Quick Wear: The Cannon Fodder Male Supporting Character's Counterattack

Chapter 188: Transformed into the Best Brother-in-Law (7)

In fact, children from farming families also have to sell some things to supplement their family income. For example, when the chickens they raise lay eggs, they may not want to eat them themselves, so they save them and sell them. No one will care about this and will not ask you to change your household registration because of this.

But for someone like Ma Cui'er, who has actually become a businessman, it is indeed time to change her household registration.

But those big businessmen try their best not to change their household registration, so who would take the initiative to bring up the issue of household registration?

Besides, the officials would not investigate such matters unless the people reported them. Ma Cui'er never expected that the bailiffs would come to her house because of this!

No matter how she protested, the bailiff locked her up and took her away, threw her into jail, and then sent someone to notify Ning Shou.

Ning Shou was so frightened that he had to pull himself together, take out all the family savings, and sell all the food to get money to bribe the yamen runners.

This is actually a trivial matter. Don't be fooled by those yamen runners acting ferociously and making it sound extremely serious, but in fact it is not even worth going to court.

Only after General Ning had spent all his money and paid the "fine" did they lazily release Ma Cui'er!

"Remember, you are not allowed to do business anymore. If you still want to do business, you must change your household registration first. But when the time comes, you must prepare a sum of money to pay your respects."

"Yes, yes, I understand, little one."

Ning Shou's smile is uglier than crying.

Ma Cui'er had been tortured a lot in prison these days. When she saw Ning Shou, she couldn't help but cry and complain about her grievances, but was kicked aside by Ning Shou!

Even though he didn't dare to fart in front of the yamen runners, he looked fierce towards Ma Cui'er!

"You ignorant, stupid woman! What sin did I commit in my past life that I married a troublemaker like you! For no reason, you insisted on instigating me to split up the family, making it so that my parents and brothers are no longer close to me. You could have lived a good life, but you had to do those weird things, saying that you wanted to make money. I ask you, where is the money?!"

"me……"

Ma Cui'er had been locked up in there for a few days, with little food and water, and she didn't even have the strength to speak.

Several yamen runners were watching the fun with ill intentions. Ning Shou felt more and more embarrassed. He ignored her and turned away, leaving Ma Cui'er behind. No one knew how she stumbled back home.

The food at home was all gone, and Ning Shou had to borrow food to prevent them from starving.

After eating something, Ma Cui'er finally had the strength to cry, "I just wanted our family to live a good life, but I don't know who the hell would have leaked this out!"

During these days in jail, she figured it out. It was obvious that someone in the village was jealous and sued them.

But there are so many people in the village, who sued them?

Ning Shou's waist became more hunched. "Humph, if I didn't know you didn't have bad intentions and just wanted to make our lives better, I would have ignored you a long time ago. Okay, don't think so much, we can slowly find out who did the bad things, but for now, don't mess around and just get by."

Ma Cui'er seemed not to hear and was still thinking, "Do you think... could it be your brother?"

"That's enough, are you done yet?"

Ning Shou was so angry that he pounded the table. "How did Ning Ning offend you? He is a man who is going to take the imperial examination, who wants to be involved in such things! Isn't he afraid that he will go to the government office to sue you, and the county magistrate will know about it and be prejudiced against him?! Before the separation of the family, you complained that he spent money on studying. Now that the family is separated, you are not happy that he has made money. Why, you have to hope that my Ning family will be destroyed before you are happy!"

"I, that's not what I meant..."

Ning Shou refused to listen and pointed at her nose and scolded her!

At this time, everyone had to rely on the power of the family to live, and they emphasized "protecting one's relatives". Besides, Ma Cui'er's case was not a serious matter of murder. If Ning Ning really sued her, even if everyone praised him for sacrificing his relatives for the sake of justice on the surface, they would secretly think that he was jealous of talented people and could not even tolerate his brother, which would be extremely detrimental to his reputation.

In fact, in the original plot, they also sold braised meat, but at that time they had moved to the town, the neighbors around them were not familiar with them, and selling braised meat did not attract attention.

Unlike today, they still lived in the village and pushed their carts to the town every day. It was inevitable that some people would speculate that they made a lot of money, which aroused envy and thus cut off their source of income.

Ma Cui'er wanted to make more efforts. She rested for a night, and the next day she secretly went to the town restaurant and asked if she could be a cook. "Boss, you know my skills. I can cook not only braised meat, but also other dishes. Moreover, I can ask for less wages. You might as well fire the chef and hire me instead."

Being a cook doesn't count as doing business.

Unexpectedly, although she had a good plan, the shopkeeper gave her a cold look and said, "Please don't hurt me. Because of you, the yamen runners came to the restaurant to investigate. They were very critical of us and scared us so much that no customers came for a few days. We still have to deal with them. It took a lot of effort to get over this matter. Who would dare to employ someone like you? Can we continue our business?"

He was about to leave, but Ma Cui'er didn't care about the embarrassment and hurried over to hold him back, "What about the braised food I put here for consignment? You still haven't paid me yet!"

"How dare you ask for money!"

The shopkeeper was even angrier. He was severely scolded by his boss for this matter. Now he was so angry when he saw Ma Cui'er, "We haven't even settled the bill with you for the money we spent on the yamen runners. How dare you ask for money? The yamen runners took all your braised meat. Go ask them for the money!"

He left angrily and refused to let Ma Cui'er in!

This hope was also shattered. Ma Cui'er walked home in confusion. When she passed the forest, Ning Shuan followed her at a short distance as usual, as a protection.

There was no expression on his dark face.

But even he could see that something was wrong with Ma Cui'er, so after leaving the forest, he hesitated for a moment, but continued to follow Ma Cui'er, as if he was afraid that something might happen to her.

As soon as we entered the village, there was a weird atmosphere.

Sure enough, a few women who were gossiping under a tree at the entrance of the village saw Ma Cui'er coming. They first exchanged glances, then showed malicious smiles, and went over to congratulate her.

Ma Cui'er was stunned for a long time, and took her a while to react. She asked them what they had to congratulate.

"You don't know yet? Oh, that's right, you have been... Hehe, let me tell you this happy news. Ning Ning passed the examination and became a scholar. Isn't this worth congratulating?"

"Yes, yes, you will have a scholar brother-in-law in the future. Not only will the corvée labor in your family be exempted, but you will also not have to pay taxes or public grain on the 50 mu of land under your name. Tell me, how much help can you get from him? Oh, how could I have forgotten that you seem to have separated, so you are now two families, and you can't get any help from him."

"What's there to be afraid of about splitting up the family? If you ask me, as long as you and Ning Shou go to him and say a few nice words to him, and let him allow you to come back, then you can become one family again."

"Stop talking. I don't want to. I want to make money without my parents-in-law and brother-in-law. But where is the money you make?"