When the sun was shining at noon, the Cao family's carriage slowly drove into Dahe Village.
Instead of going directly to Cao's mulberry garden, we first came to the gate of Cheng Wanwan's yard.
"Mom, my old Cao is here to bother you!" Cao Defu jumped out of the car, "What are you busy with?"
He walked into the yard and took a closer look curiously. There was a bamboo strip drying area set up on a bench in the yard. It was covered with dried bamboo shoots, mushrooms and fungus. He picked it up, smelled it, and even tasted it.
"If the things in the village are not clean, don't put them in your mouth." Mrs. Qi followed her from the car with her young son. Her eyes fell on Cheng Wanwan who was busy with a false smile on her face, "Sui Ruren has reached the seventh rank now, why do he still do all these tasks by himself?"
Cheng Wanwan poured the last basket of mushrooms onto the bamboo strips, wiped his hands and said with a smile: "We in the village work all year long and can't stop. In-laws, father-in-law, mother-in-law, please don't stand around. Come in and sit down, Hongying , bring me some cups of tea."
Mrs. Qi looked at the adobe house with slight disgust and immediately shook her head: "We came here this time because we wanted to visit the mulberry garden. Where is Yingying? Why isn't she here?"
Kong Xiu Niang went to the Cao Mansion early in the morning to borrow money, and she asked for ten thousand taels of silver. It was simply unreasonable for a married daughter to want to get money from her parents' family, but she was the stepmother and could not refuse directly, so she proposed first Let’s take a look at the situation. A mulberry garden that has just started is definitely full of problems and omissions. Just find a reason to refuse.
"Yingying was busy at the mulberry garden early in the morning. It just so happened that I wanted to bring her some food." Cheng Wanwan picked up a bamboo basket, "Let's go, I'll take you to the mulberry garden."
Cao Defu said repeatedly: "Then I'll trouble my mother-in-law."
It was still some distance from here to the mulberry garden. Cheng Wanwan took a group of people to take a shortcut on the field ridge. At this time, the field ridge was very lively, with people everywhere, transplanting rice seedlings or fertilizing and weeding. Everyone saw Cheng Wanwan They all look up and say hello.
"Da Shan Niang, we have a visitor at home."
"Ms. Dashan, my child picked some raspberries just now. They are quite sweet. Take them and eat them."
"Thank you Zhao Sanniang." Cheng Wanwan took it and asked Cao Hong behind him, "Do you want Hong'er to eat?"
Just as Cao Hong was about to reach out to take it, he was pulled by Mr. Qi: "I don't know how many bugs and ants crawled over it. Be careful and your stomach will hurt after eating it."
"Why are you talking to people from Suiru!" Cao Defu said dissatisfied, "No one asked you to come, but you had to come. When you came, you didn't like this or that, and you taught Hong'er a bad lesson! Come on, Hong'er, take care of me. Hold you, open your mouth, and daddy will feed you a raspberry."
Seeing her son eating a bunch of unclean wild fruits, Mrs. Qi was so angry that her skirt happened to be hanging on a branch of a tree by the roadside. When she pulled it hard, a big hole suddenly broke in the skirt, which made her face pale with anger. green.
Cheng Wanwan smiled. Are you angry now? You will be even more angry later.
I saw the mulberry garden from a distance. It was late spring and the mulberry trees were growing very well. The large green mulberry forest was very gratifying.
There are many silkworms raised in a row of houses built next to it. The white silkworms are eating mulberry leaves, and the scene is particularly spectacular.
"Dad, mother!" Cao Yingying came out of the house with her skirt in hand, her face full of joy, "Why are you here, and you didn't tell me in advance."
"Dad, let's see what's going on in your mulberry garden." Cao Defu got straight to the point, "Kong Xiu Niang said you plan to spend 40,000 taels of silver to buy a Jiangnan loom. Is there anything wrong with that?"
