her brother for money.
If he hadn't divorced her, he could spend her income of one hundred taels however he wanted.
The hateful thing is that he divorced her!
No, he didn't regret divorcing her.
He didn't like her in the first place, he loved Shui Niang!
What he hated was why she became rich after he divorced her!
"Well, she can earn one or two hundred taels a month. Can you earn that, Mr. Li? Can you earn it? Can you earn it?"
Mrs. Zhao was like a ghost chasing her life. If he didn't answer, she would keep asking and asking and asking...
Li Zhiyuan was so angry that he couldn't say a word.
Zhang Shui Niang gritted her teeth and said, "You shrewd old woman, this is not the place for you to act wildly!"
"What's the matter? He can't struggle, but you can?" Mrs. Zhao looked at Zhang Shuiniang.
"Hmph, my mother is a rich lady, she won't go out of her way to make money." Li Jiaojiao cursed.
"Tsk tsk, you're a rich lady, how rich is your family?" Mrs. Zhao snorted, "Can your family earn one or two hundred taels a month?"
Zhang Shuiniang: “…”
"Oh, I forgot, your family can't do that." Mrs. Zhao laughed, "I remember it all. Everyone praised your family, saying that they had 30 pigs and 2 cows. But Caiping has all these! I heard that your family can earn 50 taels a month! So they can't earn 100 or 200 taels."
Zhang Shuiniang was so angry that she almost fainted.
In the past, she was always proud of the fact that her family could earn more than fifty taels a month.
No, until just now she was still very proud and kept saying that she was a rich lady.
But compared with the money Ye Caiping earned, this "rich lady" suddenly seemed worthless.
Zhang Shuiniang was overwhelmed by a sense of crisis. She couldn't lose her identity and dignity as a rich lady!
Li Jiaojiao was furious: "She relies on the money she cheated from me..."
"How can you spend your two hundred taels so easily?" Mrs. Zhao was unhappy.
"She gave one hundred taels to her two brothers and parents alone. The remaining one hundred taels was only enough to build a house and a workshop."
"They rely on themselves. You are quite capable, having dug ginseng from our Niutou Mountain and sold it for so much money. But their ability is to make money from money! Your ability is to let people 'cheat' you! Ha ha ha!"
This time, Li Jiaojiao's claim that Ye Cai was spending all her money was no longer tenable.
"You crazy woman! Get out of here!" Li Jiaojiao's eyes turned red with anger. She picked up the laundry basin on the ground and threw it over.
"Ah!" Mrs. Zhao jumped away.
Seeing Li Jiaojiao being bullied, Gu Han stepped forward with a gloomy face and said, "Get lost!"
Mrs. Zhao only felt a chill coming over her. For some reason, she felt a sense of oppression from this "rotten beggar". She was a little scared, so she turned around, twisted her waist, and walked away on her bound feet.
As she walked, she kept muttering, "You are so stingy. You can't even say a few words to me. You are a rich lady! A rich lady who only earns fifty taels a month."
Zhang Shuiniang’s eyes went dark and she almost fainted.
"Mom!" Li Jiaojiao immediately went to help her.
Li Zhiyuan also rushed forward and carried her back to the room.
Zhang Shuiniang lay on the bed and closed her eyes.
Li Zhiyuan was so anxious that he ran to find the doctor himself.
In fact, he also had some escapist intentions.
In his mind, the Zhang family was a wealthy family that he could not reach. As a young lady of the Zhang family, Zhang Shuiniang was naturally noble.
But when they heard Mrs. Zhao say that Ye Caiping could earn one or two hundred taels a month, the Zhang family was instantly outshined by that and seemed just so-so, not so out of their reach.
After taking the patient's pulse, the doctor just said that the qi and blood were attacking the heart and that the patient needed to rest, without even prescribing any medicine.
Zhang Shuiniang didn't faint at all, she was just pretending.
He finally woke up after the doctor left.
"Shui Niang, you're awake..." Li Zhiyuan looked worried.
