Chapter 323 The Consequences of Offending a Lucky Star
The Lin and Hong families were no longer willing to join forces with the Qiu family to target the Zhou family.
Before they left, the two women wanted to ask Du Wanchun for new rice seeds.
However, Du Wanchun refused, saying that there were no more new rice seeds available.
Knowing they had offended the Zhou family, Lin and Hong were too ashamed to continue the conversation.
Over here, after Lin and the others left, Qiu looked at her injured hands and feet and became increasingly angry.
For some reason, she suddenly felt that the two dogs must be the result of Du Wanchun's sorcery.
Du Wanchun saved her only on purpose, to make her feel like she was caught in the middle.
To be fair, she was actually about 80-90% right.
However, no one would believe her if she said that. The villagers just thought she was talking nonsense because she was frightened by being bitten by a dog.
From then on, no one dared to say that Du Wanchun was a monster.
The next day, when Aunt Zhou and the Third Prince returned home and heard about the incident of being splashed with dog blood, she was so angry that she ran to Qiu's door and started cursing loudly.
This was the first time she had ever cursed someone like this, so much so that Qiu Shi dared not raise her head in the village.
Later, everyone in the village knew that Qiu had gone to the Zhou family to splash dog blood.
She even said that the dog deserved to bite her, and that the dog she killed might have been the offspring of those two black dogs.
After Aunt Zhou left, Qiu burst into tears in her room.
Originally, her husband and son were quite supportive of her, but now everyone thinks she's gone too far.
Not long after, a man suddenly appeared in the village, holding a portrait in his hand.
The person in the portrait looks somewhat like Aunt Zhou.
However, the villagers, not wanting to cause trouble, all voluntarily said they had never seen this person before.
When they arrived at the Qiu family's residence, Qiu's wife noticed that the person in the portrait looked somewhat familiar.
The visitor was clearly a high-ranking official from the capital, and he kept urging her, "Did you see clearly? This is a very important person."
Upon hearing this, Qiu assumed it was some high-ranking official from the capital coming to find relatives.
She still harbored resentment towards Du Wanchun and Aunt Zhou, thinking that she couldn't let Aunt Zhou go to the capital to enjoy a life of luxury, so she deliberately said, "You look somewhat familiar."
The high-ranking official was delighted. "Where have I seen you before?"
After thinking for a moment, Qiu said, "In Yanzhou."
"What Yanzhou?"
Yanzhou is in the far west, a hundred and eight thousand miles away from here, in a completely different direction.
Qiu wanted to lure them to a more distant place.
She was only thinking about taking revenge on the Zhou family, unaware that she was actually helping them.
If the emperor found Zhou Da Niang at this time and learned that she had married the Third Prince, he would go mad and kill them both.
The high-ranking official actually believed Qiu's words. Seeing that he had searched for so long in Qingzhou Prefecture without finding anyone, he immediately took his men and left for Yanzhou.
It takes more than twenty days to travel from Qingzhou Prefecture to Yanzhou Prefecture, and you have to search through each county one by one. It would take at least half a year.
Qiu was still feeling smug when, not long after, she heard her son say that their rice had been infested with locusts.
Locusts eat everything.
In the past, Qingzhou Prefecture suffered a locust plague, and many people almost starved to death. Now the locusts have come again.
Strangely enough, they don't eat the rice grown by the Zhou family.
Later, everyone learned that Du Wanchun had developed a herbal medicine that could drive away these locusts.
But Qiu refused to believe it, and now she herself has fallen victim to the virus, and her food supplies are almost gone.
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