Transmigrated Farmgirl's Scheme to Get Rich - Chapter 230
A Poisonous Plot
While Xiuying was passing her confinement period, Mrs. Li used the excuse of accompanying her to stay at the Mo family. All she did every day was eat well and sleep well; despite saying she was there to take care of her daughter, in reality she didn’t do a single thing.
She neither made meals for the new mother nor washed the newborn’s diapers. When it was time to eat, she asked Ms. Liang what food there was, and the infant’s used diapers were dumped in a basin. Not a single one was washed.
It’s just been ten-odd days, but Mrs. Li’s waist has already thickened by an inch, and her face looks much ruddier than before.
Since she had come here, she couldn’t make meals for the Cao family, so couldn’t get the few hundred dollars from the Cao family. She mentioned this to Ms. Liang twice every day, to the point where Ms. Liang was so fed up, she really wanted to just give her that money to shut her up.
But what kind of logic had it so that a mother had to be paid to accompany her biological daughter during her confinement period? If she gave Mrs. Li this money, she’d only ask her for more and anger her further. Ms. Liang clutched her wallet tight, No way!
The chinese foxgloves in the courtyard had all dried, and the dirt on them had been brushed off. The chinese foxgloves were all placed in bamboo baskets, and there were easily twenty baskets.
Mo Feng was familiar with the medicinal capital by this point, so this time Ms. Liang planned to let him go on his own. Mo Feng said, “It’s too much of a hassle to go so many trips, how about I just go once and get it over with?”
“But we only have one carriage, we can’t take all of this over at once!”
“Zhongcheng, my brother-in-law, has a caravan. If we have him take two of his carriages, we’ll be able to move all of this at once.”
“That’s fine, your brother-in-law will probably do it for no charge, and just pay the others the transportation fees. My Feng’er is a married man now, you should stick close to home.”
Mrs. Li and Xiuying heard everything inside the house. Mrs. Li gave Xiuying a look, and she instantly understood, so called Mo Feng inside. Mrs. Li couldn’t propose this idea directly, so slipped out to chat with Ms. Liang.
“In-law, I heard that your house has good tea leaves from the south. How about you pour a cup of tea for me, so I can broaden my knowledge?”
Ms. Liang could only take her to the east courtyard and make tea for her, “Yan’er took this back, so I don’t know if this tea is good or not.”
Ms. Liang lightly coughed twice, and Mrs. Li pretended to be compassionate and asked, “Why are you coughing again, did you forget to take your medicine?”
“Oh! I have forgotten, look at me.” After saying this, Mrs. Li went back to her room and took out her vial of medicine, and took a pill with half a cup of water.
Mrs. Li reached out to hold the small medicinal vial, “This is really good medicine! It’s even healed your persistent cough.” As she was speaking, she uncorked the vial to inspect what was inside, even sniffing it before placing it down.
In the south courtyard, Xiuying was softly speaking to Mo Feng while picking up her son, “Husband, look, this is your son. Look at how cute he is, he’s your eldest son, the future head of the family!”
Mo Feng smiled and said, “That’s right! I’m the only son of my generation, and you’ve given birth to a son for me. Even my mother says that you’re a great contributor!”
Xiuying went from happy to angry, “A great contributor, isn’t she just saying that casually. At the end of the day, I’m just a long-term worker who helped you give birth to a son and labours at home and in the fields.”
“What are you talking about! You’re the mistress of this family, who’d dare to call you a long-term worker?”
“Then I want control of the family, I want to be the real head of the household.”
“Aren’t you still in your confinement period? There’s no need to be so hasty, this family will be ours sooner or later. After all, my mother is still in good health, it’s not good to forcefully seize control from her.”
Xiuying knew that this matter couldn’t be solved in just a sentence or two, and she couldn’t rush this, so stopped here and changed topic, “I think you said that you’re asking your brother-in-law to help you sell the medicinal herbs?”
