A Farmer's Lady's Guide to Getting Rich

Chapter 17 17. Hairpin
A stepmother who can fight for her stepdaughter, this kind of love is no worse than a mother's!Holding Liu's thin arm, Xin Changning couldn't help but turn red.

Only now did Xin Jiugu think about the purse, but she looked left and right, but there was nothing on the ground, so she couldn't help but looked at Xin Changning suspiciously.

Xin Changning had already hidden the gold hairpin and money bag in his sleeves, pretending to be tired and said to Liu Shi: "Mother, the sun makes me dizzy, please help me into the house."

"That's right, get in the house, get in quickly." It's September weather right now, and the sun is still scorching hot. Upon hearing this, Mrs. Liu hurriedly helped Xin Changning inside.

"Sister-in-law, you accompany Changning, I'll boil some water for you." Yang Yulan took the initiative to do the work.

Mindful of the gold hairpin and money bag, Xin Jiugu followed into the house.

The room was completely bare, except for a dilapidated bamboo bed and a few broken boxes piled up in the corner, there was not even a piece of decent furniture.

Xin Changning lay on the bed, and Xin Jiugu had no stool to sit on, so she could only stand.She looked around and found that the ground outside was empty, and finally couldn't help asking Xin Changning: "Changning, have you seen that purse?"

"No, didn't you get thrown away by my aunt? It was quite confusing just now. I was dizzy and didn't see it. Someone picked it up." Xin Changning pretended to be sorry: "Oh, it's a whole hundred yuan."

Yes, a whole hundred pennies!

Xin Jiugu's heart skipped a beat when she heard this, and she couldn't help but recall the scene just now; when Liu Shi moved the knife, besides Cheng Huniang, Yang Yulan, and a few other kids watching the fun, whoever picked it up.

Anyway, they are all from the village, and they can always be found by asking people from house to house, but that golden hairpin...

Thinking of the golden color, Xin Jiugu couldn't bear it any longer, and said repeatedly: "Chang Ning, the hairpin that my mother-in-law gave you just now, take it out and show it to me, I happen to be going to the town to go to the market tomorrow. I can exchange it for silver for you.”

I'll exchange it for you, I'm afraid I won't even get a penny later.

Xin Changning slandered in his heart, and immediately replied: "No, sister, this hairpin cannot be exchanged."

"Why can't you exchange it? Aren't you short of money?" Xin Jiugu was puzzled.

"This is Cheng Huniang's hairpin. What if we exchange it without a word, and she bites back and says we stole it?"

Xin Changning had thought up an idea earlier, and sighed: "So I thought, this hairpin can't be exchanged, and I'll go to the village and go door-to-door to tell it. Let me say that this hairpin was offered to me by Cheng Huniang. What do you have today?" Whoever saw it, she couldn't repent even if she wanted to."

"Alright!" Xin Jiugu was stunned, nodded reluctantly, and said, "This hairpin is a valuable item, let me keep it for you!"

"My aunt was joking. I still have a mother. How can I ask my aunt to help keep things. If some tongue-twisting person sees this, they say that my aunt and grandma first wanted to sell me for money, and then robbed me of my hairpin. The whole family bullied me. We orphans and widows, this reputation is not good."

Looking at Xin Jiugu's greedy face, Xin Changning didn't bother to hide it, and directly sarcastically said something.

"Anyway, you just want to hide the hairpin, so don't you give it to me?" Xin Jiugu finally understood, and a layer of anger suddenly appeared on her face.

"Ninth girl, this hairpin was originally paid to Changning by Mrs. Cheng, why should I give it to you?"

At this moment, Yang Yulan walked in with a bowl of hot water, and said with contempt: "Hey, you want to bully Changning again."

"You saw me bullying her with that eye." Xin Jiugu's face tightened, and she immediately retorted: "Stop talking nonsense."

(End of this chapter)