That night, the Shen family discovered the commotion. The reason Liu gave at the time was that Mu Chenglin was a gentleman. When she found out that the bride had made a mistake, she would definitely send Shen Yunxi back, so that they could get married without having to do anything. Got one hundred and twenty taels of silver!
Mrs. Shen thought this was a good idea and agreed!
She didn't care who Shen Yunxi would marry. Shen Yunxi was as beautiful as Su and literate. She planned to sell her at a good price.
So when Shen Yunxi didn't come back the next day, Mrs. Shen planned to come to look for her, but Mrs. Liu stopped her again!
The reason is very simple. If the Shen family comes to make trouble, everyone will know that the Shen family asked Shen Yunxi to marry him!
And Shen Yunxi spent another night at Mu's house, and her innocence has long been lost. If everyone knows about it, it will fall into her own hands.
Simply let Shen Yunxi stay in the Mu family. Mu Chenglin can provide 120 taels of silver this time, and there is no guarantee that he will make another fortune one day. By then, as Shen Yunxi's natal family, they will Of course you can take a share of the pie.
That’s why Mrs. Shen didn’t go to Mu’s house to ask for someone!
But how could Mrs. Liu and Shen Pingping let Shen Yunxi come back?
That's why the stick on the original owner's head was so severe! As long as Shen Yunxi stays at Mu's house for one night, even if she comes back, Liu and Shen Pingping will be able to smear her reputation!
Mrs. Liu has already contacted the Cui family in the town privately. After a while, the Cui family will come to propose marriage, and Shen Pingping will be able to marry Cui Xiucai as she wishes!
"Mom! I didn't expect this! Who knew that Mu Chenglin is so careless that it doesn't matter if the bride is changed!" Ms. Liu quickly smiled and laughed.
"Hmph! I think you had other ideas, right?" Old Mrs. Shen looked at Mrs. Liu and Shen Pingping with sharp eyes.
Mrs. Liu and Shen Pingping felt a little nervous. Could it be that the old woman knew about their secret visit to Cui's mother?
Then this matter must be done quickly. When the deal is done and Shen Pingping becomes a talented lady, she can also hold her head up in front of the old lady!
"In this case, your second wife will lose money, right?" Mrs. Shen said this to Shen Erfu.
Shen Erfu is the biological father of the original owner and the second eldest son of the Shen family. At this time, he is sitting at the main table and devouring food.
"Compensate? Compensate for what?"
"Shen Yunxi is from my Shen family. She looks like her mother and is literate. I originally planned to marry her to a good family when she is old enough. It is not in vain that the Shen family has raised her for so many years!"
"But you couldn't tolerate her and married her off to a hunter. Didn't our Shen family suffer a loss?"
Mrs. Liu was confused when she heard this, "Mom, didn't that Orion give you one hundred and twenty taels of silver?"
"That's the money to marry Shen Pingping, it has nothing to do with Shen Yunxi!"
Mrs. Liu was anxious, "But you kept all this money, and we didn't get a penny!"
Old Mrs. Shen glanced at her and said, "Our Shen family has raised Shen Pingping for so many years. Is it too much for me to charge her some dowry money?"
The fact that Shen Yunxi and Shen Pingping, who share the second house together, have grown so big is all due to the Shen family. It has nothing to do with her, the Liu family, and the second house?
"I am Pingping's biological mother!" Mrs. Liu became anxious.
"Shen Pingping came to the Shen family when she was eight years old. If the Shen family hadn't been willing to take her in and give her a meal, would she have survived? So I shouldn't accept this betrothal gift?"
Mrs. Liu looked at Shen Erfu anxiously. Shen Erfu quickly picked up a piece of fat meat and stuffed it into his mouth. Then he touched his oily mouth and said, "Tell me, how much do you have to pay for it?"
"Our Yunxi is prettier and fairer than Pingping. Su even taught her how to read when she was here a few years ago. If this hadn't happened, she would definitely have found a rich family. This betrothal gift is one thing. From now on, I will bring many gifts every time I go back to my parents’ home.”
"Just tell me, I want five hundred taels anyway!"
"Five hundred taels?" Mrs. Liu put down her chopsticks, stood up, and screamed.
"If someone like Shen Pingping is worth one hundred and twenty taels, isn't Shen Yunxi worth five hundred taels?" The speaker this time was Shen Xiujuan, the youngest daughter of Mrs. Shen.
After listening to the old lady's humiliation of Mrs. Liu, the whole family of the third and third houses ate while eating. How could such a shrewd person as Mrs. Shen suffer a loss?
"Mom, we have handed over all our money. We can't even get out not to mention five hundred taels of silver, but even five hundred copper plates!" Mrs. Liu cried out in tears and didn't want to eat anymore!
When Shen Erfu saw that there was still a lot of rice left in Liu's bowl, he brought it directly to him and started eating.
"Mom, we don't have five hundred taels of silver now, but I have a good idea!" Shen Erfu said while eating.
"Oh? What method?" Mrs. Shen was very curious about what method Shen Erfu was talking about.
She also knew that the second child and his family would not be able to spend so much money. She did this to warn other households not to play tricks in front of her old woman.
