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Chapter 80 - 80 78 She is His Karma
Chapter 80 - 80 78 She is His Karma
?Chapter 80: Chapter 78 She is His Karma Chapter 80: Chapter 78 She is His Karma Ruo Xuan hurriedly ran out of her house, and as she passed by the Zhen Family’s place, she suddenly overheard a conversation inside mentioning her family, and couldn’t help but stop.
The Zhen Family’s house had been washed away by the flood; what wasn’t swept away collapsed. Now the family was living in a makeshift straw shed, sheltered from the wind and rain by the remaining two walls.
This was also why old man Zhen was so anxious to go to the town to discuss the marriage arrangement with the butcher Zhao.
They needed silver to build a house.
Butcher Zhao’s son had such a terrible reputation that no one dared to give their daughter to him in marriage. He looked down on the ugly ones, but fortunately, Zhen Yi was beautiful. He insisted on having Zhen Yi, and since Zhao was the butcher’s only son, whom he doted on tremendously and who he hoped would carry on the family lineage soon, they couldn’t have gotten over a hundred taels as a betrothal gift otherwise.
Of course, the extra twenty taels and three pigs were for cutting ties—once Zhen Yi married in, the two families would no longer have dealings.
Such a loss!
And the Ruo Family is better off!
Old man Zhen lamented, “Such a loss! If I’d known that the Ruo Family would receive so much game today, I wouldn’t have gone to the butcher Zhao’s. Those few carts of game are easily worth five hundred taels!”
Granny Tan said, “What loss? You should cancel the engagement tomorrow, and let the Ruo Family pay the silver that the butcher Zhao needs to compensate! Let me tell you, the Ruo Family has really turned things around this time! They’ve struck it rich! You don’t know, but this morning the village head was looking for people to help the Ruo Family clear some land. They bought two large barren hills and tens of acres of wasteland, almost three to four hundred acres altogether!! That’s got to be worth over two hundred taels!”
Old man Zhen gasped, “Where did the Ruo Family get the silver? They couldn’t have earned that much by selling zizania, could they?”
“Who knows how they made it! The most important thing is that they not only bought the barren hills but are also planning to build onto their house. Didn’t I go to order green bricks today? I just happened to run into Ruo He placing an order for bricks. He ordered one hundred thousand bricks and said it might not be enough. He might go back later for more.”
Old man Zhen gasped, “One hundred thousand green bricks might not be enough? How big of a house is their family planning to add on?”
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