Farmer girl swaps husbands: buys a sickly villain and pampers him

Chapter 40 It’s done
Noon is time for lunch.

Grandma Su used a spoon to scoop up a large spoonful of porridge from the bottom of the basin. The white and plump rice grains were crowded together, which made people very hungry.

She brought the bowl of porridge to Uncle Su.

She used the same method to fill the second bowl, the third bowl, and the fourth bowl. When there was only one bowl left, she directly handed the handle of the spoon to Aunt Su.

"If you want to eat, just serve yourself. What daughter-in-law needs to be served by her mother-in-law? She is not afraid of being struck by lightning."

Aunt Su was no longer surprised by such things. She curled her lips and calmly scooped a spoonful of rice soup.

It was always like this. The first bowl of rice at home was always dry and thick, for her beloved son. The second bowl was for her precious grandson. The third bowl was hers, and the fourth bowl was for her husband. As the rice became thinner and thinner, the last bowl, which she was unwilling to even scoop, belonged to her, an outsider.

Aunt Su was not stupid either. She had just secretly picked up an egg and eaten it raw while they were not noticing. After all, chickens don't lay eggs every day, so if she occasionally ate it, it wouldn't be noticed.

Besides the porridge, there were also a few pancakes on the table. Second Aunt Su spotted the largest one and reached out to take it, but Grandma Su tapped her hand with the end of her chopsticks.

Aunt Su endured the pain and grabbed the cake and took it back. Without waiting for Grandma Su to scold her, she took a big bite, drank a mouthful of porridge, and swallowed the food in her mouth.

"A starving ghost reincarnated? Have you ever eaten? Why do you, a woman, eat so much? Food should be eaten by men first. Men have to do farm work and work hard."

Second Aunt Su lowered her head and drank her porridge, pretending not to hear what Grandma Su said.

She could scold me as much as she wanted, because she ate the food anyway. As long as she could eat it, she could scold me as much as she wanted, because it wouldn't cost her a single piece of meat.

Uncle Su glared at Aunt Su and said, "Mom is right. Why are you so greedy?"

Su Xiaobao imitated Uncle Su's tone and said, "Mom is so greedy, she stole our cakes."

A voice came from the yard: "Mom, Dad, I'm back."

When Aunt Su heard the sound, she quickly finished the cake in her hand and then gulped down the rice soup.

Su Guilan walked into the main room and saw everyone was eating. She sat down and grabbed the cake to eat.

"What are you doing here?" Grandma Su snatched the pancake from her hand, broke it in half, and only gave her half. "You didn't tell us in advance. We didn't cook for you."

"I don't like porridge. It's no use telling you in advance. I'll eat porridge anyway. Mom, I want to eat eggs. Can you make me some eggs?" Su Guilan made a request.

"My sister-in-law is so arrogant," said Aunt Su in a sarcastic tone. "We only have porridge at home, and those few eggs are for Xiaobao to nourish his body. You are such a grown-up, you won't compete with the child for food, right?"

"I can solve a big problem for you right away. It's not too much to eat a few of your eggs, right?" Su Guilan said proudly.

"What do you mean?" Uncle Su asked. "I just went to the Feng family and asked them. They said everything was planned. Zhang Zhaodi fell for it and signed an IOU, promising to compensate them with one hundred taels of silver. When Zhang Zhaodi came back yesterday, didn't she look too good? That's because the Feng family starved her for two days and two nights."

"How did this happen to the Feng family?" asked Aunt Su.

"Originally, I wanted the Feng family to break something and frame Zhang Zhaodi, saying that the item was very expensive, worth a hundred taels. But the Feng family gave birth to a daughter, but unfortunately she died young, so they framed Zhang Zhaodi. No matter how Zhang Zhaodi explained, the Feng family said she was the one who killed her. Then they locked her up in the woodshed and starved her for two days and two nights until she agreed to pay a hundred taels of silver as compensation, and then they released her. Don't be fooled by Zhang Zhaodi's appearance. She's actually very anxious!"

"I'm sure she'll be borrowing money from everywhere soon. Just wait and see. Even if she sells them both, she still can't come up with a hundred taels of silver. In the end, she'll have to come to us."

"What are you going to do?" asked Uncle Su.

"I'll make a deal with her. As long as her daughter marries Mu Tou, I'll help her intercede with the Feng family. She doesn't have to pay a hundred taels, but only twenty. If she doesn't agree, then expect the Feng family to come to their house every day to make trouble, and their family will never have a peaceful life. Those fields are worth thirty taels. She's in a hurry to use the money, so she must have sold them cheap. You can buy them. When she gives the twenty taels of silver to the Feng family, and they agree to give me half, I won't keep a penny of the remaining ten taels and will return it all to you. In this way, you are buying the fields that should have been sold for thirty taels with ten taels of silver. Isn't that a good deal?"

The Su family members smiled proudly.

"I made a special trip yesterday just to see what Zhang Zhaodi was like. That disaster star was acting pretty well; I couldn't tell anything from her face."

"You have already eaten three cakes in a row, why are you still eating?" Uncle Su found out that Su Guilan ate several cakes in a row and ate all the cakes of several people. He was so angry that he slammed the table.

Su Guilan picked her teeth and said unhappily, "If it weren't for me, would you have been able to take advantage of me so much? It's just a few cakes, why are you so stingy?"

"That's enough. It's just a few cakes. If this thing works out, we can have ten cakes, not just three." Grandma Su said, "Don't go out to work today. Find out what Zhang Zhaodi is doing first."

When Aunt Su heard that she didn't have to work outside and could only go out to find out gossip, she became more active than anyone else. Not long after, she brought back the latest news.

"Zhang Zhaodi went to the village to borrow money."

"One hundred taels of silver, and she ran to the village to borrow money?" Grandma Su sneered, "Is she desperate and crazy?"

"Forget a hundred taels of silver, I'm afraid no one would even lend her a hundred coins. They're orphans and widows, and they can only make a living by midwifery, and midwifery jobs aren't always available. If we lend them money, I'm afraid it'll be like throwing meat buns at a dog, and nothing will come back." Aunt Su said, "Anyway, from what I've heard, only Blind Lady Li has lent her fifty coins."

"Don't worry about her. When she hits a wall, she'll naturally remember us." Grandpa Su said, "How stupid."

In the afternoon, Zhang Zhaodi went around the village and borrowed a total of 300 wen. Now the only families left to borrow from were Zhong Lanhua's family and Grandpa Su, Grandma Su, and Second Uncle Su's family.

At this time, Su Yaoguang and Zhou Wangshu came back.

Zhang Zhaodi burst into tears at the gate of the courtyard when she saw the two men coming back. This scene was seen by many people in the village, who were all wondering what had happened to their family and why they had to borrow money from everywhere.

"Oh, I'm so tired of pretending." Zhang Zhaodi wiped her tears and said as soon as she closed the gate. "My daughter, I have done what you asked. What should I do next?"

(End of this chapter)