Eat My Childless Life: The Little Fisher Girl is Poor and Fierce

Chapter 553 He ignores the noble ladies of the capital and instead gets entangled with a widow.

Cai Jiaojiao hesitated, but Wu Lexing interrupted her, "Jiaojiao, be careful what you say."

Madam Cai said, "Brother, what Jiaojiao said is a fatal blow to Feng'er. We should make plans for him in advance."

Wu Lexing frowned and pondered for a moment, then asked, "Jiaojiao, how did your aunt become so seriously ill?"

Over the years, Madam Huo had been deeply involved in domestic affairs and had always been in good health. When she was at home, she rarely needed to see the family physician.

Why did he fall ill and never recover once he arrived in the south?

Cai Jiaojiao said innocently, "How would Jiaojiao know!"

Madam Cai chimed in, "Brother, how old is Jiaojiao? Besides, Huo Shi wasn't close to her to begin with. I heard that Huo Shi was impatient to see her when she first arrived in the South."

"He's so ill he can't get up, that's when I remembered I needed her to take care of him!"

“Mother,” Cai Jiaojiao cried out as if her sore spot had been touched, but then she suddenly felt wronged and started complaining to Wu Lexing.

“Uncle, Aunt is going too far. She wants me to serve her at her bedside as a daughter-in-law, but she is unwilling to arrange my marriage with my cousin. She says that my cousin’s career is at a critical moment and that I should be patient and become his concubine.”

Speaking of this, Madam Cai was also very unhappy. "Brother, Madam Huo has really gone too far. Not to mention that Jiaojiao and Feng'er are related by marriage, my Minister's daughter marrying Feng'er is not considered a marriage above her station, is it?"

"How could the Huo family allow my beloved daughter to follow Feng'er with no status or even a concubine?"

Wu Lexing's face darkened upon hearing this. "The Huo family is truly delirious from illness; they are becoming increasingly careless in their actions."

When Cai Jiaojiao heard her uncle say that, she felt that she had made the right decision to come today. However, she had not finished complaining, so she quickly took advantage of her uncle's support and continued, "It's not that my aunt is unreasonable, it's that my cousin has been bewitched by a country woman!"

"What?" Wu Lexing's eyes widened upon hearing this. "What country girl?"

Although Feng'er was self-disciplined and respectful of propriety, and had never had a concubine in her household despite her age, the capital was never short of beauties. She had seen all kinds of women, from plump to slender. How could she possibly be bewitched by a country girl?

“Uncle,” Cai Jiaojiao pouted, “you don’t know, that country girl was originally a childless woman whose family property was swallowed up by the clan. She tried to jump into the sea but failed. She was rescued by a rough man from the same village, and that rough man and his family spent all their wealth to marry her.”

"Who knew that not long after the marriage, that rough man was conscripted and died on the way to the battlefield. The whole house was filled with the old, weak, sick and disabled, all serving her. The old and the young almost starved to death."

"Later, when my cousin was investigating local customs and prices, he ran into her by chance. I don't know what tricks she used, but before long, she made my cousin frequently go to that rural area. Even when my aunt came to visit, she stayed at a rural house."

“Absurd…” Wu Lexing was shocked when he heard this and slammed his hand on the table.

When they called out to Madam Cai and Cai Jiaojiao, they were both startled.

However, this is exactly the reaction the mother and daughter wanted.

Previously, Cai Jiaojiao had encountered that bitch in Linshui Village and suffered a loss.

Now that she's back in Beijing, not to mention the advantages of being close to the source, even if it's a long and arduous journey, as long as she can ruin her image in her uncle's eyes, she can make up whatever she wants.

Wu Lexing cursed loudly, "He's really been blinded by some country bumpkin! He'd rather shun a noble lady from the capital than get entangled with a widow. Is he willing to risk his official position? If he were here right now, I'd definitely have to call in the family rules to teach him a lesson..."