The evil mother-in-law does not whitewash, she only abuses her children

Xiaoxue must never marry Xu Dabao.

This is the consensus between Uncle Gu and Aunt Gu.

The two asked Gu Youtian and Jia to give a definite answer. They did not want to give up Gu Xiaoxue, but there was no better way now.

If you can collect five hundred taels, everything will be fine.

"Then let Ruinian marry Xu Xinghua. I believe Xu Yong will be happy with this marriage." Aunt Gu said.

Jia said, "No, Xinghua has pockmarks all over her face and a bad temper."

Aunt Gu sneered, "Do you think your Ruinian is a treasure? Isn't he a cripple? A pockmarked man is not worthy of a cripple? You still look down on Xinghua. Xinghua has pockmarks on her face, but it doesn't prevent her from having children. Can Ruinian make money to support the family? Not to mention that he is lame, even if he wasn't lame, he wouldn't be able to make money to support the family. For a man like him, it's good enough to have a wife."

Gu Ruinian felt deeply insulted.

"Don't worry about my family's affairs, Grandpa and Grandma." Gu Ruinian ordered them to leave.

Second Aunt Gu rolled her eyes and said, "Do you think we want to bother? It's you who caused the trouble and brought shame to the whole clan."

Gu Ruinian almost broke down and said, "I will take responsibility for the trouble I caused. Didn't Second Grandpa and Second Grandma want to protect Xiaoxue? Don't worry, I, Ruinian, can protect Xiaoxue. I really don't need you to interfere in my family's affairs, please go back."

Uncle Gu and Aunt Gu were so angry that their hearts were swelling. They left, leaving behind the "ungrateful bastard".

Only Grandpa Gu and his family were left in the yard.

"Ruinian, how did you protect your sister?" Gu Fengnian couldn't help but ask.

Gu Ruinian smiled faintly and said, "Then you don't have to worry about it, brother."

Wei rolled his eyes. Why was he pretending to be so cool at this point?

Seeing that everyone except Wei, Gu Honglian and Yao family were looking at him expectantly, Gu Ruinian said, "I have my own way. Don't worry. I will have my own way when the Xu family comes to pick them up in ten days."

Gu Youtian frowned. This son has always been unreliable.

No matter how much he said, he planned to go to Xu Yong's house and let Gu Ruinian marry Xu Xinghua.

Mr. and Mrs. Gu saw how confident Gu Ruinian was. Although they felt a little uneasy, they still believed him to some extent.

Be prepared for both situations. If it doesn't work, just let your grandson marry Xu Xinghua.

Thinking of this, Old Lady Gu sighed and directed everyone to clean up the yard, gather up the usable things, and use the broken fences and wooden doors as firewood. She also found two bags of grain in the cellar.

Fortunately, he hid well and was not poached by Xu Jin.

Gu Fengnian carried Gu Ruinian into the house and placed him on a bed with three legs cut off.

"Honglian, go to the clan leader and make excuses for the pot." Old Mrs. Gu said to Gu Honglian, who was doing nothing but watching the family members work.

The sun has set and every family in the village is preparing dinner. They have been traveling all day and have not eaten yet, so they need a pot to cook.

"Okay." Gu Honglian ran away.

Gu Ruinian sat on the bed, looking at Gu Honglian's cheerful figure through the window, with a fierce light in his eyes.

Before borrowing the pot, Gu Honglian went to Tong Huaqiong's house.

"Sister-in-law, don't you know what has happened to our house? Even the bed was smashed. Now we can only sleep on the floor." Gu Honglian sat opposite Tong Huaqiong and told her about the situation of the old house.

"That's unfair to you." Tong Huaqiong smiled faintly.

Gu Honglian felt disappointed, as she thought her sister-in-law would ask her to move to her home.

"Sister-in-law, Xu Dabao's mother had a fight with my second sister-in-law. Xu Dabao came to support his mother and said that he would get married in ten days. My second uncle and second aunt went to my house and did not agree with Xiaoxue going to the Xu family to pay off the debt. Ruinian said that he had a way to prevent Xiaoxue from paying off the debt. When asked what the method was, he refused to say a word. Isn't it funny?" said Gu Honglian.

