After confirming it was Zhou Ling, Luo Hao quickly shrank back and covered his mouth with his hand.
He glanced longingly at the pheasant, then whistled and walked away with a flourish.
Pheasant: "?" Escaped death!
Zhou Ling was at the bottom of the ditch, shouting until her voice was hoarse, but no one paid any attention to her.
She had no choice but to try to climb up herself, again and again.
Fortunately, there were many small trees in the ditch, and after falling several times, she finally climbed out of the ditch.
She picked up the mushrooms scattered on the ground, cursing under her breath: "I wonder which bastard was that who just stood by and watched me die! If I find out who it was, I'll skin him alive!"
"Achoo~" Luo Hao sneezed. He was in a good mood after coming down the mountain. He saw Lin Ye plowing the field in the distance and quickly ran over.
Seeing his smiling face, Lin Ye asked, "What did you get? You seem so happy."
Luo Hao replied nonchalantly, "I didn't hit anything."
Lin Ye rolled his eyes: "Then why are you so happy?"
"I won't tell you." Forget it, he wouldn't understand that kind of joy anyway.
Seeing Lin Ye plowing the field so diligently, Luo Hao said disdainfully, "No one has ever tried to grow rice on this land before, and they all failed. Aren't you just wasting your time?"
“What do you know? See that sweet potato field over there? You all said it couldn’t be planted there, but now it’s growing perfectly well, isn’t it better than the ones in your vegetable garden? It’s all thanks to my wife. She added compost to the fertilizer, and the soil improved immediately…” Lin Ye started talking non-stop when he got to this.
Luo Hao pursed his lips. His wife talks about him all the time; he's practically sick of hearing it.
"Women are all troublesome. If you marry such a good wife, there won't be so many men causing trouble and drinking every day." Anyway, his older brother always said that women are too annoying.
Moreover, he had just emerged from Zhou Ling's shadow and had no desire to marry a woman who would control him.
"You don't understand how good your wife is!" Lin Ye smiled.
Luo Hao crossed his arms and said leisurely, "Tell me, how exactly is it good?"
Lin Ye felt a sweet warmth in his heart as he recalled the intimate moments with Lu Wanqing. "I won't tell you!"
That kind of joy, you can't understand it even if I tell you!
......
Zhou Ling made a point of passing by the riverbank on her way back from the back mountain.
Lin Ye has already left, and half of the land remains unplowed.
Zhou Ling took out the mushrooms and casually sprinkled them on the side that hadn't been plowed yet.
Seeing someone walking towards her from afar, she quickly put the rest back into her pocket and walked home as if nothing had happened.
When he got home, everyone in the family had gone to work, but Xu Erlai was lazy and stayed in bed.
When he saw her return, a glint of lust flashed in his eyes, but seeing that she was all dirty, he said impatiently, "Where have you been? You're all filthy. Go wash up."
"I didn't do anything."
Zhou Ling took the things out of her pocket, put them on the table, and went to take a shower in a huff.
She touched her head and found her hands covered in blood, and her body was covered in bruises. She was in pain all over. That damned Xu Erlai didn't even bother to show any concern; all he did was despise her.
Fortunately, she had found a way to coax him and quickly made him happy, allowing her to sleep for half a day.
She was awakened by the noise and shouting in the late afternoon.
When He Shujuan returned from work, she was shocked to find Zhou Ling still sleeping, which made her furious and she started cursing.
But Xu Erlai, for the first time ever, protected her.
After a while, she heard Li Miaolian calling her to eat.
After a long day, she was indeed hungry.
At the dinner table, each person had a bowl of soup, which, judging by its color, looked very much like meat broth.
She was quite happy, picked up the bowl, and started drinking. It was especially delicious, and she drank every last drop.
After finishing their drink, they noticed that Li Miaolian's son, Xu Bowen, sitting opposite them, was putting mushrooms from his bowl into his mouth.
"Oh, so everyone else has the good stuff, while I only have soup!" Zhou Ling gritted her teeth in anger.
The boy ate with pride, saying, "Mom, this mushroom is really delicious."
He was glared at by He Shujuan and was too scared to speak. Why did he have to say anything?
mushroom?
Zhou Ling then realized, could it be...?
"Stop eating!" Zhou Ling shouted, rushing to snatch the soup bowl from Xu Bowen's hand.
Li Miaolian protected her son's bowl, her teeth chattering with anger. "Although you picked the mushrooms, I also cooked them with great effort. My son is the youngest in the family, what's wrong with letting him eat some mushrooms?"
Li Miaolian became more and more aggrieved as she spoke, tears welling up in her eyes.
Her life was truly miserable. She never enjoyed any happiness after marrying into the family, and her husband died in an accident. Although the team gave her, a widow, two yuan a month, He Shujuan kept it all.
He Shujuan was afraid that she would seduce her husband and second son, so she forced her to sleep in the woodshed. But she still had to do a lot of work. In addition to working, she also had to take care of the family's meals and do their laundry.
She thought that her life would be easier after her second son got married, but who knew that he was living in a nice room and was always sick and lazy, and didn't share any of the work!
Now, even the chance to eat more mushrooms will be taken away.
This time, no matter what, she was determined to fight for her son.
"These mushrooms are really inedible." Zhou Ling broke out in a cold sweat.
"Zhou Ling, don't think I won't hit you just because you're pregnant. Wenwen is so young and still growing. What's wrong with her eating a little more? Sit down and shut up!"
Zhou Ling wanted to say something, but her stomach felt like it was crawling with thousands of ants, and she experienced a sharp, cramping pain.
He Shujuan felt that something was wrong with her and wanted to help her, but unexpectedly, her own stomach started to hurt as well.
At this moment, the others also clutched their stomachs, broke out in a cold sweat, and screamed.
Xu Bowen, in particular, who had eaten the mushrooms, was in so much pain that he was rolling on the ground.
Li Miaolian, who was in so much pain that she couldn't even take care of herself, cried and snotted as she went to help her son. Seeing his painful struggle, she yelled at Zhou Ling, "Are you trying to poison us?"
Xu Erlai then realized that the mushrooms were poisonous. Despite the pain, he slapped Zhou Ling, yelling, "You poisonous woman! You want to kill us all? I won't let you live alone!"
As he spoke, he used all his strength to strangle her neck. Seeing her face turn bright red and she was about to die, she said with difficulty, "Go find Lu Wanqing, she knows how to cure the poison."
She never expected to be poisoned herself, but luckily she overheard Lu Wanqing saying that she knew how to cure the poison.
Xu Erlai released her. "What did you say?"
"Don't ask so many questions... If you want to live, go find Lu Wanqing." Zhou Ling said while coughing.
Xu Erlai then stumbled and staggered to Lin Ye's house.
At this time, Lin Ye's family was also eating, having stir-fried eggs with chili peppers, stir-fried pork with garlic sprouts, and stewed cabbage with pork soup.
Xu Erlai barged in without a care, leaning weakly against the wall. Upon seeing their food, he immediately swallowed hard.
However, now is not the time to envy others' food, he pleaded with a tearful voice:
"Lin Ye's wife, my family of six has been poisoned by mushrooms. Please save us!"
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