The village chief disagreed, warning, "Don't provoke those high officials. They are not someone we can afford to offend."
"Child's father."
Mother Luo interjected at the opportune moment, her eyes filled with greed. "Our Luo Yang is the most beautiful girl. If you send her to that... it's no worse than marrying Mo Lingxi."
"After all, Mo Lingxi's background is unknown. No one knows what his situation is, don't you think?"
The village chief was also considering this matter. He took a few puffs of his pipe. "Child's mother, send what Tao Lengshuang wants, and tell the village to keep quiet."
"As for other things, like dealing with Tao Lengshuang, there's no rush. She's right here in the village, are we afraid we won't have a chance to deal with her?"
Mother Luo, however unwilling, had no choice but to do as the village chief said.
Just thinking about what that fat pig Tao Lengshuang wanted made her heart ache.
Damn slut!
...
Tao Lengshuang went straight back home.
As soon as she reached her doorstep, she saw a large group of villagers gathered around, pointing and gossiping.
"Look at the Tao family's state. It's certain that Tao Lengshuang poisoned them. That woman is truly wicked."
"I wonder when Tao Lengshuang will be driven out of the village. With her here, she'll eventually bring disaster to our village."
"Oh, if you get a headache or a fever in the future, don't come to me for treatment." The sudden cold female voice startled the villagers present.
Everyone turned their heads.
They saw the plump Tao Lengshuang standing there with a cold expression, her eyes fiercely staring at them.
Many villagers shrunk back to the side, while the bolder ones were dismissive.
"Your medical skills are just a fluke. A blind cat catching a dead mouse, you only cured Pillar."
"Everyone knows you've never studied medicine. What are you showing off for?"
"I advise you to leave our village quickly, don't force us to act."
Tao Lengshuang was too lazy to say more to these villagers. She walked towards her home.
As she passed by Old Master Tao and the others, she was stopped.
"Lengshuang, Lengshuang, please, for the sake of us being family, give me the antidote, okay?"
"I was wrong, I was wrong, sister. It was Mom and Dad who wanted to forcefully take back the house while you were away and said they wanted to drive you out of the village."
"It's not my fault, it's not my fault. Tao Fangfang was the one watching. She gave the family the idea. Please, give me the antidote, okay?"
Tao Lengshuang looked at Old Master Tao's family, suffering immensely, without any emotional fluctuation. "I told you, if you want the antidote, bring the house deed as exchange."
"However, this poison won't kill you. It will just act up from time to time."
Old Master Tao's family was almost driven mad by the poison and couldn't bear it acting up from time to time.
Tao Da and the others urged Old Master Tao to hand over the house deed to exchange for the antidote.
Old Master Tao was unwilling. The house deed was one of his lifelines. He absolutely refused to give the house deed to Tao Lengshuang for nothing.
He was unwilling, and Tao Da and the others wanted the antidote.
The family quarreled incessantly, even resorting to physical violence.
"Old man, are you going to hand over the house deed or not? Hand it over!"
"You ungrateful brats have gone too far! I will never hand over the house deed!"
Tao Lengshuang watched the family's scolding and fighting with cold eyes, feeling satisfied. In the past, this family had united to scheme against and verbally abuse the original owner. Now, it was time for this family to pay the price.
After watching for a while, she lost interest. She left them with a reminder to exchange for the antidote as soon as possible, then returned to her own home and closed the door.
...
That afternoon, Mother Luo delivered the chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs that Tao Lengshuang wanted and also spoke with the village, which made the villagers more wary of Tao Lengshuang.
Tao Lengshuang didn't know how to judge the quality of chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs, but she wasn't worried about the village chief's family playing tricks.
If these livestock had problems, she would go to the village chief.
"Thank you, Auntie," she said with a smile.
Mother Luo gave her a resentful glare and left in a huff.
Tao Lengshuang shrugged indifferently and called Xiao Feng to help build sheds for the chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs.
The village bully goose, even with its feet and wings tied, was still flapping and honking ferociously, as if it wanted to peck Tao Lengshuang.
"Wow~~ Mom, won't we have a lot of eggs soon?" Xiao Feng looked at the chickens, ducks, and geese with starry eyes.
Tao Lengshuang pinched his face and smiled gently. "Yes, then our Xiao Feng can eat an egg every day. Mom will raise you to be plump and fair."
Xiao Feng shook his head and said seriously, "Sell them!"
"Mom, these eggs are very valuable. If we sell them for money, Mom will be much more relaxed."
Tao Lengshuang's heart felt warm and very happy. "Xiao Feng is truly Mom's good boy."
"When many chicks, ducklings, and goslings hatch, we can not only sell them for money but also eat them ourselves."
Xiao Feng swallowed his saliva. Eggs are very, very delicious. "Let's sell them for money."
Tao Lengshuang felt both heartache and apology. "Xiao Feng, Mom will earn a lot of money. We don't lack the money from selling eggs. The most important thing is for you to take care of your health, okay?"
Xiao Feng nodded obediently. "If Mom eats, I'll eat."
Tao Lengshuang sighed. Coming here, God had given her the best treasure, which was Xiao Feng.
The mother and son spent over an hour building simple coops for the chickens, ducks, and pigs.
The original coops for the Tao family's chickens, ducks, and pigs were dismantled when Old Master Tao and the others hid.
Tao Lengshuang tied the legs of the chickens, ducks, and geese with ropes, scattered some rotten vegetable leaves around, and then put the piglets in the pigsty, asking Xiao Feng to keep an eye on them, before going to the kitchen to prepare pig feed and the like.
When she was catching the geese, she was almost pecked by two geese, narrowly dodging them.
Raising two fierce geese was much more useful than raising dogs.
Especially in the future, with a large flock of geese, no one would be able to bully them.
Xiao Feng squatted in front of the chicken, duck, and pigpens, excitedly murmuring, "Chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, you must be obedient, eat well, and lay eggs quickly."
"From now on, this will be your home!"
He decided that he would come to see if there were any eggs every morning, striving to have many eggs at home soon so that Mom could eat eggs.
The chickens and ducks were slowly eating the vegetable leaves, and the two geese were still honking and trying to fly out, but they were restrained by the ropes.
The piglets were lying on the ground, grunting.
Xiao Feng was delighted. His family now had chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs, and he no longer envied the villagers who had them.
After Tao Lengshuang fed the chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs, she began to prepare lunch and teach her son medicine at the same time.
Accompanied by the honking of geese.
Suddenly, the honking of the geese intensified.
"Gaga gaga..."
Tao Lengshuang came out of the kitchen and saw Mo Lingxi, looking cold, returning with two wild rabbits and some mushrooms. She quickly put on a smile.
"You're back?"