Chapter 42

Hearing her son ask, Zhao Guifen’s grievances came flooding back. She turned around and kicked Zhou Jiaojiao: “You dare ask? If it wasn’t for this unlucky daughter-in-law of yours, how could I have fallen into the cow dung pit of the Shanghe Village production team?”

Zhou Jiaojiao was kicked to the ground, feeling extremely wronged: “Mom, how can it be my fault? I didn’t… I didn’t see a piece of clothing on the edge of the cow dung pit, blown there by the wind? It looked new.

It’s so hard to save cloth coupons these days.

I just wanted to pick it up and make you a new dress.”

“Bah! You’re deliberately trying to harm me!” Zhao Guifen said, vomiting.

This cow dung all over her had made her suffer!

“What’s going on?” Wang Shoucheng looked at his wife and daughter-in-law in their miserable state, and asked sternly with a dark face.

Zhao Guifen grumbled and cried, “It’s all because of that unlucky daughter-in-law! She insisted on making me go with her to pick up that new piece of clothing. After we got there, the clothes were floating on top of the manure pit.

She said she was supporting me and told me to go pick it up.”

I thought my leg was injured and I couldn’t move easily, so I agreed.

Who knew that unlucky thing couldn’t hold me at all?

She suddenly let go, and I fell into the manure pit!”

Zhou Jiaojiao was inwardly bitter! When she was supporting her mother-in-law, she discovered that the person who was following her had actually followed them here. She was so startled that she let go.

But could she say that?

She had planned to pretend to talk to her mother-in-law and blame Bai Xiuxiu.

Before she could blame her, her mother-in-law fell into the manure pit!

It was all so sudden!

She didn’t even get the piece of clothing!

This was the first time she had encountered bad luck.

“Alright, Zhao sister-in-law, don’t blame your daughter-in-law, you’re both the same! If you weren’t greedy and insisted on picking up things that didn’t belong to you, would you have fallen into the manure pit? You’re lucky that I happened to be here with the people from Shanghe Village to carry manure for composting.

Otherwise, who knows what could have happened!

The village head of Shanghe Village said that you need to give them ten yuan to compensate for the loss of manure.”

The headman interrupted Zhao Guifen’s crying with a headache.

This Wang family was usually quiet, why were they suddenly acting up now?

“What? Make me pay? Why?” Zhao Guifen was even more upset when she heard she had to pay!

Money was her lifeblood.

“Who told you to mess with their manure pit? I’m the headman of three villages, I can’t favor you. Quickly pay the money, so I can go back and give them an explanation. Otherwise, you want to pick up other people’s discarded clothes to take home, if this gets out, it won’t sound good.

You can’t let them come to your house to carry manure, can you?”

The headman asked impatiently.

Zhao Guifen was speechless.

“What are you standing there for? You’re a disgrace! Quickly give it to the headman!” Wang Shoucheng also felt embarrassed. This stupid woman, couldn’t she just say she was going to pick it up and hand it in?

And the fifth son’s wife, what was she saying in front of the headman?

Zhao Guifen awkwardly took out the money, even the money was covered in cow dung.

The headman, with a dark face, pinched the corner of the money: “Alright, I have something to do. Don’t cause me any trouble in the future!”

As soon as the man left, Zhao Guifen couldn’t help but scold: “Fifth! What are you standing there for? You’re not going to beat your stupid wife?”

Wang Qingqi was terrified. How… how could he beat his wife?

His wife was much more important than his mother!

Zhou Jiaojiao couldn’t believe it. This old hag was going to beat her?

“You won’t beat her? If you won’t, I will!” Zhao Guifen said, picking up the shovel they used for work, about to strike. But the next second, she slipped and fell backward.

“What are you all standing there for? Don’t you help your mother up! Eldest daughter-in-law, go boil some water quickly.” Wang Shoucheng shouted with a dark face.

Others had already gone to help her up. Bai Xiuxiu, hearing this, immediately leaned against the wall, expressionless, and began to lie: “Dad, my illness is acting up again. I can’t, I need to rest.”

Wang Shoucheng: …

Wang Shoucheng was so angry that his eyes were about to pop out!

But he couldn’t do anything to Bai Xiuxiu. This daughter-in-law was like a tough piece of meat! There was no way to deal with her!

He could only grumble and shout at Zhou Jiaojiao: “Fifth son’s wife! Go boil some water.”

Zhou Jiaojiao, who had just been kicked by her mother-in-law, wanted to boil Zhao Guifen. Hearing that she had to boil water, she also wanted to pretend to be sick.

But her husband still needed to rely on the family, so she could only endure it for now.

So she went to the kitchen with a dark face.

Bai Xiuxiu watched them make a scene like this, and couldn’t help but smile.

Sure enough, bad luck could be avoided. As long as the misfortune was directed towards Zhou Jiaojiao, the bad luck would automatically disappear. And Zhou Jiaojiao might lose her luck for a short time.

Otherwise, there was no way to explain Zhao Guifen falling into the manure pit and dragging Zhou Jiaojiao down with her.

By the time the family finished cleaning the courtyard, the cow dung, and Zhao Guifen and Zhou Jiaojiao had cleaned themselves up, it was already dusk.

The people who had gone to the mountain also came back. Wang Qinghe was still the last one.

Zhao Cuihua and Chen Fang, supporting Liu Xiao’e, who insisted on going to the mountain, returned to the courtyard.

As soon as they entered, they were hit by the strong smell of cow dung in the courtyard.

“Why is there such a strong smell of manure?” Zhao Cuihua asked, frowning.

Zhao Guifen, hearing this, said with a dark face: “What are you being so fussy about? It’s not going to kill you. Why did you come back from the mountain so early? How much did you get?”

She questioned them repeatedly. She wasn’t walking very well now, she had slipped and twisted her ankle earlier.

When she saw the things in their baskets, Zhao Guifen completely exploded: “What? Is that all you got?”

“What else would we get? Who goes to the mountain and doesn’t get these things?” Zhao Cuihua used the words of her sister-in-law at the time, confidently.

The important thing was, her sister-in-law had lied at that time, but she was telling the truth now!

She didn’t know why, but it was strange.

Today, when they went to the mountain, no one fell, and no one had bad luck.

But they couldn’t find any good things, even the mushrooms weren’t everywhere.

Zhao Guifen looked at her three daughters-in-law, seriously suspecting that they had hidden some!

Zhou Jiaojiao looked at their expressions and snorted coldly, thinking it was time for her to step forward. She stood up and said softly: “Mom, we’re all family, I have something I want to say.”

Zhao Guifen, who was now looking at Zhou Jiaojiao with displeasure, said: “You’re newly married, what do you want to say?”

Zhou Jiaojiao looked proud, but she only used a voice that she and Zhao Guifen could hear: “Mom, I’ve always been lucky. Whoever goes out with me will be lucky. Look at these times we went to the mountain and got something, wasn’t it because I went with you? Today I wasn’t there, and the harvest was different.”

Zhao Guifen: …

She was silent for a moment, but she also felt that this was the case.

The fifth son’s wife did have some luck on her side!

Zhou Jiaojiao felt that she should tell everyone about her luck in private, not in public.

That way, everyone would secretly try to please her.

Thinking this, her gaze fell on her second sister-in-law, Liu Xiao’e. This person was the one who lacked luck the most. She would definitely try to curry favor with her!

The three people at the entrance saw their mother-in-law and the fifth son’s wife whispering, and they all thought they were talking bad about them!

“Eldest son, how was your harvest today?” Wang Shoucheng saw that his daughters-in-law hadn’t gotten much, and he was unhappy. Seeing his eldest son enter, he quickly questioned him.