My reborn husband and son are thinking about how to kill me every day.

Lu Yinheng didn't speak again, but his dark, deep eyes swept over her, a hint of mockery curling at the corner of his mouth.

Sun Meixiang met his all-seeing eyes and felt increasingly flustered.

She said anxiously, "Brother, I really didn't do anything. I just wanted to go into the mountains to find food. My sister-in-law's accident has nothing to do with me."

Lu Yinheng said, "Who told you that something happened to the Ji family?"

"Ah?" Realizing she had let something slip in her haste, Sun Meixiang quickly tried to cover it up, "No... I just saw that you were the only one who came back, so I thought something had happened to my sister-in-law..."

Hearing Sun Meixiang's commotion, Lu Yanqi and his sister both ran over. Lu Yuzhu, her eyes red, looked up at her father and asked, "Father, is Mother really in trouble?"

Lu Yinheng bent down, picked up his daughter, and comforted her, "Your mother is alright, Zhuzhu, don't cry."

Lu Yuzhu's tears flowed even more fiercely, "Why hasn't Mother come back yet?"

Lu Yanqi also looked coldly at Sun Meixiang, clearly not believing his father's words. Sun had long wanted to harm his mother, and this time she was sure she had seized another opportunity to secretly take action against her.

Otherwise, her father wouldn't have confronted her as soon as he returned.

Lu Yanqi suddenly felt a pang of pain in his heart.

Even after being reborn, he always wanted to get rid of that promiscuous and wicked woman and protect his father and sister.

But at this moment, he did not feel relaxed.

In his heart, it felt as if a large part of it had suddenly gone empty, like a drafty wall...

"What's wrong with Sister Lu?"

Hearing the commotion, Hu Dazhou rushed over, filled with self-reproach, and said, "It's all my fault. I should have stayed and waited for her to come back together."

Hu Eryong also said, "Yes, this is all our responsibility! Let's go, let's go to the mountains to find Sister Lu."

When Sister-in-law Hu saw that her two sons ignored their father and wanted to go to the mountains to find that woman from the Lu family, she ran over to them in a huff and slapped them, saying, "You two brats, you don't care about your father's condition, what are you doing here causing trouble?"

“Mother,” Hu Dazhou rarely retorted to his mother, “What do you mean we don’t care about Father? What have we been doing all afternoon, running around taking care of him? Sister Lu got into trouble while trying to save Father, so it’s only right and proper for us to help her.”

After witnessing how the Lu family started a fire, they went to the mountains in the afternoon to collect pine resin, cut some pine branches, and borrowed some firewood from the Lu family to start a fire.

The brothers worked hard all afternoon and finally got the fire going.

Seeing that her sons seemed to have matured a lot all of a sudden, Sister-in-law Hu felt comforted. But at this moment, she did not agree with what her sons said.

They felt that if Ji Yunshuang stayed in the mountains to find local products and something happened to her, it would be her own business and had nothing to do with them.

Because of the rain, it gets dark early outside. What will she do if something happens to her in the mountains?

"You call that taking care of him? Your father has become an idiot, and you just burn some firewood to warm him up. Will that make his brain better? If you have nothing better to do, go find a doctor to check your father's brain."

"Mother, can't you be reasonable? Where am I supposed to find Father to call a doctor on this journey of fleeing?"

Hu Dazhou had something else he didn't say: right now, the family is struggling to even feed themselves, let alone have the money to pay for his father's medical treatment.

Even if he wanted to get his father medical treatment, he would have to wait until he earned money in the future. It had nothing to do with his current plan to go to the mountains to find Sister-in-law Lu.

Sister-in-law Hu, however, was being unreasonable, saying that it was unfilial of him to go up the mountain without taking his own father to see a doctor.

It was at this moment that Ji Yunshuang led a white and black striped ox back to the post station.

Sister-in-law Hu was trying her best to stop her son from going up the mountain, while Sun Meixiang was trying to squeeze out tears to prove her innocence to Lu Yinheng.

