Qian Chuncao returned home and saw Qin Lihua washing the clothes she had left half-washed in the yard.
This daughter of hers was a good one, how could she have done such a foolish thing.
The more she thought about it, the more Qian Chuncao wished she could go to Ma Suyun’s place to slap her a few more times.
“Staying at home all day, what’s this all about? You were doing fine at your fourth aunt’s Bun Shop, are you really thinking about resigning? Let me tell you, you need to think this over properly, you won’t make fifty yuan a month by farming at home.”
Qin Lihua looked up impatiently, “Mom, stop talking about this, can you just let me have some peace for a couple of days?”
“How can I give you peace when you’ve been home for so many days? You’re at home having your peace, where am I supposed to find mine? Your marriage to Cai Jun has been arranged for a while now, in any other household, you would have been married by now…”
Qin Lihua didn’t want to listen to her mother’s nagging and directly left the half-washed clothes and went inside.
Qian Chuncao’s speech was only half finished and she felt even more frustrated when she saw her daughter act this way.
“Can’t even listen to a bit of advice, who is all this for? You really owe me now.”
In truth, Qian Chuncao knew where the problem lay; her future son-in-law didn’t want to work at his sister’s factory anymore and wouldn’t let her daughter work there either.
If circumstances were normal, she would have seriously considered calling off the marriage.
But the marriage was already set, and it was a romantic match made by her daughter; calling it off now, would her daughter’s reputation still exist?
Moreover, it was clear that her daughter genuinely liked Cai Jun.
“I must have really done something wrong in this life.”
After all was said and done, it was all that slut Ma Suyun’s fault.
Lin Chuxia always thought about their children, nurturing them.
Then there’s Ma Suyun, teaching her daughter all the wrong ways.
Even if they were blood-related, in this life, don’t expect her to ever get along with her again.
…
Huang Dashun’s mother and his wife rushed out of Qin Family Village, and as they passed through the cornfields nearby, they heard a noise and Huang Dashun emerged from the cornfield.
Seeing his distraught wife and mother, Huang Dashun urgently asked, “How come you’re back so soon? Did the Lin and Su families get scared? I knew it; they can’t simply exterminate us over a few dead chickens, it’s not that easy. Come back again tomorrow, not only will we make them drop the claims, but we also need to have them compensate us. If it wasn’t for them reporting to the disease prevention station, would the station have targeted our chicken farm and buried all our chickens?”
Huang Dashun’s mother was still panting heavily, and his wife, glancing cautiously behind, took Huang Dashun by the arm and headed towards a small path.
“Stop talking about compensation, will you? Xiyang Food Factory is going to sue us, they said something about legal proceedings, they want to put us in jail.”
Huang Dashun abruptly stopped in his tracks, “What happened? Didn’t you and mom play the pity card on them? Didn’t you use those tactics of crying, making a fuss, and threatening to hang yourselves at home on them? Didn’t we agree before you left that even if we couldn’t bring down Xiyang Food Factory, we’d at least tarnish their reputation, if we have to suffer then they shouldn’t get off easy either?”
Huang Dashun’s wife had a mournful expression, “What’s the use of that? I did everything you told me to, but they just weren’t buying it. In the end, mom and I were ready to crash to our deaths at the gates of Xiyang Food Factory, but that Lin person had the villagers from Qin Family Village testify for them, saying that if my mom and I died at the factory gates, it would have nothing to do with Xiyang Food, and that it would affect the fengshui of the factory and the village, so we would be responsible. You don’t know, the villagers were all worried about the village’s fengshui being affected if something happened; they outright chased me and mom out.”
Thinking of the villagers’ malignant glares, Huang Dashun’s wife shivered again.
She had thought the villagers of Qin Family Village would sympathize with them and help them fight the Xiyang Food Factory that had wronged them.
That Lin person has made the food factory so big, she just couldn’t believe the villagers wouldn’t be envious and jealous.
Just like their chicken farm, how many people cast envious and jealous glances from behind.
When their chicken farm had a problem, there were even more people who loved to watch the excitement, probably hoping for their misfortune much earlier.
Who would have thought that the people of Qin Family Village wouldn’t play by the rules, it’s like handing them a knife, and they don’t even know to stab a few times to vent their anger.
Huang Dashun never expected this outcome; hearing that villagers were still chasing after him, he hurriedly ran away with his wife and mother.
Not until returning home and seeing the empty chicken coop in the backyard did his face gradually grow colder.
“We can’t let this matter end here.”
Mad at the day’s frightening and infuriating events, Huang Dashun’s wife started to complain as soon as they got home.
“I always said that Lin surname was no good, a woman all dolled up all the time, always in the spotlight, if it hadn’t been for your insistence back then, I wouldn’t have wanted to sell the chickens to her. I said you were bewitched by her, but you didn’t believe me. Now do you believe it?”
“When you wanted to expand the chicken farm in the spring, to sell more chickens to Xiyang Food Factory, they were reluctant and talked about sticking to the contract. I think she had been looking down on our chicken farm for a long time, using the contract as an excuse.”
“Now look what happened, they even reported our chicken farm, not leaving us a single chicken and even demanding compensation. How much grudge does she hold against our family?”
Listening to his wife’s endless chatter, Huang Dashun’s face grew even more grim.
He was now not only worried about the compensation but also concerned about the future of his chicken farm.
In the past two years, he had tasted the sweetness of raising chickens, especially after cooperating with Lin Chuxia, each batch of chickens brought in an income of thousands of yuan.
He knew all too well how profitable chicken raising was, and also understood that without the cooperation with Xiyang Food Factory, the sales of his chickens would be a problem even if he raised many more.
No sales would take him back to where he started when he first began raising chickens.
That’s why he had his mother and wife cause a scene at Xiyang Food Factory, hoping to use public opinion to force a compromise.
Lin Chuxia, a female comrade and the new daughter-in-law of Qin Family Village, would surely care about her reputation.
But who knew this woman would be so hard to deal with.
His wife continued to cry and wail, the more she talked, the more outrageous she got until Huang Dashun couldn’t take it anymore abruptly spoke up, “Enough, stop crying.”
“What… what should we do?”
Huang Dashun glanced outside the window, “I still have a plan.”
Without them as a supplier, Xiyang Food Factory might still operate, but what if another major supplier disappeared?
……
The epidemic of chicken plague grew worse.
At the same time Huang Dashun’s chicken farm broke out with chicken plague, starting from Huangjiaying Village, chickens owned by villagers in the surrounding villages gradually began to show symptoms of the plague.
At that time, villagers who raised chickens had no concept of vaccination; chickens that died of the plague were simply stewed and eaten, and those that survived continued to be raised for laying eggs.
Lin Chuxia had already notified their suppliers to strictly manage their operations, but on the fifth day, Hou Xiaobao still came back with an empty truck.
Another major supplier to Xiyang Food Factory, Luo Family Chicken Farm, also found dead chickens nearby.