"Mom, just put your things away and take a rest. I'll get the water later."
After Chu Yue finished speaking, she hurriedly turned around and pushed the cart back.
By the time she returned to her old house, Yun Cuihe was already lighting a fire and boiling water.
Chu Yue frowned, "Mom, didn't I tell you not to fetch water? Your body is still weak. What if you suddenly become dizzy again? Especially places like the well, it's too dangerous."
She felt that she had to talk about the power of it up front in order to attract her mother's attention to this matter.
Yun Cuihe smiled and stuffed a piece of firewood into the stove, "Don't worry, Xinghe picked up the water. Mom knows her own body well."
During this period of time, I took supplements and took supplements, coupled with some strange movements taught by Chu Yue, my body became much more agile and I gained some strength.
Chu Yue breathed a sigh of relief. After a pot of water boiled, she scooped out the water and let it cool down. Lu Yufang carried it to the new house with her.
…
In less than half a day, the news that two taels of silver had been stolen from Lu Xinghe's home, and that Lu Shanshan was the biggest suspect, spread like wildfire. Almost everyone in Banpo Village heard about it, both overtly and covertly.
Yesterday, Lu Shanshan came home crying and felt very distressed for Chen Shufen. However, since her daughter was the one who made the mistake, it was not easy for her to go to someone else's house to cause trouble.
Even if she thought about it, the men in her family would definitely not agree.
Today, she heard a few sarcastic remarks about Lu Shanshan from her sister-in-law. She finally couldn't bear it anymore. After they left, she exploded completely, pinched her waist and cursed.
"Damn that Yun family, my Shanshan is going to get married soon. She did this to my mother to deliberately ruin Shanshan's reputation. Does she think I'm easy to bully? Do you think I won't turn her family upside down!"
After saying that, he rolled up his sleeves and was about to go out, but he heard Lu Jianqi sitting beside him knocking the dry tobacco pole in his hand hard, with a look of impatience on his face.
"Why are you making such a fuss? Didn't you take good care of your daughter and let her run out and embarrass herself? If she hadn't wandered around in other people's homes, people would have suspected her?"
Chen Shufen was already angry, but being scolded by Lu Jianqi made her even more angry.
"Lu Jianqi, what do you mean? You have been bullied to the extreme by outsiders, and you still speak for them. Don't you know that our daughter can't see anyone now? You are still the upright person in the village. Your daughter has been framed. If you still want to sit there and smoke cigarettes, I will smoke you to death."
Lu Jianqi stood up suddenly. Seeing his ugly expression, Chen Shufen thought he was going to attack her, so she hurriedly hid behind him.
The next moment, I heard him say, "You damn fart, I don't feel sorry for my own daughter, who does? Do you think you can make a fuss by going to someone else's house? People accuse our daughter of stealing things by name. Now? Maybe I want to go with you to bully other people’s orphans and widowed mothers? I can’t afford to lose that face.”
Hearing Lu Jianqi's words, Chen Shufen's attitude suddenly softened.
"Then what should we do?"
Lu Jianqi looked sad, "What else can we do? Of course we need to find out the thief and clear our daughter's name. Two taels of silver is not a small amount. We cannot let our daughter carry such a crime for the rest of her life."
Chen Shufen said angrily, "They have been falsely accused, and we have to help them find the thief. All the benefits will be taken by themselves. We can't get any benefit from all our hard work. The Yun family is a big boss." What a bad luck! Fortunately our Shanshan didn’t marry Lu Xinghe, maybe it would conflict with his family, bah!"
Lu Jianqi waved his hand impatiently.
"It's done, you don't have to say these ugly words, I'll go find Shanshan and ask about the situation."
After saying that, he turned around and went to his daughter's room.
…
Chu Yue and Lu Yufang brought the water to their new house, then carried a basket and went into the forest to try their luck and see if they could find edible wild vegetables.
After all, there are four aunts at home to help with the work. It would be good if they could find some wild vegetables to go back and improve the food.
"Eh? Yueyue, come here, can you eat this?"
Chu Yue glanced at the place where Lu Yufang was squatting, looking at the cluster of grass with leaves in the shape of small flower buds and small green fruits growing on them, and shook her head uncertainly.
"I don't know, it's better not to pick it randomly."
If it grows in such an obvious place and has not been poached by others, it is either not delicious or cannot be eaten. If it is poisonous, it may cause stomach upset.
Lu Yufang looked at her with a smile, "I didn't expect you to have any clues."
Chu Yue looked around indifferently, "I don't know everything, but since I don't know anyone, let's stop picking."
Lu Yufang reluctantly pulled a leaf and put it in her mouth, tasted it, and then spat it out.
"It's so bitter and unpalatable."
Chu Yue covered her mouth and smiled, "I just told you, don't pick it randomly."
Lu Yufang frowned and vomited, then stood up and said, "Let's go somewhere else and take a look."
Chu Yue nodded and led her to continue walking into the mountains.
The two wandered around for a while, but found nothing. It was already autumn, and even the young leaves in the mountains that were edible before were now old and toothless.
Lu Yufang hung her head in despair, "We have been running into the mountains every day during this period, and we haven't found wild vegetables for many days."
Chu Yue looked up at the sky.
"It's getting late. Since we can't find wild vegetables, let's go back first."
Just when they were about to walk back, they suddenly heard a "coo" sound coming from the silk grass not far away.
Lu Yufang was timid and jumped directly behind Chu Yue in shock.
Chu Yue put the basket in Lu Yufang's hand and whispered, "Wait for me here, I'll go take a look."
Lu Yufang grabbed Chu Yue's arm, "Are you crazy! What if there is poison?"
Snakes in autumn are poisonous.
Chu Yue pulled out her arm.
"Don't worry, I'll just take a look from a distance. If it's poison, I'll turn around and run away."
Lu Yufang couldn't resist Chu Yue, so she could only stand there and worry with the basket in hand.
Yueyue looks so cute, how can she be so courageous?
Chu Yue cautiously took a few steps forward. When she vaguely caught a glimpse of the tan hair with black spots peeking out from the half-green and half-yellow silk thatch in front of her, she felt relieved.
She was right. The sound just now was indeed that of a pheasant.
When she was only two meters away from the clump of silk thatch, Chu Yue stopped, squatted down slowly, then rushed forward, and while the pheasant was escaping, she reached out and grabbed the hair on the pheasant's wings.
"Yufang, come quickly with a basket, there are a lot of wild eggs here!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw a snake leaping out of the grass and biting her with its mouth wide open. Chu Yue was so frightened that she immediately turned around and ran while shouting, "Yufang, don't come here, run!"
