Looking down, I saw no one.

He looked around and saw Wan Qiqi picking something and throwing it into the basket.

He initially thought his sister-in-law was reliable, but now he's starting to have second thoughts!

Chen Yongxing gave up picking more, climbed down from the tree, and walked to Wan Qiqi's side. He saw that her basket only contained a few Vietnamese peppers, a pair of leaves, and some strange-looking things.

Wan Qiqi turned around when she heard the noise, "Have you picked them all?"

She smiled and looked very happy.

"Hmm." Chen Yongxing nodded, then asked curiously, "Sister-in-law, what are you picking these for?"

Wan Qiqi gave a meaningful smile, "You'll see when we get back, this is a really good thing!"

Chen Yongxing was skeptical, feeling that his sister-in-law's personality had changed recently, and she had become strange, always doing odd things that left people puzzled.

But he felt that his sister-in-law was more attentive to the family than before.

Under the blazing sun, people on the mountainside gradually returned home, and Wan Qiqi and Chen Yongxing also descended the mountain.

Inside the house, wisps of smoke rise from the kitchen, and the aroma of rice wafts through the air.

The passing villagers couldn't help but slow down, wanting to savor the aroma of the rice a little longer.

"Didn't they say the Chen family was out of grain? How come they still have rice?"

"I don't know."

"It smells like good rice; old rice doesn't have this fragrance."

"I don't know where the Chen family got the rice from. Aunt Zhao said that she can smell the aroma of rice every day."

"I also heard that the eldest and third sons of the Chen family went to help, and they brought a lot of cakes with them!"

"Pancakes? The Chen family even has wheat flour?"

"I don't know, I just heard it from someone else."

"Do you think the Chen family is truly poor or just pretending? I feel like the harder things are for us, the better things are for the Chen family."

"Could it be that the Chen family used some secret technique to steal the fortune of our village, which is why the village has been infected with the plague?"