It was pitch black outside the door, and I couldn't see anything. A gust of wind blew past, and in the darkness, Ye Nuanyin's mesmerizing voice mingled with frost and snow.
"Li Gan, give me back my life..."
Li Gan's hand trembled, and the thing in his hand was directly pulled away by Su Shi. He shouted in a trembling voice: "Don't think I'm afraid of you just because I'm dead. Ghosts are afraid of people. Come on if you dare!"
The other two accomplices who came with him also looked around nervously, tugging at each other's sleeves and muttering, "Li Gan, let's run quickly and come back after the seventh day."
Li Gan stiffened his neck, pretending to be fierce, and cursed in a rough voice: "Bitch, come and hit me if you dare..."
Bang! In the darkness, a brick hit my left head and sent me flying. Then I heard a child's giggling, which was particularly scary when carried by the wind.
Su, who had always been strong, suddenly burst into tears and muttered, "A Nuan, Xiao Hu, is that you? You've come to pick up your mother."
The other two screamed in fear and started to run. In the darkness, there were two more snapping sounds, followed by screams and screams. The sound was really creepy. Lights in the village gradually came on, and the barking of dogs became closer and closer.
Footsteps mixed with human voices were coming here.
As the sky began to brighten, a group of villagers squeezed into the door of the Ye family while tying their clothes. Through the morning mist, they saw three tall and thin men with purple faces kneeling in the yard, slapping themselves in the face like quails and shouting "ancestors".
Ye Nuan and Ye Xiaohu, brother and sister who were rumored to have died last night, stood by and laughed.
Someone shouted, "Ghost!"
The villagers started to rush out, but halfway through, they all turned back. This wasn't right. It was daylight now, how could the Ye siblings show up?
Village Chief Jin remained relatively calm. He tapped his unlit cigarette and asked tentatively, "Are you human or ghost?"
Su came to her senses and rushed over to hug her daughter, saying in an unhappy tone: "Of course my daughter is a human being. I said they must be fine. Ah Nuan scared her to death..."
"Xiaohu, let me see..."
Ye Xiaohu ran to Su's side, hugged her neck, and called out sweetly: "Mom..."
This is definitely a living person!
Village chief Jin pointed at the people underground and said, "What's going on?" In fact, the villagers probably guessed what was going on. These three people were simply taking advantage of the girl from the Ye family being in trouble to bully her widowed mother.
Ye Nuan stepped forward and asked Village Chief Jin directly, "Didn't the Village Chief say that stealing is not allowed in the village, and anyone caught stealing will be expelled from the village?"
When Li Gan and the other two saw the village chief and the villagers coming, they cried and tried to crawl over there as if they had seen their savior.
"Village chief, help us, we are almost beaten to death by the little kid from the Ye family." Blood was still flowing from his head, air was leaking from his mouth with missing front teeth, and he pointed his hand at the cute little kid accusingly.
Jin Qiu, who was in the crowd, couldn't stand it anymore and rushed forward to scold him, "You have to limit your nonsense. How can a baby with tiny arms and legs beat you up like this? I think you are just trying to frame the Ye family because you failed to steal."
Many people agreed, how old is that little kid, maybe five or six years old, how can he fight three people alone?
You must be kidding!
Li Gan and the other two burst into tears amidst the crowd's condemnation. What they said was all true, so why didn't anyone believe them? The Ye family kid picked up their legs and swung them around, almost knocking their lungs out. When they sat down, their bones were broken.
The Ye family is so weird!
The little girl is so fierce that even wild beasts dare not touch her. The little kid is so strong that he can knock a grown man away with one hand. He is definitely a monster!
In the crowd, only Feng Dazhu from next door remained silent. He had personally witnessed the Ye family child carrying a millstone with one hand. It was a miracle that he could still crawl with his hands and feet intact after being beaten by him!
Seeing that no one believed him, Li Gan cried with a mouthful of blood in his mouth, "Even if it wasn't that little kid who beat us, it was the Ye family who beat us. We couldn't have beaten ourselves like this. We really didn't mean to steal anything. We were there when the Ye siblings got into trouble during the day, and we wanted to comfort their mother, but we didn't expect to be beaten for no reason. Village chief, you have to distinguish right from wrong. Don't you say that anyone who hurts others should be expelled from the village?"
