You are unlucky and I am tough

The news that Cheng Shuang and Wei Qinglang followed Zhao Xiuwen to the provincial capital was known to the villagers on the afternoon of the day they left. They had been discussing privately for several days what the young couple would do.

As the donkey cart entered the village, people chatting at the entrance and working in the fields stretched their necks to look, and some even ran directly to the village road.

Cao was weeding on the ridge of the field. Their field was full of weeds and no one took care of it. Yesterday, the village head came to their house and scolded them, asking them if they didn't want a good harvest.

The fields in the family were all planted together. In the past, tasks such as weeding and fertilizing after planting the crops were done by the sisters Cheng Shuang and Cheng Pan. After Cheng Shuang took her younger siblings away, no one from the two families took the initiative to take on the responsibility.

After realizing that no one was doing these things, the first and second wives discussed and decided to send one person to the fields to pull weeds every day. Today was the first day and Cao was the first one. She pulled for a while and then sat down to rest. She was not convinced that Hu Chunhua bullied her by relying on the large number of people in her family.

Seeing a donkey cart entering the village with a lot of things on it, Cao immediately came out of the field, washed the mud off her hands and feet, and ran home.

She had to go back quickly to tell Hu Chunhua that Cheng Shuang had returned from the provincial capital. That shrew was shameless. She came to ask for something so that their second house could also have a share of the spoils.

Some villagers ran over and approached the donkey cart, asking the three people on the cart all kinds of questions.

Cheng Shuang and Wei Qinglang already knew how to deal with these people, so they just smiled and nodded without saying anything.

Some children were also chasing the donkey cart. Cheng Shuang saw Cheng Pingshun among the seven or eight children chasing the cart. He was wearing brand new clothes and shoes, and was holding a bag of unfinished snacks in his hand.

The whole village knew that Cheng Dafu's family was greedy and would show off any money they had. Seeing Cheng Pingshun dressed in new clothes, Cheng Shuang wondered if Zhao Daya had made a fortune, but she didn't think much about it.

What she didn't know was that since Cheng Dafu stole her marinade bag last time, he bought the spices according to the bag, then bought a piece of pork, put the spices into small bags and threw them into the pot to cook. When he found that the taste was almost the same, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep all night.

As soon as he heard that Cheng Shuang and the others had gone to Luohe Prefecture, he immediately used his savings to buy pork heads, pork belly and pork offal to make braised meat, and took them to the town market to sell cooked food the next morning.

I bought pork for thirty cents a pound and they sold it for forty cents a pound, and I bought pig offal for five cents and they sold it for fifteen cents a pound.

The two of them were clever enough to get a stove and bring it over to cook and sell. The aroma filled the whole street, and with their eloquence they gave out free samples, which attracted many people to try it. In the past few days, they were able to earn more than two hundred coins every day.

However, only pig heads and pork belly sold well. They didn't clean the pig offal properly and there was a smell. After trying them, few people were willing to buy them. After selling them for a day, they stopped making them and only made pig heads and pork belly.

The couple had already started dreaming of getting rich, and were planning to make more and sell them in the county town one day.

As for stealing Cheng Shuang's things, the two felt guilty at first, but under the temptation of the money they made in the past few days, the couple shamelessly decided to admit it if they were discovered. Anyway, they would deny it and say that they figured it out on their own. Who could do anything to them?

There is a happy event in Chengjia Village today. Xu Daqing, the eldest grandson of Xu Sanpo, is getting married to a girl from the neighboring Lijia Village. The village was already bustling with activity early in the morning. Some women went to Xu's house to help prepare the wedding banquet and slaughter chickens and ducks by the river.

As the donkey cart passed by, the women immediately shifted their conversation away from the newlyweds at today's wedding.

"Old Third Wei took his wife to the provincial capital. I don't know what they bought back. Look at this huge cart."

"What's in those two big sacks? They don't look like food."

"I'm sure you'll bring back some good stuff. There are a lot of rare things in the capital city. If you bring them back and sell them at a higher price, you can make money."

"I heard that there are people in our county who specialize in buying cheap cloth and transporting it to the capital to sell. The price of cloth in the capital is high, and they can make a lot of money by making the difference."

"Then did they also go to the capital to resell cloth? Wei Lao San used to be very quiet, but now he's married, he's quite good at making money."

