You are unlucky and I am tough

Hu Chunhua thought about it for a long time. All the people with the surname Cheng in Chengjia Village were in agreement with the head of the village. It would be easier to target people with other surnames, so she went directly to Feng's house to find Feng Tiegen.

The Feng family was at the end of the village. Hu Chunhua first sent the fish home and asked her second daughter-in-law to keep it and cook it in the evening, and then she went to the Feng family alone.

Before reaching the Feng family's door, I saw Tiegen's mother killing chickens by the river and chatting with the people next to her. She said that she would go to the town in a few days to find a matchmaker to find a wife for her son.

Feng Tiegen is twenty years old this year. He has never been able to marry because he is ugly and his family is poor.

When Hu Chunhua heard that Feng Tiegen had gone into the mountains, the Feng family had enough money to go to the town to hire a matchmaker.

Moreover, the Feng family is so poor that they are now killing chickens to eat. They must have found something good in the mountains and have money.

Hu Chunhua sneaked to the door of Feng's house and hid outside the wall. Not long after, Tiegen's mother came back and started chatting with Tiegen's father as soon as she entered the door.

Hu Chunhua ran to the door and eavesdropped, and heard Tiegen's father say that he would go to the county town to sell ginseng tomorrow so that he could find a wife for his son as soon as possible.

Hu Chunhua felt like the sky was falling. Even the poorest Feng family had ginseng, so the Wei family must have even more good stuff. But that little bitch Cheng Shuang had grown powerful now and didn't want to let her take advantage of anything.

Hu Chunhua returned home with a grim face. When she entered the house, she saw her eldest daughter sitting in the yard embroidering a handkerchief. Suddenly, her eyes rolled around.

"Xiaomei, you will be sixteen after the New Year. Mother has found a good family for you."

Cheng Xiaomei put down her handkerchief and stood up. "What? What family? Mother, didn't you say that when my third brother passed the imperial examination, you would marry me off to a rich man?"

Hu Chunhua said angrily, "I'm looking for a rich man for you now. How can I harm you?"

"Really?" Cheng Xiaomei's eyes lit up. "Whose family is it? Is it the young master from the town?"

Hu Chunhua's mouth twitched. "Why would a girl ask so many questions? They're from a wealthy family anyway."

Cheng Xiaomei blushed, "Well, well, I'll listen to my mother."

Anyway, as long as I marry a rich man, that's all.

How could she know that her mother was thinking of picking one of the dozen or so people who went into the mountains and marrying her to a couple who were still unmarried?

Not only can she ask for more betrothal gifts, but she can also take money from home to pay for Cheng Caijun's studies in the future.

As for marrying a young master from a wealthy family, Hu Chunhua thought about her youngest daughter Cheng Xiaohe from beginning to end.

No matter how dumb she was, she knew that young men from wealthy families liked good-looking girls. When the two daughters stood together, they couldn't be seen as sisters at all.

Cheng Xiaohe looks like his father, with a good-looking appearance, which is why she has the chance to marry into a wealthy family.

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Cheng Shuang processed the medicinal herbs at home in the afternoon. She first washed the Gastrodia elata and steamed it in a pot, and then prepared other medicinal herbs that she had found in the mountains in the past few days.

After more than an hour, the Gastrodia elata is steamed thoroughly and placed in a ventilated place to dry naturally. This process takes four to five days.

Then she bought some medicine from the mall and started to boil it. She and Wei Qinglang each drank a bowl to clear the poison.

At night, Cheng Lizheng brought a few elders of the clan over and talked with the two of them all night about how to carry out the treatment.

There are many people in the village, so Cheng Shuang suggested drawing lots, and she would treat them in the order of the draw.

She also explained in advance that she would not charge for the consultation, but the cost of ten prescriptions, excluding the most expensive Gastrodia elata, would still cost more than 700 coins per person.

She has to prepare the medicine in advance, so she doesn't want anyone to complain to her about being poor after starting treatment. She will treat the disease for free, but if they still want her to pay for the medicine, she will not treat them.

Cheng Lizheng and several clan elders promised that they would explain things clearly to the villagers and that such a situation would not happen again.

It was already midnight when they finished chatting, but something suddenly happened in the village. A man came to find the head of the village. He was Cheng Lao Da's neighbor and said that Cheng Lao Da's family had been poisoned and was suffering from vomiting and diarrhea.

Cheng Shuang and Wei Qinglang went to see out of curiosity, and saw that many people had gathered at the door of Old Cheng's house. Doctor Wang from the village had also arrived and was taking the pulse of Old Cheng, who was holding his stomach and crying.

Finally, they said that they had eaten something bad and asked them what they had eaten in the evening.

