With an indignant look on her face, she walked up to the crowd and said loudly, "Lin, you actually blamed me for Qiu Lai's sake! I don't want a man like you anymore. I want to break off our engagement. Don't ever appear in front of me again, or I'll beat you every time I see you."
The clansmen whispered among themselves, saying that Li's temper was too much; it was just a small conflict, and he wanted to break off the engagement.
Li and Yun looked at their daughter with concern, wondering why they were going to break off the engagement.
Lan pulled her younger sister, "Li, don't be angry. I'll beat him up again, and I promise he won't dare to do it again."
Xiao Li didn't want to drag things out. These love triangles and quadrangles were annoying to look at, and she wanted to end them as soon as possible to feel better.
She said firmly to her brother, "Brother, I don't want him anymore. He likes Qiu, and I don't care about him at all. In the future, I want to find someone who is devoted to me and only good to me."
Seeing that their daughter was determined, Li and Yun said loudly, "If that's the case, then let's break off the engagement."
Lin felt a mix of joy and anger. He was now free and could pursue Qiu. Yet, he was also secretly annoyed that the Li family had gone too far in bullying him.
He struggled to his feet. "Li, give Qiu's ginseng back to her. Does having a daughter give you the right to bully people?"
Xiao Li slowly said, "When did I take Qiu's things? Everyone can testify that I found them myself, and I even dug them out myself."
“Yes, that’s what Li found and dug out. Qiu had nothing to do with it. She’s been looking around all day and hasn’t found any plants at all.” Guo quickly stepped forward to testify for Li.
The other girls also stood up and spoke.
"Yes, it was dug out from there."
Lin looked very unhappy. He didn't believe Qiu would lie, but he also didn't think everyone was committing perjury.
"Let's call Qiu over for a confrontation. Whose stuff is it?" Xiao Li could tell from Lin's expression that he didn't believe her.
At this point, Ye Qiu had no choice but to step forward. She hid behind the crowd to watch the show, secretly cursing Mrs. Lin for being useless.
She said ambiguously, "I found it first, but I was too quick, so she dug it away."
Xiao Li wasn't going to let her get away with it. "Just because you think you found it doesn't mean you did. I could say I saw it yesterday."
"Exactly, if you saw it, why didn't you dig it up? But when someone else dug it up, you claimed that you saw it yourself."
Ye Qiu was also very angry. Seeing that the people around her were talking about it, she had no choice but to run away crying.
Xiao Li shook her head. This female lead is too weak; she cries at the drop of a hat.
Lin watched Qiu's retreating figure, his heart breaking. He glared fiercely at Xiao Li before leaving as well. Everyone else dispersed as well.
Xiao Li's family also returned to the stone cave, and everyone looked at her silently with concern.
“That kid Lin is really no good. He even dared to glare at us just now. Li, don’t be sad. I’ll find you someone better in the future,” Lan assured him, patting her chest.
"Uh-huh."
Xiao Li nodded in agreement.
Seeing that their daughter's face showed no sadness or distress, Li and Yun were finally relieved.
Xiao Li picked up the stone knife again and continued to whittle the chopsticks. Lan watched with great interest. Once Xiao Li had finished making the mold, she didn't want to continue.
Seeing her brother's eagerness to try, she began to teach him step by step, inspiring him to create new objects as she taught him.
"It would be great if this bowl were bigger, so we could use it as a pot to cook food."
"If this bowl were a little flatter, it would be easier to put things in it."
"..."
Soon after, they made a large batch of pots, pans, and ladles. The family tried them and found them very useful, so they promoted them to the whole clan.
Lan has been quite successful lately. He has even taught the disabled able-bodied men and elderly people in the clan how to make it and store it up so they can exchange it for other things at the market later.
Meng's cave has changed dramatically, now filled with many household items that Meng has never seen before.
He knew Qiu was no ordinary person. When he found her, she had nothing with her except a small backpack, but now she had so many extra things.
But he didn't ask any questions. He would protect her, no matter where she came from.
Xiao Li was preparing dinner. She was cutting meat with a wooden cleaver she had made from an ironwood tree last time. After being thinned and left for a few days, the wooden cleaver had become as hard as iron and was comparable to modern iron cleavers.
She sliced the meat into thin slices, mixed it with salt, and secretly added some thirteen-spice powder. After mixing, she skewered it with clean skewers and grilled it over a fire.
The slices of meat, with alternating layers of fat and lean meat, sizzled and dripped oil, releasing a rich aroma.
The whole family gathered around. Xiaoli had Lan hold the skewers and keep turning them while she arranged the stone slabs in the fire and started stir-frying the meat on them.
The meat slices seasoned with thirteen spices were far superior to Ye Qiu's burnt flavor, and the whole family ate to their heart's content.
Yun looked at Xiaoli in amazement, "Li, how did you do that? This is so delicious!"
"It was all Qiu who said it, and that's exactly what she did."
"Oh~"
Soon after, Ye Qiu indeed took out a clean and exquisite porcelain bowl. She also explained how to fire porcelain, but because the temperature of the fire was not high enough, the bowls that were fired were either rough or cracked and could not be used at all.
Then everyone discovered that Lan had already made useful wooden bowls and chopsticks, so everyone abandoned making porcelain and started using wooden bowls and chopsticks, and even pots, pans and ladles were made.
Everyone praised Lan Xin for her skillful hands, but Ye Qiu was so angry she almost fell over. It was all Lan Xin who came up with those designs!
If she hadn't started using bowls and chopsticks, these savages would still be tearing meat with their hands to eat, let alone using bowls and chopsticks, let alone eating stir-fried meat and meat soup.
However, she was also very impressed, because the pots, pans and bowls that Lan made were really beautiful. The reddish-brown patterns made them look like high-quality wood, and it would be a waste to only use them to make bowls and chopsticks.
Xiao Li has been going into the deep forest every day lately. The spiritual energy there is abundant, and her cultivation there is even more effective than in the space. The female lead's cheat ability is too powerful, and she must improve her cultivation level as soon as possible.
Soon, her strength reached the third level of Qi Refining, and she was able to use some minor spells.
Summers here are extremely hot, and winters are extremely cold; each season is distinct, making it both loved and hated.
As the weather grew hotter, one night, Xiao Li noticed that the fire elemental energy in the air was particularly active. She remembered the wildfire in her memory and decided to go into the mountains to investigate.
I quietly got up without disturbing my family. In the darkness, only the stars twinkled in the sky, a vast expanse of clear, bright stars that seemed to reveal the azure sky behind them.
Like a nimble cat, Xiao Li darted through the wind and disappeared into the deep forest. After crossing several hills, she saw flickering lights in the forest from the treetops. Had it really been lit?
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