I fought back after reselling my engagement

Zhen Su asked, "Are you going out not just for sightseeing this time?"

"The Jiangnan Su family's teaching of their children is a custom passed down from the previous dynasty. They don't raise useless people. As long as they are young men, they should be self-reliant and strong. I came out to travel to gain more knowledge, but also to understand the sufferings of the people."

Zhen Su felt that this was not entirely true. He did not want to say more, and she did not dare to ask further questions or dig deeper into the matter.

She stared at Su Mo's waist, feeling as if something was missing. A beautiful white jade pendant flashed before her eyes. "Where is your jade pendant?"

Su Mo gathered his hands and said, "It's just a small matter, not worth mentioning."

Uncle Su Qi and Zhen Su were both sick, so he had to save their lives. Fortunately, he had exchanged the money, otherwise he would not have had the money to buy medicine for the next few days.

His clothes were the same as when he fell into the water that day. The silver hairpin on his hair was gone, and he now had a wooden hairpin. Apart from the silk robe on his body, there was nothing else of value on him.

Zhen Su's heart sank. This time he saved her life. When she jumped into the canal, she thought she was going to die. The river water rushed into her mouth and poured into her throat. She knew that if the water poured into her lungs, even if she saved her life, she would be sick. She held her breath frequently to prevent the water from flowing into her nasal cavity.

Su Mo's most beloved white jade pendant was lost; he pawned it.

"Sister Xian, take a rest. I'll go next door to check on Uncle Qi's medicine."

Zhen Su said, "Thank you for your hard work recently, my dear brother."

Su Mo left the house.

Zhen Su turned his head to look at the person on the small couch. This bed was large and had a tent hanging on it to keep out mosquitoes. The couch that Uncle Su Qi was using was a small couch that could only accommodate one person.

Uncle Su Qi moved a little, and Zhen Su said, "Uncle Qi, did you pawn your jade pendant? Where did you pawn it?"

Uncle Su Qi said, "We can get some money to redeem her when we get to Yueyang Prefecture. Now that we are away from home, safety and health are the most important thing."

The jade pendant is not important. You can exchange it for money or hire a doctor by pawning it.

Zhen Su huddled down on the couch, covered himself with a thin quilt, opened the hollow round bracelet on his wrist, and took out a roll of silver bills from it. There were only three in total, each worth about a thousand taels of silver. He took out another one.

She lowered the curtains, hid under the thin quilt and changed into her own clothes. She was too awake to lie on the bed. The earrings on her ears were gone, and must have fallen into the canal. The only jewelry on her body was a cylindrical silver bracelet on her wrist and a silver hairpin.

Zhen Su put on her shoes, but they were not her shoes, but the casual shoes of women in the fishing village.

"Uncle Qi, that couch is wider, you and Brother Su can use it. Brother Su is tired and exhausted, if he doesn't sleep well, he will get sick."

Uncle Su Qi wanted to refuse, but Zhen Su said that Su Mo was too tired. He felt sorry for him and got up readily and moved to the big couch.

Zhen Su saw that there was clean water in the black basin, so he took the basin and wiped the small couch with a cloth.

She was not used to sleeping on a couch that was stained with other people's sweat. It smelled like other people's sweat. It was hot in June and there was no thin quilt on the small couch. Uncle Su Qi had covered himself with his own coat.

Uncle Su did not lie down but sat on the big couch. He had been coughing recently because of a cold and river water entering his heart and lungs. The doctor gave him acupuncture and prescribed medicine to cure the cold evil entering his body, but his condition did not get worse but was only stabilized. He would probably have to take herbal medicine for a while if he wanted to recover.

Zhen Su wiped the small couch, went outside to get some clean water, and wiped the big couch clean as well.

"Uncle Qi, you are still sick, go to bed and rest. Your clothes smell of sweat, take them off and I will wash them for you."

Uncle Su was slightly stunned. "How can this be possible? You have caught a cold and you cannot touch cold water."

"Uncle Qi, the water temperature is not cold in the hot summer."

