The Farm Girl's Charismatic Fortune-Chapter 38 - 37 Selling the Daughter for Glory
Chapter 38: Chapter 37: Selling the Daughter for Glory
Chapter 38 -37: Selling the Daughter for Glory
Granny Lei was directly amused by the words of the villagers. When her old man was still around, these people came to curry favor every day, and now they were becoming more and more outrageous!
“There are still two wild boars that ran towards the mountain! Why don’t you go and hunt them? What are you standing around for? If you hunt them down, won’t you get a piece of meat? Why is everyone hiding far away and just watching?”
Ruo He broke the carrying pole he was holding with a fierce expression, the pole snapping with a crack, “Who wants to share a wild boar?”
“We were just about to hunt, but you beat us to it and killed them first, didn’t you?” Old man Zhen took a few steps back, his voice much quieter.
“Right! I even came out with a hoe on my shoulder!”
…
Ruo Xuan projected a bit of Spiritual Power into one of the wild boar’s heads from a distance, “Wake up, wild boar! You guys go ahead and fight!”
What?
The wild boar woke up?
The crowd looked down and saw that one of the wild boars on the ground started snorting “hng hng” and then opened its eyes, its trotters moving.
“Ah! My goodness — the wild boar has come back to life!”
“Oh my! The wild boar is having a deathbed revival! Run! Run for it!”
“Ah! The wild boar!”
…
The very people who were clamoring to hunt the wild boar and share its meat scattered instantly like birds and beasts, running away in a complete panic!
Granny Lei, in a fright, grabbed Ruo Xuan and ran.
Ruo He was about to bring down his carrying pole, but the wild boar flopped down again.
Madam Liu didn’t run either. With her child and mother-in-law present, she couldn’t run. In a moment of desperation, she picked up an iron hook from the ground, but to her surprise, the wild pig, just as it was about to stand up, fainted again.
Ruo Xuan said in Granny Lei’s arms, “Granny, it’s okay, it can’t get up.”
Only then did Granny Lei stop running and turned around to look, breathing a sigh of relief.
She wanted to ask what was going on, but refrained from asking as the village chief’s wife was right there.
The village chief’s wife, after hearing Ruo Xuan’s words, turned back and relaxed, “Xuanbao, you’re amazing!”
The Ruo Family is not made up of ordinary people!
The Ruo brothers were famously strong as oxen, with the eldest and the fourth having innate divine strength, and even the children they gave birth to possessed this natural divine strength!
At only three years old, with a single slap she could knock a wild boar unconscious. If only her grandson had such strength!
By now, everyone had run far away, looking back to see that the three wild boars were still lying on the ground, with Ruo He and Madam Liu standing by with shovels, ready to defend.
They finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It was terrifying!
However, no one dared to go back, especially those with children, fearing the wild boars might wake up again and cost them their lives.
Only the most greedy and shameless Granny Tan, looking at the several large fat wild boars on the ground and not being able to get a piece of meat, was unwilling to give up.
She glanced at her own rice field, slapped her thigh, and shouted, “Oh no! It’s a calamity! The wild boars have dug up a large patch of my rice! How can anyone live like this? Lei, the disaster caused by the wild boars and your third son must be compensated for by giving my family one of the boars!”
Upon hearing this, Ruo Xuan raised her eyes for a glance.
She remembered that when her third uncle was fighting the wild boars, he was desperately protecting the rice field, trying his best to keep the wild boars away from it.
Everyone turned their heads to look after listening, and then they found that it was just a few rice plants that had been knocked over, hardly a large patch as claimed.
The Ruo Family’s rice just fell over a large area!
Madam Liu said sarcastically, “Are your family’s rice plants made of gold? Just a few plants have fallen, and you want compensation for a wild boar?”
Granny Lei sneered, “Her family’s rice isn’t made of gold! She must be dreaming!”
Mrs. Tan was unreasonable, “My family’s rice is made of gold, very expensive! Now that a patch of our rice has fallen, you killed a wild boar and you have to compensate me with one. I tell you, if it hadn’t been for my rice growing so well and attracting the wild boar, your family wouldn’t even have had the chance to kill one!”
Granny Lei laughed, “Your rice field attracted the wild boar? Great! That means when my family killed the wild boar, didn’t we save your rice? According to your logic, since my family saved your rice field, you should give me a hundred loads of grain as repayment! Hurry up and compensate me with a hundred loads!”