Ye Nuan was almost laughing out of anger. He was really good at biting back.
How come such a good person has a mouth!
"Comfort? Why would you need to come in the middle of the night to comfort someone? And what about the things scattered on the ground that just grew legs and ran out on their own?"
After she finished speaking, the villagers saw cabbages and garlic scattered on the ground at Su's feet.
Li Gan stammered, "How, how do I know what's going on..." He didn't even have the confidence to say this.
Everyone looked at Village Chief Jin, waiting for his decision.
Village Chief Jin didn't really want to get involved in this matter. It would be a shame to drive Li Gan and the other three laborers out of the village. The Ye family seemed like a troublesome bunch, and they couldn't do anything wrong. He coughed lightly and said, "You all have your own opinions, and there's no evidence. But Li Gan, it was wrong for the three of you to come to the Ye family in the middle of the night, and you deserved the beating. The Ye family was also beaten up by you, so why not ask them to apologize?" It seemed fair, but anyone could see the bias in it.
Jinqiu called her dad in dissatisfaction.
Village Chief Jin gave her a sidelong glance.
Ye Nuan stood there, staring at Village Chief Jin, neither willing to give in. After a moment's stalemate, she said, "An apology wouldn't be as effective as work. The three of them turned over all the dirt in the yard today. I won't pursue this matter, or else there's no end in sight!"
The thin and fragile little girl stood in the morning mist, her eyes beneath the veil revealing an unquestionable stubbornness.
"Yes, it's not over yet!" Su picked up her son and stood next to her daughter.
Ye Xiaohu clapped his hands, smiled with his eyes curled up, and shouted in a baby voice: "It's not over yet!"
Just work, it's none of your business. Village Chief Jin said with a smile: "That's fine, Li Gan, you guys turn over the Ye family's land today, or get out if you can't." It's impossible for three grown men to not be able to handle several acres of land in a day.
"The rest of the people have dispersed, dispersed, and are doing what they need to do."
Seeing that the matter was resolved, the villagers went back to their respective places. When Village Chief Jin was about to leave, Ye Nuan called out to him and took two quick steps to ask, "Village Chief, are you going to the Creation Pavilion today?"
Village Chief Jin looked her up and down, his eyes landing on the cloth bag she was wearing across her body. He squinted and asked, "Why, did you pick up a stone?"
Ye Nuan nodded and asked, "Village chief, can you take me with you? I will give you at least 30% of the money. I just want to see if there are any new things in the Creation Pavilion." She took down the cloth bag and spread out the stones inside for him to see.
"It's half a bag full. Judging from the surface of the stones, the water color should be good." Village Chief Jin looked inquiringly. "Yesterday, there was a sudden earthquake, and most people didn't get much, and several people even died." "This little girl from the Ye family is not only fine, but she also brought back so many stones. She seems to have some skills."
Village Chief Jin grabbed a handful of stones and said with satisfaction, "Count the total number of stones, calculate them by quality and quantity, and then tell me what you want to exchange them for."
If I don't accept her, does that mean I can't take her with me?
Ye Nuan's eyes dimmed slightly, but she didn't show it. She squatted down and dumped all the stones onto the ground. Counting them one by one, there were thirty-three stones in total: nine top-quality stones, twelve medium-quality stones, and the rest were all low-quality. Surprisingly, there wasn't a single scrap.
Village Chief Jin's gaze grew deeper.
This Ye family has some tricks up their sleeve!
Ye Nuan wanted to exchange the salt, most of it for salt and oil, and the rest for flour. There were few varieties of vegetables in the desert; she only found radishes and greens, which she already had and could grow. She felt a pity for not having wheat seeds. Wheat flour could be used to make so many delicious things, such as steamed buns, steamed buns, flower rolls, ramen, knife-cut noodles, pancakes... just thinking about it made her feel delicious. She had to find a way to unlock the Lingquan space. She glanced at the cucumber and bean seeds in the space.
