Wu Ping'an's family was actually having a headache over the matter.
They would rather spend more money to buy another wife than marry a young lady like He Meili into the family.
It would have been fine if she were merely unattractive, but she was also extremely proud and couldn't do any work. She demanded the best of everything, too. How could an ordinary family like theirs afford to support her?
They married wives for two reasons: first, to have sons and carry on the family line; second, to add another laborer to the household and ease the family's burden. But now, they had to wait on a young lady and didn't dare do anything to her, because her father was the village chief and lived in the same village. The moment she became unhappy and ran back to her parents' home, the village chief's wife, who doted on her daughter, would certainly come after them.
But things had already come to this, and they had no choice but to accept it.
Of course, they didn't dare cause trouble for Su Qiao, either.
This time, He Jianjun hadn't been lying. The next day, Chen Ligeng and his wife, Guo Caixia, quietly returned to the village with three burly brothers.
The moment they entered the village, Su Qiao received the news from 444.
She immediately called Big Treasure back from painting outside and scattered a great deal of medicinal powder around the house with him.
Besides that, she moved two large jars out from the corner of the woodshed and placed them in the courtyard, waiting for the prey to take the bait.
Just as she had expected, in the middle of the night, four figures stealthily crept into their courtyard.
However, not long after entering, before they had time to