C86 Losses

"Dad, don't nag, I've heard you talk so many times on the way here. I heard boss say that the girl is doing pretty well, and we have to thank her brother for his arrangements. Don't just whisper, you took the wrong path."

The village woman on the oxcart complained. Her hair was tied up in a bun and combed, and her face was dark and thin.

"Um, fellow villagers, may I ask if the Xiao Clan is heading this way?" Old Luo, who was waving his bull whip on his oxcart, asked the villagers politely.

When the villagers on the road heard this person ask about the Xiao family, they immediately ran over to watch the commotion. A village woman said in a sour tone,

"What kind of guests is the Xiao family here for? They sent a cart full of dried meat and dried fruit food just now, and now there's a cart full of them. Could it be that the Xiao family is very popular and has so many people?"

"We've heard about it. That was the Mountain Village Fruit Seller Li Family just now, and I heard that the Xiao Family Wife had come up with an idea for them to sell the fruit at a price several times higher than usual. That's why they talked so much, and earned a few hundred silver taels." Some of them gritted their teeth in hatred.

If these villagers knew that Luo Manman had given them a thousand taels of silver, how could they even dare to think about it? The Xiao family had always kept a low profile as they continued to be thrifty as usual.

"The Xiao family is rich now, it's different from the past. That Sanniang, I heard that you have a good relationship with the Xiao family. If there are any good things in the future, he would cover for us."

Right now, the Xiao family was a hot topic in the village. Even the villagers who had good relations with the Xiao family were touched by this.

"Sure, sure." Sanniang pulled a smile on his face as he replied, "Oh, this Young Master, why are you looking for the Xiao family?" Sanniang intimately went forward to ask, at the same time, his eyes wandered around, shining with curiosity.

Old Luo's thoughts were still on the way, how could he know that his own wife was just thinking about the money the villagers had just discussed with the Xiao family?

She didn't hear anything wrong just now, did she? The Xiao family had earned another few hundred taels of silver. She dug her ears in disbelief.

His eldest son Luo Daniu muttered: "Mother, look at how rich sister is now, who knows if she will still remember us poor women's families."

"If it wasn't for you selling a good family for your sister, your sister wouldn't have such glory today."

"Of course, just based on this point alone, sister should still give us money." Luo Daniu said this with a guilty conscience. Outsiders all knew that he was in his twenties yet they had never married. He was also fond of gambling, so his parents kept on nagging for him to marry.

Alright, he calmed down and decided to take a liking to a good family. In the end, they got a betrothal gift of 50 taels of silver. Their family was so poor that they were almost to the point of drinking wine from the northwest wind.

He had accidentally found out about the girl's current wealthy life, but he didn't want to take the opportunity to fish for her. Anyway, that coward was bullied by him since he was young, so he must ruthlessly earn some money.

"Can you all calm down? I'm still asking for directions?" Old Luo glanced at his wife and children with a darkened face, looking a little worried.

"My daughter married into the Xiao family, so we came to see her." The cry of a girl could smash a pot in the crowd.

"So it's the Xiao Family Wife's family members that have come?"

"Didn't the Xiao family buy a wife?" I've never heard of any family members. "

"This is also a heartless family member. He killed them with a thousand daggers. He sold his daughter to them at that time, but now he's definitely seeing that the Xiao Clan has struck it rich and is here to obtain benefits. He's too shameless."

Right now, the Xiao family was the village's large family. In order to curry favor with the Xiao family, the villagers naturally came to the Xiao family's side and pointed at the people on the ox-cart.

The smile that Old Luo had on his face stiffened as he saw the ox-cart young man impatiently wave and shout: "Father, why are you wasting your breath on such insignificant people? Hurry and go to the Xiao family and find your little sister."

Old Luo felt a little awkward. He waved his whip and drove the oxcart to the Xiao family.

"Let's go to the Xiao family." The villagers, who had eaten a pile of dust, spat a few times before catching up.

After eating lunch, Xiao Yiming who was working in the courtyard heard the commotion outside and knocked on the door.

Thinking that the Li family's couple had returned after leaving, he hurriedly opened the door to take a look. There, he saw an ox-cart parked in front of the gate, and a group of villagers who were looking out to see what was going on.

"Aiyo, what a handsome boy, you must be Xiao Yiming right?" As the ox-cart spoke, a swarthy woman dressed in a coarse coat alighted from it. Her eyes were roaming about, making people feel rather uncomfortable.

"Yes, I am. Where can I find you?"

"Ya, good son-in-law, what are you standing there for? "We're not going to invite us in. I came all the way here and shook the yellow mud all the way. I'll have to give you a cup of tea. I'm dying of thirst." The village woman bluntly walked into the house.

This time, it was Xiao Yiming's turn to stutter. Who could tell him that the old man who got off the oxcart, the village woman, a sloppy youth and a fat little boy were his wife's family?

