A fast-paced transmigration story set in a historical fiction era: The fox spirit is enjoying happin

After the two left, Xiao Liu finally spoke up and asked Shen Mingrong a question;

"Is Brother Mingrong really planning to listen to Sister Jiaojiao's suggestion about setting up the dormitories?"

"It depends," Shen Mingrong said, giving him no definite answer.

Xiao Liu was actually a little unwilling, because he had heard Shen Ajiao talk about the rental house.

But he felt it wasn't profitable because the dormitory required building houses and many rooms, and he didn't know how many years it would take to recoup the money.

He didn't agree with this way of making money, so he didn't seriously help Shen Ajiao inquire about land.

She was afraid that if she lost money, she would have even less money to treat Mingrong's eyes.

"Little Jiaojiao, what do you think of me?"

Ah Qiu now finds her very attractive, not only because she has suddenly become beautiful, but also because of the brain she has suddenly grown.

If it were the old Shen Ajiao, she would never have thought of buying arcade machines to make money in the store.

She would just wait for Shen Mingrong to bring things back and tell her how to sell them and how much they would cost.

Li Jiaojiao felt a chill run down her spine as she watched him flirt with her.

"It's...it's pretty good."

It means it's not that great, it's just a polite way of putting it...

Aqiu understood the meaning behind her words.

He got straight to the point: "What made you decide to buy an arcade machine?"

"I bought it because I liked it," Li Jiaojiao said nonchalantly, as if she had bought a trivial little item.

A-Qiu suspected that she was chatting with someone with the intention of talking for hours on end.

Otherwise, how could you leave people speechless when you open your mouth?

"You like it? I'm glad you like it, I'm glad you like it, hehe." Aqiu forced a smile.

As expected, only Shen Mingrong could tolerate Shen Ajiao.

No wonder the two of them have been able to get along for over ten years.

Ah Qiu thought that if he were to find a partner, he must find someone who is beautiful, charming, gentle, and virtuous.

He dared not disturb someone as unpredictable as Shen Ajiao, whose moods changed faster than flipping through a book. He was already exhausted enough dealing with the gluttons at the dinner table every day.

Ah Qiu didn't chat with her again until they got off the bus.

He didn't talk to her, which made Li Jiaojiao feel a little more relaxed.

Aqiu didn't leave before reaching the city. He took Shen Ajiao in the car and only called Shen Mingrong to let him know they were safe after returning to the village.

He needed to pick up some documents before leaving, and was on the phone with Shen Mingrong asking where the documents were when a young man knocked on the door.

"Brother Qiu is back."

A-Qiu turned around and looked: "Little shrimp?"

This is a hidden sentry they placed around the warehouse; his appearance means something is wrong.

Xiaoxia gave him a stack of photos, taken with a Nikon point-and-shoot camera.

Xiaoxia is deaf and mute, while Aqiu knows sign language. After communicating with him, Aqiu learned that someone had been throwing dead rats into the Shen family's house.

When Li Jiaojiao returned, she went to Aunt Honghua to "find out the situation".

Everyone knows that after she returned, she found the sales receipt for the "pesticide" and went to the village cadre's office to find the village chief.

"Village chief, only two families have bought poison in the past two years."

She placed the deposit slip in front of Jin Youde.

Jin Youde asked his nephew to bring the two families over.

"Village chief, what do you want? I'm very busy." Lin Pei was still holding a deck of cards with frayed edges, and his eyes kept glancing at the hands of the people next to him.

It's obvious he was dragged here by someone.

The other person in the group was also holding a card; he was the other person on the deposit slip.

Lin Pei and Lin Gensheng are cousins.

Jin Youde asked sternly, "What are you two going to do with the poison?"

The two brothers, nicknamed "poisonous rats," spoke in unison.

Without asking why, Jin Youde knew that these two lazybones must have bought the rat poison because they didn't want to sit in the ground and suffocate the rats.

"Lin Gengsheng, when did you use your poison?"

Lin Gengsheng: "I reported it to the production team leader last month."

Using poison is no small matter; the fields are right next to the river, and so many crops are at stake. This is not something to be taken lightly.

"Lin Pei, where's yours?"

Lin Pei's eyes were still glued to the cards in someone else's hand: "A couple of days ago, I think? Anyway, just recently..."

Jin Youde glared at him: "You! Why didn't you report it?"

How could we allow poison to be randomly sprayed in the village?

Seeing that the village chief was angry, Lin Gensheng quickly slapped the boy on the back of the head to straighten him up.

Don't think he doesn't know this kid is peeking at the cards.

Lin Pei turned around and saw so many eyes staring at him, and he knew things were going badly.

"The medicine...it was my wife who took it. Didn't she...didn't she report it to the village?"

Jin Youde laughed angrily: "You think we need to ask you if we need to report it?"

"Oh dear, Uncle Jin, I don't know either," Lin Pei blinked hard, squeezing out two drops of water.