Tong Huaqiong just found it funny when he heard this. Gu Ruinian has a solution? He has no solution at all.

He wondered if he could collect 500 taels of silver and get Xiaoxue married.

Wait, Tong Huaqiong looked at Gu Honglian, which made Gu Honglian feel creepy.

Gu Honglian asked in a trembling voice: "Sister-in-law, what are you looking at? What's wrong with me?"

Tong Huaqiong said: "Do you still remember what I told you this morning?"

Gu Honglian thought about it and almost forgot that her sister-in-law reminded her in the morning to prevent Gu Ruinian from being depressed and to exchange her for Xiaoxue to pay off Xu Dabao’s debt.

She had forgotten all about the journey from the capital to her home.

"Well, sister-in-law, I understand. I still need to go borrow a pot." Gu Honglian said and ran away.

......

After being busy in Pingchuan for two months, Tong Huaqiong returned to Qinghewan to relax and felt tired all over.

After dinner and a shower, I fell into the familiar bed.

The summer night was quiet and the moonlight shone through the window into the room. Tong Huaqiong fell asleep in such a quiet summer night.

I slept until the sky was bright.

Tong Huaqiong got out of bed, the maid Xiaoxi brought her water for washing her face, and Mrs. Yang put breakfast on the table.

After Tong Huaqiong hurriedly finished her meal, she put on a straw hat and carried a basket to the cotton field at the foot of the West Mountain.

The cotton is growing well, with green stalks and yellow flowers waving in the wind. The cotton bolls have grown to the size of a baby's fist.

Gu Dahan and Su Chengmin were working with hired workers in the cotton fields, picking out extra cotton bolls.

This is also what Tong Huaqiong told him, that scientific planting is necessary and one should not be happy just because there are many cotton bolls. Too many cotton bolls will absorb excess nutrients and deteriorate the quality of the cotton.

Don't hesitate to pick those small cotton fruits.

Tong Huaqiong came to the shed at the Valley Bridge in the cotton field while thinking about the autumn harvest.

Gu Daqiao was eating a watermelon. When he saw Tong Huaqiong coming, he grinned and invited her to eat watermelon.

"It's so sweet because it's soaked in the mountain spring. Auntie, please try it." Gu Daqiao said with a smile.

"It's very sweet." Tong Huaqiong took the melon, took a bite, and it was indeed sweet and icy.

These watermelons were planted by Gu Daqiao in the cotton field. Now the harvest has come. A few days ago, Su Chengmin went to Pingchuan and pulled a horse-drawn cart to feed the guys from Jufulai.

Tong Huaqiong thought that when she was planting cotton, she forgot to interplant watermelons in the cotton field.

Otherwise, the cotton fields would not only have a good harvest of cotton, but also a good harvest of watermelons, which could be brought to Jufulai to sell and would also be a receivable.

"Auntie, look, this is a loom. I've fixed it." Gu Daqiao limped into the shed, moved the pile of grass in the corner, and a loom was revealed inside.

Looms are not cheap.

If anyone had a loom, it would be like having a golden egg.

There was no loom in any household in the entire Qinghe Bay.

Gu Daqiao spent several months polishing a loom, and then quietly hid it under a haystack. He didn't even dare let the hired workers in the fields find it, for fear that it would be stolen and Tong Huaqiong would be in vain for the money and effort she had spent on the loom.

Tong Huaqiong first spent a high price to buy a linen loom and asked Gu Daqiao to disassemble it and explore it; he also used the relationship of County Magistrate Liu to get the blueprints of the cotton textile machine from Huating County; he also bought several hundred kilograms of cotton thread and asked Gu Daqiao to do experiments.

Gu Daqiao did not dare to relax. He stayed in the shed at the edge of the cotton field all day long, even eating and sleeping there. He worked day and night and finally built a loom.

"Well done."

Tong Huaqiong threw away the watermelon rind, quickly came to the loom, and rubbed her hands on the loom.

Isn’t this an improved waist loom with a frame and pedals that can greatly improve weaving efficiency?

In an instant, the white cotton was exchanged for white silver.