Quick Transmigration: Underdog Turns out to be Untouchable

Chapter 1094: Chapter 1004: Those Years 4

In the end, Zhou Meijuan ran away crying, covering her face. Seeing Zhou Meijuan gone, the onlookers around also started to leave, chatting leisurely. Some acquaintances of Aunt Qi asked her on their way out if Zhou Meijuan was really that lazy usually.

Aunt Qi was utterly disgusted by Zhou Meijuan’s tantrum at the door and had no intention of covering up for her. She spilled everything about Zhou Meijuan’s lazy, greedy, and dramatic antics without holding back.

Having driven Zhou Meijuan away, Aunt Qi felt completely relieved. During this time, Zhou Meijuan had made her sick to the stomach, but now that she was finally gone, Aunt Qi felt her very breathing lighten.

Once the gossiping spectators had left, Aunt Qi, in high spirits, went to the kitchen to tidy up the meat, eggs, oil, and other ingredients.

The meat was fresh pork, and Aunt Qi planned to turn it all into cured meat. Cured meat lasts a long time and tastes good. Aunt Qi inherited her cured meat skills from her dear mother.

Aunt Qi’s mother was an expert at making cured meat. At the end of each year, during the pig distribution, every household would cherish the meat, turning any extra into cured meat, eating it slowly. Sometimes a few pounds of cured meat could last a year.

Although Aunt Qi thought about curing all the meat, she still sought Wen Shuangshuang’s opinion first, to which Wen Shuangshuang naturally had no objections.

Wen Shuangshuang was someone who could endure hardships but would never deny herself when she could enjoy life. Now that there was meat at home, Wen Shuangshuang would let Aunt Qi add some meat to the meals every day.

Because there was suddenly a lot of meat at home, Wen Shuangshuang took the opportunity to catch many wild rabbits on the mountain.

Then, she secretly processed the game on the mountain, brought home the clean meat, and asked Aunt Qi to cook it. Previously, Wen Shuangshuang worried about having too much game would make cooking meat troublesome.

Primarily because the smell of cooked meat couldn’t be hidden, it was fine occasionally, but eating it every day may lead people to think Wen Shuangshuang was hunting in the mountains daily.

Speaking of hunting, it’s something one might dismiss or amplify in seriousness – doing it once occasionally wouldn’t be minded by anyone.

Moreover, hunting is not easy; many who haven’t learned to hunt often return empty-handed after climbing the mountain multiple times.

But if someone could catch prey every day, inevitably there would be some envious people who would cause trouble for Wen Shuangshuang behind her back.

Now it was alright; Wen Shuangshuang, due to a stroke of fortune, saved someone and ended up with a lot of meat. Nowadays, people rarely eat meat, and twenty or thirty pounds of meat lasting half a year was nothing unusual, just using a little bit of meat to stir up some flavor each time was enough.

With this meat as a cover, she could indulge in eating meat for a while, as long as they didn’t speak out, closing the door so no one knew how much meat was cooking in their pot.

Most importantly, Wen Shuangshuang had previously saved the branch secretary Wang Baoguo by chance. A branch secretary and a brigade leader, one manages labor, the other oversees political thought, authority-wise they are quite equivalent.

Having saved his life, Wang Baoguo didn’t appear to be someone who would forget his gratitude. Someone who could risk their life to save others naturally had a good heart and integrity.

In the future, Wang Baoguo would be Wen Shuangshuang’s support in the village, even if someone noticed something odd about her eating meat, they wouldn’t say anything owing to Wang Baoguo’s influence.

Despite having this backing, Wen Shuangshuang didn’t forget to act cautiously, burying any leftover bones and the like from eating meat carefully.

Lately, the weather had little rain, causing obvious water shortages in fields. Due to the prolonged absence of rain, the water in the nearby irrigation channels had started to dry up. Brigade leader Lin Cheng’an arranged for everyone to go fetch water from the river to irrigate the fields.

This was indeed a genuinely tough task. Though the team had ox carts to transport water, loading water onto the carts and watering the fields all required manual labor.

Wen Shuangshuang happened to be grouped with Lin Qianqian, Qu Chengdong, Sheng Zongze, two unfamiliar educated youths, and villagers, driving two ox carts to the river to fetch water.

The ox carts were packed with large barrels filled with water, leaving no space for anyone to sit, so everyone walked alongside the carts. Wen Shuangshuang and Sheng Zongze were responsible for leading the oxen.

Honestly, there was no need to lead them; the oxen were smart, needing just a gentle guide to obediently walk forward. Even when seeing wild grass on the roadside, they didn’t lower their heads to eat but continued their journey obediently.

Wen Shuangshuang had a great liking for these understanding oxen, so she picked some tender grass to extend to them, feeding them as they moved.

The oxen, being perceptive too, after eating some tasty grass, looked at Wen Shuangshuang with charming big eyes and even nudged her palm and belly with their heads to show affection.

Seeing the amusing interaction between Wen Shuangshuang and the oxen, Sheng Zongze also grabbed some tender grass to feed them. The two were thoroughly enjoying themselves playing with the oxen. On the other side, Lin Qianqian was playfully flirting with Qu Chengdong while observing Wen Shuangshuang.

Lin Qianqian didn’t know why she was so apprehensive about Wen Shuangshuang, especially when Wen Shuangshuang never actually interacted with Qu Chengdong in this lifetime and hadn’t even spoken more than a couple of words.

Just because Wen Shuangshuang and Qu Chengdong were a loving couple in their past life, Lin Qianqian was always worried Wen Shuangshuang might suddenly click with Qu Chengdong.

Even though Wen Shuangshuang acted openly, showing no sign of any emotional development with Qu Chengdong, Lin Qianqian still felt uneasy.

While joking and laughing with Qu Chengdong, Lin Qianqian simultaneously kept watching Wen Shuangshuang playing wholeheartedly with the ox.

Lin Qianqian thought her gaze was subtle, but Wen Shuangshuang sensed it distinctly. Wen Shuangshuang felt Lin Qianqian’s gaze was so intense it could have burned two big holes in her back if it were a laser.

Not only did Wen Shuangshuang feel it, Sheng Zongze, who was with her feeding the ox, also noticed Lin Qianqian’s particular focus on Wen Shuangshuang.

He held a handful of tender grass, walked beside Wen Shuangshuang teasing the ox, and quietly asked her, ”What’s going on with you and Lin Qianqian? Her eyes are practically glued to you. Did you offend her?”

Wen Shuangshuang also lowered her voice to answer, ”Who knows what’s up with her. I haven’t even spoken a word to her, where would I have offended her? I don’t know what her problem is, suddenly staring at me, making me feel uncomfortable.”

Casting a sideways glance at Lin Qianqian secretly watching Wen Shuangshuang several times, Sheng Zongze showed a little sympathy on his face.

”You’re pretty unlucky then, this Lin Qianqian is rather odd. She previously deliberately ran into me coincidentally, no idea what she’s thinking, now she’s fixating on you. You better watch out, you can never tell what such a peculiar woman might do.”