Forced to marry a disabled man in the countryside? I'll repay you tenfold!

"The total is 15 yuan."

Uncle Ding watched in amazement, while Zhou Yanshen silently squatted down and began to fill the boxes. When it came to food, no matter how expensive it was, it didn't matter as long as Su Wanqing wanted to eat it.

Actually, although it looked like a lot, it would only fill one bucket, so the stall owner simply gave the bucket to Su Wanqing as well.

After buying the river seafood, Su Wanqing also bought two fish and several pounds of snails from the woman selling them. The woman enthusiastically explained how to prepare the snails: "...You have to keep them in clean water for a few days to let them purge the sand. When you're ready to eat them, cut off the tails, stir-fry them with chili peppers, and they'll be delicious! There's a cooking stall over there; for a few cents for the cooking fee, they can be ready in no time."

Su Wanqing swallowed hard and nodded like a chick pecking at rice. Snails are best when stir-fried. She could also try making snail rice noodles later, and braise some duck feet and pig trotters. That would be delicious too. She would try it when she got back this time!

Uncle Ding couldn't help but swallow hard: "I've never eaten these before, how about we cook some for ourselves and try them?"

Looking into Su Wanqing's bright eyes, Zhou Yanshen said gently, "Wanqing, you like it so much? How about we find a stall later and have someone make some for you to try?"

Su Wanqing coughed lightly. "I do want to eat them, but not all of them... I'd like to try raising these river shrimp, snails, and oysters. If they can survive where we live, we can have them more often in the future, right?"

As for sea cucumbers and abalone—she had no intention of raising them openly; they were too conspicuous. She would rather quietly store them in her spatial pond and enjoy them herself at her leisure.

Uncle Ding was drinking water when he heard this and almost choked: "Raise it? Take it back to Xinjiang? Thousands of miles away, how can it survive?"

Su Wanqing said earnestly, "Bringing him directly won't work, but I have some special medicine that can save his life. I want to try."

Uncle Ding opened his mouth, but in the end he swallowed his words back—he was increasingly unable to understand his nephew's wife's ideas.

Zhou Yanshen simply nodded: "If you want to try, then try. How about we pick out the ones we want to raise first, and then process the rest?" Anyway, they're just small things, so since my wife wants to raise them, let's give it a try.

"it is good."

While the two weren't looking, Su Wanqing flicked her hand, secretly returning ten times the amount of sea cucumbers and abalone from the bucket, and moving the excess into her spatial breeding pond. She also added a handful of snails, oysters, and river shrimp. Now her spatial pond was bustling with life: swaying aquatic plants, and a full array of crayfish seedlings, sea cucumbers, abalone, snails, river shrimp, and oysters.

I wonder if raising so many together will cause them to fight? Fighting is one thing, but what about the crayfish larvae? And what about the snails? Will they end up being eaten?

Next, she selected some river shrimp, oysters, and snails, and kept them in a bucket with water diluted with spiritual spring water to conceal their presence. The remaining fish, abalone, and sea cucumbers were taken to a processing stall. Before long, a simple yet fragrant seafood feast was laid out on the outdoor table: steamed fish, braised sea cucumber with scallions, oysters with garlic, stir-fried abalone with chili…

The group sat around a small wooden stool. Su Wanqing picked up a piece of food with her chopsticks and put it in her mouth, her eyes immediately curving into a smile: "Delicious!"

Uncle Ding ate with gusto, while Zhou Yanshen, though eating quietly, nodded frequently, acknowledging how delicious the fresh seafood was.

Su Wanqing was in a great mood—after two or three months, the seafood in the space would multiply, and even in the cold winter of the Northwest, she could secretly satisfy her cravings.

After eating and drinking her fill, she packed up the remaining seafood, intending to take it back for Xiuer and Aunt Wang to try. The three returned to the agreed-upon inn, but Xiuer and her daughter were nowhere to be seen.

Uncle Ding was puzzled: "It's been almost half a day, they should have been back long ago. And they have a baby with them, they need to eat at least."

Su Wanqing thought for a moment and said, "Let's go check on Aunt Wang first. If she's not there, we'll look for her along the way."

The three of them rushed to the vicinity of Aunt Wang's house, and before they even got close, they saw a crowd gathered at the entrance of the alley. There were neighbors watching the commotion, as well as several workers in factory uniforms.

"Make way, make way."

Zhou Yanshen, protecting Su Wanqing, discreetly squeezed through the crowd. Upon reaching the courtyard gate, they saw Xiuer's eldest and second sisters-in-law holding knives—not to others, but to their own necks, wailing and lamenting.

"Is there no justice in this world? How can there be such a vicious mother-in-law! My father-in-law just passed away, and she wants to take the house back, not caring whether our whole family lives or dies! This house was allocated to my father-in-law by the factory, what's wrong with us living here? She's trying to drive us to our doom!"

The eldest sister-in-law's hair was disheveled, and she was crying with snot and tears streaming down her face.

The second sister-in-law, holding her two daughters, pressed a knife to her neck, her voice shrill and piercing: "If you dare take the house, I'll die right here today! Let everyone see who would dare live in this house that drove their daughter-in-law to her death! This house is my father-in-law's inheritance, why can't we children inherit it? My mother-in-law is an outsider, what right does she have to take it away like that?!"

Su Wanqing watched with great interest from the side—goodness, this is quite a juicy story today.

Xiuer stood to the side holding her child, while Granny Wang, though slightly disheveled, stood tall and showed no fear. A dozen or so people from the factory came to handle the recycling, but they were too intimidated by the scene to approach—recycling houses was official business, but if someone died, it would be a serious matter.

All the pressure suddenly fell on Aunt Wang again.

Aunt Wang originally thought that having the people from the factory come would drive away her two sons and daughters-in-law, but who knew that her two daughters-in-law were also cunning and came up with this trick. Now she has to rely on her again!

In the ten days or so that Grandma Wang has been paralyzed, she has experienced the bitterness of a lifetime. Her sons have pocketed her pension, coveted her job, and even wanted to kick her out of the house... To be honest, once she really dies, wouldn't all of this still belong to her children? But these beasts can't even wait that long.

Now she spat out a mouthful of saliva, spitting it all over her two daughters-in-law's faces.

"Pah! You two shameless bastards!"

This house belongs to me and Lao Chen! Now that the old man is gone, it's my responsibility to own it! Who gave you the right to cause trouble here? You think you're so powerful? You secretly took my job, kicked me out of the house, and even stole all of the old man's pension! If I keep this house, you'll just take it! Why should I leave it to you ungrateful wretches?!

She turned to the surrounding neighbors, her eyes red-rimmed, and said, "Everyone, be the judge! My husband has passed away, but I'm not dead yet! These two beasts! I've been hospitalized for over ten days, and not a single one of them has come to visit me! If it weren't for the kindness of the doctors and nurses, I would have died in my hospital bed long ago! And they, on the other hand, are at home arguing about dividing the inheritance every day, going to state-run restaurants to eat braised pork, and even offering to pay for jobs! I'm heartbroken by such a son and daughter-in-law!"

The neighbors had already started talking about it:

"Yes, I asked Jianjun a few days ago, 'Why didn't you go visit your mother in the hospital?' He replied, 'There are doctors at the hospital!'"

"I saw Chen Jianguo hosting a dinner party at a state-run restaurant, saying he was selling his wife's job quota... Turns out he wanted to take advantage of his parents' jobs as well!"