From Folly to Fortune：I Rewrite My Life After Rebirth!-Chapter 1000 - 996: Wang Ba Stares at the Mung Bean (Part 1)
"Alright, I’m hungry. You treat me to a meal!" Mu Xiangxiang said.
So Sun Dali took Mu Xiangxiang to his house.
At this time, Sun Dali still didn’t know that the woman in front of him was Mu Xiangxiang, the person Matchmaker Sun had mentioned to him.
He just thought she was a relative of someone in the village. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦
No wonder, Mu Xiangxiang hardly ever appeared in the village; most of the time, she was either sleeping at home or eating in the kitchen.
She’s considered an unusual young lady.
It was the time for spring planting, and Sun Dali was actually quite busy. But it was his first time meeting a girl willing to talk to him, so he couldn’t help wanting to spend more time with her.
When they arrived at the Sun’s house, Mu Xiangxiang pulled Sun Dali into the kitchen.
At this moment, the Sun family had just finished breakfast and left a basket of steamed buns on the stove, planning to eat them with two hot dishes for lunch.
As soon as Mu Xiangxiang entered the kitchen, she complained about her hunger.
Sun Dali took two steamed buns from the steamer for Mu Xiangxiang and, worried that she might choke, gave her a cup of water.
"By the way, girl, whose family do you belong to?" Sun Dali asked.
Mu Xiangxiang had a naturally weak voice and, with food stuffed in her mouth, muttered several times "Old Mu Family", but it was too muffled to understand.
Thinking Mu Xiangxiang was embarrassed, Sun Dali simply stopped asking.
Mu Xiangxiang swallowed two steamed buns and exclaimed, "So sweet, these buns are much tastier than the ones my mom makes."
Sun Dali scratched his head in embarrassment: "Really? My mom made them. I eat three buns every day."
A normal person would find one bun per meal sufficient.
But Sun Dali was strong and worked hard, so while others ate one, he ate three.
Hearing Sun Dali’s words, Mu Xiangxiang scoffed: "What’s the big deal? I eat ten in one meal!"
"Huh?" Sun Dali was skeptical.
Mu Xiangxiang decided to demonstrate.
She took out the remaining six buns from the steamer and spread them out one by one.
Before Sun Dali’s eyes, she ate all the buns.
After finishing, her stomach was round.
She burped and slumped on Sun Dali’s chair, sitting for half an hour.
Sun Dali widened his eyes, trying to see if the girl in front of him was indeed a pig spirit transformed.
How could she eat more than him?
Feeling compelled to ask, Sun Dali said, "You must be able to do heavy work, right? Can you carry a three-hundred-pound rock?"
Mu Xiangxiang replied weakly, "I’ve never done such work; my mom doesn’t allow it."
Mu Xiangxiang had been spoiled by Old Mrs. Mu since childhood, treated like a deity with the best food and drink.
Indeed, she had never done any work.
In the kitchen, she didn’t even know how to start a fire.
"Oh, I see..." Sun Dali was somewhat envious.
Since childhood, Sun Dali ate a lot more than most, and his work was three times that of the average person.
Yet he truly didn’t understand how the person before him could consume so much.
After a while, Mu Xiangxiang went to the outhouse and returned with reddened eyes.
Her eyeballs slightly bulging outward.
"Hey, what’s wrong?" Sun Dali stepped up to support Mu Xiangxiang.
"It’s nothing, I need to take a nap. Later, cook me something to eat, the buns... buns are necessary.
Cured meat, and other stuff, prepare a portion for me, I want to eat when I wake up."
After instructing Sun Dali, Mu Xiangxiang asked Sun Dali to find her a room.
She began to sleep soundly.
At the Old Mu Family’s place, Old Mrs. Mu waited for two hours but hadn’t seen her daughter return.
She frantically went to find Mr. Mu.
Mr. Mu had almost stopped concerning himself with Mu Xiangxiang.
So when Old Mrs. Mu asked, he replied impatiently, "Xiangxiang isn’t she watched by you every day? She’s a grown person, how could she possibly get lost?"
"Old man, Xiangxiang is inherently innocent, what if she encounters bad people outside? Didn’t the villagers say that today Wang San dropped his pants in front of the village women?"
Old Mrs. Mu said.
"Xiangxiang is also your daughter; you can’t blame Xiangxiang because of the Qin Family incident!"
This was the first time Old Mrs. Mu spoke softly to Mr. Mu.
Previously, the two would start arguing after three sentences.
Nonetheless, this showed Mu Xiangxiang’s importance.
If Mu Xiangxiang were gone, Old Mrs. Mu would lose half of her life.
"Old man, have you forgotten how sensible Xiangxiang was when she was with us before? Have you forgotten you said you’d be good to Xiangxiang later?"
Upon hearing this, Mr. Mu remembered those past events.
Over the years, Mr. Mu was also responsible for Mu Xiangxiang turning out like this.
He had always indulged her.
"Go call the family to search!" Mr. Mu said.
After speaking, Old Mrs. Mu went to the second and fourth branches, but Mu Danian and Chen Hong hadn’t returned from town yet.
The whole family went out to look for Mu Xiangxiang and hadn’t found her even by lunchtime.
Old Mrs. Mu panicked and asked Mr. Mu, "Old man, what do we do? No matter where Xiangxiang goes, she never misses a meal."
Mr. Mu found it strange, too.
"Think she went to the mountains?" Mrs. Lin said. "Xiangxiang rarely goes out; maybe she wants to eat bracken and went to the mountains?"
Mrs. Lin herself was craving it.
She was too lazy to go up the mountains, afraid of encountering wild beasts or something.
"That’s nonsense! From a young age, I told Xiangxiang not to go near water or the mountains; she absolutely wouldn’t go to the mountains.
Stop dawdling and find other places to search. If you don’t find Xiangxiang, you won’t have lunch either."
Old Mrs. Mu said angrily.
Just then, from the direction of Niuwei Mountain, a man and a woman approached.
From afar, it seemed like Mu Shuang from the third branch and Lu Yuanfeng.
When they came closer, it indeed was.
Mu Shuang carried a bamboo basket on her back, Lu Yuanfeng held a rattan basket and also carried a bamboo basket on his back.
On the bamboo basket hung two wild chickens, their feathers long and smooth, appearing very eye-catching.
"Shuang, you’re coming down from the mountain?" Mrs. Lin rushed forward.
Mu Shuang nodded, "Yes!"
"Did you see Xiangxiang in the mountains?" Mrs. Lin asked again.
As she asked, she inched closer to Lu Yuanfeng.
Mrs. Lin fancied the wild chickens tied to Lu Yuanfeng’s bamboo basket.
The meat of wild chickens was chewy and delicious; if cooked into soup, it would be incredibly savory.
Mrs. Lin licked her lips, and as her hand nearly touched the wild chicken on Lu Yuanfeng’s basket, Mu Shuang slapped it away.
"Second Aunt, what are you doing?" Mu Shuang asked.
"No... nothing... just wanted to see what Fengzi was carrying."
Mrs. Lin rubbed her sore hand, awkwardly explaining.
"Second Aunt, you need to change this habit of yours of wanting to see everything; otherwise, it’ll end up being in your stomach again, making things difficult for me!"
Mu Shuang reminded Mrs. Lin of the time she had stolen a vase from the restaurant and had to pay four taels of silver.
Sure enough, upon hearing Mu Shuang mention it, Mrs. Lin’s face twisted.
Her attitude was no longer as good as before.
