You are unlucky and I am tough

No matter how simple everything is, the ceremony must still be held in the hall.

The head of the village took them to the ancestral hall to ask for the tablet, and then they cleaned up the main hall and placed the tablet of Cheng Shuang's parents there.

Cheng Lizheng asked someone to borrow a red veil and red silk from another family, and put the veil on Cheng Shuang's head. Then he asked Wei Qinglang to lead her into the house with the red silk, and completed the wedding ceremony in the main hall. The marriage was considered a success.

The villagers who came to watch the fun knew that they definitely didn't have money to hold a wedding banquet, so they said a few words of blessing and left. Soon, only their family members were left in the dilapidated adobe house.

Cheng Shuang lifted the veil on her head and saw a row of people standing by the wall. Her younger brothers and sisters were looking at the unfamiliar environment timidly, while Wei Qinglang's younger brothers and sisters were looking at her with curiosity.

Wei Qinglang stepped forward, beckoned over his younger brother and sister-in-law, and said, "From today on, this is your sister-in-law."

The two of them said in unison, "Hello, Third Sister-in-law."

Wei Qinglang is the third child in the Wei family. His younger brothers and sisters have called him the third brother since they were young. Although the family has separated now, he still has to follow the rules as he is still related to the family.

Cheng Shuang was a little embarrassed for a moment. Getting married on the first day of her rebirth was really a novel experience.

She smiled and asked, "What are your names?"

The little girl was very cute, looking at her with big eyes. "My name is Wei Xinyi, and this is my fourth brother Wei Nanxing."

Wei Nanxing scratched his head a little nervously and smiled at her.

Cheng Shuang nodded. They were indeed the names of Chinese medicines. In her previous life, she came from a family of traditional Chinese medicine and had studied medicine since she was a child. This might be some kind of fate.

"You guys come here too."

She waved to her younger brother and sister, and Cheng Pan then pulled her two younger brothers over.

Cheng Shuang glanced at the person next to her, cleared her throat and said, "Well, call me brother-in-law."

"Brother-in-law."

The three of them said in unison.

Wei Qinglang seemed more natural than Cheng Shuang. He nodded and said, "Good boy."

"My sister Cheng Pan is thirteen years old this year."

Cheng Shuang began to introduce them. "My two younger brothers are Cheng Chen and Cheng Xu, one is seven years old and the other is five years old. We will be living together from now on. You can decide whether you are the older brother or the younger sister. No quarreling or fighting, okay?"

The children nodded in unison, and Cheng Shuang smiled, "That's fine, let's go out and play."

The three little ones ran out happily. Cheng Pan and Wei Nanxing stayed behind and said, "The house hasn't been cleaned yet. Let's help clean it up."

Cheng Shuang was embarrassed again, forgetting that they had separated and had to start all over again.

This extinct house had been empty for a few years and needed to be cleaned inside and out. A few people cleaned up the kitchen first and pulled down the fence in the yard that was no longer usable and used it as firewood.

Then they used the corn that Wei Qinglang brought with him when he separated from the family to cook porridge for lunch. After each person ate a bowl of porridge, they continued to clean up.

It was not until dark that everything was finally done. After moving in all the things Wei Qinglang brought with him when he separated from the family, the house finally began to look a bit like home.

There are three rooms for seven people. Cheng Shuang and Wei Qinglang live in one, Cheng Pan and Wei Xinyi live in one, and Wei Nanxing and the two children live in one. It is just enough space for everyone to stay.

In the evening, everyone had a bowl of corn porridge. After eating, in order to save candles and because everyone was tired, they went back to their rooms to sleep.

Cheng Shuang was so tired that her waist ached, her body was covered in sweat, and she couldn't take a shower. She felt like she had lost all hope in life. She fetched a bucket of water and wiped her body in the dark in the kitchen. She changed her clothes before she felt better.

When I returned to the room, I saw Wei Qinglang lighting a candle and making the bed.

I almost forgot that according to the procedure, tonight is their wedding night.

She closed the door and walked over, "Um...I have something to tell you."

"No need to explain, I understand." Wei Qinglang sat on the bed with a calm face, "This earthen kang is big enough, we can sleep on each side without disturbing each other."

Cheng Shuang felt relieved when she saw him being so smart. "Well, you're tired today too, go to bed early."

Wei Qinglang nodded and said, "You go to sleep first." Then he got up and went out.

He entered the kitchen and made sure that no one was around, then disappeared into thin air in the blink of an eye.

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The next day, Cheng Shuang opened her eyes to the sound of roosters crowing in the distance. She stared at the thatched roof above her head in a daze, and after a while she resigned herself to her fate and got up.

Wei Qinglang was sleeping soundly. She accidentally made some noise but he didn't wake up. He just turned over in annoyance.

Cheng Shuang opened the door and went out. As soon as she went out, she saw a little guy squatting in the yard, watching the ants moving on the ground.

