Chapter 152 Hot Potato
The rumors about the Bai family in the county had already spread, and they had heard a lot of them in the town. Shi Liu was very sad about Cui Lan's ending, and now seeing the high-spirited Su Chuan, she felt mixed emotions.
Su Chuan nodded politely to her.
Shi Liu couldn't help but ask, "Su Chuan, have you heard about Cui Lan? She's in a miserable state now. Do you want to go see her?"
Su Chuan tilted his head in confusion, "Miss Pomegranate, Cuilan and I have nothing to do with each other anymore, why would I go to see her?"
Shi Liu was startled and looked a little embarrassed. She bowed to Su Chuan and then ran away.
Su Chunlin shook his head and muttered, "This girl is really stupid."
Su Chuan didn't react at all, he just said: "She's not stupid, she just wants to test my attitude. Cuilan left Dongmen Village to seek refuge with her, I guess they are still in contact."
Su Chuan actually guessed this correctly, but that’s all for later.
After entering the gate of the Shen family, Su Chuan was curious about everything. He went into the main hall and drank a bowl of hot brown sugar ginger tea. He felt warm all over. He looked at Shen Yi and said, "Brother-in-law, if you have any good things here, just arrange them for me. These twenty taels of silver are all yours!"
He slapped the twenty taels on the table generously, with a grin on his face.
Su Chunlin's eyelids twitched, and he scolded with a smile: "Even if it's not your money, you can't squander it like this! Twenty taels is enough to buy a few pigs, and there's more than enough to spend!"
Su Chuan chuckled twice, "Uncle, don't be so honest. Everything is expensive in winter. Just sell your things at a high price. If they are too cheap, people won't like them!"
Su Chunlin was stunned for a moment, unable to figure it out, and muttered, "What a scapegoat!"
Shen Yi tried hard not to laugh, "Okay, since you ask me to do that, I must come up with something good. Just wait."
Having said that, Shen Yi went back to the backyard to find Su Tai.
Su Tai immediately ran to the Water Space to set up a nest and cast a net, and then went straight to the Wood Space vegetable store to buy a basket of corn, a basket of cabbage, a basket of green vegetables, and a basket of bright red tomatoes.
Only after getting the things into the warehouse did she go to the water time and space to close the net.
There are a lot of big fish in the places where the nests are made. There can be several big fish weighing five or six kilograms in a net bag. If you are lucky, you can even catch a big grass carp weighing more than ten kilograms.
In accordance with Su Chuan's request, she filled two large wooden barrels with live fish before giving up.
After things are ready.
Shen Yi called Su Chunlin and Su Chuan over to help.
When Su Chuan saw those fresh vegetables, he was shocked. "This, this, this, this is not right! How can there be such beautiful green vegetables in the middle of winter? How did they do it?"
Shen Yi explained vaguely, "The greenhouse vegetables we made ourselves are not easy to take care of, so it's not too much to sell you ten taels of silver for these baskets of vegetables. The remaining ten taels are these two large buckets of fish, take a look at them too."
Su Chuan opened the lid and was immediately splashed with water in his face. He felt that the bucket was filled with fish and he couldn't count how many there were.
"Brother-in-law, I am truly convinced! Completely convinced! Just wait, when I get these things back to the county, Master Zhu might even want to do business with you after seeing them."
Chen Yi hurriedly stopped him seriously, "Cousin, I sell things to you because we are relatives, I don't do business outside! These greenhouse vegetables were originally made by me specifically for Xiaotai, there are only so few, how can I keep selling them outside?
As for this fish, there is no fixed number for how many you can catch. I only go fishing when someone tells me to in advance. If I catch something, I sell it. If I don’t, I don’t sell it. We are all villagers, so we are easy to talk to. If Mr. Zhu comes, I really can’t serve him. You have to find a way to pass it on to me.”
Seeing that Chen Yi really didn't want to deal with those rich and powerful people, Su Chuan nodded solemnly, "Okay! I will definitely make things clear later and won't embarrass you."
After getting what he wanted, Su Chuan left contentedly.
Su Chunlin loved his granddaughter so much that he stayed overnight, hoping to bring some things back to the village to sell tomorrow, thus killing two birds with one stone.
At the same time, Shi Liu also pulled Guokui back to the town.
She first went to reply to Mrs. Bai, then she secretly left the Ma family and entered a remote small courtyard.
Cuilan was lying on a bed made of several wooden boards, barely catching her breath.
There was a hint of disdain in Shi Liu's eyes, but she still pretended to be concerned and asked, "Do you feel better today?"
Cuilan heard the voice and slowly opened her eyes, tears falling silently, "I feel much better, thank you for helping me."
Shi Liu looked away awkwardly and said, "Don't thank me, this is what the eldest young master wanted. He said that you followed him for a long time and you have some feelings for him. He doesn't want you to have a miserable ending, so he redeemed you and you will be free from now on.
But you can’t let the eldest young lady know about these things, and you can’t go back to the city from now on.”
Cuilan lay on the worn wooden board and cried bitterly, "I have no one to rely on. There is no place for me in this big world!"
Shi Liu hurriedly advised: "Who said that? You are Su Chuan's wife after all. I just saw him in Shenjia Village. It seems that he went to run errands for Master Zhu to buy things. It can be seen that he is very popular in front of Master Zhu.
You have nowhere to go now, why don't you go back and admit your mistakes to Su Chuan and apologize! Su Chuan is easy to talk to, maybe he will soften his heart and accept you again, right? "
Cuilan was stunned for a moment and slowly bit her lip.
Shi Liu continued to persuade, "Who else can you count on besides Su Chuan now? Reputation is not as important as being alive! Listen to me, go to Dongmen Village to find Su Chuan's uncle and his family, stay here and we can talk about other things later."
Young Master Bai secretly sent someone to find her and asked her to settle Cuilan secretly without explaining anything, and not to alarm Bai Rong.
She didn't have that kind of ability, so she could only think of ways to get rid of this hot potato as soon as possible, and the most suitable candidate was Su Chuan.
Cuilan was too embarrassed to do so. After all, she had never looked at Su Chuan in the eye before and had never been nice to him. Now she was asking him for help, and she really couldn't get over it.
But Shi Liu was right when he said that survival is the most important thing in the world, and now she has no better way out.
After struggling for a while, Cuilan finally compromised and agreed.
Shi Liu also breathed a sigh of relief and immediately went out to hire a carriage to take Cui Lan to Dongmen Village.
Along the way, Cuilan was thinking about how to talk to Su Chunlin and Han, how to explain her situation, and at the same time, she had to find a way to get Su Chunlin to keep her.
Of course, all this was based on their lack of knowledge. Cuilan also didn't think that Su Chuan would return to the village in such a short time and make his misdeeds known to everyone.
Just as Cuilan was daydreaming, the carriage stopped.
"Girl, look here, is this the place?"
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