“I’m just asking him to help as a porter, I’m still the one selling them.”
“Then remember to keep how much money you’ve earned from selling these medicinal herbs secret from him. After all, you can’t tell even your closest relatives everything about your family’s income. What if one day, they take all of your business!”
“Alright, I know. I’m just asking him to take the goods there, and he’ll return after that. I’m the only one making the trades.”
Mo Feng asked someone to send Zhong Cheng a letter, and they agreed on going to the medicinal capital three days later.
Mrs. Li made an excuse that there was something coming up at home, so went back for a day and only returned the next day. As soon as she went back, she went to Ms. Liang’s to ask for a cup of tea. Xiuying then asked Ms. Liang to take care of her son, so she went out.
Mrs. Li took out a small clay vial out of her sleeve, went into Ms. Liang’s room, and immediately saw the medicinal vial in her drawers. After going over to compare the two vials, they looked exactly the same. Then, she smelled both vials, which both smelled strongly of borneol, and had a smile on her face.
Even if what this vicious woman used to replace Ms. Liang’s medicine wasn’t a deadly poison, her actions were still heinous.
Due to the cold autumn winds, after Ms. Liang took the fake medicine for three days, her coughs had returned in full force. Three days later, when Mo Feng returned home, Mrs. Li heard the sound of his carriage and went out to greet him.
As soon as she saw Mo Feng, Mrs. Li immediately said, “You’ve finally come back, Xiuying missed you every day!”
Mo Feng entered his room, and Xiuying immediately served him freshly-made tea, “Husband, you’ve returned. You’ve worked hard, and you definitely ate and slept poorly on the road. Come take a rest, my mother will make you something good to eat later.” After saying that, she helped take off Mo Feng’s coat, and also took out his wallet and set it to the side.
It was only when the food was placed on the table that Mo Feng realised that he hadn’t seen his mother yet, and finally asked, “Where’s my mother? Why is mother-in-law cooking?”
Mrs. Li replied, “You’ve just come in, so I haven’t told you yet! Your mother’s coughing is acting up again, so hasn’t stepped outside of her room.”
Mo Feng went to Ms. Liang’s room, and she was coughing while lying on the kang, looking exactly like she did in the past.
“Mother, why are you coughing again? Have you not taken your medicine?”
Ms. Liang said while coughing, “I’ve been taking my medicine every day. It might be because this medicine is no longer effective, so I should change formulas.”
“Then I’ll ask Mr. Cao over.”
Mo Feng had just gone out when Mrs. Li stopped him, “Don’t go, I’ve already went and he’s not at home. Apparently, he’s gone out to harvest and buy medicinal herbs, so who knows when he’ll come back.”
“Then what should we do?”
“Wait until tomorrow! Tomorrow, take your carriage to get your mother to a doctor in town. Your wife is still in her confinement period and you can’t walk away right now, so how about you have your sister help out for now.”
Seeing how badly Ms. Liang was coughing, Mo Feng also felt bad for her, but he didn’t have any other option, so just served her food to her room.
In the past, Mo Ling was always the one taking care of Ms. Liang during winter, but now, Xiuying was in her confinement period while Mo Feng didn’t even know how to make congee. On top of that, there was no way he could have his mother-in-law take care of his mother, it wouldn’t be proper.
Sending her to Mo Yan’s for a few days, at least until Xiuying was out of her confinement period, wasn’t a bad option, so Ms. Liang could only agree.
Early the next morning, Mo Feng took the carriage to take Ms. Liang to town. Before they left, not only did she take the medicine with her, and also remembered to take money.
Not long after they left the house, Ms. Liang also joyously left the house and went back home. When she returned, she told everyone she saw that her son was getting married.
P.S. So it’s two unlikeable people being shafted over by two other unlikeable people. I’ll be honest, I don’t know if I’m rooting for Mrs. Li so the antagonist wins for once, or for Ms. Liang because Mrs. Li’s plot is so braindead.