The Rise of a Farm Girl

Yu Wenjiao heard the noise and hurried over with her maid. She knocked on the door and asked, "What happened to my daughter? Please open the door for me."

Wang Jingru walked over and opened the door. She didn't recognize Meng Haoxue, and neither did Yu Wenjiao. But when she came in and saw the man lying on the ground, she was also shocked because the man's appearance was no longer recognizable.

Her body and face were covered in blood. Wang Youliang soon learned about the movement in Wang Jingru's yard.

What Wang Youliang heard was that his sister was beating someone in the yard, leaving the person bloody.

The servants in the yard were saying that the eldest lady was a cruel and ruthless person. Anyone who dared to provoke her would be beaten to death or crippled.

Some people also asked who the young lady had beaten, and the servants shook their heads and said they didn't know, maybe it was the groom!

The coachman was not driving the carriage carefully, so he was beaten by the young lady!

In fact, they don’t know what’s going on.

When Wang Youliang arrived, he dismissed all the servants in the yard and then asked his sister what was going on.

Wang Jingru said, Brother, look who this person is, do you recognize him?

He was beaten so bloody that no one could recognize him. However, Wang Youliang still said, "Bring a light here so I can take a good look."

Meng Haoxue has fainted. Wang Youliang looked at him carefully. Isn't this man Aunt Meng's cousin?

How could he get into this yard? Who opened the door for him? Could it be Aunt Meng?

Wang Youliang was so angry that his veins popped out. He put the oil lamp on the table and ordered the servant outside to go and get Aunt Meng for him.

At this time, Aunt Meng was pacing back and forth in the room anxiously.

She already knew that her cousin had not succeeded and was beaten up by the eldest lady.

It seemed that her affair had been exposed. What frightened her most was that she had come to this mansion to be a concubine, but she had a body contract.

She was blinded by wealth and fame at the time and signed the indenture.

She was feeling anxious and pacing back and forth in the room when the servant knocked on her door and said, "Madam Meng, the eldest master is calling you."

I ask you to go quickly, the young master is waiting for you in the young lady's room!

When Meng Xianfeng heard that someone was waiting for her in the eldest lady's room, she turned pale with fright and her whole body was shaking.

The servant was still urging outside. Meng Xianfeng followed the servant with trembling legs and came to Wang Jingru's room.

When Meng Xianfeng arrived, she greeted everyone in the room one by one. When she saw her cousin lying on the ground, she screamed in fear and fell to the ground.

She was so scared that her face turned pale as paper. Before Wang Youliang could say anything, Yu Wenjiao loudly scolded her, "Meng Xianfeng, look who is on the ground."

I just want to ask, you are so brave that you dare to let a man from outside into the back house. And you dare to bring him to the eldest lady's room. You are so vicious!

If you hadn't acted like a demon, you could have lived in peace in this house.

I never thought you were so bold. You'd better tell the truth!

Meng Xianfeng knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, her head was bruised. She did not dare to stop, Madam, I know I was wrong, please forgive me!

Master, please forgive me! I won't dare to do it again.

Wang Jingru said, please tell me about your plan!

Meng Xianfeng knelt on the ground and began to tell the story, "My cousin came to me that day and said that you had gone to the village and he had taken a fancy to you."

I was afraid that you would not marry him, so I tried to put the medicine into your diet, and then he would make it a done deal with you. Then our two families would become even closer.

But I had no other choice but to go to the kitchen to cook. When I started cooking, the cooks all looked at me.

After a while, they saw that I was just cooking and let down their guard. It was not until today that I had the chance to start.

I went to the academy and informed my cousin. My cousin was waiting at the back door at night. If the eldest lady ate the soup I had drugged, I would go to the backyard to open the door for him and lead him to the eldest lady's yard.

Then I went back to my own courtyard. This is what happened. Please forgive me, young lady! I will never dare to do it again.

Wang Youliang called the housekeeper, and Housekeeper Liu found two people to sell Aunt Meng to the largest brothel in the county.

Meng Haoxue was thrown into prison, his title as a scholar was stripped away, and he awaited his fate.

Steward Liu quickly called the yamen runners and took the woman to the prison. He also found two servants to gag Concubine Meng, drove the carriage to the largest brothel in the county, and sold her for 100 taels of silver.

"Big brother's yard is finally quiet this time," Wang Jingru said. Yu Wenjiao hugged her daughter and asked, "Daughter, are you okay? Do you need to see a doctor?"

Then he glared at his eldest son and said, "Look at what kind of person you have recruited."

If you dare to come home and bring your aunt in again next time, I will break your legs.

In the future, when you are doing business outside, you are not allowed to drink alcohol, and you must not be fooled by others. What is this?

Look how scared my precious daughter was, and you dared to give her drugs. Wang Jingru said, "Mom is fine now, and there's no need to see a doctor. I'm fine."

Yu Wenjiao called the maid to clean up the blood in the room, opened the window to ventilate, and lit some incense in the room. Then they went back to the yard to rest.

Wang Jingru entered the space, where she usually rested. After this incident, Yu Wenjiao usually locked the back door.

There were only a few people in the family, so they had to go in and out through the front of the government office to prevent any servant from being bribed and opening the back door to let in bad people.

Therefore, the key to the back door was only in the hands of the housekeeper and myself. Wang Jingru always went back to the village these days. Everything in the village was cleaned up.

Wang Laosan is moving to the village? Yu Wenjiao also wants to go, but if she goes, there will be no one to manage the mansion, so she can only stay.

