The young couple from the farm fights back

Zhou family, main house.

After Zhao left, Jiang Li calmed down and looked at Zhou Chunfeng calmly.

"I've always felt that Zhou Xingyue's occasional behavior was unusual. It seems the author has lost control of the plot of this book."

Zhou Chunfeng's face darkened, and he wrung out a cloth for her: "Wipe your hands first."

Jiang Li took it and wiped her hands slowly: "Besides the two of us who traveled through the book, Zhou Xingyue must have been reborn to know the plot of the book."

Zhou Chunfeng nodded. Even if he didn't read novels, he and Jiang Li's company was in the self-media business, and he would occasionally come across time-travel dramas and rebirth dramas starring their artists.

Naturally, she understood what rebirth meant. "It seems she's not only been reborn, she also suspects you and I have been reborn. Coming back in this life, she discovered things are not going well. The Zhou family has suffered several setbacks due to the eldest branch, which has had a significant impact on her reputation and that of the Zhou family."

Jiang Li took a deep breath and nodded, "She recalled the events of her previous life and knew that sooner or later, Jing'er and An'er would be kidnapped by the beggars. So, she used this incident to restore reputation for herself and the Zhou family."

"This winter, the hero will appear in the back mountains. She needs to quickly improve her reputation and leave the same good impression on him as in her previous life. The Daqing royal family doesn't care about their daughter-in-law's background, as the current queen mother also came from a peasant family. But they certainly care about their daughter-in-law's reputation."

Zhou Chunfeng was silent for a while, then sat down on a chair nearby. He said, "I think, besides reputation, it's also about our loyalty to her in our past lives."

In the book, the loyalty of the first wife and her husband to the heroine is unquestionable, but the readers cannot see through it at all. They only see that the first wife and her husband are greedy and cowardly, so that they become cannon fodder and are still criticized by readers after their death.

"You're right." Zhou Chunfeng's words enlightened Jiang Li: "She suspects that we are also from the past. Knowing that we suffered in our past lives, we can no longer be used by her in this life. Now that she has saved the eldest wife's child, all the grudges should be resolved."

Jiang Li gritted her teeth in anger, holding her breath, and continued, "If she came back, we would all live in peace and not interfere with each other, but she just didn't."

Zhou Chunfeng looked at the angry woman and said slowly, "She probably won't do anything excessive in the short term. You need to be on guard. When there's nothing else to do in the fields, you can stay home and look after the children."

Jiang Li nodded, lowered her eyes, and took the child's wrist to feel his pulse: "It's okay, it's just an ordinary drug that won't cause any harm."

She let go of the child's hand and said, "Once the child wakes up, he'll just need to recuperate for a few days. However, Zhou Xingyue did a great deed, and our family must show some appreciation. Later, I'll go to the butcher at the village entrance and buy two pig's trotters as a token of appreciation."

Today, the whole village knows about Zhou Xingyue's good deed regardless of her own safety. If the eldest wife does not express any opinion, wouldn't it mean that she has fallen into another trap of Zhou Xingyue's?

Zhou Xingyue naturally thought that either the eldest wife would continue to be used by her, or she would be despised by the villagers and clansmen.

Zhou Chunfeng smiled faintly, naturally agreeing with his wife's approach. After a short rest, he stood up from his chair and said, "I'll go to the fields to clean up. You stay home today."

"it is good."

Jiang Li slowly lowered her eyes as she watched Zhou Chunfeng leave. She looked at the three children sleeping on the kang, who should have been innocent children.

Especially Heng Ge'er. Recalling the scene in the book where he died of depression at the age of eight, Jiang Li's resentment towards the author and the protagonist was deeply buried in his bones.

[My child, in this life, your mother and father will definitely give you a bright and promising life! ]

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While the child was still asleep, Jiang Li went to the stall in front of the butcher's house at the entrance of the village and bought two pig's trotters and two large bones.

