"You bitch! How dare you come here? I'll beat you to death today!" Madam Hu went berserk as soon as she saw her, and picked up the teapot next to her and smashed it.
She hated Liu Yuqing so much that she wished she could tear her flesh and blood apart!
Why? Hahaha... That bitch Liu Yuqing! When she finally got pregnant, she actually gave her a Guanyin statue with musk hidden inside!
Poor thing, her unborn child died in the womb when she was eight months pregnant!
At first, she thought it was because she hadn't been careful enough that this happened. But then Liu Yuqing's personal maid came to tell her the truth, and she realized that this venomous woman had been pretending to be pitiful and weak in front of her all this time, just so that she could live well in the Hu family!
The Hu family has had only one son per generation for several generations, and this generation has not even had a single child born.
When her husband brought Liu Yuqing back home, she didn't want her to come in. But Boss Hu said that Liu Yuqing had just given birth to twins, a boy and a girl, and would definitely be able to give the Hu family a few big, healthy sons. Considering the issue of meeting the ancestors after death, she finally agreed to let Liu Yuqing come in.
Seven years have passed, and the husband has taken several concubines, yet the Hu family still has no offspring.
Just as she began to suspect that someone in her family was secretly causing trouble, she discovered she was pregnant.
So she began to focus on her pregnancy, leaving the household chores to Liu Yuqing, who usually acted appropriately.
But she never expected that she would raise such an ungrateful child!
If it weren't for her husband's insistence on sparing her life because she had been at home for many years, she would have killed Liu Yuqing the very day she discovered she had been framed!
“I advise you, Madam, not to get angry,” Liu Yuqing said smugly, straightening her back. “Things are different now. You can’t mess with me now, not even a small family like the Hu family.”
Madam Hu then realized that Liu Yuqing had already been kicked out of the house, but now she was standing in front of her, swaggering around. Could it be that she had some kind of extraordinary encounter?
At this moment, Mr. Hu walked in from outside. Seeing the scene before him, he quickly stepped forward and pulled Mrs. Hu away.
"Madam, may I speak to you in private?" Mr. Hu, his forehead dripping with cold sweat, pulled his wife behind the screen in the flower hall.
Madam Hu was both angry and anxious. "My lord, you're so foolish! How could you let this woman come home again? She killed our child!"
Mr. Hu looked helpless and gently patted her hand, saying, "No matter what she has done, we can't kick her out."
"Why?" Madam Hu almost screamed, "She's our enemy! As long as she's alive, I..."
“But her former sister-in-law is the wife of General Lu Yanzheng, the protector of the nation!” Boss Hu whispered quickly in Madam Hu’s ear.
Mrs. Hu was stunned and didn't react for a long time.
Mr. Hu then continued, "Actually, she came to see me a couple of days ago. At first, I didn't believe her relationship with the General, but I checked, and her sister-in-law is indeed the General's wife. Everyone in the county government knows that lady. You can't lie about that."
"The Great General Who Protects the Nation?" Madam Hu murmured, shaking her head repeatedly.
She couldn't believe it! How could that bitch have relatives of such high status? Heaven is so unfair!
Mr. Hu knew that Mrs. Hu was upset, but having fled from Qiongzhou, he absolutely dared not offend anyone with connections in Yongshan County.
"Madam, I know we can't let our child's revenge go unavenged, but... you have to think about our whole family too!" Mr. Hu sighed.
Mrs. Hu kept shaking her head, "No, impossible... How could someone like her..."
At this point, as if she had just thought of something, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she grabbed Mr. Hu's sleeve. "Master, I've got it! This slut was the sister-in-law of that general's wife, yet she's willing to become your concubine. There must be something fishy about this!"
Mr. Hu frowned and thought carefully for a moment, then shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be. She only came to find me after she confirmed that her scholar husband was dead. At that time, I had to leave Kaner Town, Yongshan County immediately, so I could only ask her if she wanted to come with me to change her mood."
Actually, he hadn't initially thought of taking Liu Yuqing as a concubine. However, Liu Yuqing and he developed feelings for each other on their journey to Qiongzhou. Only after Liu Yuqing gave her her consent did he bring her home.
“No,” Mrs. Hu shook her head, “the more I think about it, the more something seems wrong…”
Mr. Hu wanted to say more, but was interrupted by Mrs. Hu.
Madam Hu looked at him firmly and said, "It's fine to let her stay, but she can only stay in her own courtyard and is not allowed to wander around the mansion!"
"This..." Seeing that his wife had agreed, Mr. Hu hesitated for a moment before nodding. "Okay, I'll go talk to her."
Madam Hu narrowed her eyes and looked out through the screen, as if she wanted to poke a hole through Liu Yuqing.
She won't just give up like that!
There's definitely something wrong with what happened back then, Liu Yuqing, you just wait!
...
Liu Yuqing began her days of taking advantage of the Hu family's power, while in Dingshui Village, everyone was working hard.
Meng Tianze drove the mule cart swiftly into the village, jumped off the cart with agility, and shouted into the village, "Folks, the ordered items are back!"
This shout immediately alerted everyone in the village.
Jiang Qinyu naturally came as well.
Village Chief Li, panting heavily, almost lost his shoes as he ran up to Meng Tianze and asked, "Where's the stuff?"
Meng Tianze chuckled as he lifted the tarpaulin off the mule cart and then took down the custom-made coal briquette makers one by one.
This thing was originally called a coal briquette maker, but Jiang Qinyu used the name "coal briquette maker" to make it easier for the villagers to understand.
"Great! The supplies have finally arrived!" Village Chief Li looked at Jiang Qinyu excitedly. "Niece, come and take a look. Are they up to standard? If they are, we can start making coal briquettes today!"
Jiang Qinyu stepped forward to examine it, then smiled and nodded, saying, "Zhang the blacksmith's skills are indeed excellent, but I'm not sure. Why don't we go and try it now?"
Upon hearing this, everyone rushed forward and looted all twenty custom-made coal briquettes.
A group of people rushed towards the ancestral hall.
These days they have transported a lot of coal from the mountains, and under Jiang Qinyu's guidance, most of this coal has been processed into coal powder by the villagers.
The old men spent this time searching for sticky yellow mud, and now all of it is piled up in the open space in front of the ancestral hall.
Jiang Qinyu directed everyone to mix coal powder, yellow mud, and water in a 1:1:1 ratio, and then personally demonstrated how to make the first coal briquette.
"Wow! Look, everyone! It's done! It really looks like a honeycomb!"
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