The young couple from the farm fights back

Fang looked at the little girl sleeping soundly in her arms, her heart melting. She couldn't help but ask with a smile, "Excuse me, madam, has your little sister been given a name?"

Jiang Li took a mouthful of porridge and mentioned her little girl, her eyes softened a bit. "We have to wait for her father to come up with a full name for her. I have already thought of a nickname, Lan Jie'er."

Fang muttered the word in a circle, unable to stop laughing, "Madam, you really know how to choose a name. 'Orchid Heart' implies a woman of noble character. Sister Lan will surely be a lovely little girl in the future."

Jiang Li looked at Fang in surprise. She looked about her age. Not only were the women from ordinary farm families illiterate, but the women living on this island were also different from those in the outside world.

"Have you read the book?"

"To answer my wife, I do know a few words. When children on our island are young, their elders will teach them to recognize some words, so that they won't suffer any loss in learning to read when they grow up."

Jiang Li understood: "My last name is Jiang, and the single character is Li. You don't have to call me wife so formally."

Fang smiled and nodded. "Okay, Madam. Then I will respectfully address you as Madam Li. It's customary on our island for married women to no longer use their maiden names. I wonder if you would mind that?"

"Okay." Jiang Li didn't care much.

Seeing the children eating so happily, he couldn't help but feel relieved. Thinking of something, he curiously asked Fang: "Do you and Mingye have children?"

Fang shook her head and said, "In response to Madam Li, according to the rules passed down by our island's ancestors, women can only become pregnant when they are twenty."

Jiang Li was surprised again. Why did it feel like this isolated island was more advanced than the outside world? In today's world, most women suffer great damage to their bodies due to early pregnancy and childbirth.

"Are there any other rules on the island? We're new here, so please tell me about them so we can avoid conflicts in the future."

"Lady Li, please rest assured. Our island master has said that the island's rules will never cause you any trouble."

Jiang Li lowered his eyes and smiled. He really treated her like a living Bodhisattva. He ate a mouthful of porridge and thought for a moment before asking, "Madam Fang, there's something I'm not sure if I should ask you."

"Lady Li, if you have anything to say, please speak directly. I will tell you everything I know."

"I'm just curious. There must be some extraordinary person on the island who can see through the heavens. Otherwise, how did you know about our arrival in advance?"

Fang's mother did not hide it: "Madam, you are talking about our island master. The island master does know the art of divination and astrology. However, the island master likes peace and quiet and rarely goes out. If Madam Li wants to meet the island master, I will talk to the man in charge of the house and ask him to take Madam Li to the island pavilion."

Jiang Li smiled knowingly. Such a cold and aloof personality was in line with his status and ability. "Okay, I will go to see the island owner after the condition here improves."

As a guest, she really cannot lack the etiquette. Curing the man's illness on the island can be regarded as a token of her loyalty that Jiang Li has offered with both hands.

"One more thing."

"Excuse me, ma'am."

"Why did so many men on the island become poisoned, while Mingye and the others escaped?"

Fang sighed and said, "Madam Li, you don't know that the head and his brothers escaped this disaster because they left the island for a while. Every year on the 16th day of the first lunar month, the island owner personally selects 20 strong men to go to Jiangang Mountain to worship their ancestors. The journey is long and takes more than two months, so--"

Jiang Li finally understood what was going on. It seemed that he had escaped danger by accident.

Jiangang Mountain, is it the Lishan Mountain in Anhui?

It turns out that the people on Changsheng Island are not native indigenous people.

By this calculation, Ming Ye and others have only returned to Changsheng Island for a few days. Even if they drink the poisonous well water, it will still take time for the symptoms to appear.

Fortunately, the diluted yellow root poison was slow to take effect and would not be fatal within a short period of time. After dinner, Jiang Li asked Fang to follow her back to the backyard and took out a small porcelain bottle from the medicine box.

"The pills in the bottle can cure the mild poison in the body. Give them to Mingye and let him and the brothers take them."

Fang's hand froze as she took the porcelain bottle, and a look of shock filled her eyes. "You, you mean, my head of the family—?"

