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At first, she held back her laughter, but the more she tried, the more she laughed. Holding her stomach, the cute girl laughed so hard that her tears could be clearly seen from the corners of her eyes.

She fell onto the bed so close to Ye Xuan that he could even feel the warmth of her body. His heartbeat quickened as he restrained his hands and feet, afraid of touching her.

However, for Ye Xuan to act like this, the little girl wanted to tease him even more. She suddenly put her face in front of his face, and the two of them were only a finger apart.

Ye Xuan held his breath as his daughter stared at him without blinking. His face was a little red, and he turned his gaze left and right, unwilling to look straight at her. Ye Xuan's eyelashes trembled slightly. His eyes were deep and normally wouldn't be able to see how long they were, but right now, his eyelids were drooping and his thick eyelashes were like little brushes, causing her heart to itch.

The little girl stretched out her index finger and lightly touched his eyelashes. Ye Xuan didn't move, but reached out his right hand to grab hold of the little girl's disorderly hand. He felt a wave of softness in his palm and even his heart went soft. "This isn't good …"

He didn't know how light the rejection was in his tone. The little girl lightly smiled, like a charming fairy. Her hands wrapped around his neck, her head slanted, then winked at him. "Ye Xuan, do you like me?"

Ye Xuan's breathing quickened and his eyelashes trembled even more. The little girl was sure that he liked her, which came from a woman's sixth instinct. If the mountain wasn't mine, then I would be the mountain. Since he didn't dare to confess, then she would take the initiative.

"Aiya!" Ye Xuan didn't expect his daughter to be thrown from his embrace onto the bed in the next second. He got up from the bed and said in a low voice, "It's best if you don't come and find me in the future."

After speaking, Ye Xuan pushed open the door and walked out. The cute girl was lying on the bed, smiling happily. He didn't say he didn't like her, but there was still a chance, wasn't there?

When Ye Xuan rushed into the courtyard, his mind was in a state of turmoil. He almost told her his true thoughts, but he couldn't harm her. A person like him wasn't worthy of happiness.

How long did Ye Xuan stay in Ye Xuan's room for? How long did Ye Xuan stay in the courtyard until the sky darkened? When Aunt Lin came to look for the young lady that hadn't returned for a long time, she saw Ye Xuan standing in the courtyard like an iron tower.

After a while, Ye Xuan expressionlessly replied, "She went back."

To be honest, although Ye Xuan grew up in the village, his family lived far away from the village. Although Ye Xuan grew up in the village, he lived far from the village. If he didn't have a house in the village, the village would have tried to chase him away just because of his wounds.

Although Auntie Lin was a little afraid of him, she had always felt that he was a good person. Even if he didn't talk much, his ways of handling matters were reliable. With a few words of caution, Auntie Lin went to find Jiaoxu.

As soon as she left, the cute girl came out of her room. Ye Xuan knew that she heard their conversation and wanted to explain, but he didn't know what and kept silent awkwardly.

The little girl was limping away on her walking stick when she heard someone speaking from the yard next door.

"Little girl, why did you come back from outside?"

"Go out for a walk. Your legs are almost ready."

"You've been injured for a hundred days. You need to be careful, don't leave any traces behind. Previously, I heard from the older generation that there was a medicinal ingredient in the mountain that could be boiled into ashes and then soaked in water that could hurt one's leg.

The two of them spoke in a distant voice, as if they had entered a room. Ye Xuan was still standing in the courtyard. After Auntie Lin and her daughter finished their business and left, the sound of running water came from the courtyard, returning to silence.

He finally moved. He went into the house, picked up his bow and arrows, packed his bag, and walked towards the mountain.

Early the next morning, the cute girl went to Aunty Lin's home to pick up the Iron Egg and the old lady. Passing by Ye Xuan's house, she intentionally looked around, but his house was tightly shut.

The little girl was quite disappointed. Last night, she'd thought that she'd been too bold in scaring off Ye Xuan. A depressed man like him might have a more traditional way of thinking.

If she knew earlier, she wouldn't have asked him.

Wang Meihua saw this, and was very worried. The matters of the past few days had more or less reached her ears, and she truly regretted that she had coveted money for her daughter to find such a family, causing her daughter to run all over the place, not having a man to take care of her, and even suffering such grievances.

As soon as he got home, Iron Egg went to the backyard to feed the chickens. A month had passed, and the chickens from before were already weighing at least a catty. The lady told him that the eggs would be used to help him go to school.

Originally, he was just teasing him. How could this money be enough to go to school? But now, Iron Egg took this matter to heart and fed it three times a day, becoming more concerned about it than he was about eating.

The lady had a feeling of not being able to find the north for a while, as she held Wang Plum Flower on the bamboo bed under the peach tree. The lady took out the dried beans from the warehouse and basked them in the sun, and after Iron Egg fed the chicken, she ran over to help.

At noon, the lady used the tofu to fry the brick bed, the vegetables to fry a plate of tofu, the bean sprouts, and a bowl of tofu soup. After lunch, Wang Plum Flower and Iron Egg took an afternoon nap.

There was a house next door where there was an old sow who was giving birth. There were eleven of them, and the sow's milk couldn't keep up with them. Yue's little pigs could only be sold for a few, so if the lady wanted them, the price could be cheaper.

If a full-term pig was properly taken care of, it could live. The lady didn't mind and agreed to go over after lunch to take a look. The neighboring village wasn't too far away. After crossing the river, they would arrive. The pig seller's house was already waiting for them.

The family that raised the pigs had three large pigs, two males and one female. They usually sold quite a bit of money, but the smell of the house was really unpleasant. Their family's pigsty was right next to their own yard, and the pigsty was filled with the stench of waste.

Auntie Lin used her sleeve to cover her nose. "This smell is bad enough."

Because of the smell of his pigsty, the villagers in the vicinity had talked about it countless times, but there was nothing they could do about it. There was not much land in the house, and there were many children, so it was easy to raise pigs.

In her previous life, when she started out, she also ran a breeding farm. The smell of thousands of animals was worse than this, but raising one was also a trick.