You are unlucky and I am tough

After leaving the old scholar's house, Cheng Shuang pulled her hand away.

She patted Wei Qinglang's shoulder nonchalantly and said, "I didn't expect you to be so popular. Is that your childhood sweetheart?"

Cheng Shuang's memory of Cheng Jinxiu is limited to knowing this person, but she couldn't be sure whether Wei Qinglang had something going on with her in the past. She was full of gossip.

Wei Qinglang looked at her speechlessly, "Do you think that with her eyes on top of her head, she would be interested in the original owner, a farmer?"

Cheng Shuang glanced at him and asked, "What did she mean by that just now?"

"She prides herself on being noble and is used to being courted and licked by the young men in the village. She can't stand my indifference and indifference."

"Oh..." Cheng Shuang let out a long "Oh" and said in a sly tone, "Man, you've caught her attention. Be careful she might attack you."

"You've read too many domineering CEO novels." Wei Qinglang couldn't help rolling his eyes. "She's just frustrated with her pride and wants to prove her charm. She's not attracted to me, even though I'm quite handsome and considered the most handsome man in the area."

"Ouch, ouch." Cheng Shuang pouted, "Then you better be careful, be careful that Cheng Jinxiu will pounce on you out of hatred and love."

The two of them bickered all the way back home and found that their younger brothers and sisters had changed into clothes with relatively few patches and had washed their faces.

After asking, I found out that they were all waiting to go to the threshing ground to attend the birthday banquet of Mr. Cheng.

Wei Xinyi crouched on the half-collapsed wall and looked at the next door. Seeing the next door go out, she immediately grabbed Cheng Shuang and said, "Sister-in-law, the next door is out, let's go too."

Cheng Shuang hadn't originally planned to go, but her brothers and sisters all wanted to go. If she didn't go, they would have to cook another dinner, so she decided to go and have a meal.

But there's no need to go so early.

She pulled Wei Xinyi aside and said to her brothers and sisters who were eager to go out, "There won't be any seats if we go now. Let's go later. We'll have food anyway."

Wei Qinglang also agreed. Thinking he couldn't let his brother and sister-in-law wait, he said, "Tomorrow your sister-in-law and I are going to the county town to buy some ducks. The ducks need a place to live, so let's build a nest first. After that, we can go out for dinner."

When my brothers and sisters heard about raising ducks, they were very happy and immediately expressed their willingness to help.

"Nanxing, come with me to the back of the house and cut some bamboo." Wei Qinglang immediately made arrangements. "Xinyi, take your two brothers and find some hay."

"Pan'er, clean up the corner here."

After making all the arrangements, he finally looked at Cheng Shuang and said, "You can go to Cheng Xiaoguo's house and borrow a saw. His father builds houses for people, so he has all the tools at home."

Cheng Shuang nodded to indicate that it was no problem. The people who were given the work went about their business. Soon the bamboo was cut and the three little ones also brought back some hay.

Cheng Shuang also borrowed the saw, and the family started working in the yard. They worked from sunset to dark, and finally built a simple duck coop.

After finishing the work, it was almost time, so the family packed up and set off to the threshing ground for a feast.

Torches and bonfires were lit in the threshing ground for lighting. The birthday banquet had already been held for two rounds and was still as lively as ever. The villagers, who had eaten their fill, did not leave and sat around the bonfire, eating melon seeds and snacks.

In this lively atmosphere, a group of children were running around happily, playing and chasing each other, with laughter rising one after another.

Cheng Shuang and his friends arrived late, but none of the thirty tables were empty, and some people were still occupying seats even though they were full.

For example, the family of Cheng Lao Da and Cheng Lao Er, relying on Hu Chunhua's sharp tongue and fierce temper, no one dared to mess with them. The whole family squeezed into a table and ate for more than an hour without leaving. They also kept asking the villagers who were asked to serve the food to add more food to their table, and they were not afraid of being overfed.

For example, Zhao Daya secretly brought food in a bag and put meat and vegetables into the bag while eating. When the villagers at the same table told her about it, she started to curse at them.

In this situation, there was no need to care about men and women sitting at different tables. Cheng Shuang and the others chose a table with many empty seats and sat down. After the villagers at the table left, a few more villagers came and sat down.

After the twelve people gathered at the table, someone came to clean up the mess and serve the dishes and clean bowls and chopsticks. The temporary stove set up nearby was always busy with the hired villagers.

