Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 920: Falling in Love and Killing Each Other by Poaching (1)

Chapter 920: Chapter 920: Falling in Love and Killing Each Other by Poaching (1)

The first batch of fish weighed over a thousand jin. Mo Yan initially took one hundred and fifty jin to the shop on a horse-drawn cart to test sales, kept a hundred and twenty jin, and sent thirty jin shared amongst the Punishing Shopkeeper and Owner Mu with a few tails each, while the rest were all delivered to the Scholar Mansion and the Liu Family.

Mo Yan set a high price for the fish, five Wen Money more per jin compared to the market price. Those who could afford to buy grain from the Mo Family’s shop were not short of money, and the reputation of the shop was good—it had never cheated or overcharged its customers. As a result, under the recommendations of Lizhong and others, the customers who liked to eat fish or had family members who enjoyed fish were very willing to pay for it.

As it turned out, the very next day, those customers who had bought fish the day before flocked in, not to buy grains, but specifically for the fish.

Fortunately, Mo Yan was prepared and transported over the remaining eight hundred plus jin of fish. Within two hours, they were all sold out.

This batch of fish sold for a sum close to twelve Liangs of Silver. It seemed little, not even half of what the rice shop made in a day, but it was extra wealth, and Mo Yan happily pocketed it into her purse.

After that, the fish pond yielded fish twice more, totaling a thousand jin, and were sold off in two days. During this period, the birds that had flown out had finally returned one after another, carrying back the information Mo Yan wanted to know.

"Without the Zhao Family, Fan Meijiao is nothing, I knew it—how could the Duchess of Yongchang take a fancy to her? It turns out there was such a reason." Mo Yan suddenly realized and then sneered, "It seems I won’t have to lift a finger, her life is destined not to turn around. Good, let her be entangled in love and hatred with the Duchess of Yongchang’s nephew, so I don’t dirty my hands."

"Mhm, mhm, that’s for the best!" Xuetuan nodded in agreement and then pretended to lament, "The Duchess of Yongchang is not a pushover either. There’s a saying, what is it... Ah, ’A scourge for a scourge.’

The nephew of the Duchess of Yongchang, known as Lord Mu Second, came from a second-tier family, the Mu Family. Although not comparable to the Cui family, he was more than enough for Fan Meijiao. Even as a widower, such a man could have remarried a well-born young lady from a good family. However, Lord Mu Second suffered an accident in his youth, rendering him unable to consummate a relationship with a woman, and as the years passed, his temper became increasingly sinister.

To deceive others, the Mu Family arranged a marriage for Lord Mu Second with a woman from an inconspicuous family background, claiming her infertility as the reason to adopt a boy from a collateral branch to carry on the family lineage. The woman, timid and meek by nature, silently accepted the cruel reality after learning that her husband was impotent and the family’s intentions following the marriage.

Regrettably, Lord Mu Second had a capricious and violent nature, and the slightest carelessness would lead to him beating or berating his wife. Seeing her husband as unreliable, the adopted child became the woman’s last hope.

However, a bout of cold took away her only hope, and the unfortunate woman, unable to withstand such a blow, hung herself in despair. Meanwhile, the Mu Family announced she had died of illness.

As Lord Mu Second was still young, not remarrying would raise suspicions and risk his secret being exposed. Since the purpose of any new marriage would be for appearances only, and Lord Mu Second was not a bachelor, his options were limited. After some selection, they picked Fan Meijiao.

First, Fan Meijiao had no significant backing—the Zhao Family meant nothing to the Mu Family, so they weren’t worried about her making trouble. Second, they believed that a woman like Fan Meijiao, discarded for her lack of virtue, would be grateful to remarry into a high-status family like the Mu’s and wouldn’t speak out of turn in public.

Unfortunately, the Mu Family did not carefully investigate Fan Meijiao’s character and behavior; otherwise, they would have never chosen such a troublesome daughter-in-law.

Mo Yan was disgusted with the Mu Family and with Lord Mu Second, who did not take women seriously. Fan Meijiao was just right for that scum, saving them from further harming other good women.