Qiu Yan rolled her eyes at him. "Qiu Dayu, even if I were to hire a farmhand, I would still choose someone with good character. Look at how dejected you are now, I don't want you!"
Qiu Dayu blushed and hurriedly patted his chest to assure everyone, "I won't give up, and I don't want any wages. You just need to provide me with food and drink."
After he finished speaking, fearing that Qiu Yan would refuse, he quickly picked up the two wooden buckets and ran out of the yard.
Qiu Yan was curious and couldn't help but wonder what the Qiu family had done to him. Could it be that they had broken ties with the Yang family?
When Qiu Xu heard Qiu Dayu's last sentence, a bitter look flashed across his eyes.
My uncle is a terrible sleeper; he doesn't want to live with him.
After breakfast, Qiu Yan thought that Ye Shi's health had been poor recently, so she asked Qiu Ling'er to stay at home to help take care of Gu Xiaoran and share Ye Shi's burden.
She still goes to the mountains to collect medicinal herbs as usual.
Qiu Dayu couldn't help but want to slip away when he thought about their chance encounter in the mountains last time, but... things are different now.
“I’ll go with you.” Now that he has a sickle and a shovel, what is he afraid of?
Qiu Yan had absolutely no liking for Qiu Dayu, but this uncle was now like a leech, impossible to shake off.
Qiu Yan smiled maliciously, thinking about the busy farming season two months later.
Qiu Dayu, you chose to keep up, so don't complain about being tired later.
This time, Qiu Dayu carried the basket on his back and also dug up medicinal herbs, while Qiu Yan was only responsible for searching and supervising.
To Qiu Yan's surprise, Qiu Dayu didn't seem to mind the hardship today. "Xiao Yan, I dug up all these herbs today. If we sell them, can you give me half?"
"Dream on!" This person had just said that in the morning, but had already forgotten it.
"Thirty percent is fine too."
"Who said I could order them around as I pleased?"
"Oh, never mind then." Qiu Dayu awkwardly shut his mouth.
An hour and a half passed in the blink of an eye. Qiu Yan looked at the sky and prepared to go find the hunting snare she had made herself.
Qiu Dayu followed obediently behind, carrying the herbs on his back.
I searched for several hunting sets, but they were all empty.
Since Qiu Yan caught and ate the wild rabbit, she has had no more prey fall into her trap.
So she moved those empty hunting sets to other places.
Until the very last one, before Qiu Yanren even got close, she heard a splashing sound.
There's prey!
Overjoyed, she immediately ran forward to check.
Qiu Dayu, panting, chased after them, calling out, "Xiaoyan, wait for your uncle!"
Upon approaching, Qiu Yan saw her prey: a yellow roe deer. The snare was already on its hind leg.
At the same time, she also saw a young woman dressed in brightly colored clothes, excitedly untying her hunting snare.
Luckily she arrived early, otherwise, she would have missed out on this wild robe.
She recognized the woman; she was the village widow, and because her name contained the character "lotus," everyone called her the Lotus Widow.
Widow Lian was known for her promiscuity and was infamous. It was said that her husband was driven to his death by her.
"stop!"
Qiu Yan stopped the widow Lian from her actions, "This is my prey!"
Widow Lian looked up and, upon seeing the newcomer, gave a disdainful smile. "Oh, it's Qiu Yan. What do you mean, 'your prey'? Do you have any proof? Would it answer if you called its name?"
This is a wild deer! She's never eaten a wild deer before in her life. That's right, she mistook the robe for a deer.
Hearing a rustling sound from afar, Widow Lian thought it was her old lover coming looking for her, so she quickly looked up... and immediately deflated.
It turned out to be Qiu Dayu.
As soon as Qiu Dayu caught up, he heard Widow Lian's last sentence, and a hint of displeasure appeared on his face. "This hunting snare was made by Xiaoyan!"
"Yu the Great, you brat, how dare you criticize me? Whoever sees it first gets to keep it. I'm going to have this wild deer today."
"Really?" Qiu Yan didn't expect to reason with this kind of person.
Without saying a word, she stepped forward and grabbed the roe deer's body.
Widow Lian got angry and reached out to scratch Qiu Yan's face. "Qiu Yan, don't bully a poor widow like me just because you have more people."
Qiu Yan blocked the evil claws of the widow with one hand, and with a forceful elbow, the widow fell to the ground with a thud.
"you……"
Widow Lian rubbed her aching bottom, her eyes darting around before finally settling on the handsome young man beside her.
Then, she scrambled to her feet, swaying her ample waist, and pressed her breasts against Qiu Dayu's upper body.
He whispered softly in his ear, "Yu the Great, if you agree to give me this wild deer..."
The sound grew softer and softer, causing Qiu Dayu's face to flush red instantly.
"You...have no shame!" Qiu Dayu felt those two soft mounds, his body trembled instantly, and he recoiled as if electrocuted, his heart pounding wildly.
That soft, delicate voice sent chills down his spine.
Widow Lian intended to seduce him with her beauty, but Qiu Dayu was not interested.
However, she did not restrain herself after Qiu Dayu rejected her. Instead, she stepped forward and grabbed the roe deer that Qiu Yan had just let go of.
"Qiu Yan, don't steal my prey... Qiu Dayu, you're so old and still so innocent, are you even a man?"
"Disgusting!" Qiu Yan shoved the widow away. "Trying to steal meat from me? Dream on!" She felt disgusted to even look at the woman.
Widow Lian was pushed against a tree trunk by Qiu Yan. She cried out "Ouch!" and quickly got up, grabbing Qiu Dayu's sleeve. "Dayu, you heartless little thing, you can only leave the wild deer behind."
Qiu Dayu seemed to have encountered a plague god, leaping and hiding behind Qiu Yan. This woman was too terrifying.
Qiu Yan glanced at Qiu Dayu and said, "Look at your pathetic self."
Seeing Qiu Dayu carrying a wild robe and following behind Qiu Yan, Widow Lian shouted anxiously, "This is my wild deer, you can't take it away."
Qiu Dayu retorted with her exact words, "You say it's yours, but if you call it, will it respond?"
Widow Lian got up and took a few steps, but stopped when Qiu Yan gave her a cold look. "Hmph, Qiu Yan, don't think that just because you've become capable, I'm afraid of you."
"Don't be afraid of me, just come and take it!" Qiu Yan said coldly, and then she and Qiu Dayu disappeared into a corner of the forest.
As the wild roe deer on Qiu Dayu's back receded further and further away, Widow Lian's chest heaved with anger.
Considering Qiu Yan's formidable reputation these days, she ultimately failed to catch up.
As for Qiu Yan, although there was a slight setback on the way up the mountain, it didn't bother her much.
Qiu Xu also faced numerous setbacks early in the morning.
Early in the morning, Madam Qian went to the village school herself and told Teacher Wang about how Qiu Xu had beaten her son so badly that he couldn't walk the day before. Her words were full of disgust for Qiu Xu.
She complained to Teacher Wang for a while, and her final point was that a child like Qiu Xu was a menace, and for the safety of the other children, he should be expelled from the village school.
Qian's words made Master Wang quite suspicious.
Master Wang was not someone who couldn't distinguish right from wrong, and he certainly wouldn't believe Qian's one-sided story.
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