Upon seeing Ji Yunshuang appear so casually, the two of them stared at her as if they had been choked, their faces contorted in a comical expression.

After a long pause, Sun Meixiang stammered, "You...you're alright?"

"What could possibly be wrong with me?" Ji Yunshuang looked at everyone's expressions, utterly speechless. She had only been back a little late, so why did everyone look like they'd seen a ghost on the seventh day after her death?

“But…but just now, Brother Dalang…” Sun Meixiang looked at Lu Yinheng, her eyes filled with unconcealed fear.

“I never said anything had happened to her; you were the one who said it.”

Lu Yinheng looked at her coldly and said, "Do you think that by tying knots on the vines, you can kill her silently?"

Unexpectedly, you ran into me on your way back. You were worried about being exposed, so you didn't dare to go with me and waited for news at the post station, right?

So when you saw that only I came back, you naturally assumed something had happened to her, right?

Sun Meixiang never expected that he not only knew what she had done, but also guessed her thoughts perfectly.

Her body trembled more and more violently, and she cried out in despair, "No... I didn't! Brother Dalang, why are you framing me! All our years of friendship can't compare to this dishonesty—"

"Shut up!" Lu Yinheng interrupted her sharply. "I won't pursue this matter further today, but if it happens again, I will definitely investigate to the end."

After issuing the warning, he distanced himself in an even colder voice: "Don't bring up our childhood friendship again. We're just village heads. We've never overstepped our bounds with you. You don't care about your reputation, but please don't tarnish mine."

Sun Meixiang's attempt to harm others backfired, and her last hope was shattered. Coupled with being caught in the rain, feeling cold and hungry, she couldn't catch her breath and fainted.

But when Sister-in-law Hu saw the cow that Ji Yunshuang had brought back, she was filled with regret.

Why did she stop her son from going to the mountains to look for her? Why did she make a scene?

She gave Ji Yunshuang a fawning smile, but Ji Yunshuang didn't even bother to look at her. She reached out and touched her daughter's little face, saying, "Are you crying?"

Lu Yuzhu reached out, trying to snuggle into her arms.

Ji Yunshuang wanted to hug her, but then remembered that she was all wet and had gotten a lot of mud on her body because she had to pretend to be a bull tamer in front of Lu Yinheng. She quickly said, "I'm dirty, I'll hug you later."

"Yes, yes, Shuangniang just got back, let's change clothes first." Gu Chunzhi held up a set of clothes and said to Ji Yunshuang with great enthusiasm, "I dried these clothes by the fire just now, they're still warm to the touch."

She now believes that the rumors circulating in the Hu family that Hu Chunjiao is a blessed treasure sent by Bodhisattva are all lies. Her eldest daughter-in-law is the truly blessed one.

Who else could do what his eldest daughter-in-law did: go up the mountain to rescue someone and bring back this huge cow?

Looking at Gu Chunzhi's attentiveness, Sister-in-law Hu cursed her inwardly as a snobbish old hag. She remembered that back in the village, Gu Chunzhi had never been so attentive to Ji Shi.

Although Gu Chunzhi was concerned about her reputation and never spoke ill of her daughter-in-law outside, everyone in the village knew that she was dissatisfied with her daughter-in-law.

Now that her daughter-in-law is lucky, she brought back a cow from the mountain, and her attitude has immediately changed.

Despite her cursing, she was secretly incredibly envious, wishing that the big ox belonged to her.

Like Sister-in-law Hu, many refugees in the post station were incredibly envious. Some even secretly swallowed their saliva.

However, Ji Yunshuang became famous overnight, and her fierce reputation has already spread far and wide.

Even the refugees who had been hiding in the post station and hadn't experienced the chaos of the battle had heard about Ji Yunshuang's exploits last night.

Although some people didn't believe it, thinking that such a beautiful young woman couldn't possibly be a demon who could chop off human heads like pumpkins, no one dared to make a move.