"Little Four," Cheng Shuang went over and squatted with him to watch the ants. "Where are the other brothers and sisters?"

Cheng Xu scratched his head and thought for a while, "Oh, my second sister went to wash clothes, brother Nanxing went to fetch water, and my third brother and sister said they were going to the river to see if there were any wild vegetables to dig."

Cheng Shuang was embarrassed, it turned out that she was the one who slept in.

That’s not right. There’s someone inside who’s still sleeping soundly.

"You play, I'll make breakfast for you."

The kitchen was quite large but very empty, with few items and even fewer foods. There were only less than three pounds of corn and half a bag of coarse flour in the cupboard, which was all their rations.

Cheng Shuang didn't want to drink corn porridge anymore. She opened the mall and looked at the dazzling array of goods with her eyes shining. Then she looked at the zero balance and sighed.

Having a mall is useless. She has no money and is too embarrassed to ask Wei Qinglang for money.

Forget it, let’s just drink the porridge and then go up the mountain to take a look.

In other stories, doesn't the protagonist always find things when he goes up the mountain and sell them to the mall to make a small fortune? Maybe she can also dig up ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum or something. If that doesn't work, she can only make money by treating patients.

The few people who went out came back one after another. Cheng Shuang had already cooked the porridge, but Wei Qinglang was still sleeping.

Cheng Shuang calculated the time. They should have gone to bed just after the hour of Xu last night, which is around seven o'clock in modern times. They have been sleeping for almost twelve hours now. Logically speaking, these ancient people should not be able to sleep so much. Didn't Wei Qinglang sneak out in the middle of the night to steal cattle?

Looking at the extra bowl of porridge on the table, Cheng Shuang said to Wei Nanxing, "Nanxing, go wake your brother up."

Wei Nanxing's expression became a little strange. He put down the bowl, scratched his head, and slowly stood up.

"What's wrong?" Cheng Shuang asked in confusion.

"He doesn't dare go," Wei Xinyi said. "Third brother will get angry if he's woken up in the morning. He'll wake up on his own in an hour."

Cheng Shuang frowned. "It's still another hour. How can he sleep so well?"

"I don't know either. Third brother has become particularly sleepy lately. He always sleeps until the end of the morning hour. Before, he would argue with dad when dad asked him to get up and work, and dad couldn't beat him."

Wei Xinyi said with admiration, "Third brother has become so powerful now. Neither father nor eldest brother can beat him."

Cheng Shuang was thoughtful. "Then forget about him for now. Let's eat."

After breakfast, Wei Nanxing said that they were short of firewood at home and wanted to go up the mountain to chop wood. Cheng Pan also said that it had been raining for the past few days and they wanted to go up the mountain to pick mushrooms. Cheng Shuang immediately agreed to go with them.

This means I have to prepare lunch for the kids. It takes a lot of time to go up the mountain, and I definitely won’t have time to come back for lunch.

Wei Nanxing and Cheng Pan both said that they could skip lunch, but Cheng Shuang disagreed. How could they work on an empty stomach? She also couldn't bear to leave the three children at home hungry.

In the end, Cheng Pan poured out half of the small bag of coarse flour in the cupboard and quickly made some pancakes. He gave one to each person going up the mountain and left one for each of the three children to eat at noon.

After Wei Qinglang got up, only three children were left in the yard. When he asked, he found out that they had all gone up the mountain.

Cheng Chen ran to the kitchen and brought out a bowl of hot porridge from the pot, saying that it was left for him by his elder sister.

Wei Qinglang took it and took a sip, then raised his hand to touch his head, "Did you sleep well last night? Did you get used to your bed after the change?"

Cheng Chen didn't know what it meant to recognize the bed, so he picked out the words he could understand and answered, "I slept well, thank you, brother-in-law."

"Thank me for what?"

Cheng Chen lowered his head and whispered, "We used to only have one bowl of porridge a day, and we often woke up hungry in the middle of the night. But brother-in-law, you let us drink very thick porridge, so we won't be too hungry to sleep at night."

Wei Qinglang's eyes flashed with a trace of heartache. "What happened in the past is in the past. Brother-in-law will not let you go hungry in the future. I will go up the mountain to hunt a pheasant for you and stew the pheasant meat for you."

"Can we eat pheasant meat too?" Cheng Xu ran over and asked in a low voice after hearing it.

He patted Xiao Si's head and said, "Silly boy, of course you can eat it."

The two children immediately cheered, "So what kind of work are we going to do? Pull weeds in the fields?"

"No, just stay at home."

After drinking the bowl of porridge, Wei Qinglang carried the broken bow and arrow from home and went up the mountain. He planned to walk deeper into the mountains today to see if there was any other prey.

Of course it wasn't the broken bow he was carrying, he had a secret weapon.