Chapter 140 Tempting
The woman was shaken, and after a while she said, "I don't gamble!"

Jiang Anning was slightly surprised and very surprised.

The other people in the car couldn't help but laugh and say to Jiang An Ning: "Hey, girl, your method of provoking won't work on Liu Erjia. She's a timid person. When she heard that she had to pay you if she lost, let alone ten taels of silver, even if you told her that you would give her a hundred taels if she won, she wouldn't have the courage to accept it."

"Can't you?"

"If it were me, I would have agreed without hesitation. It's a sure win, so I wouldn't be like Liu Erjia, who was hesitant and timid."

As everyone talked, they couldn't help but burst into laughter.

It seemed as if something like this had already happened countless times.

Everyone seemed to have found an excuse to ridicule the woman, and began to chatter non-stop.

"She's such an interesting person. Just now she was so sure that there was absolutely no embroidery in the world that could be sold for a hundred taels. But now, I just asked her to make a bet with something she was 100% sure of, and she didn't dare to do it anymore. Haha..."

The others couldn't help but laugh.

The woman's face turned red from the mockery and she angrily shouted, "That's enough! It's none of your business whether I bet or not. You keep talking too much here, be careful or your mouth will get rotten!"

Seeing her angry and embarrassed, the others didn't care.

"She still feels wronged? She is a coward, but she likes to show off, and she is always complaining about everything. But now she is exposed, and now she is not happy to be criticized."

"Hey, be careful, your mouths are going to get rotten~~~"

Some people imitated women's speech in an exaggerated and artificial way, but it made people very angry.

The woman gritted her teeth, hesitated for a long time, and finally swallowed the three words "Let's bet".

She can't be impulsive or act on impulse.

Say as much as you are told...

The woman kept comforting herself in her heart, pursing her lips tightly.

Seeing that she didn't respond, Jiang An Ning didn't bring up the topic anymore.

Not long after, when the ox cart was about to reach the village entrance, Jiang Anning called out and asked it to stop.

When everyone saw that she was going to get off at Jiangjia Village, there was a moment of silence. Everyone looked at each other, no one could say a word, and everyone had a big guess in their minds.

When getting off the car, Jiang Anning cried out, "Uncle, I'm so sorry. I accidentally broke the floor of your car."

She held a thick wooden plank in her hand and squeezed it apologetically and uncertainly.

Such a thick piece of wood was like a piece of tuckahoe, and was easily crushed into powder in Jiang Anning's hands.

Everyone fell silent immediately, feeling a chill on their backs.

Even those who had some evil thoughts when they saw the money just now have all calmed down and behaved themselves.

Jiang Anning still understood the principle of not showing off one's wealth.

But now that it has been exposed, we have to add some deterrence.

"This little money is just compensation to you."

Jiang Anning took out a dime and stuffed it into the pocket of the old man driving the coach.

The old man was so scared that he kept waving his hands.

How could he dare to take on this guy with such extraordinary strength that he acts like a mountain king?
Aren’t you afraid that it’s a life-threatening payment?

"No, no, no, that's not necessary. Maybe this old ox cart is rotten because of its age. No, it's none of your business."

Jiang Anning directly stuffed the silver coin into the person's hand, not giving the person a chance to tear it apart or shove it, then turned around and strode away.

Everyone looked at her entering Jiangjia Village with great excitement on their faces.

Especially on the ridge near the village entrance, there were several women who were picking beans. When they saw Jiang An Ning coming back, they were immediately filled with surprise. They even stopped picking beans and shouted, "An Ning! Oh my God, it's really you, An Ning. You're back! Everyone is looking forward to seeing you!"

peaceful……

Jiang Anning...

The faces of the people in the car suddenly became more gaudy.

As the ox cart went away, the people on the cart could no longer see the old millstone at the entrance of Jiangjia Village. Du Chunxue let out the breath she had been holding.

"Just now, weren't we... acting like monkeys and making a fool of ourselves?"

Complaining or even insulting others in front of the real person, just thinking about it makes me dig my toes into the ground in embarrassment.

No one responded to Du Chunxue's words.

