Ning Huan comforted the four little ones, telling them to go to the house in the backyard to catch up on their sleep, and then give them some spirit tree juice after they woke up.
After the four little ones left, Ning Huan looked at Zhou Jing'an helplessly: "This can't go on. When will your mother finally leave?"
Zhou Jing'an was also feeling unwell because he hadn't slept well all night. He thought about how Yao Shi had only been there for two days and hadn't arrived yet, and how the house was in a terrible state.
He thought for a moment and then said, "Since Mother doesn't want to leave, then let's find a way to make her leave. Father should ask Mother to be more careful about things."
Ning Huan paused for a moment and asked, "Has Liu Feng made a move so quickly? Will Father really be with her?"
Zhou Jing'an sneered: "Father has endured for so many years, and now that a pleasing and obedient woman has finally appeared by his side, how could he not react? It's just that Mother doesn't know yet, but we can secretly fan the flames."
"How exactly did you fuel the flames?"
Zhou Jing'an said calmly, "Although Aunt Xiufen and Aunt Guihua have never gotten along, they both have one thing in common: they like to meddle in other people's fun."
"If there's any disturbance in anyone's home, they'll definitely go over to see what's going on, and they'll also keep an eye on other people's everyday gossip."
Hearing this, Ning Huan couldn't help but laugh out loud. Zhou Jing'an was right. Aunt Xiufen and Aunt Guihua were almost as gossip reporters as modern-day ones. If she were to reveal even the slightest bit of information, these two aunties would definitely stop eating and sleeping to inquire about it.
Looking at Zhou Jing'an's appearance, Ning Huan couldn't help but curse Yao Shi inwardly for being so stupid. With such a clever and cunning son, a normal person should treat him well, but she insisted on driving him out.
If you're going to kick someone out, fine, but you insist on showing up in front of Zhou Jing'an and bothering him. Can you blame him for trying to deal with you?
Just as Ning Huan was thinking about this, she heard Yang calling her: "Is my sister there?"
Ning Huan went out to inquire and found out that Yang wanted to ask her to go to the village to fetch water together. Although the water tank at home was full of water, she thought that this would be a good opportunity to see Aunt Xiufen, who also had to go to fetch water in the morning, so she agreed.
Before Ning Huan could speak, she heard Yang Shi whisper, "Sister, have you heard what's been happening in our village lately?"
Ning Huan has been busy teaching the villagers about medicinal herbs these past two days, and yesterday Yao Shi came over and made a scene all day. She really hadn't heard anything about what was going on in the village: "What happened, sister-in-law?"
Yang looked left and right, then leaned close to Ning Huan and whispered, "I heard that someone in our village is secretly dating again, and it's with an older woman from another village."
Upon hearing this, Ning Huan immediately raised an eyebrow. Wasn't Yang referring to Liu Feng?
She feigned surprise and asked, "Who is it? How could this be? Could you have misheard, sister-in-law?"
Yang waved her hand: "It's just what the villagers are saying, and it doesn't sound like they're talking nonsense. Besides, there really is an older woman from another village in our village recently, the one I met when we went to town together last time, Liu Feng."
"Why would she come to our village for no reason? And stay for several days. If she didn't have connections with people in our village, why wouldn't she go back to her own village?"
Ning Huan chuckled inwardly. It seemed things were developing faster than she and Zhou Jing'an had anticipated. Suddenly, an idea popped into her mind: if she had a proper talk with Aunt Xiufen, Yao Shi might not have to sleep at home tonight.
When it was time to fetch water, she smiled and watched Aunt Xiufen walking towards her from afar.
When Ning Huan returned, she heard a voice from the courtyard as soon as she entered the door: "I'm in a lot of pain all over my body, and I'm just waiting for the divine doctor to save me."
"Me too, my stomach has been really uncomfortable lately, I need to have the female doctor take a good look at it."
Ning Huan frowned. As soon as she stepped inside, the people who had been talking in the courtyard hurried over: "Madam Doctor, we are all from other villages and we are not feeling well. We have heard that you are a famous doctor in the surrounding area. Please take a good look at us."
"Yes, yes, my lady healer, I'm not feeling well, and I don't know why, but I'm in so much pain. You must cure me!"
Seeing that new patients had come in today, Ning Huan felt helpless, but there was nothing else she could do. The patients had said they were not feeling well, what if they really had a serious illness?
But after she checked the pulses of several people, she found that they were all perfectly healthy and had no problems at all.
The headache is just because I fell and hit my head a couple of days ago. The stomachache is because I ate something bad and had diarrhea for two days, of course it hurts.
Seeing that they were all perfectly healthy, they insisted on Ning Huan treating them and prescribing medicine, and none of them paid for the consultation. Did she think this place was a charity?
As Yao watched them all come to Ning Huan for medical treatment, she muttered to herself: "She's my mother, and she doesn't even offer to take a look at me, but she's so happy to treat other people's illnesses."
Ning Huan felt Yao Shi's gaze and said to her calmly, "Mother, are you awake and have nothing to do? Then help us clean the yard and tidy up the pile of weeds."
This little bitch dared to order me around! Just as Yao was about to explode, she heard Ning Huan say to the patients, "This is my mother-in-law. Because my husband is injured, she was worried that we wouldn't be able to handle everything, so she came to help with the work."
Madam Yao was stunned. When she heard those people praising her as a good mother-in-law, she could only grit her teeth and suppress her anger to clean the yard.
After Ning Huan saw the patients off, the villagers who had come to learn about herbal medicine arrived. Yao originally wanted to eavesdrop, but Ning Huan sent her to the front yard.
She left reluctantly, but as she was leaving, she saw Zhou Lan and the villagers holding a medicinal herb and talking about something. She was immediately furious: "You girl, your own mother is working hard and suffering here, and instead of helping her, you just sit there like nothing's wrong!"
"I gave birth to you and raised you, and now you've turned into an ungrateful wretch?!"
When Yao asked Zhou Lan this question, Zhou Lan blushed and quickly stood up, saying, "I'll go help Mother with the chores right away."
As she spoke, she took the broom from Yao's hand and went to the front yard. Watching Zhou Lan sweep the yard diligently, Yao felt extremely pleased.
He felt he had finally vented all the resentment he had been holding in for the past two days.
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