After dinner, Yunyi thought about the winter storage vegetables in her private plot. For convenience when cooking small meals later, she naturally wanted to take them all with her. However, she didn’t need to leave too much out in the open. It would be better to make some sauerkraut, pickle some kimchi, and prepare some preserved vegetables to store in her dimensional space.
Since there was still plenty of time and nothing else to do, she decided to wash and prepare all the vegetables first. She set aside some winter vegetables for appearances, washed and drained the rest, and planned to buy a few small ceramic jars the next day.
Just as she finished tidying up and was about to enter her dimensional space to bathe, she heard a commotion outside. She left the courtyard, opened the main gate, and listened attentively.
Just then, Liu Chenglin from next door also opened his courtyard gate. "What’s happened?"
Yunyi replied, "I don’t know. I only came out because I heard the noise."
"Are you going to take a look?" Liu Chenglin asked.
"I don’t think I will. It’s pitch black out there."
But just as Yunyi finished speaking, she heard someone shout, "I saw them! It’s the village’s Zhang Mazier and Educated Youth Deng Xiaojie from the Zhiqing Point!"
"How shameless! So young and already sneaking into haystacks with someone."
"That Deng Xiaojie really isn’t picky, to think she’d go for Zhang Mazier. What unique taste."
At this moment, Deng Xiaojie was trapped in the haystack, surrounded by onlookers who were treating her like a spectacle. She truly wished she could die.
She had come out tonight to meet Zhang Mazier and ask why he hadn’t acted after so long. But somehow, she had ended up rolling in the hay with him. No, that wasn’t right. She had only done such an irrational thing after eating the fruit Zhang Mazier had given her.
She turned, her eyes filled with malice, and stared at Zhang Mazier. "Why did you set me up?"
Zhang Mazier heard her, but he pretended not to, keeping his head down and feigning timidity like a quail.
Anyway, he wouldn’t admit it. To make it convincing, he had only used a minuscule amount of the drug—so little that even the Public Security Bureau wouldn’t be able to detect it. He just had to insist that they had been involved for a while. Yunyi’s deadline was almost up, and he was terrified of that fearsome woman. It was better to obey her and take this troublemaker Deng Xiaojie off her hands. Besides, he’d get a wife for free; it was no loss to him.
Although Yunyi didn’t go over, she understood what had happened from the shouts she’d heard.
Well, Deng Xiaojie was reaping what she had sown. Yunyi felt no sympathy or guilt whatsoever, as Deng Xiaojie had been the one with malicious intentions first.
She closed the main gate, returned to her room, drew the curtains, and entered her dimensional space.
She planted the saplings, medicinal herbs, and wild vegetables she had previously brought into the dimensional space. After practicing Martial Arts for a while, she took her clothes and prepared to soak in the hot spring pool.
The pear trees and other fruit trees she had planted earliest were now laden with ripe fruit; she finally had a harvest.
She had also figured out some patterns. The more she planted in the dimensional space, the richer the Spiritual Energy became, and the faster the plants matured. Moreover, the more merit she accumulated in the outside world, the larger the dimensional space expanded. Just after entering, she noticed the space had expanded outward again, which seemed related to saving that grandparent and grandchild. It appeared that returning to the modern era in this life wasn’t just about doing as she pleased; she needed to perform more good deeds and cultivate good karma. Original content can be found at novel⸺fire.net
She picked some ripe fruits and placed them by the edge of the hot spring pool before undressing and stepping into the water.
Comfortably settled in the hot spring, she closed her eyes and reflected on the events since her rebirth, her thoughts inevitably drifting to Huo Jingrui.
She had already made up her mind. The next time she saw him, she would secure their relationship. He was the one she had chosen, after all. Since he didn’t remember her, it would be her turn to awaken his memories. Having made her decision, she didn’t want to waste any more time.