The Farm Girl's Charismatic Fortune-Chapter 80 - 78 She is His Karma
Chapter 80: Chapter 78 She is His Karma
Chapter 80 -78 She is His Karma
Ruo Xuan hurriedly ran out of her house, and as she passed by the Zhen Family’s place, she suddenly overheard a conversation inside mentioning her family, and couldn’t help but stop.
The Zhen Family’s house had been washed away by the flood; what wasn’t swept away collapsed. Now the family was living in a makeshift straw shed, sheltered from the wind and rain by the remaining two walls.
This was also why old man Zhen was so anxious to go to the town to discuss the marriage arrangement with the butcher Zhao.
They needed silver to build a house.
Butcher Zhao’s son had such a terrible reputation that no one dared to give their daughter to him in marriage. He looked down on the ugly ones, but fortunately, Zhen Yi was beautiful. He insisted on having Zhen Yi, and since Zhao was the butcher’s only son, whom he doted on tremendously and who he hoped would carry on the family lineage soon, they couldn’t have gotten over a hundred taels as a betrothal gift otherwise.
Of course, the extra twenty taels and three pigs were for cutting ties—once Zhen Yi married in, the two families would no longer have dealings.
Such a loss!
And the Ruo Family is better off!
Old man Zhen lamented, “Such a loss! If I’d known that the Ruo Family would receive so much game today, I wouldn’t have gone to the butcher Zhao’s. Those few carts of game are easily worth five hundred taels!”
Granny Tan said, “What loss? You should cancel the engagement tomorrow, and let the Ruo Family pay the silver that the butcher Zhao needs to compensate! Let me tell you, the Ruo Family has really turned things around this time! They’ve struck it rich! You don’t know, but this morning the village head was looking for people to help the Ruo Family clear some land. They bought two large barren hills and tens of acres of wasteland, almost three to four hundred acres altogether!! That’s got to be worth over two hundred taels!”
Old man Zhen gasped, “Where did the Ruo Family get the silver? They couldn’t have earned that much by selling zizania, could they?”
“Who knows how they made it! The most important thing is that they not only bought the barren hills but are also planning to build onto their house. Didn’t I go to order green bricks today? I just happened to run into Ruo He placing an order for bricks. He ordered one hundred thousand bricks and said it might not be enough. He might go back later for more.”
Old man Zhen gasped, “One hundred thousand green bricks might not be enough? How big of a house is their family planning to add on?”
Granny Tan: “Exactly, so I didn’t place my order for bricks today. Tomorrow, you go and end the engagement with the butcher Zhao, and we’ll have Ruo He build us a green brick and large tile house, at least with two courtyards.”
Old man Zhen: “Two courtyards won’t be enough. At least three! Tiger is nearing the age for marriage. If he becomes a Scholar and we have a three-courtyard green brick and tile house, which family’s daughter wouldn’t want him?”
Zhen Hu chimed in, “Building a three-courtyard house isn’t as good as buying one in the city.”
“Oh my, my son is clever, indeed a learned man. Old man, Tiger’s right, let the Ruo Family buy us a three-courtyard house in the city! Forget about the old tiger and white fox!”
By then, Zhen Yi came in with a pot of porridge: “Time to eat.”
Old man Zhen immediately said, “Zhen Yi, go tell Ruo He tomorrow that as long as his family buys a three-courtyard house in the city as a bridal gift, he can marry you, and you won’t have to marry the son of the butcher Zhao. Rest assured, that house will be yours to live in with Ruo He when the time comes.”
Zhen Yi said expressionlessly, “With parents like you, the Ruo Family won’t look down on me. If they do, I still won’t marry Ruo He. I’ll marry the son of the butcher Zhao!”
From this morning, when her father, despite her pleas, insisted on engaging her to the butcher Zhao’s son, Zhen Yi had already lost heart in her parents.
Just now, she had also heard them scheming against the Ruo Family. With such parents, how could she dare marry Ruo He?
If there was anyone in this world who was good to her, it was Ruo He alone.
So she couldn’t harm him!
Harm him by having her leech-like parents, who sucked people’s blood, cling to him.
The Ruo Family’s days were getting better, and Ruo He had eyes to see that. In the future, he would surely marry a better woman and have a happy life.
And not be dragged down by her!
Granny Tan scolded, “You ungrateful girl, what’s wrong with our family? How can the Ruo Family look down on us? Your brother will become a Top Scholar in the future! The Ruo Family marrying you would be their gain! Ruo He fancies you, he will agree!”
She scoffed coldly, “I won’t go looking for Ruo He, so stop dreaming!”
