Farmer girl swaps husbands: buys a sickly villain and pampers him

Chapter 198 Origin
When Jiang Yihuan saw Su Yaoguang, she was attracted by her fashionable dress.

She glanced down at her clothes, a look of jealousy flashing in her eyes.

How long has it been since she bought new clothes?

Since marrying Xiao Yanci, her life had gotten worse and worse, and she had more and more to do. Before, she never did any manual labor; those jobs were always taken care of by others. Now that she was a married woman, most of the men who had previously fawned over her had left, making her wonder if her charm had vanished. However, seeing that Yang Quan was still willing to follow her devotedly, she knew she still had her charm; it was just that now that she was married, those men, seeing no chance of marrying her, were no longer interested in pursuing her.

She took Xiao Yanci's arm, like a victorious rooster, and walked past Su Yaoguang with a stiff upper lip.

Su Yaoguang rolled her eyes and walked into the gambling den.

"Mr. Su, what brings you here?" The gambling den owner, who was also Zhong Chushan's father, greeted him with a smile. "Want to play a few rounds today?"

“Uncle Zhong, your son already calls my mother his godmother, so we're practically family. If you still want to swindle money from me, that's going too far.”

Boss Zhong chuckled and said, "He is him, and I am me. If he were to claim kinship with me, I wouldn't be able to make money, and how would my gambling den operate?"

“If that’s how you put it, then I’ll have our Wangshu stop helping your son with his homework. Anyway, he’s him and you’re you. He doesn’t want to take the imperial examinations, so there’s no point in forcing him to study.”

"No, no, no, Uncle Zhong is wrong. Uncle Zhong would never cheat you out of your money."

"Uncle Zhong, what were they doing here just now? Did they pay back the money they owed you?"

“How can you just pay back a thousand taels of silver? Their Fenghua Pavilion shop is worth some money, though. The madam robbed it, but I only took some goods. After clearing out all the goods, I still owe eight hundred taels of debt. Just now, that guy surnamed Xiao came to my door, wrote an IOU, and said he would pay back the eight hundred taels slowly.”

"Does 'gradually' mean paying it off over ten or twenty years?"

“Dream on. I gave them a five-year period, with each year paying back 160 taels, which means each month they have to pay back more than ten taels.”

"What if they can't pay it back?"

"That man surnamed Xiao wrote an IOU and even had an official witness it, so even if he runs to the ends of the earth, he won't be able to get rid of the money. He has to pay back at least twelve taels every month, and the rest must be settled before the end of the year. If he can't do that, it will accrue interest. If they don't want interest to accrue interest, they have to honestly pay back the money."

Su Yaoguang left the gambling den in a good mood and bought a lot of jewelry when she passed by a gold shop. Not only did all the women in the family get some, but Zhou Wangshu also got a gold hairpin.

She returned to the shop with all sorts of gold jewelry, and then gave the gifts she had chosen to all her relatives. When she put the gold hairpin in Zhou Wangshu's hair, the people around her kept saying how beautiful it looked.

"It's strange, really. Everything looks good on Wangshu. Look how thick this gold hairpin is. If it were on someone else, they would look like a nouveau riche."

“He’s good-looking, so of course he looks good in anything,” Zhang Pandi said from the side.

Zhou Wangshu touched the gold hairpin and said, "What happened today that made you so happy?"

"I just ran into Jiang Yihuan and the others at the entrance of the gambling den," Su Yaoguang told them the information she had gathered. "They owe eight hundred taels of silver in debt, and now that Fenghua Pavilion is gone, they have to pay back twelve taels of silver every month. They'll have to work their butt off. They're in debt, but we aren't. Anyway, we've earned quite a bit of silver now, so of course we should spend it on ourselves. We're going to dress up beautifully and wear pretty jewelry so everyone knows that the women in our family are doing well."

“Men are doing well too,” Zhang Zhaodi added from the side. “Your uncle’s health is getting better and better. I think the reason he couldn’t get better before was because we didn’t have the money to take him to the doctor and to help him get better. By the way, judging from the time, your uncle is going to participate in the autumn examination this year. Your aunt is thinking of renting a house outside so that he can study quietly.”

“This is a good thing,” Su Yaoguang said. “Auntie, is the money enough?” Zhang Yingdi said, “Yes, it is. You are so generous to your aunt and uncle, it’s enough for me to buy a house. However, we don’t know how his exam is going yet, so we just want to rent a house temporarily and won’t buy one.”

"Do you need our help?"

“I told him to go find it himself,” Zhang Yingdi said. “He’s not the kind of man who doesn’t know how to cook. If I have to worry about such things, what hope do I have for him? I just want him to do something for this family.”

Zhang Zhaodi whispered something in Zhang Yingdi's ear.

Zhang Yingdi blushed and said embarrassedly, "He has just recovered and is preparing for the imperial examination, so he can't be distracted."

"Did he mean that?" Zhang Pandi clearly knew what they were talking about.

"I……"

Zhou Wangshu covered Su Yaoguang's ears and took her away.

"Why are you covering my ears? Is there something I can't hear?"

Zhou Wangshu grumbled, "You're quite the listener, but I'm afraid your aunt will be too embarrassed to listen. Let's go, stop being so curious."

“Wangshu, let me tell you…” Su Yaoguang stuck the gold hairpin in his hair. “Wearing this gold hairpin, you look like the little boy under the God of Wealth.”

Time flies. Not long ago they were still worrying about renting a house, and now Wang Huanzhi and Zhou Wangshu and other students have embarked on the road to the autumn examinations.

The provincial examinations were held at the Imperial Examination Hall in the provincial capital. They had to set off a few days in advance and find a place to stay. During those days, they needed to interact with other students, gather information from each other, and find out what kind of person the chief examiner was.

Inside the carriage, Su Yaoguang lifted the curtain and looked at Zhou Wangshu riding a horse outside.

Seeing her like this, Zhang Yingdi smiled and said, "If you want to ride horses with Wangshu, just tell him. You don't need to be so envious."

Inside the carriage were Zhang Yingdi and Wang Huanzhi. After hearing Zhang Yingdi's words, Wang Huanzhi glanced at Su Yaoguang and chuckled.

Young is good.

Su Yaoguang seemed to have inexhaustible energy, while Zhou Wangshu was also full of energy and looked spirited.

He couldn't keep up with these young people, but he cherished this hard-won opportunity. Therefore, he'd been reading constantly lately, paying no attention to anything else.

Su Yaoguang was leaning against the window, and Zhang Yingdi was advising her, saying that it was dangerous for her to be like this.

"Wangshu, keep an eye on this little rascal," Zhang Yingdi said irritably. "She saw you riding a horse and wanted to get some fresh air too."

Zhou Wangshu tightened the reins and said to the coachman, "Stop the carriage."

After saying that, he patted the horse's back and said to Su Yaoguang, "Get on."