Thinking of this, Huang Yan also became unhappy. She threw her shoe at Cheng Hongmei and said irritably, "You weren't talking about the shoe, you were talking about Fang Qiao, weren't you? You didn't get anything good out of me, so why are you taking it out on me!"
"No, I was talking about the shoes," Cheng Hongmei insisted.
Huang Yan raised her finger and pressed hard on Cheng Hongmei's forehead: "Stop being stubborn. You're my daughter. Do you think I don't know what's going on in your head, you brat?"
"What's all the fuss about? Aren't you afraid the neighbors will hear and laugh at you?" Cheng Guihe walked out of the main room with a pipe in his mouth, pulled up a chair and sat down in the sun. "Instead of arguing, why don't you think about what to do next?"
"I'm at my wit's end. What do you suggest we do?" Huang Yan sat down next to Cheng Guihe and said through gritted teeth, "That brat Fang Qiao is so stubborn. I've tried everything to reason with her, but she's still so cold."
Cheng Hongmei: "I had no choice. I kept calling her 'sister-in-law' and saying all sorts of nice things, but she just smiled and kept her mouth shut. Even when Wang Yun told me to leave, she didn't say a word."
Cheng Guihe frowned and pondered deeply, a pipe dangling from his mouth, puffing out smoke. Soon, the surrounding area was filled with the pungent smell of tobacco.
Cheng Hongmei felt disgusted by the smell and took a step back, covering her nose.
Cheng Guihe exhaled the last puff of smoke from his mouth and said fiercely, "If you won't listen to reason, you'll have to drink the penalty cup! If being gentle doesn't work, then we'll have to use force."
"How can you be so forceful? Can you really get rid of our family completely? We can't let the village gossip about us," Huang Yan asked hurriedly.
Cheng Hongmei also perked up her ears.
Cheng Guihe knocked the ash from his pipe onto the ground and sneered, "What's there to be afraid of? A pregnant woman like that, there are plenty of ways to get her into trouble!"
*
The afternoon was calm and peaceful, like the calm before the storm.
On her first night after her rebirth, Fang Qiao lay in bed, touching her stomach, unable to fall asleep for a long time.
She thought about many things, both from her past life and this one.
She couldn't understand why such a good person as Cheng Baidong couldn't live a long life, while the troublemakers of the Cheng family were able to die peacefully in their old age.
I can't think about it; the more I think about it, the more upset I become.
Afraid of bursting into tears, Fang Qiao's thoughts wandered, so she started thinking about happy things. In the end, she couldn't help but recall the cluster of white mushrooms she had 'dreamed' of during the day.
Familiar white mist quickly appeared before her eyes, and then Fang Qiao found herself once again in that 'Wizard of Oz', with the familiar cluster of white mushrooms still at her feet.
A warm, grassy scent wafted towards Fang Qiao, making her feel lighter and more comfortable. And this was no illusion.
Because she took a step forward, and it was this step that made her notice the anomaly!
Here, gravity seemed to not exist. She felt as if she were flying. With just a light step, she was half a meter off the ground and walked several meters forward!
Wow, that's amazing!
Fang Qiao was determined to experiment, so she deliberately jumped forward. This time, she "flew" even further. Looking back, she was already dozens of meters away from the original cluster of white mushrooms.
Good heavens, she only moved twice.
Fang Qiao was stunned.
What kind of magical place is this?
Fang Qiao stayed in this magical space for more than ten minutes, and finally left the space because she was afraid that Tian Tian would wake up at night and not be able to find her and would cry.
Before leaving, she picked a mushroom to see if she could bring the items in her spatial dimension back to reality.
As the fog cleared, Fang Qiao returned to bed, still clutching a white mushroom tightly in her hand.
It's not a hallucination!
It's true!
It's actually true!
Fang Qiao sat up in bed, staring in shock at the mushroom in her hand.
Perhaps her movements were a bit too vigorous, because Sweetie, who was sleeping next to her, opened her eyes and called out to her.
"Auntie?"
"It's okay, Tian Tian, go back to sleep." Fang Qiao gently patted her shoulder and coaxed her a few times. Tian Tian mumbled a couple of times, turned over, and fell asleep again.
Fang Qiao was so excited that she couldn't fall asleep no matter what.
She put on a coat, rolled over, and got out of bed.
Based on his experience as a primary school cook, Fang Qiao confirmed that the white mushroom was an edible, non-toxic mushroom. However, the appearance of this space was too magical, and he didn't know if the things inside were safe.
It would be unwise to risk one's own life, so Fang Qiao decided to test the poison on the chickens at home first.
She washed the mushrooms, boiled them in a pot, and then chopped them up after they were cooked.
The hen was to be kept to lay eggs, so Fang Qiao put all the mushrooms into the broken bowl in the rooster's coop, and then blocked the entrance to the coop with bricks to prevent weasels from stealing the chickens at night.
After doing all this, Fang Qiao patted the dirt off her hands, washed them, and went back to her room to sleep.
As for the results of the experiment, we'll have to wait until tomorrow to see if the rooster is alright.
Fang Qiao fell asleep with beautiful wishes, and was woken up by the crowing of a rooster at the crack of dawn the next day.
Hearing the rooster's powerful crowing, Fang Qiao thought: It's probably nothing serious.
After getting dressed, Tian Tian was still asleep. Fang Qiao tucked her in and went out.
Wang Yun has woken up and is busy in the kitchen.
Hearing the sound, she poked her head out from the kitchen and reminded her, "Xiao Qiao, there's hot water in the thermos. Add some to your face wash. I've made some noodles. Dinner can start as soon as you've washed up."
Fang Qiao responded and went into the kitchen. She put her arm around Wang Yun's shoulder and said coquettishly, "Xiao Yun, you're so good to me. I'm so happy that I can have a ready-made meal as soon as I wake up."
"Stop joking around, hurry up and brush your teeth and wash your face, I'll be done in a minute."
"Okay."
Fang Qiao turned and left the kitchen to wash her face and brush her teeth.
Before the noodles were even cooked, Fang Qiao took advantage of the time to open the chicken coop and let the chickens, which had been locked up all night, out for some fresh air.
Fang Qiao first opened the hen coop, and all four hens were there. Then she opened the rooster coop.
I used to keep two roosters, but Huang Yan killed one of them yesterday and ate it. The only rooster left jumped onto the coop as soon as it came out of the coop and started clucking on the straw.
They were full of energy and very lively, showing no signs of being in any danger.
Fang Qiao looked into the chicken coop and saw that the mushrooms in the broken bowl had been eaten clean.
The chicken was fine after eating the mushrooms; it seems the food in the space is edible.
However, she had never seen many of the plants in the dish before, so she had to carefully distinguish them before eating. Fortunately, there was plenty of time for her to learn about them.
At this moment, Wang Yun called her to eat, and Fang Qiao washed her hands again.
Breakfast was noodles that Wang Yun had made herself, with a few pieces of chicken added. The two of them ate it with relish.
Halfway through the meal, a noisy commotion came from outside the courtyard wall. Fang Qiao's eyes widened in surprise. They'd arrived.
Wang Yun didn't pay much attention at first, after all, in the countryside, even the smallest thing is talked about and becomes common knowledge.
But as she listened, she heard keywords such as "Cheng family", "really dead", "dead", "Fang Qiao", and "child".
Wang Yun couldn't sit still any longer.
These gossipy women!
How could you... how could you say such a thing in front of the family's door!
This is like rubbing salt into someone's wound!
That's incredibly heartless!
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