A bumper harvest is the most inspiring thing.
Even those who usually slack off are now working hard in the fields.
After all, it's a family's food supply for a year. Nowadays, people don't ask for anything else, they just want to be full.
Everyone in the village went to work in the fields. The children couldn't do heavy work, but they could sit in the field and pick corn. Although there was corn everywhere, it was better than nothing.
Some were cutting corn stalks, others were gathering them into bundles and carrying them to the edge of the field, and still others were harvesting corn.
Even Ye Zhiyu was not spared, joining a group of elderly women in harvesting corn.
It's called "picking corn," which simply means breaking the corn off the stalks and placing it on the open ground near the warehouse.
We'll peel off the skin and thresh the grains together then.
Although we were tired, everyone was genuinely happy.
"Are you ready?" Xu Fen asked Li Xi, standing in the abandoned mud house.
Everyone was busy harvesting the grain, and there were so many people in the fields that you wouldn't notice if there were only one or two.
"You don't need to worry about that. You just need to lead her to the place, and the traffickers will take her away."
Li Xi has stopped pretending now. She had been sowing discord all along, hoping that Xu Fen would go after Ye Zhiyu.
Who knew she was so useless, not daring to make a move at all, and in the end we still had to rely on her. However, with the sleeping potion produced by the system, no matter how smart Ye Zhiyu was, she couldn't escape.
Xu Fen frowned, very dissatisfied with Li Xi's attitude, but when she thought that Ye Zhiyu could disappear from now on, she didn't care anymore.
Moreover, she only wanted to tarnish Ye Zhiyu's reputation as a promiscuous womanizer.
Now that she has a better opportunity, she can take those things with a clear conscience.
Anyway, no one will confront her then. As long as she says Ye Zhiyu accepted it, then Ye Zhiyu accepted it, and she gets a bunch of good things for free.
Just then, a sound came from outside.
"Who's there?" Li Xi shouted and ran out to check. This plan should have been implemented long ago, but it was delayed until now due to the torrential rain.
She was so close to succeeding, and she absolutely wouldn't allow anyone to ruin her plans.
Xu Fen followed closely behind. The two inspected the house and the surrounding houses as well, but they didn't find anyone. They could only suppress their unease.
Xu Fen and Li Xi split up; she went to lure Ye Zhiyu, while Li Xi went to meet her.
Lu Cao hid in the haystack, tightly covering his mouth, not daring to make a sound, and straining his ears to listen to the sounds outside.
Time passed slowly, and I only dared to come out when I felt everyone had left.
As soon as I stood still and bent down to straighten my clothes, a pair of feet wearing cloth shoes appeared in front of me.
Lu Cao gripped the hem of her shirt tightly and slowly looked up—it was Li Xi.
"You heard that, didn't you?"
It's not a question, it's a statement of certainty.
Seeing Li Xi staring at her intently, Lu Cao couldn't help but take a step back. Even though Li Xi was alone, she didn't dare to run away. She subconsciously felt that if she dared to make any rash moves, she might really be in grave danger today.
With a trembling voice, she said, "I won't tell anyone. I wish Ye Zhiyu would disappear forever. I will keep your secret."
Li Xi didn't say anything, just watched. Lu Cao swallowed hard, her mind racing.
Suddenly, something occurred to him, his eyes lit up, and he was no longer afraid.
"You're looking for human traffickers, aren't you?"
The chirping of the birds in the tree witnessed the two's conspiracy.
"Ye Zhiyu, I have something to tell you."
Ye Zhiyu forcefully broke off a corn cob and put it into the basket, then reached out to grab one, completely ignoring Xu Fen's intentions.
Xu Fen gritted her teeth, "Wait until you fall into the hands of human traffickers, then let's see how arrogant you can be."
She took a few steps closer and lowered her voice: "I've said a lot of bad things about you to Lu Chen. Don't you want to know what they are? And how Lu Chen reacted?"
Ye Zhiyu paused, looking at her calmly.
Xu Fen felt uneasy under their gaze.
Ye Zhiyu clapped her hands and stood up, glancing sideways at her: 'Not leaving?'
She didn't believe Xu Fen's story at all; it was ridiculous, and her acting was terrible.
Seeing her like this, I suppose she has some kind of conspiracy waiting for her. It's a good opportunity to play with her.
Lu Chen, who was engrossed in his work, seemed to sense something and glanced in the direction Ye Zhiyu had been heading, just as he remembered.
Nobody here?
He straightened up and looked around, and immediately spotted Ye Zhiyu following behind a woman.
Lu Chen frowned. It was the person who had spoken ill of Ye Zhiyu that day.
I was a little worried, but I knew that Ye Zhiyu must have her own reasons for following along.
Suppressing his unease, he bent down to work again, but this time he was clearly preoccupied.
They arrived at the unfinished house where Xu Fen and Li Xi had stayed before.
Ye Zhiyu yawned; she hadn't slept well last night and was feeling very sleepy.
"Hurry up and tell me, I have to go back to work."
Xu Fen lowered her eyes; any child in the village could do more work than Ye Zhiyu.
She would disappear soon, and Xu Fen stopped pretending, because she could already see Li Xi's figure slowly approaching.
Now all she has to do is attract Ye Zhiyu's attention.
"Ye Zhiyu, you're just lucky to have been born into a good family. What right do you have to talk to me like that?"
You have plenty of food, clothing, and money, yet you repeatedly make things difficult for me and humiliate me. You will suffer a terrible death.
Ye Zhiyu picked at her ears; it was the same old thing again, she was so tired of hearing it.
"Is there anything else? If not, I'll be going."
Not getting to the point is a waste of her time.
Just as Xu Yezhiyu was about to turn around, and Li Xi was outside the door, her heart tightened, and she shouted loudly, "I went to find Lu Chen."
Ye Zhiyu stopped in her tracks.
I was even mentally commenting, "Not bad, you know how to find a topic that interests her."
"I told him that you're promiscuous, seducing men everywhere, still having an on-and-off relationship with Fu Tingshen, and driving Liu Yuan crazy..."
The words that followed grew softer and softer in Ye Zhiyu's sight.
But seeing Ye Zhiyu's lack of reaction, it felt like punching cotton.
"Don't you want to know how Lu Chen will react?" She was unwilling to give up and didn't believe that Ye Zhiyu was unmoved; she was definitely faking it.
Ye Zhiyu smiled and said, "I don't want to, because he won't believe your side of the story, and..." She paused to look at her and then said, "Seeing how upset you are, his behavior won't disappoint me."
As soon as he finished speaking, a hand suddenly reached out and covered her mouth and nose with a towel, which was covered with a sleeping potion.
Ye Zhiyu struggled a few times before giving in.
She already knew Li Xi was nearby, which only shows that their methods were not very clever. The fact that Xu Fen came to talk to her was very suspicious.
She was already angry enough that the person had exposed her theft. No normal person would expect something good to happen to someone they had exposed.
The moment she stepped inside, she spread her divine sense out and found Li Xi on the side of the left wall.
Ye Zhiyu let Li Xi tie her up; she wanted to see what they were planning to do.
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