Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 548: Hidden Killing Intent (7)_1

Chapter 548: Chapter 548: Hidden Killing Intent (7)_1

Upon hearing this, Mo Yan’s face revealed a trace of a peculiar smile, "So it’s set for today, a good day indeed." So good that she had almost forgotten about it.

The villager didn’t notice Mo Yan’s strangeness and thought she genuinely felt happy for Lao Mo’s House, which was odd. Hadn’t the two families cut ties and ceased all contact a long time ago? Could it be that the wealthy really thought differently from ordinary people?

Thinking this, the villager shook his head. Why bother with such thoughts? Better to just focus on working hard and earning the thirty wen for the day’s labor.

It was the start of the workday, and as there wasn’t much to do yet at the construction site, Mo Yan watched for a while before returning home to prepare lunch with Lixiu, Wu’s, and two village women who had been hired to help with the Mo Family’s house construction last year. Feeding over a hundred people from the two work sites was no easy task.

While washing vegetables, Wu’s also mentioned Mo Yongxi’s marriage, "She really is lucky, marrying into a wealthy city family as the main wife. If she’s willing to change her ways and live peacefully, her latter half of life should be settled."

A cold smile appeared on Mo Yan’s lips as she shook her head and said, "It’s easier to change rivers and mountains than to alter one’s nature, and with her temperament, I fear she cannot change. If she had found someone of equal status, they might tolerate her behavior, but now that she’s clinging to such a high branch, she will suffer in the future."

Upon hearing this, Wu’s, looking puzzled, asked, "You say the Fang Family isn’t short of money, so it wouldn’t be tough to find a match of equal status or even one slightly less suitable. Why set their sights on Mo Yongxi, of all people?"

Mo Yongxi’s reputation in the village was well known; just by asking around, anyone could hear the clear-cut truth. Any decent family would avoid such a daughter-in-law. Wasn’t it exceedingly odd for the Fang Family to be in such a hurry to marry without proper inquiries?

Mo Yan looked at Wu’s, still pure, kind, and gentle in her features, and decided not to burden her with the filthy details and cause her distress.

Mo Yongxi’s in-laws—the Fang Family had a modest sundries shop that brought in seventy or eighty taels of silver annually, and they employed an old maid to do the heavy chores, thus qualifying them as a minor affluent household.

The Fang Family’s willingness to marry Mo Yongxi wasn’t out of genuine appreciation for her looks or character. The Fang Family lineage had but a single male heir for three generations, the sole scion being Young Master Fang, sadly, this one hopeful branch was bent, only delighting in the soft and feminine affectations, possessing no interest or desire, whether for seductive or virtuous women.

What pushed the Fang elders to despair was that their son had taken a fancy to an actor, secretly using the family’s savings to keep the actor financially supported. There are no secrets that time does not reveal, and soon enough, the affair stirred up much gossip among the neighbors.

The Fang elders physically punished their darling Young Master Fang for the first time, yet even as he lay bedridden from the beating, he refused to abandon the actor and "return to the right path" by taking a wife and producing offspring.

Still, the elders couldn’t bring themselves to harm their only child to the point of death when they saw his unwavering resolve. So, they planned to marry him off to save face and preserve the Fang Family line.

But with the scandal of Young Master Fang favoring male companions and providing for an actor out in the open, the previously propositioned Fang Family now found no suitors knocking on their door. No matter how much wealth they offered, nor how earnestly they employed matchmakers, no marriage pacts came to fruition. After all, wouldn’t families who truly cherished their daughters enquire before engagement? And if something still came of it after an inquiry, that would indeed be suspicious!

Seeing that no city girl would have them, the Fang elders turned their sights outside the city walls. Just like before, any potentially interested family would cease to be so once they made inquiries. It was during this time that Mo Yongxi "accidentally" entered the vision of the elders.