He used the same tactics he usually used on his elders on Kim Yoo-deok.

Jin Youde was a militia captain in his early years, and he was extremely disgusted to see this grown man crying like this.

"Get out of here, stop crying!"

Jin Youde's nephew also looked down on such a person and forced him to kneel on the ground.

"Did you use poison to poison the rats?"

"I don't know!" Lin Pei shook his head, looking dejected. "I don't know anything!"

Jin Youde closed his eyes; he really wanted to kick this kid.

"Go and call his wife, Aunt Shen Liu."

Aunt Shen was in a particularly good mood at the moment, humming a song as she changed into new clothes and looked in the mirror at home.

Several people rushed into her house and dragged her to the office.

Along the way, Aunt Shen cursed and shouted, attracting many people to follow.

What was originally a small matter was blown out of proportion by Aunt Shen, and the whole village gathered outside the village chief's office.

Seeing that so many people had come, the village chief couldn't just close the door and ask them himself, so he pulled them to the small square to question them.

"Aunt Shen, did you use the poison your husband bought on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year?"

Aunt Shen was very stubborn: "Why should I tell you?"

Lin Pei, standing to the side, nearly jumped up in frustration: "Just say it! I told you to!"

Aunt Shen glanced at the village chief standing on the high place, and then at her husband beside her.

Yes, I used it.

Jin Youde: "Where was it used? When was it used? What was it used for?"

"In front of the rat hole, I don't remember what we used a few days ago, it was used to poison rats," Aunt Shen said loudly.

"Alright, are you done asking?" Aunt Shen immediately stood up and started to walk back.

She always felt a throbbing sensation between her eyebrows, as if something bad was about to happen.

Jin Youde: "Wait, no one said you could leave."

Aunt Honghua led someone up.

"I have someone who saw you pick up a poisoned rat and throw it into the Shen family's yard."

Aunt Shen panicked for a moment, then quickly wiped the sweat from her nose: "She said I threw it, so it must be me?"

Don't try to pin this on her unless she admits it.

Aunt Honghua scolded her: "You just dare to do it but not admit it!"

Li Jiaojiao stepped out from the crowd and stood next to Aunt Honghua.

"Aunt Shen, where were you on the afternoon of the 24th?"

"So it was you who came back," Aunt Shen said through gritted teeth, pointing at her. "You're here to frame me as soon as you get back?"

Aunt Shen cried out, "Auntie, look at the ungrateful child you adopted! He comes back to the village and tries to frame me. What has my Shen family ever done to offend you, Shen Ajiao? We have no grudge against each other!"

"Ha, no grudge against you?" Li Jiaojiao's tone was icy: "How dare you say that?"

The young people in Xiahe Village all knew perfectly well what the Shen family's attitude was towards the two adopted children.

"Where did she go?" A-Qiu looked for Shen A-Jiao at home with the photo in his hand.

After searching for a while and finding no one, he walked to the main road in the village.

He looked around and saw that there were many people in the small square, so he decided to go and watch the excitement first, and then go find Shen Ajiao. She was a grown woman and wouldn't get lost.

Anyway, there's no rush. He just searched the Shen family's house but didn't see the dead rat.

Xiao Xia used sign language to tell him that Aunt Honghua from the village had led the way in clearing the area that day, and he had climbed over the wall to look for the dead rats, but he hadn't found any.

Ah Qiu knew Aunt Honghua well; she was meticulous and made no mistakes. Since she had gone to the trouble of finding someone, he felt reassured.

Dead rats can bring germs, which is no small matter.

As Aqiu approached, he heard Shen Ajiao's voice. It was very loud, unlike her usual sweet and gentle manner.

He stood to the side and watched for a while: "Hmm, this is the normal Shen Ajiao he knows."

When she's criticizing someone, her little mouth goes on and on like a machine gun, never stopping.

He was relieved to see that the gentle Shen Ajiao was an imposter.

"Jiaojiao, this person doesn't acknowledge it. How about we make her make a bet with you?"

Li Jiaojiao looked at him suspiciously. She was determined to argue until she broke down Aunt Shen's defenses and made her admit it to her face.

Ah Qiu gave her a "I'll take care of it" look.

But Li Jiaojiao didn't realize that she was now allergic to other people's inappropriate gazes.

Aunt Shen, however, acted out of character: "Fine, let's gamble. If it wasn't me, you, Shen Ajiao, kneel down and apologize to me."

"So what if it's you?" Li Jiaojiao stared sharply at Aunt Shen, actually trying to make her kneel down.

Then she'll see if this guy can handle it.

Aunt Shen said confidently, "There's no way it could be me, no matter what conditions you set for losing."

Every time Lin Pei saw her like this, he felt that she was bound to lose.

For no apparent reason, I just feel this way: "Hey, you should leave yourself a way out."

"Get out of here, you spineless coward," Aunt Shen said disdainfully, looking at him.

