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

Chapter 619 Not So Blind

Xu Xinghua tried to leave home to go to Pingchuan County to inquire about the Lian family's situation.

Xu Yong had his two sons stop Xu Xinghua.

Enraged, Xu Xinghua grabbed her niece with one hand and a pair of scissors in the other, stabbing her in the face. Her sister-in-law was so frightened that she slapped her.

"The Lian family runs a huge pearl business and is the prefect's in-laws. The third young master of the Lian family is quite promising; he passed the imperial examination this year and became a scholar. It's incredibly lucky that the Lian family has chosen you. Look around the whole village; which girl has such a good marriage? What more could you want?"

“This marriage is wonderful. Your sister-in-law is already married. At least you won’t have to suffer from her temper like I did.”

What else do you want?

Xu Xinghua's sister-in-law smiled warmly and gently, but her words pierced Xu Xinghua's heart.

If we were to name the person in the entire Xu family who most eagerly awaited Xu Xinghua's marriage, it would be Xu's eldest sister-in-law.

Ever since she married into the Xu family, she has suffered countless mistreatments from her sister-in-law.

What kind of aunt would scratch her niece's face at the slightest disagreement?

Good heavens, at least she got married instead of having a son-in-law take her in.

"The Lian family will be coming to place the betrothal order in a few days. You should try to persuade her. If she doesn't listen, lock her in the house and don't let her go out for the next few days," Xu Yong instructed his eldest daughter-in-law.

He was afraid that his daughter-in-law, Tian, ​​would be soft-hearted, so he asked his eldest daughter-in-law to keep an eye on Xu Xinghua.

The eldest daughter-in-law accepted the task with a smile and took away all the sharp objects and ropes from Xu Xinghua's room.

Then they locked Xu Xinghua inside the house, leaving only one opening to pass food to her.

Xu Xinghua smashed things, kicked doors, and wailed, but nothing worked.

She couldn't understand how her parents, who had always doted on her, had become so cold-blooded.

What puzzled her even more was that the marriage was clearly intended for Gu Xiaoxue, so how did it end up in her hands after all this time?
Xu Xinghua hated Gu Xiaoxue to the core.

Soon, news spread throughout Qinghe Bay that Xu Xinghua had refused to marry Gu Ruinian, and that the wealthy Lian family in Pingchuan had taken a liking to Xu Xinghua and wanted to hire her as their young mistress.

This news was so explosive that it instantly caused the Qinghewan trending topics list to explode.

Now, the center of gossip in Qinghewan has moved to the entrance of the weaving workshop, where everyone sits and loudly discusses the matter.

When Tong Huaqiong was inspecting production in the weaving workshop, she could hear the discussions outside.

"No, what wealthy family would be so blind as to take a liking to Xu Xinghua? Are they blind?"

"I heard it's the Lian family from Pingchuan County, the father-in-law family of our Prefect Yao. Sigh, with Prefect Yao backing them up, the Xu family is probably going to start swaggering again. Will Xu Yong become the village chief again? Then our village's good days are over."

"According to Matchmaker Wang, he is the third son of the Lian family, three years younger than Xinghua, and he passed the imperial examination this year."

"Only you would believe that. This third young master must have some kind of problem that makes him unable to find a wife, so he's trying to deceive the girls in our mountain village. Have you forgotten that Xu Zaohua married a young master who was about to die?"

"That's hard to say. We can't be sure what the young master of a wealthy family likes. Could it be that he's had too many delicacies and now prefers the wild vegetables from the countryside?"

Jia, who was carrying a basket to wash clothes on the riverbank, happened to pass by the weaving workshop and heard people talking about Xu Xinghua's marriage to the Lian family. Her face turned very ugly.

Everyone assumed that she was giving him the cold shoulder because the marriage between Gu Ruinian and Xu Xinghua had fallen through.

Actually not.

Jia was unwilling that Gu Xiaoxue could not marry into the Lian family.

Xu Xinghua's mother, Tian, ​​returned from shopping in town. Ever since Xu Yong was dismissed as village chief and brought to court for counterfeiting pesticides, she had been avoiding people in the village. Today, she deliberately walked through the crowd. Anyway, no matter what the villagers speculated, her daughter was going to become the young mistress of the Lian family.

