CHAPTER 320: CHAPTER 318: DEFYING HEAVEN (SECOND UPDATE)

The tea produced in Yu Family Village is quite famous in Qingshan Town, because the natural conditions here are good, with many mountains. The mountain tops are shrouded in mist all year round, making it the most suitable place for tea to grow.

Usually, people from the town come to collect the tea from here, then transport it to the town, process it into tea cakes, and finally sell the tea cakes all over the Da Ning Dynasty.

Mu Shuangshuang finished the last sip of tea and started eating. By this time, the noise in the backyard had stopped, probably because Yu Erlang had stopped Li Erju.

However, Mu Shuangshuang did not expect that Li Erju had entered Old Mrs. Yu’s room, saw a bolt of cloth, was moved by it, and then quieted down; otherwise, there would have been more noise.

She caressed the smooth red cloth, shaking her head in intoxication.

"Oh my goodness, the stuff Shuang brought over is really good stuff. This fabric, this color... tsk, tsk, tsk, that girl doesn’t seem to dress well, doesn’t look like a rich person, yet she has the money to buy such good cloth. Could she have done something unseemly?"

In Yu Family Village, what they call unseemly business, referring to the brothel in town, usually concerns a family that had no money but suddenly becomes rich through a daughter’s earnings, leading people to say it’s through unseemly means.

Of course, these things are usually meant to slander others.

"Mrs. Li, you’re talking nonsense! Shuangshuang is your niece. Saying such a thing will surely get you struck by lightning."

Mrs. Li rolled her eyes and continued, "I’m just saying, why are you so excited? Don’t you think if I take some of this to make a couple of bellybands, it would be nice?"

"Don’t be so greedy; this is for my sixth brother’s wedding. If you take it, how will my sixth brother marry?"

"Are you blind? This bolt of fabric is so long, never mind making two wedding outfits, your brother could marry twice with it and still not use it all. What’s wrong with me making two bellybands?" Mrs. Li retorted rudely to Yu Erlang.

"Mrs. Li, why is your mouth so foul? What do you mean my brother marries twice? Are you deliberately cursing him?"

"Say what you will, I’ve set my mind on it, otherwise when your mother comes, she definitely won’t let me touch it." Mrs. Li said this while searching for scissors in the room, and when she found them, Yu Erlang panicked, snatched the scissors from Mrs. Li, and pushed her out.

Yu Erlang leaned against the door, refusing to open it no matter how much Mrs. Li kicked it.

"Yu Erlang, you bastard! Just you wait, after your sixth brother gets married, let’s see what benefits you get from this family!"

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Old Mrs. Yu pan-fried the eggs and placed one egg each in Mu Shuangshuang and Lu Yuanfeng’s bowls. Unlike Mrs. Li, Mrs. Zhang didn’t say a word or think there was anything inappropriate about the two of them eating these eggs.

Lu Yuanfeng looked at the egg in his bowl, then at the skinny Shuangshuang, and took the golden fried egg from his bowl and put it into Mu Shuangshuang’s bowl.

"Shuangshuang, eat this. I don’t like eggs."

"Fengzi, there you go again. A fat person doesn’t become fat overnight. I have my own egg, how can I take yours too?"

Mu Shuangshuang wanted to return the egg to Lu Yuanfeng’s bowl.

But he held his bowl tightly, not allowing Mu Shuangshuang to put it back.

After several attempts, the egg still sat in Mu Shuangshuang’s bowl, making her a bit amused and exasperated.

Lu Yuanfeng’s intentions were understandable, but should he really be sharing his food this way?

Oh well, oh well, if he’s being foolish, let him be foolish!

Mu Shuangshuang angrily ate both eggs, then drank a big bowl of corn soup, but after finishing, she still proudly refused to talk to Lu Yuanfeng.

The two elders of the Yu Family looked at Shuangshuang and Fengzi and found them particularly amusing.

After the meal, Mu Shuangshuang pulled Old Mrs. Yu aside for a chat, while Lu Yuanfeng couldn’t stay idle and helped Mr. Yu load tea leaves in the warehouse in the backyard.

In Old Mrs. Yu’s room, Mu Shuangshuang sat cross-legged on the kang and talked about her purpose for coming.

"Grandma, I’ve heard about Uncle’s situation from my mother, and I know the reasons. I’m here today for Uncle’s marriage. Do you have someone in mind?"

Mu Shuangshuang didn’t immediately bring up Feng Xiaohua’s matter because in this era, parental orders couldn’t be ignored, and she needed to understand Old Mrs. Yu’s thoughts first.

"Alas, there’s no one he’s interested in, turning down everyone this and that, over the years I’ve given plenty of red envelopes to matchmakers. Isn’t it frustrating?" As she talked about her youngest son’s marriage prospects, Old Mrs. Yu’s face was filled with worry.

"Grandma, don’t worry. Actually, I already have someone in mind, but I don’t know your opinion..."

"Who?" Old Mrs. Yu showed interest.

"Feng Xiaohua from the Feng family."

"That’s a good girl, beautiful and capable. She manages all the tea leaves at home herself. Could such a good girl take a liking to your uncle, who’s as dense as wood?"

Old Mrs. Yu wasn’t quite convinced; she knew her son’s limitations, and even though Old Man Feng was a cripple, his daughter was still a good girl.

"Whether she’d take a liking, Shuangshuang can’t say for sure, but I want to meet Miss Feng before making any decisions. And if Miss Feng doesn’t have an issue with it, you and Grandfather mustn’t object."

"Look at what you’re saying. If your sixth uncle marries a girl from the Feng family, I’d worship her like a goddess. Your sixth uncle’s marriage has always been a worry. If it’s resolved this time, even if your grandfather and I were to die, we’d have no concerns."

"Grandma, don’t talk about dying and all that. You and Grandpa are fine and will live to a ripe old age," Mu Shuangshuang said sweetly to Old Mrs. Yu.

"You, girl, are indeed caring, even though you just got here. If you had come earlier, your grandma doesn’t know how happy she’d be."

After chatting with Old Mrs. Yu, Mu Shuangshuang went directly to find Feng Xiaohua, deliberately reminding Old Mrs. Yu in advance to keep the bolt of red cloth hidden. On her way past her second uncle’s room, she overheard her second aunt and second uncle arguing over that bolt of cloth.

The experiences of the Old Mu Family made Mu Shuangshuang realize that a thief within the family is harder to guard against than one outside it.

The Old Yu Family was at the east end of the village, and as for the Feng family, it was on the northern side of the village. Even though it was Mu Shuangshuang’s first visit, she didn’t feel unfamiliar at all.

Perhaps she was walking the path that Si Niang had tread before. As she walked, Mu Shuangshuang could still see the hillside in the distance, filled with lush green tea leaves.

No wonder it’s called the Tea Village, tea leaves indeed stretch as far as the eye can see.

Following Old Mrs. Yu’s directions, Mu Shuangshuang finally found the Feng family.

Located at the foot of a low hill, the Feng family’s place was worse than most of the village’s houses, with a fence made of wattle and several dilapidated thatched cottages. When Mu Shuangshuang arrived, she saw a girl of about eighteen or nineteen, feeding the chickens and ducks in the yard with a tub of pig feed.

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