The wicked mother-in-law doesn't try to whitewash herself; she only abuses her awful children.

Chapter 18: To Cut Off One's Reproductive Power

Liu Yue'e had just returned to the entrance of Qinghewan Village from Moon Bay when she encountered Wang the Matchmaker.

Liu Yue'e's eldest sister married into Moon Bay, which is next to Qinghe Bay.

Moon Bay has always been wealthier than Qinghe Bay, and Liu Yue'e's eldest sister's family is also quite well-off.

Holding Yaozu's hand, Liu Yue'e scolded her mother-in-law for her wicked intentions while asking her eldest sister for money.

“If you could lend me three or five taels, I could think of a way. But fifty taels is really not enough. You know your nephew has been looking for a wife these days. He’s a bit rough around the edges, so we need to give him more money to make up for it so that the girls will be interested in him.”

"If you don't wait a few days, your nephew has made a decision. I'll secretly raise fifty taels for you and send it home without your brother-in-law's knowledge."

A few words left Liu Yue'e speechless.

My older sister really knows how to talk; she told her to wait a few days.

Doesn't she even consider whether her son can wait that long?
It's true that no one feels pain when it's someone's flesh and blood.

Normally, Liu Yue'e would have been quick to criticize her older sister, but now that she needed her sister's help, she had no desire to argue.

"Why don't you borrow some from your parents, or go to your aunt's house in town to borrow some?" Sister Liu suggested to Liu Yue'e.

Liu Yue'e also wanted to borrow money from her parents, but they were not well-off, and besides, her parents and sister-in-law had always held a prejudice against her.

She really didn't want to borrow money from her family.

When she married Gu Dashu, her parents were so angry that they almost severed ties with her. Although they lived in the same village, she rarely dared to borrow anything from her parents' home.

As for the eldest sister-in-law, that's even more true. The feud between the mother-in-law and the husband is built up in front of her. She would probably kneel down at the eldest sister-in-law's door to beg for forgiveness for all the bullying she's done to the eldest sister-in-law's family, and the eldest sister-in-law wouldn't even lift an eyelid.

At this time, Liu Yue'e was unaware that her husband, Gu Dashu, had already gone to apologize to Gu Baishuang, carrying a rattan cane on his back.

"Alright, sister, if you don't want to lend it, then forget it. None of your suggestions are reliable. I think we should put off the marriage proposal for now. Let's keep the money and treat the acne scars on his face first."

Liu Yue'e held back for a long time, but the words that came out of her mouth were incredibly hurtful.

After saying that, she grabbed Yaozu and was about to return to Qinghewan. Sister Liu knew that her younger sister had always been sharp-tongued since she was a child, so she didn't mind her harsh words.

Thinking that her nephew was about to be mortgaged and made a servant, she felt a little sorry for him. She went into the house, picked up a few pounds of red dates, a dozen large white steamed buns and a roast chicken, stuffed them into her pocket, and caught up with Liu Yue'e and her son.

Liu Yue'e didn't stand on ceremony, took it and left.

She planned to go home to celebrate the Great Heat of the Midsummer Festival. What kind of man would stand by and watch his son be taken away?

Gu Dashu went to steal and rob, determined to force him to get fifty taels.

And then there's her brother-in-law; he went to the private school in town to borrow money. I don't know if he got it or not, but if he didn't, she won't let him off the hook.

Liu Yue'e would curse her mother-in-law as a vicious, perverted widow, then curse Gu Dashu as a good-for-nothing who couldn't earn money, and then curse her brother-in-law as a heartless, rotten seed who ruined the family...

Qinghe Bay is not far from Moon Bay. After crossing two ditches, Liu Yue'e returned to Qinghe Bay from Moon Bay.

Wang the matchmaker had just left the Chen family when she saw Liu Yue'e and perked up.

After Tong Huaqiong's outburst at the Zheng family, Wang the matchmaker, who had been busy for several days, not only failed to receive her matchmaking gift but also suffered a humiliation at the hands of Zheng the scholar. At this moment, when she encountered Tong the widow's daughter-in-law, she felt like an enemy meeting with intense hatred.

She glanced at Yaozu's crotch and said sarcastically, "Second daughter-in-law of the Gu family, in three days your boy will be going to the palace to enjoy a life of luxury. Who knows, he might catch the eye of some nobleman and even a eunuch can earn an imperial title for his own mother."

After saying that, he chuckled twice.

Liu Yue'e's brain has stopped working.

What exactly does it mean to go to the palace and become a eunuch?
Seeing that Liu Yue'e's reaction was like being hit with a stick, Wang the matchmaker became more direct.