Several people were silent, each with their own thoughts. After a while, the short and fat woman couldn't help but say, "Tell me, are the things she just said true? Can that embroiderer really make that much money?"

"If I could sell an embroidered handkerchief for only a dozen or twenty cents, I would wake up laughing. If it were really..."

According to the price Jiang Anning mentioned, they can all become wealthy women.

"It may be exaggerated by others, but that's Jiang Anning!"

Du Chunxue was very excited: "It was stated in the government notice at that time that after the Jiang and Zhao families decided on the marriage, Jiang Anning not only gave the Zhao family a lot of land and gold and silver, but also built a big blue brick and tile house for the Zhao family. There were three whole upper rooms alone!"

"Look at how she just casually took out ten taels of silver. She must be rich."

"I guess he dressed very casually and low-key to hide his identity."

"It's hard to say. That's not ordinary clothing material at all. Isn't there a kind of cloth that looks like the rags and rags that ordinary people wear when working in the fields, and is worth a thousand gold?"

“This fabric looks ordinary and even breathable, but it is actually very comfortable when worn on the body.”

The woman instinctively wanted to open her mouth to refute, but when she thought about how Jiang An Ning had just casually taken out ten taels of silver with a nonchalant look on his face, she lost interest in talking for a moment.

She felt very bored.

So what if I win the argument against these people?

No matter what, she couldn't just take out ten taels of silver and act as casually as if she was having a meal with someone.

Jiang Anning, he must be really rich, right?

What she just said should be true, right?

There really were embroidered handkerchiefs that could be sold for ten or even a hundred taels of silver.

The woman held the handkerchief in her hand, and suddenly looked a little embarrassed.

She balled up the cotton handkerchief with some disgust and stuffed it into her sleeve.

Why?

Why did she feel so distressed even to use a piece of better cotton cloth to make a handkerchief, while others would spend ten, a hundred, or even more taels of money to buy an embroidered handkerchief?

The old money...

Where did they come from? The woman was so upset that she didn't even want to listen to the people around her. She jumped off the ox cart and walked home in a hurry.

The driver was startled by her sudden action: "Eh? What are you doing..."

When he saw the man hurriedly walking away, he immediately became anxious again: "Liu Erjia, what's wrong with you? You still don't have any money! Hey! Hey!"

No matter how the people behind her shouted, the woman remained unaffected and hurried home.

The driver wanted to drive the old ox to catch up.

But this cow is really old, and it always moves slowly when it takes its first steps.

Even when the whip hit his body, it didn't make him much faster than before.

Seeing the woman's figure gradually becoming as distant as a tiny dot, the driver angrily stood beside the cart, stamping his feet and cursing a few times. He then sat back in the cart helplessly and continued to drive slowly.

But he still couldn't help but say, "When I get back, I have to go to Liu Er's house and have a good talk with him. How could this happen? He was almost sitting down, and suddenly he ran away without saying a word... It's unreasonable!"

"I have to make Liu Er spit out this money for me!"

No one responded. Everyone knew that Liu Er was a scoundrel. If he got angry, he would even beat his own parents to death.

No one in the village dares to go to his house and provoke him.

Want money?

You never know when you’ll get in and be beaten out the next moment.

That’s not bad luck!

What I'm afraid of is that after someone hits you, he comes back with the excuse of apologizing to you, taking care of you, and is determined to take care of you until you recover, but in fact he stays in your house and eats, drinks, and lives there. Anyone who dares to chase him away will inevitably be fooled and can only quickly "recover" and beg him to leave.

After people leave, they have to take the initiative to offer them some rice, flour, grain, oil, etc., for fear that they will come back again.

Who would dare to provoke such a person?
The key point is that Liu Er really dares to kill people!
Since ancient times, the stupid ones are afraid of the violent ones, and the violent ones are afraid of the desperate ones.

No one wants to be associated with someone as reckless as Liu Er.

The coachman cursed for a while, and when he saw that their village was only about three to five hundred meters away, he hurriedly stopped talking, fearing that the scoundrel would be hiding somewhere and would rush out to beat him after hearing what he said!
Everyone in the car was quiet for a while.