"Why don't you ask the young master to pay the women in the village to do the laundry for you?"

Zhen Su looked embarrassed.

Uncle Su understood that she had no money.

Zhen Su said, "Seventh Uncle, give me Brother Su's jade pendant as a pawn ticket, and I will go to the town to redeem it tomorrow."

Uncle Su Qi was surprised, "You have money?"

Zhen Su took out a silver note from his sleeve and said, "You can only exchange it for silver at the bank in town."

When going out, the more places to hide money the better. She carried with her banknotes and silver coins in her bag, which totaled more than one hundred taels, but she hid more of them in the hollow cylindrical bracelet on her wrist, which could hold the banknotes.

Uncle Su Qi said, "Tomorrow, I will go to the town with you."

"it is good."

Unfortunately, Zhen Su's words came true. At dawn the next day, Su Mo fell ill. When he spoke, his voice was hoarse and his face was pale. Uncle Su was so scared that he immediately paid money and hired a carriage from the fishing village to send Su Mo to the clinic in the town.

Zhen Su took a silver note worth one thousand taels and exchanged it for ten notes worth fifty taels, and then exchanged it for another fifty taels of silver. After asking around, he decided to rent a small courtyard in the town and settle down. He bought some spare clothes, shoes and socks for his seventh uncle and Su Mo at a clothing shop, and also prepared some simple men's jewelry.

She took back the pawn ticket of Su Mo's jade pendant from Uncle Su Qi, and redeemed the mutton-fat white jade pendant from the pawn shop.

Zhen Su spent 120 coins and asked the women in the town to clean up the two small houses. He originally wanted to buy some thin quilts, but thinking that they were of little use, he bought three autumn cloaks instead, which could be used as thin quilts at night and also worn in the morning and evening when it was cold.

Zhen Su was busy for the whole morning and then went to the clinic.

Su Mo had just taken some herbal medicine in the clinic.

Zhen Su woke up and he was sick again. Now it wasn't just him who needed to take medicine, but all three of them.

Uncle Su Qi said, "Miss Shu, you are too brave. You are in an unfamiliar place, yet you dare to run around alone."

There is no need to worry about encountering beggars. Beggars like to capture young and beautiful girls. If they capture a girl like Zhen Su, they can sell her for a large sum of money.

Zhen Su said, "Seventh Uncle, Brother Su, I have rented a small courtyard in town. I will come to pick you up. Living in town is convenient for traveling, seeing a doctor and recuperating. Let's go."

Feng Hui Niang looked reluctant.

Feng Daan asked: "You guys...are you living in the town now?"

The man in this couple is handsome and the woman is beautiful. It is the first time in their lives that they have seen such good-looking people.

Any woman would be moved when facing someone like Su Mo. The way Feng Hui Niang looked at Su Mo was the same as that of Miss Hu on the boat. Miss Hu was returning to Yueyang Prefecture to get married, but when she saw Su Mo, her heart and eyes were filled with him. The way they looked at him was affectionate and gentle, and sometimes there was also the look of a wild wolf looking at a white rabbit, wanting to devour and possess him.

Zhen Su took out two ingots from his purse, each weighing five taels. "Brother Daan, thank you for your family's care for us these past few days."

Feng Hui Niang looked at such a large ingot. Her family could not earn ten taels of silver in many years. This ingot was too big and dazzling. "You have money? Why did you let Su Xiucai pawn the ancestral jade pendant?"

She felt something was wrong. When she brought Zhen Su back, Zhen Su was the only one unconscious among the three. The other two men were very conscious. She suddenly raised her voice: "You...you won't sell Mr. Su's jade pendant, will you? I heard that this kind of heirloom is very valuable. You woman..."

She was not as good looking as Zhen Su, but she knew there was a gap between them, but she still couldn't help being jealous. Su Xiucai was handsome, talented, and had a better temper, making him the most ideal husband for girls. Feng Hui Niang wanted to find Zhen Su's flaws, and today she finally found them. It turned out that this woman was a spendthrift who sold Su Xiucai's ancestral belongings.