Who said the Xu family had fallen? They've risen again.

"Xinghua's mother, what did you buy in town?" An old woman who was in the middle of gossiping saw Tian Shi, stopped discussing Xu Xinghua's marriage, and greeted Tian Shi awkwardly.

Madam Tian patted the bundle and said with a smile, "Make some jewelry for my daughter. She's getting married soon, and she'll look good with a few decent pieces of jewelry."

Everyone initially thought that Tian Shi was unwilling to discuss Xu Xinghua's marriage with the villagers.

Seeing that she rarely smiled at the villagers and was happy to talk about her daughter's marriage, the old woman asked, "Everyone says that Xinghua is going to Pingchuan to be a young mistress. Is it true?"

Madam Tian said, "How could it be fake? It's the Lian family, pearl merchants from Pingchuan County, the in-laws of our Prefect Yao. The groom's family will come to present the betrothal gifts tomorrow, and the wedding will take place in half a month."

Tian noticed the incredulity in everyone's eyes and got angry. Didn't they just think that her Xinghua was not good enough to marry into the city?
"Why did the Lian family take a liking to Xinghua? Did Xinghua save the life of the Lian family's young master?" Village chief Liu Tielian's wife asked directly.

Everyone here wants to ask this question, but no one is too embarrassed to ask it.

Only the current village chief's wife is not afraid of Tian, ​​the former village chief's wife.

Tian raised her head and said, "My Xinghua is lucky. Once, the Lian family's wife came to our village and took a liking to my Xinghua. She praised Xinghua for being simple and straightforward, which suited her temperament very well, so she sent a matchmaker to our house to propose marriage."

Is the Lian family's wife coming to Qinghe Bay?
Everyone racked their brains trying to remember when a noblewoman had come to the village. Besides the mother of Magistrate Liu and the mother of Master Huang, who else could it be?
No one could remember.

The village chief's wife ate sunflower seeds and thought that the woman was either blind or full of bad intentions.

However, even if it was a trap, it was Xu Xinghua who was trapped, not the other girls in the village, so it wasn't that she was completely blind.

Tong Huaqiong felt an inexplicable urge to laugh after hearing what Tian said.

Aunt Tang is very efficient; she arranged the marriage between Xu Xinghua and the second son of the Lian family in no time.

However, Tong Huaqiong did not believe that Xu Yong and his wife did not suspect this good marriage. No one knew their daughter's situation better than her parents. The reason they pretended not to know about the pitfalls of this marriage was simply to sacrifice their daughter to climb up to a wealthy family and scheme for more.

However, the Xu family's hopes are about to be dashed once again.

Given Aunt Tang's methods, the Xu family won't get any benefit from the Lian family, and they probably won't even be able to step through the Lian family's gate.

Once Xu Xinghua marries into the family, the Lian family will not acknowledge the marriage at all.

The talking outside continued.

“That Xinghua is really lucky; she got her mother-in-law's approval even before she was married.”

"In my opinion, a daughter shouldn't get married too early; good marriages are all for later."

The crowd offered a few words of flattery to the Tian family on the surface.

"Is the marriage between Xinghua and Ruinian off the table?" the village chief's wife asked.

Madam Tian said, "The two are only discussing marriage, not getting engaged. Originally, we couldn't bear to see our daughter marry into a poor family and suffer, so we wanted Xinghua to find a husband to live with us. You've all seen that any young man willing to marry into a poor family can't stand on his own two feet, which is why he did. Now that my Xinghua can marry into a better family, the idea of ​​finding a husband for her has naturally been abandoned."

After saying that, he deliberately glanced at Jia, who was carrying a laundry basket not far away.

Someone whispered, "That's not necessarily true. Gu Xiaocao's husband is the shop owner, and he's even married into the family."

Tian opened her mouth to retort, but Jia, who had been standing not far away, rushed over with a howl and pointed at Tian, ​​cursing: "Shameless! Your daughter is keeping my son on her leash while stealing my daughter's marriage!"

The villagers sensed something was amiss in Jia's words; there was something hidden about this marriage.