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

I'll cook dinner.

Xu Manman cut a sausage and stir-fried it with green peppers.

The Lin family next door received some fish, and knowing that Xu Manman and Fei Huainan didn't have any, they sent some over.

Xu Manman also stewed fish soup and made egg pancakes.

Fei Huainan continued to send some fish soup and egg pancakes to the cowshed as usual.

Xu Manman is now rich. Eggs in the countryside no longer require coupons, and she has bought a lot of stock at home. She also has several hundred eggs in her space.

She's really generous with her egg pancakes now; they taste great and are so soft.

Xu Manman never interfered with Fei Huainan's act of sending things.

The elderly couple, however, were afraid that Xu Manman would object, so they didn't allow Fei Huainan to deliver it.

Life was tough at that time, so if some of the food was sent out to them, Fei Huainan and the others would have to eat less.

Fei Huainan wouldn't listen, but after a while, the old couple realized that Xu Manman was a good girl.

Fei Huainan married the right person. The old couple felt comforted to see that he was much more peaceful now, talked more, and looked much more relaxed.

Fei Huainan didn't linger; he delivered the gifts and left.

It's very inconvenient for the elderly couple to cook for themselves, so he usually just brings them some eggs to help them recover.

They can't deliver meat either.

Let's just wait until it's ready before sending it over.

Fei Huainan still felt quite guilty about sending the gifts.

After all, Xu Manman made all the items.

He wanted to give Xu Manman more money, but he didn't have any. He wanted to go up the mountain, but he was still lame and couldn't.

Thinking of the desk and adjustable chair that Xu Manman mentioned, it seems that this is all he can do now.

Xu Manman didn't care at all about Fei Huainan's act of sending things.

She is doing all this to make amends to Fei Huainan.

She had inexplicably bound herself to Fei Huainan's jade pendant space, and although Fei Huainan couldn't know about it, her conscience wouldn't allow it.

She will try her best to fulfill Fei Huainan's wishes, and once he is no longer corrupted, she will leave with the space.

When the time comes, with the sky high and the land vast, she will go and see the mountains and rivers of her motherland, and find a place she likes to settle down.

Fei Huainan was unaware that his wife, whom he had married but had not yet consummated their marriage, was planning to run away with him and live with him.

After the meal, Fei Huainan took the initiative to clean up the kitchen and boil water, so that Xu Manman didn't have to lift a finger.

Xu Manman got used to it. While working in Fei Huainan, she started to count the days. The sauerkraut had been sitting for almost a month and would be ready to eat when it cooled down a bit more. The soybean paste, however, would need to wait a little longer.

There was no shortage of food at home; Zhou Lei had already made arrangements for cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, and geese.

Xu Manman is wealthy and powerful; she said she would take as many of Zhou Lei's men as he could find.

Unable to sleep at night with candles lit, Xu Manman sat on the bed counting money.

Xu Manman deposited 2,500 of the 3,000 that Gao Qiuyue had just given her.

Adding the original 1,500, there is now 4,000 in the savings account.

Based on the amount of money in her savings account, Xu Manman was certain that she now had the largest savings account in the entire Xinghua Village.

While others earn twenty yuan a month, she sells two scripts and earns five thousand yuan a month. Not counting the money from a bunch of tickets and adapted comic books, her income can beat 98% of the people in the country.

Xu Manman felt a surge of joy at the thought; money is a person's courage, and without money, one has no courage.

Xu Manman held a large wad of ten-yuan notes in her hand; the sheer thickness of the notes made her incredibly happy.

In fact, Xu Manman could roughly calculate how much money was left.

But she just enjoys the pleasure of having some money.

At that time, the largest coin was the "Great Unity" coin, and the rest were five yuan, two yuan, one yuan, and various small change such as a few mao and a few fen.

Scattered on the bed in a pile.

Xu Manman counted them one by one.

Fei Huainan washed up and went into the house, where he saw Xu Manman counting money.

It looks just like a squirrel that has filled its burrow with pine cones; the sense of satisfaction and accomplishment is almost overflowing.

Fei Huainan dried his hair with a towel, wearing clean clothes, and went over to sit cross-legged opposite Xu Manman.

Xu Manman smiled, her eyes crinkling with happiness: "There are still over seven hundred left, that'll last us a long time."

This includes the money she earned from adapting comic books, which she didn't save a single penny of.

She looked up and smiled smugly at Fei Huainan; her expression was absolutely hilarious.

Fei Huainan smiled and felt that life wasn't so bad after all. With a wife like Xu Manman, life was pretty good.

Xu Manman finished counting the money and was satisfied. She picked up the iron box where Fei Huainan had put the jade pendant and put the money in.

Then he skillfully hid the tin box.

Anyway, the money is inside, and either of them can use it if they want. As for the bankbook, Xu Manman secretly transferred it to the space.

A good night's sleep.

The next morning, really early, before dawn.

The two of them went up the mountain.

Fortunately, everyone was busy preparing for the New Year, so there weren't many people in the morning. In addition, Fei Huainan's house was at the foot of the mountain, so the two of them carried two baskets up the mountain.

Fei Huainan's basket was big and thick, while Xu Manman wasn't that strong and carried a smaller basket.

The mountain road was rugged, but Xu Manman got used to it and was able to keep up with Fei Huainan's speed.

Fei Huainan, on the other hand, walked with the ease of walking in his own backyard, as if it were flat ground.

Xu Manman, on the other hand, had to be extremely careful the further she went in.

She followed Fei Huainan without thinking, and after many twists and turns, she arrived at a wooden house that looked like it was about to fall apart.

The wooden house is surrounded by a small courtyard enclosed by stones, which are large boulders, over a meter high, and look very sturdy.

Xu Manman was somewhat surprised: "There are people here?"

Xu Manman could understand building a house on a mountaintop on the outskirts, but building a house deep in the mountains was just too frightening.

Fei Huainan explained.

“In the past, when people were poor, some would go deep into the mountains to grow more grain, but they were afraid of being discovered.”

"Later, the owner of the wooden house accidentally encountered a wild boar, and was gored to death by the boar. That's when everyone was too scared to come to the mountain again."

There are actually more details.

Although that family came to the mountain, they returned home every day. Their family would prepare a meal and wait at home for a long time, but no one came back.

It's more dangerous in these deep mountains at night.

The family went to the village chief, who, after learning about the situation, led several able-bodied men and some hunters from the village up the mountain.

When the body was found, only the head remained.

The rest were eaten by wild animals.

The scene was terrifying, especially since it was at night. Those who went to find people fell ill after they returned.

The hunter was better; he often went up the mountain and knew the habits of wild boars.

Wild boars are omnivores; they eat both grass and meat, and they prefer meat.

But since then, no one has gone up the mountain again.

He originally wanted to talk to Xu Manman in detail, but when he turned around and saw Xu Manman's rosy face, he stopped talking.

Xu Manman, a delicate and frail young girl, could not bear all of this.

Fei Huainan was used to it; he had even witnessed wild animals devouring people.

I've seen people dismembered into eight pieces, and people shattered to pieces on the battlefield.

These are nothing compared to the true evil, which is a thousand times more terrifying and disgusting than these descriptions. It is a tragedy and magnificence that cannot be put into words.

Humans are advanced animals, or in other words, animals. When the human side is lost, it is more terrifying than animals.