Chapter 9 Chapter 9 (Xiao Xiu) Cheng Xin returns home...

Cheng Xin went home to get the backpack. Geng Yunye got some simple equipment at her house. He filled a bamboo tube with chicken feed, and tied a hemp rope around his waist. "Make a noose trap. If you catch pheasants or rabbits, you can keep them for two days."

Cheng Xin was full of anticipation: "I haven't caught a pheasant yet."

Chen Ying was not without gain from watching TV at the team leader's house. In her previous life, she had lived in the Cheng family for a long time, and she knew most of the people in the team. She was particularly good at chatting with the women in the team.

She went to the captain's house every day and accidentally discovered a secret that she didn't know in her previous life.

Wang Jiangang, the captain's son, fell in love with Cheng Xin.

Wang Jiangang is the only son in the team leader's family. He married a female educated youth a few years ago, who gave birth to a son and a daughter for him.

This year, the educated youth's family used their connections to bring her back home, and Wang Jiangang became a divorced, remarried man with two children.

At noon the day before yesterday, Chen Ying was helping the captain's wife to dry her bedding, and a divorce certificate fell out of the mattress.

The captain's wife did not hide anything. She pulled Chen Ying to complain, scolding her ex-daughter-in-law for being cold-blooded and abandoning her husband and children, and complaining that her son was obsessed with swan meat, which made life difficult for parents.

The last time Cheng Xin came to the captain's house to deliver something, Wang Jiangang had just beaten up the child who was crying and shouting that he wanted to go to the city to find his mother. He peeked at Cheng Xin in the yard through the window and was surprised to find that the skinny yellow-haired girl had become so beautiful in the blink of an eye.

Wang Jiangang immediately told his family about his thoughts. His parents were too proud to come directly to Cheng's house to propose marriage, so they wanted to find a matchmaker to help bring them together.

Unexpectedly, before the matchmaker even set off, the news of Cheng Xin's boyfriend spread.

The captain's wife asked Chen Ying about Geng Yunye's situation. When she heard that Geng Yunye was a retired soldier and had never been married, Cheng Xin would definitely not choose his son if she was not blind.

They had no hope for the matter and asked their son to find another girl.

However, Wang Jiangang insisted on marrying Cheng Xin, which made the old couple very annoyed.

Chen Ying accidentally learned about this and immediately became active.

Wang Jiangang sat at the door of his house, looking in the direction of the Cheng family. His parents were helping to take care of the two children left by his ex-wife.

He tried to please Cheng Xin's brother and asked Cheng Lei to help him put in a good word, but the boy didn't understand what he meant at all and just ate and drank his food for free.

Wang Jiangang is eight years older than Cheng Xin. He doesn't have a proper job. He usually stays at home watching TV or playing cards with his friends. He only helps out at home during the busy farming season.

He didn't need to work on the land at home, but anyone in the brigade who wanted to borrow a bicycle had to come to his house to help with the work.

The captain and his wife were worried that he would become addicted to gambling, so they only gave him two dollars a month, so he had no way to bribe Cheng Xin's brother with money.

Wang Jiangang learned from Chen Ying that Cheng Xin's father was ill, and Chen Ying reminded him that he could take this opportunity to show his courtesy. Geng Yunye didn't come to the Cheng family every day, but he could get the moon first because he was close to the water.

Wang Jiangang didn't understand what the water tower and the moon were, so he anxiously asked Chen Ying if there was any other way.

Chen Ying despised him for being stingy and unable to provide emotional value. He only wanted to marry her without spending a penny. No wonder his parents said he wanted to eat swan meat.

However, she still pretended to be flattering, "Brother Wang is an experienced person, how did you woo your ex-wife?"

Wang Jiangang looked embarrassed. The way he married his ex-wife was not fair and he might go to jail if he was reported, so he quickly changed the subject.

"Can't you think of a simpler way? Like a hero saving the beauty, or she will lose her innocence and have to marry me."

Chen Ying was speechless about him. Cheng Xin's family was in financial difficulty. If he showed concern and gave her some money, and helped her and said something nice, it would be easy to win her heart. Moreover, even if he had no money, he could still contribute. As long as he could impress Cheng Xin's parents, Geng Yunye's ability to endure hardships was not his only advantage.

Cheng Xin and Geng Yunye had only met two or three times, and their relationship had not yet developed. Wang Jiangang's biggest advantage was his family background. But he had no idea what was wrong with him, and he only wanted to use crooked methods to go to extremes to save trouble.

