Chapter Twenty-Four: Her Second Brother Was Impotent

snake!

It's a snake!

Lin Baozhu was so frightened that her soul almost left her body.

Even after ten years of battling through the apocalypse and tearing apart festering zombies, she still felt weak in the knees at the sight of this slippery thing. She carried her basket and rushed down the mountain like a madwoman until the mountain wind stung her throat, at which point she leaned against an old pine tree, gasping for breath.

Looking around and seeing no one, Yi Nian flashed into the space and happened to bump into the herd of wild goats grazing by the spiritual spring. When they saw her suddenly appear, they were so frightened that they bleated and ran away frantically.

Baaah, those horrible two-legged creatures brought them here, they're definitely going to do all sorts of things to them. If they don't run now, they'll be raped by this woman.

That would be incredibly embarrassing for a sheep.

Lin Baozhu looked at the flock of sheep spitting wildly, and with a thought, a large, fat ram lay upside down as if its tendons had been pulled out.

While she was bleeding the herbs, she moved the medicinal herbs she had dug up that day closer to the spiritual spring—the spring's spiritual energy was abundant, ensuring the herbs would retain their true authentic properties. She planted all the fruit saplings next to the pigsty, believing the soil there was the most fertile and the fruit would be large and sweet.

After finishing all that, the sheep's blood had been drained and had already congealed. Sheep's blood and vermicelli soup was a rare treat; the smooth blood clots mixed with vermicelli, sprinkled with chopped scallions—just thinking about it made her eyebrows dance with delight. She then picked up ten eggs from her spatial storage and stuffed them into her basket, along with a plump rabbit and two pheasants. Finally, she securely tied the woolly goat to her back. After glancing outside the spatial storage and finding no one there, she vanished.

The reason she slaughtered a sheep and brought it home today was because she was craving mutton. If she secretly brought it home to eat, there was no guarantee that some malicious person wouldn't report her to the commune, accusing her of undermining the state and engaging in capitalist practices. Although she wasn't afraid of those red...

Small

Bing didn't want to cause trouble for herself.

Therefore, it would be best to put in some effort to prevent these troubles.

Just as they reached the rocky slope at the foot of the mountain, they saw two familiar figures carrying machetes coming up – it was their second brother, Lin Erlang, and their third brother, Lin Sanlang.

"Second Brother, Second Brother! Look! What's that jumping down from that stone embankment? It's all hairy and looks like a big monkey!" Lin Sanlang, with his sharp eyes, pointed at Lin Baozhu and exclaimed.

Lin Baozhu looked around with her basket on her back—a monkey? If she could raise one, it could help pick fruit. If she really had one, she would put it in her space and have it do her hard labor.

Where are the monkeys?

"Ahhh... Second Brother, Second Brother, the monkey is talking!!"

Lin Baozhu's temples throbbed; after all that fuss, the clown was herself. Looking down, she saw that her blue cloth jacket had several holes torn by tree branches, and her trouser legs were covered in mud. She must have scraped her face when she fell; no wonder her blind third brother had mistaken her for someone else.

"You're so stupid! Those two big eyes are just for show! Look closely, that big monkey is our little sister!"

Lam Po-chu: The second cut!

"Little sister?" Lin Sanlang ran over carrying a wood-chopping knife. When he saw her face, he grinned. "It really is you! Hu Zi and Tian Tian were crying their eyes out at home, saying you hadn't come back for ages after you went up the mountain. My second brother and I were worried, so we rushed over to find you."

He spotted the goat on his back with his sharp eyes and exclaimed in surprise, "This wild goat runs faster than a rabbit! How did you catch it?"

"Don't even mention it, I spent more than two hours feeding mosquitoes on the mountain just to catch them."

Lin Baozhu continued to make up a story: "There were originally more than twenty sheep, but we only caught this one. However, I dug a trap in the sheep's activity area, and I'll go check it again in a couple of days. We'll take this sheep through the main road first, and after we catch another sheep, we'll sneak it home at night."

Lin Sanlang took the basket, tossed it over his shoulder, and chuckled as he weighed it: "Call me when the time comes! If we can get another ten or eight, we can smoke them into cured meat and stew them in soup in winter—the taste will be absolutely amazing!"

