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

Chapter 81 Counterattack
After hearing what Jiang Yihan said, the woman's anger subsided a lot.

Seeing that there was no more fun to watch, Su Yaoguang curled her lips and turned away.

Jiang Yihan stared at Su Yaoguang's back, his eyes full of disgust.

She finally understood why her mother hated Zhang Zhaodi, that shrew, so much. Her dislike for Su Yaoguang was just like her mother's dislike for Zhang Zhaodi. This mother and daughter were their nemesis.

Jiang Yihan gave the woman five hundred coins and promised to find a job for Zhong Jianghe before sending the woman away.

Zhong Lanhua was extremely angry and kept cursing, saying that the Zhong family was ungrateful. She had helped them a lot over the years, but they were still greedy.

"Your aunt dared to come here to blackmail us, it must have been approved by your grandparents. You even tried to find her a job, but that was bullshit. I will never give them a penny again."

"Mother, my cousin was indeed injured in our carriage, and we had to ask someone to carry him back. They have a valid reason, and we can't refuse. We have no choice but to take this loss. If we don't find a way to appease them, my cousin will be bedridden for a year or two, and we will have to keep him healthy and plump. Now we can only send my aunt back and let her know that there is no benefit in continuing to make a fuss."

"The carriage is gone, and we still owe the son of Feng, the horse market manager, dozens of taels of silver. How can we pay it back?" Zhong Lanhua frowned. "Even if my mother and I work as maids, unless we starve, we still can't pay it back in a year."

"Don't worry, I can handle it." Jiang Yihuan said, "At worst, I can just coax him and make him happy. Then the money won't be a problem."

After Su Yaoguang returned, Aunt Li happened to be looking out of the yard. Seeing her return, she excitedly came out to greet her: "Yaoguang, do you still need flowers?"

"Of course I need it." Su Yaoguang smiled, "Aunt Li, please continue to accept it. Take as many as you can. But you also know my rules. I must ensure that the goods are good."

"Don't worry about what I do. I will definitely not delay your business." Aunt Li felt relieved when she heard this and turned back to discuss the matter with her daughter-in-law.

Su Yaoguang pushed the door open and entered the courtyard, shouting inside: "Mom, aunt, uncle, I'm back."

Zhang Zhaodi came out of the kitchen with both hands covered in flour, obviously kneading dough.

"Let's have your aunt's specialty noodles tonight," Zhang Zhaodi said. "You must be exhausted. Come inside and rest for a while. I'll call you when you're ready."

After Su Yaoguang entered the house, she changed her clothes and came out to look for Jiang Jing and Jia Chunni.

Jia Chunni is helping her mother make noodles.

Jiang Jing felt Wang Huanzhi's pulse and said to Zhang Yingdi beside her, "Don't worry, Auntie. My uncle's health has improved a lot. With my uncle's current health, as long as he doesn't get too cold, he should have no problem walking around the village."

Zhang Yingdi thanked him repeatedly. Wang Huanzhi held her rough hand and looked at her with heartache.

Zhang Pandi’s cooking skills are indeed very good. The noodles are thin, wide and very chewy.

While she was making noodles, Su Yaoguang was also busy, frying eggs in another small pan and mixing various seasonings to make the sauce. "You wasteful thing, use less oil." Zhang Zhaodi was beside her, feeling distressed. "This little bit of oil would have been enough for us to eat for a month before, and you put so much just to fry an egg."

"Now that we're making money, of course we have to treat ourselves better. Mom, don't you see? All of us here, including everyone else, weigh less than a thousand pounds."

Zhang Zhaodi looked at the thin Su Yaoguang and the other equally thin people, including herself who weighed less than 100 pounds, and stopped talking.

The whole family sat at the table and ate noodles.

While eating noodles, Su Yaoguang repeated what she had just said to Jia Chunni, and then asked Zhang Pandi what she meant: "Second Aunt, do you want to go back?"

Zhang Pandi hesitated: "Of course I don't want to go back to the Jia family, but if I divorce, your grandparents will beat me to death and will never recognize me as their daughter again."

"Second Aunt, have your grandparents ever cared about your life in all these years since you got married? They must have looked for you, but when they did, it was definitely not because they cared about you. Instead, they wanted to get some benefits from you. Let me guess, the Jia family is not a pushover, so they definitely didn't give them any benefits. So, they haven't cared about you and Chunni's life or death all these years, right?"

Zhang Pandi's eyes were red and she buried her head in eating noodles.

"Mom, I don't want to go back to the Jia family. I'm still young, and if I go back, they'll sell me off for a high price. Mom, you have to think about me." Jia Chunni put down her chopsticks and looked at Zhang Pandi, who was giving her earnest advice. "Last month, I heard Grandma and Second Aunt secretly discussing that old bachelor from the next village who was willing to pay 20 taels of silver for a wife. I'll be fourteen this year. How long do you think they can keep me? That old bachelor beat the third wife to death. If I fell into his hands, my fate would be even worse than yours."

"If it were before, I would have accepted my fate. But it's different now. My aunt and cousin are willing to help us! If I miss this opportunity, I will never be able to escape in my life, mother."

"What are you still hesitating about? You're just crying all the time. You're not as smart as your daughter." Zhang Zhaodi slammed the table. "If you want to be beaten, go back tomorrow. Don't look for me as your elder sister anymore. I'll pretend you don't exist."

"Sister, don't be angry." Zhang Pandi held Zhang Zhaodi's hand, "I listen to you, I listen to Chunni. But that family won't let Chunni and I go so easily. Although Chunni is a girl, she is also a descendant of their Jia family. I can't leave Chunni in the Jia family to suffer!"

"If we want to get rid of the Jia family, we have to use some tricks," Zhang Zhaodi said. "Back then, we had to fight with those people from the second branch of the Su family for a long time before we got rid of them."

"Actually, it's not difficult to get rid of them," Wang Huanzhi said nearby. "The Jia family is selfish, insidious, and shameless. If we take advantage of their nature, they'll be easy to control."

"Brother-in-law, do you have any good ideas?" Zhang Zhaodi asked.

"My method may require Second Sister and Chunni to return to the Jia family and suffer for a few days," Wang Huanzhi said. "As long as you can endure this period, you will be able to escape from this sea of ​​suffering."

"As long as I can get rid of the Jia family and completely sever ties with them, I can endure not only a few days of hardship, but even a month. Chunni and I have suffered so much over the years."

"Then have breakfast and rest today, and I will let Yaoguang take you back tomorrow. But you can't go back so glamorously, you have to look a little embarrassed." Wang Huanzhi said.

After discussing the Jia family, Su Yaoguang brought up the shop he'd rented today. Zhang Zhaodi, upon hearing the high price of the shop, and the year-long lease, repeated what Jia Chunni had said. Su Yaoguang then mentioned how many orders he had received, and how he could take advantage of the shop's renovations to sell these orders and recoup the money he'd spent on renting and renovating.

(End of this chapter)