Jiang Tangtang felt that all the organs in her body were surrounded by a strange warmth. Her stomach, which had been starving just moments before, miraculously recovered, and her throat felt moist. The dry, burning sensation was gone.

Jiang Tangtang was squinting, enjoying this strange sense of comfort, when she was suddenly interrupted by a sharp, angry voice, "What are you secretly eating?"

Luo Taohua glared menacingly at Jiang Tangtang, as if she had committed some heinous crime.

Jiang Tangtang raised an eyebrow and glanced at her. "None of your business."

"Oh! So you really took this opportunity to get us two sisters-in-law away so you could sneak some food."

Luo Taohua angrily pointed at Jiang Tangtang, "You act like a spoiled princess, ordering the two of us to do chores for you, but you hide away and eat the good stuff by yourself. Don't you feel ashamed?"

Jiang Tangtang rolled her eyes speechlessly. "Did I beg you to come? You yourselves said you'd come up the mountain to help me. What, you were playing the good guy in front of everyone just now, but now that we're up here, you regret it and don't want to help anymore?"

"Besides, what I eat is none of your business. Everyone hides something, right? Sister-in-law, don't you also hide a bag of candy in the lining of your clothes and sneak out to lick it when no one's around?"

The maltose, made by the farmers themselves, was so sticky that it would stick to your teeth if you bit into it. Of course, there was only one piece, and Luo Taohua couldn't bear to eat it all at once.

Every time everyone was asleep, I would secretly take it out and lick it, then wrap it up again, and take it out again to taste it next time.

Sometimes Luo Taohua would even let the children from the eldest son's family take turns licking her.

It has been more than a month since the Lu family fled from Dawan Village.

Along the way, everyone was covered in wind, sand, dust, and sweat, and no one had taken a shower. Luo Taohua, however, treasured a piece of candy she kept close to her body and didn't even brush her teeth. So many people licked it, which made Jiang Tangtang feel nauseous, and she almost threw up her dinner from the night before.

Luo Taohua nervously protected the place where she hid the sugar, "You, you, how did you know? What do you want to do?"

"Don't worry, sister-in-law. I'm not interested in the sugar cakes that your whole family is licking. I just want to remind you that as long as I don't take food from the public treasury, I can eat whatever I want. You'd better not interfere."

After Jiang Tangtang finished speaking, she raised her hand to smell her armpit and then touched her greasy, tangled hair.

She was just thinking about Luo Taohua's disgusting sugar cake when she realized that she hadn't taken a bath in over a month.

Having been preoccupied with thirst and hunger, Jiang Tangtang suddenly felt uncomfortable upon realizing her disheveled, beggar-like appearance. She mentally communicated with the system: "Do you have any dust-repelling magic?"

The system replied indifferently: 【No!】

"What should I do?" Jiang Tangtang cried and wailed to the system, "I'm so dirty and smelly right now, I can't stand it for another second. Please think of something, waaaaah..."

After wailing for a long time without any reaction in her mind, Jiang Tangtang angrily stopped crying, cursed the damn system, and then pretended to be dead again.

The system was as cold and indifferent as iron; the earth was so dry it seemed to be steaming; everyone lacked even drinking water, and Jiang Tangtang couldn't get any water to take a bath. In the end, she could only endure the sight of her body covered in dust and sweat.

To protect her candy, Luo Taohua didn't dare cause Jiang Tangtang any more trouble. The herb-gathering went relatively smoothly afterward. Once they had gathered all the herbs, they returned to the Lu family's temporary resting place.

Upon seeing Jiang Tangtang and her group return, Madam Su hurriedly came forward, her wrinkled old eyes fixed on the basket Zhou Qiongniang was carrying. "How was the herb digging? Did you find all the herbs that Doctor Li was looking for?"

"Mother, we've dug them all up. My second sister-in-law and I dug them all." Luo Taohua went up the mountain with them but didn't get any benefits. Instead, she was threatened by Jiang Tangtang. She was unwilling to accept this, so she quickly told Su about her contribution.

Zhou Qiongniang glanced at Jiang Tangtang, hesitated for a moment, and like Luo Taohua, began to boast about her own contribution, "This herb grows in the crevices of rocks halfway up the mountain. My sister-in-law and I fell several times while trying to pick it, and my legs were almost ruined."

Your mother-in-law is in charge of distributing food at every meal, which is equivalent to deciding your life or death. It's always good to please her and highlight your achievements in front of her.

Jiang Tangtang had no objection to the two men's actions; she only spoke, but didn't even touch the hoe.

Let the two of them take credit!

It has nothing to do with her.

She boarded the oxcart with great composure.

With the stimulation of hunger and thirst gone, exhaustion overwhelmed her, and all she wanted to do now was sleep.

However, Madam Su misunderstood her behavior, thinking that her two daughters-in-law were vying for credit, which made her unhappy.

Now she completely believed that Jiang Tangtang had been enlightened by the gods, and she scolded the two of them unhappily: "You two talk too much. You've only wasted some effort, what's there to ramble on about? If it weren't for your sister-in-law, would you even know these herbs? Hurry up and take the medicine over and ask your third sister-in-law how to use it."

Actually, the question of how to use the medicine should have been asked of Li Shi.

But Li Shi had a fierce look on his face, and the group he led were like hungry wolves, staring intently at the Lu family and the skinny cow.

Su dared not speak up and could only hope that her daughter-in-law, Jiang Tangtang, who had been enlightened by the gods, could communicate with the man surnamed Li.

Jiang Tangtang could easily see through this little trick.

She didn't want to talk to him at all.

But considering that she still needed to rely on her illness to survive, she mustered her spirits and went to talk to Li Shi.

Li Shi looked at Jiang Tangtang coldly, "Where are my wife and children? When will you take us to find them?"

Jiang Tangtang called out to the system in her mind again, and the system very tactfully sent her a map.

Jiang Tangtang looked at the location marked on the sign and started to pretend to be a charlatan again, "Your wife is currently in the direction of Yihe County with the child. We will set off early tomorrow and try to find your family as soon as possible."

Li Shi was fairly satisfied with her answer. He carefully explained the use of Agrimonia pilosa to Jiang Tang and then personally picked out a sufficient amount of herbs from his basket for her to decoct.

Jiang Tangtang, a lazy bum who knows nothing about grains and is not physically active, could not even cook a decent meal with a modern gas stove and rice cooker, let alone know how to decoct medicine with firewood in ancient times.

Without even thinking, he pushed the task of decocting the medicine onto Madam Su.

Madam Su dared not offend her shrewd and calculating daughter-in-law. She was dissatisfied with Jiang Tangtang's attitude but dared not say anything. In the end, she assigned Luo Taohua and Zhou Qiongniang to handle the matter.

"Mom, I haven't eaten yet!"

Luo Taohua clutched her stomach in grievance, thinking that she had just gone up the mountain to dig up medicine for her mother-in-law's beloved youngest son and was hoping to get some benefits in return.

Unexpectedly, Su glared at her and started scolding her, "Just because you didn't eat doesn't mean we ate! If we had food, why would we be fleeing famine? If you're hungry, go gnaw on some tree bark over there."

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