Summer of the thirty-sixth year of the Great Qi Dynasty
The entire Tai'an Prefecture is experiencing a drought unseen in thirty years.
From early spring last year to July this year, not a drop of water has fallen!
The river has dried up, the rice seedlings are withered and scorched, and the land is cracked.
This is the scene Xie Yushu saw when she woke up!
The sun seemed twice as big as usual, relentlessly scorching the earth, and the air itself was filled with sweltering heat!
Struggling to get up, a wave of dizziness washed over me as soon as I moved. I reflexively grimaced, and a sharp pain shot through my lips.
Xie Yushu wiped her hands, which were stained with traces of blood. Her lips were chapped, her throat was dry and burning, and she had a large bump on the back of her head.
Not far away, a woman stumbled and ran towards the village, carrying some things.
Looking at the scattered baskets and the two water hyacinths left to hold water, she instantly realized that her belongings had been stolen!
Xie Yushu was stunned for a moment, and then the original owner's memories came flooding back.
She time-traveled! And she time-traveled to a famine that only comes around once every thirty years! From a special forces medic, she became Xie Yushu, a newlywed woman who had only been married for one day in Fenghuangzui Village, Beihe Town, Tai'an Prefecture, Yonghe County, Daqi Kingdom!
The one who knocked her unconscious was her cousin, Xie Yujiao, who stole her ex-fiancé and is now her sister-in-law!
Right now, this area is experiencing a severe drought.
Many families have already fled to escape the famine. Those who remain are either a few families with surplus food or the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled who cannot leave.
Water is scarce in the vicinity, and villagers have already begun venturing deep into the mountains to search for water!
Water is life now, more precious than gold!
This Xie Yujiao not only stole the original owner's fiancé, causing the original owner to be jilted and ruining her reputation, but she also tried to steal her water. Isn't that trying to kill her?
Damn it, even my uncle can tolerate it, but my aunt can't!
After calming down a bit, Xie Yushu got up and chased after Xie Yujiao ahead.
Xie Yujiao didn't have much strength and wasn't running fast to begin with. Xie Yushu was also holding back her energy, wanting to vent her anger on the original owner. She caught up with Xie Yujiao in no time, grabbed her hair, and threw her to the ground.
"Ah! Xie Yushu, what are you doing?"
"How dare you ask me why? Give me back my water!"
As Xie Yushu spoke, she forcefully snatched all six water-filled gourds away.
"Xie Yushu, do you have to be so stingy? It's just a few gourds of water, you can just go get more!"
Xie Yushu was so angry she laughed.
"It's just a few gourds of water? Go get them yourself! I got them, you don't get any! Get lost!"
This was the first time Xie Yushu had ever turned against her, and Xie Yujiao simply couldn't believe it.
"How dare you insult me? I'll tear your mouth apart!"
As Xie Yujiao spoke, she reached out to grab Xie Yushu's face, but Xie Yushu quickly blocked her. Then she stepped forward and slapped Xie Yujiao twice across the face, followed by kicking her to the ground. Thinking of the original owner's suffering, she stepped forward and slapped her twice more.
"Xie Yujiao, I didn't hold it against you before because we're from the same clan and you're the older sister, so I let you have your way."
"It's one thing for you to always be the first to get what you want, but today you stole my water and even tried to harm me. Our sisterly bond is severed. If you lay a hand on me again, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
"You, you dare to hit me! I'm your cousin! You'd better kowtow and admit your mistake now before I hit you back, or you'll be in for a beating!"
"Xie Yujiao, you still want to use your clan chief grandfather to pressure me! Unfortunately, we are now both daughters-in-law of the Xiao family, and the Xie family's clan rules have no effect on the Xiao family."
Xie Yujiao shouted
"Don't forget, my husband is a scholar. If you dare to hit a scholar's wife, my mother-in-law won't let you get away with it!"
"Ha! Hitting the scholar's wife! Even if I hit the scholar, he'd better put up with it! Who told me to become the scholar's second sister-in-law thanks to you!"
"What? Back then, when you saw Xiao Yi was lame, you urged my grandmother to marry me off to him for the sake of making a scene. Have you forgotten that Xiao Yi is the scholar's own brother?"
"You, Xie Yushu, just you wait, I'll make you pay sooner or later!"
Seeing that she couldn't win either argument or fight, Xie Yujiao could only utter some harsh words and turn away.
Xie Yushu didn't care about her harsh words!
In the original owner's memories, Xie Yujiao relied on her grandfather being the head of the Xie family to always try to be superior to others, especially Xie Yushu.
However, Xie Yushu, despite her slender and delicate appearance, is surprisingly strong!
Whether it's sewing, washing clothes, cooking, or chopping pig feed, she does everything skillfully! She's also quite pretty! Fair-skinned, with bright eyes and white teeth, and importantly, she even learned to read from her maternal grandfather!
When she was twelve or thirteen, matchmakers flocked to her door, and she was eventually betrothed to the only scholar in the surrounding area, becoming the envy of everyone as a scholar's wife!
It was precisely because of this that Xie Yujiao was always at odds with her.
Xie Yujiao was also fair-skinned and beautiful, with a plump figure, and considered herself much better than Xie Yushu, that country bumpkin! Why did Xie Yushu become the scholar's wife?
Later, for some reason, Xie Yujiao twisted her ankle, and Xiao Xiucai carried her back. In this world, even if they had physical intimacy, one has to take responsibility. So, Xiucai Xiao Yuanhang broke off his engagement with her and married Xie Yujiao instead.
Xie Yushu's reputation was ruined by the broken engagement. From then on, the suitors who came to propose marriage were either widows, cripples, deaf-mute men, or others. In the end, Xie Yushu married Xiao Xiucai's crippled second brother, Xiao Yi.
It can be said that Xie Yushu, a well-known good girl in the surrounding villages, married a lame and rough man with two children and became his stepmother, all thanks to Xie Yujiao!
The original owner of this body had a weak temper and always gave in to Xie Yujiao. But she is not the original owner and doesn't have that kind of good temper to spoil her!
Seeing that she had left
Xie Yushu was also preparing to pick up the water hyacinths and go home, but after being beaten earlier, she was in a daze and had a tug-of-war with Xie Yujiao. Her already tattered basket had fallen apart, and she really couldn't carry eight water hyacinths by hand!
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