novelhk Chapter 131 Wild Ideas
Chapter 131 Wild Ideas
Liu Juan glanced at Xia Mo, and when she met Xia Mo's ambiguous smile, her face turned deathly pale. She retreated hastily, shaking her head and waving her hands.
"No, no, no, I didn't mean to hit her," Liu Juan didn't want to be beaten, didn't want to be knocked away like her father, Liu Da, and Liu Er, and she especially didn't want to have her face slapped into a pig's head like her mother.
When Xia's mother stepped forward and looked at Liu Juan, a complex feeling welled up in her heart for a moment.
The more she thought highly of Liu Juan back then, the more upset she became just looking at Liu Juan now.
"Brother Xia," Liu Juan pleaded with Brother Xia.
Liu Juan felt that although her marriage to Xia Shenggen had not gone through, Xia Shenggen must have had feelings for her, even though she was now married to Chen Chu.
"Brother Xia," Xia Mo called out, mimicking Liu Juan's high-pitched voice.
Liu Juan looked at Brother Xia with surprise, distress, and grievance. She had actually been hoping that Brother Xia would stand up for her and blame Xia Mo.
"vomit……"
Xia Mo made a fake vomiting gesture and said loudly, "You're disgusting! You're married, but you don't have any sense of being a wife. You're still thinking about seducing other men."
Liu Juan's face turned pale instantly. She shook her head and waved her hands frantically, saying, "No, I didn't, Achu, believe me, I didn't."
Chen Chu, his face dark, asked, "Do you regret marrying me?"
Liu Juan did not answer immediately; to Chen Chu, that would be wrong.
Moreover, when Liu Juan saw Brother Xia again and saw his handsome appearance clearly, she did indeed have that kind of thought.
“No, I don’t regret it. I am now your wife, Chen Liushi,” Liu Juan said.
"You shameless person!" Chen Chu raised his hand and slapped Liu Juan hard across the face.
Liu Juan's face turned ugly. Even after being beaten, she shamelessly glanced at Brother Xia, hoping he would stand up for her.
"Brother, this family has lost their minds," Xia Mo commented decisively.
Brother Xia and Brother Xia nodded.
The He family members were among the onlookers.
He Hua, who had broken off her engagement with Xia Erge, was also in the crowd.
He Hua's husband, Wang Fa, was beside her.
At this moment, He Hua's mind and eyes were completely focused on Xia Erge, and she couldn't possibly notice the gaze of her husband beside her!
At this moment, Wang Fa looked at his wife He Hua as if he wanted to devour her.
“Those who abandoned us in the past are like old clothes; we can just throw them away,” Xia’s father said deliberately, noticing the He family’s gaze.
Lost your old clothes?
The He and Liu families were thinking, "The Xia family must be so rich to just throw away all their old clothes!"
"Disperse, disperse!" Boss Gao squeezed into the crowd and shouted to the onlookers.
Besides the people from Anping County, there were also people from other villages present, and they wouldn't listen to Gao Laoda at all.
The Xia family has left.
Mr. Liu raised his hand and slapped Mrs. Liu again.
"It's all your fault, you wicked woman! If you hadn't made us stop Xia Kaoshan and the others, we wouldn't have been beaten! You got beaten yourself, and now you want to take your family with you!"
Liu's mother's cheek was swollen and broken, and she was already in a lot of pain. Liu's father's slap only made things worse.
Liu's mother was in so much pain that tears came to her eyes.
The saltiness of her tears made Liu's mother's face hurt even more, and she cried even louder.
After watching the commotion for a while, the onlookers left.
The Liu family did not leave because of this farce; Liu's mother was excluded, while Liu's father and the others continued to stroll through the lantern festival.
Small vendors were doing business next to the lantern festival.
"Braised meat, braised meat, Anjia braised meat."
The vendor selling braised meat was none other than Zhou Zhi.
Today is the Lantern Festival. Zhou Zhi usually sells his wares on this street. He couldn't bear to miss out on so many people and his business, so he set up a stall here as well on the day of the Lantern Festival.
As the Liu family passed by Zhou's stall, the aroma of the braised meat immediately reminded them of Xia Mo's family.
Anjia Braised Pork, isn't that the same braised pork made by the Xia family?!
"Give me a hundred coins' worth of braised meat," someone said, taking out a hundred coins and buying a tael of braised meat.
Zhou Zhi sliced the braised meat into small pieces, then smiled and wrapped them in oiled paper before handing them to the other person.
During the Lantern Festival, braised pork costs one tael (approximately 50 grams) per jin (approximately 500 grams), which is two hundred wen (approximately 600 coins) more expensive than usual!
"Give me two hundred coins too..."
"I want three hundred coins..."
The braised meat stall in front of Zhou Zhi's shop became even more popular because of the special festival of lanterns.
Zhou Zhi smiled as he cut and weighed the meat, while his wife sliced it on the side. He then wrapped the meat in oiled paper, took the money in one hand, and handed over the meat in the other.
The Liu family knew that watching this scene would only make them feel bad, but they still couldn't help but stand not far away and watch it.
"The Xia family... they really know how to make money! They charge an ounce for every pound of braised meat!" Liu's father felt a pang of jealousy. He wondered if, had his family not broken off the engagement with the Xia family, would they have also taken him into the braised meat business?
Liu Da and Liu Er had red eyes.
Liu Da said, "It's all Mother's fault. If Mother hadn't been greedy for those ten taels of silver and had agreed to break off the engagement and humiliate the Xia family, we would be the ones doing the braised meat business now!"
"It's all Mother's fault!"
Liu Er echoed that sentiment.
Liu Juan stole a glance at her husband Chen Chu beside her, wanting to say something as well, but what she wanted to say was...
Liu Juan thought: If her mother hadn't been so greedy for those ten taels of silver, she could have married Brother Xia. She could be standing next to Brother Xia now, and how envious other girls would be of her marrying such a handsome man!
Chen Chu glared at Liu Juan with a dark expression and said, "Are you also going to say that you married the wrong person?!"
Liu Juan quickly shook her head and waved her hands, saying, "I am very satisfied with my current husband."
Liu Juan said this in the name of reducing the amount of beating she would receive, but she didn't realize that what she said made Chen Chu feel even more embarrassed. That night, she was beaten half to death when she got home, but that's another story.
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The He family and the Liu family have now separated and left.
On this joyous day, the He family could not be happy.
Even when they see acrobatics or spiritual performances, they can't feel happy.
They also passed by a stall selling braised food.
Zhou Zhi sells braised meat, and the stall they passed by sold braised tofu.
Fifty coins could buy half a pound, so they bought some and shared it.
The more I ate the braised tofu, the more fragrant it became, but after the fragrance faded, a growing bitterness settled in my heart.
"Do you think the Xia family is getting richer and richer these days?"
He Da couldn't help but ask his mother a question.
Mother He's face turned ashen, but she hadn't forgotten how He Da had been bewitched by Xia Mo's looks. She glared at He Da and snapped, "Whether he's doing well or not, whether he has money or not, is none of your business!"
"I heard that the Xia family is building a house, and many matchmakers have gone to the Xia family to sound them out," He Hua said, feeling less apprehensive than Liu Juan. She felt she could control Wang Fa, so she directly told the He family what she was thinking.
"Um……"
He Hua whispered in her mother's ear, her thoughts wandering, yet she felt that what she said was right. She said softly, "Mother, he still has feelings for me. Why don't I divorce him and remarry?"
The "he" that He Hua was referring to was Xia Erge.