In the past, butchers wouldn't dare leave their meat in the village to sell, as no one would be willing to part with meat unless it was a festival. But today, during the autumn harvest, many villagers dug out their savings to buy a few pounds of meat to satisfy their hunger.

Jiang Li took the hooves and bones tied with straw, thinking of taking this opportunity to nourish the children at home today.

The butcher's wife asked with a squinting smile, "Are you buying so much to send to Old Zhou's family?"

"That's right. My aunt helped me a lot today. Otherwise, our three children would have suffered. My wife also knows that we just built a house and we are not well off. We can't afford anything good. I can only buy two trotters from you as a thank you gift."

When the butcher's wife heard this, the smile on her face turned awkward for a moment, and Jiang Li noticed it keenly.

Her intuition told her that the butcher's wife was hiding something and it wasn't because she thought the two hooves and the big bones were ugly.

Suddenly, a little boy about five years old rushed out of the house, wiped his nose, and ran out the door.

The butcher's wife grabbed the boy by the collar and said, "Hey, you little bastard, I told you not to run around, or the beggars will kidnap you."

Children of this age are the most stubborn and can't stay still. They broke free from their mother's hand and said, "Mom, Mom, please let me out. There are no beggars here. Those people are not beggars—, um."

The butcher's wife's face changed drastically, and she covered the child's mouth, "I told you not to talk nonsense, get out of here and go back to the house."

"Uh, um, um." The child opened his eyes wide and shook his head desperately, struggling and unwilling.

The butcher's wife knew Jiang Li was still there, and smiled at him awkwardly: "I'm sorry to make you laugh, Madam Jiang, but my boy is used to being out of control and always out of tune. You can't take anything a child of his age says seriously."

Jiang Li smiled faintly, looking at the butcher's wife meaningfully. "Madam, you're wrong. We're all from Shili Village, so feel free to speak your mind. My boss and I are honest and upright, but what happened today is truly unsettling. Therefore, my boss has already rushed to the town to inform the village headman about how my three brothers were nearly kidnapped today. I hope the headman will lead the way to the county government office to report this."

"Report, report, report, report to the authorities?" The butcher's wife widened her eyes in shock.

"Yes, I, the head of the family, am afraid that the thieves will harm other children in the village again. Raising a child is not easy these days. Every child is the flesh and blood of their parents, and they all rely on their children to support the family in the future. Today, the thieves wanted to cut off our family's escape route. The circumstances are so serious that I have to report it to the police."

"Just like my wife, I'm afraid that my children will encounter this kind of thing outside. I, the head of the family, reported it to the police. It should be a good thing for our Shili Village. I'm afraid that group of thieves will not dare to patronize our village again in the future."

As Jiang Li spoke, he observed the changes in the butcher's wife's expression, from surprise to hesitation, and from hesitation to forbearance.

Although she and Zhou Chunfeng had guessed the whole story, they lacked specific witness testimony. If they could find a witness to confirm what Zhou Xingyue did today, it would be a great relief.

Jiang Li then added more shocking information: "By the way, I heard that once the matter is reported to the authorities, the officials will come to the village to question them. If anyone knows about it but doesn't report it, or deliberately conceals it, they will be taken back to the authorities and beaten with twenty boards."

Upon hearing this, the butcher's wife came to her senses and looked up at Jiang Li. She sighed and said helplessly, "I know Madam Jiang is trying to point the finger at me. I'm afraid she's guessed something, but this matter is really hard for me to interfere."

"Although we are all neighbors from the same village, as outsiders, we have no reason to talk about the internal affairs of your Zhou family, so we won't be disliked." The butcher's wife expressed her helplessness.

Jiang Li still had something to not understand. She was afraid that Zhou Xingyue's behavior today was accidentally discovered by the butcher's wife and her boy.

But due to the relationship between neighbors in the same village, and the farce that happened between the old Zhou family and the eldest wife a while ago, everyone in the village knew about it. After all, it was an internal matter of the Zhou family. As the butcher's wife said, it would be inappropriate for outsiders to say too much and take sides.