Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 674: Plotting Cultivation (3)_1

Chapter 674: Chapter 674: Plotting Cultivation (3)_1

Mo Yongxi felt elevated by her newfound wealth and did indeed look down on the poor, but she still retained some maternal affection for Mo Hong’s family, who had cherished her like the apple of their eye since she was a child.

Upon hearing her biological mother’s complaints, she responded with a smile, "How could a daughter look down on her mother? It’s just that I was so irritated, I didn’t pay attention when mother arrived!"

Mo Hong’s family, immediately anxious, asked, "You lead a life of luxury, what’s there to be frustrated about? Is your husband treating you poorly?"

Mo Yongxi’s expression changed, and a strained smile appeared on her face, "My lord treats me well. It’s just that earlier, while accompanying a noble person on a shopping trip, one of the lowly bitches with us ridiculed my background. I couldn’t bear the humiliation and retorted. As a result, the others sided with her, and I was so angry that I came back here, and my heart is still choked up with it!"

Even though Mo Hong’s family was Mo Yongxi’s own mother, Yongxi did not want her to know that she had married a disgusting man who favored the company of men. It wasn’t that she feared losing face in front of her mother, but she didn’t trust Mo Hong’s family’s mouth. Should it slip out accidentally, and the villagers come to know, how could she continue to act as a lady before those poor folks? She couldn’t bear to be the subject of ridicule!

Unaware of Mo Yongxi’s thoughts, Mo Hong’s family, learning of her dearest daughter’s grievances, also became upset, saying resentfully, "It’s all your good-for-nothing father’s fault. If he had been as ambitious as your Uncle Mo, you would be the daughter of a Scholar’s family by now, even eligible to be a government official’s wife. Instead, you’re just the wife of a trifling sundry shop owner, and people still laugh at your origins. How it grieves me, my precious child!"

Mo Hong’s family spoke unabashedly and then embraced Mo Yongxi, crying bitterly, lamenting over her daughter’s rough fate and her lowly background, while secretly resenting Uncle Mo who had failed to see her worth, leaving her to marry a useless man and waste her life.

In those days, she had set her sights on the genteel and scholarly Uncle Mo, who had the status of a Scholar, not on Old Man Mo who lacked talent in learning and had to return to farming.

Mo Yongxi looked blankly into space, imagining a life as a Scholar’s daughter, and the more she thought, the more useless her father seemed, and she began to resent why she wasn’t the daughter of Uncle Mo’s household. With a Scholar for a father and a Scholar brother, even if not comparable to the family backgrounds of the ladies she associated with that day, she wouldn’t be ridiculed to such an extent that she had to flee home like a drowned rat.

Suddenly struck by an idea, Mo Yongxi’s spirits lifted, and she quickly pushed away Mo Hong’s family, who was still holding her and crying, and asked urgently, "Mother, did that white-eyed wolf take part in the imperial examination this time? Did he achieve the rank of Scholar?"

Caught off guard by her daughter’s question, Mo Hong’s family, after a moment of stupefaction, replied angrily, "Why do you ask about him? He’s nothing but a white-eyed wolf. Heaven hasn’t struck him dead yet, how could he have passed as a Scholar? Pah!"

Mo Yongxi, upon hearing this, looked thoroughly disappointed, "He didn’t pass? How come he didn’t make it?"

Seeing her daughter’s reaction, Mo Hong’s family chided, as if talking to a stubborn child, "After how he’s treated our family, you still hope for him to pass as a Scholar? Are you actually my daughter?"

Mo Yongxi’s mood worsened, and she said impatiently, "You wouldn’t understand even if I told you. If that white-eyed wolf became a Scholar, when I go out, I could tell people I have a Scholar brother. Then would those people dare to look down on me?"

Upon hearing this, Mo Hong’s family seemed to comprehend somewhat. Despite feeling uneasy, for the sake of her accomplished daughter, she held back her displeasure and said resentfully, "That white-eyed wolf only just got back recently; who knows if he’s passed or not."

Upon hearing this, Mo Yongxi, with a calculating look in her eyes, said, "It should be soon. When they post the results, I’ll have someone check. If he’s passed, as his cousin, I’ll be able to bask in some reflected glory. And if he hasn’t, hmph, that’s his lack of ability, and I lose nothing."

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