Huang Ergou no longer thought about escaping or teaching Su Qingluan and Liu Yunniang a lesson. He only had one thought in his mind: he didn't want to die!
No wonder this guy was scared.
Originally, Huang Ergou was a lazy scoundrel who lived a life of mediocrity. If it weren't for his deceptive appearance, Su Qingluan wouldn't have taken a fancy to him.
He also relied on his "appearance advantage" to cheat people along the way. Although he was caught in Liangzhou and was wanted with a reward, he was successful in cheating more often than not.
He knew that his "iron mouth" would be exposed sooner or later, and he would have to keep changing jobs. But even so, he would rather live in fear than find a decent job - even though he was not very old and could still work.
After all, why bother to do hard work when you can easily make money by cheating people?
It is precisely because of Huang Ergou's laziness day after day that he is now increasingly unable to endure any hardship - both physically and mentally.
Frankly speaking, the medicine Su Qingluan had Mu Xingzhi prescribe wasn't particularly painful, and for many strong-willed people it wouldn't be a big deal. But Huang Ergou wasn't like that. This little bit of physical "pain" and "lesson" was enough to turn him into an obedient dog, completely losing the will to resist.
Despite this, Su Qingluan and Liu Yunniang did not dare to be careless - after all, if they found another person like this, they didn't know how long it would take. They didn't care, but Chen Zhi and Zhaodi couldn't afford to delay.
After all, marriage is a major event, so proper etiquette should be observed. Although Su Qingluan didn't think Zhaodi's parents would be willing to give a "money-losing" woman the treatment of a ten-mile red dowry, in her opinion, Zhaodi had been by her side for nearly two years, and she was considered her little sister.
It doesn't need to be much, at least the three matchmakers and six betrothal gifts cannot be neglected. As for the dowry and other things, Su Qingluan plans to wait until the wedding day to send them directly to the couple as a gift. This way, Zhaodi's parents will not be greedy and reach into their daughter's dowry.
Hearing Su Qingluan's plan, Liu Yunniang couldn't help but joked, "You, the shopkeeper, actually worry more than his parents. If you didn't know, you would think you were Zhaodi's biological mother."
Su Qingluan sneered, "I can't say anything about other families, but for Zhaodi, I'm definitely better to her than her parents. After all, not many parents are so heartless as to kill their own daughter just to have a son."
"What?!" Hearing such horrifying words, Liu Yunniang jumped up from her chair in shock. "How...how did you know that?"
"Why do you think I've been looking for a scammer who matches my appearance?" Su Qingluan recalled what she had found. She couldn't even maintain her sneer and returned to her expressionless state. "Of course, I've been sure during this time that if Zhaodi obeyed her 'parents' orders', she would definitely jump into the fire pit."
In fact, at the beginning, Su Qingluan investigated the personalities and preferences of Zhaodi's parents just to make her plan go more smoothly - after all, there are no unsuccessful scammers in the world, only victims who are not "to her taste".
Everyone has their own human weaknesses, and as long as they are grasped and properly exploited, everyone can be deceived.
Originally, Su Qingluan thought that Zhaodi's parents were just ordinary people who favored boys over girls, but after a careful investigation, she realized that "favoring boys over girls" was too mild an adjective to describe these two heartless scumbags.
After all, there are not many families who are so patriarchal that they would have the heart to sacrifice their living daughters in exchange for sons.
Fortunately, there was a "witch" at that time who couldn't bear to see this happen, and she made up a story that this child could bless the unborn boy. In the eyes of Zhaodi's parents, he had some "use value". Otherwise, Zhaodi would have turned into a pool of flesh and blood and been reincarnated.
However, it was precisely because those two scumbags were so superstitious that Su Qingluan had a better chance of winning.
In fact, Su Qingluan's plan was very simple. She asked Huang Ergou to pretend to be a "master" and tell fortunes for Zhaodi's parents, making them believe that marrying that old man would destroy the "blessings" of their precious son, and instead let them marry Chen Zhi smoothly.
However, this matter cannot be rushed, otherwise, although the other party is a scumbag, he is not a complete fool. So Su Qingluan asked Huang Ergou to set up the stall as usual every day, and set a rule that only three hexagrams will be counted per month, and no more will be counted.
Soon after, he hired a few people to spread the word that there was a half-immortal named Huang in this area who was very authentic and could predict things with impeccable accuracy. Now that the Dragon Boat Festival was approaching, there was a saying that evil spirits began to grow during the Dragon Boat Festival, so realgar wine was needed to "exorcise" the evil spirits. However, Zhaodi's younger brother, Tianbao, the lifeblood of the family, was only a child of six or seven years old, so he naturally could not drink realgar wine.
I just don't know if this child is weak or what, but he gets sick every May and July. In Su Qingluan's opinion, it's just that children are weak in the summer, and food is more easily spoiled, and there are more mosquito bites, so they will get sick if they are not careful.
However, in the eyes of superstitious people, there is another way of saying it. After all, it is said that "epidemic ghosts" will come to the world around the Dragon Boat Festival, and the 15th day of the seventh lunar month is the legendary "Ghost Festival".
Therefore, every May or July when the "gates of hell" opened, Zhaodi's parents were like ants on a hot pan. Not only did they keep a close eye on their precious little son, but they also asked around for ways to "eliminate disasters and misfortunes" and "drive away ghosts and evil spirits."
It is only about half a month away from the Dragon Boat Festival, and it is naturally the "stress period" for Zhaodi's parents. Therefore, Su Qingluan wants to take advantage of this period to lure the couple, whose guard has been lowered because of their concern for their son, into the trap.
However, as the saying goes, "let out the long line to catch the big fish", if you put the bait as soon as the fish comes, it will make the fish break free. So if you want to catch big fish, you must first "lay the nest".
It was precisely because of this that Su Qingluan instructed Huang Ergou to announce that the "three hexagrams" for this month had been calculated when he first met Zhaodi's parents, and to come early next month.
However, some things are just like that. If "Huang Banxianer" immediately promises to solve all the troublesome problems, it might arouse the suspicion of his brother's parents.
When he made the excuse of "please come back next month", Zhaodi's parents believed him even more. On the last evening of April, they came early to ask whether "Huang Banxian" would come here to tell fortunes and set up a stall as usual the next day.
Seeing the other party so anxious, Su Qingluan, who was observing in the dark, nodded: The fish is hooked!
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