The lucky girl in the village has a good way of making money.

Chapter 282 Take a look
Lotus Village is named after the lotus. There are two large lotus ponds on the left and right of the village entrance. In the current season, the lotus flowering period is coming to an end. The lotus flowers in the lotus ponds are vying with each other to show people their last splendor of the year, which is incredibly beautiful.

Therefore, during this season, many people in the town come here specifically to admire the lotus flowers.

There is a tea stall at the entrance of the village. It is a business run by the villagers of Lotus Village and provides a place for people who come to enjoy the flowers to rest and drink tea.

A mule cart arrived at the entrance of Lotus Village leisurely among the group of people who came to see the flowers in the town. The mule cart was parked in a shed next to the tea shed. Shi Liu took Fu Dong and Hu Zhen for a stroll along the lotus pond, admiring the sparkling lotus flowers.

Although I came here with a purpose, the lotus flowers are really beautiful. Two such large lotus ponds stand side by side. Looking around, the green and red are complementing each other, as if I were in a lotus wonderland.

Pomegranate took a deep breath and couldn't help but feel in a good mood.

After strolling along the lotus pond, I returned to the tea stall. Feeling tired, I found a table to sit down and ordered a pot of hot tea.

The couple in their thirties were running the tea stall. The woman was a talkative person, and when she saw Shi Liu, who was so elegant and accompanied by her maid and followers, she wanted to strike up a conversation with her, but she held back. She just glanced at Shi Liu several times from behind her back and whispered to her husband.

"Look, that little girl is really pretty. Hasn't the scholar's wife been looking for a suitable girl for her son recently? I think this girl is of the right age and looks good. I wonder where she comes from?"

There was only one scholar in their Lotus Village, and everyone in the village was trying to curry favor with him. Naturally, the woman was concerned about what was going on in the Niu family.

The man listened and couldn't help but look at Shi Liu twice more, shaking his head and said, "I don't think it will work. I heard that the scholar's wife wants her youngest son to marry both wives, so she didn't plan to find someone from a wealthy family. How could she be willing to marry someone from a wealthy family? This girl looks like a noble girl from a wealthy family."

"You want to take care of both houses?" The woman was shocked. "I haven't heard that his eldest son is not well? I saw him walking around yesterday, and he looked much better."

The man said, "Isn't this preparation? He must be the heir to both houses. You see, he looks better, but Doctor Huang has come to see him and said it will only take one or two years."

The woman listened and sighed, "What a pity for such a good child. If he was in good health, he would have been a scholar by now! The scholar's wife also had good intentions. She couldn't bear that he would be without a descendant in the future, so she wanted to let the youngest son inherit both houses?"

The couple spoke quietly, but there was no one else in the tea stall at the moment, so if you listened quietly you could still hear roughly what they were saying, but it was not clear, and Fu Dong had good hearing.

So, Shi Liu did figure it out, but Niu Cheng wouldn't live long?

His parents really loved him by not thinking of quickly marrying him off and having children to carry on the family line. After all, a man won't live long, and marrying a wife would be tiring for them. Just like what happened to the Yu family, they heard that they hurriedly brought back a wife, but she died the next day.

This is not about continuing the family line, it is about taking one's life. It's a pity for the girl. She becomes a widow as soon as she gets married and has the reputation of killing her husband.

However, hearing about the idea of ​​having two wives at the same time, although it was also for the sake of having a family line, Shi Liu shook her head and was unable to accept it. Two women and one husband, the men were happy but the women suffered. Not only did they have to share a husband with others, they didn't even have the right to be jealous. After all, this was different from having a wife and a concubine.

When the woman came up to refill the tea, Fu Dong smiled and said, "Aunt, I heard that there is a scholar in your Lotus Village. His son passed the examination this year and ranked second. He is also the favorite student of Mr. Wang in the city. Not only is he well-educated, but he is also very handsome."

The woman was a chatterbox and couldn't control her voice. She would chat with anyone who came. At first, she didn't dare to talk to Shi Liu because she saw that Shi Liu had a good temperament. But now that Fu Dong took the initiative to talk, she immediately picked up the conversation.

"Yes! He is well-educated! He is also handsome. Everyone in our village knows him! But to be honest, his brother is more educated and more handsome!"

"Oh? His brother is more knowledgeable, why didn't he take the imperial examination?" "Well, it's God's fault. He made this child have a weak body and was sickly. Even if he wanted to take the imperial examination, he wouldn't have the energy. Otherwise, he would have been a scholar long ago!"

"That's a pity." Fu Dong said, "Auntie, you know so well. Are your family neighbors?"

Fu Dong just asked casually, but the woman smiled and said, "They are neighbors! I have watched the two children grow up since they were young. If you listen to them recite books a few times, my boy can recite a few sentences at once!"

Fu Dong didn't say anything more. He just casually replied with a few words and then stopped talking.

Just at this moment, a few people who came to appreciate the flowers came into the teahouse to rest, and the woman was busy greeting them.

When they had almost finished a pot of tea, Fudong called the woman over and said with a smile, "Aunt, we want to buy some chicken and duck eggs. Do you have any? Or is there anyone in the village who has them? You know better than us. Could you please take us there?"

The woman was talkative and helpful. Although she was surprised that a girl from a wealthy family would come out to buy eggs by herself, she didn't think much about it. "I have some at home! Some of our neighbors have some too! Come on, I'll take you there!"

The mule cart slowly drove into Lotus Village and, under the guidance of the woman, stopped at a house.

The woman jumped off the cart and asked the mule cart to go to the yard. An old man in the yard saw the woman coming back and asked, "Heiwa's mother, why are you back?"

"A customer wants to buy eggs!" the woman said, and she called her eldest daughter to go into the house and take out all the eggs. She then called out to the people in the next yard to bring the eggs to sell.

Hearing the woman's loud voice, several families nearby came to ask about the situation. When they heard that someone was coming to collect chicken and duck eggs and the price was the same as in town, they hurried home to get the eggs to save themselves the trouble of going to town.

Fu Dong and Hu Zhen were busy collecting eggs and paying for them, while Shi Liu stood beside the mule cart, looking around.

With an inadvertent turn of his eyes, he saw a young man of about eighteen or nineteen walking out of the blue brick courtyard opposite. He was wearing a long gown embroidered with green bamboo. He was tall, with regular facial features. It was a pity that he was so thin that the long gown seemed to be hanging on his body, loose and could not be supported.

There was a dark area under his eyes and his lips had no color, and it was obvious that he had been ill for a long time.

The woman had sold her own eggs first and was standing aside to help with the business. She looked up and saw the young man, and immediately said, "Cheng, you're out for a walk? Be careful."

The young man looked over here when he heard the voice, saw Shi Liu first, paused, shifted his gaze to the woman, nodded politely, and then continued to walk to the left.

Shi Liu watched him walk away in small steps before she looked away.

Hearing the woman calling him Cheng Wazi, it was no surprise that this was Niu Cheng who had been ill for a long time and was dying.

Well, he looks OK, with a clear and upright gaze. Although he has been ill for a long time, there is no gloomy air about him that makes people feel uncomfortable.

Shi Liu had an idea in mind. She heard that there were many people delivering eggs, and Fu Dong and the other two would still be busy for a while, so she quickened her pace and followed in that direction.