The Farm Girl's Charismatic Fortune-Chapter 39 - 38 This Time Heaven Opened Its Eyes by
Chapter 39: Chapter 38 This Time Heaven Opened Its Eyes by Itself
Chapter 39 -38 This Time Heaven Opened Its Eyes by Itself
Granny Lei sneered coldly, “Zhen Yi has truly been cursed for eight generations to have parents with hearts of wolves and lungs of dogs like you! A dowry of a hundred taels, you might as well just rob it!”
Zhen Yi is a good child, but with a blood-sucking leech like Old Zhen and Lady Tan who only know how to exploit their daughter, Granny Lei would absolutely not dare to agree to have her son marry into their family, for troubles would surely follow without end.
Old Zhen proclaimed, “Just because your family can’t come up with it doesn’t mean others can’t! My daughter Zhen Yi is worth that much in silver. A hundred taels of silver, three wild boars, a hundred loads of rice, not a single coin less! If you don’t agree now, in a few days I’ll be exchanging wedding contracts with Zhu the butcher.”
Old Zhen didn’t know that Madam Zhao had already been divorced; if he had known, he could have demanded even more silver.
Lady Tan said irritably, “Why spout so much nonsense, old man? The Ruo Family is mad with madness, crippled with infirmity, and as poor as the clang of a bell—where would they get silver for a bridal price? Granny Lei, the wild boars have ravaged my rice; pay me for a wild boar right away, or this matter won’t be settled!”
Ruo Xuan squatted down while everyone was arguing noisily and then stood up, speaking in a milky voice, “Your rice is fine now; I’ve fixed it. You owe me a wild boar, and with that, this matter is settled!”
Upon hearing this, Granny Lei looked down and saw that the fallen rice plants had been set upright, not a single trace of bending.
Did Xuanbao use Immortal Technique again?
Her heart skipped a beat, and she quickly said, “Oh dear, look, Lady Tan, your rice just fell down, but my Xuanbao helped you pick it up; hurry up and give a wild boar to my Xuanbao! That settles it!”
In fact, Granny Lei was overthinking it; there were too many people crowded around the field just now, and nobody noticed whether Lady Tan’s rice had been trampled by wild boars or had simply tilted.
If the rice stems were not broken but merely bent, then setting them upright would suffice; even if they were broken, the rice was now half-ripe, and setting it upright and securing it wouldn’t affect the harvest, so no one thought anything unusual.
Even Lady Tan herself didn’t suspect anything; she was just envious over the three wild boars and upon noticing a few fallen rice plants in her field, she made up an excuse to claim one without looking closely.
Lady Tan turned black with anger, “That’s my family’s rice! Who asked you to fix it? Demanding a wild boar just for fixing it? Why don’t you just rob it?”
Ruo Xuan looked up at the village chief’s wife and asked with big blinking eyes, “Village chief’s mom, please judge this! Wasn’t it she who said her rice is worth a wild boar? I saved her rice, so shouldn’t she owe me a wild boar?”
The village chief’s wife was too enamored by Ruo Xuan’s big eyes blinking and blinking, and hugger her tight, speaking to Lady Tan, “Lady Tan, Old Zhen, Xuanbao is right. Didn’t you say your rice is worth a wild boar? Now that your rice is fine, you should give a wild boar to Xuanbao!”
Lady Tan exploded with fury, “…. That’s my family’s rice, and I didn’t ask her to fix it, so what do I have to compensate for? Take your compensation dreams elsewhere! Nosey Parker!”
Not getting her way, Lady Tan turned her back and stormed off!
Old Zhen quickly added, “The rice was ours to begin with, who asked you to fix it! And now we’re supposed to compansate? In your dreams!”
Finishing their piece, the couple hurriedly ran off!
While running away, Lady Tan cursed, “It’s what someone with the Lei surname deserves; a dead husband, one son mad, another crippled, and now a foolish granddaughter! This is retribution! Just you wait! There’s more retribution coming! Oh Heavenly Lord, such people must be taught a lesson—best if they fall and break a leg, or choke every time they eat or drink…”
Before she could finish her sentence, her feet slipped, and she fell into the rice field, flattening a swath of rice. Then a piercing pain shot up from her ankle, “Ahhh! Old man, save me! My leg! My leg’s broken!”
Old Zhen hurried over to help her up, but as Lady Tan was too heavy, he lost his balance and fell directly on her ankle with his knee.
“Ahhhhhh!!!!!!”
A scream like a pig being slaughtered reached the heavens!
Old Zhen: “…”
He felt like a bone had broken.
Ruo Xuan covered her little ears and glanced back with a look of surprise.
This time, it really wasn’t her fault!
After all, she had already used up all her Spiritual Power.
She covered her ears and looked up at the blue sky, grateful that Heaven had finally taken action!
However, seeing that they had crushed her family’s rice, she cried out, “You’ve damaged my family’s rice; compensate us with two pigs!”
Frightened, the couple didn’t bother to check whether their legs were broken or bones cracked and awkwardly scurried away as fast as they could!
