“Fan Laogen, don’t you even look at how old your wife is? She’s all skin and bones. Do you think I could possibly have any feelings for her?” Zhou Er said. “Hurry up and carry me back to find a doctor. That little bitch really hit me hard.”

"Why should I carry you? Who do you think you are?"

On Tuesday, he opened his mouth to curse, but seeing Fan Laogen's condition, he swallowed his words and said kindly, "Brother Fan, both of my legs are injured. I have to trouble you. Please carry me back. I'll give you five eggs as a thank you."

Upon hearing that there were eggs, Fan Laogen's eyes lit up. He paused for a moment and said, "It's not close to your house. It would be too much trouble for me, at my age, to carry you back. Ten eggs would be enough."

"Okay, ten it is." Zhou Er readily agreed, but in his heart he was cursing Fan Laogen to the core.

Fan Laogen carried Zhou Er back, and Shi Zhenxiang, clutching her wound, followed behind with a limp. There was no doctor in Fanjiagou, so Shi Zhenxiang had to go with them to find one.

Xia Chunmei had six pheasants, and not wanting the villagers to find out, she took a shortcut and entered through the back door.

When Xia Chunmei saw the pheasant in her hand, Xia Qiumei, who was at home taking care of her younger sister, stared wide-eyed!

"Big sister..."

Shh! Keep quiet, keep it down.

Xia Qiumei finally calmed her excitement and whispered, "Big sister, where did this come from?"

"I was lucky, I caught it."

"You even managed to catch a pheasant that can fly! You're amazing, sister!" Xia Qiumei stared at the pheasant, her mouth practically watering. "Are we having chicken for lunch?"

"Don't eat them, keep them to lay eggs. We'll have fish for lunch." Xia Chunmei had checked and found that four of the six chickens were hens, which were perfectly fine to keep for laying eggs.

"Sister, let's eat it. Let's keep it healthy; what if the Chen family benefits from it?"

"Don't worry, I won't let them take anything from my house."

It's unlikely the Chen family will cause trouble anytime soon. Even if they do, they'll probably do it secretly, keeping their doors and windows tightly shut at night, making it impossible for ordinary people to get in.

Xia Qiumei's face fell when she heard that she couldn't eat chicken.

She still felt that the chicken should be killed, because only by eating it could she truly be herself.

Xia Chunmei put the pheasant in a cage, and then went to the river to fetch Dongmei.

Dongmei was lucky. She was fishing alone with three fishing rods, and in the past hour and a half, she actually caught ten palm-sized crucian carp and two carp weighing more than a pound each.

"Let's go back and cook. Don't go fishing anymore. We can come back tomorrow. After we eat, we still need to sell the fish."

Xia Chunmei had previously used her magic touch to catch three black carp and grass carp. She couldn't possibly eat all of them herself, so it was definitely more worthwhile to sell them.

Shi Zhenxiang spent nearly three hundred coins to treat her injuries.

This could have been the death of her.

Moreover, her injury is on her leg, and to get back to Fanjiagou, she has to cross Zhuangyuan Mountain. The arduous journey will inevitably reopen the wound, and all the money spent on hemostatic medicine would be wasted.

Fan Laogen was unwilling to carry Shi Zhenxiang over mountains and valleys.

"This whole mess was caused by Chen Sanhua. Why should we run away and go to their house to recover from our injuries?"

Fan Laogen carried Shi Zhenxiang to Chen Sanhua's house.

Upon arriving at Xia Chen's house, Fan Laogen dropped the person off and ran away.

"What happened?" Chen Sanhua and her family were bewildered when they saw Shi Zhenxiang injured.

"I'll be recuperating at your house starting today."

Xia Xiumei was utterly shocked: "Why?"

Shi Zhenxiang, with her triangular eyes slanted upwards, said irritably, "Why should it be because my injury was caused by your mother!"

"Aunt, when did I ever cause you to get hurt?"

"If you hadn't instigated and instigated me to kidnap Xia Chunmei and sell her to Zhou Er, Xia Chunmei wouldn't have stabbed me with scissors today. Tell me, if this isn't your fault, whose fault is it?"

Xia Changjiang and his wife looked at each other in disbelief: "What did you say? Xia Chunmei poked him with scissors!"

"Yes, I bled at least two bowls of blood. You have to make me something good to nourish me. Also, I spent five hundred coins on medicine. Give me the money."

"Xia Chunmei hurt you, so go find Xia Chunmei, why are you coming to us?" Xia Xiumei said angrily.

Xia Changjiang: "Yes, that brat actually stabbed someone! She's a murderer! Let's go find her!"

"Yes, go find her!"

Xia Changjiang and Xia Chenshi were still figuring out how to deal with Xia Chunmei, but now they've handed her their leverage over them.

"I'm not going!" Shi Zhenxiang refused to go no matter what; she was genuinely scared.

In this surrounding area, who would dare to actually fight with knives and guns? But Xia Chunmei dared.

The thought of how swiftly and decisively she stabbed him sent shivers down her spine.

"Why? That brat's luck has been incredible these past few days! She caught a big fish, and we have a lot of good stuff at home. Aunt, don't you want revenge?" Xia Chenshi began to instigate. "She's about to kill you, and you're just planning to let her go?"

"Anyway, I'm not going. I'm going to stay at your house to recover. You were the one who encouraged me to harm her. You better give me five hundred coins and kill two chickens to help me recover. Otherwise, I'll tell everyone that you're trying to frame Xia Chunmei and bully her because she has no parents."

Upon hearing this, Xia Changjiang and his wife were so angry they almost vomited blood.

"Don't make false accusations. I never asked you to frame them!"

"Didn't you tell me that Xia Chunmei and her sisters had no one to rely on, and that no one would care if they were sold off?"

Xia Chenshi felt a little guilty: "I...I just said it casually, who knew you would do this?"

Shi Zhenxiang scoffed, "Chen Sanhua, don't treat me like a fool. You definitely wanted to steal her marriage, so you sent me to harm her. Now you want to wash your hands of it? No way! Believe me, if I go outside and say you sent me, see if anyone believes me."

Xia Chunmei had already laid the groundwork by saying that Xia Xiumei had taken a liking to Fan Baowen. If Shi Zhenxiang were to spread the word outside, well, that would be tantamount to confirming the affair between Xia Xiumei and Fan Baowen.

Even if the Fan family dislikes Xia Chunmei, for the sake of their reputation and to prove that Fan Baowen and Xia Xiumei have nothing between them, he can immediately marry Xia Chunmei into the family.