Chapter 73: Bull Charging to the Sky~

Peach Blossom Village Vegetable Garden

These past few days, after saving the crops in the fields, the villagers turned their attention to rescuing the vegetables in their gardens.

The vegetables in the gardens had been battered by the heavy rain, and everyone was worried that the vegetables they had worked so hard to grow would rot in the ground. So they picked all the vegetables, planning to take them home, blanch them, and then dry them. At least they would have some dried vegetables to eat.

“This rain is really a killer! We’re going to run out of vegetables to eat!” the Village Chief’s wife complained as she turned the soil.

“Forget about not having vegetables, we can’t even count on having full meals this year!” Aunt Lei had already finished turning the soil. She opened the oil paper package containing vegetable seeds in her basket, intending to find mustard seeds to plant.

Seeing the plump and glossy seeds on the oil paper, she said in surprise, “Hey, Xingnong just gave me a lot of vegetable seeds. They seem pretty good! Better than the seeds I saved myself. She said they’re pest-resistant. Do you want some?”

She had passed by Xingnong’s house earlier and saw her planting vegetables. She thought of going in to give her some seeds, but unexpectedly, Xingnong gave her a large basket of seeds instead, with all kinds of varieties!

The Village Chief’s wife: “I have some too, also from Xingnong. Are they really good? Let me see.”

Matchmaker Zhang: “I have some too, she gave me a lot, a whole basket. Let me see! Eh, what are these yellow seeds?”

The Village Chief’s wife looked over, “That’s corn! I tried some at her house yesterday, it’s delicious! I’m planning to plant some.”

Aunt Lei: “What’s corn? Is it really delicious? Then I’ll plant some too!”

The Village Chief’s wife explained, “It’s called corn, just by hearing the name you know it’s something good! It’s fragrant and sweet! Xingnong said…”

The Village Chief’s wife explained corn to everyone.

Peach Blossom Village and Plum Blossom Village share a piece of farmland and vegetable garden, as they both use water from the same river for irrigation.

The Village Chief’s wife from Plum Blossom Village heard the people from the Refugee Village marveling over some vegetable seeds and scoffed, “It’s just a few vegetable seeds, what’s so great about that? Some people are so short-sighted, easily bought off with a few seeds! They don’t even realize that the whole county’s Feng Shui has been ruined by that family of vile bastards, causing the grain harvest to decrease and the high-yield grain seeds to be unavailable. And they’re still grateful to them! If they have the ability, they should be like Miss Mingzhu and give out high-yield grain seeds! Give out oil-saving lamps! This is the difference between Mingzhu and those mongrels!”

Other villagers from Plum Blossom Village echoed her sentiments, “Exactly, the Shen family gave every household in the surrounding villages an oil-saving lamp this morning! Miss Mingzhu also said that her family learned about the unavailability of high-yield grain seeds from the yamen this year, so Master Shen specially bought some high-yield grain seeds at a high price from the people of other counties and distributed them to us, the villagers. Each household in our Plum Blossom Village will be able to get a jin! Miss Mingzhu is a Bodhisattva from heaven, while certain mongrels are just bad luck stars on earth, whoever gets close to them will suffer misfortune!”

Aunt Li: “Ever since that family of vile bastards who ruined the village’s Feng Shui moved away, my eldest daughter finally received a marriage proposal. The man’s family even owns farmland! But Madam Shen said she could find a better match for my eldest daughter and told me not to rush! Ah, I’ve never seen such a kind family as Master Shen’s. They were previously harmed so badly by certain mongrels, it’s truly outrageous! How can Heaven allow such people to live? Why didn’t the thunder from the other day strike down some of those pests?”

The Village Chief’s wife from Plum Blossom Village: “Exactly, now that our village is free from those vile bastards who ruined the Feng Shui, our luck has turned around and things are getting better and better! People in the entire Futai County don’t have high-yield grain seeds, but our village does! And with Madam Yao here, are we afraid that the girls in our village won’t be able to marry well? People from certain villages are originally from refugee backgrounds, and they even brought a “jinx” back to their village. Tell me, will those refugees in the future be unable to find wives for their sons and husbands for their daughters?!”