"Then you can carry manure for the village for a month," said Li Jiaojiao, seeing a thatched toilet next to the small square.

The village has a communal fertilizer pit, which is a manure pit made from various kinds of compost.

Every day, one household in the village takes turns carrying manure, digging up all the dry toilets in the village and carrying them to the cesspool.

Nobody wants to do this job, but we have no choice.

Aunt Shen wasn't afraid at all: "Let's do it! Do you think I'm afraid of you?"

She felt that Shen Ajiao was bluffing her, trying to make her afraid of losing and revealing her true colors.

Just as Li Jiaojiao was about to ask Tuotuo for the pictures, A Qiu handed her a stack of things in his hand.

Aunt Shen didn't recognize what the new stack of paper-like things was.

But Lin Pei often went to town to play and recognized that the photo must have been developed by a point-and-shoot machine!

He said that this woman was definitely going to be in trouble, and he wouldn't be kindly reminding her this time.

Lin Pei was thinking about having Aunt Shen build a small bed in the woodshed, otherwise, if she went out to collect manure and made the bed smelly, how could he sleep?

"Village chief, take a look at this photo."

Li Jiaojiao spread the photos out on the stone table in the small square.

Jin Youde and his nephew, Aunt Honghua and her friends all gathered around to watch.

Aunt Honghua said sarcastically, "Oh dear, so now this dung has an owner."

Jin Youde never expected that there would be cameras hiding near the Shen family's house.

Li Jiaojiao noticed the wariness in his eyes: "Village Chief, we had just left that day when my brother's friend came looking for him and happened to take this picture."

She wasn't lying; the person who took these photos must be Shen Mingrong's friend.

After looking at the photos, the group turned their faces to Aunt Shen.

Li Jiaojiao knew she wouldn't agree: "I'll give you one last chance. Was it you who threw the dead rat into my house?"

"It wasn't me, it absolutely wasn't me," Aunt Shen Liu vehemently denied.

Li Jiaojiao took a clear photo of Aunt Shen's face and walked up to her step by step.

"Aunt Shen, open your eyes wide and look! Is this a dead rat or the person who threw it away?"

Aunt Shen turned her face away, refusing to look at the photo.

With her reaction, what else could the onlookers not understand?

Li Jiaojiao showed the photos to the villagers one by one.

One wasn't enough, so she had two; two weren't enough, so she had ten.

Aunt Shen sat slumped on the ground, her face pale and covered in cold sweat.

Jin Youde stood at the top: "Sixth Aunt Shen, according to the bet you made with Shen Ajiao, if you lose, you have to carry manure for a month."

Aunt Shen remained expressionless and did not respond.

Jin Youde frowned: "And you also misused poison without reporting it, posing a huge safety hazard to the village. You and your husband are punished by having to carry manure for a week."

Lin Pei was indignant: "Why should I be punished just because she made a mistake?"

"Who bought the poison? If they bought it, they should have kept a close watch on it!" Jin Youde looked at Lin Pei with impatience: "You disagree?"

"I give up, I give up, okay?" Lin Pei said, hanging his head.

Alright, now we don't need to make a bed in the woodshed anymore, they'll both stink together.

Li Jiaojiao and Aunt Honghua laughed on the side.

"This time, Shen and Lin are truly birds of a feather."

When Li Jiaojiao returned, she asked A Qiu, "Brother Qiu, what are these photos?"

"It was taken by a sentry near the warehouse, Little Shrimp, have you seen it before?" A-Qiu walked slowly with a cigarette in his mouth.

He hasn't been to Xiahe Village for a long time.

Little shrimp? She didn't seem to have any impression of him; the original owner didn't seem to remember this person.

Back at the convenience store, two boys were squatting in front of the door.

"Give Xiaoxia a drink, put it on my tab, I'm going to town." Aqiu got on another motorcycle driven by a boy.

After the buzzing sound subsided, Ah Qiu's figure blurred in the dust.

"Little Shrimp, right? What would you like to drink?"

Li Jiaojiao called out, but the boy remained squatting at the doorway.

She approached and called out again, but there was still no response.

Li Jiaojiao patted Xiaoxia on the shoulder, and Xiaoxia immediately jumped up, his eyes slightly panicked.

After seeing his face clearly, a name from the original owner's memories matched his: "Deaf Man".

The original owner never called him "Little Shrimp," but always called him "Deaf Man."

Li Jiaojiao doesn't know sign language, so she wrote to him, "Have a drink, go pick one, it's free."

The little shrimp can read; this is his only two ways of communicating with the outside world.

“Thank you,” he wrote below.

Little Shrimp took the cheapest one, but Li Jiaojiao put it back.

"You've done me a huge favor today, so pick your favorite drink."

Xiaoxia pointed to the glass bottle of soda on the top shelf of the freezer.

Li Jiaojiao gave him three, each with a different flavor.

"All three are yours; you can freeze them first."