Someone suddenly said, "Liu Er's family is pitiful. She has a man like this. No wonder she wants to be the best in everything. The family is already in such a state. If she doesn't do a better job, she will be eaten to the bone!"

It would be impossible to say that the villagers have no complaints against Liu Er.

But what can I do if I have complaints?
No one dared to say anything unpleasant in front of others. They all praised him, fearing that if they said something unpleasant, they would provoke such an evil spirit to stay in their home.

These days, every household is living in poverty.

There are so many children in my family, and they can't all be well fed. How can anything good happen if I provoke such a lazy and gluttonous person?

But no one is willing to just swallow this anger.

Isn't it that someone wants to get compensation from Liu Er's family?
Anyway, he is a bad guy and doesn't care at all whether the people in his family will suffer because of him.

Even if his parents were pinned to the ground and beaten, he would definitely stand by and applaud, asking for a handful of melon seeds, just to join in the fun.

What’s more, she is an outsider who was married in?

But unfortunately, this Liu Erjia is also a cruel person.

In the past, someone had set his sights on her and wanted her to pay off her husband's debt, so he dragged her into the field next door.

I didn’t expect that Liu Er is such a ruthless character, and Liu Er’s family is no less powerful.

At that time, I hit one of them so hard that his head was bleeding and he was breathing more than he was breathing in.

It's a completely life-threatening way of playing.

Those people were scared at that time.

What’s even more horrifying is that Liu Er found out later and took his wife and children to live in the home of the man whose head was broken, asking for an explanation.

He also said that after living in this house for a while, he would go to the homes of the remaining people.

Two families were so frightened that they moved away overnight.

Later, it was those few people with evil intentions who gave money and gifts, begged the people like a grandpa and a grandmother, and finally persuaded them to leave.

Perhaps, what our ancestors said does make sense.

Two kinds of people cannot sleep in the same bed.

This Liu Er family member has been able to live with Liu Er for so many years and even gave birth to children for him. She is quite a character!

After hearing this, Du Chunxue and others couldn't help but think of the woman's situation and sighed a few words.

"She is indeed pitiful."

“It’s really not easy.”

"It's been so many years, and I don't know how she managed to get through the days. It's really hard for her."

It was as if they were not the ones who were being sarcastic in front of others just now.

Even the driver said, "She is indeed a poor girl. I won't bother her about not paying for the ride. Just think of it as a favor."

It was as if he really dared to go to Liu Er's house to seek justice.

Everyone laughed and said nothing.

When we arrived at the village, everyone acted as if nothing had happened. They got off the car, picked up their things, and went back home.

No one mentioned what happened in the car.

But in their hearts, everyone was interested in becoming an embroiderer and selling embroidery products.

Especially Du Chunxue.

She wiped her hands on the apron, brought the last dish to the table, and muttered what she had heard from Jiang Anning.

"...I don't know if Jiang An Ning will accept apprentices. If she does, that would be great. Let Erya go over and learn a few tricks from her. Even if we don't ask for a piece of embroidery to sell for ten taels of silver, even if we can earn one tael a month, that would be a considerable income. By then, not only will Daya's dowry be more beautiful, but our Yaozu and Yaozong will also be able to find good wives. Maybe they can even marry the daughter of a scholar! If we give birth to a few smart and well-educated children in the future, we will have the money to send them to school and take the examination for the scholar."

The more Du Chunxue talked, the happier she felt.

"Don't let anyone fool you. You believe everything you hear. Embroidery is so profitable, why would she tell others about it?"

Du Chunxue's husband was very disapproving: "I think, maybe he just said it to fool you. Once you believe it and want to send the child away, he will ask you for money!"

"What the boss said makes sense. My dear wife, I think you should just settle down and stop daydreaming all day long."

Du Chunxue's father-in-law snorted coldly: "Put more thought into family matters. Instead of pinning your hopes on Erya for Yaozu and Yaozong's marriage, you might as well find a good family for Daya!"

"Even if there is something good in this world that is like pie in the sky, it won't fall on us peasants for no reason."

Du Chunxue was scolded and felt depressed, but she also felt that it made sense.


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