Aunt Li: “They definitely will! Some “jinxes” are very powerful, wasn’t it enough that they ruined the village before? Now they’ve even ruined the entire Futai County! Why did the County Magistrate forget to petition the court to exchange for high-yield grain seeds? It’s all because as soon as the County Magistrate arrived, he encountered a certain “jinx” reporting to the authorities and causing trouble. That’s why the County Magistrate forgot! The bad luck of certain vile bastards has started to affect the people of the entire Futai County~! In the future, the people of the entire Futai County will probably suffer great misfortune. Fortunately, our village has a lucky star shining upon us.”

These words became increasingly vicious!

The villagers of Peach Blossom Village were completely enraged!

The Village Chief’s wife from Peach Blossom Village leaned on her hoe with one hand and pointed at them, scolding, “Bah! A bunch of black-hearted, rotten-gutted bitches! Heaven sees everything, who is good and who is evil, who is kind and who is wicked! If thunder were to strike down, the first bolt would kill you gossipmongers! The second bolt would kill that family of wicked things! It’s outrageous that you haven’t been struck down!”

Aunt Lei slammed her hoe into the ground, chopping a sweet potato in half, her expression fierce, “A whole village bullying orphans and widows, who else should be struck down if not them! Such a village, anyone who marries into it will suffer great misfortune. They keep talking about vile bastards, but the vilest are actually them! I suggest you all watch your mouths from now on, or you’ll risk having your lineage cut off!”

The villagers from Plum Blossom Village were also angered, hearing them cursed with having their lineage cut off. They retorted with their hands on their hips, “Bah, you refugees, you’re the ones who will have your lineage cut off, not only that, but you’ll also die a horrible death!”

Thus, the women from the two villages engaged in their annual verbal battle, which became increasingly intense. They rushed forward, grabbing each other’s hair and starting to fight!

A nimble figure blended into the brawl, one hand gripping the Plum Blossom Village Chief’s wife’s hand, causing her to release in pain, the other hand grabbing her clothes and flinging her entire body dozens of meters away!

Following that, the women from Plum Blossom Village were thrown one after another, piling up like a human pyramid!

The women from Peach Blossom Village, their hair finally free, were all stunned!

Xingnong casually patted her hands. She glanced around and saw the wild bull snoring under a distant tree. She walked over and grabbed its horns.

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Today, the wild bull came out to the riverbank on its own to graze and take a bath. After washing up, eating its fill, and drinking its fill, it fell asleep under a tree.

Even the shrewish women’s yelling didn’t wake it up.

Xingnong grabbed its horns.

The wild bull jolted awake!

The awakened bull was a bit grumpy. It snorted.

Xingnong pointed to the distance, “They woke you up! Go chase them away!”

The women from Plum Blossom Village had already gotten up. Undeterred, they charged angrily towards the women from Peach Blossom Village.

The wild bull: “…”

It was clearly this bad person who woke it up.

However, the wild bull looked to the left at the people from Plum Blossom Village, didn’t recognize them! It looked to the right at the villagers from Peach Blossom Village, there was one person who seemed to have given it a handful of grass yesterday?

So, it stood up and charged towards the villagers from Plum Blossom Village with a mighty snort.

The two groups of people, who were about to fight again, were terrified when they saw the bull charging towards them. They all dodged out of the way!

The wild bull desperately chased after the villagers from Plum Blossom Village!

The villagers from Plum Blossom Village screamed and scattered in terror!

In their panic, the Plum Blossom Village Chief’s wife fell flat on her face.

Aunt Li twisted her ankle.

Someone almost got trampled by the bull and even wet themselves in fear.

The villagers from Peach Blossom Village were initially scared and ran away too, but when they looked back and saw that the wild bull was only chasing the people from Plum Blossom Village, they all stopped to watch the show, laughing heartily!

Aunt Lei snorted triumphantly, “Hmph, isn’t this retribution?”

The Village Chief’s wife shouted, “Mingzhu, charge! Charge! Charge! Mingzhu charge, charge, charge! Trample those black-hearted people to death!”

The villagers from Peach Blossom Village were stunned for a moment, then they all started chanting along, “Mingzhu, charge, charge, charge…”

See you tomorrow~