You are unlucky and I am tough

Cheng Xiaomei has been pregnant for more than two months. Relying on the baby in her belly, she has become more and more pretentious. When she saw that Cheng Shuang's family had bought servants, she asked Feng Tiegen to buy some servants to serve her. Feng Tiegen was so annoyed by her that he bought a thirteen-year-old maid.

When I first bought it, I took Cheng Xiaomei and her maid to wander around the village for two days, wanting to get close to everyone.

However, after the villagers saw the Wei family buy more than 30 people at once, they didn't feel anything when they looked at the little maid beside her.

Cheng Xiaomei expected the whole village to envy her, but she didn't succeed. After being angry for a few days, she felt that she had won when she saw Cheng Shuang still had to work in the fields. She bought so many servants, but Wei Qinglang didn't give her a personal maid and asked her to work in the fields. This showed that her man didn't love her much and was not as happy as her. She didn't have to do any work since she got married.

When Hu Chunhua entered the room, Cheng Xiaomei was basking in the sun in the yard with tea and snacks at her side. The little maid was chopping weeds to feed the chickens. Feng Tiegen's family had to go to the fields to work every day, but she really regarded herself as the young lady.

"Mom is here." Cheng Xiaomei sat up, touching her belly.

Hu Chunhua couldn't help rolling her eyes when she saw that she was living such a comfortable life. Then she saw the snacks on the plate, took them and stuffed them into her arms.

Cheng Xiaomei looked at her snacks being packed away and felt unhappy. "Mom, these snacks were bought for me by Tiegen. I've always been hungry since I got pregnant, so Tiegen went to the city to buy them."

"You live in a big house and have people serve you every day, but you don't think about your mother and me. We are all living in hardship. Your brother is going to take the college entrance examination soon. It's so hard for him to study until late at night every day. He has nothing to eat when he is hungry. In the future, ask your man to buy some snacks for your brother as well."

"Brother, if he wants some snacks, can't he buy them himself?" Cheng Xiaomei said, "Didn't we give all the money in the family to him? I heard from Xiaohe that he spends money every few days to treat people to meals at restaurants."

"You are a little girl who can't read or write, what do you understand?"

Hu Chunhua put her hands on her hips. "Everything your brother does is for his future. If he hadn't spent money to befriend scholars, how could your brother's reputation as a talented scholar have spread to Yunhe Academy? Today, someone from Yunhe Academy came personally to deliver... that... admission certificate. In short, whatever your brother does is right, and the whole family will support him."

Cheng Xiaomei was tired of hearing these words and asked her what she was doing there. Hu Chunhua then told her about the salary and asked her to tell the Feng family to give her two hundred taels first.

"Two hundred taels?" Cheng Xiaomei's jaw dropped. "That's too much! Mother has taken all the Feng family's money. What are we going to eat in the future?"

"You useless little girl, do you think Feng Tiegen only has three or five hundred taels?" Hu Chunhua shrilled, "He's got plenty of money from selling a ginseng. Otherwise, he'd just give you thirty taels as a betrothal gift, build you a blue brick house, and hire servants to serve you."

"But two hundred taels is too much. Even if Tiegen is willing, my parents-in-law won't agree."

"Why is it so much?" Hu Chunhua said in a condescending tone, "Their family only knows how to farm. How can they make money by hiding it? If we give it to your brother now, will he repay you when he becomes an official in the future? Even if he becomes a high-ranking official, any little money he slips through his fingers will be enough for your family to live comfortably.

If you want to benefit from their influence in the future, you must first pay. I married you into their family, which gave them the opportunity to curry favor with me. Otherwise, they wouldn't even have the chance to come up to me and talk to me."

Since she was a child, Cheng Xiaomei has always heard her mother say that Cheng Caijun will become an official in the future, and that he will be rich, powerful and have a lot of money. Now she was persuaded. She paid the money and Cheng Caijun will repay her when he becomes an official. She will also have her mother's family to support her, and she can be more assertive in her mother's family.

Ever since she got married, her mother-in-law has been jealous of Tiegen's kindness to her because she doesn't have to work. Even when she was pregnant, she still looked at her with disdain every day, and even felt sorry for spending money to buy a few snacks. If her brother became a high-ranking official, the old woman would definitely not dare to say anything about her again.

Cheng Xiaomei made up her mind that the money must be paid. "Mom, go back first. I'll tell Tiegen when he comes back."

Hu Chunhua's heart was filled with joy as she realized her goal. Her eyes darted around. "You're pregnant now. If your parents-in-law try to stop Tiegen from giving you the money, you can threaten them to abort the baby. Let's see whether they choose the money or the grandson."

Hu Chunhua's move was indeed cruel. Later, when Feng Tiegen and his family came back from the fields, Cheng Xiaomei told them that her brother from her natal family was short of money for his studies and asked Feng Tiegen to give her two hundred taels.

Tiegen's parents were naturally unwilling. No matter how she said that Cheng Caijun would repay them when he became a high-ranking official in the future, it was useless. Tiegen's mother even slapped Cheng Xiaomei in the face. Then Cheng Xiaomei threatened to kill herself and said she would abort the child if she didn't give her money.