"Tsk tsk, Stinky girl, your days are not bad. Look at this house, it can be considered the best house in the village." Luo Daniu carried a stalk of straw in his mouth as he casually walked around the Xiao Clan Courtyard, clicking his tongue and sizing up the place.

They were drying their clothes over here. Just look at this cloth, it was many times better than the one their house was wearing.

Luo Daniu's eyes were filled with disbelief, if not for him going to the brothel a few days ago, he would not know that the Yan mama was spouting nonsense like his sister.

Were the six of them still squeezed into that small, crumbling hut?

Four people got off the ox-cart and went inside. When Luo Manman heard the commotion, he looked at the strangers and asked with a frown, "Who are you?"

Looking at their shifty eyes, it was as if they were hiding a belly full of evil intentions.

"Who are you? I'm looking for my daughter, let Luo Manman out. " The old lady put her hands on her hips and shouted.

"I am." The woman in front of him was wearing coarse clothes that could not conceal her temperament. Her large, watery eyes looked at her with a hint of suspicion.

I'm so jealous of her, that Stinky girl actually lives in such a good place. Look at the spacious and bright house, the furniture is all solid wood and red wood.

"Wifey, are they your family?" After Xiao Yiming closed the door to the courtyard, he anxiously ran into the house. When he saw the pairs of eyes looking around him, he felt goosebumps all over his body.

"My parents, I don't know them?" Luo Manman looked at the woman in front of him with astonishment. She seemed to be in her forties.

Her dry hair was tied into a bun, and she was wearing a worn out set of coarse clothes. Her figure was thin, and her eyes were protruding from the corners of her eyes.

"Aiyo, old man, come quickly and take a look. This is our daughter."

"Look at how she married a good family and ate her tender skin. Furthermore, the clothes she wore were pretty good. She's living in a big house, so her days are really good." Luo Liu smacked his lips and shouted excitedly.

This little girl, if it wasn't for her eyes shining brightly and her silhouette, wouldn't be able to recognize her. This was the Xiao family. If they met on the streets, how would they dare to recognize her?

Looks like his son was not lying. His eldest daughter was living a good life, Luo Liu had a plan in mind as he greedily watched.

Just as Luo Manman was about to speak with a darkened face, she heard a young and tender cry of surprise.

"Mom, I'm amazing, right? I discovered that there were many delicious foods, including white grains, cured meat, and fruits. There were also a lot of delicious foods."

A boy who was about six years old and was wearing coarse clothes began to chew on an apple in his chubby little hand. "So crispy and sweet, so delicious."

"Who allowed you to randomly take things?" Luo Manman frowned, these people did not know the rules, flipping through everything once they entered the room, there was no difference between them and bandits.

"Ah …" A young and tender cry rang out, and with a tremble of his fat hands, the other apple fell to the ground and rolled a long way away.

"You, don't scare me, my apple." The chubby boy shouted with a tone full of dissatisfaction.

Luo Liu was the one who was the closest to the fat brat, and the moment he saw his youngest son's symptoms, he immediately took out two bright red apples from his basket and stuffed them into his arms.

"Don't cry, mother's heart is about to break when you cry. Don't worry, there are still a lot of apples here. No one will fight with you for it! "

She had just seen the basket next to the Eight Immortals' Table. There was rice, oil, and bacon, and the Xiao family had such a large amount of delicious food. Their Luo family couldn't eat any good food throughout the year, so their hearts were extremely unbalanced.

"What are you guys doing? And you, you fat boy, who allowed you to take things? Your hands and feet are already dirty, if you don't ask, you're going to steal, understand?" Luo Manman turned her head to stare, only to see the lady shouting in anger:

"You damned girl, what's wrong, why did you steal when your family came to retrieve something? "Stupid girl, you're living such a good life now, yet you don't know how to show your filial piety to your family. You heartless loser."

Mother's family … Money loss...

Seeing these unfamiliar and greedy faces, Luo Manman touched her forehead as a few memories flashed past her mind:

The six members of the Luo Family squeezed into a dilapidated thatched hut. They had a thin and weak head like Hei Ya.

As for the mother who valued boys more than girls, she had always treated her good-for-nothing eldest son and spoiled her youngest son. Her family had a pretty good face, and she fantasized about being a young lady's younger sister every day.

As Luo Manman was a big sister, she was the one who took care of all the menial tasks in the family, so the little sister was easily taken care of as a beautiful young lady.

Meanwhile, Feng Jianniang hoped that a good-looking little sister could marry a good one, so she gave her eldest daughter the center of gravity for her work.

Fragments of information kept popping up in his head. Once, the big brother who owed a pile of gambling debts had tricked her out of town for money, sold her to Mrs. Teeth, and then resold her to the brothel nanny.