vrcanaries Chapter 271 The Female Cannon Fodder Who Falsely Claims Favors in the Historical Literature 12
Chapter 271 The Female Cannon Fodder Who Falsely Claims Favors in the Historical Literature 12
Cheng Shuo is just a wild boy, a lazy and second-rate guy who is avoided by everyone in the village. How could Jianjun be no match for him!
When Lu Jianjun first heard Cheng Shuo's mockery of his incompetence, and then saw his wife's confused and shocked eyes, he became furious and his face became increasingly uglier, but he had no idea what to say to refute.
His archery skills were not that bad. If he had not been injured during the mission a while ago, he would have been able to hit the target with one shot. But now it was a fact that he could not hit the pheasant, and he simply felt inferior to Cheng Shuo.
It was like this five years ago, and it is still like this now!
It seemed as if his decision to join the army all these years was a mistake!
Lu Jianjun unconsciously explained, "I was just injured."
Cheng Shuo glanced at him with a half-smile, as if he was probing and questioning, but also as if he didn't care at all. The indifferent look hurt Lu Jianjun, but he couldn't reveal the situation of his mission, so he could only purse his lips and hold on.
Zhao Xue's eyes were even more surprised. She looked at Lu Jianjun in a trance, not knowing what she was thinking.
This newlywed couple had just come up the mountain to show off for a while, but they were slapped in the face not long after. Naturally, they didn't want to stay there any longer and just wanted to immediately avoid the sight of the people they disliked.
The two men now agreed with each other and ignored the remaining two people, and went away in another direction in dejection.
When she could no longer see the two of them, Zhao Xue asked in a daze, "Jianjun, are you injured?"
Lu Jianjun nodded and said "hmm", thinking that his wife was just concerned about him.
After a pause, he added, "I came back to visit my family this time just to recuperate."
Zhao Xue asked absentmindedly, "Are you okay? Is it serious?"
Hearing this, Lu Jianjun's eyes were slightly confused, and before Zhao Xue noticed, he replied in a muffled voice, "It should be fine. I've seen a doctor. It will probably be fine in two months."
Lu Jianjun unconsciously touched his chest, which occasionally ached slightly, and tried to comfort his wife in a weak manner.
Zhao Xue breathed a sigh of relief. Her mind was in a mess just now and she remembered a lot of things unconsciously, including the time when Lu Jianjun unexpectedly fell into the water.
He was a soldier in the army. He was always strong and could swim. How could he fall into the water? It really didn't fit his personality.
But if he suffered internal injuries, everything would be easy to explain. No wonder Lu Jianjun seemed fine from the outside, but he had to rest for so long.
But since he gave a positive answer, she didn't need to worry. Thinking about it carefully, it seemed that this was written in the book she had read. Lu Jianjun went home to visit his family for several months, and before he returned, he received a promotion and transfer order from the army.
After sorting out her thoughts, Zhao Xue's original worry disappeared in an instant. However, when she saw the backpack on Lu Jianjun's back, she couldn't help but think of Jiang Yueshu again, and her originally excited expression slightly subsided.
On the other side, Cheng Shuo had already handed the tightly bound pheasant to Jiang Yueshu, "You keep it!"
Jiang Yueshu paused. She had been paying attention to the pheasant just now. The stone and the arrow feather indeed hit the pheasant at the same time, so it was difficult to tell which came first.
"Take it back. I may not be able to eat it even if I take it back!" Jiang Yueshu did not reach out his hand.
Cheng Shuo paused, then thought about it and looked at Jiang Yueshu's small body. He couldn't help but let out a "tsk" and spoke in an ambiguous tone.
"You are so brave! This mountain is very dangerous!"
Jiang Yueshu stuck out her tongue, "I'll pay attention."
Cheng Shuo was silent for a few seconds before speaking, "This is not a solution! If you keep losing weight and have no nutrition, you might end up like what Doctor Zhang said."
"How about this, come to my house for dinner tonight and we can share this pheasant."
Jiang Yueshu glanced at Cheng Shuo, but Cheng Shuo shyly looked away. After all, apart from Hao Zhi, he had never invited anyone else to his home for dinner.
Would it be inappropriate, since there are differences between men and women?
This thought flashed through Cheng Shuo's mind, and he added urgently, "If you don't want to, I can bring it out to you after it's done, but the smell is a little hard to conceal."
"Can you cook?" Jiang Yueshu was a little curious. She hadn't eaten delicious food for a long time, so she couldn't help but feel itchy.