The dishes were served quickly, four meat dishes, three vegetable dishes and a soup. Although the chefs were not as good as those in restaurants, they were all women with good cooking skills, so the taste was still good.

Coupled with this lively atmosphere, Cheng Shuang really felt like she was back in her previous life attending a wedding banquet in the village.

She had a small appetite and was full after eating very little, but she was in a good mood and kept picking up food for her three younger siblings.

Suddenly, a voice spoke up, "Sister Cheng Shuang is so virtuous. She's been so busy serving food to my sister-in-law that she hasn't eaten much herself. You're so skinny, how are you going to work if you don't eat more?"

Cheng Shuang looked in the direction of the voice and saw that it was her deskmate Luo Cuihua who was speaking. She had an unhappy expression on her face, as if the dish she was picking up was from her family.

Cheng Shuang smiled and said, "I'm naturally thin, there's nothing I can do about it. It has nothing to do with how much I eat."

Luo Cuihua tightened her grip on the chopsticks and glanced at Wei Qinglang. "You're so skinny you barely have any flesh left. You can't even do the hard farm work. The one who's suffering is Brother Qinglang."

Cheng Shuang frowned when she heard that, then looked at Luo Cuihua carefully and found that her squinting eyes kept glancing at Wei Qinglang.

She turned and approached Wei Qinglang, "Brother, you have quite a lot of admirers, and here comes another one, but why are they all targeting me?"

Wei Qinglang glanced at Luo Cuihua and was a little speechless. He lowered his voice and said, "Before, Wei Changgui said he wanted to arrange a marriage for me. He was talking about Miss Cuihua. If I hadn't stopped him and firmly disagreed, he would have almost come to propose marriage."

Cheng Shuang opened her eyes wide with an expression as if she had eaten a melon and immediately looked at Luo Cuihua. Although this girl was only fifteen years old, she was very tall, almost 1.75 meters tall, and had a strong body.

She has dark and rough skin, a bulbous nose, squinty eyes, and thick lips, and her face shape is like her father's square face.

Don't scold her for judging people by appearance. This girl is so worthy of Wei Qinglang that he even wants to escape for Wei Qinglang.

Seeing Cheng Shuang trying hard to hold back her laughter, Wei Qinglang explained, "There's nothing between my original self and her. Wei Changgui just likes her figure and her ability to work, so he wants me to marry her so that I can have another person to work as a workhorse."

"After stopping this marriage, I thought he would definitely find a new family for me. Besides, I have to get married first after the family splits up. Instead of asking Wei Changgui to find someone like Cuihua and Xinghua for me, why not choose one myself? At least I can marry someone good-looking."

"So you've got your eyes on Cheng Shuang?" Cheng Shuang tilted her head and said, "I didn't expect you're also obsessed with looks."

Wei Qinglang did not deny it and continued, "I found out that she is having a hard time at home, and everyone in the village says that she is unlucky and no one wants her.

I didn't believe it, so I followed her that day to ask her if she was willing to marry me, but she suddenly fell into the river.

I immediately went down to rescue her. Actually, I didn't just want to use her. I really felt that she was having a hard time in the Cheng family, and I needed to get married, so I thought of it as helping her escape from her suffering and living together in the future."

Wei Qinglang was speaking from the heart. Even if Cheng Shuang was still the same Cheng Shuang, he would still live with her and take care of her younger siblings.

Cheng Shuang pursed her lips and sighed softly, "What a pity, that poor girl has passed away."

"Big sister, eat your food." Xiao Si, who was standing beside her, put a piece of meat in her bowl and said in a grown-up manner, "Don't just talk to your brother-in-law. The food is getting cold."

Cheng Shuang smiled and rubbed his head.

Luo Cuihua on the opposite side kept watching the two of them whispering together, her eyes almost burning with anger.

At the beginning, when Wei Changgui came to her house to propose marriage, her parents disliked the Wei family's poverty and were reluctant to agree because Wei Qinglang was not their biological son and would not get much from the split-up family. It was she who persuaded her parents.

Although Wei Qinglang was reluctant to marry her and made a fuss twice, Uncle Chang Gui agreed, and she was finally able to marry him.

Almost, just a little bit.

It was all the fault of that bitch Cheng Shuang, who actually used the trick of falling into the water to steal her man away.