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

Chapter 202 Fishing
Su Yaoguang stood up, picked out a few pastries, and put them away.

Seeing this, Zhou Wangshu said, "It won't taste good when it's cold. If you like it, fresh ones will be delivered tomorrow, so you don't need to store them."

"I wanted to send some to my aunt and uncle."

“Then there’s no need for that. I’ve already sent one over.” Zhou Wangshu put down what she was holding. “You clearly love to eat, so just eat it first and don’t always think about others.”

Su Yaoguang patted Zhou Wangshu's hair: "Wangshu is indeed destined to become a scholar. She has really grown up. I am very pleased with her."

Zhou Wangshu: “…”

He slapped her hand away, glared at her irritably, and said to the two onlookers, "Have you finished eating?"

Zhong Chushan swallowed the last bite and nodded elegantly: "I'm done eating."

Chen Buyu swallowed another small bun and said vaguely, "Don't rush, it's still early. The others probably haven't gotten up yet."

"You think you're as lazy as a pig?" Zhong Chushan said sarcastically.

"Hey, is it really necessary for you to attack me like this? In this county, people like us are called 'double losers,' you know? When you talk about me, you're actually talking about yourself."

Zhou Wangshu kicked them one by one, looking utterly disgusted: "I see you quite like this nickname, calling it so loudly, are you afraid others won't hear you?"

Su Yaoguang sat in the courtyard, watching the three of them playfully fight as they went next door, before pulling the overly nervous Wang Huanzhi out the door.

Wang Huanzhi was participating in a scientific expedition again after many years. Compared to the young men around him, he was older and extremely tense. In fact, being too nervous was not a good thing.

It was still early, and many shops had not yet opened, so she wasn't in a hurry to go out.

She tidied up the room first, then collected and washed Zhou Wangshu's dirty clothes from yesterday and hung them out to dry in the yard.

After she finished all this, she was about to go find Cui Rong when she saw the Cui family's carriage parked outside the courtyard gate.

"Yaoguang, how about we go for a walk today?" Cui Rong asked as he stepped down from the carriage.

Su Yaoguang called out, "Wait for me a moment. I was packing my things and haven't had time to change my clothes yet."

"No rush, take your time packing. I'll wait for you here." Cui Rong's eyes lit up with joy when he saw that she was willing to go out.

It seems Zhou Wangshu isn't here!

With him gone, he could finally be alone with Yaoguang. He simply couldn't believe that Yaoguang would choose him over him, since he was just as good as Yaoguang in every way and even a year older.

Su Yaoguang was changing clothes inside. Cui Rong looked around at the nearby houses, and when she saw the room that was barely bigger than a bird's belly, her eyes were full of disgust.

"Yaoguang is really something. She doesn't want to live in a big house, but insists on living in this small house with her younger brother. If she lived with me, she would have servants to wait on her, and she wouldn't have to worry about any trivial matters."

Jiang Yihuan came out carrying a vegetable basket, walked out of the yard, and as she passed Cui Rong, she swayed and fell towards Cui Rong.

Seeing this, Cui Rong moved aside to avoid being touched. Bang! Jiang Yihuan fell to the ground.

"Ah..." She winced in pain, clutching her head as she slowly got up, looking at Cui Rong with a mournful expression. "Young Master Cui, why didn't you help me up? I'm all hurt from the fall."

"Did I hit him?" Cui Rong asked calmly.

“Even though you didn’t hit me, we’re not strangers, and we used to have a pretty good relationship. If you saw me fall, couldn’t you have helped me up?” Jiang Yihuan said, feeling wronged.

"We used to be on good terms? I don't remember that." Cui Rong looked disgusted. "Oh, you used to tell me that our Jinlefang's business was bad because Yaoguang schemed against us, and that Yaoguang deliberately climbed up by stepping on our shoulders, and now they've become the leader in the cosmetics industry. You also said a lot of bad things about Yaoguang, making me resent her. If you say that's what a good relationship is, then shouldn't I repay you for your advice?"

Cui Rong wasn't in the county town before, but was later transferred by his family to manage the business there. There, he encountered Jiang Yihuan, a troublemaker, which made him resent Yao Guang.

Fortunately, the timing coincided with a disaster in the county, and he was too busy with disaster relief efforts to do anything to Taoyao Workshop. By the time he finished his work, he had gained some understanding of Su Yaoguang's character. At this time, those troublemakers from the palace came knocking, demanding that the Cui family offer some fine gifts to the nobles in the palace. Knowing that these people were difficult to deal with, he planned to shift the blame and have Taoyao Workshop handle the eunuchs.

That's how it happened after that.

Su Yaoguang not only didn't hold a grudge against him, but also helped him out of a predicament, getting him out of danger. Only then did he feel immense regret and repent for his pettiness.

No one can persuade him now; he would never do anything to harm Su Yaoguang.

Jiang Yihuan's face was somewhat pale.

I originally thought this young master Cui was easy to fool, and I even wanted to lure him into being my fish, but it turns out he's become smarter.

Su Yaoguang came out and saw Jiang Yihuan running away quickly with a shopping basket in her hand. She said in confusion, "Has this woman had another episode?"

Cui Rong nodded: "I was standing here perfectly fine when she suddenly fell towards me, saying she was dizzy and wanted me to help her up. I didn't help her up, and she ran away lightly."

“Young Master Cui doesn’t know how to cherish women!” Su Yaoguang teased him. “This Jiang Yihuan is a famous sickly beauty. She gets dizzy when she sees a handsome man. She’s had an attack today, probably because she saw that Young Master Cui is as handsome as Pan An, and her old problem has flared up again. Let’s not blame her, after all, it’s a problem she’s had since birth.”

Cui Rong laughed: "Yao Guang really has a sharp tongue. Luckily, I didn't offend you."

“Let’s go, let’s see how the bosses in this provincial capital do business,” Su Yaoguang said. “Nobody knows me here, my connections won’t work, we’ll need yours.”

Xiao Yanci stood by the window, watching Su Yaoguang and Cui Rong get into the carriage, chatting and laughing.

He seemed to have never seen Su Yaoguang with such a bright and generous smile in his past life. When she was with him, she was always cautious, and if his expression turned sour, she would show a distressed look.

This world is different now; she has become so dazzling, and she is also very poised and generous in her interactions with others.

On the contrary, Jiang Yihuan became increasingly dull, lacking the intelligence of her previous life, and became rigid and uninteresting.

Once he passes the imperial examination and becomes a Juren (a successful candidate in the provincial-level imperial examination), he can move away from this place and go to the capital to prepare for the preliminary and final examinations, thus leaving everything here behind. He can also marry the daughter of a high-ranking official, while a village girl like Jiang Yihuan from a humble background can become his concubine.

This time, he couldn't be foolish again; he couldn't reject the advances of a high-ranking official's daughter for the sake of a village girl.