The incident was known to all the neighbors. In the end, Cheng Xiaomei got the silver note of 200 taels and went out proudly to give the silver to her parents.

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Cheng Shuang didn't know about these things and was too lazy to care about them. She ground the soapberry and soapberry into powder, sifted them with a sieve to get the fine powder, and added them into the soap while stirring it to make shampoo soap.

On the table are a dozen molds that were just brought back today. There are four types of shapes: square, round, heart and flower. A simple snowflake pattern is engraved on the bottom of each mold. Pour the soap liquid into it, and a snowflake pattern will be left after it is formed and demolded.

Wei Qinglang said that this was just the beginning, and he would make it simpler first and then draw other things later.

In the evening, after finishing math class with her younger siblings early, Cheng Shuang returned to her room and saw Wei Qinglang still drawing something at the table.

She grabbed a strand of hair and played with it in her hand as she walked to the table. She saw that the table was covered with drawings, drawings of water pressure wells.

It is so detailed that every component is drawn, including the material used, function, production steps, etc.

"I was wondering what you've been busy with all day." Cheng Shuang picked up a few blueprints and started looking at them. "It's amazing that you can even draw a diagram for this kind of water pressure well. If you can build one, it will make it more convenient to use water in the future, and we won't have to worry about people falling in again."

Wei Qinglang said helplessly, "As a game developer, I used to draw game concept sketches, but now, these are the only functions I have left."

He pounded his aching arm and looked at Cheng Shuang, "I want to invite a few craftsmen back to try it out in our yard first. If it succeeds, we'll install it on several wells in the village."

"It's hard work, hard work." Cheng Shuang saw that he looked very tired, smiled and went over to give him a shoulder massage.

"Then you can stay home and work on the water well while keeping an eye on the workshop. I'm going to Fu Ya Zhai to deliver some soap tomorrow afternoon to see how things are going. We've already stored quite a bit of soap in the warehouse these days. I'll send 500 yuan over first, and also give Miss Qin some shampoo soap to look at."

Wei Qinglang nodded and said, "Well, I'll take the blueprints to the construction team tomorrow to see if they can do it."

After hitting him a few times, Cheng Shuang found the acupoint on the back of his neck and pressed it.

"Um......"

Wei Qinglang groaned in pain, "It hurts, press it a few more times."

Cheng Shuang was about to stop, but seeing that he was enjoying it, she curled her lips wickedly and pressed down hard on another acupuncture point.

"what....."

"Cheng Shuang, you did this on purpose, didn't you?"

Wei Qinglang almost jumped up in pain. He turned around and grabbed her hand, stretching his other hand towards her shoulder. "How about I give you a massage too?"

"No, no, I'm fine." Cheng Shuang wanted to run, but she didn't have enough strength to free her wrist.

"I'd better give you a massage. You've been working hard these past few days."

"No, let go, or I'll prick you with a needle."

The two of them played and pulled each other, but the strength difference was too great.

Cheng Shuang used all her strength, and after a while, she suddenly frowned and cried out, "Ah, it hurts, my hand."

Wei Qinglang lowered his head and realized that he had pinched her with insufficient strength and hurt her, so he quickly let go.

Cheng Shuang was exerting force on her feet, with her center of gravity shifting backwards. When he suddenly let go of her hand, she was caught off guard and lost her balance, falling backwards.

Wei Qinglang quickly stood up to rescue him, but in panic he tripped and fell forward, and they both fell to the ground.

The next second, Wei Qinglang's lips fell on Cheng Shuang's cheek, and time seemed to stop at this moment.

Both of them had their eyes wide open with shock on their faces. They were so close that they could hear each other's heartbeats clearly.

After a while, Wei Qinglang slowly propped himself up and looked at the person under him. The warm breaths intertwined together, and his gaze gradually became deep and hot, falling on the peach-colored lips.

Cheng Shuang seemed to be frozen, and he lowered his head and slowly approached.

When their lips were about to touch, Cheng Shuang's eyes moved as if frozen, and she pushed him hard.

Then, he raised his hand and slapped him.

After the fight, Cheng Shuang, seemingly frightened by her own reflexive action, retracted her hand and looked at him in panic.

Don't hit people in the face. This guy is a bit chauvinistic. He won't be angry, right?

The slap didn't actually involve much force, and the sound alone wasn't painful. Wei Qinglang was stunned for a moment when he saw Cheng Shuang's eyes avoiding him and she didn't dare to look at him. Then he came to his senses and covered his cheek with his hands, pretending to be sad.

"Do you hate me that much?"

Cheng Shuang: “…..”

She used all her strength to push the man off her body, got up and patted her clothes.

When she turned around, the man was still sitting on the ground, covering his face and looking at her, as if he had suffered a great injustice.

She instantly became furious, "Wei Qinglang, stop pretending. I didn't even use any force. Who told you to kiss me, you rascal?"