Whenever Lu Xiao was ntioned, the father of Lu Yuanfeng, the chill around Lu Yuanfeng grew even colder.
Everyone in the village with a brain knew what kind of person Lu Xiao was. Mrs. Jin was definitely here to stir up trouble today.
Mu Shuangshuang decided not to tolerate it. Damn it, for soone who doesn’t appreciate kindness, you have to slap her hard.
"What’s it got to do with you, Auntie Qian, ddling in other people’s family affairs? If you want to gossip, move Granny Zhang out of your cowshed first."
As soon as Mu Shuangshuang ntioned the cowshed, Mrs. Jin’s expression changed.
Mrs. Jin, in the village, not only liked to gossip but was also an-spirited. Plus, her husband listened to her every word, so she started abusing her mother-in-law not long after entering the household.
Saying nothing about driving her mother-in-law to live in a cowshed and not feeding her, the village chief visited several tis but couldn’t resolve the issue.
"What nonsense are you talking? What cowshed? My mother eats well and lives well at ho, don’t pour dirty water on !"
Mrs. Jin refused to admit it, especially in front of so many villagers.
Mu Shuangshuang snorted coldly and continued, "It doesn’t matter if you don’t admit it. After all, everyone knows the truth!
Next ti, before you talk about others, clean the shit off your own ass first. As for Fengzi and , we’ll sort it out ourselves. Didn’t you say I would kick Fengzi to the curb?
I’m telling you today, Fengzi is mine, Mu Shuangshuang’s. Besides , no one else will beco his wife.
You want your ugly daughter to be Fengzi’s backup wife? Don’t even think about it for a lifeti!"
What Mu Shuangshuang said wasn’t just rumors; Mrs. Jin’s precious daughter did like Lu Yuanfeng and blocked him at the village entrance several tis.
Sotis she brought little gifts, sotis little embroidered bags. Although Lu Yuanfeng never acknowledged it, he wasn’t stupid about her intentions.
And Mu Shuangshuang was also scolded by the precious daughter of the Zhang family several tis, so this ti, she demanded payback with interest.
"You... you..." Mrs. Jin’s mind gas were all exposed by Mu Shuangshuang, making her so angry she could crack her teeth.
"What do you an ’’? If you don’t like , co and hit , go ahead and aim for my head. Let’s see if you dare, Auntie Qian!"
Mu Shuangshuang threw Mrs. Jin’s previous audacious words back at her, watching Mrs. Jin turn red with embarrassnt, wanting to hit her but not daring to.
Mu Shuangshuang spat out a breath full of indignation.
Finally, she felt relieved!
"Mom, Fengzi, kids, let’s go do so work!"
With one command from Mu Shuangshuang, the group went off enthusiastically to work again.
The villagers were all wide-eyed, staring in the direction Mu Shuangshuang left, feeling like there’s sothing they wanted to say but didn’t know what.
Yuanbao was the one enjoying the show the most, he jumped forward and gave Mu Shuangshuang a big thumbs up: "Sister Shuangshuang, you’re aweso, I wish my second brother could talk like that!"
"You silly boy, your second brother is great! He’s a man, there are things he can’t say, only your Sister Shuangshuang can!"
Today, Lu Yuanfeng already showed his support in attitude, without fearing Mrs. Jin at all, and that was enough.
But this guy is really popular; there’s more than just one young girl wanting her to step down gracefully.
At this rate, constantly driving them away is no solution either.
Seems like she needs to think of a way to assert her dominance so those won stop coming!
Lu Yuanfeng agreed with Mu Shuangshuang’s thoughts; he felt it was ti to give Shuangshuang a legitimate status. It was precisely because he hadn’t formally engaged with Shuangshuang that people clung to distasteful words to attack her.
As a man, it didn’t matter for him, but Shuangshuang, as a girl, shouldn’t be slandered for no reason.
Thinking of this, Lu Yuanfeng suddenly spoke up: "Shuangshuang, wait for a mont, I’ll head back quickly!"
Lu Yuanfeng bolted off, disappearing instantly.
Mu Shuangshuang looked puzzled in the direction Lu Yuanfeng left, not coming to her senses for a while.
"Shuangshuang, maybe Fengzi had sothing to do, let’s go do so work first!"
Already at the edge of the field, Mu Shuangshuang put on her gloves and took out her sickle.
"Mom, let’s begin!"
Because of proper field drying, the paddy fields for autumn harvest were not muddy at all, there was no water in the fields, and Mu Shuangshuang and Yu Si Niang started cutting the rice side by side.
On the field ridges, there were many doing the sa work, it was almost the full family mobilized.
Everyone had one purpose: harvest the rice quickly, pay the taxes, and put the rest in the barn; it was each household’s inco for the year.
But there were exceptions, at least at the Mu Family’s ridge, until now, not a single person ca out to work.
Even Mu Dajiang’s fourth house, often ordered to do the work, hadn’t co out.
If Mu Shuangshuang guessed correctly, Mu Dade had passed the scholar exams, and the Mu Family likely didn’t want to work anymore.
Probably still at ho, saying "you go, I go."
Without having to see it, Mu Shuangshuang could imagine what the scene was like.
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In the courtyard of the Old Mu Family
After Old Mrs. Mu threw so harsh words at Chen Hong, she went to the kitchen herself to cook because she was waiting for the family’s n to go to work.
Unexpectedly, after eating, when talking about going to do the autumn harvest, everyone started pushing.
"Mom, we in the second house can’t work, Gou Dan’s mother just had a miscarriage a couple of days ago, I have to be there to take care of her, dealing with the ss," said Mu Dazhong.
"What? You’re serving that woman? Does she not have hands or feet, needing a big man like you to serve her? She thinks she’s an official’s wife, does she want to put on airs?" Old Mrs. Mu shouted angrily.
Mu Dazhong shrank a bit, he knew his parents wouldn’t agree to this matter.
But now the first house was full of scholars; if he went out to work, wouldn’t people think he wasn’t valued in the family?
This would affect his daughter’s marriage prospects, with no one coming to propose.
"Mom, that’s not how it is, if it weren’t for Sister-in-law bumping into my son, would I be serving Mrs. Lin? This is Sister-in-law’s fault!"
Mrs. Jin, being pointed out, had a face flush red and felt a bit unhappy inside.
Back then, she got money and clothes, and the second house is indeed an ungrateful wolf.
"Dad, I can’t work either. Chen Hong is about to leave, I don’t have anyone to serve, and the injury on my ass isn’t healed yet, I can’t go!" Mu Danian also said.
Mr. Mu’s expression turned unsightly, he shifted his gaze to Mu Dajiang, originally thinking that Mu Dajiang would take the lead, but Mu Dajiang shook his head too.
"Dad, everything must be fair. If the second house and fifth house work, I’ll go too, otherwise I won’t!"
Old Mrs. Mu was furious, jumping up and cursing them one by one.
"Alright, you’re all lazy, we have so much land at ho, if you don’t work, I don’t work, do you expect , an old woman, to tiptoe to the fields to work and feed you all?"
"Mom, we didn’t force you to work, anyway, big brother is a scholar now, and there’s money, why don’t you have Sister-in-law bring out so silver to hire a few sturdy n, finish the job in a few days!" Mu Dazhong suggested.
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