I'm reborn, so it's not too much to kill the one who traveled through the book, right?

In the only small blue brick courtyard in Lijia Village, Wang Zhi pushed open the gate with an empty basket and hurried into the yard.

Wang Zhi's voice soon rang out in the yard.

"Brother Shun, I went to Taohua Village to burn incense this morning and heard some news..."

As he spoke, his voice quickly faded away until it could no longer be heard.

In the house, Li Shun was planing wood while listening to his wife's words. When he talked about the scholar's house, he paused, pondered for a while, and said hesitantly: "This... that's a scholar, who deals with the government..."

Wang Zhi looked at Li Shun, who was sitting on the bench covered in sawdust, and felt somewhat proud of her man's abilities.

Seeing her man hesitate, she hesitated and said, "How about we ask around and see what's going on with that family?"

Li Shun looked at the unwilling expression on his wife's face. What else did he not understand? He thought for a moment, nodded, and said, "Well, then ask more carefully."

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After waiting for two days, Taohua Village was still peaceful. At most, one could hear villagers shouting about someone's lost chicken or someone's broken bowl being stolen, some trivial matters.

That day, Shen Rong thought of the space where several baskets of things were placed, and decided to put a cabinet in the space.

The space had been expanded, and it would be much more convenient if there was a proper cabinet to store things in it. Thinking of this, she headed back to her parents' home.

"Sister-in-law, when are you going back to your parents' home? The last time I saw Sister-in-law Wang, I forgot to tell her about the cabinet. Sister-in-law, next time you go back to your parents' home, can you tell her a message for me?"

Li Fenglian hugged her son and said, "That's true. If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have remembered that the last time we went to burn incense, we were so busy talking that we forgot to tell my cousin about your cabinet-building incident.

Don't worry, Sanniang. My brother from my mother's family is looking for a date. I will go back to my mother's family tomorrow. I will go back and take a look. I will help you ask then."

Her younger brother from her natal family was looking for a date, and as the eldest sister, she had to go back to help her brother choose one.

Shen Rong thought about it and said her request, "Sister-in-law, I want a long cabinet, half a person's height is enough, and there should be more compartments inside to put things."

If you don't make some requests, it would be difficult to come to your house. After all, there are carpenters in the village. Although the things they make are not very beautiful, they are very sturdy and durable.

Shen Rong's requirements were actually very low, and any ordinary carpenter in the village could do it. However, if she was attracted by the carpenters in the county town as she had done before, it would be understandable.

Sure enough, after hearing Shen Rong's request, the sister-in-law did not doubt Shen Rong's intention.

The sister-in-law has money, and although the things made by the village carpenter are cheap, they are definitely not as good as those made by her cousin.

What's more, even if it is just a simple long cabinet, different craftsmen will make it look different.

After Li wrote down Shen Rong's request, she left Taohua Village alone on a ox cart the next day.

Wang Zhi was just planning when to go to Taohua Village again to inquire about the news, but then someone knocked on her door.

She opened the door and saw that the person standing outside was Li Fenglian. Wang Zhi was immediately delighted.

"Sister!"

"Hey, sister-in-law is at home! I just happened to be looking for you for something!"

"Come in, come in and talk!" Wang Zhi pulled Li Fenglian into the yard and was very enthusiastic. She poured tea and brought snacks.

Li Fenglian glanced at the blue brick and tile house of Wang Zhi's family and was secretly surprised.

Cousin Li Shun's family lives a really good life!

Her maiden hometown, Lijia Village, has only thirty or so households because everyone has the same surname, and the population is even smaller than that of Taohua Village, which has a mixed surname.

There are few people in Lijia Village, but their lives are not better than those in Taohua Village. There are very few families living in blue brick and tile houses in the village, and Li Shun's family is the only family living in a blue brick and tile house in the village.

It seems that this cousin has made a lot of money in the county, and this house looks like it was built not long ago.

Li Fenglian looked at the brand new house but she was not too envious. After all, although her parents lived in an adobe house, her husband's family also lived in a blue brick and tile house. Because her husband's family had more people, they had more houses than Li Shun's family.

"Where is my cousin?" Li Fenglian asked casually when she saw that Li Shunren was not there.

Wang Zhi took the man's arm and sat down on a chair in the main hall, saying, "He's gone to look for wood and will be back in the afternoon. You can have dinner at home this afternoon before going back!"

Li Fenglian drank a sip of tea and told Wang Zhi about Shen Rong's cabinet building.

Wang Zhi didn't care about Shen Rong's plan to build a cabinet. She agreed immediately and then started talking to Li Fenglian.

"Have you heard? The third wife of Ma next door wants to send her child to school... I don't think that child is cut out for study... Come to think of it, I don't know if it's because of bad feng shui in our village, there's not a single scholar... Unlike your village, we still have a scholar to save face, and it sounds good when we tell others about it..."

Although Wang Zhi really wanted to find out about the situation at Gu Xiucai's home, she still slowly led the topic to Gu Xiucai's home from other places.

She first mentioned studying, then said that studying is not easy, and asked casually: "How many years did the scholar in your village study to pass the examination to become a scholar?"

Li Fenglian thought that her sister-in-law had a natural liking for scholars, which was why she often mentioned the scholar in their village.

Ever since Gu Zhaoming broke off the engagement with her sister-in-law, Li Fenglian has had no good feelings towards Gu Zhaoming, even though he has become a scholar now.

After listening to what Wang Zhi said, Li Fenglian couldn't help but curl her lips, and finally told Wang Zhi everything about the Gu family.

From Gu Zhaoming's engagement with Shen Rong, her in-laws' care for the Gu family, to Shen Rong's death, Gu Zhaoming's mother couldn't wait to cancel the engagement, and after the marriage, Gu Zhaoming was interrogated in court and admitted that he had an affair with his wife outside, his father-in-law embarrassed himself in the village several times, and that he passed the imperial examination as a scholar with the last place, and relied on his wife's money to study...

After hearing this, Wang Zhi was moved and asked, "From what you said, was the Gu family so poor that they needed your in-laws to take care of them?"

Li Fenglian nodded.

Isn't it?

Unfortunately, those things were eventually fed to the dogs.

"So what's going on now? From what you said, Mr. Gu is still studying?"

Apart from the three members of the Gu family, only Shen Rong and Xiao Zhuzi knew that Shen Yuan was making money from business.

And because Xiao Zhuzi is young, he is not very clear either.

But Li Fenglian didn't know all this.

When Wang Zhi asked about the cost of Gu Zhaoming's studies, Li Fenglian told him without hesitation about Shen Yuan finding ginseng before she married into the Gu family, and then mentioned that everyone in the village was speculating that the scholar's wife had made a lot of money.

For some things, you can get a rough idea without any evidence just by looking at the behavior of some people.

Although there is no clear evidence that Shen Yuan made money from business, the villagers have sharp eyes. It is a fact that Gu Zhaoming is studying in the county, and it is also a fact that the clothes of the Gu family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are no longer patched.

Wang Zhi took Li Fenglian to inquire about Gu Zhaoming's family affairs in detail. He also prepared a meal early and invited Li Fenglian to eat before letting her leave.

Li Fenglian could never have imagined that her words would make Wang Zhi even more determined to let her man empty out Gu Xiucai's family.