Village Chief Jin took the stone and left, but Jin Qiu stood there looking at her. Ye Nuan asked in confusion, "Miss Qiu, is there anything else?"
Jin Qiu said with a cold face, "I thought you were really dead. My mother asked me to ask you why your skin didn't get better after eating the bitter tofu I made this time."
Well, of course, no spiritual spring water was added.
Ye Nuan thought for a moment and said, "Maybe he ate too much and didn't notice it."
Jin Qiu looked her up and down, then looked at Su beside her, and asked suspiciously: "Then why is your mother's complexion getting better and better?" Does he have to eat at her house?
"Maybe my water is better."
Jin Qiu sneered: "Come on, everyone knows that your family drinks rainwater. You're lucky you didn't die from it." After saying that, he turned around and walked away angrily.
Su held her son in her arms, bewildered, and pointed at her back and shouted, "Who are you? You expect to live forever by eating tofu? I look good because I have a kind heart and a pair of good children!" Although Jin Qiu had helped them, she couldn't curse her daughter for no reason.
"Okay, Mom, you take Xiaohu and watch these three people plow the soil. If you don't have enough hoes, go borrow some from the Feng family. I'll make some rice porridge for you first." Her mother cried for a long time when she saw this, and her eyes were swollen like walnuts.
"Okay, go ahead."
Su went to the Feng family to borrow a hoe, and she and Ye Xiaohu sat in the yard, watching the three people who had been badly beaten hoe the ground. If anyone disobeyed, she would hold Ye Xiaohu and stand aside, and everyone was terrified.
Ye Nuan peeked out the half-open window and saw her brother smiling, his eyes full of tenderness. Thinking they must be hungry, she found some brown rice, washed it, and filled a wooden bucket with the rice washing water. Then, she swiftly started to light the fire and cook the porridge.
In her previous life, she was used to living alone, doing her own laundry, cooking, and tilling the soil. It wasn't until she discovered the spiritual spring that she gradually ascended from a humble peasant to a rancher. After becoming wealthy, she would occasionally cook delicious food she saw on TV or Weibo. She had never tasted a bowl of brown rice porridge like this before.
Compared with refined rice in later generations, brown rice tastes a little worse, but at least it is nutritious and there is nothing wrong with it.
The crackling of firewood and the smoky air warmed the kitchen. As the water in the pot boiled, Ye Nuan stirred the brown rice. The yellowish grains, saturated with water, blossomed under the heat. After a while, the soft, mushy rice tumbled, and a rich, fragrant aroma filled the kitchen.
After the porridge was cooked, she made a special bowl of pure white rice soup, stir-fried some vegetables, and fried two eggs. These rural dishes, cooked without oil and cooked over high heat, were vibrant green, and the eggs were golden, crispy, and fragrant.
Breakfast is ready and the sun has risen.
She first moved the wooden stool to the sun, filled two bowls of porridge and placed them there, then brought eggs and vegetables and called out, "Mom, Xiaohu, come quickly."
Su held Ye Xiaohu in her arms and sat down, patting the wooden stool and saying, "This thing was made by Dazhu next door. I gave him food, but he refused to take it, saying that you had already given them a lot of things."
Ye Nuan took a sip of the fragrant rice soup, which was a little hot. "Mom, we'll give them some after we grow the vegetables. Brother Feng is a good man, and we won't take advantage of him."
Su smiled and said casually, "I think that boy likes you."
Ye Nuan was stunned for a moment, then drank another sip of rice soup, with no extra expression on her face.
"Mother, don't you care about family background?" Ye Nuan asked curiously. After all, her mother was once the legitimate daughter of Duke Rong.
Su shook her head: "Now that I think about it, there's nothing wrong with such an honest man. A man like your father, who is full of knowledge, is just a hypocritical hypocrite. I, Nuan, am kind-hearted and cannot defeat such a man. Find someone who loves you, understands you, is a rough man, or a warrior, as long as you like him." But it seems that his daughter has no feelings for the man next door. Could it be?
Su was a little nervous and asked cautiously, "Ah Nuan, do you still miss him?"
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