But now Xu Baozhu had not married him yet because Lin Pingchun was not suitable for early marriage. In addition, due to various reasons, the current Lin Pingchun was far less outstanding than the previous life.
The fiancée of an ordinary scholar dared to offend the person behind Juxiangzhai, so she was naturally being retaliated. Xu Baozhu was robbed on her way home from selling the recipe, and all the money from the recipe’s selling disappeared.
Xu Baozhu suffered from this loss and could only think of other ways to make money.
It was a pity that she had a high vision and looked down on small ways to make money. But, she had no ability to carry out a big business that could really make money.
In the end, she could only make money by thinking of novel recipes and selling them. Fortunately, the people behind Juxiangzhai only planned to teach her a lesson and did not want to completely suppress her.
The money obtained from the subsequent sales was successfully kept, but often the money would still end up in the hands of Widow Xu before it was warmed up.
Xu Baozhu comforted herself that these were just early investments and that she would get sufficient returns from Lin Pingchun in the future.
In the past five years, she has had several contacts with Lin Pingchun. However, at the moment, Lin Pingchun was focused on studying and was troubled by the intrigues in the academy every day.
There was no extra thought to focus on the love between them. The couple who were supposed to be in love were indifferent to each other. Xu Baozhu gave too much, but Lin Pingchun gave too little response.
Especially after getting married, Lin Pingchun, who became more and more concerned about the opinions of outsiders, no longer allowed his wife to appear in public. Without Xu Baozhu’s income, Widow Xu, the mother-in-law, became more and more displeased with her.
At this time, Xu Baozhu realized that there was a difference between real marriage and ideal marriage and that things recorded in history might also be lies.
She was too obsessed with what she knew, but she forgot that time and everything was changing rapidly. A different choice would lead to a different path in life. How could people who have experienced different lives be the same person?
Maybe the man she married was no longer the man in her mind.
“Why don’t you go wash the clothes but wait for me, the mother-in-law, to take care of you?”
Seeing her daughter-in-law standing motionless, Widow Xu got angry and cursed with her hands on her hips.
“The Diao family members and the Jiang family are back. I heard that they are very prosperous. There were more than ten servants who came back with Jiang Wu to serve her. The pearls on her head are as big as winter dates. The silk and satin on her body is smoother than a baby’s skin. She is now the Duke’s wife. Fortunately, she did not marry my husband, otherwise, she would not be so lucky.”
There was a thorn in Xu Baozhu’s words. These words were meant for Widow Xu. She wanted the other party to know how well off the little fool from the Jiang family that she once despised was doing, but as she spoke, her heart also began to sour.
Why was that little fool always so lucky? Even if she had a different husband, he still loved her so much.
“Hmph, my son will have a great future in the future. He will be a high official. When my son becomes a high official in the future, I can also be a mother of a high official.”
Widow Xu felt a little guilty. She knew that her son’s performance at Yunshan Academy was getting more and more mediocre. Let alone becoming an official, it was a bit difficult to pass the examination.
However, Widow Xu was unwilling to admit defeat and admit that her son was not as good as the Diao family’s drag oil bottle1拖油瓶, tuōyóupíng: literally means “a dragged oil bottle,” is a derogatory term referring to ‘underage children from a previous marriage’. These children were often thought of as unwanted by their step-parents in the past. she once looked down upon.
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