"My god, one bowl costs twenty-five yuan, so a bucket should have at least a hundred bowls, right?"
"Quickly do the math! It's said that Fushunlou pulled out dozens of barrels today!"
"Dozens of barrels? How many barrels?"
"At least twenty barrels..."
"One bucket has one hundred bowls, twenty buckets means two thousand bowls, and one bowl has twenty-five grams. Oh my god..."
“…Fifty taels…”
The Zhao family: Thank you, please don’t let it go next time.
The rumor that the Zhao family earned fifty taels of silver a day spread like wildfire in Hexi Village, and every household knew about it.
"Did you hear that? Nowadays, a bowl of iced rice drink costs 40 yuan in the county town. It's sold by the Zhao family. They're doing big business, selling 2,000 bowls a day..."
"Two thousand bowls? Forty ounces per bowl?"
"Not so good..."
The gossipy woman who was washing clothes by the river was getting more and more excited the more she talked. At this moment, Ma Xiufen was also washing clothes by the river. She came here before dawn. Later, more and more people came, and they were all talking about this matter.
She was tired and dizzy, and thought she had misheard.
"What are you talking about?"
"Oh, Xiufen, you're such an unlucky girl. Why did you get divorced from Zhao Dazhu? You don't know yet, the Zhao family is rich, earning fifty taels of silver a day..."
"Hey, how come it's such a coincidence that the Zhao family just got rich and kicked Xiufen out?"
"Xiu Fen is not cheating on me..."
"If you keep talking nonsense, I'll tear your mouth off," Ma Xiufen was feeling dizzy when she heard someone say she was having an affair, and she was about to curse.
But now the villagers are too lazy to talk about her little things. Instead, they are more curious about her expression after learning the news of the Zhao family's prosperity.
Sometimes people are just bad. They wish Ma Xiufen would fall into the river so that they can provide them with some gossip.
"Alright, alright, let's stop talking about this. The whole village is talking about the Zhao family's big business."
"What big business can the poor Zhao family do? Stop spreading rumors. I think they just want to trick me into going back. I won't go back to their poor home," Ma Xiufen said with great integrity.
It was as if the more she looked down on the Zhao family and the more she belittled them, the more it highlighted how wise it was for her to have an affair.
"What kind of rumors are these? The whole village saw it with their own eyes..."
"Xiu Fen, Xiu Fen, Ma Xiu Fen..."
The Ma family members had already come over and forcibly dragged Ma Xiufen back.
Ma Xiufen was not deaf, and in fact she had heard what everyone was talking about a long time ago, but she was unwilling to believe that the Zhao family was rich. As long as she didn't believe it, it couldn't be true.
So she didn't believe it.
After Ma Xiufen was taken home, Old Lady Ma asked her bluntly, "Do you know what I am doing? Do you know what I am doing? The Zhao family is prosperous and earns fifty taels of silver a day. How could you, a plague-like thing, divorce me?"
Ma Xiufen sneered at this: "Fifty taels? They dare to spread such rumors, and you still dare to believe them? The Zhao family has no money and no connections. Do you think it's possible? If the Zhao family can be prosperous, why didn't they do it a few years ago? They are prosperous at this juncture, most likely deliberately deceiving us. The Zhao family can't find a wife, so they must be regretting it, but they are too embarrassed to tell us. They use this crude method to attract our attention, hoping that we will take the initiative to come to them and make peace. In this way, won't they get my wife for free? How can I be fooled by them? Nowadays, marrying a wife can cost five or six taels for a second-hand one. I won't go back without ten taels of silver."
Ma Xiufen spoke with great confidence, but it only made Old Lady Ma stunned.
After all, getting rich overnight sounds a bit unbelievable no matter how you listen to it. The Ma family believed it because the whole village was talking about it. But if you think about it carefully, is it that easy to get rich overnight?
"Is it true that the Zhao family deliberately fabricated rumors in order to win back Xiufen? They even hired an ox cart from the town to put on a show?" Old Mrs. Ma asked suspiciously.
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