Madam Xu assumed that Jiang Hua had gone into the kitchen to cook dinner as usual, so she stopped nagging her.
"Grandma, Uncle, Aunt, I'm going in to help Er Ya make dinner," Lin Shuyan said to Madam Xu and the others.
"Yan Yan, how can your fingers do such rough work?" Madam Xu, who had just been so affectionate towards Jiang Hua, held Lin Shu Yan's hand and then called out to Jiang Hua in the kitchen:
"Xu Erya, boil an egg for your cousin later!"
Looking at this simple kitchen, the stove was simply built of yellow clay, and there was a ceramic jar on the stove, which was almost empty of lard.
Next to the earthenware pot was a bowl of soy sauce and salt. Then, Jiang Hua looked at the closed cupboard behind her. She opened the cupboard and found a basket of eggs and a bag of coarse rice inside.
Jiang Hua deftly grabbed two handfuls of rice from the rice bag, put them into the pot to rinse, and started a fire to cook porridge. This body had been starving for three days and nine meals a day, so she should eat some liquid food to nourish herself first.
After cooking for half an hour, the coarse rice in the pot had bloomed. Without hesitation, Jiang Hua took two eggs from the cupboard, cracked them in, and made a small pot of egg porridge.
After finishing two bowls of egg porridge, Jiang Hua felt as if she had finally come back to life. After eating, she neatly washed the pots and pans and put them back in their original place, returning to the woodshed where her original body used to live.
The woodshed was next to the kitchen, separated by only one wall. The original owner's bed was just a tattered straw mat laid on the ground, and the only thing covering him was a quilt stuffed with reeds.
I have to say again, it's incredibly lucky that the original owner of this body has survived until now.
"You vicious female supporting character, how can you be so selfish? Why don't you cook for the female lead!" The system's mechanical voice suddenly rang in Jiang Hua's ears.
"Who is the female lead?" Jiang Hua asked casually, following its lead. "Lin Shuyan?"
"And what are you?"
Jiang Hua stared coldly at the tattered straw mat on the ground, while pondering the system that kept popping up from time to time.
"I am the female protagonist system of this world."
Jiang Hua listened as the system in her mind went on and on, introducing the background of this world.
It turns out that the place she was in was the world of a melodramatic romance novel, and Lin Shuyan and Zhou Yingxuan were the male and female protagonists of the book. The original owner of this body was the vicious female supporting character in the book who enhanced the relationship between the male and female protagonists. Even Jiang Xingzhou today is one of the female protagonist's suitors.
Everyone in the book will unconditionally believe in the female lead because of her "female lead halo".
Jiang Hua understood; in short, all of them, these innocent people, were just part of the male and female protagonists' story.
However, the system just mentioned that Jiang Xingzhou is one of the female lead's suitors. Judging from what just happened, she has observed him, and it seems that he is not affected by Lin Shuyan's female lead aura.
"And then what happened? How did it end?" Jiang Hua asked.
She hadn't read the novel, so she didn't know what happened next. What this so-called system was telling her was probably just a part of the book.
"Why should I tell you! You're not the female lead, you vicious supporting character!"
The system's voice was no longer mechanical; it had become a woman's voice, and her tone sounded more human and emotional.
"Aren't you the system?"
"I'm not your system." The system's cold, mechanical voice returned.
"Why is a system that isn't mine bound to me?" Jiang Hua asked with a cold laugh.
"Who wanted to be bound to you? I wanted to be bound to the female lead. In order to be bound to the female lead, I even killed you, this vicious female supporting character, in advance. Who knew you would be so tough and not die!"
"Because of this change in your life, my great female protagonist system is now one level lower than other systems after it was bound to you."
"What does this have to do with me?" Jiang Hua raised an eyebrow. It seemed that the system was unaware that this body had been replaced with a new soul.
However, from what the system said earlier, Jiang Hua learned that the system was also involved in the original owner's death.
"How can it not concern you? You're the villainous female supporting character, and you have to fulfill the plot of the book. I'm now bound to you, and the development of the male and female leads will be guided by you from now on," the system said.
"Do you think I want to be tied to a villainous supporting character like you?"
Jiang Hua frowned slightly as she listened to the system's utterly disdainful words: "Since you're so dissatisfied, then just unbind yourself and go back to your main female lead role. I'm not stopping you, so why should I pave the way for the male and female leads?"
"What, is my life not a life? Without me paving the way for their love, they can't be together?"
"Or, why don't you just say it outright, that their love is deadly?"
"If you do not follow the tasks issued by this system, you will be punished with electric shocks from the system!" The system remained silent for a while before slowly saying this.
"Go ahead and try," Jiang Hua said coldly.
Before the system could respond, Xu's cursing voice could be heard from outside the woodshed.
"Xu Erya, you brat, where's dinner?"
"You're going to die! You little brat, you actually ate all by yourself, and even ate two eggs!"
Immediately, Jiang Hua heard Madam Xu shouting loudly in the courtyard, "Xu Er Ya, come out here! I'm going to beat you to death today!"
Jiang Hua frowned slightly, still adjusting to the fact that her soul had transmigrated into Xu Erya's body, and heard Xu Shi's increasingly offensive and abusive words in her ears.
Xu called out in the courtyard for a long time but no one came out. Just as she was about to rush in and pull the person out, she met Jiang Hua's gaze as she came out.
Meeting Jiang Hua's icy gaze, Madam Xu was so frightened that she took a few steps back.
"Is there something you need?" Jiang Hua asked Xu Shi in a nonchalant manner.
"What's wrong now? Why are you making such a racket? Isn't dinner ready yet?" Madam Xu came out from the inner room, glanced at Jiang Hua with displeasure, and finally fixed her gaze on Madam Xu.
"Mother-in-law!" When Madam Xu saw Madam Xu come out, she seemed to have found her pillar of support and hurriedly went forward to complain.
"That lazybones dares to eat alone. I just went into the kitchen and found that two eggs are missing from the cupboard and two handfuls of coarse rice are missing from the rice bag."
"Xu Erya, is what your mother said true?" Madam Xu asked Jiang Hua.
Perhaps it was because Jiang Xingzhou had promised her fifty taels of silver that she refrained from cursing and swearing?
Previously, even if there were a few extra grains of rice in the original owner's bowl of porridge, she would be scolded mercilessly, and all sorts of nasty things could be heard in the courtyard.
However, Jiang Hua was overthinking it.
"Oh my god!" Madam Xu suddenly roared loudly, slapping her thighs with both hands.
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