"Wow... I never thought that after marrying you, I would have to endure such humiliation!" Zhang Shuiniang opened his hand and climbed up, "Jiaojiao, let's go back to my parents' home!"
Li Jiaojiao hurried forward to help her.
"No, Water Maiden..."
Zhang Shuiniang was supported by Li Jiaojiao and left quickly.
If she didn't lose her temper and go back to her parents' home, Zhang Shuiniang really didn't know how to maintain her dignity and respect as a rich lady.
"Water Lady..."
Li Zhiyuan chased for a few steps, and then he was no longer in the mood to chase or coax her.
Thinking of Ye Caiping's current glory, he was almost going crazy with envy, jealousy and regret.
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As soon as Mr. Zhang came back from outside, he heard Mother Lu say that Zhang Shuiniang and her daughter were back.
He came to the main room with a gloomy face and saw Zhang Shuiniang and her daughter chatting with Old Lady Zhang.
"Why did you run back home again?" Mr. Zhang sat on the armchair and asked coldly.
Zhang Shui Niang stood up quickly: "It's just... I missed my parents, so I came back to sit with them."
"Hmph, why did you come back to sit down? You are courting death!" Zhang Fuhu slammed the cup in his hand on the small table. "I heard that your son-in-law's ex-wife made money, and you are unhappy."
Zhang Shuiniang's face changed slightly. She didn't expect that Mrs. Zhao's news would spread so quickly. Now the whole Lijia Village probably knows that the bitch is so successful that she outshines her family!
Li Jiaojiao stared at Zhang Fuhu coldly.
My grandfather's family is the most cold-blooded and selfish.
When the Sun family was still wealthy, he always talked about his beloved daughter. When the Sun family fell into decline, he immediately turned against them. Watching them suffer and doing nothing.
If he had been willing to help them back then, they wouldn't have had such a miserable life in the Sun family.
Li Jiaojiao said coldly: "Since Grandpa knows, he also knows what my mother is suffering from. That Zhao woman actually said that my mother is a rich lady with fifty taels. Her family is too poor and cannot compare to that bitch."
Mr. Zhang was furious.
He had been a wealthy man for so many years, earning fifty taels a month, which was a sum that could be counted on one hand in the surrounding area.
Now people say that he is not as good as a woman, and that woman is a rival to his daughter, so naturally she is also a rival to him.
Mr. Zhang was extremely upset.
But what can he do?
Thinking of this, Mr. Zhang took out his anger on Zhang Shuiniang: "Why, you blame me, your father, for not being rich enough?"
"Speaking of which, Ye Caiping's parents are the poor ones. Do people blame her parents for being poor? She is a few years younger than you! She has the ability to make money to make her parents proud. Why don't you make a lot of money to make us proud?"
Zhang Shuiniang and Li Jiaojiao's faces turned purple as they remembered that Ye Caiping was of the same generation as Zhang Shuiniang and was a few years younger.
"What a curse!" said Zhang Fuhu angrily, "She just killed her ex-husband from the Sun family. She finally found a scholar, but she is still restless every day. She doesn't serve her husband's family well, but is too lazy to ask her mother-in-law to serve her!"
"Now you are the one who can't compete with others, and you blame us? I am ashamed for you for everything that happened! Go back now, or I will cut off all ties with you if you continue to cause trouble!"
Zhang Shuiniang's face turned pale: "No, Dad..."
Li Jiaojiao was very angry: "What do you mean you are too lazy to ask mother-in-law to serve you... Doesn't that prove that my mother is my father's favorite?"
"She doesn't do housework because my father wants her to. My father dotes on her! Your daughter is doted on by her husband, you should be thankful instead of blaming her. Besides, that incident has long passed, and there are servants to do the housework."
"As for now...my mother came back just to maintain her dignity in the Li family! Grandpa, don't forget that the Zhang family's thirty acres of land is still under my father's name! If my mother hadn't found a good husband, how much more grain tax would you have to pay every year."
Zhang Fuhu's face changed slightly.
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