"Well, how could the man escape death if he drank poisoned well water? Besides, today I'm asking them to find a way to remove the poison from the well. You should quickly deliver the medicine to them. They'll be fine after they take it."

Upon hearing this, Fang's heart was in her throat and she did not dare to relax for a moment, nodding repeatedly.

into the night.

That night, Jiang Li lay on the soft couch and finally fell into a peaceful sleep. Unexpectedly, she was awakened by the roaring of a rooster and the sound of fighting.

Jiang Li opened his eyes and looked at the closed door and window with full vigilance. Seeing that Lan Jie'er, who was sleeping soundly, was not woken up, he couldn't help but worry about the guys in the two rooms next door.

The sounds of fighting grew more intense, and in the quiet night, the crisp sound of weapons clashing was deafening.

Jiang Li knew that a fierce fight would inevitably ensue on the island to uncover the perpetrators of the poisoning. It seemed she had become the target of the person behind the plot. It wasn't hard to tell the sounds of fighting were coming from the front yard.

Jiang Li didn't have time to think. He put on his coat, opened the door in a hurry, and walked to the doors of the two rooms next door.

Sure enough, from the room where Heng'er and Jing'er slept, the sound of the two brothers whispering could be heard sporadically.

"Brother, Jing wants to see it."

"You can't look at it. Just lie down and don't make any noise."

As Jiang Li expected, with Jing Ge'er's nosy and stubborn nature, he must have thought that there was something exciting in the front yard.

"Brother Heng, Brother Jing."

"Mother~"

"Mom~" Jing Ge'er heard his mother's soft call, his voice unable to hide his excitement.

Jiang Li pretended to be serious and said, "You are not allowed to come out."

"Oh!" It was obvious that Jingge'er was disappointed.

Jiang Li suppressed the smile on the corner of her mouth in annoyance. At this time, Que Ge'er from the next room called out through the door: "Auntie!"

Jiang Li turned and walked to the door: "Brother Que is scared."

Unexpectedly, the child inside said firmly: "Auntie, Brother Que is not afraid."

"Good boy, stay inside and look after your brother."

"Uh-huh."

Suddenly, a cool breeze blew straight onto the back of her neck, and her long hair was slightly lifted by the breeze.

Jiang Li's brows frowned, and a few silver needles fell from under her sleeves. Before she could react, a cry of pain suddenly came from behind her.

"Ow~"

It turned out that Aowu arrived in time, knocked the attacker to the ground from behind, and then bit him.

"Ah!!!" The person who fell to the ground let out a series of painful howls.

When she turned around again, she found that Madam Yuan had also rushed over. She subdued another masked man in night clothes to the ground.

Jiang Li was not surprised that the island owner sent people to guard the courtyard. After all, she was extremely important to Changsheng Island now.

Surprisingly, Yuan Niang also possesses superb martial arts skills.

"Madam Li, are you shocked?"

Jiang Li was stunned for a long while, then said in a daze: "I'm fine."

Yuan Niang looked at her worriedly, then picked up the half-conscious person on the ground, and curled her other hand into a sharp claw, attacking the person's neck.

Seeing this, Jiang Li suddenly spoke up to stop her: "Leave her alive."

Madam Yuan was startled and stopped in time.

"Awoo, don't kill him!" Awoo bit off the man's arm on the ground, and when he heard his master's stop, he obediently spat out the broken arm in his mouth.

Even in the dim moonlight, one could still clearly see the puzzled expression on Yuan Niang's face. Jiang Li said slowly, "Since he's targeting me, it's clear you understand his intentions. Kill him now, but leave him alive so we can find out who's behind him."

Yuan Niang understood instantly and felt that what Lady Li said made some sense. "But, Lady Li, how do you know he's willing to speak?"

Jiang Li smiled and said, "Of course not, but there are ways to make them speak."

After hearing what Jiang Li said, Madam Yuan made up her mind and planned to move the person to the front yard so as not to pollute the backyard where Madam Li was resting.