Wang Jingru, her father, grandmother, eldest aunt, second aunt and cousin all went back to the village together in a horse carriage.

When passing by the town, Wang Laosan gave his mother five taels of silver to let him buy some household supplies, because they had no pots, pans, or utensils, so he asked her to buy some rice.

Old Mrs. Wang was crying and saying that five taels of silver were not enough. This made Old Third Wang very angry, and he had no choice but to take another five taels of silver in front of so many outsiders.

Wang Laosan's face turned red. His mother was really difficult to deal with. There was no other way. If he didn't give her the money, she would sit on the ground and howl endlessly.

Wang Jingru was also very angry this time. Old Mrs. Wang was actually narrow-minded. After all, these two daughters-in-law had nothing, no food or drink, and the eldest and second sons were not around.

With the ten taels of silver, I bought some pots, pans, and utensils for the two families, and some rice to help them get by.

Just wait until the land is planted and the crops are harvested.

Although he had good intentions, if he told Wang Laosan the truth, he would not really let his eldest and second sisters-in-law starve.

I have already performed twenty-four bows, so this little shudder won’t make any difference.

When he was not busy building the house, his two sisters-in-law only came once and then never showed up again.

Wang Laosan asked for help from others to build the house and the wall, and spent a lot of money.

Wang Laosan and Wang Jingru also bought some food in the town. Old Mrs. Wang led her two daughters-in-law and a granddaughter to start shopping.

Because they had nothing, Wang Laosan's wife saw that they were about to leave and prepared two sets of clothes for each of them.

It's not that we don't give them money in the mansion, it's because they are always greedy. If we give them money, we're afraid they will think it's not enough and keep asking for more.

After leaving the mansion, I prepared two sets of clothes for each of them, which made them very happy.

As for bedding, no preparation was made for them. Old Lady Wang bought a quilt for each person, some cloth, pots and pans, rice and flour, and seasonings.

The pot was expensive, so I didn't dare to buy a big one. I bought three small iron pots. I didn't dare to buy white rice, I only bought brown rice, and also bought some sweet potatoes.

Sweet potatoes are the cheapest and can fill you up, so Mrs. Wang bought 200 kilograms of them at once. She also bought 300 kilograms of brown rice, 100 kilograms for each family. After buying so much, the store owner delivered the goods for free.

Otherwise, I would have to hire a car. Even with that, there was nothing left, and the ten taels of silver were almost all gone.

There was nothing they could do, since they were short of everything! After buying everything, they got on a horse-drawn carriage and drove ahead, with the ox-drawn cart carrying food following behind.

When they arrived at the village, they moved their belongings to their homes. After Wang Jingru unloaded their belongings, she asked the driver to drive the carriage to her yard.

There was nothing missing in the house, as Wang Jingru had already purchased everything.

The driver drove the carriage back to the county. Wang Jingru went to take a look at the land allocated to her family. The land was all grass. She had to buy a cow to plow the land so that it would be convenient for her to go to town to buy things.

After discussing with his father, he planned to go to the town to buy an ox cart tomorrow and then hire someone to plow the fields when he came back.

Wang Jingru's family was allocated five acres of land, and they would not be able to handle more if they had more.

Wang Laosan didn't want his daughter to work. He was a person who couldn't sit still and thought that cultivating five acres of land was more than enough.

There are piles of weeds on the land. If he doesn't use oxen to plow the land, he really can't handle these five acres of land by himself.

Wang Jingru plans to buy two cows, rent out one and use the other to plow her own land.

If we don't clean up this land quickly, we will miss the next crop.

The people in their village don't have much money, and it would take them forever to open up the wasteland relying solely on physical labor.

These two cows can help the village speed up the farming process and save some manpower. The next day, Wang Jingru went to the town with her father and went straight to the mule and horse dealer.

When she got there, Wang Jingru covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief because the smell in there was so bad.

There were a wide variety of livestock here. Wang Jingru and her father walked around for a few times and chose two large yellow cattle, which were in their prime. Wang Laosan negotiated the price with the old man selling the cattle.

The old man also cherished the two cows very much. He and his wife were the only ones in his family. He could no longer work in the fields, and his wife was sick and needed money for medical treatment. So he had no choice but to sell the two cows.

The two cows cost thirty taels of silver, and another five taels of silver were spent on two ox carts. The father and daughter each drove an ox cart and went out.

When we got outside, we saw a cow, skinny and bony, lying on the ground. The man was shouting, "Does anyone want this cow? We can kill it and eat its meat."

Anyway, it will soon die of disease. Nowadays, if you want to kill a cow and eat its meat, you need the seal of approval from the government.

But no one bought it. Because the cow was too thin, Wang Jingru stopped the cart.

When I came to the sick cow and took a look at it, I realized that it had just reached adulthood and it would be a pity to kill it.

Think about the spiritual spring water in your space. Why not buy some and give it a try?

So I asked the middle-aged man, "Uncle, how much is this cow?" "Little girl, if you want to give me five taels of silver, Wang Jingru said angrily, "Who are you trying to fool?"

You thought I didn't understand, so you lied to me. It was so sick that if you bought it home and it died, let alone five taels of silver, you would be lucky if you could sell the meat for two taels of silver.

If you are sincere in selling it, I will give you two taels of silver. Is that okay with you? No, I have to leave now. I am in a hurry to go home!

Wang Laosan also came over, looked at his daughter and said, "My daughter, this cow is about to die of illness, why did you buy it?"

Even if you kill the meat, you can't sell it for two taels of silver. Why bother? You won't make a penny.