Their eyes met, and the intimidating aura emanating from the other person's eyes and body made him feel a sense of oppression.

Then, he saw the man enter the educated youth settlement and head towards Luo Jingyan's house.

He guessed that this must be Luo Jingyan's boyfriend. He was indeed good-looking and came from a good family. Luo Jingyan must be after his looks and family background, and she must be very lonely.

He smiled and said he would come back another day to meet Luo Jingyan.

Luo Jingyan was somewhat surprised to see Xue Yanchen arrive.

Xue Yanchen said, "I caught a rabbit on the mountain. I'll kill it in a bit and stew it for lunch."

"OK."

The people at the educated youth settlement saw Xue Yanchen killing a rabbit and their mouths watered.

Zhao Jun hesitated. If it weren't for the fact that his brother Chen was dating Luo Jingyan and he was afraid of disturbing the young couple's time together, he would definitely have gone over to mooch some meat.

Xue Yanchen didn't call him. He was killing a rabbit by himself at the door. Luo Jingyan was tidying up the house. Black Tiger squatted in front of Xue Yanchen, its emerald-like cat eyes fixed on the rabbit being slaughtered, as if it could already see the fragrant rabbit meat.

Luo Jingyan said, "Why don't we invite Zhao Zhiqing over too? It'll be more lively with more people."

Xue Yanchen didn't want to cause trouble for Luo Jingyan, so he said, "Let him eat with the other educated youth. Don't spoil him and make him a freeloader."

"It's okay, he definitely won't come when you're not here anyway."

"Alright then."

Xue Yanchen called out to Zhao Jun, and Zhao Jun immediately came running over to get to work.

He stood in front of Xue Yanchen, poking at his trouser leg with his hand, unsure of what to do.

After Xue Yanchen skinned the rabbit, he threw it to him and told him to gut it.

I soaked the skinned rabbit in salt water to completely separate the grease from the skin. Then I nailed the skin to the wall or a wooden board. After the skin dried, it could be used to make fur collars or gloves.

After asking Xue Yanchen if he could eat spicy food, Luo Jingyan made a pot of spicy rabbit meat.

When Luo Changtian returned, they started eating. After the meal, Luo Jingyan cut apples as their dessert.

After finishing her meal, Luo Jingyan said to Xue Yanchen, "Brother Xue, I want to pickle sauerkraut, but I don't have a big vat. Can you come with me to a villager's house to buy one?"

She had used up all the pickled cabbage she had made in her previous life, and since she couldn't eat without pickled cabbage in winter, she had to pickle some more.

Xue Yanchen went with her, leaving Zhao Jun to stay and chop cabbage.

Some of the cabbages were bought from a fellow villager as a cover, while the rest were taken from her personal space.

Zhao, the farmhand, had eaten rabbit meat and was full of energy, chopping cabbage with great enthusiasm.

Luo Jingyan and Xue Yanchen walked down the street, like a beautiful sight. When the old ladies and aunties sunbathing on the street saw Xue Yanchen, some of them sighed and said that a pretty young girl was going to live a life of widowhood, and her life was over before it even began.

Some said, "A young man this good-looking would still be popular with girls even if he didn't have that function."

"I think it's because you like him. Everyone knows that when you were young, your man wasn't very good in that respect. You initially said you were attracted to his good looks and didn't care about that, but later you were always sitting in front of us crying."

"That happened so many years ago, that dead guy is long gone, let's not talk about it."

Luo Jingyan asked the aunties on the street if anyone had a spare large vat, but unfortunately, all of them needed to pickle sauerkraut and had none left.

An old lady said, "Your son has some. He used to have a lot of people in his family, and every winter he would pickle more than a dozen large vats. Now that there are fewer people, those vats are all in his yard. Go and buy one."

Upon hearing the word "bastard," Luo Jingyan immediately thought of the male protagonist of the book, Lu Chengye.

His family had a bad class background, and he and his sister were called "dog's offspring" by the villagers.

Unlike other male protagonists in the original book, the male protagonist in this book does not grow old with the female protagonist. Instead, he dies to save the heartless female protagonist, and his own family members are also harmed by her. However, he still regards the female protagonist as his true love until his death.

Luo Jingyan had never seen a female protagonist like this before, who did all sorts of bad things but ultimately became the biggest winner in the book.

The author of this book is amazing; he managed to create such a mind-blowing female protagonist.

This book was quite popular when it was being serialized, and her reading app account was also recommended to it. Only after clicking on it did I realize that this was a bizarre book that could shatter people's worldview.

She was about to give up after reading two pages, but when she saw her own name on one of the pages, she patiently read through the rest of the book.

After watching it, I gave it a five-star review, but there wasn't a single word of praise in the comments.

Before she traveled through time, she discovered that the book had been marked as unavailable on her e-bookshelf.

Unexpectedly, even though the book had been taken off the shelves, she was still able to transmigrate into it.

Since Lu Chengye is the male lead, whether he is good or bad, or what his ending is, it has nothing to do with her. She will stay far away from him and not provoke him.

All she wants in this life is to live peacefully with her family.

They walked a little further and Luo Jingyan saw a rather unique courtyard.

Both the main gate and the courtyard walls are better than those of ordinary people, especially those few large brick and tile houses facing south, which are more impressive than any other house in the village and are unique in the village.

She thought this must be Lu Chengye's home.

Looking through the open gate, one could indeed see more than a dozen large water vats in the courtyard.

Luo Jingyan had no intention of going in, and Xue Yanchen did not ask her why.

Just as they were about to leave, a little girl of about ten years old came out and called out to Luo Jingyan, "Pretty sister."

Luo Jingyan concluded that the girl was the male lead's younger sister, Lu Jiu'er.

In the original book, when the female protagonist Zhuang Feifei first arrived here, she met Lu Jiu'er on the street. She accidentally dropped her handkerchief on the ground, and Lu Jiu'er picked it up for her and returned it to her.

At the time, Zhuang Feifei did not know that the little girl was Lu Chengye's sister. Because Lu Jiu'er had just gathered firewood and her hands were muddy, she dirtied her handkerchief. Instead of being grateful to Lu Jiu'er, she scolded Lu Jiu'er for being too dirty and dirtying her handkerchief, and told Lu Jiu'er to stay away from her.

Lu Jiu'er was heartbroken. When she saw Zhuang Feifei harassing her brother, she told her mother about it, and both mother and daughter disliked Zhuang Feifei.

It took Zhuang Feifei a lot of effort to get Lu's mother and Lu Jiu'er to accept her.

Lu Jiu'er ran up to Luo Jingyan, looked up at her, and thought she had never seen such a beautiful older sister.

"Pretty lady, were you busy just now?"