Chapter 36

The man’s gaze was fixed on her, as if he wanted to devour her. Even if Shen Wu was slow, she realized what was happening and her face flushed slightly. She pushed Lu Xuan’s chest with a small hand.

Hard as a rock!

He stared at her and whispered, “You’re not going to sleep? Sleep for a while, replenish your energy.”

“This is also replenishing energy.” Lu Xuan mumbled, lowering his head.

Shen Wu experienced firsthand his method of replenishing energy. But it was the middle of the day, and they had to go to work in the afternoon. The man still had some sense of propriety. However, her lips were numb and sore for a long time.

After waking up from her nap, the swelling on her lips hadn’t completely subsided.

When Shen Wu came out, she encountered teasing glances from others, especially Xu Yin. She simply stayed in the bedroom to read, preparing for the exam.

Long Yu Jiao went to work in the afternoon. Many people asked her about the photo, and she felt a heavy, suffocating feeling in her heart.

There were many people who went to the mountain, but nothing happened before. Why did it happen this time?

It must have something to do with Shen Wu and Xu Yin!

Their relationship wasn’t good, maybe it would be better to inquire separately.

Shen Wu didn’t know what she was thinking. She spent the whole afternoon reading, feeling knowledge entering her brain, making her dizzy and confused.

Shen Wu went out for a walk.

The sun was setting, and some people who hadn’t gone to work were sitting under the shade of the trees, enjoying the cool breeze. Among them was Li Ping, who was holding some fabric and making clothes for her unborn child.

Shen Wu’s face was too eye-catching, beautiful and graceful, it was hard not to notice her.

Someone looked at Shen Wu for a few moments and said to Li Ping, “I heard that your family’s mouth won’t be working in the fields anymore?”

Li Ping thought about it, and it wasn’t very comfortable, but she still nodded, “Yeah, she’s delicate, she won’t work in the fields. The third brother is willing to support her.”

“Indeed, she’s like a flower. That figure, the front like this, the back like that.” A big aunt said, gesturing in front of her, “If I were a man, I’d be willing to support her too.”

“She’s so alluring in bed!”

“…”

“But that’s not right. Who wasn’t like a flower when they were young? If she doesn’t work, wouldn’t others have to do her work?”

Li Ping, “That’s right.”

“No, my third uncle gave all the meat he hunted to the commune. Also, my third aunt is going to take the exam for a school teacher. She’ll have work points and money in the future. And my third aunt cooks very well, she’s not doing nothing.”

Lu Pan’er was playing marbles with other children nearby. Hearing everyone’s discussion, she couldn’t help but defend her beloved third aunt.

She looked at the person who said she was a flower and said seriously, “My mother said that flowers are different. There are wildflowers by the roadside, and there are the magnificent peonies.”

“Hey, you little girl, you’re quite eloquent. What kind of flower is your mother?”

Wang Hua wasn’t considered beautiful by the general public’s standards, and this person’s words were laced with malice.

“My mother said that although her name is Wang Hua (literally “King Flower”), she doesn’t act like a flower, she’s like an evergreen tree.” Lu Pan’er said, holding her chin, “She said I shouldn’t be a flower either.”

“This little one!”

Li Ping said, “Adults are talking, you little kid, don’t interrupt. Go play.”

She brought the conversation back to Shen Wu, “She said she wants to take the exam for a teacher. I think she won’t pass, and the third brother is blinded by love.”

“If she doesn’t earn work points, you’ll be the ones who suffer. But men aren’t fools either. They’re fresh at the beginning of a marriage, but when time passes, the freshness fades. It won’t last.”

“…”

Shen Wu went out for a walk. Some people’s gazes were undisguised, and some even said things to her. It would be strange if she didn’t notice.

However, she had experience with this and didn’t take it to heart.

When she turned back, she leaned in and shouted, “Aunties, what are you talking about?”

Her voice was very loud, startling everyone.

Lu Pan’er saw Shen Wu come back and complained, “Third Aunt, they said you’re a vixen! You’re seducing the third uncle and making him support you!”

Everyone was suddenly a little embarrassed.

