Chapter 21

This position made her feel incredibly insecure. Besides, she had been working for two nights and an afternoon straight, and she didn’t need his help.

“No!” Shen Wu rolled over, wrapping herself in the thin blanket: “I’m tired, I’m sleepy, I want to sleep.”

Lu Xuan watched her move smoothly and effortlessly. Her long hair was tousled and fell over her face, and her exposed eyes looked at him with a feigned fierceness.

He inexplicably found it a bit… cute.

Thinking about the nonsense from the afternoon, even though he still had the strength, this little ancestor clearly wouldn’t let him get his way. Lu Xuan lay down, extending his arm.

He gestured with his eyes for Shen Wu to sleep with her head on his arm. She had watched countless idol dramas in her past life, and she really wanted to try what it felt like.

She wrapped herself in the blanket and stared at Lu Xuan: “If I sleep with my head on you, won’t you be uncomfortable?”

Lu Xuan had no idea, no one had ever rested their head on him before.

But he inexplicably wanted to be closer to her: “No.”

Lu Xuan’s physique wasn’t like the muscular men she had seen in short videos in her past life. He had muscles, the kind that came from years of labor and exercise, full of strength.

When she first lay down, Shen Wu felt it was novel.

After lying down for a while, she silently moved away little by little.

He wasn’t uncomfortable.

She was uncomfortable.

She had only moved half way when the man’s long arm pulled her back: “What’s wrong?”

Shen Wu met Lu Xuan’s gaze, hesitated for a moment, and whispered: “You have to work tomorrow, it’s too tiring to sleep like this.”

Lu Xuan frowned slightly: “Tell the truth.”

Shen Wu…

“Your arm is too hard, it’s hurting my neck.”

This time it was Lu Xuan who fell silent.

Shen Wu took advantage of this opportunity to get off his arm and thoughtfully moved it to his side. She sighed in her heart, idol dramas were all lies, it wasn’t comfortable at all.

It was still more comfortable to lie on a soft pillow.

Shen Wu was going to make breakfast. When Lu Xuan got up, she also got up in a daze.

As she came out, she saw Xu Yin yawning as she came out of the east room. She looked even more sleepy than Shen Wu.

After washing up.

She and Xu Yin went to the kitchen to cook, while Lu Xuan and Lu Ye went to the back mountain. Long Yujiao also got up very early. Lu Xuan and Lu Ye went out first, and she came out shortly after.

Shen Wu guessed that she must have also gone to the mountain while there were fewer people.

Shen Wu looked at Xu Yin and said: “Let’s go and take a look too, we have some free time today.”

Xu Yin had already learned how to start a fire. She added a handful of firewood to the stove and nodded. She yawned lazily, looking satisfied.

It was obvious what had happened.

Shen Wu was still thinking about going to the mountain. While they were eating, Old Lady Lu announced that she and Xu Yin had to go to work today.

“Everyone has to go to work except for your sister-in-law, who is pregnant. But you two have to cook, so you can come back early.”

Shen Wu had never worked in the fields in her past life, but she had enough information to know that working in the fields was hard, but she had no idea how hard it actually was. So she didn’t argue with Old Lady Lu.

Fine, she’d go. She didn’t have a phone to play with at home anyway.

She just had to worry about the sun, it was easy to get tanned. Shen Wu wore long sleeves and long pants, and she took the straw hat hanging on the wall and put it on her head. She thought it didn’t look good, so she rebraided her hair.

Xu Yin wasn’t afraid of the sun, she had even gone to get a tan in her past life.

But they were both very eye-catching.

Long Yujiao smiled: “Third Sister-in-law, you don’t look like someone who works in the fields at all. There’s no one like you in the village.”

She wasn’t just saying this to Shen Wu, she was saying it to everyone.

Those who worked in the fields often felt that Shen Wu didn’t look like someone who worked in the fields. She was making such a big deal out of it.

Shen Wu didn’t care about anyone: “If you’re going to say that, Long Zhiqing, I won’t go to the fields. If Mother asks, I’ll say you discouraged me.”

Shen Wu actually turned around and walked back.

Long Yujiao didn’t want to take the blame. If Old Lady Lu found out, she would definitely have a bad impression of her: “That’s not what I meant.”

“Then what did you mean? Do you want everyone to pick on my flaws?” Shen Wu asked back.

Long Yujiao was caught off guard, her face turned pale: “Third Sister-in-law, that’s not what I meant…”

As she spoke, Long Yujiao’s eyes welled up with tears, and she stood behind Old Five.

Old Five frowned and was about to stand up.

But Shen Wu’s voice came before his: “You and Old Five aren’t married yet, don’t call me that. You were the one who instigated this, didn’t you feel that something was wrong with me, that I was being pretentious, when she said that just now?”

To be honest, they really did.

Wang Hua was an honest person: “When she said that, I also felt that it wasn’t appropriate for you to work in the fields like that.”

Most of the others had this thought, but they didn’t think Long Yujiao’s words were wrong at first. It seemed that when Shen Wu got serious, it was as if she was really trying to make everyone have a bad impression of her.

Shen Wu said again: “Now your eyes are red, it’s like I bullied you.”

…

“Not working, what are you all doing here?”

A gruff and authoritative voice came. Old Man Lu was the head of the Lu family. When he came, he heard what had happened. In his eyes, women bickering was just a trivial matter.

“Get to work!”

Everyone went to the fields. Shen Wu didn’t lose anything. It was just the matter of the mark on her neck, she wasn’t going to make a fuss about it. If she kept arguing over this, it would only be her reputation that would be ruined.

But it wasn’t just Long Yujiao who was paying attention to Shen Wu, others were also watching her. Her face was her own, and her sun protection was her own. Shen Wu didn’t care much about other people’s stares. When someone looked at her, she would smile.

Shen Wu ended up being assigned to a group of middle-aged women.

When they saw someone beautiful, their mood would always improve: “The work today isn’t heavy, just weeding, don’t be afraid.”

Shen Wu originally thought that weeding wasn’t that hard, it didn’t require any skills. At first, she even thought it was fun, and she even competed with Xu Yin to see who could weed more.

But bending down, getting up, bending down, getting up…

After a while, Shen Wu felt a little dizzy. No wonder Long Yujiao went through all the trouble to get a job as a scorekeeper. Later, she discovered her lucky charm, she sold things on the black market and didn’t want to work in the fields anymore.

This work was really too hard.

“Auntie, can’t we use pesticides on these weeds?”

Shen Wu was so tired that she called out to the auntie who was far away from her.

The auntie was very nimble at doing this work: “That stuff is very expensive! Besides, we need to earn work points.”

“Third Sister-in-law, hurry up, otherwise, you won’t earn many work points today, and you’ll starve this winter!”

…

The auntie was a warm-hearted auntie, but her words didn’t sting Shen Wu. Instead, when she looked up and saw the endless field, she felt despair.

Then she looked at Xu Yin.

Xu Yin had practiced martial arts in her past life, and her willpower was stronger than ordinary people. Although this work was tedious, she didn’t want to do it, but it wasn’t enough to make her despair: “Wait a minute, I’ll help you after I finish mine!”

Shen Wu wanted to hug Xu Yin and cry. She was truly a good friend.

The weather in mid-July was very hot. It got hotter and hotter as noon approached. Shen Wu lowered her head and looked up at the sun. She felt dizzy and her vision went black—