“If he were really that sick, would he be able to go down and cut bamboo?” Luo Taohua became even angrier when she saw that her husband was not listening to her at all and was even defending his younger brother. “I think he just wants to pretend to be sick and hogging the oxcart.”
“That oxcart originally belonged to my third brother’s wife’s family as part of her dowry. It’s only right that they use it. Why should he hog it?”
Lu Shiwang was also angry at his wife's unreasonable and domineering attitude. "No matter what, it's good for our family that my third brother is in good health."
Luo Taohua's eyes darted around, and suddenly she wasn't angry anymore.
Indeed, she had been hesitant about how to bring it up.
Now that my third brother can go down to cut bamboo, I guess we won't have to take the oxcart tomorrow.
Her gaze fell on the skinny ox pulling the cart.
Since the eldest son of the family can't ride in an oxcart anyway, they might as well eat well to avoid attracting envy and causing trouble for the family.
Jiang Tangtang was unaware that so many people were eyeing her cow; at that moment, she was admiring the man's graceful movements.
After cutting the bamboo down, he easily split it in two like cutting tofu. Then he picked the largest bamboo, removed the nodes inside, and cut the rest of the bamboo into sections.
Jiang Tangtang looked at his actions, completely puzzled. "What are you trying to do?"
Lu Shiyan said in a concise and startled tone, "Fetch water."
Jiang Tangtang made a face like an old man on the subway looking at his phone.
Can this be used to get water?
Like Jiang Tangtang, Dawancun also didn't understand why Lu Shiyan was cutting down so much bamboo.
When they watched Lu Shiyan arrange the bamboo sections and light a small fire underneath to roast them, the sap from the bamboo dripped into the longest bamboo tube (from which the nodes had been removed), eventually flowing into a small stream that was poured into a pre-prepared earthenware jar. Only then did the villagers realize what was happening.
So, Lu Sanlang cut down so much bamboo to fetch water!
The villagers who realized what had happened were full of admiration. They thought it was incredibly clever of them to come up with such a way to get water.
Some villagers immediately grabbed knives and, following Lu Shiyan's example, went to cut bamboo to fetch water.
Some people were also watching Lu Shiyan's side with longing eyes, thinking of what excuse they could use to ask him for a drink of water.
Over here, Lu Shiyan, under Jiang Tangtang's admiring gaze, had already killed the spotted dove with a bamboo strip and plucked all its feathers off.
Not only did they kill the doves, but the act of plucking their feathers was also pleasing to the eye, and the doves were cleaned very thoroughly.
Even his fingers were spotless, still appearing fair, slender, clean, and tidy.
She could play with those hands for half a year.
Not to mention that face.
If she had met a man this handsome and a good cook in her past life, she would have sold an entire building to keep him and have her fill of him.
Unfortunately, she is now penniless.
Jiang Tangtang sighed sadly.
"Cousin Yan, let me help you." Jiang Tangtang was sighing like a fairy when a female voice suddenly came from behind her, as if someone was choking her.
She turned around and saw a square-faced woman wearing a brightly colored floral dress walking towards them.
Seeing Jiang Tangtang looking over, the woman rolled her eyes at her with disdain.
Jiang Tangtang immediately rolled her eyes at her with a beautiful and playful look.
Fang Peiru looked at the delicate vixen in front of her and almost gritted her teeth in anger. She turned her head, ran to Lu Shiyan's side, grabbed his neck and said, "Cousin Yan, go lie down and rest. I can handle these things."
Jiang Tangtang scoffed, "What are you doing here? Just to sit down and drink meat soup?"
Fang Peiru glanced at the pigeon, which had been gutted, cleaned, and placed in an earthenware pot, simmering in bamboo sap over a low flame, and a hint of embarrassment appeared on her face.
She had been traveling all day and her legs were about to give out. But she didn't care about being tired. As soon as she reached a rest stop, she quickly found a place to change her clothes, tidied herself up, and rushed over.
All along the way, she heard people praising Lu Shiyan, saying that he was clever and had come up with the idea of using bamboo to fetch water. A secret joy welled up in her heart, as if her own things were being praised.
She was so eager to impress Lu Shiyan that she didn't notice that the pigeon had already been cleaned and stewed.
However, she quickly adjusted her expression and said with a wronged look, "You do nothing yourself and make Cousin Yan, who is seriously injured, do all the work and serve you. Do you think everyone is as shameless as you?"
Jiang Tangtang glanced at her sideways, looking her up and down.
Everyone had traveled all day and was covered in dust, but her round-toed cloth shoes only had a small amount of dust on them.
And the clothes on her body, her hair...
It was obvious that she had dressed up specially, and on top of that, she used a high-pitched voice, calling him "Cousin Yan" in a sickeningly sweet way.
Thinking about the plot of the book, Jiang Tangtang quickly confirmed the identity of the high-pitched voice in front of her.
It turns out she's the male lead's childhood sweetheart and cousin, the girl he grew up with!
Regardless of the plot in the book, the male protagonist was completely indifferent to his cousin; it was all her wishful thinking and delusions of love.
What's more, the male lead is now in the same body as her, with a different soul inside him.
Jiang Tangtang haughtily raised her chin and slightly raised her voice, saying, "My husband is happy to pamper and cherish me, what's it to you? What? Are you envious? If you're envious, go find one yourself. What kind of behavior is it to stare at someone else's husband!"
"You...you shameless!" Fang Peiru's face flushed red as she stomped her feet and said, "I clearly came here to help my cousin, but you insult me like this and ruin the reputation of an unmarried girl like me. What are you up to?"
“If you had come a little earlier, I wouldn’t have misunderstood you! But look at you, you came to help only after we had already started stewing the pigeon meat, and then you slowly walked over wearing brand new clothes. Who would believe you that you came to help with the work?”
Jiang Tangtang looked at the villagers who had crowded around to watch the commotion and said, "When you go to help others with their work, shouldn't you change into your best clothes first?"
“Who would be willing to wear new clothes to work? Of course, we’ll wear the oldest clothes from home!” said Lei Erniang, the third daughter-in-law of the village chief.
Chen Chunxiang, a close friend of Lei Erniang, also said leisurely, "I only dare to wear such fine fabric as that that Miss Fang is wearing when I go to the market or visit relatives. The Fang family has worked for the master in town and has seen the world, so they are different. Even when fleeing famine, they wear such fine clothes."
Her reminder made many people realize what was going on and they said, "Wasn't the eldest daughter of the Fang family wearing this outfit just now?"
"Of course! I remember she was wearing a ripped blue jacket, why did she change into something else?"
"Is that even a question? She definitely changed her clothes specifically to seduce men! Otherwise, why would she go to all that trouble?"
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