Upon hearing her invitation, Lu Yuan's alarm bells immediately went off. Could the medicine be prepared for him?

He stared intently at the other person until they guiltily looked away, avoiding his gaze, before replying in a deep voice, "Okay, I understand."

Seeing Lu Xiaofang's behavior, he became even more certain that there was something fishy about this meal, and that it was a trap set against him.

He entered the house with a heavy heart.

Wen Moxue could tell at a glance that something was wrong with him.

"What's wrong? You seem to be having an issue?"

Lu Yuan said, "I ran into Lu Xiaofang at the door. She told us to come back to the old house for dinner the day after tomorrow, saying it was to celebrate my father's birthday."

Is there a problem?

"Of course."

Then he recounted how Lu Xiaoqin had discovered the medicinal powder.

“I used to suspect that she had her eye on some guy and wanted to use dirty tricks to tie him down, but now it seems that she resents me because of her mother’s situation and wants to make me childless.”

He had heard from Gao Weishan that this medicine would damage a person's health.

He thought to himself that Lu Xiaofang was really vicious.

Wen Muxue, however, had a different opinion: "Is it possible that your previous suspicions were correct?"

"What do you mean?"

"She's just really interested in you and wants to use underhanded methods to keep you."

When she first arrived at the Lu family, she was very cautious, paying close attention to everyone's every move and carefully observing their words and actions. Originally, she only wanted to use these observations to judge whether others were kind or evil towards her. Unexpectedly, she discovered that Lu Xiaofang's gaze towards Lu Yuan was always strange, revealing a suppressed affection.

"Impossible!" Lu Yuan said definitively.

"How could it be impossible? You have no idea, every time she looks at you, there's a mixture of resentment and longing in her eyes. She washes your clothes before I do mine every day. If she doesn't have feelings for you, I'll change my mind."

Lu Yuan glanced at her, thinking she was going to say something like "eat shit upside down".

It's just a name, what's the big deal if it's written backwards?

However, after hearing her words, I felt a chill. I wondered if Lu Xiaofang was a pervert.

“Wife, if she really liked me, why would she want to harm me? Old Gao said that this medicine is for pigs, and people can’t handle it; it will damage their health.”

Wen Moxue shook her head, "Could it be a psychological distortion, wanting to destroy what you can't have?"

"Tsk, the most poisonous heart is that of a woman."

"Don't forget I'm a woman too."

“My wife is different from others; she is beautiful inside and out.”

Wen Moxue glared at him, "All you do is talk nonsense, who's your wife!"

Lu Yuan chuckled, "Naturally, it's the one who's beautiful inside and out."

He stopped teasing her and instead brought up the matter of borrowing the tractor.

"I'll tell the captain this good news tomorrow, so he can be happy too."

"Let him give the scorekeeper job to Yang Caihong first, and you can drive the tractor to transport the grain."

Wen Moxue smiled and nodded, then casually took out a fruit platter from her spatial storage. It contained strawberries, cantaloupe, grapes, dragon fruit, and other fruits.

"This fruit platter is specially made to express my gratitude to you."

Lu Yuan raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure this wasn't something that already existed in the space?"

"Of course not. I picked the fruit, washed it, and cut it myself."

Lu Yuan grinned, picked up a fork from the fruit plate, and forked a strawberry.

"Thank you, wife."

The young woman seemed to have become immune to the term "wife" and was too lazy to argue with him anymore.

Lu Yuan smiled and said, "Not bad, this is a good sign."

This shows that she is gradually adapting to her role as a daughter-in-law.

What he didn't know was that the girl wasn't in the mood to argue with him about this; she was having her own doubts.

These fruits must have been very uncommon in this era, especially in the countryside; I doubt they had ever even heard of them.

But the man didn't seem surprised at all when he saw the plate of fruit; he remained calm and didn't ask any questions.

This behavior doesn't seem quite normal.

"Honey, what are you thinking about?"

Seeing her in a daze, Lu Yuan waved his hand in front of her eyes.

Wen Moxue snapped out of her reverie and asked him, "Do you recognize all these fruits?"

Lu Yuan paused, then shook his head, "I don't know him."

"Then why aren't you curious?"

"It's in your space, as long as it's edible, why should I care about anything else?"

Okay, that explanation is reasonable.

Wen Moxue didn't ask any more questions, but instead talked about what she had planted in her private plot over the past few days.

Lu Yuan silently breathed a sigh of relief.

"Xu Dong and the others helped plant all the seeds in my private plot. I asked some of the aunties in the village for a lot of seeds, and I also found some in my space. I don't know which seeds are for this season, but I planted them all anyway."

"I had them divide the land into neat plots, and I even set aside a plot to plant watermelons and cantaloupes."

Is it too late to plant this season?

The watermelons are almost ripe in the south.

"I don't know. I'm thinking if I plant them now and water them with space water, they should be ripe by August or September. That shouldn't be too late."

Lu Yuan said, "You use space water, and all your fruits and vegetables grow better than others, even those that are out of season. How are you going to explain that to them?"

Wen Moxue blurted out, "I just know that our family's soil is very fertile."

Lu Yuan's mouth twitched violently; the current fertilizer was all excrement and urine.

Isn't this just telling people that their excrement and urine are different from others?

"Okay, that's a strong reason."

It is not only powerful, but also unverifiable.

No one would bother to taste it and see if there's any difference!

A day passed quickly, and it was Lu Guoqing's birthday.

The appointment was for dinner. Lu Yuan and Wen Moxue prepared the food for Grandpa Liu before carrying the food to the old house.

A can of food, a pack of glutinous rice strips, and two packs of Daqianmen cigarettes.

The gifts weren't many, but they weren't insignificant either.

Canned food and glutinous rice strips were considered precious items in those days. Daqianmen cigarettes were also considered good cigarettes.

The gift is already quite presentable.

If Zhang Yuping were still alive, Lu Yuan would definitely have gone empty-handed.

Now that the troublemaker is gone, the family, though not very close, seems to have become much more harmonious without us even realizing it.

When the two arrived at the old house, the two sisters were still busy in the kitchen, Lu Guoqing was sitting in the yard smoking welding fumes, and Lu Xiaojun was actually chopping firewood.

With tiny arms and hands gripping the axe, each chop was unsteady and trembled slightly.

Lu Yuan raised an eyebrow. This cheap old man was actually willing to let his youngest son do rough work.

He thought to himself: Look, this child who wasn't spoiled by his mother is quite successful.

Wen Moxue handed the things she was carrying to Lu Guoqing.

Happy birthday, Dad.

Lu Guoqing accepted it with a smile.

"You're here, why did you bring anything?"

She added, "I hadn't been thinking about celebrating my birthday. It was Xiaofang who said that the family should take this opportunity to have a meal together."

The young couple exchanged a glance, and Lu Yuan nodded slightly.

Wen Moxue smiled and replied, "Big sister is right. I'll go in and see if there's anything I can help with."

As he spoke, he went into the kitchen.