The Fallen Medicine Woman: The Daily Life of Chun Nuan-Chapter 140 - 110: Encounter in the Northern Desert
"How did Second Brother end up marrying such a troublemaker?"
Wu Fang cursed under her breath as she struggled to wash clothes in the rundown house in the Northern Desert, "Life was originally going well, but she ruined it. I really wish I could kill her!"
"Who would you kill?" Mrs. Wu spoke coldly, "I don’t know who’s the troublemaker. You should have advised him back then, but everyone joined in the chaos. Couldn’t even handle one woman..."
Mrs. Wu never expected Wu Yuanping to be this heartless.
Of course, she didn’t expect that one Xiao Chunyu could drag the entire Wu family into hell.
Now, the master has been executed, and the whole family has been exiled to the Northern Desert.
Back then, when the Xiao family was exiled, Wu Yuanping told the master that Xiao Chunyu had lost her family support and was rendered powerless. After giving birth to a daughter, she was physically weakened, and neither father nor son were decent, eager to marry a secondary wife.
They shamelessly asked her to arrange it, which, as a woman, made her feel cold-hearted.
Wu Fang, who stands before her, is even more foolish.
Her actions were all watched closely by those she had arranged, yet she still dreams of marrying well in the Capital. How naive!
Indeed, with her limited abilities, all she can do is daydream.
Which prestigious family would marry an erratic woman to be the head mistress?
Even if marrying a concubine’s son, they’d still pick her based on looks.
They’ve fallen to this state, yet always blame Xiao Chunyu, haha, truly foolish.
Honestly, she quite admires Xiao Chunyu for finding a way out of an impossible situation.
Back then, Wu Yuanping targeting her dowry was already treacherous.
A bride’s dowry is her confidence and fallback, but Wu Yuanping not only ignores past connections but doesn’t even leave room for escape.
Even a cornered dog will jump over a wall, a cornered rabbit will bite.
When pushed to the brink, Xiao Chunyu directly filed a complaint with the imperial court.
She sent the whole Wu family to jail, and despite rolling over iron nail boards, received awards from the Empress and Empress Dowager, likely living well in the Capital now. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂
In contrast, the Wu family never worked a day in their lives, now in the Northern Desert they face endless labor and suffering, in true misery.
At the Northern Desert mine, Chun Quan spotted a familiar figure.
"How could it be him?"
Chun Quan rubbed his eyes, "Why is he here? Could he have been implicated, what about the eldest sister?"
Thinking about these questions made Chun Quan drop the tool in his hands and start running over.
But he was stopped by a government official.
"Kid, where are you rushing to?"
"Official, please have mercy, let me go over and say hello to an acquaintance I saw."
"Haha, meeting an acquaintance in this forsaken place is indeed rare." The official sneered, "You might be destined to meet from afar, but here you’re undestined, even if facing each other hand cannot reach, now go, work properly."
Chun Quan muttered.
Forget it, forget it, these officials are all the same.
Their attitude is harsh because they haven’t been bribed.
Chun Quan had figured out how to make a good living here, but at the moment he wasn’t sure, so it’s better not to spend money.
Watching that person leave, Chun Quan picked up his tools and continued working diligently.
"Get to work, don’t slack off, if I see you I’ll whip you to death!"
A whip lashed across Chun Quan’s back.
He gritted his teeth and held back the scream.
These bastards never treated people as human beings.
Thirty years east, thirty years west, waiting for the day he’ll avenge this!
In the evening returning home, Chun Quan asked Chun Hua to help him apply medicine.
"What happened, how did you get into trouble with them?"
These officials are the cruel kind, quick to whip if something goes wrong, but the Xiao family hadn’t been whipped in a long time, thanks to a manager who mediated among them.
Why was he whipped today?
"Big brother, I spotted someone at the mine, looked like Wu Yuanping."
"What?"
Chun Hua looked at him in shock, "Really, isn’t the Wu family fine in the Capital, how did they get exiled to the Northern Desert too? What about your sister Chun Yu then?"
"Just unsure of the situation," Chun Quan said, "I saw who looked like him, tried to go greet him, but that bastard wouldn’t let me, said I was loafing."
"Tomorrow, if you see him try to find out, a little silver would be worth it."
"Mm, I know."
"This matter, don’t let the family know, for now."
"Alright."
At that moment, someone called for Chun Quan.
Looking over, it was Manager Ma of the caravan.
"Manager Ma, we’ve been hoping for your arrival."
His arrival meant mail or essentials brought by family.
How Chun Nuan consistently had Manager Ma helping them was unknown.
"Here they are," Manager Ma said, "Your mail, and winter clothes, a whole cart." "I must say, your days are pretty decent."
Whose exile life improves gradually?
So, having someone in the Capital matters.
"Manager Ma jests," Chun An counted goods and habitually found the hard silver in the coat’s corner.
Then offered a jar of wine to Manager Ma.
"No need," Manager Ma said, "Delivering items was directly instructed by the Seventh Young Master, naturally we dare not slack."
"Who is Seventh Young Master?"
"Master Zhou Qi of Changzhou, Shu City."
"Did my family ask him to arrange?"
"That I don’t know, specifically," Manager Ma laughed, "I only know Zhou Qi loves beauty, if young and pretty girls ask him for help, he surely accomplishes it."
Chun Quan’s face changed.
The implication was clear.
If it required his sister to do these things, he’d rather not have these letters and supplies.
No, no, Nuannuan isn’t like that.
His twin sister absolutely wouldn’t act recklessly.
Thinking of this, Chun Quan’s resolve strengthened.
After sending off Manager Ma, Chun Quan opened the letters.
They were indeed written by Nuannuan.
Reading the coded messages, he was shocked: the eldest sister had been abandoned by the Wu family, filed a complaint with the imperial court, sending the Wu family into prison, and had become engaged afterward.
Nuannuan advised telling her brother these updates because the Wu family was also in the Northern Desert, to be prepared if they encountered each other.
Learning that Nuannuan was engaged to the youngest son of the Hundred Herbs Hall owner in town made Chun Quan’s heart ache: his sister deserved the world’s best young man cherishing her, yet she could only spend her life with such a boy, what a grievance!
