The road to wealth of a peasant widow

Chapter 155 Moon Appearance

Chen Cui's family is now a prominent figure in Liujiaping. As soon as they return to the village, they are noticed by many people. Naturally, the people in the Liu family's old house also know about it.

Liu Wende and Liu Changsheng were working in a shop in the county town, and Liu Changxing had gone out to do odd jobs. Only Zhou, her two daughters-in-law, and her sister-in-law Yuerong were at home. Oh, no, there was also Liu Changrong, who was eating for free.

Although Changxing did not find a job in the shop, the Qiao family, who were originally engaged to him, still married their daughter to him. It seems that they were reluctant to give up the marriage with the Liu family after all.

The Qiao family felt that although the eldest branch of the Liu family and the promising second branch were not on good terms, they were still a family connected by blood. Besides, if their daughter broke off the engagement without reason, it would ruin her reputation and make it difficult for her to get married in the future.

Although the Qiao family was well-off, they treated their daughter in a mediocre way. Qiao was raised to be timid and dull, and was disliked by Zhou as soon as she entered the family.

Zhou was resentful that the Qiao family had forced them to find a job for Changxing, which caused her to lose her mind and become enemies with Chen. Otherwise, the relationship between the two families would not have been so bad.

When Zhou heard that Chen had returned with several children, she couldn't bring herself to go and see them even if she wanted to. Even if her two daughters-in-law wanted to go, they didn't dare to go out without the order of her mother-in-law.

"Mom, I want to go to my second aunt's house to take a look."

Zhou's youngest daughter Yuerong was only thirteen years old. She was born smart and good at reading people's faces. At this time, she saw her mother's hesitation and entanglement, so she tried to test her mother.

If her mother didn't want her to go, she would just scold her a few words. If she agreed to let her go, she would find a way to get along well with her second aunt who was an imperial concubine.

Sure enough, Zhou was silent for a while before she spoke: "Go if you want to, be smart and don't be annoying."

"Oh, I understand, mother." Yuerong responded crisply.

Since she was eight or nine years old, her father and elder brother said that she was a grown-up girl and would not let her go out easily, saying that she should not show her face in public and be laughed at.

Although she no longer had to work in the fields, it was uncomfortable to stay at home all day. The children in the village who used to play with her were running all over the mountains and fields, but she was the only one who was confined at home all day and couldn't go out.

Yuerong carried the basket of vegetable rolls and walked briskly towards her second aunt's house.

She was a little excited along the way. She was thinking about how to greet her second aunt and how to please her.

This was her first time visiting her second aunt's house, so she knocked on the door cautiously. Unexpectedly, after knocking, a little girl of three or four years old opened the door.

"Who are you?" Sui Sui was playing in the yard. When he heard the knock on the door, he ran over to open it.

"I am your sister Yuerong, are you Suisui?"

Yuerong smiled particularly gently. She had heard that Second Aunt and Changping doted on this girl very much, so she spared no effort to win the child's favor.

“Sui Sui, how can you just come over and open the door? What did I tell you?”

When Chang'an heard the sound at the door, he quickly put down the work he was doing, wiped the sweat off his face and ran out of the house.

Seeing the two people at the door, he was stunned and asked in surprise: "Yuerong, why are you here?"

"I heard you guys were back, so I came to see you. These are the vegetable rolls my sister-in-law made. I brought them here for you to try."

Yuerong had a sweet smile on her face and lifted the cloth covering the basket to show Chang'an.

Don't hit a smiling person. Yuerong is her cousin after all. Although she was not close to their second branch in the past, she had never bullied them. At most, she just watched coldly.

If it were in the past, Chang'an would definitely not be nice to Yuerong, but he had been studying for more than three years and had received a lot of teachings from his mother, which made him understand many truths.

Many things are not black and white. Sometimes, showing off one's edge is not really powerful. What really hurts people is often the invisible killing moves.

"Come in." Chang'an took the basket with one hand, held Suisui's hand, and welcomed Yuerong in.

This was the first time she stepped into this courtyard. She looked at everything in front of her carefully and calmly.

"Isn't Second Aunt home?"

"My mother and elder brother went to Master Youcai's house." Chang'an put the basket on the table in the main room and washed Suisui's dirty hands and face.

As they were talking, Chen Cui and Chang Ping came in from the gate, and Yue Rong quickly stood up.

"Second Aunt, Brother Changping, you're back." She showed the most sincere and kind smile on her face.

Chen Cui looked at the sweet-looking, well-behaved and lovely little girl in front of her, and sighed in her heart, but a loving smile was on her face: "Yue Rong is here, please sit down, the house is a little messy, don't be disgusted."

Yue Rong's eyes flashed: "Second Aunt, I'm not a stranger, you don't have to be so polite."

"Yes, yes, we are family, there is no need to be so particular. What is the matter that brought you here today?"

Chen Cui looked at the dusty house in front of her and didn't want to deal with this little girl.

"My sister-in-law made some vegetable rolls with shepherd's purse and purslane, and my mother asked me to bring them to you to try." Yuerong pointed to the basket on the table.

When Chen Cui heard about these two wild vegetables, she suddenly became interested. She lifted the cover of the basket and saw more than a dozen vegetable rolls.

Wow, that’s a lot, almost enough for dinner for their whole family.

"Thank your mother and sister-in-law for me. Thank you for making a special trip to deliver it. You can also take the snacks I brought from the county town back for them to try."

Chen Cui glanced at Changping, and the eldest son took the basket to the kitchen. After a while, he brought it back, and there were two boxes of snacks in it.

When Yuerong took the basket, she looked at Changping excitedly and said, "Brother Changping, they said you passed the exam to become a Tongsheng. Is that true?"

When she first heard about this, she found it hard to believe. Her father and her elder brother had worked hard for half their lives but hadn't even gotten close to becoming a scholar. This made her feel that studying for the imperial examinations was a difficult thing.

But this cousin only studied for more than three years and he actually passed the exam. This is too incredible!

Changping just nodded slightly: "Yeah."

He didn't have a good impression of his cousin. Although she was not a bad person, she was too shrewd.

My uncle and aunt are not the kind of people who love their daughter. They don’t even pay much attention to their son Changxing. But she has been able to live a good life with her own cleverness. She is a smart person.

"You are amazing, Brother Changping. I heard that many people can't pass the exam even when they are older. You passed it after only studying for a few years. That's amazing!"

The admiration in Yuerong's eyes was not fake, she really thought Changping was amazing. At the same time, she despised her father and elder brother even more.

These two people usually treat everyone equally, and there is no one they look up to in their family. But when it comes to getting things done, they are very inferior.

All the land and property in the family were purchased by my grandfather. It was my grandfather who arranged for my eldest brother to marry, and the money for my second brother’s wedding was also left by my grandfather.

Since grandpa passed away, many things at home have become different, but they seem to be unaware and continue to do as they please.