The system displayed Jiang Tangtang's character profile score on the screen and added: "While gaining character profile score primarily depends on your actions, the male lead's cooperation can grant you additional points for interactions between the male and female leads."
What is "interaction points"? I've never heard you mention it before. Why do you always suddenly come up with all sorts of projects?
Jiang Tangtang tried hard to control her facial expression, not letting her anger show on her face.
The system said: [This is a random task that the host just triggered; it didn't exist before.]
Jiang Tangtang remained silent.
This unreliable system—she now seriously suspects—is entirely customized by it at its own whim. It acts like a three-year-old, doing whatever comes to mind.
She took a deep breath and reassured herself not to argue with the system.
Anyway, she couldn't beat the system.
She asked helplessly, "How are interaction points calculated? What are the benefits?"
[Just like the character design score, reaching 10 points will trigger a random reward once. Host, this is a new benefit for you.]
Fine, I won't lose out anyway.
Moreover, Xiao Xianjun is very gentlemanly and will agree to most of her requests, so these interaction points are practically free.
Jiang Tangtang comforted herself for a moment, then took Lu Chenyan's hand and got into the carriage to continue their journey.
As they approached Yihe County, the number of refugees increased, and the Lu family's two horses became the object of everyone's envy.
Many refugees stared greedily at the Lu family's two horses, as if they were about to transform into hungry wolves and pounce on the Lu family members at any moment.
Seeing this, the Fang family stopped chasing the Lu family as usual and instead deliberately slowed down to create distance between them.
Upon seeing this, some villagers from Dawancun also pretended to be physically exhausted and, like the Fang family, deliberately slowed down their pace to distance themselves from the Lu family.
Only the Song family and the Shi family remained closely following the Lu family.
Looking at Lu Cuilan and Fang Peiru, who were hiding far behind with the Fang family, Su pouted and said to Old Man Lu, "You're still soft-hearted, wanting to secretly give them some of the beef sauce from home to help them out. But look at what she did?"
Old Lu had a long face, clearly unhappy.
Regardless of whether he was happy or not, Madam Su continued, "When she sees that our family is doing well and there's an opportunity to take advantage, she runs faster than a dog. She comes as soon as she smells something, asking for this and that, not treating herself like an outsider at all."
But when we encountered difficulties, she was treated worse than a stranger, quickly running to the side to hide. Luckily, I used to treat her like a younger sister, always thinking of her first. Now I've finally seen her true colors.
"What are you nagging about? Didn't you not give her the beef sauce either? I still listened to you." Old Lu said with a long face and some impatience, "If you have the strength, go down and walk, and let a few children ride in the car."
Although the trailer has been widened, there aren't many people who can sit on it because of the luggage inside.
Lu Shiwang and Lu Shichang, being considerate of their parents, never stopped to rest in the car. They mostly gave the opportunity to Old Man Lu, Madam Su, and the children of the first and second wives.
At this moment, Old Man Lu and Madam Su were both sitting in the carriage.
Although Madam Su felt sorry for her son, she didn't want to get up and walk. She glared at Old Man Lu, "Don't you even know how you got this good fortune? You're always siding with your sister, not even letting anyone say a word. Be careful..."
Although she didn't say anything, she glanced in Jiang Tangtang's direction. Old Man Lu understood what she meant: be careful not to upset his third daughter-in-law, lest the gods take away the Lu family's good fortune.
In fact, it was precisely because Old Man Lu was concerned about Jiang Tangtang's feelings and afraid that if he upset her, the Lu family's good fortune would be ruined, that he didn't dare to help Lu Cuilan and her two nieces.
Seeing that many refugees had run out of rations and could only eat tree bark and grass roots, the more picky and troublesome his third daughter-in-law was, the better the family's luck seemed to be.
Even if the son didn't catch any prey when he went up the mountain, he could always pick some wild fruit.
You have to understand, these days many trees have died, and the hills have been looted by refugees time and time again.
Under such circumstances, the fact that they were able to pick wild fruit is nothing short of incredible luck, or divine intervention.
Between his daughter and his sons and grandsons, and the prosperity of the Lu family, Old Man Lu cared more about the latter. He lowered his eyelids and said, "I don't know what's important, why do you need to nag me?"
Madam Su snorted and ignored her, instead pleading, "Third Brother's wife, these refugees are staring at us like hungry wolves. I feel like a lamb to the slaughter, and it's terrifying. Tell me, can we get through this crisis?"
Old Man Lu also watched Jiang Tangtang nervously. Although the old couple had seen Lu Shiyan deal with the refugees who wanted to steal the beef, they knew in their hearts that their son's kung fu was now far more powerful than before.
But there were many more refugees staring at them today than the other day, and he couldn't help but worry.
"Don't worry, Mom and Dad, these refugees pose no threat to us."
What a joke! They have a little immortal lord overseeing them, what are these few refugees?
Jiang Tangtang wasn't nervous at all; in fact, she was even thinking about how to stir things up and improve her public image.
Hearing Jiang Tangtang's words, the elderly couple felt much more at ease. Luo Taohua and Zhou Qiongniang, who had been listening intently to the conversation by the carriage, also breathed a sigh of relief.
Since even Jiang Tangtang, this divine disciple, said they were alright, then they must be fine. The tense atmosphere from before immediately relaxed.
On the other hand, Wang Ergou felt that he had finally gotten his chance and kept giving Fang Peiru meaningful glances.
When it got dark and everyone stopped to rest, Fang Peiru found an inconspicuous place to meet Wang Ergou.
Wang Ergou casually pulled out the little bird and urinated into the woods. "Now the plan needs to be changed. But it's better this way. With so many refugees as helpers, it'll be easier for us to succeed."
Fang Peiru felt utterly disgusted. With her back to him, she gritted her teeth and said, "Then you have to promise to take that bitch Jiang away and torture her so that she'll never have a good life again."
Wang Ergou shuddered a few times, fastened his belt, looked at her, and said in a lewd tone, "That won't do. She's my darling. I have to put her in bed and pamper her."
If Wang Ergou readily agreed to her request to torment Jiang Tangtang, Fang Peiru would become suspicious.
But after hearing Wang Ergou say that, she believed him completely. She believed that he was indeed crazy in love and just wanted to get Jiang Tangtang.
She cursed Jiang Tangtang inwardly, calling her a vixen who seduced men everywhere and deserving of her fate, but she said aloud, "So what are you going to do?"
“I reckon those refugees will make their move in the middle of the night, and then—” Wang Ergou was halfway through his sentence when he suddenly saw two women walking toward them. He quickly pulled Fang Peiru and hid in the woods.
"What are you doing?" Fang Peiru struggled and shouted angrily.
"Someone's here," Wang Ergou said, covering her mouth and whispering in her ear.
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