The Herbal Scents of Farm Life
Chapter 1180: Leaving it to Seventh Brother’s Son

Chapter 1180: Chapter 1180: Leaving it to Seventh Brother’s Son

If her eldest brother could make something of himself, even her father would not be able to do anything to her, and she would be able to be with Brother Ming without anyone stepping in to stop them.

"Rui’er, Young Master Zhou he..." is innocent.

Lie Ming wanted to say this, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he was interrupted by Feng Yurui.

"Zhou Liang is not innocent at all. He deserves all the suffering he endures. Brother Ming, have you forgotten all the scandals about the Zhou family that you found out before? Is there anyone in the Zhou family who is a good person?"

Feng Yurui countered him.

Not a single good person existed in the Zhou family; Elder Mr. Zhou might seem like an upright gentleman, but in reality, he had done many bad things behind the scenes.

Not to mention Madam Zhou, who almost caused Lin Caisang to be buried alive, there was also Liu Yushui in Ya Village, who, although she was a bad woman before, is somewhat decent now.

And when the Zhou family learned that Liu Yushui had Zhou Liang’s child, they did not even react, and now, as Liu Yushui has married someone else, has Elder Mr. Zhou ever thought about those two children being his great-granddaughters?

Thus, using the Zhou family to gain her freedom did not make her feel guilty at all!

"Brother Ming, you are just too kind-hearted, and that is something you need to change in the future, otherwise, you will always be taken advantage of," she admonished him.

Previously, her affair with Brother Ming had been discovered by her father, and after secretly being given an abortion drug, she lost her child. Brother Ming originally wanted to sacrifice himself to spare her from suffering, but in the end, it was only through her threat of death that she was able to secure Brother Ming’s silence.

In the end, just as she expected, her father really did not do anything to her but had Madam Zhou quickly arrange a marriage for her.

The Zhou family...

They deserved their bad luck for all the wicked things they had done.

"Let’s not talk about the rest for now. Brother Ming, take these things and hide them somewhere safe. If Mother finds out I still have so much silver, she definitely won’t let me take it out of the prefect’s residence," she said.

She pulled a box from a corner under the bed and stuffed it into Lie Ming’s hands.

It was the savings she had managed to accumulate after her brother passed the imperial examination and became a scholar and their lives at the residence finally turned a little more comfortable.

She couldn’t trust anyone else with the money, knowing that even her personal maidservant was a spy planted by the prefect’s wife.

So, she could only entrust it to Lie Ming.

"These..."

Lie Ming felt the weight of the box in his hands.

"Rui’er, I have some savings of my own. Let’s save these for Seventh Brother," he suggested.

"Brother Ming, how can you still not understand?" Feng Yurui looked at Lie Ming, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

"Giving these banknotes to Elder Brother would only result in Mother taking them. They won’t last until next year when he has to go to Jianan City for his exam. Only if we keep them, can we give them to Elder Brother at that time," she said.

Spies of the prefect’s wife surrounded her, so how much more her brother?

Moreover, Ming’s aunt, who he knew very well, would sell out any news of them to Madam Zhou in order to avoid her disdain.

In such a situation, dare she trust her brother with these banknotes?

She could not only not trust him, but she also had to pretend to be pitiful to garner sympathy, convincing her brother to give all his silver to her. Of course, she was just holding it for him temporarily until the spring of the next year when he would go to Jianan City, and then she would give it all back to him.