Blissful Days After Widowhood - Chapter 66

After changing the hot water three or four times, Mrs. Wang wiped Gu Yin’s feet dry with a towel, and took out another white porcelain box from her arms.

The white porcelain box was exquisite and small, and the ointment inside was translucent and lustrous. After just rubbing it on the feet, the itchy and painful feeling like being bitten by insects disappeared.

Mrs. Wang looked up and saw Gu Yin’s eyes on the porcelain box in her hand, and said, “What are you looking at? Apply it three times a day. When you finish eating, you have to apply it on your hands too.”

“This ointment is really comfortable, isn’t it expensive?”

Mrs. Wang said with a stern face, “Do you have money in the house?” Then she thought that she had handed over the financial power of the family to Gu Yin before, and it was normal for her to ask, so she added, “Anyway, I didn’t use the money at home, it’s the private money you gave me before.”

In the beginning, Mrs. Wang got twenty taels of silver from her parents’ family. Later, when she started to do business, she spent a lot of money, and there was not much left. In the end, all that was given to Gu Yin. Afterward, the business of the small stall became more prosperous, so Gu Yin returned the two or three taels to her, and let her use it as her private money, separated from the family’s money.

Seeing that she refused to speak, Gu Yin guessed that the price must be expensive. But that was because her mother-in-law was kind, and she no longer asked.

After applying the ointment, Mrs. Wang went to wash her hands again, and by the way brought out a large pot of meatball soup and a few sesame seed cakes from the stove.

The meatballs were made from the meat stuffing that Gu Yin had prepared before, and there was also white radish in the soup. The meatballs were round, fragrant and soft, and the white radish also stewed the soup flavor, and the glutinousness melted in the mouth. The sesame seed cakes were freshly baked. Mrs. Wang bought them in the afternoon. The crispy cake was full of sesame fragrance.

Gu Yin didn’t eat lunch, and only put down the chopsticks after eating two large sesame seed cakes.

Mrs. Wang looked at her eating hurriedly. Apparently she was busy all day and didn’t bother to eat lunch. Mrs. Wang probably guessed that she did not get work. She would definitely have to ask carefully and then slap the person who didn’t have vision and didn’t choose her daughter-in-law.

But seeing that Gu Yin didn’t mention it herself, she still held back and didn’t ask.

After the evening meal, Gu Yin was pushed back to the room by Mrs. Wang, and she was not allowed to wash the dishes.

Gu Yin went back to the room and went to bed. She began to think about the day’s events. She always felt that something was wrong—

It was mainly the matter of the Wang family’s eldest brother’s household. At that time, the couple had just found out that Mrs. Wang was back, and could not wait to come to the door. They pretended to be poor and introduced the ship’s work. They wished they could fool Mrs. Wang. 

At that time, Gu Yin thought they were just afraid of Mrs. Wang making trouble.

Later, Mrs. Wang took out the letter of her deceased father. Although the Wang family was reluctant at that time, under the auspices of the patriarch, they did not play any other tricks.

That matter should have ended there.

But when she saw the scale and passenger flow of Full Moon Hall, she knew that the eldest brother’s household had money. The life of the eldest brother’s household was so good, the second brother’s household was only more shrewd and capable than the eldest brother’s household, and would not be worse than them.

Not to mention the daily revenue, it would not look like it would take so much trouble to give one or two rooms. And at that time, they didn’t know that Mrs. Wang had a letter left by her father, and wanted to have her share. 

Why were they in such a rush to strike first?

They just didn’t want to see her mother-in-law go back to her parents’ house?

For a while, Gu Yin couldn’t figure out the key points, and with the drowsiness after a day of running around, she almost fell asleep in a daze.

The door creaked, and Mrs. Wang came in again, “Soak your hands before going to sleep.”

Gu Yin rubbed her eyes and got up, sat down at the table, and obediently stretched out her hands and put them into the water basin.

Mrs. Wang saw her drowsy like a chicken pecking at rice, and her eyes crooked with laughter.

After she had soaked her hands, Mrs. Wang helped her apply the ointment, and urged her to take off her outer skirt and go to bed, and while covering her with the quilt, she said, “Just sleep like this for now, and I will boil a large pot of water for you tomorrow morning to wash when you get up.”

Gu Yin couldn’t open her eyelids, so she nodded.

 Mrs. Wang climbed up the pole and said, “Then it’s agreed that you won’t go out tomorrow!”

Gu Yin’s brain was dizzy, and she answered again.

Mrs. Wang lightly carried the water basin and went out, thinking that since she agreed, no matter what Gu Yin said, she should not let her out again.

However, Mrs. Wang still miscalculated, because Wen Peifeng personally came to look for her early the next morning.