"Yeah! Of course!" Cheng Shuo raised his head high unconsciously, and said with a bit of pride, "I can only cook delicious food, um... it's just a little bit worse than the state-owned restaurants."
Cheng Shuo bent his thumb and index finger slightly, leaving a gap less than a finger's width, and compared them in front of Jiang Yueshu.
Jiang Yueshu was instantly moved when she heard this, and immediately nodded obediently in agreement.
Seeing Jiang Yueshu's attitude change so quickly, Cheng Shuo couldn't help but recall what he had just said and slightly raised the corners of his lips. It turned out that she was still a little girl who loved to eat!
Jiang Yueshu didn't want to always take advantage of Cheng Shuo and cause dissatisfaction among the Cheng family, so she enthusiastically caught another pheasant as a gift that afternoon, and spent the rest of the time meticulously searching for useful herbs.
When it was almost time for dinner, Jiang Yueshu was already sitting in the Cheng family's yard. Cheng Shuo's sister Cheng Yueyue sat beside her, staring at Jiang Yueshu curiously.
Jiang Yueshu didn't understand her personality and was worried that saying something inappropriate would arouse the girl's sensitive mind, so she just smiled at her and didn't say anything.
Fortunately, after a while, a mouth-watering aroma wafted over. Cheng Yueyue no longer looked at Jiang Yueshu, but rushed to the door of the kitchen, staring at the chicken that was emitting an enticing aroma.
Jiang Yueshu also took a deep breath and forced herself to suppress the desire to run over to take a look. After all, she was in someone else's home and it would be bad to behave too rudely.
After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Yueshu saw Cheng Yueyue, who had been lying at the kitchen door, turn slightly to make room for her brother, and then stare at the pot of food without blinking.
Cheng Shuo made three dishes in total, one was stir-fried chicken with green peppers, one was stir-fried eggs with wild vegetables, and one was cold cucumber salad.
Jiang Yueshu couldn't help swallowing just by looking at the colorful and fragrant dishes, and helped bring the brown rice from the kitchen.
Mother Cheng was eating in her room because she was ill. After Cheng Shuo brought in the food, the three of them began to feast on it.
Cheng Shuo looked at Jiang Yueshu and her sister who were eating hard, and couldn't help but raise his lips slightly, "How is it? Am I right? Is my cooking skill better than that of the state-owned restaurants?"
This kid clearly said before that the food was a little bit worse than that one, but now he says that it’s better than that one?
She didn’t know whether the food in the state-owned restaurant was delicious or not, but the dishes made by Cheng Shuo were very much to her taste and were very good.
Jiang Yueshu laughed, raised her head from between servings, and involuntarily gave Cheng Shuo a thumbs up, praising him nonstop, "Delicious! So delicious!"
It has to be said that Cheng Shuo was very generous with adding oil, salt and other seasonings when cooking. Coupled with his original cooking skills, Jiang Yueshu ate a bowl and a half before putting down his chopsticks.
Under normal circumstances, she could only eat a small bowl of food. After coming to this world, nothing she ate had any appetite.
She touched her bloated belly and was somewhat embarrassed to find that she had overeaten due to her greed.
Cheng Shuo looked at the two girls' hurried appearance with amusement, and couldn't help but put the tea aside considerately, and told them to eat slowly and not to choke.
After resting for a while at Cheng's house to digest the food and get rid of the smell, Jiang Yueshu refused Cheng Shuo's farewell and quickly returned to Jiang's house.
As soon as she arrived at Jiang's house, Jiang Yueshu noticed that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the room.
The family members stood in a neat row as if in a family trial, staring at her backpack. Jiang Yueshu calmly poured out the wild vegetables in the basket.
Until the backpack was completely empty, the Jiang family members did not see what they wanted to see.
Grandma Jiang's expression changed instantly. "Er Ya, where's the pheasant?"
The others also looked at her gloomily, as if they were going to cause trouble for her if she couldn't explain clearly.
pheasant?
Jiang Yueshu was shocked and thought of Lu Jianjun and Zhao Xue who knew about this. Judging from the situation, it was probably because they said something they shouldn't have said.
"What pheasant?" Jiang Yueshu was even more surprised and looked at everyone in confusion.
Seeing this, Grandma Jiang's eyes flickered. Could it be that Zhao Zhiqing had lied to her?
Her eyes became fierce, and she immediately betrayed Zhao Xue. "Zhao Zhiqing and Lu Jianjun went hunting in the mountains today. They said you were lucky enough to kill a pheasant. Where is the pheasant?"
