[Waaaaah, Xi-mei, please don't do this, I'll cry myself to death.]

Even I, a grown man, was moved to tears by her.

[Among the five members of the chaebol group, Hee-mei is the most serious about farming. Remember that advertising endorsement? She was the only one who raised her hand, willing to risk her reputation to endorse a fertilizer factory, just to get back the compound fertilizer.]

Good heavens, look what you've done! Will this torrential rain ever stop? Will it ever stop?!

Yu Xiangwan never expected to step into this stagnant water that reeked of a foul stench, and murmured in disbelief:

“Xi-mei…”

This was met with great encouragement, and she wanted to go down and help. Just as she opened the car door, Chu Yang closed it from the outside.

Chu Yang raised the cleaver in his hand and said:

"Sis, I'll go help cut down the trees. You stay here with the excavator; we'll need you to haul the big tree away later."

Yu Xiangwan nodded to him through the car window.

Jiang Hexi was a man who had chopped pork bones and cut beef legs before, and he didn't take this mere tree trunk seriously at all.

With one stroke, she chopped the branch cleanly in two. With two more strokes, she cut the branches down to the roots, finally reaching the trunk.

She mustered all her strength and chopped down with her knife, creating a shallow notch in the tree trunk. She chopped down again, making the notch a little deeper. She swung her knife again and again, each strike aimed at that notch.

The heavy rain pounded on the puddle, creating numerous puddles. The tree trunks trembled repeatedly, stirring up ripples in the still water.

Chu Yang waded over and pushed Jiang Hexi aside, saying, "Sister, you rest for a while, I'll do it."

Jiang Hexi stood to the side, exhausted, her right hand in so much pain she couldn't lift it.

She looked at the tree trunk, which was as thick as a thigh, and realized that it had only been cut with a three-finger-wide notch. She felt that things couldn't continue like this.

"Wanwan, give me the rope."

Upon hearing her words, Yu Xiangwan got out of the driver's seat and forcefully threw a bundle of hemp rope in front of her.

Jiang Hexi picked up the hemp rope and walked towards the tree trunk.

She patted Chu Yang on the shoulder, signaling him to stand aside, picked up a hemp rope, wrapped it around the gap, pulled it tight, and tied a knot.

Then, he pulled the other end of the rope and tied it tightly around the excavator's boom, making a knot that was impossible to untie.

Yu Xiangwan knew what she was planning as soon as she saw this.

Jiang Hexi led Chu Yang back to the shore, and she gave instructions over the walkie-talkie:

"Wanwan, lift the boom, lift it higher, okay, stop at this height, excavator reverse, reverse again!"

Under her command, Yu Xiangwan drove the excavator slowly backward.

The crane taut the rope, indirectly pulling the tree trunk upwards, loosening the soil and creating ripples in the puddle.

Jiang Hexi stared intently at the tree. "Wanwan, lift your arms up, keep lifting!"

At her command, the tree was uprooted and suspended in mid-air.

The rainwater found an outlet, rushing down the ditch and its surging force flowed through the remaining abandoned ditch.

Chu Yang spread his arms, letting the rain wash away the mud from his body; he was so happy he forgot himself.

"Sister Jiang, our water pipes are connected now!"

“Hmm,” Jiang Hexi looked up at the rain falling from above and said with great pride, “Our ditch is now fully connected.”

Yan Jie and Shen Yingyu spent most of the day digging a waterway from the abandoned waterway to the underground river.

Six people stood by the waterway, watching the rainwater rushing from the wheat field into the shallows. The rushing water drowned out the surrounding rain, filling them with immense excitement.

[Xi-mei is awesome, I love you to death!]

God knows how excited I was when the tree was uprooted.

Watching the water flow smoothly from the wheat field to the river bend, I breathed a huge sigh of relief; the wheat had been saved.

On the way back in the van, Jiang Hexi hummed that off-key song again.

Yan Jie turned the steering wheel and drove onto the village road, then suddenly asked:

"Can you smell anything foul, like the stench of rotten water from a sewer?"

Jiang Hexi lowered her head and sniffed her shoulder, then said guiltily, "No."

Chu Yang immediately chimed in, "Brother, you're being too sensitive. I didn't smell anything bad either."

"It does have a foul smell."

Shen Yingyu sniffed hard, then looked at Chu Yang suspiciously. "Are you talking nonsense, kid?"

Chu Yang's face flushed red, and he was at a loss for words, not knowing how to explain to them.

"I farted."

Yu Xiangwan raised an eyebrow at Shen Yingyu, protectively shielding Chu Yang, and said, "What's wrong, Dayu? Do you want me to get off the car, or do you want me to apologize to you, hmm?"

The last word was pronounced with a nasal tone, exuding an overbearing and threatening aura.

Shen Yingyu was just joking, but she took it seriously: "Do as you please, I wouldn't dare to object."

Yu Xiangwan gave him a look that said, "That's more like it."

Back in the wooden building, Jiang Hexi rushed into her room and took a hot shower to wash away the stench. She came downstairs smelling fresh.

The nanny was busy preparing dinner in the kitchen.

Jiang Hexi took a frozen chicken out of the refrigerator and handed it to her:

"Auntie, please stew this chicken for me."

"Do you want chicken soup, or should we make it into poached chicken?" the aunt asked, picking up the chicken.

Jiang Hexi said casually, "Auntie, you can do whatever you want, but before you chop it up, lend me this chicken to take out and worship the river god."

Yan Jie came out of the room and saw white smoke swirling on the eaves of the corridor. He walked over out of curiosity.

He saw a boiled chicken on the tea table, surrounded by fruits, snacks and other offerings. On the ground was an incense burner filled with tall incense sticks.

Holding three incense sticks in her hand, Jiang Hexi devoutly bowed three times to the deity being worshipped, then stood up and placed the burning incense sticks into the incense burner.

Yan Jie asked, "Where did you get these fruits and pastries?"

Jiang Hexi glanced back at him: "Gossip Girl borrowed it from the production team."

The word "borrow" was used with extreme politeness.

Yan Jie watched her bizarre act of worshipping the gods, hesitated for a moment, and after much deliberation, decided to speak his mind.

Before he could even utter a word, Jiang Hexi ordered him to be silenced:

"Shut up, think carefully about what you can say and what you can't say, and don't spout nonsense in front of the River God."

What is meant by "arrogance"?

“To speak disrespectfully of the river god is to speak wildly.”

Yan Jie avoided the question about the river god and instead asked about her faith: "Xi-mei, are you a follower of Western Christianity or a worshipper of Eastern mythology?"

"It depends on the situation."

Jiang Hexi's twisted logic always seems to make sense:

“Yesterday I prayed to Jesus, and then God appeared and the torrential rain of the next two days will turn into a light rain. Today I prayed to the river god to protect the wheat in the fields from being flooded. There are two gods, one in charge of the sky and one in charge of the earth, each with their own duties, so of course I have to pray to them twice.”