Ruo Xuan didn’t bother chasing them; she gave her seemingly absent-minded third uncle a glance and thought that there would be opportunities to return in the future.
She grabbed Ruo He’s hand, “Third Uncle, don’t worry, everything you wish for will come to you.”
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Whether Lady Tan’s leg was broken or not was no longer of concern to Granny Lei, nor did she have the time to pursue the matter of her family’s trampled rice because people from the mountain were carrying two large wild pigs down!
Madam Liu saw her husband returning unharmed and after informing Granny Lei, she quickly ran home, grabbed a cart, fetched some ropes to tie up the wild pigs, and hauled them back home.
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Villagers from afar saw people carrying the wild boar down the mountain and swarmed over as well.
“What a fat wild boar! We have our meat for the New Year!”
“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a wild boar, and today we got several all at once, how lucky!”
“Indeed, I was thinking about going to the city to buy a few pounds of pork to cure for the New Year, but now there’s no need! Wild boar tastes even better!”
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The village head said happily, “This time we were able to successfully hunt two wild boars, and Ruo Shui deserves the most credit. It was he who shot the wild boar’s hind leg, which slowed it down, enabling us to succeed in the hunt. These two wild boars, we’ll give half to the Ruo Family. Does anyone have any objections?”
The village head always acted fairly; those who contributed the most received the most. Therefore, even though the Ruo Family already had three wild boars, he still proposed giving half of the boars to them.
The villagers who had gone up the mountain to hunt wild boars all said one after another, “No objections, the village head has made a fair distribution!”
“Let’s divide it this way! Ruo Shui put in the most effort, without him the wild boar would not have been easy to catch.”
“Right, without Ruo Shui, the wild boar would not have been easy to catch! I have no objections, let’s divide it that way!”
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The majority of the people in the village were simple and kind-hearted, especially those few households who could go up the mountain and hunt wild boars together. When they heard the cries of the village head’s wife, they truly came out to help and rescue without thinking too much.
Granny Lei waved her hand, “Village head, our family will not take our share of these two boars, let everyone else divide them! That half of a boar can be considered as a contribution from my family for the pig-killing feast, as a thank you for everyone’s help and for the care shown to the Ruo Family over the years.”
The Ruo Family was the last to arrive in Xishui Village, but in all these years, the villagers had never ostracized them. When they first settled down, these few households actually provided more help, and would respond to calls for assistance whenever possible, always ready to lend a hand.
Granny Lei knew how to be tactful. She was willing to give up half of a boar if it would make everyone happy, so why not?
The village head, hearing this, couldn’t help but praise Granny Lei in his heart for truly being the wife of a former Chiliarch, so magnanimous.
If everyone in the village was like this, he would have fewer worries.
He declared, “Sister-in-law of the Ruo Family is generous! In that case, we’ll slaughter the pig at my place, and everyone will eat the pig-killing feast at my house too. I’ll provide the rice and the drinks! After the meal, we can divide up the pork. In the future, if the Ruo Family needs anything, everyone must not decline, understood?”
“Of course! Granny Lei, whatever you need, just say the word, even in the middle of the night, I’ll be there!”
“We’re all from the same village, all brothers! Big Sister Lei, if the Ruo Family needs anything, just speak up! I’ll send my sons and daughters-in-law to help out!”
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Granny Lei smiled and thanked everyone.
The villagers asked Granny Lei if she needed help with slaughtering their three wild boars as well, and Granny Lei waved her hand, “These three wild boars are just stunned, we’ll take them to the city to sell directly, no slaughtering.”
Hearing this, they reminded her to quickly tie up the wild boars, and then a group of people joyfully carried the wild boars to the village head’s house to slaughter.
The cart had not yet been brought over, when Ruo Xuan saw that the rice in their home had fallen over, she squatted down to lift it up. Granny Lei, upon seeing this, quickly called her two sons to help lift the rice.
Ruo He looked at their home’s somewhat heavy panicles of rice, doubting the accuracy of his own eyes, and asked, “Mother, it seems our rice has grown quite well this year, hasn’t it?”
As he spoke, Ruo Shui also took a closer look and found that indeed, it was truly good, without a single empty husk, and he excitedly said, “Mother, we might have a bumper harvest this year!”
Ruo Xuan nodded her little head, “Hmm-hmm, it will definitely be a great harvest!”
Not only the rice, but the vegetables in the field should also be ready to harvest after tonight, as they grow faster than the rice and don’t taste good when they get old.
Granny Lei laughed. Of course, it wasn’t bad; after all, Xuanbao had sprinkled it with Immortal Technique.
She said, “Since you know it’s not bad, why aren’t you hurrying to lift the rice up?”
Upon hearing this, the two brothers looked at the large swath of rice that had fallen and felt their hearts ache. They wished they could immediately slaughter those few wild boars!
My goodness! They’d forgotten how many years it had been since their family had grown such good rice!
The two brothers excitedly lifted the fallen rice and tied it up securely.
Soon, Madam Liu and Ruo Chuan hurriedly arrived, pushing the cart together.
Following behind them was the butler from the General Residence.
