early morning.

Xu Manzhi was awakened by the noise.

She was tired from fishing yesterday, and seeing that Jiang Pengyue had made her dizzy with anger, she was too lazy to say anything more. So she ordered Da Huang to guard the door and bark at any disturbance. Da Huang responded.

So she falls asleep as soon as her head hits the pillow.

This was the most restful sleep I've had since I traveled through time.

Dogs are more reliable than people.

But in the early morning, as she alternated between deep and light sleep, she kept hearing a buzzing sound of flies in her ears. She swatted at them several times, but the flies kept flying around her.

It's so annoying.

When she opened her eyes, she saw Jiang Pengyue standing motionless by the bed, looking like a zombie, with disheveled hair, swollen eyes and face.

Damn it.

Observing mourning.

She's perfectly fine; it's not her place to be filial.

"What are you doing? Staring at me? I knew you and Zhou Xiangqun had been whispering about something, you two have been secretly having an affair for a long time. Why are you acting all wronged?" Xu Manzhi said with a smirk.

"Ah, I'm going to kill you!"

Jiang Pengyue raised her hand to slap her, but her wrist was grabbed by five hard fingers.

She was in so much pain that tears streamed down her face.

"You think you can kill me, a human who's made yourself dizzy with anger? Is your brain filled with pig manure? Your Jiang family really has some manners; you've raised a murderer." Xu Manzhi laughed.

"you--"

Jiang Pengyue was so angry she almost fainted.

She trembled, her eyes filled with anger, and she hissed, "What grudge do I have against you? Even if I'm not a biological daughter of the Jiang family, I've always been accommodating and kind to you since you came home. Why do you hate me?"

hatred?

How could that be?

Xu Manzhi would never have such sophisticated emotions.

If there's a grudge, it's not about killing them on the spot. It's like the Jiang family, playing around with them and throwing them into the pit one after another. A mere adopted daughter of the Jiang family doesn't even qualify as "hatred."

"Tsk tsk, to put it bluntly: if you want to harm me, I'll just lie there and let you do as you please. If I retaliate, I'll be committing a sin, I'll be disrespectful to humanity?"

Xu Manzhi translated Jiang Pengyue's words.

"Xu Manzhi, you, you're talking nonsense—"

Jiang Pengyue was furious.

She was rambling incoherently, her belly full of words burning and boiling, but when she faced Xu Manzhi's beautiful face and the mockery on her lips, it all turned into a mess.

"How can you talk nonsense? My bowls and chopsticks were perfectly fine yesterday, but they suddenly smelled terrible. I thought there was poop in them. I switched them while you and Zhou Xiang were mixing oil together," she said.

Under normal circumstances, she doesn't take action.

But once it moves, its speed is instantaneous, faster than a machine.

It's all because Jiang Pengyue was too confident.

She thought of the chess piece as a puppet on a string, moving only when pulled.

"Besides, you two are a couple. If I take your medicine, are you planning to give me to your husband? So he can exchange the red marriage certificate for a green one?" Xu Manzhi added.

Thump.

Jiang Pengyue was stunned.

It must be said that Xu Manzhi's analysis was absolutely correct.

If it was Xu Manzhi last night, wouldn't that be planting a time bomb in her marriage?

She's confused.

Having been neglected by Zhou Xiangqun for a long time, she lost her bearings after his offensive and was led by the nose, almost causing an irreparable mistake.

Jiang Pengyue broke out in a cold sweat.

She hurriedly said, "Zhizhi, I'm sorry, I was wrong. Don't worry, as long as you help me marry Zhou Xiangqun, I will fulfill any request you make in the future."

hehe.

Who cares?

Xu Manzhi smiled faintly and said, "It's good that you know. I heard from the village chief that there are crabs and loaches in the river, which are edible. Help me carry the sack this morning, I'm going to catch some."

Crabs, loaches...

Jiang Pengyue was completely devastated.

She meant to meet her conditions, but not to become Xu Manzhi's maid.

But who made her the fastest?

As Jiang Pengyue silently shed tears that morning, carrying a snakeskin bag and following behind Xu Manzhi through the river, looking disheveled and covered in mud, she watched as Xu Manzhi struggled through the water.

In her past life, she must have dug up Xu Manzhi's ancestral graves to end up in this state.

Waaaaah, help me!

Fortunately, Zhou Xiangqun quickly rescued her, eagerly acting as her human tow truck.

He hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.

As Xu Manzhi rolled up her trousers and scooped one hand into the mud, a loach thrashed about in her palm, splashing mud and water all over him. He was speechless with frustration.

Until Da Huang started howling, the village chief and the educated youth called them to eat. Xu Manzhi looked displeased, but still quickly went ashore and threw a crab to Da Huang.

She wiped her face.

The mud smeared on her stunningly beautiful face had an indescribable beauty that left him mesmerized.

"If you keep looking at me like that, I'm going to get angry!" she said, waving her fist.

Swish, swish, swish.

Mud splattered all over Zhou Xiangqun's only clean cheek.

He exclaimed "Ah!" and dropped the snakeskin bag before running away.

"Tch, young master is quite the actor."

Xu Manzhi easily lifted the snakeskin bag and carried it all the way back to the village.

The village chief was stunned when he saw her spoils.

This girl must have cleaned up all the ten-year-old silt from the riverbed in Guangshui Village, eliminating the habitat of loaches and crabs.

He was about to cry.

One such distinguished guest is enough; please don't come again next year!

The outing ended in the afternoon.

Xu Manzhi said he would continue to catch loaches and ordered Zhou Xiangqun and Jiang Pengyue to work together, which terrified the two nobles who were usually unable to lift heavy objects.

The village chief and a group of villagers were also trembling with fear.

Xu Manzhi, this girl, didn't come here for sightseeing; she came to dig up the old graves of the Guangshui production team's aquatic products... If she keeps digging, there won't be any fish or shrimp in the river for three years.

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