The mother and son acted as backdrops in the yard. Su Niang was too lazy to pay attention to these two annoying guys. She ran to Li Chen's room, got some eggs and flour, and started working in the kitchen.
The most important thing in the world is eating. For the first time, Su Niang felt that beating people was also a strenuous job. In just a short while, she was hungry again.
Suniang unceremoniously cracked a few eggs and mixed them into the flour. After a moment's thought, she went to the backyard and picked a few scallions, chopped them up, and sprinkled them over the flour. Soon, the fragrant aroma of scallion pancakes wafted from the kitchen.
While Su Niang was doing these things, Li Chenshi had already been rescued from the pickle jar by Li Wangcai. Seeing Su Niang busy in the kitchen, the two men wanted to run but didn't dare. Li Wangcai's injuries were clearly visible! This Su Niang was no softie.
After the fragrant scallion pancakes came out of the pan, Suniang ate three in one go before she felt her empty stomach was no longer so hungry. She found a clean white cloth to wrap the remaining dozen pancakes and stuffed them into her bag.
After doing all this, Su Niang didn't even look at Li Wangcai and his mother, and went out leisurely with her bag on her back.
Standing at the foot of Lingshan Mountain, Su Niang's heart was filled with emotion. She felt that she was born to live among green mountains and clear waters, instead of being bullied by that mother and son like a punching bag.
Looking at the mountains in the distance, Su Niang felt an inexplicable call in her heart. She thought that she should go to those high mountains to see if she could find her lost memories there.
"Don't let her go!"
"Hurry up, hurry up!"
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A burst of noise came from behind. Su Niang turned around and saw a group of men chasing after her with "weapons" such as hoes, wooden sticks, and iron forks. Behind them was a large group of gossipy women who came to watch the fun and surrounded Su Niang in an instant.
Su Niang pursed her lips as she looked at the crowd, her heart filled with impatience. She was ready to leave, but why were these people still not letting her go? Did they really want her to kill the entire village? Thinking of this, Su Niang's eyes flashed coldly as she searched for the culprit she had identified in her mind.
Sure enough, Li Chenshi and Li Wangcai, who had one arm hanging, were standing outside the crowd twenty meters away, looking over here. When they saw Su Niang looking at them, both mother and son showed sinister smiles on their faces.
Su Niang's face turned cold and murderous intent arose in her heart.
"Suniang, where do you want to go?" The village head pushed through the crowd and walked in, standing in front of Suniang and asked.
"Go up the mountain." Su Niang didn't want to answer at first, but when she saw that the headman's hair and beard were almost completely white, she responded anyway.
"Have your husband and mother-in-law agreed?" The village chief's face was drawn, and his tone was unpleasant. If it weren't for the fact that they were fellow villagers, he really wouldn't want to intervene in Li Wangcai's family affairs. On a daily basis, these two mother and son always bullied Su Niang, and now they deserved a beating from Su Niang. If Li Chen hadn't been refusing to leave his house, the village chief really wouldn't have wanted to come here.
"We don't need their consent." Su Niang replied with a cold face.
"What are you saying? You're the daughter-in-law of the Li family. Your every word and action represents the reputation of the Li family. How can you speak like that?" Li Zhengzheng frowned. This was the custom in Xiushui Village. A daughter-in-law wasn't just a person; she was also the property of her husband's family. No matter who she was, once she married, she was under the control of her husband's family.
"I don't want to be the daughter-in-law of the Li family anymore." Su Niang didn't care about anything else and just said something that shocked everyone.
"Cough cough cough... Ridiculous, ridiculous!" The old headman was choked by Su Niang's fierce words. Apart from the word ridiculous, he really couldn't think of any other words to describe Su Niang's audacious behavior.
"You bitch, can you do whatever you want? It depends on whether the people of Xiushui Village agree or not! If the young wives in other families follow your example, won't you ruin the morals of our village?" Li Wangcai saw that the situation was not good and yelled with his neck straight.
"Yes, yes! Wangcai's wife is too outrageous to say such things."
"Ethical principles have existed since ancient times. How can we just do whatever we want?"
"It takes a thousand years for a daughter-in-law to become a mother-in-law. Everyone started out as a daughter-in-law!"
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Some villagers in Xiushui Village were incited by Li Wangcai's words.
Suniang stood there quietly without saying anything. When the villagers' voices gradually died down, she said, "I'm leaving now. What do you want to do?"
The villagers were stunned.
What do they want? Isn't it obvious? The knives, forks, sticks, and clubs in their hands are no pushovers. If a family has an unruly daughter-in-law, the whole village will help to capture her. If they can't capture her, they will beat her to death. This is the rule of their Xiushui Village.
Is Wangcai's wife crazy? She even forgot this rule?
"Beat her! I don't want this daughter-in-law anymore. According to the village rules, I can beat her to death." Li Wangcai's gritting teeth voice rang out, waking up all the villagers.
Suddenly, the villagers' sticks rained down on Su Niang's head and body.
Hehehe... rules? Rules about beating someone to death? Rules about taking someone's life? That depends on whether I agree or not!
Su Niang felt murderous intent in her heart, and her eyes suddenly turned bloodshot.
When Zhou Yuanyuan regained consciousness, she found herself turned into a tree.
Yes, a tree. A tree without eyes, mouth, body, arms, or legs. A tree that grows on the ground and cannot move.
How can a tree without eyes see its own appearance? Let me put it this way! Although Zhou Yuanyuan cannot move now, her spiritual consciousness still exists. Under the coverage of Zhou Yuanyuan's Jindan stage spiritual consciousness, Zhou Yuanyuan can clearly see that she is halfway up a mountain.
So thirsty! So hungry! I want to drink water! I want to absorb nutrients!
If these instinctive feelings weren't too strong, Zhou Yuanyuan would have wanted to take a good look at the surrounding environment.
Driven by instinct, Zhou Yuanyuan retracted her outward spiritual sense and paid attention to the environment within ten meters around her.
This is a small sapling growing among large trees. This is the second time Zhou Yuanyuan defines herself.
This sapling, whose species is unknown, looks wilted, a sign of lack of water and nutrients.
What should she do? Zhou Yuanyuan was a little worried. When she was alone, she ate when she was hungry and drank water when she was thirsty. Now that she had become a tree, she knew she still needed to drink water when she was thirsty, but she didn't know what to eat when she was hungry.
Zhou Yuanyuan "looked" at her own tree roots. They were so thin and short. No wonder she couldn't drink water!
After discovering the cause, Zhou Yuanyuan diligently drilled the tree roots deeper into the ground, one inch, two inches, one foot, two feet... When the roots were more than ten meters long, a stream of sweet spring water was finally found and sucked up. The thirsty tree was finally watered, and Zhou Yuanyuan smiled happily. The leaves on the treetops trembled a few times.
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