Seeing Su's actions, Yu knew she wanted to fetch water to wash up. While splashing a bucket of water she had just drawn from the well onto the muddy ground, she explained, "The whole village was flooded last night, and the water in this well is murky and unusable for now. My cousin will have to bear with it today."

As Su watched her washing away the mud on the ground, she sighed, "Yesterday, Old Feng said on our way here that this year's harvest in the fields would probably be ruined. I never expected that he would be right."

At this moment, Hongyu rushed in from outside carrying a pile of things and said happily to Madam Yu, "Fourth Madam, some villagers have brought over a few cabbages... They said that all the other vegetables in the field have rotted, but these cabbages are still in good condition."

After saying that, she looked up and saw Madam Su standing to the side. She was stunned for a moment, then curtsied to her and said, "Good morning, Aunt. I must thank you for saving our lives yesterday."

Madam Su quickly waved her hand, "Don't be so polite."

Madam Yu smiled and said, "No amount of formality is appropriate; otherwise, how can we express our gratitude to you?"

Mrs. Su thought she was only referring to what happened last night. "It's all just the children being silly. Stop bringing it up. How can the children bear it?"

What's with all this talk of gratitude? If we say too much, it might ruin the child's life.

Hongyu placed the large cabbage she was holding on the shelf beside her, then looked it over with satisfaction. The shelf, filled with all sorts of food, was overflowing with goodness before she said, "Grandma, we're not just saying this casually. The villagers who were saved by Miss last night were extremely grateful and brought us so much food. You have no idea what's happened lately..."

Ms. Yu coughed twice, stopping her from continuing.

Su understood what Hongyu was trying to say.

Hongyu had no choice but to shut up. "In any case, I must thank my great-aunt, young master, and young lady for saving my life last night."

This was truly a life-saving grace. If it weren't for the sudden arrival of the mother and her two children, who ran in and out all night, she, along with Granny Li and Granny Wang, would certainly be dead.

As for the villagers attributing the life-saving favor to the Yun family, she truly couldn't control that.

As they were talking, Zhao's mother and Suyue from next door woke up and came out.

The first thing they wanted to do after getting up was to fetch water to wash up, but when they saw the murky well water, they all frowned.

Hongyu frowned as well. There was food today, but no water.

Fortunately, Zhao's mother said that the dishes cooked in the big pots last night could still be eaten after being reheated, and there was still half a pot of mutton soup left, so there shouldn't be any problem solving everyone's meal today.

Su Yue, however, was very experienced. She took the initiative to bring over several large buckets and then poured all the water from the well into the buckets, letting it settle naturally.

Over there, Old Madam Yun stubbornly refused to eat a single bite last night. Later, when she heard that Xiao Youran had saved the lives of the entire village, she was so shocked that she barely slept for the rest of the night.

When she heard that villagers had brought a lot of food in the morning, Granny Li used the grain to cook porridge and brought it in. She also advised, "Madam, this was earned by Miss Biao for saving people. It has nothing to do with the Su family. Please eat it without worry."

After a long silence, Madam Yun finally picked up the spoon.

Jiang Youchen and Xiao Youran didn't wake up until almost noon.

By this time, some villagers had already brought several large buckets of clean river water from the river ten miles away by oxcart. As a token of their gratitude, they delivered a bucket to the old house, which temporarily solved the old house's water problem.

With Su Yue's help, Xiao Youran quickly washed her face and ate a couple of bites of yesterday's food. The first thing she wanted to do was to go and see the eastern hill that had been washed away by the mudslide last night.

As she led her brother out the door, she keenly sensed a little tail behind her. Turning her head, she discovered it was a tall girl.

Xiao Youran looked at it again and again, then called out somewhat uncertainly, "Big Cousin?"

Yun Manyan stepped forward, looking quite embarrassed, and asked cautiously, "Can... I come with you?"

Xiao Youran was somewhat surprised. In just two months, her older cousin seemed... quite different?

She seemed to remember... what kind of conflict she had with this older cousin before?

Jiang Youchen frowned. "We're just looking around."

Yun Manyan glanced at Xiao Youran first, and seeing that she did not object, she nodded and whispered to Jiang Youchen, "Then I will accompany you. I have walked around this house more than a dozen times, so I know it better than you do."

Xiao Youran agreed, "Then would it be alright if our older cousin took us to see the houses that were washed away last night?"

Yun Manyan was stunned. Her little cousin had actually spoken to her? And she had said such a long string of words?

This cousin of mine lived in the Yun Mansion in the capital for more than a month. She always looked down on everyone and could get by with a single hum.

If they see someone with something good, they'll rush up and snatch it; if they can't snatch it, they'll destroy it.

She remembered that three days before their house was ransacked, she was wearing a pair of newly made gold peony embroidered shoes with pearl pendants. When she was strolling in the back garden, her little cousin saw her and insisted that she take off the shoes and give them to her.

She's only four years old, how could she possibly wear such long shoes?

Therefore, Yun Manwan immediately refused.

Unexpectedly, her arrogant and domineering cousin pushed her directly into the bushes, scratching her exposed skin with fine cuts. She fell to the ground, and her cousin snatched one of her shoes, then watched helplessly as she threw it into the nearby pond.

She cried to her mother, who was forgiving and didn't want to make a fuss. But the more she thought about it, the angrier she became, and she dragged her mother along to her cousin Su's family.

To everyone's surprise, Aunt Su simply said, "I'll compensate you with three pairs of clothes at the price. What's there to make a fuss about?"

The mother was so speechless that she was choked up.

After returning home, she complained to her second younger sister, who secretly cursed her younger cousin as a "spendthrift" and said that even if the Su family had mountains of gold and silver, she would squander them all sooner or later.

When she cried in front of her grandmother again, her grandmother looked at her with disappointment and anger, saying, "You, the eldest daughter of the Marquis's mansion, are fourteen years old and still can't beat a four-year-old girl? How dare you come to your grandmother to cry?"

She had no choice but to swallow all her grievances and hide the only remaining embroidered shoe.

But now, she will never have the chance to see the pearls on those embroidered shoes again.

Last night, when her little cousin was serving the children food, she already noticed something was off.