Secondly, if they want to get along well with each other, Liu and Shen Pingping, a widow who is married for the second time and a prostitute, should keep their heads down and not be too arrogant.
"Pingping is fourteen years old this year. Find a rich man to marry her, and then I will give the money to my mother. What do you think, mother?"
"With Shen Pingping's appearance, which rich man would marry her if he was blind?" Shen Xiujuan said sarcastically.
"Shen Pingping is young and can be a concubine for rich people!" Shen Erfu said while grabbing the rice.
As soon as these words came out, Mrs. Shen's eyes flashed, and Mrs. Liu couldn't bear it anymore. She stepped forward and grabbed Shen Erfu, "Shen Erfu, what nonsense are you talking about? How can you let Pingping If I want to be a concubine, do I have a stepfather as cruel as you?"
Shen Erfu didn't notice for a moment, and there were blood marks on his face. He immediately stood up and grabbed Ms. Liu's hair, "You evil woman, you hit Yun Xi on the head so hard." When I married her to Mu Chenglin, why didn't I think about whether I was evil or not?"
Mrs. Liu finally broke free from Shen Erfu's hand, her hair was already a mess, "Shen Erfu, didn't you allow this?"
This is indeed allowed, and the entire Shen family knows it!
But now it has been spread outside that in order to let Shen Pingping snatch Shen Yunxi's hand in marriage, Liu beat her badly and married her to Orion.
If this is the case, then this matter was done by Liu and Shen Pingping and has nothing to do with the Shen family.
"I am Yun Xi's biological father, how could I do such a vicious thing! In a few days, I will go find out which rich family wants to take a concubine!"
Shen Pingping quickly walked up to Mrs. Liu and cried, "Mom, I don't want to be a concubine, no!"
Old Mrs. Shen ate her meal quietly, "The concubines of rich families are all as beautiful as flowers, but Shen Pingping is not good enough." The old lady shook her head.
Liu and Shen Pingping had just lost their hearts when the old lady spoke again, "I heard that Hu Yuanwai in the town is already forty this year, and his first wife has never been able to make money, so he wants to find a concubine who can bear children. Don’t care about looks.”
"This is good! This child will inherit the family property as soon as he is born." Mrs. Li, the eldest, couldn't help but interjected.
"Isn't that right? Mrs. Hu said that this child will be raised under her knees from now on, just like she did!" The old lady also said with a smile, as if this was a great good thing.
Mrs. Liu and Shen Pingping looked at each other. This matter sounded better than Cui Xiucai.
After Mrs. Shen finished speaking, she continued to eat. Mrs. Li held back her smile and ate with the old lady.
When Shen Yunxi and Mu Chenglin returned home, Mu Chengjin and Mu's mother had already prepared lunch.
What I had for lunch today was wild vegetables cooked in leftover chicken soup from yesterday, and it was delicious when paired with multigrain rice.
After dinner, Mu Chenglin planned to go to the mountain to pick hawthorns. There were relatively few mature hawthorns at this time, so it was still not easy to gather ten kilograms of sugared hawthorns.
Shen Yunxi went down the mountain and came to a piece of grass at the foot of the mountain.
The original owner would be driven out to cut pig grass every day after lunch. The Shen family raised a lot of pigs and consumed a lot of pig grass every day.
Now that she is married to Mu Chenglin, this matter must be replaced by Shen Pingping.
Sure enough, Shen Yunxi saw Shen Pingping paddling on the grass from a distance, with only a few sparse grass in the basket beside her.
Shen Yunxi walked over quickly, and Shen Pingping turned around when she heard the voice.
Seeing Shen Pingping's face, and then thinking about Mu Chenglin's face, and Cui Zixuan's face, she felt that whoever Shen Pingping married was too high-end!
"What are you doing here?" Shen Pingping asked with a bad expression when she saw that the person coming was Shen Yunxi.
"I met Cui Zixuan when I was selling candied haws in town today."
Sure enough, Shen Pingping's face became uneasy when she heard the words Cui Zixuan.
"What did he say to you?"
"He! He said that I worked so hard selling candied haws, so he came over to care about me. He also said that the person who did it with such a big scar on my head was too vicious."
A strange color flashed across Shen Pingping's face. The Cui family had always known about this, but why did Cui Zixuan say this to Shen Yunxi?
"He also said that there was a wealthy family in the town who wanted to marry their daughter to him and promised to give him a large sum of money to help him get to the top of the exam."
"He also complimented me on my beauty, but it was a pity that he was tricked. But the friendship between him and me for many years is still there. If one day..."
"You fart!" Before Shen Yunxi could finish her words, Shen Pingping started yelling.
How could the man who had talked about marrying her just a few days ago turn around and say such things to Shen Yunxi?
Shen Pingping didn't believe that she had finally found such a rich husband, and she couldn't let him slip away from her.
She stopped mowing the pig grass, picked up the basket on her back and walked immediately towards Shen's house.
Shen Yunxi didn't expect Shen Pingping to be so restless and get carried away at the slightest moment.
It's no wonder that if you look so ugly, you naturally have no self-confidence at all.
Boring!
To be continued...