Transmigrated Farmgirl's Scheme to Get Rich - Chapter 234
Evil Housewife
The reasons why Xiuying was so desperate to marry Mo Feng, to the point of willingly surrendering her virginity, was because of the reasons Mo Yan stated. If she had offended her mother-in-law’s family for the sake of her natal family, what sort of benefit would she gain?
“Mother, my husband was already very generous to lend my brother the money to get married. You can’t be too greedy, return the rest of the money! My Jin’er is still small, and we still need the money!”
“I really raised you for nothing, you white-eyed wolf! You’ve only been married for less than a year, and you’re already closer to the family you married into!”
Ms. Liang carried Mo Jing out, “Which family’s daughters aren’t equivalent to spilled water? Look at my Mo Ling, she spends all of her time at the family she married into, and doesn’t even come back unless something happens. Not to mention giving her natal family a single dollar!”
Her words were spoken to not just Mrs. Li, but also Xiuying. Xiuying knew that her mother was being unreasonable, so picked up her son and went back to her room.
Mrs. Li saw that she wouldn’t be able to gain any benefit, and her voice softened, “But the money is at my home.”
Ms. Liang replied, “Just go back and get it, it’s not far away.”
It was quite difficult to give back money that you had just gotten, and Ms. Liang asked, “Do you want me to accompany you to get the money?”
Mrs. Li knew Ms. Liang’s temperament. If the two were walking together and someone asked what was going on, who knew what Ms. Liang would say. If this news spread, it would be of no benefit to her.
“There’s no need, I’ll go on my own.”
Mrs. Li went back, and Mo Feng went inside to ask Xiuying why she gave the money to her mother. Xiuying replied wrongedly, “She said you promised to lend money to her, but when I went to get the money, she stole the wallet, and I wasn’t able to take it back from her.”
Xiuying started crying after she finished speaking, and Ms. Liang said from the living room, “Feng’er, stop questioning her, how could she be the opponent of that shrew?”
Mrs. Li knew she couldn’t let this matter drag on, so returned quickly and returned all of the remaining money, as well as signed the loan agreement. Then, she slinked away wordlessly.
Xiuying’s eyes brimmed with tears, “Why must I have a mother like this?”
While she was in her confinement period, the storefront was run by Mo Feng day after day. Ms. Liang only went to help once she was almost done.
Chen Xiucheng’s wedding date was finalised on the twentieth of next month. The wedding invitations were sent, and even though the others didn’t have to come, Xiuying needed to. This day, Ms. Liang went over early in the morning to visit her grandson and give Xiuying celebratory money.
Mo Feng used the excuse that he had to manage the storefront to not go with Xiuying, so she took her son over while Ms. Liang and Mo Feng went to the storefront.
At night, the two went back home to see the front gate of their home was still locked. The sky was dark, so Xiuying should be here. Ms. Liang went to cook and had Mo Feng pick Xiuying up.
When Mo Feng went to the Chen family, he saw Xiuying helping to clean up the courtyard, “Xiuying, why haven’t you gone back yet? Where’s the kid?”
Xiuying replied while working, “He’s sleeping inside the house!”
Normally, their son was wide awake at this time, so he must not have been able to get any sleep due to it being too loud during the day.
Mo Feng went towards the house when Xiuying said, “Our son is sleeping in the newlyweds’ room. My mother said that my sister-in-law will be able to give birth to a boy after a child has slept in their bed.”
This was a true belief many in the village had. Mo Feng went to the newlyweds’ room, and only felt at ease when he saw his son lying on the bed. But when he took a second look, his belly was full of rage.
Xiulian and a woman wearing a wedding dress were sitting on the side of the bed and playing with the child on the bed. His swaddling was unravelled, and the two were currently touching his white and tender limbs, repeatedly praising him for being fun to play with.
It was currently winter, and they really dared to let a child be exposed to the cold! Mo Feng went to push the two away and swaddled his son before picking him up and leaving.
The newlywed woman stood up and cried out, “Who are you?! Why did you take the child away, we agreed that he’d be sleeping in my room tonight.”
Mo Feng ignored her, and Xiulian informed her that that was Xiuying’s husband. When the woman heard that, she was unwilling to give up and persisted, “So your sister married such an uncultured swine. No wonder she had relations with him before marriage, and wasn’t afraid of it being shameful.”
Mo Feng turned to say, “So what? That was the love between us two, because Xiuying likes me, unlike some other people who marry just for the money.”
“Who are you talking about?”
“Who else?”
Xiulian went to help her sister-in-law, “Don’t speak nonsense, if you aggrieve my sister-in-law, you won’t have a good time.”
“No one is raring to aggrieve her,” Mo Feng picked up his son and left, calling Xiuying to go. She knew that he was unhappy just by looking at his face, “What is it? You still need to tell my mother when we leave!”
“Why, that’s your mother and not mine.”
Mo Feng picked up his son on his own and left. The bride was unwilling to let go of the matter, and even started yelling at Xiuying when she saw her, “Look at what miscreant you’ve married! He didn’t even give a decent gift, nor did he greet me when he saw his sister-in-law.”
Xiuying replied flippantly, “He’s never been good with words, sister-in-law, don’t take offence. I’ll go back now, and I’m here to tell you about this.”
The woman replied disgruntledly, “Then leave, go back to that bastard of yours.”
Her tone was casual, but her words were incredibly venomous, and the word ‘savage’ instantly enraged Xiuying, “Who are you calling a bastard?!”
“Your son, of course! You got knocked up before you were married, what is he if not a bastard?”
Xiuying was so angry her entire body started trembling, “You shrew, you imbecile, don’t you know even the money used to marry you was borrowed by my mother from my mother-in-law’s family? My mother-in-law’s family is stronger than yours ten thousand times over!”
When Mrs. Li heard them arguing, she rushed over. When she heard what Xiuying just said, she was afraid their family situation would be exposed and the new bride would be dissatisfied, so slapped Xiuying, “You mannerless thing, how could you speak to your sister-in-law like this?!”
She was slapped for no reason, and Xiuying questioned Mrs. Li while holding her face, “Mother, did you forget, weren’t you the one who took the money from my hands? Twenty-two taels, twelve for the dowry, and ten for today’s banquet!”
The bride heard all of this. So this family is a dumpster fire which doesn’t even have the money to hold a banquet. How will my days be like in the future?
But she had already married into the family, and was about to consummate her marriage. The woman thought for a bit and called Chen Xiucheng over, “If I don’t get a good explanation tonight, don’t even think about getting inside the bridal chamber.”
Not being able to enter the bridal chamber after marrying would be like just being able to look at meat which was brought right next to one’s mouth.
Chen Xiucheng said, “Don’t listen to her speak nonsense, my family doesn’t lack money. She willingly took that money back home as a filial gesture to my parents.”
Xiuying coldly harrumphed, “Mother, don’t forget that you signed a loan agreement. Since my natal family doesn’t lack money, then return our money!”
At this moment, Mrs. Li felt terrified. It was so hard for her to finally have her son get married, what would happen if they got a divorce?
She wanted to hit Xiuying again, but she was prepared this time and deflected her arm, “I’m your debtor now, be more polite.”
After saying that, Xiuying ran. Let that family go argue amongst themselves!
P.S. The reason for the very frequent updates is because I’m going on vacation tomorrow for a week and a half 🙂 I hope everyone has a good summer!