The Comeback of the Charming Farmer's Wife

Chapter 2679: Chapter 10: Didn’t You Ever Think of Exposing That Xiao Yu?

"Sister-in-law, you’re teasing me again!" Mu Shuang’s cheeks turned slightly red. Seeing her staring fixedly at the handkerchief, she said, "If you like it, once I finish embroidering it, I’ll give it to you."

"That’d be wonderful! Thank you, Shuangshuang." In fact, she’d only zoned out just now, but Shuangshuang thought she wanted the handkerchief—what a lovely misunderstanding.

"Shuangshuang, come here, let me ask you something."

Seeing her sit across from her so solemnly, Mu Shuang’s heart inexplicably gave a little tremor.

"If you’ve got something to ask, just ask. Sitting like this is kind of scary."

Qi Yunqiao scooted a bit closer to her, thought for a moment, then asked, "Shuangshuang, what kind of man do you like?"

"Sister-in-law!"

"Don’t be shy, there’s no outsider here, is there?" Qi Yunqiao said. "When we pick a man, shouldn’t we pick someone we like? If we don’t like him, no matter how good he is, we still can’t marry him, right?"

"I...I don’t really know."

Qi Yunqiao nodded and asked again, "Then do you have someone you like?"

Mu Shuang thought, what’s the difference between these two questions?

"Of course there’s a difference, they’re completely not the same, okay." Qi Yunqiao saw at a glance what she was thinking.

"I don’t know either, probably not?"

Qi Yunqiao was speechless. Either you do or you don’t—what’s with ’probably’?

Looking at her silly, muddled expression, it seemed that asking like this wouldn’t get anything useful out of her.

So she simply went straight to it. "Shuangshuang, these past two days I’ve pretty much dug up everything about the Ye Residence." As she spoke, she sized her up, and sure enough, saw her eyes flicker.

She pressed on, "That Cousin Qingqing of mine is just a big fool. I heard he wants to marry that Xiaoyu. My Third Aunt disagreed and wanted to send Xiaoyu away, but that idiot actually said he’s a grown man, he should shoulder responsibility, and since he touched the girl, he has to be responsible."

"But, from what I’ve observed, that Xiaoyu is no easy one. If someone like her marries into my Third Cousin’s household, I can already imagine just how miserable my Cousin Qingqing’s days will be. And I also found out that Xiaoyu is illiterate, her needlework is so-so, and she’s got a burdensome younger brother at home. Oh, and that’s not all—there’s also a whole clan of aunts and uncles, all waiting on that little stipend she gets every month. If they find out my cousin has something going on with their niece, that’s it—they’ll cling to him like leeches and never let go, won’t they? When that happens, all the money and property my Third Aunt left for my cousin will get chipped away bit by bit."

"They’ll only let go after they’ve sucked my cousin dry, and by then he’ll probably have turned into a beggar."

Mu Shuang looked at her, black lines all over her face, watching her talk this nonsense with a perfectly straight face.

Did she think she was an idiot? Would Brother Ye and Brother Ye Er really just watch him fall so low?

"Don’t think I’m making this up. My two older cousins both have hearts of stone." Seeing her disbelief, she went on, "When they see him like that, they’ll definitely be furious that he’s such a disappointment. There’s at least a ninety percent chance they’ll wash their hands of him in a fit of anger."

Hearing this, Mu Shuang propped her chin on her hand and asked, "Sister-in-law, why are you telling me all this?"

"You little fool!" Qi Yunqiao pointed at her, so angry she could barely speak. "How can you be so lacking in kindness? I’ve said so much already, and you never once thought of exposing that Xiaoyu? You really want my cousin to marry her?"

"I..."

Right now, waves were crashing in Mu Shuang’s heart. What did Sister-in-law mean by all this?

"Th-this kind of thing, how am I supposed to expose it?"