After being wrongly married, I stabbed my husband to death and became famous throughout the world.

As Yao Aning spoke, she went back into the house, took out another five taels of silver from the box, and handed it to her mother.

"My husband didn't leave me much money, just this much. You should be careful with your spending. Besides, the old woman has been keeping a close eye on me lately. Now that you're here, she'll make me stand there serving her again. My husband isn't home, and I'm going to be tortured to death. So please, don't cause me any more trouble!"

When Yao's mother saw the silver, she no longer felt aggrieved.

She came to complain, but her main purpose was to get money.

She knelt down for her daughter's sake, so of course her daughter had to give her something in return to appease her...

As for what her daughter said... Yao's mother nodded quickly: "You are so capable. You made the right choice marrying into the Ma family. If it were that Ali, even if she became a member of the Ma family, she wouldn't get any benefits!"

"..." Yao Aning was not happy.

This doesn't sound like a compliment at all!

……

The next morning, before the Chen siblings had even gotten up, Li Shu had already packed his things and was preparing to move.

We agreed to stay only one day, and absolutely no longer.

The Chen family is good, but Li Shu prefers to have her own little territory, even if it's just a small wooden house in the mountains. As long as she can make her own decisions, she can live there freely and comfortably.

The Chen siblings originally intended to slowly boil the frog in water, but they didn't expect Ali to be as stubborn as a donkey.

They were also quite helpless, so they had no choice but to immediately take her to find a house.

Li Shu's requirements are not high; enough for her to live in is fine, but it would be best if she could have a larger courtyard. She wants to put some wooden figures or plum blossom stakes for martial arts practice in the courtyard.

She had never studied martial arts, but based on her understanding of martial arts from her previous life, these two things seemed very important.

Houses are not hard to find; there are two or three options near Chen's house.

But Li Shu ultimately chose a courtyard not too close to the Chen family, located north of Wuzhuang.

This is already on the edge of the town, with a small hill not far away, making it convenient for her to practice archery. If there is any danger, she can run away and hide as quickly as possible. The layout of the house is also good, with four main rooms and two side rooms on the east and west sides.

“This house… is quite nice, but…” Chen Feiqing hesitated, “the neighbors next door are not easy to get along with.”

"How so?" Li Shu asked, quite curious.

"Uncle Yu who lives next door is quite old. He was a military officer when he was young and made great contributions in the army. Later, his son went to the battlefield and died not long after. He also made a mistake and spent many years in the army. He didn't die, but when he came back, he was missing an eye and his temper became very bad."

"I heard that he cracks his whip before dawn every day, making a loud 'crack crack' sound. Several families in the neighborhood were disturbed and moved away. In our Wuzhuang, he is the most unsociable person."

"Also, this house has been abandoned for too long, it's deserted, and the repair costs are higher than other houses," Chen Feiqing added. "And look at that room, a tree has grown out of a perfectly good house, even breaking through the roof. The tree is so big, it won't be easy to move it out..."

But Li Shu likes it here.

Two of the four main rooms are unusable due to the large, protruding trees that have grown out of the house. As a result, the house is very cheap; it can be bought for thirty-five taels of silver.

Other houses cost at least fifty taels, and none of them are as big as this one.

"This tree is growing so well, I can swing on the roof now!" Li Shu was delighted. "It's settled then!"

"..." The Chen siblings had never seen anyone buy a house like this before.

It's settled? Thirty-five taels of silver, and we're losing two rooms for nothing! Isn't that a huge loss?!

Li Shu genuinely wanted to buy a house, so she even hired a broker. Now that she had given her consent, she was even more eager to pay the money and sign the contract on the spot.

“Cousin, we still have ten taels here. Half of it was given to us by you before, and the other half was given to us by our mother…” Chen Feiqing was also prepared to take out some money to help out.

However, Li Shu didn't even glance at it: "No need."

"..." Chen Feiqing's hand froze there.

Chen Ying breathed a sigh of relief. After this day, couldn't they still see? Ali only wanted to maintain a normal family relationship with them, and especially didn't want to owe them any favors.

She's willing to help find a house, but she won't accept any financial payment.

They had initially worried that Li Shu wouldn't have enough money, but it was clear that she was very wealthy.

While the broker was also there, Li Shu sold the ten acres of land belonging to the Li family.

Those ten acres of land were worth about eighty taels of silver, and Li Shu didn't dwell too much on the price, selling them off readily.

After the house was settled, Li Shu saw the brother and sister looking at it expectantly. After thinking for a moment, she started asking the brother and sister to help with the chores. She didn't want to take advantage of the Chen family, because of the original owner of this body, but putting the original owner aside...

With these two living, breathing laborers right in front of us, we can't be soft-hearted when it's time to get them working!

But the brother and sister were extremely concerned about Li Shu's feelings at that moment. When they heard that Li Shu needed their help, they were very happy and quickly ran home to get a bunch of things and started cleaning.

The place wasn't big, and the brother and sister helped her clean until dark before leaving.

Li Shu knew they were good people, so when they were leaving, she looked at them with special gratitude, and without hesitation, gave Chen Ying a warm hug, adding sweetly, "Cousin, you are so good to me."

"Of course, of course!" Chen Ying's eyes were shining.

In the eyes of these two, Li Shu was like a little wildcat they had picked up, pitiful but full of defensiveness, ready to unleash its claws at any moment, and not friendly to anyone.

But at this moment, the poor little thing took the initiative to come close to it.

Chen Ying felt as if countless fireworks were exploding in her heart, and Chen Feiqing couldn't help but laugh foolishly.

“However, cousin, I’ve been alone on the mountain all my life, and I’m used to it now. If someone comes to bother me every day, I’ll feel very uneasy,” Li Shu added pitifully.

"We won't bother you!" Chen Ying immediately patted her chest. "Don't worry, once you're settled, we absolutely won't allow anyone to interfere with you! But since you've just arrived, we'll definitely need to meet Boss Wu. There are a lot of young people here, so we need to get acquainted with him. That way, if you get bullied in the future, someone will help you."

"Alright, I'll leave these matters to you." Li Shu grinned.

She felt like she was selling her body.

This tactic worked very well for Chen Ying.

Perhaps because they had seen so much of the original owner's sad and pitiful state, the brother and sister now find themselves grinning like idiots whenever they see her smile, and even feeling a sense of pride.

Thinking about it carefully, these two people had also put in some effort into the original owner, but they never received any positive feedback.

Now, every positive emotion she experiences is like watching a seed that has been buried for a long time bloom into a beautiful flower for the two of them.

Li Shu was also glad that he was a person with little sense of morality.

Otherwise, the brother and sister's enthusiastic behavior would surely make her feel guilty.

She... a day of guilt is enough; when it's time to take advantage, she won't be polite.

At worst, after I've used him, I can scold myself a few times, saying I'm a worthless person, and then I'll feel much more at ease...

After the brother and sister left, things quieted down in Lishu's place.

She took out some daily necessities from her space, tidied them up, then pulled out the hemp rope she had used on the mountain, found a broken wooden plank, drilled holes in the plank and tied it up, then climbed onto the roof and hung it on the big tree that did not grow according to the rules.

People are swaying on the roof.