You are unlucky and I am tough

Cheng Shuang was walking on the village road with the material in her arms. Smoke was rising from the farmhouse in the distance. She was rushing to the headman's house before it got dark.

In the original body's memory, the village head's daughter-in-law was good at needlework. She would do some embroidery on weekdays to exchange for money. The village head was very good to their family, so she planned to give the job of hiring someone to make clothes to the village head's family.

The headman's house is in the middle of the village near the threshing ground. His two sons have not separated and live with him. The yard is very large and surrounds two rows of adobe houses. There is also a locust tree in the middle of the yard. He is one of the families in the village that lives a better life except for Cheng Xiucai's family.

The gate of the village head's house was not closed. A local dog was lying on the ground at the door and sleeping soundly. It was covered with mud and was so dirty that it almost blended in with the ground.

Cheng Shuang didn't notice it at first, but when she got closer, the local dog stood up suddenly upon hearing the noise.

Cheng Shuang was frightened by this sudden situation. Holding the material, she looked into the eyes of the local dog with a nervous look on her face.

After a brief confrontation, she couldn't help but scream and ran away.

"Woof woof woof!" the local dog barked and chased after her.

“Ahhh…”

Cheng Shuang screamed and ran away, and the noise attracted the neighbors to come out to find out what was going on.

The villagers found it funny to see a person being chased by a dog. Some children even pointed at her and laughed without any hesitation, as if they were watching a wonderful farce.

"Ahhh help, go away, go away."

Cheng Shuang's cries echoed in the village, and some kind villagers shouted, "Don't run away, or it won't chase you."

But she couldn't hear anything at all. She was so scared that she was chased towards the threshing ground.

Several children were chasing after her and laughing at her. Finally, Cheng Shuang threw away the material in her hand and climbed onto a pile of dry straw in a panic.

Cheng Li was listening to the noise at home for a long time before he heard someone say that it was his son Wangcai chasing Cheng Shuang. When he rushed over, he saw Cheng Shuang sitting on a pile of straw.

Wangcai was barking at her from below. Cheng Shuang pulled the dry straw under her and threw it at Wangcai to try to drive the dog away. A group of onlookers gathered around.

"Go! Go! Go...."

Cheng Lizheng used the crutch in his hand to drive Wangcai away, and shouted to Cheng Shuang with a bit of a smile, "Come down, Wangcai won't bite."

Cheng Shuang was still in shock. Everyone said that their dogs would not bite people, but when she was a child, she was bitten by a neighbor's dog.

After the dog bit her once, it would bark every time it saw her, scaring her so much that she didn't dare go out to school. Later, her family discussed with the neighbors and gave them money to let them give the dog away.

She and dogs have a naturally incompatible magnetic field, and no matter big or small dogs, they all like to bark when they see her.

Many people have told her that dogs can sense when you are afraid of them, so as long as you don't show fear, they won't dare to do anything. However, every time she pretends to be calm, she fails and is still chased by the dog.

Later she concluded that kind people are bullied by dogs.

I never expected that even after coming here I would still be bullied by a dog.

Seeing that she was really scared and her face turned pale, the village head drove Wangcai away.

Cheng Shuang then came down to pick up the material that had fallen on the ground and explained her purpose to the village head.

Cheng Lizheng was taking her home. As soon as they entered the yard, several children surrounded her, calling Cheng Shuang "Sister-in-law Wei San" and asking her why she was afraid of dogs.

This was the case with women in ancient times. Once they got married, they no longer had their own names.

Cheng Lizheng's eldest daughter-in-law was cooking in the kitchen. When she heard the noise, she came out to take a look and then continued with her work.

The village head called his daughter-in-law who was chopping hay under the eaves, "Second wife, come here. Qinglang wife wants to see you."

Yang stood up, wiped her hands and came over, "What's wrong? Wow, there are so many materials."