Boss Cheng couldn't help but guess what was going on. He immediately started cursing at Hu Chunhua, "You spendthrift bitch! I told you the fish was rotten, but you insisted on cooking it. Are you trying to kill our whole family?"

Hu Chunhua immediately started arguing with him, "Then don't eat. You've all been eating like starving ghosts. Now you're talking to me."

After knowing what happened, everyone in the village was speechless, and Cheng Shuang just laughed out loud.

The next day, early in the morning, the two of them went to the county town with ginseng and prepared medicinal materials.

They first went to Baicaotang and asked Doctor Tao if he wanted the ginseng. Doctor Tao naturally wanted it. There were many rich people in the city, so he could sell it and make a fortune.

He wanted both the ginseng and the processed herbs, totaling two hundred and seventy taels.

After getting the money, the two went to the money shop and exchanged all the 1,000 taels of silver notes for silver ingots of 5 taels each, filling a full box. After leaving the money shop, they turned into an alley and put the silver ingots into the space.

Then, in an empty alley, Wei Qinglang took out the two sacks of medicinal herbs that Cheng Shuang had bought in the capital city last time from his space and put them in the car.

After paying off their debts with one thousand taels, they only had more than forty taels left in total. The price of medicine for treating headaches bought from the mall was not much lower than that from the pharmacy. The total cost of medicine for more than seven hundred people was more than five hundred taels, and they did not have so much money to pay in advance.

But she also wanted to let the villagers know that she went out and brought back medicine today, so that she could buy medicine directly in the mall in the future, so she brought out the two bags of medicine to make up the number.

After starting treatment, she would charge each patient a fee, so there was no need to worry about not having enough money to buy medicine later.

In a few days, the manuscript for the storybook will be submitted and the money will come in, so the family doesn’t have to worry about running out of money.

But she still tried to save as much as possible. Cheng Shuang opened the mall and bought 100 kilograms of white rice at three cents per kilogram, which was three times cheaper than the market price.

He also bought three pounds of pork ribs and two two-pound live crucian carps. The live fish were put in a bag with water. Wei Qinglang happened to have a wooden barrel in his space that was left over from the last time he bought crayfish. He took one out and poured the fish directly into the barrel.

Finally, I bought ten bamboo baskets to dry the two sacks of medicinal herbs again.

After finishing these, the two went to Mingde Academy. After registering at the back door, they waited for more than half an hour before they saw their two younger brothers.

I took them to a nearby restaurant for lunch. Half an hour passed in a flash. The two younger brothers had obviously adapted to the life in the private school and did not cry when we parted.

It was noon when we returned to the village. A box of silver ingots had been taken out of the space and placed on the donkey cart.

As he walked into the village, whenever Wei Qinglang passed by the door of someone who had gone into the mountains with him, he would get out of the car to inform them to come to his house.

Not long after I got home, all fifteen people showed up.

The two of them didn't ask their brothers and sisters to leave. They just put the box on the table in the yard and opened the lid.

The silver ingot shone brightly in the sunlight, and everyone in the yard held their breath.

Wei Qinglang said to the crowd, "The promised one thousand taels are all here. Each ingot is five taels, a total of two hundred. You can check if there is any problem and then take it away. You can discuss how to divide the money among yourselves."

Xu Daqing looked at the white silver ingots and gulped, "Brother Qinglang, that Ganoderma lucidum really sold for two thousand taels!"

Wei Qinglang nodded, "Yes, it was sold for two thousand taels."

Everyone looked shocked, but not greedy. The couple really gave them 1,200 yuan, and they were already very satisfied.

Several people went up and counted the silver ingots. After confirming that they were correct, they took out the IOU and returned it to Wei Qinglang. Wei Qinglang tore it up directly and gave it to Wei Xinyi to throw into the stove.

Cheng Shuang gave each of them a prescription, saying that the miasma in the mountains was poisonous and that they should take it back and boil it to remove the poison.

More than a dozen people thanked her repeatedly and offered to give her money, but Cheng Shuang refused. The price of Ganoderma lucidum was far more than two thousand taels. She had cheated these people, so this medicine was her compensation.

After they left with their boxes, Wei Nanxing walked up to them and asked, "Brother, sister-in-law, what's going on?"

Seeing that Cheng Pan and Wei Xinyi were also surprised and confused, the two told them about the discovery of Ganoderma lucidum in the mountains and the picking process.

The dozen or so people carrying boxes out of Wei's house instantly attracted the attention of the villagers. Seeing them carrying boxes to Cheng Ergou's house, many people gathered at the door.

After more than half an hour, those people came out. Each of them was holding something in their arms, and their faces were full of joy.

Someone inferred from the shape that the bag was holding silver, and soon the news that the team entering the mountain carried out a box of silver from Wei's house and divided it equally spread throughout the village.