Jiang Yueshu seemed to have just reacted, and said in disbelief and grievance, "Grandma, Zhao Zhiqing lied to you. The pheasant was shot by Cheng Shuo. Didn't Zhao Zhiqing tell you?"
Everyone narrowed their eyes, trying to figure out who was lying, but they obviously didn't want to provoke the second-rate guy in the village who was hated by everyone.
Jiang Yueshu immediately said, "Really? If you don't believe me, go ask tomorrow if Cheng Shuo caught a pheasant this afternoon. Pheasants are so hard to catch, how could I possibly catch one?"
After saying that, Jiang Yueshu muttered to herself again, "Could it be that Zhao Zhiqing was angry because Comrade Lu and I almost got married? But when we met today, she said that if there was not enough chicken, she would have shared it with me."
The Jiang family's eyes changed at this point. Anyway, Erya couldn't control what the villagers said. If they went and asked around tomorrow, they would naturally find out who had killed the pheasant.
But seeing how indignant she looked, everyone couldn't help but start to doubt Zhao Xue again.
When Grandma Jiang heard that Zhao Xue wanted to share some chicken with Erya, her eyes lit up and she made up her mind instantly.
The whole family left, without caring whether Jiang Yueshu had eaten or not, and went to rest.
The next day, Grandma Jiang got up early and went to the daily gathering place for work. Before everyone else arrived, she spontaneously went to several households near Cheng Shuo's home and listened to their idle chatter and gossip.
Seeing that she didn't hear what she wanted to know, Grandma Jiang casually talked about the pheasant that Lu Jianjun and Zhao Xue shot in the mountains yesterday. Sure enough, someone responded and said that they saw Cheng Shuo's family carrying a pheasant down the mountain yesterday. Not only that, that night, their neighbors all smelled the aroma of meat wafting from the Cheng family's yard. It was so fragrant.
This is really confirmed!
Everyone's words were filled with envy, and some said they wanted to try it, but they also knew the situation of the Cheng family. Cheng Shuo's mother was ill and really needed more nourishment, and Cheng Shuo was also a very difficult person, so they could only think about it.
At this point, Grandma Jiang believed everything Jiang Yueshu said last night, and couldn't help but start blaming Zhao Zhiqing.
Thinking about the reason Jiang Yueshu gave last night, he couldn't help but frown. Zhao Xue had already taken such a huge advantage, so why was she still so petty?
At noon that day, Grandma Jiang had been keeping an eye on Zhao Xue. She was still reluctant to leave after work, until she saw Zhao Xue, and then she walked over briskly.
As soon as they met, he rebuked her with some dissatisfaction, "Zhao Zhiqing, how could you, a kid, even want to deceive an old man like me?"
Zhao Xue was a little confused. When did she lie to this old woman? She was so difficult to deal with. She must be courting death to lie to her.
"You said yesterday that my Erya caught a pheasant, but I asked and it was clearly the kid from the Cheng family who caught the pheasant. How could you lie to me?" Grandma Jiang looked vicious.
Zhao Xue was stunned for a second before reacting, with her usual decent smile on her face, "Hey, Grandma Jiang, I didn't lie! Both of them did hit the pheasant at that time. I thought it was Erya who hit it first. We were in a hurry at that time, so I don't know how they divided it up afterwards."
This damn old woman is such a coward!
Since the pheasant was in Cheng Shuo's hands, she should go find Cheng Shuo if she had the ability. She just said a few words, but he still found her!
After hearing the explanation, Grandma Jiang's expression did not improve. "Then how can you say such nonsense if you don't know? You are an educated person, so naturally our family believes you. We almost thought that my daughter learned to lie from others, but in the end you are the one who is lying!"
"The other day you said something about not telling lies. Zhao Zhiqing, why are you still like this?"
Zhao Xue's smile froze because of Grandma Jiang's lies. She was so angry when she thought about how Grandma Jiang used the principles of being a human being that she had just mentioned casually before to talk about herself. How could she, a highly educated educated youth from the city, tolerate hearing such words spoken by an old-fashioned person?
If everyone knew about this and she went back on her word, how would she live her life?
She immediately put on a serious expression and began to act with a slight didactic tone, "Grandma Jiang, you should be careful with your words! What I meant at that time was that Erya was lucky enough to catch a pheasant, and I was not wrong. She did catch it, but she caught it after Cheng Shuo. You misunderstood it and you can't put the blame on me! Grandma Jiang, you haven't been to school after all, so it's okay for you not to know these things. Just ask me openly, and I will be generous in speaking up. There's no need for you to keep nagging me!"