Chen Ying felt that this method should be saved for last, and she would do it when Cheng Xin refused to give in. After all, she did not completely gain Cheng Xin's trust, and if Cheng Xin got into trouble, she would be quickly linked to her.

Besides, she was afraid of Geng Yunye, and the system was half dead. If the truth came out, she would have no way to exonerate herself.

"Brother Wang, you and my cousin are in the same brigade. You two are close to each other and have more opportunities to interact. Moreover, given your family's status, your father has the final say in the brigade. Marrying you means marrying into a cadre family, which is your advantage. I don't like a fierce man like Geng Yunye to be my brother-in-law. I am more optimistic about you."

Chen Ying flattered Wang Jiangang so much that he really thought he was a hot commodity.

"Okay, I can't afford the money, so I'll just have to find some people to help Cheng Xin's family with the work. I think the harvest will start in half a month, so I'll have everyone in the brigade go to help her family then."

Chen Ying wanted to roll her eyes right there, but she held back. "Brother Wang, you have to do it yourself to show others your determination. Just think about it, if someone who normally never works in the fields goes to harvest grain for her, how impressive it will be for her family!"

Wang Jiangang was persuaded by Chen Ying, "That makes sense. If I personally take action, I don't believe that Cheng Xin won't be devoted to me."

Chen Ying forced a smile to please him, but her nails dug into her palms.

She figured it out and decided that she couldn't hang around the captain's house anymore and had to find a way to build a good relationship with Cheng Xin.

This broken system has been working sporadically since she was reborn. Previously, she had made physical contact with Cheng Xin intentionally or unintentionally, but the system had no feedback, so she didn't know whether her luck had been sucked away.

Seeing that the Cheng family was getting better and better, and Cheng Xin was not as unlucky as she expected, she began to feel vaguely worried.

It wasn’t like this in my previous life.

In the previous life, whenever he and Cheng Xin had physical contact, bad things, big or small, would happen to Cheng Xin, either she would fall and sprain her ankle or she would get sick and lose money.

Later, it absorbed more and more luck. As long as it was in the same room with Cheng Xin, it would suck away her luck and make everything go wrong for her. The only nemesis of the system was Geng Yunye.

Geng Yunye stood next to Cheng Xin, and the luck on his body would automatically replenish Cheng Xin.

Wherever Geng Yunye is, the system immediately becomes silent, and even scanning can only be done stealthily.

In order to drain all of Cheng Xin's protagonist luck, she stopped the system from absorbing Cheng Xin's luck for a while, allowing Cheng Xin to be admitted to university as she wished, and the couple lived apart.

In this life, she will use all means to make Cheng Xin and Geng Yunye go their separate ways. She has no system help for the time being, so she can only test the waters with Wang Jiangang first.

Cheng Xin and Geng Yunye had a great harvest in the mountains. The empty backpack she carried before going up the mountain was filled with various mushrooms.

In his left hand, Geng Yunye held a gray-haired wild rabbit with its legs tied with straw ropes, and in his right hand he held upside down three pheasants with colorful feathers.

Geng Yunye offered to help her carry the mushrooms.

"I can carry it." Cheng Xin's voice was full of joy. "We are really lucky today. My father and I have never seen so many mushrooms since we came to the mountain. I don't like going up the mountain. I am afraid of snakes and wild boars. I will freeze and be unable to move when I see a snake."

Geng Yunye slowed down his pace and said gently, "Next time you go up the mountain, ask me to go with you. There may be wild boars on your mountain." He saw Cheng Xin shrink her neck and added, "Wild boars will be attracted by the rotten smell of bamboo fungus. Bamboo fungus is valuable."

When Cheng Xin heard that it was valuable, she was no longer afraid. In her excitement, she accidentally stepped on empty air. Geng Yunye quickly grabbed her wrist, and the basket full of mushrooms swayed.

She said regretfully, "It's a pity that I didn't come earlier. All the mushrooms have rotted. Next time I go up the mountain, I guess I'll have to wait until I've dried the millet and then go to the mountain to pick wild chestnuts." The place where she encountered bamboo fungus was full of rotten mushrooms, and she could only pick out two nests.

Geng Yunye knew she was short of money: "Don't worry, there are treasures everywhere in the mountains."

When Cheng Xin got home, she took off her backpack and spread the mushrooms on the stone slab: the red mushrooms were shiny, the porcini were plump, and the chanterelles were curled into golden trumpets.

Two nests of snow-white bamboo fungi were treasures, and Cheng Xin wrapped them separately in banana leaves.