"You Su family are going too far!" Mother Feng shouted angrily. "That two taels of silver was originally Zicai's, more than enough to buy your meager grain. You even want to learn from others and lend money at exorbitant interest rates. You're just dreaming!"
"What does two taels of silver have to do with you!" Madam Su sneered. "That's the money Green Bean Eyes gave to my daughter as an apology."
“Yes, Auntie is right,” the beady-eyed man quickly chimed in.
"You, you all..." Feng's mother was so angry that she fainted on the ground.
“Mother.” Feng Zicai emerged from the back of the crowd, helped his mother up, and pulled out a green money bag from somewhere. “Rice is five copper coins a pound. The five hundred and fifty pounds of rice I owe you is two ounces and seven qian. Add fifty copper coins, and this is two ounces and eight qian. The extra is to repay the kindness you have shown me over the years.”
"You think you can repay a favor with just fifty coins?"
Su Bai sneered, took out fifty copper coins and threw them at Feng Zicai, "It seems that it is your Feng family who are talking nonsense! You are an ungrateful wretch who owes my Su family a life!"
After saying that, he tore the two engagement documents in his hand to shreds.
Immediately, they asked the old village chief for help to write a document announcing the annulment of the marriage, and had Feng Zicai and Su Hua put their fingerprints on it.
Feng Zicai glanced at the document, pressed his fingerprint decisively, and looked at Su Hua with a sneer, "Today's matter is entirely your own fault. Even if you are desperate and no one wants you in the future, don't ever come to the Feng family again."
"The Feng family's gate?" Su Hua's chubby face showed a hint of surprise.
Immediately, he reached out and pushed against the Feng family's gate.
Clang!
The two large wooden doors shattered with a crash, falling to pieces.
"Oh dear, your front door—"
The girl clicked her tongue, then changed her tone, "It's really not sturdy at all! Consider these pieces of wood my wedding gift to Scholar Feng and Miss Meng for their future marriage. I wish you two a happy marriage, may you be a perfect match."
"Su Hua!" Feng Zicai shouted angrily.
But Su Hua and her group had already headed towards the end of the village.
Only a group of villagers remained, watching the spectacle and discussing Meng Yun'er and Feng Zicai.
"So it turns out that the young man from the Feng family has taken a fancy to the young lady from the Meng family. No wonder he resorted to such disgusting means to break off the engagement."
"Yes, the Meng family can be considered a minor wealthy family. They own two hundred acres of land and a noodle shop in the county that makes money every day. Compared to the poor Su family, their conditions are much better."
"Hmph, the Feng family is shameless. They clung to the Su family because they saw they could make money off them, but now that the Su family's daughter has passed the imperial examination, they're looking for someone better. Poor Su family's youngest daughter, with this broken engagement, I'm afraid no one will dare to marry her in the future..."
The Su family was completely unaware of the discussions among the crowd.
At this moment, Su Hua looked at the mud-brick house of Old Su's family at the end of the village and couldn't help but click her tongue in amazement.
Even though the original owner had some impression of the mud house in his fragmented memories, it was far less vivid than seeing it with his own eyes.
The Su family's house is a typical rural courtyard. Facing the gate is the main room, with two main rooms on the east and west sides. In addition, there is a side room, a kitchen, a utility room, and an outhouse.
The front yard is quite large, about an acre, and it's all planted with neat rows of vegetables.
It's late March now, which should be the season when vegetables are growing vigorously.
But the vegetable garden in the front yard of the Su family was all withered and droopy. The best-growing vegetables were no more than the length of a finger, and most of them were just close to the ground. At first glance, the whole front yard looked like a giant bald head.
"Hey, these old hags finally laid an egg today! Eldest daughter-in-law, hurry up and steam a bowl of egg custard, and heat up some of the white rice porridge from this morning to calm Hua'er down."
Su Hua looked up and saw Su Bai take a round egg out from under the hen's belly.
Although the egg was round, it was pitifully small, only slightly larger than a bird's egg.
The Su family raises five hens. Normally, hens are more likely to lay eggs in the spring, but for the Su family, this "more likely to lay eggs" only means that they can collect one egg per month, or two eggs per month.
And these one or two eggs all ended up in the original owner's stomach.
"Yes, I'll go right away." Zhao Shi quickly took the eggs.
Looking at the round egg, Su Lao Er's wife, Qian Shi, couldn't help but swallow hard.
"Mom, I'll go help my sister-in-law watch the fire too." With that, she turned and followed her into the kitchen.
Su Bai's eyes twitched, and she immediately yelled at her back, "Second son's wife, this is food for Hua'er. If I see you stealing any, you can forget about having dinner tonight."
"Don't worry, Mother, I'm just smelling the aroma." Madam Qian smiled broadly, but her eyes kept glancing at the pot.
"This girl is so easily swayed," Madam Su scolded softly. Turning around, she pulled Su Hua down to sit, her eyes full of tenderness. "If that lousy scholar Meng's girl wants to take her, we don't care. After all, our Hua'er is so beautiful. If that old woman hadn't cried and begged for an engagement back then, I wouldn't have wanted such a good girl to be with her ugly son. It's a good thing that the engagement is called off now. I'll find you a handsome young man again, who will be a thousand times better than that Feng Zicai!"
“Mother is right!” The three Su brothers nodded vigorously.
“Our Hua’er is as beautiful as a flower, Feng Zicai isn’t even worthy to carry her shoes!”
Looking at her thick waist, Su Hua fell into deep thought for the first time.
Could it be that although this body is a bit fat, the face is quite handsome?
After all, even if the mother has a problem with her taste, surely all three sons have a problem with their taste?
"Even if Hua'er doesn't get married, it's fine. I'll take care of her for the rest of my life and see her off in her old age!" Su Sanhu clenched his fists and pounded his chest loudly.
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