PUGPF – Chapter 403

Chapter 403: Who is this lady?

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When the three of them arrived at the cotton fields, the workers had already started to get busy. Large sacks of cotton were stacked on the ground and there were three of four people buys loading the carts to transport the cotton to the compound.

There were not enough vehicles at home, so Lian Fang Zhou hired four more carts, two of which were here, and added them to the three carts her family already owned.

It was Wang Si who was in charge of loading the carts and guarding them on their way to the compound. When he saw Ah Jian and the others, he greeted them with a smile. Ah Jian smiled and nodded, leading Madam Qiao and Lian Hai to the cotton fields.

At this time, half of the cotton leaves had fallen and the branches and remaining leaves were gradually turning yellow. At first glance, the snow-white bolls appeared even more eye-catching.

Madam Qiao looked at these large pieces of cotton, white as flowers and snow, with a greedy light in her eyes, wishing that they were all her own.

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She couldn’t help but start to be angry again: Why had this dead girl’s cotton grown so well but her own looked like that, really unfair!

This dead girl was really too stingy. She had so much cotton, what was it to see a few hundred thousand catties their way?

Hmph, every day she was affectionately calling ‘cousin, cousin’ but when it came to interests, not even the corner of her eyes squinted at their family!

Just like this, she wanted to bathe in their light in the future? She was dreaming!

“So this is cotton? It looks really good, definitely a bumper harvest!” Lian Hai had never been here before and had never seen cotton— he was a scholar, how could he care about this kind of thing? However, seeing them now, he couldn’t help but sigh.

Ah Jian glanced at him and nodded, smiling. “Yes, Fang Zhou has worked really hard this year. If there wasn’t a good harvest, I would have been surprised.”

“Fang Zhou is very capable.” Lian Hai agreed. “Let’s get to work!”

Ah Jian seemed to think for a moment. Looking at Lian Hai, he said: “Actually, it’s not hard for just one or two people. Why don’t you stay here and help me count and pack the cotton? There’s no need to go into the fields.”

Two people would be responsible for compacting the cotton picked by the workers and stacking them in the sacks, which was easier than having the workers try to do it in the fields.

Now that he had arrived, Lian Hai would naturally follow Ah Jian’s words to show his sincerity. Besides, he was a scholar who had never worked in a field before, so it would be a bit awkward for him.

Hearing Ah Jian’s suggestion, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and smiled without hesitation: “That is fine, let’s stay here. Since we have come, we will naturally follow your arrangements.”

“I’d better go to the fields,” Madam Qiao immediately objected, “I’m used to doing that!”

She was here to steal cotton, how could she steal anything if she wasn’t in the fields?

Seeing that she insisted on picking cotton, Ah Jian didn’t argue. He took Lian Hai to the sacks and then led Madam Qiao over to Madam Gu, a married woman from Linjia Village. Dropping her off, he said: “Just stay here and follow everyone’s directions. Go ahead and pick, don’t wander around.”

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“I know!” Madam Qiao was very dissatisfied with Ah Jian’s orders. Irritated, she rushed through his instructions.

Madam Gu and the other four or five women working there couldn’t help but pause and glance at her before sharing a look between them. Who was this sister-in-law with such an aggressive tone?

Ah Jian didn’t care and walked away.

The women didn’t care either. After taking a look, they lowered their heads and continued to work.

Picking cotton was paid by the catty. Three copper coins for each catty and some people could pick three hundred catties a day, which was about a tael of silver!

Time was money, so everyone cherished their time. Who had time to gossip!

What was gossip worth, could it compare with money?

In order to show her superiority, Madam Qiao deliberately straightened her back, rubbed her shoulders, and glanced around. Seeing that everyone was busy with their own business and not paying her any attention, she couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed. Then she snorted softly.

On second thought, this was fine, it was good no one was paying attention to her!

She started picking slowly and pretentiously.

While picking, she secretly glanced at the crowd and, with her eyes darting around, she started getting further and further away from the other women.

“This sister-in-law, you haven’t finished picking here, don’t go over there!” Madam Gu suddenly shouted at her.

Startled, Madam Qiao let out a loud ‘oh’ and swung her head around to glare at Madam Gu. Disgruntled, she snapped: “Who are you? Mind your own business!”

Madam Gu had a good character and was outspoken, so she managed this small group of five or six women.

For convenience, who picked which area was roughly divided and everyone understood and followed this rule.

When Madan Qiao said this, the other women were stunned and looked at her in surprise.

Madam Gu couldn’t help being a little unhappy but she didn’t want to delay her work due to conflict, so she held back her anger and said with a smile: “Sister-in-law, I’ve never seen you before, is this your first day? Hehe, it’s no wonder sister-in-law doesn’t know. Miss Lian asked me to take care of this section. There are rules on how to pick and where to pick. You can’t run around, otherwise you won’t be able to work tomorrow. If we argue, we won’t make any money and this work is easy. This opportunity is rare, so let’s just follow the master’s instructions, right?”

“That—”

Madam Qiao really wanted to scold ‘what is that dead girl, why should I listen to her’ before she remembered that the situation wasn’t right and forced herself to swallow the words.

Thinking about it, that dead girl was ruthless. If she drove her away, wouldn’t it be a big loss?

Snorting, she walked back without responding to Madam Gu’s words.

The other women exchanged glanced again: tsk tsk, who the hell was this mother-in-law? People were talking to her politely but she’s not even willing to let out a fart!

Madam Gu was even more annoyed in her heart but for the sake of money, she didn’t bother with her. Since she had come back, it was enough so continue to work!

The other women were of the same mind.

However, where was Madam Qiao the master of serious work?

Even if that had been the case once, it wasn’t now.

Seeing that Lian Fang Zhou’s cotton harvest was so abundant and thinking about her poor, scraggly cotton drowning in weeds, it was like fire was about to shoot from her eyes and burn the entire field!

She wanted to do some damage along the way but unfortunately this cotton was not like rice, where the grains fell to the ground when touched. No matter how hard she pushed it, the bolls stayed steady on the branches, only swaying leisurely.

She even thought about stepping on them a few times but the stalks were too thick and the branches too strong, she couldn’t destroy them with her own strength.

As a result, she got two scratched on her hand but the cotton was not damaged at all, from the branches to the flowers.

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Madam Qiao was furious but she could only be furious, there was nothing she could do.

Unwilling to give up on making some small movements, Madam Qiao began to look for opportunities to hide cotton on her body.

In this season, the leaves of the cotton had fallen off a lot and the effect of blocking someone’s line of sight was not as good. As long as you were aware, you could clearly see what people were doing nearby.

This was also a reason why no one dared to act boldly.

But who was Madam Qiao? How could she care about this?

Original Author’s Note: Trailer: Soon, Mr. Qiao will die for the last time, not now, but soon!