Under Shen Wu’s gaze, they said with a smirk, “A child’s nonsense, what does she know!”

“It’s precisely because she doesn’t know anything that someone said it, and she heard it and learned it.” Shen Wu said calmly, “But I also understand that aunties talk about people behind their backs. After all, who doesn’t talk about people behind their backs?”

Shen Wu acted very generously.

“It’s good that you understand!”

“We were just chatting idly…”

Shen Wu pulled Lu Pan’er back home. After a while, she brought out a basin of water and splashed it towards the big tree next to the door –

“Ah!”

“My clothes!”

“Third brother’s wife, what are you doing?!”

“Didn’t you say, who doesn’t talk about people behind their backs?!”

Shen Wu’s basin of water made a group of people go crazy.

“I said who doesn’t talk about people behind their backs, I didn’t say that others talk about me, I’m not angry! I’m not going to retaliate!”

Shen Wu held the basin in one hand and put her hips on her waist with the other, “Next time, if you talk about me behind my back, don’t let me find out, or it won’t be just a basin of water.”

She said this and went back to the courtyard with the basin.

Old Lady Lu had just gone out to ask her to cook when she bumped into this scene.

Her eyes fell on Shen Wu, and she suddenly felt that Shen Wu had been pretty good to her. She had said so many things about her being a vixen, but she hadn’t splashed a basin of water on her head.

People are afraid of comparison.

After comparing, Old Lady Lu, who had originally wanted to scold her for being lazy, lowered her voice, “It’s time to cook!”

“I know, Mother, I’ll go now.”

What a good daughter-in-law! Old Lady Lu had this thought in her heart. It was too scary, she quickly shook her head to get rid of it.

“Lu Lao Kou, you judge! Your third brother’s wife is going too far!”

Old Lady Lu thought in her heart that Shen Wu was going too far. She was also angry at Shen Wu, but between outsiders and her own son and daughter-in-law, she still opened her mouth and sprayed, “Serves them right!”

“Who told you to be a bunch of gossips! You have a foul mouth, my third brother’s wife is doing you a favor, washing your mouths!”

Everyone…

They shouldn’t have expected anything good to come out of Old Lady Lu’s mouth.

One by one, they left feeling disgusted.

Li Ping muttered, “Mother, you’re too partial to the third brother’s family.”

Old Lady Lu: ???

She was partial to the third brother’s family? The eldest son’s family was really blind and deaf.

Shen Wu wasn’t the kind of person who would just take it. If they talked about her behind her back and she didn’t know, fine. But if she found out and didn’t retaliate, that would be a pushover.

After dinner, Shen Wu went to the yard to digest her food.

Long Yu Jiao walked over with a gentle smile, “Third Sister-in-law.”

To be honest, Long Yu Jiao’s face wasn’t that of a stunning beauty, but it was very comfortable and approachable. This was why everyone in the village had a good impression of her.

Especially with her current appearance, like a little white flower, Shen Wu raised an eyebrow, “What’s wrong?”

“I heard from the villagers that the fourth sister-in-law also went into the mountains. You were both in the mountains, did you see the fourth sister-in-law pick up anything?”

She still wasn’t reconciled, but it was normal to be unreconciled. After all, that ginseng was sold for sixty yuan.

“We don’t get along, we weren’t on the same mountain. I don’t know. Go ask her yourself.”

As she spoke, Shen Wu saw Xu Yin, “Hey! Xu Yin, Long Zhi Qing has something to ask you – “

Long Yu Jiao’s fingers, which had been hanging by her skirt, couldn’t help but clench again.

When Xu Yin’s cold gaze swept over her, Long Yu Jiao’s mind immediately flashed images of those rifles, arrows, and daggers. She smiled awkwardly, “It’s nothing important.”

Seeing this, Shen Wu smiled and spoke again, “She just asked me if I saw you pick up something in the mountains. We weren’t on the same mountain, I told her to ask you herself.”

“Long Zhi Qing, shouldn’t you ask her personally?”

Shen Wu’s eyes were full of mischief. It was boring without a phone in these days. Her morals seemed to be slipping –