Jiang Qinyu sneered inwardly, her indifferent gaze sweeping over Lu Yancai and Madam Ma.

The only ones who ever ate at this house were the couple, and they still wanted to separate?

However, Jiang Qinyu didn't step forward, waiting to see how the Lu family elders would resolve the situation.

Old Man Lu's solution was simple and brutal. After regaining his senses, he grabbed a large wooden stick from the corner of the yard and started hitting Lu Yancai with it, yelling, "I'm not dead yet! I'll show you how to divide the family! Who's in charge of this family anyway?"

Lu Yancai was beaten so badly that he ran away with his head in his hands. Jiang Qinyu was blocking the entrance to the courtyard. Remembering how fiercely this woman had hit him earlier, he felt a chill run down his spine for no reason. He didn't dare to get close to Jiang Qinyu and could only run around the courtyard.

Chen was also furious. She grabbed a brush that was drying in the yard and slapped it across Ma's arm. "You heartless lazy bum! How dare you try to get the second son to divide the family property? As long as I'm alive, you can forget about doing that!"

Ma was overweight and slow, so Chen caught her and hit her several times. In the end, seeing that she couldn't dodge, she could only lie on the ground to protect her face and take the hits, but her shouts and curses never stopped.

Jiang Qinyu coldly watched the farce in the yard, then turned around and locked the gate, letting them make a fuss over their own. She then took the two children to the kitchen.

After all that commotion, she was starving and thirsty, and the children's lips were chapped.

However, when Jiang Qinyu lifted the lid of the water tank, she was completely taken aback.

There was only a thin layer of water in the tank, and it was very murky. Not to mention what you could do with that little bit of water, could it even be drunk?

"Auntie, are you thirsty? Here, I have some jade tree leaves here." Jiang Shufan handed Jiang Qinyu a few jade tree leaves.

Seeing this, Jiang Qinyu felt so heartbroken that she wanted to cry.

While jade plant leaves are indeed high in moisture, some are poisonous, and the sap from jade plant leaves can cause allergic reactions in some people with sensitive skin.

Good heavens, what kind of life are they living? Using jade tree leaves instead of water to quench their thirst?

As I recall, starting about two weeks ago, most families in Dingshui Village began preparing half a month's worth of dry rations at once to reduce water consumption.

Nowadays, it takes two days to draw a few buckets of water from the village's wells. The wells are protected by the village chief and his men, and each household is only given two bowls of water every three days.

In this situation, it is absolutely impossible to drink water in large gulps.

But while others don't have it, Jiang Qinyu does!

She had just seen a lot of bottled water and drinks at the cashier, and on a whim, a bottle of mineral water appeared in Jiang Qinyu's hand.

Jiang Shufan and Jiang Pan'er stared at her without blinking, both holding their breath and not daring to move.

"Don't eat this stuff, it might make you sick." Jiang Qinyu unscrewed the bottle cap, took a bowl and poured a full bowl of water for the two of them. "You drink first, I have more if you're not full."

After saying that, she drank the rest of the water from the bottle in one gulp.

She had just glanced at the system's status. Currently, apart from the cashier area, all other areas were locked. To get free access to water, she would have to unlock the other areas first.

How do I unlock it? This lousy system doesn't give me any hints!

Just as Jiang Qinyu was thinking this, the mechanical voice sounded in her mind again: [Mission: Please collect 1,000 jin of grain to unlock the grain and oil area!]

[Quest item map activated. Important note: Please complete the collection quest within three days. Failure to complete the quest will prevent you from restarting it.]

A thousand catties of grain? And it has to be completed within three days. Jiang Qinyu almost wanted to curse. The total grain in the entire Dingshui Village is probably less than eight hundred catties. Where the hell is she supposed to find so much grain?

Also, what is a quest item map hint?

As soon as she thought this, a map of Dingshui Village immediately appeared in Jiang Qinyu's mind, with green dots of different sizes showing the location of each house.

She instantly realized, wasn't this just like in the game? With this, finding a thousand catties of grain would be much easier!

Once the grain and oil section is unlocked, she will never have to worry about food and drink again!

But... she can't just rob the villagers, can she?

It seems she has to hurry up and persuade, no, to convince the villagers to go with her to retrieve the grain that the group from Qinggang Mountain stole.

Just then, Lu Yancai and Madam Ma's voices came from outside, begging for mercy.

"Father, Father, please stop hitting me! I don't want to separate from the family! I never wanted to!"

"Mother, I was wrong! I won't separate from the family anymore, our family will never separate!"

Jiang Qinyu's eyes turned cold. Never to be apart? Dream on!

After watching the two children finish their water, Jiang Qinyu packed up her things and went to the yard.

"You two lazybones want to split up the family? If it weren't for your eldest brother, would this family be where it is today?" Old Lu clutched his chest, clearly furious.

With tears welling in her eyes, Madam Chen angrily retorted, "Our family's current prosperity is all thanks to the eldest son's hard work! When we divide the family property, you won't be taking anything with you!"

Thinking of her eldest son, whose fate was unknown, Chen's heart ached, and her gaze toward Ma became increasingly disgusted.

If it weren't for Madam Ma giving birth to Lu Tianbao for the Lu family, she would have definitely divorced him and sent him back to Ma Family Village!

Upon hearing this, Lu Yancai habitually retorted, "Even if it was earned by my elder brother, isn't it still part of the Lu family? What does it have to do with the Jiang family?"

Ma also mustered her courage and muttered under her breath, "That's how it is. Why do my parents always side with outsiders? What kind of family lives like this?"

"It has nothing to do with me?" Jiang Qinyu looked at the two people on the ground with a cold smile. "I am the eldest daughter-in-law of the Lu family, married through proper channels. Compared to some people who have illicit affairs and become pregnant out of wedlock, disgracing the family, who has less to do with me?"

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