CHAPTER 465: CHAPTER 462 WANG FUGUI PLAYS DIRTY (THIRTEENTH UPDATE)

"Brother Yuan Feng, I do want to, but this matter is really too big. What if someone hears about it?"

Xia Guagua bit her lip, deliberately putting on a troubled expression.

"Right now, it’s just you and me in the courtyard, no one else." Lu Yuanfeng shook his head.

Lu Yuanfeng is a particularly principled person, once he says something, he generally doesn’t change his mind.

"Since Brother Yuan Feng doesn’t trust me, I’ll leave!" Xia Guagua turned to leave but was stopped by Lu Yuanfeng just as she reached the courtyard gate.

"Wait, let’s go to the main room to talk!"

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Mu Shuangshuang waited at the village entrance and soon saw Matchmaker Sun dragging her plump body, holding a string of Copper Coins, occasionally biting them to check if they were real.

She walked very slowly, each step leaving a deep footprint; Mu Shuangshuang watched her, counting three hundred eighty-six steps until she reached her.

The distance was not far at all.

Upon seeing Mu Shuangshuang, Matchmaker Sun’s first reaction was a shiver, retreating several steps.

"What... what... what are you up to?" Matchmaker Sun asked.

"Not up to much, it’s just my hands are a bit itchy lately, don’t know how to stop the itch."

With that, Mu Shuangshuang swung the wooden stick in her hand.

Matchmaker Sun already had a shadow in her mind from being beaten by Mu Shuangshuang before. With Mu Shuangshuang suddenly blocking her way with a stick, she became even more scared.

She turned to run away.

But unfortunately, she was too fat, and just as she turned, Mu Shuangshuang grabbed her hair.

The intense pain on her scalp made Matchmaker Sun beg for mercy instantly.

"Auntie, I was wrong, please don’t grab me and hit me, okay? I’m just an old bag of bones, can’t take the stick..."

"Just spare me, treat me like a fart, let me go, and when you get married, I won’t want a matchmaker’s red envelope."

Seeing Mu Shuangshuang not letting go, she changed her tune again. "I’ll give you a red envelope... won’t that work?"

Matchmaker Sun had been a matchmaker for almost thirty years, seeing all sorts of people, but none made her as scared as Mu Shuangshuang.

"Alright, I’m just scaring you, I won’t really beat you!" Mu Shuangshuang was particularly satisfied with Matchmaker Sun’s submission.

"I have a few questions for you, you must answer honestly, or if you dare lie, I won’t hit you, I’ll just break your wrist and ankle tendons, making you spend the rest of your life in bed." Mu Shuangshuang threatened.

Matchmaker Sun cried out even louder.

"Stop rambling, tell me, how much was the bride price when Lu Yuanfeng’s fourth uncle, Lu Zizhang, got married?"

Matchmaker Sun’s eyes darted around, and soon reported a number.

"Five taels!"

"So much? I remember it was famine during that time, how could it be so much?" Mu Shuangshuang asked.

"I can’t really say, it’s someone else’s business!"

Just as Matchmaker Sun spoke, the stick pressed against her waist.

"Matchmaker Sun, we’ve known each other for so long, you know I like to be tight-lipped. If you tell me, I won’t tell anyone else.

If you don’t say, I’ll tell the whole village you are untrustworthy, randomly telling others, spilling customers’ secrets, the bride prices of various families, you’ve told me all.

By then, your matchmaker reputation will be ruined and I’ll let my second aunt replace you. Anyway, my second aunt is good-looking and eloquent."

In Er Gui Village, the bride prices of each family, unless the host family is willing to say, generally matchmakers can’t tell others, as it concerns industry trust.

If Matchmaker Sun were painted this way by Mu Shuangshuang, there’d be no one who’d still want Matchmaker Sun to be a matchmaker.

Matchmakers are indeed hard to find, but not impossible, nobody wants their family’s assets to be known.

And Mu Shuangshuang even said she’d find someone to replace Matchmaker Sun, which made Matchmaker Sun even more scared.

"I’ll say, I’ll say! Actually, your boyfriend’s father didn’t care for his wife and was a heavy gambler, owing a lot of money. Plus, uh, her fourth uncle, Lu Zizhang, wanted to marry."

"That Lu Zizhang kid conspired with Old Sir Lu to let his sister-in-law remarry, calling it a remarriage, you know the ins and outs of it..."

Over the years, Matchmaker Sun had never disclosed this matter to others as it was the only time she considered selling a married woman.

"So you sold her?"

Mu Shuangshuang nearly bit her silver teeth off, no wonder everyone in the Old Lu Family spoke evasively; everything Lu Zizhang had was exchanged for Lu Yuanfeng’s mother.

"Didn’t sell... didn’t sell..." Matchmaker Sun quickly shook her head.

"You’re fooling me, without selling that fool where’d the money for a bride come from? Who repaid Lu Xiao’s debts?"

Mu Shuangshuang tightened her grip on the wooden stick, she was very angry now.

She wanted to beat those bastards from the Old Lu Family to death.

What kind of mind comes up with such a deed.

"It’s a coincidence, back then, that landlord prepared money, I remember it was twenty-five taels, quite a lot, nobody else had that price mainly because the Lu family’s eldest daughter-in-law looked like a flower, having two kids yet looked like an eighteen-year-old girl with no difference."

Matchmaker Sun wanted to praise Lu Yuanfeng’s mother but stopped seeing Mu Shuangshuang’s terrifying gaze.

"Originally, it was all agreed, but Lu Yuanfeng’s mother ran away, went up Niuwei Mountain, and couldn’t be found after a few days, so the Old Lu Family told the landlord she was taken away by wolves. Maybe the landlord did like Lu family’s eldest daughter-in-law, he didn’t take back the bride price."

Mu Shuangshuang’s grip on the stick tightened again.

With a blank expression, she asked, "Who were involved in the matter back then?"

"Since it wasn’t glorious, only Old Sir Lu, Old Lady Lu, and Lu Family’s Old Fourth knew. Lu Xiao knew too, but he’s only concerned with money, doesn’t care about anything else."

Having learned what she wanted, Mu Shuangshuang felt her steps became heavier.

When the Old Mu Family wanted to sell her, she hadn’t felt this upset.

But since it involved Lu Yuanfeng, her entire body ached terribly.

Mu Shuangshuang felt somewhat lost, not knowing how to tell Lu Yuanfeng.

Right now, she was eager to see Lu Yuanfeng, to talk to him.

Maybe she was too absorbed, she didn’t even notice someone approaching her from behind.

When Mu Shuangshuang realized, her vision went black, and she collapsed.

Wang Fugui tossed the stick aside, cursing.

"Little wench, I’ve waited for this chance how long, today I’ll show you what I’m made of!"

Wang Fugui kicked Mu Shuangshuang, then hoisted her up.

It was twilight, but people were cooking and eating, so mostly everyone was at home, and Wang Fugui took a shortcut avoiding people.

Even if he encountered someone, given Wang Fugui’s intimidating looks, no one dared stop him.

Wang Fugui swaggered ahead, dragging the person along!