Granny Tan slapped her: “You ungrateful wretch, we’re your parents; would we harm you? Isn’t Ruo He better than the butcher Zhao’s son? The butcher’s son is a drunkard who beats his wife. He beat one to death already. Where is he as good as Ruo He?”
Zhen Yi scoffed coldly, her heart sour with emotion. Of course, Ruo He was good; too good, in fact. That’s why she wasn’t worthy of him!
“Wasn’t it you who found the butcher Zhao’s son for me? How is he suddenly not good enough? Give up! I’ll marry the butcher Zhao’s son!”
“Slap!”
“You ungrateful girl…”
Outside, Ruo Zhou caught up with her carrying a basket of cured meat: “Xuanbao, wait for big brother.”
“Shh!” That was all Ruo Xuan heard. She quickly pulled Ruo Zhou and ran away.
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Under the setting sun, Xuanyuan Que was nurturing the Heavenly Silkworms with Spiritual Energy. Standing in front of the winnowing basket, his small figure already bore an otherworldly and upright posture.
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He listened quietly as a certain flower vividly conveyed to him the Zhen Family’s plot and their self-perceived clever plan.
“Brother Xuanyuan, what do you think of my plan?”
“It’s nothing special.”
“What’s not special about it? Isn’t it a case of ‘killing two birds with one stone’?”
Xuanyuan Que: “Indeed, it is ‘killing two birds with one stone,’ but you are also one of those birds.”
Ruo Xuan: “…”
“The people from the loyal and brave General’s Residence sought to steal your family’s spiritual energy, and what was the result?” Xuanyuan Que finally deigned to give her a glance, but that glance was somewhat sharp.
The result?
The result was that Heaven sent down forty-nine bolts of lightning!
The flowers withered in an instant!
Ruo Xuan was dispirited.
It was as if those forty-nine bolts of lightning had struck her.
“No matter the reason, no matter right or wrong, defying Heaven and changing one’s fate will always invite divine retribution, I’ve said…”
Ruo Xuan covered her ears with her hands and pouted: “I know already!”
She had never come across such a nagging Divine Monarch! She whispered this last sentence very quietly.
“…” Xuanyuan Que took an action he had never taken in ten thousand years—he took a deep breath.
Ruo Xuan had no idea that her head nearly got pinched like a flower bud by someone.
Wildfire never quite burns out, and a spring breeze brings it back to life, soon enough she was like a Xuancao plant revived from the ashes, bursting with vitality once more, “Heaven’s will does not prevail, man’s will does! I will definitely find a way to sort out my third uncle’s matrimonial affair. Isn’t there a saying that goes ‘Man’s will prevails over Heaven’s’?”
She didn’t necessarily need to change the fate destined for them; she could find a way to go along with fate, yet make it so the Zhen family had no way to cling to them.
Xuanyuan Que didn’t want to deal with her!
However, what she said was not wrong; true fate is indeed in one’s own hands, and there’s no such thing as unalterable destiny.
As long as one is powerful enough, one holds one’s fate in one’s own hands.
But the cycle of cause and effect never changes.
Just like he allowed her, who should have been scattered to the winds, to be reincarnated as a human, and now he was nearly driven to his wits’ end by her—this is her payback in this life!
Xuanyuan Que was very doubtful that she was his karmic retribution of this life!
Now he greatly regretted having saved her and turned to leave on the spot.
Granny Xuanyuan came over with a tray of fruits and pastries, having spotted Xuanbao from a distance looking as wilted as a frostbitten eggplant, but now she had revived and returned to her spirited self again; she genuinely liked such an optimistic and upward-looking disposition.
But was a three-year-old girl worrying about her third uncle’s marriage too much?
Was she meddling too much?
Granny Xuanyuan laughed and said, “What about your third uncle’s marriage? Has he taken a fancy to some girl?”
Of course, Granny Xuanyuan was aware that the third son of the Ruo family had already divorced his wife.
Ruo Xuan then spoke about how her third uncle liked Zhen Yi, and then about the situation in Zhen Yi’s family.
Granny Xuanyuan understood why Granny Lei opposed it: “Marriage is about the joining of two families, and if one gets involved with a family like the Zhen family, it would indeed be like a sticking plaster that could not be shaken off. However, this problem is not unsolvable; why must you trouble yourself so, you little girl?”
She had a hundred ways to solve such problems!
Ruo Xuan’s eyes brightened: “Granny Xuanyuan, what can you do?”
Granny Xuanyuan didn’t want to lead the little girl astray, so she smiled and nodded: “Leave this matter to Granny Xuanyuan, and don’t you worry about it anymore. Even if I told you, you wouldn’t understand.”
If Ruo He and that Zhen Yi truly had feelings for each other, she wouldn’t mind lending a hand.
Ruo Xuan: “…”
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