My reborn husband and son are thinking about how to kill me every day.

"Second sister-in-law, please, please let me go, I really have no money left," Hu Chunjiao pleaded, crying.

She wasn't lying; the old man she was with didn't give her any money at all.

She had to use a lot of tricks to coax the few dozen copper coins she had out of him.

Hu Ersao didn't believe her at all and insisted on taking off her clothes to check.

As soon as she took off Hu Chunjiao's inner garment, she saw large bruises all over her body and immediately said with disgust, "Did you go to a brothel to serve men? You have no shame."

Hu Chun, feeling ashamed and angry, said, "I didn't! You're the shameless one, let me go."

"What respectable man would treat his woman like this?"

As Hu Ersao pulled at her clothes and searched her body, she said, "You have no betrothal or marriage, so even if you didn't go to a brothel, you didn't follow any respectable people."

She also checked Hu Chunjiao's undergarments over and over, and when she found that Hu Chunjiao really only had those few dozen copper coins on her body, she immediately said with disgust, "Since you're not going to be modest anyway, you might as well listen to your brother and sell them to make some money to help our family get through this difficult time."

Hu Chunjiao gritted her teeth and cursed, "You're not human! Let me go! If my man finds out you kidnapped me to sell, he'll kill you."

Hu Ersao didn't take her words seriously at all. Instead, she tore off the clothes from the woman's body and put them on herself. Then, from her own tattered clothes, she picked out the dirtiest, most worn-out garment and gave it to the woman to wear.

When Hu Chunjiao realized that threats were ineffective, she began to beg Hu Ersao, promising that if she was released, she would find a way to get her a lot of money so that she would no longer have to live a hard life.

Hu Ersao was somewhat tempted, but after thinking it over, she said, "If you have this ability, don't you know how to make more money for yourself first? You only have a few dozen copper coins on you, yet you're still bragging like that. I believe you."

She pouted and swayed her hips as she left the side room.

Meeting her husband's expectant gaze, she spat and said, "I have no money on me, just the few dozen copper coins you found earlier."

Brother Hu also felt it was bad luck.

He said, "You keep an eye on him, I'm going out for a bit."

"Where are you going?" Hu Ersao asked anxiously. "This whole family has been starving for days. I need to get something to eat first."

The rest of the Hu family looked anxiously at Hu Erge.

If it weren't for the fact that copper coins are inedible, everyone would have pounced on them by now.

Everyone was hoping he would quickly bring back some money to exchange for rice and grain so they could have a bite to eat to fill their stomachs.

Brother Hu was also starving, and he said, "I'll go right now."

With the money in hand, he first went to the village chief's house and exchanged it for more than ten kilograms of coarse grains. After his family had a hearty meal at home, he went out to find the Sun family.

Upon seeing Brother Sun, he said, "The Lu family has prospered, do you know that?"

The Sun family survived on the money from selling Sun Meixiang, and their lives were slightly better than the Hu family's.

But it's only slightly better.

To settle down in an unfamiliar place, everything costs money. They didn't have any means of making money, and their daily expenses depended entirely on that little bit of cash.

Now, like the Hu family, they eat wild vegetables every day.

Upon hearing that the Lu family had prospered, Brother Sun's face remained largely expressionless. "So what if they've prospered? Do you think they'll help us?"

"I know he won't help us, but don't you have any ideas?" Brother Hu said, "We're all from the same place. He clearly has so much money and supplies, yet he refuses to help us. They were the ones who were unrighteous first, so why should we care about our relationship?"

Brother Sun's eyes widened. He never expected that the second son of the Hu family would come to him with such a purpose.

He looked around furtively, like a thief, and whispered, "The Lu family is not to be trifled with!"

Brother Hu said, "So what if they're not easy to deal with? The eldest and second sons of the Lu family have both gone to serve in the military. As the saying goes, distant water can't quench a nearby fire. We'll gather more people and all work together. How can we not deal with them?"

In his opinion, the most powerful thing the Lu family had was the little tiger they kept.

Last time, they suffered because they weren't prepared.

If we prepare in advance, we won't be unable to deal with that little tiger.

Brother Sun swallowed hard. “But… if Lu Dalang finds out what we’ve done… he won’t let us off the hook.”

Hu Erge said, "After we robbed them, we burned down their house without anyone noticing. How could Lu Dalang possibly suspect it was us? Besides, I've seen where the Lu family lives. It's right at the foot of the mountain, so we can avoid people when we do it."

After hesitating for a moment, Brother Sun nodded and said, "I'll do as you say." Then he asked, "Who else do you plan to invite?"

"We shouldn't invite too many people. If we invite too many, we won't get much, and it'll be easy for the news to leak out."

Before Hu Erge arrived, he had already made plans. He said, "Besides our two families, just invite Zhang Laitou and his brothers."

The "Zhang Laitou brothers" he referred to were not Zhang Laitou's biological brothers, but rather a few burly idle men.

When the two families first arrived in the village, they were bullied by Zhang Laitou and a few other idlers. When Brother Sun heard that they were being called, his face immediately fell; he really disliked those people.

"What should we call them? We don't want this to be a wedding dress made for them later," Brother Sun said.

Hu Erge leaned closer and whispered, "The Lu family has a little tiger cub, have you forgotten?"

Brother Sun did have some recollection of the Lu family adopting the tiger cub, but the tiger was very small at the time, and he wasn't particularly afraid of it.

Brother Hu said, "That tiger has grown up now and is very ferocious. We'll let them go first to deal with it."

Upon hearing this, Brother Sun immediately understood what he meant.

Zhang Laitou and his gang were unaware of the situation. Letting them lead the charge might solve both the tiger problem and the few idlers who were bullying them.

"I never would have guessed! You're so quick-witted." Brother Sun smiled at Brother Hu, realizing he had completely misunderstood him before and had genuinely thought he was an honest man.

Unexpectedly, when he thought of schemes and tricks, he had a whole repertoire of them.

It seems I need to be more wary of him in the future.

Brother Hu said, "I really had no other choice! If I had a way, who would do this? Our two families are in the same situation, and you, brother, don't understand me?"

Thinking about this good thing, Brother Sun immediately thought of himself and said, "From now on, we are brothers. Our two families must help each other and never be as selfish as the Lu family, who only think of themselves."

Brother Hu nodded repeatedly in agreement.

After discussing the specific details of the operation, Hu Erge left the Sun family and went to find Zhang Laitou.

At the same time, idlers from several villages near Shuanghe Village also quietly gathered together to talk about the Lu and Wang families.