The wicked mother-in-law doesn't try to whitewash herself; she only abuses her awful children.

Uh.

Tong Huaqiong wanted to sigh deeply.

She guessed correctly; Xu Yong ultimately succumbed to temptation and actually prescribed the fungicide and insecticide for ear rot.

Tong Huaqiong couldn't help but admire Xu Yong's decisiveness and his courage to take such a gamble.

She was wondering why Xu Yong had been so calm these past few days; it turned out he had already been secretly taking action.

However, he had too little time to prepare the medicine and hadn't conducted any experiments before rashly sending it out, almost destroying everyone's cornfield.

For farmers, destroying someone else's crops is like killing their parents; they will inevitably come looking for the culprit.

Tong Huaqiong instantly understood why the villagers on the other side were carrying weapons and why they were so indignant.

If it were her, she would do the same.

After learning the truth, Liu Tielian cursed Xu Yong to death in his heart.

He deserved to have ruined himself by stealing Tong Huaqiong's credit, but even if you want to steal credit, you can't just rashly prepare medicine and give it to the villagers.

Tong Huaqiong always tests the medicine on her own land first, and only distributes it to the villagers if there are no side effects.

Xu Yong is doing something quite interesting; he's using other people's land for testing.

If the test results were good, that would be fine, but now the land has been ruined.

“Village Chief Liu, it’s not that we’re here to cause trouble in Qinghewan, but tell me, are we in the right? Shouldn’t we settle accounts with Xu Yong? Our corn still yielded some harvest without his pesticide, but now that we’ve used it, I’m afraid we’ll have no harvest at all.”

"You haven't seen it, the cornfields in these villages are turning yellow in large swaths. Everyone is counting on corn to eat, and this is deliberately starving everyone without leaving any way out for us."

As Zhang, the village chief of Moon Bay, spoke, tears welled up in his eyes.

On the way here, he regretted and blamed himself for trusting Xu Yong and letting everyone take the medicine, which resulted in the whole village having to beg for food in the winter.

Village Chief Hu chimed in, "Village Chief Liu, Manager Tong, we also bear responsibility for trusting Xu Yong. But who would have thought he was up to no good? Even if we in Guazhou Bay have a grudge against him, he shouldn't have ruined our crops."

The other village chiefs chimed in, saying, "Guazhou Bay has a grudge against Xu Yong, but we have no grudge against him. He's dragging us into this mess too."

“If Xu Yong dares to harm our crops, we will skin him alive.”

"Even Village Chief Liu can't stop us. Are our crops just destined to be ruined by fake medicine?"

"Why is it that the medicine Xu Yong gave to Qinghewan is genuine, but the medicine he gave us is fake?"

The villagers from other villages were so angry they wanted to grab their weapons and go to Xu Yong's house to chop him up alive.

When most of the villagers from Qinghewan who had come to confront them heard that they were looking for Xu Yong, they put away their weapons.

Anyway, Xu Yong's matter has nothing to do with them.

However, as farmers, out of their love for crops, they all joined in criticizing Xu Yong.

Everyone in Qinghewan Village knows that Tong Huaqiong prepared this medicine; Xu Yong tried to steal the credit but messed it up.

While cursing Xu Yong, the villagers of Qinghewan were also relieved that Xu Yong had been removed from his position as village chief. Otherwise, given Xu Yong's domineering style, who would dare to use Tong Huaqiong's medicine? They would all have to use Xu Yong's fake medicine instead.

“Village Chief Hu, you’ve all been fooled by that bastard Xu Yong. You saw how well our corn was growing and believed him. The corn we’re growing isn’t grown with the medicine Xu Yong concocted at all; we’re growing the medicine concocted by Aunt Big Foot. Xu Yong must be jealous, that’s why he decided to concoct his own medicine,” said a young woman who had married into Qinghe Bay from Guazhou Bay.

This caused an uproar among the crowd on the other side.

Well, Xu Yong, you've gone too far.

The group became even more clamorous, demanding to settle accounts with Xu Yong.

Liu Tielian walked to the middle to stop everyone, intending to send someone to call Xu Yong over to confront him about the matter.

He was afraid that if he didn't stop them, the people on the other side would rush into Xu Yong's house and devour him alive.

