Lu Shiyan caught three pheasants in total. He gave one to Su Shi and another to Li Shi before carrying the fattest one back to the oxcart.
Jiang Tangtang closed her eyes and tried to fall asleep for nearly an hour, but she couldn't drift off to sleep.
The sweltering heat, the buzzing mosquitoes, and the hard wooden cart made her sleep uncomfortably, and she wished she could die and go back to her old self.
Just as she was feeling extremely wronged and about to burst into tears, Lu Shiyan pulled out a very crude-looking cloth bag from his pocket and handed it to her, saying, "Take this."
"What's this?" Jiang Tangtang took the cloth bag and smelled a crisp, refreshing scent. She didn't know what was inside, but it was clear that the bag was made from a piece of cloth that he had casually torn from his clothes.
"Take this mosquito repellent sachet with you, and you won't get bitten by mosquitoes," Lu Shiyan said calmly.
"Waaaah... Husband, you're so good to me." Jiang Tangtang really wanted to give the Immortal Lord a bear hug.
Although he doesn't love her, he's so considerate!
Such a handsome, considerate, and ethereal man—if she can't have his heart, she'll have his body.
Just as Jiang Tangtang was using her mind to possess his body, the system suddenly popped up: "[No, you must win his heart. Only by winning his heart can you complete the mission.]"
Jiang Tangtang wanted to spit the system in her face. [Every time I need something, you cower like a turtle, and secretly complain about me behind my back. What use are you?]
[Host, people need to learn to rely on themselves, instead of always coming to me for help. You can't do that.]
Jiang Tangtang felt no shame about her incompetence. "But I can't do anything! How am I supposed to rely on myself? And look at this environment! There's a drought so bad we don't even have water to drink. Do you expect me to be like other transmigrated women, relying on my brains to start a business?"
The system was speechless.
Lu Shiyan was equally speechless at Jiang Tangtang's behavior. Hearing Jiang Tangtang's whimpering, Lu Shiyan felt as if he were facing a formidable enemy, and said, "Don't cry."
Jiang Tangtang stopped faking her tears and smiled broadly, saying, "Why would I cry! My husband is so good to me, I'm overjoyed!"
Lu Shiyan's face remained expressionless, and he did not respond to Jiang Tangtang's mushy and affectionate words.
He tied the pheasant to the car, then sat upright again as he had in the afternoon, closing his eyes.
Jiang Tangtang stuck her tongue out at him.
What's the use of being good-looking if your personality is really awful?
Although the wooden cart was too hard, Jiang Tangtang finally got a good night's sleep without the mosquitoes bothering her.
However, before dawn, she was woken up by Li Shi.
"Let's get going before dawn, so it won't get too hot later." Li Shi already knew this shrewd and calculating young woman, so he made preparations in advance today.
Jiang Tangtang hadn't had enough sleep and was woken up, which annoyed her. But thinking that she had to get to her destination sooner or later, she figured walking now was better than basking in the sun.
Moreover, she could take a nap in the oxcart.
Consoling herself in this way, Jiang Tangtang forced herself to sit up despite her aching body from sleeping, and called Su Shi and the others to hurry on their way.
Farmers wake up early, and since they were on the run, Su and the others woke up early as well.
After Jiang Tangtang spoke, the Lu family immediately packed their things and began their journey.
The villagers of Dawan Village also spontaneously followed behind.
Luo Taohua kept glancing at the pheasants tied up on the oxcart.
Last night, in the middle of the night, Su secretly buried the pheasant that Lu Shiyan had given her in the fire and roasted it. Although she didn't remove the internal organs and it was full of ashes, it was still undercooked.
But that's meat.
There are just too few pheasants, and this year there has been a severe drought, so not only people have nothing to eat, but livestock have nothing to eat either.
The chicken was so skinny, and with so many people sharing it, each person only got a tiny piece.
Luo Taohua didn't even spit out the bones; she swallowed them all and still felt it wasn't enough.
At this moment, they inevitably set their sights on the chicken left by the third wife.
She always felt that the chicken in the third wife's hand was fatter than the one her brother-in-law had given her mother-in-law yesterday.
Moreover, there are only three people in the three households, and they shared a pheasant with so many people last night. She felt that the three households should at least get half of the pheasant.
No, it should be divided into more than half.
Not only Luo Taohua, but the Fang family also stared longingly at the pheasant tied to Jiang Tangtang's oxcart.
Fang Peiru was so eager to see through Jiang Tangtang that she wanted to tear a hole in her.
Noticing Fang Peiru, who was following closely behind the oxcart, looking at her with a jealous gaze, Jiang Tangtang rolled her eyes speechlessly and said to Lu Shiyan in a sweet voice, "Husband, do you know any herbs for cleaning the mouth?"
The area is suffering from a drought, and people don't even have water to drink, so they can't expect to wash their faces or brush their teeth.
But after sleeping for a night, that breath was simply unbearable for her.
He probably knows all the herbs that repel mosquitoes, so he should also know the herbs that can clean the mouth!
"I'll pick some for you when you see them." After saying that, Lu Shiyan closed his eyes again.
Although Lu Shiyan did not immediately go to find medicinal herbs for Jiang Tangtang, his answer still greatly shocked Fang Peiru.
"When you went out sightseeing, all the plants and trees around were withered and dead, and you actually made your injured cousin find herbs to clean your mouth? Jiang, have you no shame?"
Jiang Tangtang glanced at her sideways and said, "My husband is willing to pamper me and find medicinal herbs to clean my mouth. What business is it of yours? Also, you call my husband 'cousin' all the time, but when it comes to me, you call me 'Jiang Shi.' Isn't that a bit impolite? Although I don't care if you call me 'cousin-in-law,' I am indeed your cousin-in-law."
Fang Peiru said angrily, "A woman like you, who is talentless and immoral and only causes trouble for my cousin, how could you be worthy of my cousin Yan? What right do you have to ask me to call you cousin's wife?"
Jiang Tangtang certainly had a million ways to persuade her, but she was a little tired after saying so much in one breath.
She was already exhausted from fleeing the famine, why would she want to fight with an idiot?
She took a deep breath and began to pretend to cry.
Jiang Tangtang is useless at everything, but she's number one at getting her father to act pitiful so she can get all sorts of unreasonable demands.
She took a deep breath, her eyes suddenly reddening, and when she spoke again, her voice was trembling with sobs, "Husband, do you also think I am unworthy of you, lacking both talent and virtue?"
Lu Shiyan suddenly opened his eyes and raised his hand to press against his heart, which was being attacked by a sharp pain.
He turned his head, his face frosty as he looked at Fang Peiru, his eyes filled with undisguised disgust. "Who are you? When did it become your place to interfere in the affairs between my wife and me?"
Fang Peiru shivered involuntarily, staring at the man in front of her in disbelief.
He still had that handsome face, but his entire demeanor was completely unfamiliar to her, unlike the cousin she remembered.
Fang Peiru burst into tears.
She was both frightened and aggrieved.
"Why are you scaring your cousin?" Lu Cuihua, seeing her daughter crying, squeezed through the crowd with her basket on her back and scolded Lu Shiyan, "Your cousin was only doing it for your own good. She was worried that you wouldn't be fully recovered from your injury and would be made to do this and that by Jiang Shi, which might make things worse. And you, instead, are scolding your cousin. You really didn't get any reward for your good intentions!"
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