"Okay," Lin Baozhu replied, but in her heart she knew...

Like a mirror—Third Brother is the strongest laborer in the team, and Mother might not be willing to let him spend his time working on the mountain.

The three siblings walked home together. Lin Baozhu turned to Lin Erlang and said, "Second brother, weren't you supposed to be at work today? Why are you back at this hour?"

Lin Erlang pushed up his glasses, a smile as always on his face: "The factory machines were under maintenance, so they were put on hold a while ago. Your second sister-in-law made you a pair of cloth shoes, and I brought them to you on my way. Try them on in a bit to see if they fit."

Upon hearing this, Lin Baozhu couldn't help but sigh, realizing that the original owner of this body was truly pampered in this family.

Her eldest brother and sister-in-law, who live far away on the border, send her packages every month. Although her second brother and sister-in-law don't send things as frequently as her eldest brother and sister-in-law, they always give her the best things.

In addition, there were Lin's mother, father, and three older brothers, who treated her exceptionally well.

She has always been one to reciprocate kindness. The Lin family treated her with all their hearts, so naturally she would do everything in her power to make their lives better.

She suddenly remembered something: her second sister-in-law and second brother had been married for three years, but her second sister-in-law had not conceived. This had made Lin's mother the target of ridicule from the village's rivals, to the point that her second sister-in-law had hardly ever returned to the village.

However, a woman's ability to give birth is not always necessarily a woman's problem...

Lin Baozhu's eyes lingered on her second brother, especially around his waist and abdomen—could her second brother be all bark and no bite?

Lin Erlang felt a chill run down his spine from her gaze, and subconsciously straightened his back and raised his voice: "Lin Baozhu, what are you looking at?"

"Second Brother, how are you feeling?" Lin Baozhu asked seriously. "How about I go up the mountain and dig up some goji berries and ginseng for you to nourish yourself? I found two goji berry seedlings today, some red and some black. I'll pick some in a couple of days, dry them, and make you some tea..."

Lin Erlang immediately exploded: "What nonsense are you talking about, young lady? I'm perfectly healthy. It's not that you're the one who's thinking nonsense all day long."

"My second sister-in-law is still childless and she's getting anxious. I see she's in great health, but you're so thin and weak... If you really have any hidden illness, you should see a doctor as soon as possible, so as not to delay things."

Upon hearing this, Lin Erlang raised his arm: "I'll beat you up, you little ingrate!"

Lin Erlang raised his hand to strike, but Lin Baozhu was prepared and darted away, covering her head.

Lin Erlang turned angrily to his third brother, only to find Lin Sanlang staring thoughtfully at his crotch, muttering to himself, "Second brother, when we were kids, I was bathing in the ditch, and I thought your thing was pretty strong... Why don't you take this lamb penis and testicles and stew them? Don't let anyone else see."

Lin Erlang:......

These younger siblings are all unfit for him. Doesn't he know he has health problems? Except for the few days when his wife is unavailable, he has sex once a day, okay?

Suddenly his eyes turned cold.

After he fell into the water, his wife stayed in the river for more than an hour in the dead of winter to save him. Perhaps it was during that time that she developed health problems.

Every time his wife had her period, she would be in excruciating pain and turn pale. When Old You went to the hospital, the most he could get were a few painkillers. His close friend said that if they could find a highly skilled traditional Chinese medicine doctor, acupuncture combined with these medications for a period of time, the symptoms would be relieved, and might even be cured. However, nowadays most doctors are Western medicine practitioners, and most of the truly capable traditional Chinese medicine doctors have been eliminated, leaving only useless quacks.

"Third brother, you're not getting any younger."

Lin Erlang abruptly changed the subject: "I've noticed you're getting quite close to Chunyan from the next village. Why don't you ask your mother to ask a matchmaker to put in a good word with her?"

Lin Sanlang:......

Why did it suddenly involve me?

However, since his second brother had spoken up, he couldn't help but voice his concerns.

"Second brother, I do like her very much, but I'm still a little undecided."

Lin Erlang watched Lin Baozhu run away, then turned around, put his hand on her shoulder, and said with a smile, "Tell me what you think, I'll give you some advice."