When Shen Yuan heard her say that, she secretly curled her lips: She was saying she was poor when they met, because she was afraid that she would borrow money! Unfortunately, she already had a way to make money, so she didn't need Shen Sanniang to act big in front of her.

She complained in her heart, but smiled and said, "What a coincidence, I am also going to the town to prepare winter clothes."

Shen Rong looked at Shen Yuan in surprise. Of course, she didn't want to lend money to Shen Yuan, which was why she said that.

However, what new way has Shen Yuan thought of to make money?

Moreover, she looks quite confident.

Shen Rong thought for a moment and said, "Then let's go to the shop together later?"

Seeing Shen Rong asking her to go buy cloth together, Shen Yuan felt a little uncomfortable. She only had a few cents in her pocket for a ox cart ride. Although she was confident that the braised pork recipe could be sold, what if?

Shen Yuan thought it would be better to sell the recipe first and then buy some cloth to make clothes.

So, it was naturally impossible for her to go with Shen Rong to get the cloth.

Shen Yuan quickly thought of a reason to refuse, and pretended to be shy and said:

"No, I want to go see my husband."

Shen Rong knew what Shen Yuan wanted to do from the other person's voice, so she didn't force him. She also didn't want to go shopping with Shen Yuan.

The three of them went to the village entrance together.

At the entrance of the village, Old Man Shen was already waiting with a ox cart.

There were a few aunts sitting on the ox cart. When they saw Changsheng and Shen Rong coming, they looked at each other and then sat on the other side without any prior arrangement, leaving the other side empty. It was obvious that they didn't want to be too close to the two of them.

Not only Shen Rong noticed the little actions of those aunts, but Shen Yuan also noticed it. He glanced at Shen Rong out of the corner of his eye and couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth.

The three of them got on the ox cart, and it was soon filled up.

In the front of the ox cart sat old man Shen, the driver, with the three aunts on his right and Shen Yuan on his left. Shen Rongchangsheng and Shen Yuan sat side by side, near the rear of the cart.

Old Man Shen flicked the whip in his hand lightly, and the ox cart slowly left the entrance of Taohua Village.

On the way, the aunts kept talking to Shen Yuan. As for Shen Rong and Changsheng next to them, no one paid any attention to them.

Shen Rong was excluded, but she didn't say much. She just sat side by side with Changsheng and said nothing.

Shen Yuan felt a little proud in her heart. Although the Gu family was poor, Gu Zhaoming was a scholar and a student at that. When she was outside, everyone would give her some face. However, Shen Rong, who married a fool, did not have such treatment.

Thinking of this, the regret that Shen Yuan had originally felt for the Gu family's poverty suddenly disappeared without a trace, leaving only the determination to support Gu Zhaoming's studies and help him succeed.

Gu Zhaoming is still just a student, and the villagers are polite to her when they see her. If she were a scholar or a juren, then she would...

When Shen Yuan thought about this, she wished she could make a lot of money right away to support Gu Zhaoming's studies so that she could become a government official's wife as soon as possible.

Shen Rong didn't expect that as soon as Shen Yuan got in the car, he had so many thoughts in his mind. Even when he was talking to the aunt next to him, his brain didn't stop working.

Shen Rong closed her eyes, pretending to be asleep. The aunts in the car looked at each other implicitly, and then started talking to Shen Yuan as if nothing had happened.

"Mrs. Gu Tongsheng, are you going to the town to see your Gu Tongsheng?"

Shen Yuan wanted to say no, but she had just gone to see Gu Zhaoming in front of Shen Sanniang. If she said no now, wouldn’t that be contradicting herself?

She could only say, "Haha...yes! My husband has been away for a few days, and my mother was a little worried, so she asked me to go and see him."

The aunt glanced at the small bag in Shen Yuan's hand and said with a smile, "What delicious food did you bring for your man?"

"Hehe... nothing much, just some ordinary food."

Aunt Wu smiled and said, "I've known for a long time that Gu Tongsheng's mother is very skillful. I don't know what delicious food it is. Can you bring it out for us to see?"

"Yes! We also want to know what the future scholar will eat on ordinary days." The round-faced aunt agreed.

Shen Yuan was getting a little impatient. These aunts were really annoying, asking questions all the time. The Gu family was so poor that they could barely make ends meet. What could they bring to visit Gu Zhaoming?

The stuff inside was the spices for the braised pork she had bought earlier. Could she show it to these country bumpkins?

"Aunt, there's really nothing in it." Shen Yuan smiled, and subconsciously shrank the small cloth bag in his hand.

Shen Rong lowered her head, glanced at the smiling Shen Yuan, and suppressed the upturned corners of her mouth.

That’s right, Shen Rong was watching the show.

The aunt who spoke to Shen Yuan's surname was Wu, and her husband's surname was Gu. She was from the same clan as Gu Zhaoming. She was well-known in Taohua Village for being a chatterbox. She could strike up a conversation with anyone, whether they were human or ghost, and she would talk nonstop, and she would never stop.

This skill is nothing, but Aunt Wu is a two-faced person. Even though she is talking to Shen Yuan with a smile, she might be cursing him in her heart just like Shen Yuan.

If Shen Rong had not been reborn, with her more than ten years of life experience, she would never have known what kind of person Aunt Wu was.

But, who made Shen Rong reborn?

In her previous life, after she married Gu Zhaoming and passed the imperial examination the year after, Aunt Wu always greeted her with a smile whenever she saw her. At that time, she felt from the bottom of her heart that Aunt Wu was a warm-hearted and sincere person.

Until one day, Shen Rong finally saved up some eggs and bought half a pound of brown sugar from the town, intending to nourish herself. As a result, as soon as she entered the village, she met Aunt Wu.

"Madam Scholar, what good things did you buy?" Aunt Wu asked with a smile.

"Auntie, I saved some eggs and exchanged them for half a pound of brown sugar..."

Shen Rong had been in the Gu family for more than a year at that time and had not yet given birth to a child, so the brown sugar was used to nourish her body.

When she mentioned it to outsiders, she couldn't help feeling a little shy. But unexpectedly, Aunt Wu smiled in front of her and didn't say anything.

At that time, Shen Rong had some feelings for Aunt Wu. After talking to Aunt Wu, she walked for a distance and remembered that she had picked up a red hairband on the road.

Seeing that the red hairband was still new and presentable, she thought of giving it to her granddaughter. However, when she turned back, before she even got close, she heard Aunt Wu ridiculing her with others, saying that she had been married for almost two years and had not conceived a child. She was just a hen that didn't lay eggs, and that Mr. Gu would divorce her sooner or later.

At that time, Shen Rong had not given birth to a child and was a new bride, so she was shy. In addition, her brothers from her natal family all had problems and Liu often suppressed her, so she did not dare to go up to Aunt Wu to argue and could only leave quietly.

After returning home, she was very sad for a while.

But since then, she no longer regarded Aunt Wu's smile as kindness.

Sure enough, Aunt Wu frowned and curled her eyes in disdain, but soon regained her smile, "Really? Gu Tongsheng is really lucky."

After that, she stopped paying attention to Shen Yuan and just kept talking to the aunt next to her in a weird tone:

"Oh my! Scholars are really different. We peasants have to be looked down upon even if we try to please them! They are not even scholars, yet they look down on us like this. Who knows how rampant they will become in the future... Tsk tsk tsk tsk..."

The other two aunts who were close to Aunt Wu immediately covered their mouths and laughed when they heard this.

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