Cheng Shuang held the material in her hand and put on a standard smile. "Aunt Yang, our family bought some material and wants to make a few clothes, but I am not good at making them. I am afraid that I can't do it well. I would like to pay you to help us make them."

"Come, come, come and sit here first." When Yang heard that there would be wages, her eyes lit up and she quickly asked Cheng Shuang to put the material on the table first.

Yang felt the material and counted the amount. "This must be more than 60 feet of cloth. How many clothes are needed to make this?"

"There are seven people in the family, and each person has two bodies."

Cheng Shuang smiled and replied, "Everyone's clothes are torn to pieces, with patches on top of patches, so I thought of making two sets for everyone. Isn't life all about having clothes to wear and eating?"

"Your Qinglang is so generous and kind to you." Yang said with envy, "These pink ones are for you, right? Pink is the kind of thing that's perfect for someone as pretty as you."

Cheng Shuang smiled awkwardly. Wei Qinglang had a purely straight male aesthetic. The materials he bought for the boys were navy blue and khaki, while the ones for the girls were all pink.

"Auntie, I don't know how much it costs to make a set of clothes outside. Please quote according to the price outside."

The processing fee for making clothes with your own fabric in the town ranges from ten to several dozen cents, depending mainly on the quality of the fabric and the craftsmanship of the tailor.

Yang was quite familiar with the tailor shop in town. She had worked there before and knew the prices very well, but she knew that the Wei family didn't have much money now.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "Seven people, two figures each, that's fourteen. So I'll give everyone a hundred coins. You can pay after they're done and check them."

Cheng Shuang didn't know the market price. One hundred wen was much lower than she expected. She thought it would cost at least two hundred wen.

She smiled sweetly and said, "Thank you for your help, Auntie."

"It's not a bother, it's not a bother." Yang smiled.

After the spring planting, she didn't find any work that could make money. She was so happy that she could earn 100 coins by making a few sets of clothes at home. She gave half of it to her father-in-law and had 50 coins left, which she saved for her daughter's dowry.

Cheng Shuang finished her work and prepared to leave. She said to Cheng Lizheng, who was sitting on a reclining chair under a tree, "Grandpa Lizheng, I'm going home."

"Wangcai is probably back at the door. Let me take you out."

Cheng Shuang was filled with gratitude, but Cheng Lizheng staggered and almost fell as soon as he stood up.

"What's wrong with you, Grandpa Village Head?" Cheng Shuang was frightened and quickly supported him.

Yang also came over quickly, "Dad, are you okay? Do you want to ask Doctor Wang to come and take a look?"

"No, don't waste that money." Cheng Lizheng pounded his fist and hit his forehead. "You won't die anyway, so just endure it."

As Cheng Shuang listened to the village head's words, the memories of her original self suddenly emerged in her mind.

She remembered that everyone in the village over the age of twenty, regardless of gender, would suffer from headaches. The symptoms could be mild or severe, with mild cases just causing dizziness and lack of energy.

I have severe headaches that last for two or three days, and sometimes I vomit. They occur every once in a while, and I don't know the cause.

It's not just Chengjia Village, it's the same in several nearby villages and even the town. The medicine only works temporarily, and the pain starts again within two hours, and the doctor can't find the cause.

Some people say that it is because there is miasma in the nearby mountains. During the windy season, the miasma is blown out. If people inhale too much of it, they will get headaches when they reach a certain age.

Walking home from the headman's house, Cheng Shuang kept thinking about this problem. People get headaches when they reach a certain age, so if she continues to live here, she will also get headaches.

She can cure the headache, but if it is really caused by miasma poisoning, it is only treating the symptoms and not the root cause. We need to find out what is causing it. There are mountains nearby. Which mountain has the poisonous miasma?

She was thinking seriously when suddenly several children came running after her, shouting, "Coward, being chased by a dog, crawling on the haystack while crying for help."

Cheng Shuang: “…..…”

The little brat is so annoying!