The next morning, Xie Jiaojiao got up early, carried the crabs in a basket as usual, and took the ox cart to the town to deliver the goods to Qingfenglou.

Shopkeeper Chen had been waiting for her in the restaurant since early morning. When he saw her from a distance, he immediately came out to greet her: "Xie Xiao-Xiao, you are finally here. Did you bring enough reptiles today?"

"Shopkeeper Chen, this is a crab, please stop making the crawling noises! Otherwise how will your guests eat it?" Xie Jiaojiao said with a smile.

Shopkeeper Chen slapped his mouth. He had been corrected yesterday but he didn't pay attention.

As Xie Jiaojiao spoke, she opened the backpack, which was half full of wild crabs.

Shopkeeper Chen's eyes were filled with laughter. This was all money! After weighing it a few times, Xie Jiaojiao left with a string of copper coins.

As luck would have it, he ran into Jiang Weinan and his group on the road. Seeing that they came out of a gambling house, he didn't say hello and just walked past the three of them as if he didn't see them.

It was He Hu who called her back.

"Hey, thank you Jiaojiao!"

Xie Jiaojiao was carrying a backpack and pretended not to hear!

He Hu rushed forward and Jiang Weinan didn't have time to hold him back.

"Hey, Xie Jiaojiao, you're in town so early in the morning! What good things did you sell today?"

"none of your business?"

"you……"

"What am I?"

He Hu was speechless because of her.

Jiang Weinan walked up at this time, and looked at Xie Jiaojiao, and then they both looked away.

He Hu pulled Jiang Weinan and said, "Weinan, break off the engagement with this stinky girl! Let her become an old maid! She will never be able to get married!"

Xie Jiaojiao sneered: "I'm afraid you are disappointed. The date for our wedding has been set! Remember to come and have a drink at the wedding!"

After Xie Jiaojiao finished speaking, she left a few stunned men standing there and walked away.

After Xie Jiaojiao had gone far away, He Hu came back to his senses and looked at Jiang Weinan in disbelief: "Are you really going to marry Xie Jiaojiao?"

Jiang Weinan glanced at him, thinking about what Xie Jiaojiao had just said, and unconsciously felt a little happy in his heart.

"Didn't you tell me to marry her and torture her?"

What the hell!

He Hu grabbed Jiang Weinan's shoulders and said, "Tell me, are you really interested in that girl?"

Jiang Weinan rolled his eyes.

Zhang Fei beside him said, "If he doesn't care, can he marry her?"

Jiang Weinan pretended to yawn and said, "Okay, I've been busy all night. I'm going to go back and rest. I won't keep you company any longer."

After saying that, he parted ways with the two people and turned away. But when he passed an alley, he looked back and saw that the two people had also gone back. He immediately ran back to chase Xie Jiaojiao.

Seeing that it was still early, Xie Jiaojiao bought a pound of meat at the town entrance and walked home carrying the basket on her back. If she had waited for Uncle Li's ox cart, she might have to wait until noon.

Walking on the road alone is warmer than sitting on a ox cart.

In a daze, Xie Jiaojiao heard someone calling her from behind. She turned around and saw that it was her enemy fiancé Jiang Weinan.

Xie Jiaojiao stood still, waiting for him to come forward.

Jiang Weinan walked up to Xie Jiaojiao and panted slightly: "Why are you walking so fast?"

Xie Jiaojiao didn't answer him, but asked, "What's the matter?"

Jiang Weinan hesitated for a moment, then took out a box from his arms and gave it to her: "Since our marriage is set in stone, this is for you!"

As soon as Xie Jiaojiao took it, Jiang Weinan turned around and ran away.

"Eh……"

Before she could say a word, Jiang Weinan had already run away.

Xie Jiaojiao opened the box and found a jade lock inside.

It looks very valuable.

Xie Jiaojiao frowned and glanced at Jiang Weinan's disappearing back, thinking that such a valuable thing must be returned to him the next time they met.

When I get home, I start to get busy again. There is always endless work to do at home.

A few days later, Sun Ruhua looked at the brown sugar hanging out to dry and asked Xie Jiaojiao, "Are you still going to sell this brown sugar to Shopkeeper Chen?"

"Just sell it to him. It's not much this time, just a few dozen kilograms. We can keep some for ourselves to eat during the New Year."

Sun Ruhua agreed.

Tian Hu worked for ten days and earned more than one penny of silver. He was very happy. With this money, he could have a good New Year with his grandmother this year!

Moreover, he has been catching reptiles every day these days, which is another source of income. When he has saved enough money, he will leave it for his grandmother to buy some cotton quilts to cover her so that she won't be cold at night!

Later, many families in the village heard about Xie Jiaojiao's family collecting reptiles, so they caught some and came to ask Xie Jiaojiao's family if they would keep them.

Xie Jiaojiao refused directly. Qingfeng Tower only needed about one bucket a day. What Xie Zhiyi, Niu Er and Tian Hu caught was enough. If others didn't want the extra, she couldn't take it either!

Those who came to ask were a little disappointed, thinking, how great it would be if they had established a good relationship with Xie Jiaojiao in the past. Everyone knew that Xie Jiaojiao did accept children, but she only accepted children from the Niu family and Tian Hu. The Niu family had a good relationship with their family, and Tian Hu was in such a difficult situation in the village, so they thought about it and just let it go!

But they let it go, but Xie Zhili couldn’t!

Especially last time when the second child in the family fell ill, it drained all the family’s money!

In the past, the whole family lived together. Xie Zhili felt that except for the time when his father was sick, they had never been short of money. But now that he is the head of the family, the family is always worried about being short of money!

Zhou Cuihong was also unhappy: "Boss, go talk to them and ask them to accept the reptiles we catch! A pound of reptiles is a few copper coins, which is much more profitable than what you make from weaving things!"

"Then you have to make her willing to accept it! Have you forgotten that my mother beat me up half a month ago?"

Zhou Cuihong rolled her eyes in anger: "If you ask me, your mother is biased! Our family is in such a difficult time, but she doesn't even help! How can there be such a cruel mother in the world!"

Her words really touched the heart of Xie Zhili. Isn't his mother biased?

Life over there is so good now, she doesn't even think about her son at all!

The little son in Zhou Cuihong's arms started crying again at this time, which was very annoying to hear.

Zhou Cuihong looked at Xie Zhili and suddenly came up with an idea: "Boss, come here..."

After Xie Zhili heard what she said, he looked at Zhou Cuihong and frowned and said, "Is this really feasible?"

"Of course! As long as mom stays in our house, we can let Xie Jiaojiao take the money for her support every month, and it will be enough for our family to live on!"

After the two of them discussed it, the Xie family quarreled that night. Xie Zhili shouted that he wanted to divorce Zhou Cuihong, saying that it was because he married such a woman that his family was in such a mess! His mother didn't even recognize him now...

Zhou Cuihong’s crying could be heard by all the neighbors nearby!

I heard that Zhou Cuihong took Xie Kun away in the middle of the night!

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