Chapter 40 Suffering Together

Xu Qiuyue was stunned. She didn't expect Lu Yuan to be so generous all of a sudden.

Five hundred taels of gold.

What kind of concept is this!

Her secret recipe cost only five thousand taels of silver.

However, Xu Qiuyue still pretended to be calm and said to Lu Yuan: "If you don't come back for dinner and go away, you have to give this much, otherwise, I will lose money."

Xu Qiuyue knew that the vegetables grown in the space would taste different.

The taste is better than usual dishes.

But she never thought it would be worth the price.

Xu Qiuyue thought about it, and was afraid that Lu Yuan would regret it, so she said to Lu Yuan: "If you go far away, I will make some sauce and pickles for you to take out and eat."

"it is good!"

Lu Yuan agreed immediately.

This is really a pleasant surprise.

I didn't expect there would be such a benefit.

Lu Yuan felt that Xu Qiuyue was not a fickle person. She had been honestly growing vegetables for such a long time since she married him.

Plus Doctor Taohua told Lu Yuan.

She said Xu Qiuyue was not a virgin and she had examined Xu Qiuyue's pulse.

Lu Yuan is a worldly man, but he still cares about these things.

Because Xu Qiuyue is his nominal wife.

You can choose not to sleep with him, but you can’t cheat on him.

This was something he could not tolerate no matter what.

He could tolerate Liu Ping because she was just a prostitute and not his wife, so she had no official status and he could let Liu Ping live.

Otherwise, even if he spent 100,000 taels of gold, he would not care, he would not think about making his money back, and he would definitely try every means to kill Liu Ping.

He spends money to make him happy, not to make him uncomfortable.

As for Xu Qiuyue's threat to him, he was just pretending.

Assassinating the emperor is too difficult.

And Xu Qiuyue herself must be reluctant to die.

Lu Yuan followed Xu Qiuyue back to the Lu Mansion.

Under normal circumstances, Mother Lu would definitely be very happy, thinking that the relationship between her son and daughter-in-law had finally improved.

But now, all her attention is on Liu Ping.

Therefore, as soon as she learned that Lu Yuan had returned, she met Lu Yuan.

She hugged Lu Yuan and started crying.

There were some things she was embarrassed to say when Xu Qiuyue was around.

Although Xu Qiuyue is her daughter-in-law.

But it’s different with my son.

In front of Lu Yuan, Lu's mother was even more unscrupulous.

"Yuan'er, your father is really a piece of shit."

This was the first time that Lu Yuan heard negative words about Lu's father from Lu's mother.

In the past, Mother Lu always wanted Lu Yuan to learn from Father Lu.

"Mother, I have sent people to other places to find skilled craftsmen. The waterwheel that bitch mentioned has already been made by craftsmen. Just looking at the drawing, there is no way to make a finished product. Father was deceived by that woman.

When the time comes, you can take the finished waterwheel to find your father.

As for that bitch, it's fine that she cheated me, but she even tried to cheat my father. This is intolerable. I will ask lawyer Wei Yunsheng to sue her.

I have her indenture in my hand. Doesn't this kind of woman like men? I will sell her directly to the border, where there are many soldiers, and let her seduce men there.

I will arrange jobs for those farmers. Doesn’t father want to promote water wheels?

I will let those farmers work for me to pay off the debt, and then I will build a road. The road that Qiuyue takes to go back to her parents' home is very dilapidated, and the carriage ride is very bumpy and uncomfortable. So I might as well build the road to pay off the debt.

Most of those farmers are from Xujia Village, and they must be happy to have the road built for them.”

Lu Yuan spoke to Lu's mother very calmly.

His spies are everywhere in the Lu Mansion.

Xu Qiuyue had previously told Lu's mother that the farmers should be used to pay off the debts.

He listened.

He also understood that this was not the time to get angry with Father Lu.

Mother Lu was stunned. She wiped her tears and said to Lu Yuan, "Yuan'er, I didn't expect that you are so sensible now. I am so lucky to have such a good son like you.

The only good thing your father did in his life was to find you a good wife."

Mother Lu thought that it must be Xu Qiuyue who went to persuade Lu Yuan.

Otherwise, Lu Yuan will definitely not get better.

I didn't expect Xu Qiuyue could really persuade Lu Yuan.

It seems that everything she did was effective.

It is not impossible to just follow Lu Yuan blindly.

At the critical moment, just whisper in the ear and give a word or two of advice, and that will be enough.

"Mom, from now on, you, father and I will eat together. I will not burn carved wood anymore. We can just eat the meals cooked by Qiuyue. Qiuyue will withdraw five taels of silver from the account every month. This will be our food money from now on. We must learn to be frugal in the future.

All my money was cheated away by that woman Liu Ping. I spent a full ten thousand taels of gold to redeem her.

Now we have spent another 200,000 taels of silver to find skilled craftsmen to build the waterwheel. It cost a lot of money to find these people, otherwise we would not have been able to get the craftsmen here so quickly.

The remaining money is for road repairs. We can’t let these people develop a habit of being lazy and not paying back the money they borrow!”

"Yuan'er, I'm sorry for your hardship. In fact, I still have a lot of jewelry here, which is worth a lot of silver. Your father doesn't even know about it. It can be exchanged for at least 100,000 taels of silver."

"Mom, those things are yours. I won't take them, and you can't give them to others. Don't give them to Qiuyue. I will make money to buy jewelry for her in the future." Lu Yuan was a little worried that his mother's things would be taken away by Xu Qiuyue. After all, Xu Qiuyue would accept anything except silver from Lu's mother.

Although Xu Qiuyue gave all those jewellery to Xingzhu for safekeeping.

But what if Mr. Lu finds out and wants to use the money to help the people?
Lu Yuan was sure that Xu Qiuyue would agree 100%.

Because she felt it was not hers.

She gave all those things to Xingzhu.

She treasures the few clothes she owns, even if they are tattered!

"Yuan'er, Qiuyue is your wife. If she wears tattered clothes, you will lose face!"

"Mom, I will buy her some clothes. After this period, we really have no money at home."

Lu Yuan had already made plans. He would eat the food prepared by Xu Qiuyue, and he would let Lu's father and mother eat the food he prepared.

He was really stupid before.

I didn't expect such a good idea.

He wanted to see what it looked like for Mr. and Mrs. Lu to eat boiled radishes every day.

He has already laid the groundwork. He has no money and his family has no money.

He even forgave all the debts owed to others, and building roads was a loss-making business.

Father Lu didn't know if he had any money. Everything he did now was for the poor people! Then he could only suffer with him.

(End of this chapter)