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Qi Mu stood there. Although her face wasn't very beautiful, her figure was graceful, neither servile nor overbearing. She was like the highest pure orchid in the sky valley, completely free from dust.

Her eyes slowly swept across the expressions of everyone present. Looking at their expressions of approval and their scornful gazes, she chuckled in her heart. A trace of arrogance flashed across Qi Mu's brows as she enunciated each word clearly:

"Indeed, the grass roots are much closer to the shore than the sun. If I were to first save him, it wouldn't take much time to make a trip back and forth."

Qi Mu's tone paused as the light in her eyes changed. Her sharp gaze landed on everyone present. She slightly raised her chin and raised her voice as she continued:

However, if I choose again, I will still save Yang Yang first. I will definitely save Yang Yang first, no matter how close the grassroots are to the shore, as long as Yang Yang is still in danger, I will definitely save Yang Yang first.

"If the grass root has a chance to be saved, then the only choice I have is to rely on Yang Yang to stay in danger. That is because he is my younger brother and I am his older sister. We are blood relatives."

"I can't go against my own heart. Yang Yang is my parents' lifeblood, and is also my heart's treasure. I can't give up on my own brother to save someone else's child. I can't do it, and I don't want to do it."

"I would rather accept the reproaches of my fellow villagers than to disregard my own brother's life. All of the fellow villagers here have children and girls. Could it be that the first person I want to save when I am in danger is someone else's child?"

Qi Mu smiled. Her voice was gentle, but it carried a sharp edge as she asked her last question. It was easy to look at other people's jokes. But when the jokes were placed on her, who would laugh? We are not saints, why should we criticise each other?

Niu Fusheng looked at Qi Mu's gentle appearance and sighed softly. He shook his head and didn't say another word. However, his gaze towards Qi Mu was no longer as sharp as before.

That's right, if he even ignored his younger brother's life, then that would truly be cold-blooded and heartless. Moreover, it wasn't that this girl didn't want to save him, but, sigh, this was truly a coincidence.

"Uncle Niu, if your baby and someone else's baby fell into the water and could only save one, then what would Uncle Niu do? Qi Mu was really curious, so he didn't continue to be courteous. He boldly asked, "Can Uncle Niu please explain?"

Qi Mu walked a few steps forward and greeted the people who had scolded her for being vicious. He greeted them with a smile, as if he was a little girl who didn't know much about the mortal world.

He looked at the man called Uncle Niu and his face turned red, but he couldn't say a word for a long time. When the people around him saw this situation, they all quietly distanced themselves from him. Uncle Niu's short and thin figure suddenly appeared very obvious in the crowd, which made him feel even more embarrassed.

He did not press him on this matter again. As long as the other villagers did not push her any further, they would be able to change their positions and think about it a little more. They would not be strict with others, and they would not be lenient with themselves.

However, as the light in Qi Mu's eyes circulated, a pure and pure smile rippled out. She was like a real child as she mischievously smiled and said:

"A person as good as Uncle Niu should feel the kindest, right?" If Uncle Niu was like those rich people in Wutong Town, who have tens of millions of taels of white rice and countless pieces of cloth, he would definitely give them to the villagers of our Niu Manor to stop suffering from hunger and the cold weather, right? "

These words were like a timely rain, instantly resolving his awkward predicament and secretly raising his moral standing. He immediately glanced at Qi Mu frivolously, thinking, "This girl is quite tactful."

Uncle Niu, seeing that everyone's eyes were on him, could not help but feel somewhat pleased with himself. imitating the appearance of an ox, he pretended to have his hands behind his back and walked a few steps back and forth on the empty ground before nodding his head while stroking his small mustache and pretending to be profound:

"Of course. Although I am a farmer, I know what I'm doing. I would never be able to look at rich people who stink of copper."

The smile on her face was like a flower as she no longer stared at Uncle Niu alone. Instead, her gaze lingered on the ragged clothes of the villagers at Niu Manor as she spoke with incomparable sincerity:

"Fellow villagers, did you hear? Uncle Niu is a nice person. If you have a thousand taels of food and an inexhaustible cloth, you will definitely distribute it to your fellow villagers."