"The Shengjing Palace is selecting palace maids and eunuchs from all over the country. Steward He knows the eunuch master in our county. He plans to castrate your son and send him to the palace." Upon hearing this shocking news, Liu Yue'e felt as if her mind had been crushed.

"You should be happy! This is giving your son a great future. Your Gu family's ancestral graves are emitting auspicious smoke! Look around Qinghe Bay, who else has the good fortune of your family's Yaozu to go to Shengjing? You should hurry back and tell your heartless widow mother-in-law the good news..."

"Oh dear, were you frightened? I say, Gu's second son's wife, you should think more positively. This is a good thing. You've given up this son, but you're still young, so you won't have to worry about not having a new son in the future."

Wang the matchmaker said a few sarcastic remarks, then, quite satisfied with Liu Yue'e's pale face, patted the dust off her bottom, hummed a tune, and climbed into the carriage.

Liu Yue'e let out a cry and grabbed Yaozu's hand, running towards her parents' home.

Forget about everything else now, we need to ask our family for money to save our son.

Yaozu was still young and didn't understand anything about going to the palace or being castrated. He was still holding the chicken leg his aunt had given him and gnawing on it when his mother dragged him to his maternal grandparents' house.

"Father, Mother, please save Yaozu."

“If you don’t save him, Yaozu will have his manhood cut off and become a eunuch.”

……

"Yue'e, get up and speak properly."

Liu Yue'e's mother, Zhao, helped her daughter up.

This unreliable girl talks incoherently, which is a real headache.

Liu Yue'e steadied herself and recounted, one by one, how Gu Jingzhe wanted to study to climb the social ladder by marrying into the Zheng family, how he wanted to use the eldest son's daughter, Man'er, to bring good fortune to the eldest son of the Zheng family, and how this would lead to her son suffering the consequences.

Liu Yue'e's father, Liu Tiechui, had a grim face. His daughter was asking for fifty taels of silver right off the bat. She really had some wild ideas!

Even though the Liu family had saved some money over the years, it was only a dozen taels, which was for their grandson's future wedding.

Zhao looked at her grandson Yaozu with a complicated expression, inwardly cursing the Gu family, especially her in-law Tong Dajiao.

Tong Dajiao was notoriously wicked, and the children she raised were no better than any of them.

Especially this Gu Jingzhe, who is supposed to be a scholar, but he's wasted his time studying. We can't let someone like him get ahead in his studies, or he'll end up harming the common people sooner or later.

The Liu family had opposed Liu Yue'e marrying Gu Dashu, but this unreliable daughter wouldn't listen and insisted on marrying Gu Dashu as if she were under a spell.

Speaking of the Liu family, everyone is a normal person, except for this daughter who has been unreasonable since she was a child.

Ever since she married into the Gu family, she's been like a turtle crawling into a pond. She and Tong Dajiao hit it off immediately, and the two of them teamed up to bully Chen Sufeng. As her mother, she was ashamed in the whole village.

“I never imagined my mother-in-law could be so heartless, actually harming her own grandson. Why didn’t she let Taohua go to the Zheng family, or let Man’er go to the Zheng family, but instead used my son as collateral for money?” Liu Yue’e cried and cursed, “Chen Sufeng must have bewitched my mother-in-law.”

Zhao wanted to roll her eyes at her dim-witted daughter.

When has your mother-in-law ever been cleansed of her conscience?

And even at this point, they're still criticizing Chen Sufeng. So Yaozu is precious, while Man'er is just a blade of grass?

Although Zhao was clear-headed about matters of principle, she also felt sorry for Yaozu. She couldn't understand what Tong Dajiao was up to, making a grandson pay off a debt.

Widow Tong is getting worse and worse. Now she abuses everyone, regardless of whether they are her own children or adopted children!
"Father, Mother, I can't live without money." Liu Yue'e clung to the leg of her silent father, Liu Tiechui, tears streaming down her face.

Liu Tiechui's face was very unpleasant. When Liu Yue'e and Gu Dashu got married, he declared that he would not be related to a villain like Tong Dajiao by marriage, and he would not recognize Gu Dashu as his son-in-law. But he couldn't bear to watch Yaozu get beaten up.

“I know everything you’ve said. Here’s what we’ll do: you go back first, and I’ll discuss it with your brother tonight. I’ll give you a definite answer by tomorrow night at the latest,” Liu Tiechui said.

"But I've already told you in advance, our family doesn't have that much silver. I only have seventeen taels on hand, and I can give you ten taels at most. You'll have to find the rest from somewhere else. Where is that bastard Gu Dashu? How could he be such a coward, making you come out to borrow money?"

(End of this chapter)