The situation spiraled out of control, people died, and as the village chief, he naturally couldn't escape responsibility.

"Kill Xu Yong." "Let's go, storm their door."

"How dare they lie to us!"

The villagers, who were filled with indignation, learned that the pesticides in Qinghewan were not formulated by Xu Yong at all, and felt even more that they had been fooled by Xu Yong.

Liu Tielian couldn't stop them; the horde of people rushed towards Xu Yong's house.

"Uncle, Uncle, you'd better hide quickly."

After observing the situation from the village entrance, a member of the Xu family quickly ran over to inform Xu Yong.

"What's wrong?"

Xu Yong was enjoying his egg tea at home, feeling that his nephews and nieces who had come to visit were not at all composed.

"Uncle, something terrible has happened! The medicine you prescribed has ruined someone's crops!"

“Those people from Guazhou Bay and Moon Bay have come knocking on our door.”

"what?"

A few days ago, Xu Zaohua used her connections with the Zheng family to find someone to mix the pesticide that Tong Dajiao had given to the villagers. It is said that the person who mixed the pesticide was an official from the Agricultural Department of Shengjing who came to the prefectural city and had experience in mixing pesticides.

The medicine was prepared very quickly.

Xu Zaohua originally wanted to promote pesticides without Xu Yong's involvement, but she dared not promote them rashly before understanding their efficacy.

She feared that if the medicine didn't work, she would become the target of everyone's criticism, and all her plans with the Zheng family would be in vain.

After the medicine was prepared, Xu Zaohua sent someone to have Xu Yong go to the Zheng family in Pingchuan County to pick up the medicine. She wanted to use Xu Yong's help to promote the experiment in the surrounding villages. If the medicine was effective, she would use the Zheng family's connections to rush to the prefectural city and claim all the credit in front of the prefect. If the medicine was ineffective, Xu Yong would take all the blame and it would have nothing to do with her, Xu Zaohua.

Xu Zaohua was worried that Xu Yong wouldn't believe that the pesticide had been prepared in such a short time, so she brought up the officials from the Ministry of Agriculture in Shengjing. In reality, she had found a wandering alchemist to prepare it, and she repeatedly assured Xu Yong that the medicine was fine.

After stepping down from his position as village chief, Xu Yong thought about how to turn his life around every day. Once he got the medicine, he started promoting it in the villages around Qinghewan without a second thought.

Like Qinghewan, the cornfields in several other villages are also suffering from ear rot and cotton aphids.

When Xu Yong was trying to persuade the village chiefs to use his medicine, none of them, knowing Xu Yong as they did, believed that he had the ability to prepare the medicine.

Xu Yong cited the cornfields of Qinghewan as an example. Village chiefs and representatives from several villages, including Yue Liangwan and Guazhouwan, secretly went to Qinghewan to observe and found that the cornfields in Qinghewan were indeed growing better than those in other villages.

To confirm that Qinghewan Village had used antibacterial and insecticidal drugs, they even talked with the villagers.

The villagers of Qinghewan thought that the medicine given by Tong Huaqiong was very precious. If other villages found out, they might ask Tong Huaqiong for the medicine. Should Tong Huaqiong give it to them or not? In order not to cause trouble for Tong Huaqiong, the villagers spoke evasively.

The villagers' cover-ups made them believe Xu Yong's words even more.

Everyone took Xu Yong's medicine that same day.

Of course, Xu Yong didn't give the medicine away for free; they bought it with their own money.

One bottle of medicine costs one tael of silver.

The price was indeed beyond what the villagers could afford, but many gritted their teeth and bought it in order to have a good harvest.

Some villagers who couldn't afford even a tael of silver would pool their money to buy a bottle, dilute it, and then distribute it in several large buckets.

Now, the cornfields of those villagers who gritted their teeth and spent money have suffered severe damage, while those who pooled their money to buy pesticides have suffered relatively minor damage.

But no matter what, everyone spent their money without achieving the desired results.

Xu Yong is a fraud.

Xu Yong was unaware of what had happened at the village entrance. He was still smugly waiting to be revered as a god by the surrounding villagers when he received a report from his nephew that the medicine he had given had damaged the cornfields in Moon Bay of Guazhou Bay, and villagers from several villages were coming to settle scores with him.

Xu Yong was horrified. (End of Chapter)