"Although our uncle Niu does not have the financial resources of the town's rich, he does have some hot food at home. The villagers are all digging wild vegetables, drinking water, and starving all day long. Why don't we find him for support?"

"We don't need those rare and precious seafood dishes. We only need to eat a mouthful of food to survive. Uncle Niu is kind and selfless. He has a Buddha in his heart, so he will definitely help his fellow villagers, right?"

Qi Mo casted a sidelong glance with a smile that was not a smile. Uncle Niu did not know what to do and had an ugly expression on his face. If you were happy using someone else as your raft, then you'd have to bear with it!

Such a person should be properly punished. Back then, when we split up, you scolded my cheap father the most fiercely. Now, let's see how you will deal with this!

"That's right, Ox-Head, your family has always been living a good life, but the baby in my family can't even grow up hungry. If you're a good person, then help our village …"

"Niu Zi, my house is the same, you too should pity my house, you don't even have a bit of your own land …"

"A living Bodhisattva … Pile Bro, you have to help me …"

"..."

Uncle Niu's face turned red as he gritted his teeth. He looked around at the hopeful eyes and thought about the pitiful food in the house. He steeled his heart, gritted his teeth, and said with a trembling voice,

"My fellow villagers, life in my house is not so good, I …"

Before Uncle Niu could finish his words, a voice filled with a vicissitudes of life shouted at him decisively to stop him. Qi Mu followed the voice and looked at the elder who was sitting on the right side of the hall. To be exact, he was the chief of the village, the head of the village.

"Fellow villagers are in trouble. Since you have the strength to back them up, it's only right for you to help them. Go back now and let your wife prepare."

He was amiable on the surface, like a benevolent old grandpa. However, the displeasure hidden in the depths of his eyes was reflected in the eyes of Qi Mu. The corner of Qi Mu's mouth slightly hooked up as he sized up the old chief, who rarely appeared in the eyes of the crowd.

The old chief was also a legend back then …

"For what reason did the village head open the sect? Could it be that he is even more forgetful than I am?"

After hearing what he said, Niu Fusheng's already stiff face became even more solemn and dignified. He walked up to the old elder, bowed deeply and respectfully and said,

"Patriarch, this nephew doesn't dare."

At first, it was a village that was built mainly by the Niu family, but the Li family was also born later. The Niu family had always been the independent biggest family, and the influence has always been there.

As soon as he turned his head, Niu Fusheng said to the crowd, especially Qi Mu and the Wu family's aunt, with a serious expression on his face:

"If that's the case, then the matter of the grass falling into the water has nothing to do with Mu Qing. That's all. Don't tell anyone that you've caused Mu Qing to fall into the river."

As soon as he said that, there were no objections from the crowd. There were even some from the second house of the Ye Family. They looked at Qi Mu with gratification in their eyes, as if they were relieved.

However, the Wu family's aunt was stunned for a moment before she stared at him with her red eyes like a devil from hell. She said in a shocking manner while gnashing her teeth:

"Good, even if this girl is not guilty, she still wants to bury my family's grass roots. Yesterday, this girl was shameless, hugging and hugging my family's grass roots in the water, and when she landed on the shore, she didn't even have a coat left, there was no tradition of harm at all!"

"According to the rules, she should marry my family's grassroots. When she marries a chicken, follows a chicken, marries a dog, and captures her feet from the grassroots, they would be a match made in heaven. If she doesn't become my Old Wu's wife, then the heavens will not be able to tolerate it!"

The Wu family's aunt was trembling as she crawled and kneeled in front of Niu Fusheng. Her face was full of tears as she said in a hoarse voice,

"I plead for the village chief to be the one in charge. We will arrange the marriage ceremony for our grassroots according to the rules. When he was still alive, I didn't let him live a good life. Now that he's gone, at least he'll have a wife waiting on him underground."