Cao Yingying nodded: "I have 30,000 taels of silver in my hand for my dowry, and I still have a shortfall of 10,000 taels, so I asked Kong Xiu Niang to go back and borrow the money. Dad, don't worry, this mulberry garden will definitely make money. In less than two years, this money will be enough." Earn it back.”
"You are too naive." Ms. Qi poured cold water on her mercilessly, "Forty thousand taels of silver, do you know how much it is? It's child's play to use it all to buy a loom! The Cao family has its own weaving factory, silk After it comes out, just transport it all to the weaving factory, you don't need to do anything else..."
Halfway through her words, she suddenly froze.
Because she saw a familiar figure appearing under the shadow of the tree next to her.
Cao Ping!
Why did this bitch follow him to Dahe Village!
Cao Yingying didn't seem to notice anything unusual about her. After thinking for a while, she said, "What mother said seems to make sense. I was indeed too naive."
"That's good if you think so." Mrs. Qi hurriedly ended the topic, "Where is the latrine?"
Cao Yingying pointed outside: "Go straight and then turn right. There is a bamboo forest over there. Just behind the bamboo forest, there is an adobe house. Mother, do you need me to take you there?"
"No."
Mrs. Qi held up her skirt and hurried out.
Cao Yingying and Cheng Wanwan couldn't help but look at each other, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law both had smiles on their lips.
Cao Defu didn't feel anything was wrong at all and said: "Yingying, what are your plans for the future? Let me talk to your father carefully..."
Cao Yingying nodded and took Cao Defu to visit the mulberry garden.
Few people pass by the bamboo forest on the southeast side of the mulberry garden. The wind blows and the bamboo leaves rustle.
As soon as Mrs. Qi walked over, her wrist was grabbed and she was pulled to a more secluded place.
"Cao Ping, are you crazy!" Mrs. Qi glared at him angrily, "I have already sent someone to deliver two thousand taels of silver to you, why are you still so haunted?"
"A total of three thousand taels were given to me. Am I that fucking cheap?" Cao Ping gritted his teeth. "You have tried every means to avoid me this month. It is not easy for me to see you. Today you must agree to get it together." Give me ten thousand taels of silver, otherwise, I will go to Cao Defu immediately and tell him Hong'er's life experience!"
"You, you are shameless!"
Mrs. Qi was really going crazy, her chest was heaving violently.
Cao Ping laughed and hooked her hair: "Haha, isn't it shameless for you to cuckold Cao Defu? Isn't it shameless for you to confuse the Cao family's bloodline? Isn't it shameless for you to be a raccoon cat who wants to embezzle all the Cao family's property in exchange for a prince? You say, Between the two of us, who is more shameless..."
"enough!!"
Mrs. Qi shouted in a low voice and clenched her fists tightly.
She took a deep breath: "Ten thousand taels of silver, I promised, you should leave Dahe Village immediately and don't appear in front of Cao Defu again!"
"You'd better keep your word!" Cao Ping said coldly, "If the money is not received within three days, I will have no choice but to go into Cao's house and talk to Cao Defu about the past."
Seeing him leaving, Qi's eyes flashed with a fierce light, this Cao Ping could not stay.
Cao Ping was in a wonderful mood. He had just walked out of the bamboo forest. Suddenly, two shadows came from behind him. A big sack was placed on top of his head. When he hit it with a stick, he fainted to the ground before he could exclaim.
Wei Xiaohai kicked the sack and saw that there was no reaction, so he said: "Throw it into the firewood shed of my aunt's house and take good care of it."
After Cao Ping was carried away, Wei Xiaohai immediately went to Cheng Wanwan to report what he heard, word for word, truthfully.
After listening, Cheng Wanwan's face was full of disbelief.
She thought that Cao Ping had control of the evidence that the Qi family had transferred the Cao family's property, but she didn't expect that the truth turned out to be so bloody.
The child is eight years old this year, which means that Cao Defu has been a cuckold for at least eight or nine years, and his head is already green, but he is completely unaware...
