Ancestors, I told you to seduce the villains, not to turn evil.

When Xu Manman entered the Lin family home, she saw Aunt Lin mixing pig feed.

Pig feed gathered from the mountain, scalded with boiling water, then mixed with rice bran, grain flour, wheat bran, and corn flour, makes excellent pig feed.

Aunt Lin's two pigs were plump and had big heads and ears; they looked like they had been carefully tended to.

After feeding the pigs, Aunt Lin would sprinkle a handful of rice bran mixed with some chopped vegetables to feed the chickens.

These chickens don't need much feeding; they'll go out and catch insects to eat on their own.

If there are children in the family, they will also go out to catch insects to feed the chickens.

This not only saves on food, but also makes the chickens lay eggs more frequently by feeding them insects.

Xu Manman felt envious.

These are all meat!

Life in the countryside is hard, and people eat meat only a handful of times a year.

Eggs have become the most common meat dish.

Before transmigrating into the book, Xu Manman rarely ate meat in order to maintain her figure. Now that she really can't see meat, she's craving it again.

Xu Manman thought she could catch a few chickens and ducks to raise at home.

If possible, bring two more pigs back with you.

That way we'll have meat to eat during the Chinese New Year.

Seeing Xu Manman staring at her pig with an alarmingly bright gaze, Aunt Lin paused for a moment before speaking.

"There will be a market in town in three days, where you can catch a few chicks."

Fei Huainan injured his leg, and the doctors said it was beyond repair and he would never be able to return to the army.

Now that there's no hope left in the military, it's time to get back to normal life at home.

I can catch a few chickens to raise. They don't eat the eggs, but I can sell them for some money, which is a way to have some income.

Xu Manman was overjoyed when she heard there was a market where she could catch chicks.

"Aunt Lin, are there any piglets for sale at the market?"

Aunt Lin shook her head: "We do have chicks, but piglets aren't available for sale at this time of year."

Piglets are caught once a year, raised for a year, and then slaughtered for meat. There are very few piglets for sale at other times.

After all, it's already July. If we catch piglets at this time, they won't grow big enough for the New Year. It would be a waste to kill them, but if we don't kill them, there won't be any pig feed on the mountain in winter, so we'll have to feed them grain, which isn't cost-effective.

Hearing this, Xu Manman had no choice but to give up, but she could catch a few chickens and ducks to feed them, which would be fine.

The two were talking about going to the market.

Aunt Lin quickly tidied up the house, turned around and gave instructions to her daughter-in-law who was in postpartum confinement, then called over a few acquaintances and took Xu Manman up the mountain together.

This place is surrounded by mountains, which are rich in resources, but also very dangerous.

It is said that wild boars and wolves roam these mountains.

When we go up the mountain, there are usually several of us together.

Aunt Lin also gave Xu Manman special instructions.

"You should never go up the mountain alone, it's very dangerous."

Xu Manman nodded.

Everyone was very curious about her, and glances frequently fell on her, but Xu Manman pretended to be a shy young wife and got away with it.

Xu Manman listened to them talking about other topics before she looked up and met an unfriendly gaze.

The other person was holding the arm of a woman with two braids, wearing a floral dress, and had delicate features. The woman looked over with particularly angry eyes.

Xu Manman felt that the other person looked familiar, and she thought about it before she remembered.

This isn't a dream; I was born in the same year as Fei Huainan.

When they were little, the two families jokingly said they would arrange a marriage between them.

During the years Fei Huainan served in the army, the Liu family wrote many letters to Fei Huainan, asking him to fulfill the childhood betrothal they had made.

Later, Fei Huainan was injured and became disabled. After he was discharged from the army, the Liu family never showed their faces again.

They quickly arranged for Liu Minhua to meet a potential partner.

Even after Fei Huainan and the original owner were caught in adultery, she insisted that Fei Huainan take responsibility.

Liu Minhua glared at Xu Manman, whether she was looking for a man or arguing that Fei Huainan should take responsibility for Xu Manman.

It was all done by her family members, which she was unwilling to do.

Liu Minhua has liked Fei Huainan since she was a child because Fei Huainan was good-looking and didn't look like the villagers.

Later, she heard that he had become a high-ranking official, and her family said that he was her fiancé. She even fantasized about what it would be like to be an official's wife.

Later, Fei Huainan was injured and carried back, becoming disabled. She was heartbroken and locked herself in her room.

Her parents wanted her to find a husband, but she refused. However, Fei Huainan was already a cripple!

She looked down on Fei Huainan, but she was also unhappy that Xu Manman used such dirty means to marry Fei Huainan.

In her eyes, Xu Manman was a shameless slut!

Xu Manman had a lot to say, and at the same time felt that Fei Huainan was really unlucky, considering what kind of people were surrounding him.

However, she didn't have time to be sad about autumn; for her, having a full stomach was more important than anything else.

July is a wonderful time of year, with abundant wild vegetables and the occasional wild grape, wild berry, and sweet root vegetable.

These are all rare treasures that future generations will find hard to come by.

Xu Manman also dug for wild vegetables in her previous life, but at that time she dug for wild vegetables because they were highly nutritious, high in dietary fiber, and could also clear heat and reduce internal fire.

In addition, thanks to the abundance of food in her previous life, she added anchovies and a secret sauce to the wild vegetables, making the cold wild vegetable salad incredibly fragrant.

However, wild vegetables taste bitter and astringent, so families with vegetables at home would never go out to dig for wild vegetables.

Xu Manman deftly dug for wild vegetables. When Liu Minhua saw this, her eyes flickered, and she went ahead of Xu Manman.

After digging for a while, Xu Manman found that all the wild vegetables around her had been dug up.

She moved to another place, but Liu Minhua came to cause trouble again.

Xu Manman wasn't one to swallow her anger, so she spoke up loudly, "Comrade, there are so many wild vegetables on the mountain, you don't need to take the ones next to me."

Several women nearby looked over upon hearing this.

Liu Minhua was surprised that Xu Manman would suddenly speak up. She had thought Xu Manman was easy to bully because she had seemed shy on the way.

With so many bodies staring at her, Liu Minhua's face flushed red, but she quickly recovered and retorted loudly.

"What nonsense are you talking about? When did I steal your wild vegetables?"

Xu Manman readily agreed: "Oh, I misunderstood. I'm sorry, but it's easy for me to misunderstand when you're so close to me."

"In that case, I'll take the initiative to move away, hoping you'll never appear in my life again."

After Xu Manman finished speaking, she walked in the opposite direction from Liu Minhua.

Liu Minhua was furious and wanted to go over and cause more trouble, but the aunties around her kept looking up at her, so she didn't have the courage to go over and cause any more trouble.

The aunties all had a lot to say about it.

To be honest, the Liu family is really despicable.

Back when Fei Huainan's leg wasn't injured and he was an officer in the army, the Liu family would tell everyone they met about the arranged marriage between their children.

This caused all the villagers in Xinghua Village to know that the Liu family and the Fei family had a betrothal, and they all regarded Liu Minhua and Fei Huainan as a couple.

When Fei Huainan returned with his leg injury, the Liu family said that free love was popular now, and that arranging marriages between children was just a feudal idea and should not be taken seriously.

Later, he hurriedly arranged for Liu Minhua to find a partner, fearing that Fei Huainan would take advantage of her.

The villagers were all somewhat speechless, as no one usually took arranged marriages seriously.

But who can blame them for being so high-profile!

Fearing that Fei Huainan would deny it, she wanted the whole world to know about the arranged marriage.

Then they say it was a joke. Can't people tell whether it's a joke or not?