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

Chapter 5 Purchasing
Su Yaoguang carried corn tortillas and mushroom soup into the woodshed.

As soon as he entered the door, Zhou Wangshu in the woodshed opened his eyes.

In the dim light, he watched Su Yaoguang approaching with vigilance like a little wolf.

"Are you hungry? Can you eat by yourself? If you can, I'll help you sit up. If not, I'll feed you."

Su Yaoguang first put the things on the broken stool next to him.

"Hel me up."

Although the boy is young, his voice is quite mature.

Su Yaoguang helped him sit up.

Zhou Wangshu groaned.

"Is the wound open?"

"No." Zhou Wangshu endured the pain.

Su Yaoguang placed the pancake and mushroom soup in front of him and said, "Then eat slowly. I'll come back to collect the bowls tomorrow. Eat and go to bed early."

Zhou Wangshu watched Su Yaoguang disappear and touched the cake in the bowl with his fingers.

Today I either drank medicine or porridge, my stomach was full of water and I was already starving.

Zhou Wangshu was about to eat when Su Yaoguang, who had just left, stepped back and said to him, "Your urinal should be full. I'll empty it for you."

Zhou Wangshu: “…”

His whole body was stiff and his expression was unnatural.

However, the light was dim now and his emotions were hidden in the darkness.

"You..." Zhou Wangshu said awkwardly. "Thank you."

Su Yaoguang smiled and said, "You don't have to feel pressured. You heard it just now. I still need to use your identity to help me avoid trouble!"

Su Yaoguang emptied the urinal and put it back.

This time she said nothing and just closed the door of the woodshed for him.

Zhou Wangshu listened to her footsteps walking away, then picked up the tortilla and started eating.

After observing for a few hours, he believed that this was a remote village. The people here didn't know who he was, so he should be safe.

Besides, considering his current state, if it was aimed at his life, there would be no need to do this.

Zhou Wangshu ate the corn tortilla and found it crispy and delicious. Paired with the fragrant mushroom soup, this simple farm meal was surprisingly delicious.

How long has it been since he had a normal meal?

Early the next morning, Su Yaoguang came to the village entrance carrying a basket and waited for the ox cart.

Shortly after arriving, I saw Jiang Yihan and Zhong Lanhua walking towards me one after another.

When the villagers saw the mother and daughter, they all greeted them.

"Yaoguang girl, you're coming into the city too!" Zhong Lanhua said with a smile, "Is your mother feeling better?"

"Aunt really cares about my mother." Su Yaoguang said sarcastically, "If my mother knew, she would definitely greet you well." Greetings to your eight generations of ancestors.

"Your mother and I are from the same village, and we both married into Anning Village. What a fate! Of course I care about her," Zhong Lanhua said, clutching her handkerchief. "By the way, is your ten-cent husband still alive? You'd better keep an eye on him. He's still ten cents, after all. If he dies, you'll have to pay for his coffin."

Su Yaoguang got on the oxcart, found a corner to sit down, and responded indifferently: "Thank you for your concern. Auntie should worry more about the one at home! The scholar is useless, and his body is so weak. If you buy him as a long-term worker, you don't know if he can handle it. You will be the one who suffers the loss."

"What are you talking about, girl? Your aunt Zhong's son Jiang Yihui is also a scholar. Aren't you scolding him too?" The aunt next to her added fuel to the fire.

"Oh, I didn't notice. But the hardest job Jiang Yihui has ever done is probably feeding himself. I say the same thing to him."

"Sister Yaoguang is in a bad mood, and her words are like thorns. We can understand. Fortunately, we are from the same village, so we know each other well and can understand your feelings. If someone else didn't know her, they would probably misunderstand Sister Yaoguang." Jiang Yihan held Zhong Lanhua's arm, stabbing Su Yaoguang's soft spot with a soft knife. "Sister Yaoguang, I heard that Grandma Su still wants to marry you to Zhang Mutou. If your new husband is okay, you should sign the marriage contract as soon as possible."

"If the marriage contract is signed and the boy doesn't come back to life, won't Yaoguang be a widow?" said the aunt next to her.

"Yaoguang is still too young. She could have bought the farmhand surnamed Xiao yesterday, but she was reluctant to spend the money and chose to buy a bargain. If she had bought that farmhand, he would be handsome, healthy, and most importantly, a scholar. With a man like him in the family, you will definitely be able to make a living."

"I just like the one I bought myself." Su Yaoguang said unconvincedly, "What's so good about that guy surnamed Xiao? I can tell from his eyes that he's not honest. If I buy him back, he might run away at any time. Aunt Zhong, you actually dare to leave him alone at home, aren't you afraid that he will run away?"

Zhong Lanhua frowned, looked at Jiang Yihan, and muttered in a low voice: "That girl is right, we should leave someone at home to look after him."

"I have his indenture with me. If he runs away, we can use it to track him down. The government punishes fugitives severely," Jiang Yihuan replied in an equally low voice. "Besides, before I left, I asked Chunshui, the guy next door, to keep an eye on him for me today. We're leaving this time to test him, to see if he's honest. If he's not, we'll teach him a lesson and make him behave."

The conversation between mother and daughter reached Su Yaoguang's ears.

Su Yaoguang raised the corners of her mouth.

Xiao Yanci, look, this is your white moonlight.

The ox cart wobbled and arrived at the city half an hour later.

Su Yaoguang jumped off the ox cart carrying a backpack, said hello to Uncle Wang who was driving the cart, and left.

"Do you think there's something wrong with Yaoguang?"

"I always feel that he is more eloquent than before, and his eyes are more fierce, which makes people feel a little intimidated."

Su Yaoguang's main purpose for going to the city this time was to buy food. First of all, she didn't like sorghum flour, so she mainly bought corn flour and broken rice.

Broken rice is still rice, but it has a lot of gravel in it and the quality is not good. Ordinary rice costs five cents per pound, while broken rice only costs three cents.

Flour and ordinary rice were the same price, five cents a pound, so she bought ten pounds. She also bought twenty pounds each of cornmeal and broken rice, for a total of fifty pounds.

In addition, when she passed by the pork stall, she liked the big bone, but there was not much meat on it, so she gave it to her for three cents. She also picked out half a pound of pork and asked the owner to prepare the pig's feet, heart and lungs for her, spending a total of twenty-five cents.

She had another goal this time: to buy some tools. If she wanted to make money, she had to spend money. Of course, most of the raw materials could be collected in the mountains. She only wanted to buy the necessary tools and some important raw materials.

The rice and flour cost 110 wen, the meat cost 25 wen, and the ingredients she bought cost 300 wen.

In such a short while, half a string of money was gone.

Su Yaoguang endured the pain and wanted to make money even more.

She turned around and saw Zhong Lanhua and Jiang Yihan coming out of the clothing store. Zhong Lanhua was counting the money, looking at the long string of copper coins, her face was full of joy.

This was one of the reasons why Jiang Yihuan and Zhong Lanhua always dominated their mother and daughter. Zhong Lanhua and Jiang Yihuan worked as embroidery workers, relying on their skills to support themselves. Zhang Zhaodi was a midwife, and in the eyes of the world, she was lower than Zhong Lanhua.

The reason why Zhang Zhaodi and Zhong Lanhua were not on good terms was that when Zhang Zhaodi was young, she was very dexterous and applied for an apprenticeship in an embroidery workshop. However, when she got the opportunity and went home to pack her things to report to the embroidery studio, she was poured with boiling water brought by Zhong Lanhua, and her hands could no longer do needlework.

(End of this chapter)