“The drought is too severe, and it’s difficult to catch rabbits. I’m not sure if I can catch any,” Lu Shiyan said. “But I will do my best.”
Jiang Tangtang could actually guess what Lu Shiyan meant by telling her not to wrong herself.
Most likely, he discussed some plan with Li Shi and the others.
How could she miss such an opportunity to cooperate with them and gain positive public image value?
Jiang Tangtang slightly raised her chin, exuding the air of a spoiled young lady. "If it's hard to catch, then bring a few more people to help me catch it! I don't care, I just want to eat rabbit meat. If I don't eat it, I feel uncomfortable, I can't sleep, and I want to cry."
The villagers of Dawancun, watching Jiang Tangtang's antics, all shook their heads. Well, here we go again, she's making a scene again.
With such an unreasonable request, would Lu Sanlang really let her have her way?
Some villagers even made a bet on this, with some saying that Lu Shiyan would definitely not agree to Jiang Tangtang's unreasonable request this time.
This time was different from usual. In the past, Lu Shiyan indulged Jiang Tangtang, and those were just harmless little pleasures.
After all, there weren't so many refugees watching them and trying to harm them before.
But this time it's different. Anyone with eyes can see that refugees from all directions are watching them, just waiting for an opportunity to wipe them out in one fell swoop.
To please his wife, he not only went hunting in the mountains himself, but also took the men of the family with him. Wasn't that like sending meat into the wolf's mouth?
That's not loving your wife, that's being stupid.
But someone said, "How many times has his wife made a fuss along the way? Have you ever seen him refuse her? When has he ever listened to her? He's even capable of catching fish in a dried-up riverbed. If you ask me, he'll listen to his wife again this time and lead people up the mountain to catch rabbits for him."
“That time when we were catching fish was different; there weren’t so many people watching his house then.” Nie Laowu insisted, “Even if Lu Sanlang has a good temper, I’m afraid his wife has annoyed him. If my wife were that unreasonable, I would have slapped her twice to make her behave.”
Chen Erniu said, "That's why you can't find a wife."
Neither of them would back down, and they even made a bet using a wild vegetable bun as collateral.
This was a huge gamble for the two of them.
After all, food is precious these days.
Although it's a wild vegetable bun, it still contains sorghum flour, unlike grass roots and tree bark, which would make you unable to defecate if you ate them.
The result of their high-stakes bet came quickly.
Lu Shiyan, along with Li Shi and a few others, carrying weapons, headed up the mountain.
"Old Nie is a man of his word, so hurry up and give me a steamed bun." Chen Erniu was so happy he almost danced with joy.
Old Nie looked utterly dejected and cursed in the direction Lu Shiyan and the others had gone: "Coward, getting manipulated by a woman, no backbone."
"Hey Nie Laowu, you're not trying to renege on your debt after losing, are you?" Chen Erniu said, "If you can't handle losing, then don't gamble. And don't go and curse Lu Sanlang. If you ask me, it's not a bad thing for a man to love his wife."
"Who says I can't afford to lose?" Old Nie had originally wanted to win a cornbread, but instead lost one, and felt only bad luck. After giving the cornbread to Chen Erniu, he left.
On the other side, Liu Chengfeng had been paying attention to the conversation between the group. After Nie Laowu left, he gave a wink to his underlings, and immediately someone followed him.
Liu Chengfeng was different from ordinary refugees. He was originally the head steward of a wealthy family, helping his master do business and traveling to many places.
Later, the family offended the government officials, who confiscated their property and killed the entire family.
Servants of wealthy families like them had no freedom. He was also sold off.
After many twists and turns, he finally regained his freedom.
After regaining his freedom, he vowed in his heart that he would rather beg for food than ever be a slave to anyone again.
He found a village to settle down in, intending to make long-term plans. Unexpectedly, he suffered one disaster after another and eventually became a refugee.
Although he has become a refugee, his keen insight remains.
It was immediately obvious that the Lu family's two horses were top-notch steeds. Horses like these could fetch a thousand taels of silver even in the hands of wealthy and noble families.
With one large and one small horse, even if it takes a lot of money to find connections, getting eight or nine hundred taels of silver is definitely not a problem.
This is definitely more profitable than robbing a moderately wealthy family.
He had his eye on them for a long time and was determined to get his hands on both horses.
Soon, his underlings returned with the news.
"Boss, we've found out. The villagers say that although that guy lets his wife do whatever she wants, he's incredibly strong. He can lift a cow with one hand and cut bamboo like it's tofu. He's not someone to mess with, so no one in the village dares to mess with him."
The henchmen standing nearby listened and all disbelieved, "Is he bragging? No matter how strong you are, you can't lift a cow with one hand, can you?"
The underling who had gone to get information from Chen Erniu earlier said, "That kid made him lose something, so he's very resentful of him and would never deliberately say anything good about him. Since he said that, it must be true. I even heard him cursing him, saying that he's a spineless coward who's controlled by his wife, and no matter how capable he is, it's useless. He'll be a spineless coward for life and can't stand up for himself."
Liu Chengfeng said, "What he said must be true."
"Boss, should we still rob it?" the henchmen asked in unison.
Liu Chengfeng said, "Why don't we rob him? Let's make our move before he comes back."
Meanwhile, Wang Ergou watched as Lu Shiyan led his men hunting in the mountains, and couldn't help but feel uneasy. He wondered why Lu Shiyan was listening to Jiang Tangtang's fuss and taking his men hunting in the mountains at this time.
But thinking about Lu Shiyan's behavior along the way, he quickly understood and sighed in his heart, "Even heroes can't resist the charms of a beautiful woman!"
With such a delicate and beautiful woman acting coquettishly towards him, no man could resist.
Thinking that if things went well, he could sleep with Jiang Tangtang in his arms, and if things didn't go well, he would still have Fang Peiru as his little wife, he looked in the direction of Fang Peiru with a happy feeling.
Fang Peiru clenched her fists, nervously watching the refugees who kept glancing at the Lu family, silently hoping they would act quickly.
Whenever she calms down, all she can think about are the images of Wang Ergou bullying her.
She felt hatred whenever she thought about it.
If it weren't for Jiang Tangtang, how could she have ended up associating with scum like Wang Ergou?
It's all that bitch Jiang Tangtang's fault!
Only if Jiang Tangtang also experienced the nightmare she had experienced—no, only if Jiang Tangtang experienced a nightmare ten thousand times more terrifying and disgusting than hers—would she feel a little better.
She felt that being the wife of someone like Wang Ergou, being pinned down by him every night, would be the most terrifying and disgusting nightmare in the world.
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