"Hey, why did Xiu Wen from the Zhao family go to the capital again? He's been there three times since the second half of last year."

"He said he was going to buy books for the teacher at the academy."

The donkey cart stopped at the door of the bamboo house. Zhao Xiuwen got off and told Wei Qinglang that he would take them to see the teacher of the private school the day after tomorrow, then he left with his book box on his back.

Wei Qinglang was busy unloading the donkey cart. Cheng Shuang went to open the door, but found it was locked from the inside and could not be opened. She shouted inside, "Pan'er, Nanxing, we are back, open the door."

Everyone was at home except Wei Nanxing. Cheng Pan was sewing in her room, and the three little ones were copying calligraphy in the main room. When they heard Cheng Shuang's voice, they all stopped what they were doing and ran out. Cheng Chen ran the fastest and opened the gate.

"Sister, brother-in-law."

"Brother, sister-in-law."

Several voices sounded at the same time, it was noisy but Cheng Shuang felt inexplicably at ease and rubbed the head of Xiao Si who rushed over.

Xu Sanpo's house was not far from the bamboo house. Villagers who came to join in the fun had to pass by the bamboo house. When they saw the family working together to move things home, they were all curious about what the things were, but since they were not familiar with the family, they were embarrassed to go over and ask questions.

After all the things were moved back home, the hired donkey cart left.

Cheng Shuang was the last one to enter. Seeing that the villagers passing by were all looking at her, she closed the gate directly.

Cheng Shuang asked Wei Qinglang to move two bags of medicinal herbs directly into their room, and placed the remaining things in the main room. Her brothers and sisters surrounded her, chattering about how well they had been behaving these past few days.

"We finished one copybook a day."

"The little donkey eats green grass before the sun comes out in the morning, so I follow Sister Pan'er to cut it."

"The chicks and ducklings are all fine. Yesterday we went to the river to dig up some earthworms. The old lady in the village said that the chicks will lay more eggs if they eat the earthworms."

Cheng Shuang nodded, "Good boy, I brought gifts for each of you."

Cheng Shuang asked them to stand in line and prepare to distribute the gifts, then she realized that one person was missing and asked, "Where is Nanxing?"

"Fourth brother went to Zhushan to practice archery early in the morning." Wei Xinyi replied.

"You go to practice archery so hard in the morning." Wei Qinglang was a little surprised. It seemed that his younger brother really liked archery and he had made the right decision by buying the arm guard.

Wei Xinyi pursed her lips and said nothing.

"Brother Nanxing is afraid to stay at home."

Cheng Pan walked over and said, "Sis, you and your husband have been away for the past few days. Luo Cuihua has been coming to our house every day. She says she's here to see me, but she keeps trying to get close to Brother Nanxing. Even when Brother Nanxing ignores her, she won't leave. When I was plowing the soil at the door, she rushed to do it, saying she was good at growing vegetables and wanted to help us. In the end, she broke our hoe. Otherwise, she wanted to reclaim the remaining wasteland."

Cheng Pan is not stupid either. In the past, the villagers ignored Luo Cuihua when they saw her. Now she suddenly said that she wanted to be good sisters with her, calling her "sister" so intimately, and even rushed to help her with work. It was obvious that she had other motives.

Wei Xinyi also snorted unhappily. "That Luo Cuihua is so annoying. Fourth Brother doesn't even want to talk to her. She even chased Fourth Brother up the mountain yesterday. Luckily Fourth Brother ran away quickly and shook her off. And then she came again this morning, bringing a basket of vegetables, saying they were for our family. We were so scared that we didn't dare open the door."

Cheng Shuang's face darkened. No wonder the gate of her house was locked in broad daylight. So that's how it was.

Luo Cuihua is really shameless. If she wants to hit on Wei Nanxing, she has to see if he likes her or not. She actually forces herself to get close to him, thinking that the marriage will be successful this way?

Wei Qinglang's face wasn't looking good either, but as a grown man he couldn't beat Luo Cuihua up. He frowned and said to Cheng Shuang, "Why don't you go talk to her and persuade her to give up the idea?"

Cheng Shuang was helpless. Wei Nanxing was so scared that she didn't dare to stay at home. She had no choice but to step in. However, it seemed that persuasion would be useless. The Luo family must have persuaded Wei Changgui, otherwise Luo Cuihua would not have given up so much face.

She had to find a way to solve this problem once and for all.