Ugly girl only wants to farm

Meng Jiudong couldn't hide the joy in his eyes. He knew that as long as his older brother came back, the food at home would improve. These past few days, he had been eating vegetable porridge and pickled vegetables, which he found quite tiresome, and his mouth felt bland.

He shouted at the top of his lungs, "Grandma, Grandma, my eldest brother is back!"

Grandma Meng was inside the house when she heard the shouts. She quickly ran out, her wrinkled face almost squished together with a smile: "My grandson is back! He's been working so hard studying these days."

She took the bundle from his hands, looked him up and down, and touched his face: "You've lost a lot of weight these days. You need to remember to eat more. It worries your grandmother!"

When she saw that Xu Chaoyan didn't come out to greet her eldest grandson, her face instantly changed, and she shouted at the top of her lungs, "Xu Chaoyan, come out quickly! Your man is back, what are you still hiding in the house for? Haven't you ever seen such a lazy person hiding in the house all day incubating eggs?"

She yelled a few times but no one came out, so she got a little angry: "Jiuhe, you wait here. This brat is probably slacking off. I'll go over and teach her a lesson. She doesn't even come out when her own man comes back. Is this what a wife should be like?"

Meng Jiuhe didn't want to see Xu Chaoyan at this moment either. He had seen her the day she went to school, and the woman's face was full of pus, which made him feel nauseous. He quickly stopped her, saying, "Grandmother, let her be! Don't let her come and disturb our peace."

Grandmother Meng patted his hand with an understanding look on her face: "Hmm, Jiuhe is right. That woman is disgusting. Go to Grandmother's room and I'll get you some pastries. I've been saving them especially for you to eat when you come back."

Xu Chaoyan was currently studying the plants on the mountain behind the house, hoping to find any of her former time-travelers who might be there to dig for medicinal herbs, ginseng, or treasures.

Not only did she transmigrate into an ugly woman, but she also lacked any survival skills. What would she do in the future? Hongmiao Village was a place where people relied on the heavens for their livelihood. There was a mountain right behind the village. She should go up the mountain sometime to see if there was anything she could exchange for money.

In ancient times, weren't there often ginseng or rare animals? Oh well, she couldn't catch those animals anyway, and she didn't even have any precious medicinal herbs. She did hear her grandmother howling just now.

She couldn't be bothered to pay attention to him; he was probably just upset and wanted to yell at her to vent his anger. Now that her father had moved to the county, she needed to find a way to make money and support herself.

Having been here for so long, she didn't have much money left in her pocket. Apart from visiting town once, she hadn't been anywhere else. She wanted to see the outside world, to take a look at this beautiful land.

She studied it for a long time but didn't find anything useful. When she returned through the back door, she saw Meng Jiuxia with a long face: "Morning Glory, where did you go? My older brother is back, why weren't you waiting in the house? Don't you know it's their holiday time?"

Xu Chaoyan thought to herself that she really didn't know! If she had known he was coming back today, she should have avoided him.

Seeing that she was standing there without saying anything, Meng Jiuxia didn't continue the conversation, so he handed her a fire poker: "Come and help me start a fire, I'll prepare dinner for tonight."

Xu Chaoyan asked instinctively, "Where did Mother go?"

Li San Niang usually does the cooking for dinner. Meng Jiu Xia was a little dissatisfied when she heard her say this: "You have the nerve to ask where your mother went? She caught a cold these past two days and has been coughing. Didn't you notice? I've been cooking for her for two days in a row. Don't you feel ashamed? What kind of wife are you? My elder brother is back today. You should at least cook some dishes for him yourself to show your virtuousness."

Xu Chaoyan spread her hands with an innocent look and said, "It's fine if you ask me to start a fire, but asking me to cook is a bit difficult for me. If you're not afraid of being poisoned, why don't you let me try?"

Hearing her say that, Meng Jiuxia couldn't hide the look of disgust on her face: "Then forget it! I still want to be the sister of that top scholar, so I can get married in style."

Xu Chaoyan thought to herself that it was good for the young girl to have ambition, but becoming the top scholar was not so easy. It was like the modern college entrance examination, where thousands of people competed for a single spot. She had heard that becoming the top scholar was even more difficult than the college entrance examination.

Did she know how Meng Jiuhe was doing academically? Her whole family had pinned their hopes on this man.

"Morning Flower, do you even know how to start a fire? Can't you see the pot is almost burnt?"

Xu Chaoyan hurriedly poked at the fire with a stick, trying to make the fire smaller, but the more she rushed, the more chaotic it became, and several sparks flew out.

By the time she smelled the stench, it was too late. A small tuft of her hair in front of her was burned and curled up by the sparks. When Meng Jiuxia saw her stunned expression, she quickly came over and extinguished the sparks with one hand.

Meng Jiuxia blew on her fingers: "What can you do? You can't even start a fire, and you burn your own hair. If I weren't here, would you have burned this whole house down? You're more trouble than you're worth. Fine, I'll start the fire myself. There's a bucket over there in the yard. Go fetch me a bucket of water, okay?"

Xu Chaoyan felt ashamed after being scolded by a young girl. She had actually burned her own hair while trying to start a fire. She realized that it would be quite difficult for her to survive alone in ancient times.

She carried the heavy wooden bucket into the yard, just as Meng Jiuhe came out of his grandmother's room. Xu Chaoyan glanced at him; it had been a while since she'd seen him, and the boy looked taller and fairer, though he was a bit thin.

When Meng Jiuhe saw Xu Chaoyan staring at him lecherously, his disgust was very obvious on his face. He had just sat with his grandmother for a while and drunk a bowl of cold water. He didn't know how long the pastries had been sitting there, and they were so dry that they made him choke. He finally managed to get away from his grandmother and planned to go and see if his father's leg was any better.

He bumped into Xu Chaoyan as soon as he came out, thinking to himself that he was having really bad luck. But then he thought that it was normal for them to run into each other since they lived under the same roof. Oh well, he rarely came back anyway, so he would just avoid her in the future.

He was about to walk around her when he saw her clumsily scooping water, making a mess everywhere and knocking over the wooden bucket. How could this woman be so clumsy? These days he's not home, she's caused a lot of trouble for the family.

He was initially too lazy to pay attention to her, but when he heard the sound of the water ladle hitting the stone vat, he frowned. "Is it going to break?" he thought. "What a spendthrift woman!"

He walked over and grabbed the water ladle, saying, "Get out of the way, I'll do it. If you keep knocking it over like this, my family won't even have a water ladle left."