A Greedy Family

As Liu Xueyue continued to whisper to Liu Peng's ear, he was getting more and more shocked. After all it's not everyday that something so big happens in their village, and it even involved their family.

Although he couldn't care less about the fact that his family lost some face, he was a little unhappy about it.

If news of his family's behavior would somehow reach the ears of his friends from the city, wouldn't they disdain him as a poor peasant?

Even through the college he was going to is of bad reputation, it doesn't change the fact that most people from nearby villages can't pay enough money to send their children to it. Most of other students in his school come from the families of some smaller merchants in Shenyang, which had money but lacked knowledge to be accepted by better schools.

Because of that Liu Peng often tried to make himself get more into their circle, trying to show off when they were going around the city playing. Sometimes he would even pay for his friends using his allowance when he needed to...

Now when Liu Peng heard that his uncle's stupid daughter could pick some mushrooms on the mountains and earn a lot of money from doing it, he couldn't help but think of what he could use that money for if he got it into his own hands...

Thinking about it, he truly couldn't imagine Liu Xiaolan being smart enough to earn money by herself, even more so when he heard that she earned money by selling mushrooms.

Yan Rusheng and other villagers might now know what Liu Xiaolan was picking, but by listening to their description of them he could tell that she was selling mushrooms.

But was picking mushrooms really so easy? He once follow his group of friends to a little well known restaurant in the city and ate a dish with them.

It seems someone said that only experienced mushroom pickers could bring mushrooms to the city and sell them, otherwise without knowledge how would they know which ones are edible and which ones are poisonous?

But now Liu Xiaolan somehow picked mushrooms on the mountain and sold them all?

Seeing that Grandma Liu was still yelling about how Liu Xiaolan is a unfilial girl, he stopped her and said, "Grandma, isn't it easy to take care of her and her wild man?"

"So what if they have a little money now? Their home is broken down and most importantly they don't have any fields in their hands. Don't they need to continue to sell fungus? It's not like the mountain belongs to them privately, why don't we go and pick fungus for sale as well?" Liu Peng said with greed in his eyes.

Recently most of his friends were spending more time in the gambling house. Even if he wanted to follow them, he already lost his allowance for this month from their family.

After following the group of rogues for a long time now he already understood that in their lifestyle there's always a place to spend money. If not by gambling, they might go to the red district tomorrow. The day after they might find another place to spend time in, but it always cost money.

If he could now take revenge for his family and at the same time earn some money for himself, wasn't this a golden opportunity?

"Good, my grandson is really smart, just hearing some details and you can think of a plan. Spending the money to send you to college was really worth it…" Grandma Liu was already smiling, thinking that this time she would like to see Liu Xiaolan's face once they pick the mushrooms growing on the mountains...

Yes, they should pick all of them and not leave a single one for that dead girl!

Shen Meijing saw that Grandma Liu was ecstatic and was scared to ask anything. She waited until her son would leave the room and followed him.

"Son, are you sure about this? If Liu Xiaolan picks fungus as you said, how can we know which ones are good? What if we take poisonous ones by accident to sell in the city? Wouldn't we be chased down?" She asked concerned.

But how could Liu Peng still care about things like this? In his mind, he could already imagine himself going around the city with his newly earned money, where would he still have time to care whenever the mushrooms they picked are good?

"Mom, it's fine. Since Liu Xiaolan can pick fungus, why can't we? Our village is probably lucky and the mushrooms growing on the mountains should be all good…"

Although he said this to let his mother calm down and stop her from thinking too much, he truly believed in what he said.

After all Liu Xiaolan previously lived in their house. How could she suddenly learn how to pick mushrooms once she was kicked out by their family? It must be that all of the mushrooms are fine and she was just lucky!

Shen Meijing still felt a little wrong about this idea. It's not like nobody tried picking mushrooms on their mountains before, but after one of the persons that have eaten them died, everyone stopped.

Since previously some of them were poisonous, how could it be that now all of them were fine? She didn't know how, but it should be Liu Xiaolan that knew which ones to pick…

Just as she was about to speak, Liu Weixin came out and saw her worried face. "What are you worrying about, since my son said it's fine than it means it's fine. All we need to do is to go and pick up the money lying on the ground, why are you making trouble?"

Shen Meijing looked at her greedy husband and son and just sighed. Previously when most things in the house were done by Liu Xiaolan she felt it was fine, but now that she had to take care of everything she suddenly regretted spoiling her son and allowing her husband to be so lazy...