Mrs. Tan was almost killed by Granny Lei’s shameless words, “A hundred loads of grain, why don’t you just rob it? Completely unreasonable!”
“I’m not as unreasonable as you! You’re not just unreasonable, you’re insatiable, shameless, contemptible, disgraceful, selling your daughter for glory, wicked at heart,…”
“You’re talking nonsense!…” Mrs. Tan couldn’t win the argument, nearly died of anger, and lunged towards Granny Lei—
Ruo He immediately stood in front of Granny Lei!
Zhen Yi, Mrs. Tan’s younger daughter, also hurriedly pulled her back, “Mom, don’t do this, let’s talk it out!”
She didn’t understand why her mother had the audacity to demand compensation of a wild boar from others.
Seeing Ruo He’s grim expression, Mrs. Tan did not dare to approach and could only vent her anger on her own daughter she was holding, as she turned around and slapped her, “Worthless girl, whose side are you on?”
Zhen Yi staggered back a few steps, nearly falling down.
Ruo He quickly caught her, shouting, “How can you hit someone like that?”
Mrs. Tan said angrily, “None of your damn business!”
Mrs. Tan began to lash out at Zhen Yi, “Useless girl, lowly vixen, always taking sides against your own family, no good for anything. If we don’t come back with a head of wild boar today, I’ll beat you to death! A burden on our finances. Every other family’s sons know to protect their own mothers, and you, you lowly vixen, always go against us! If you can, bring back a wild boar for your old mother…”
Mrs. Tan remembered how in the past, when Huizi wanted to eat meat, she sent Zhen Yi to the mountain to catch wild chickens. When Zhen Yi failed to capture any and came back, she beat her and sent her back to catch more. It was Ruo He who gave her a wild chicken and a hare.
She wanted to repeat the old trick.
Zhen Yi shrank back, not daring to resist.
Ruo He couldn’t stand it anymore, pulled Zhen Yi behind him for protection, and grabbed Mrs. Tan’s hand, “Enough!”
Mrs. Tan spat at Ruo He, “Phooey! What I do with my daughter is none of your damn business! A toad lusting after swan meat! Let go! Or I’ll scream harassment!”
Ruo He’s face turned red, and he quickly let go.
Granny Lei called out, “Ruo He, come back!”
Worried, Ruo He gave Zhen Yi a look but still returned to Granny Lei’s side, although he couldn’t help but keep his eyes on her.
They had grown up together since they were young. He had seen too many injuries on her face and hands from being beaten and always thought of protecting her once he was old enough.
Zhen Yi’s father had long noticed Ruo He’s interest in his daughter Zhen Yi, and he had been waiting for the Ruo Family to bring the dowry. Yet Ruo He ended up marrying Miss Zhao, that fat pig. At this moment, seeing Ruo He like this, Zhen Yi’s father’s eyes gleamed, and he said with a sly smile, “Ruo He, if you really care for Ah Yi, a hundred taels of silver, three wild boar, a hundred loads of rice, I’ll let my Ah Yi be your concubine! If you can afford this dowry, you can meddle in Ah Yi’s affairs. If not, you better hurry up and compensate my family with a wild boar!”
Zhen Yi’s face turned completely red, utterly embarrassed, and she ran off crying, covering her face.
Granny Lei also laughed angrily, looking scornful, “Why don’t you just go robbing? To sell your daughter like livestock, only your family could do something like this!”
Madam Liu couldn’t help but say, “Absolutely unfit to be parents, worse than pigs or dogs.”
Zhen Yi’s father was not ashamed but rather proud, thinking Granny Lei was just sour because she couldn’t have grapes. Who told her not to have so many daughters?
He said proudly, “It didn’t cost me anything to raise a daughter, not even food or silver? Asking for a dowry when marrying her off is normal, right? Ruo He, are you marrying her or not? If not, I’ll marry Ah Yi off to the butcher Zhu’s son from town! His son has been fond of my Ah Yi for a long time!”
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Zhu the Butcher’s son liked to drink heavily and beat up people when drunk; he once beat his pregnant wife to death, and since then, no one dared to marry their daughter to him!
Ruo He stared at the sorrowful figure running away in the distance, unconsciously clenching his fists.
