The big Kang was really comfortable though it wasn't as pretty as Yu Dong imagined it was good. Chen Mi and Ye Liu excitedly put the firewood in the stove and soon the entire Kang was warm, though they didn't need to use the Kang right now. Ye Liu thought it was too good to be true, the winter in their village was really cruel. Even though it wasn't snowing yet the nights were getting colder, sometimes even with a blanket, Ye Liu would sometimes feel cold.
If this was before he wouldn't have minded but now he was preparing his body for a child, he couldn't take the risk of catching a cold and harming his womb!
Ye Liu looked around his room that was newly built, not only was this room completely his, it was truly comfortable! Yu Dong had given the pelts of those foxes and boars that she hunted to Grandma Fang and asked her to make carpets so that neither Shen Li, Yu Liu or Chen Mi had to step down on the cold floor in the morning after waking up.
Though she only wanted to make one for Chen Mi as she knew that after giving birth a mother shouldn't step on the cold floor. As in this case, the one who gave birth was Chen Mi she wanted him to be comfortable and at the same time, she wanted to take care of his health. But she didn't want to look too biased, so she made one for everyone.
Ye Liu of course didn't know this, as he stepped on the carpet his heart warmed up. Everything in this room showed the love and care his wife had for him, though the two of them were still strangers. He wanted to nurture feelings with his wife, Ye Liu swallowed his saliva and slowly stood up from his bed.
He knew that his wife was no longer the same person, so, she had no feelings for him at least not as a lover would have for her beloved. If he kept playing the silent role and waited for Yu Dong to come and do something to him then maybe he would have to wait for a very long time.
Thus, instead of waiting for his wife to come, he should try to take the first step.
Yu Dong who left her house to check up on her fields sneezed, surprised she looked around as she rubbed her nose. Actually, Yu Dong who was a spiritual cultivator hasn't fallen sick for more than ten years in her life, the last time she caught a fever was when she got her abilities after that she never caught a fever much less a cold. Though she was a bit surprised at the fact that she sneezed " maybe it's getting a bit too cold, I should start wearing some thick layers at night" said Yu Dong rubbing her nose.
Ye Liu who was planning to set his seduction plan in motion: Haha.
Though it was the middle of the night Yu Dong still wanted to check on her fields. Ever since she refused to teach the villagers of building Kang, she had received numerous stinky eyes whenever she got out of her house or when she loaded the alcohol jars in the cart whenever Sister Xi came for taking the delivery. Though Mu Xuan took the responsibility for the incident she didn't forget to sling mud on Yu Dong.
Yu Dong wasn't there when Mu Xuan addressed the villagers but Aunt Wang was, she told her that Mu Xuan indirectly mentioned that even when she apologised and begged Yu Dong the latter didn't agree. Thus, even though Mu Xuan was blamed, Yu Dong was dragged in it as well, ever since the renovation of her house finished, Yu Dong had heard several snide remarks. Though she wasn't bothered by them, she was afraid that maybe someone would try to vandalise her crops.
That's why she started to check up on her crops and would stay at the fields for an hour or so to make sure that her field was completely fine. Her crops might be nurtured with her spiritual energy and were of course stronger than the crops grown by the villagers but they were in the end just crops if someone tried to vandalise her crops. Then there was nothing she could do after that.
No one had tried to do it till now but Yu Dong was one of the 'better be safe than sorry ' people, though she did expect something like this to happen, she was still surprised when she saw someone trying to enter her fields with burning wood with a blanket covering his or hers entire body.
Startled, Yu Dong rushed at the culprit. Maybe it was their first time doing something like that, so the figure kept looking behind it now and then. So when he saw Yu Dong rushing at him, the figure threw the burning log of wood at her fields and ran away.
Yu Dong was no novice either, she had cultivated her body and knew martial arts, with a leap she jumped into the fields and caught the burning log. Though she was in the opposite direction of the figure and caught the burning log from the side where the flames were, she winced when the fire burned her skin but she didn't pause instead She lifted that burning log and threw it at the figure.
A high pitched scream rang around the clearing startling everyone, though the person got burned, he or she didn't stop and kept running because they had a head start compared to Yh Dong they were able to escape and because Yu Dong's fields were in the outermost area of the village. The figure easily escaped in the grooves surrounding them, Yu Dong narrowed her eyes as she stopped running after the figure.
From behind she heard sounds of footsteps coming and when she turned around she saw the villagers with Mu Xuan in lead, everyone was holding a lantern in their hands, looking at Yu Dong curiously.
" what is it? What's with the noise?" said Mu Xuan though she sounded worried, the excitement in her eyes couldn't be hidden. Yu Dong narrowed her eyes, she was usually very laid back and hardly fought with someone, it seemed that the villagers were taking her a bit too lightly.
The fields were a farmer's lifeline, though Yu Dong could earn a decent sum with her alcohol and jam business, she was still backing on her fields and good output. If today her crops for burned then the damage that she might have suffered would be really great.
" Cheh, don't you think this is fun?" said Yu Dong, her usual polite expression gone as she swept her bangs back and glanced at the villagers coldly " someone just tried to burn my, Yu Dong's crops, don't you think that you should give me an explanation Village head?"
Yu Dong's voice was really grave as if she was interrogating someone, Mu Xuan was thrown off her loop and was startled. Though she wasn't involved in the case, Mu Xuan was all set to ignore this incident, though even though she felt a bit scared, she still resolutely said " Yu Dong, this - I can't do anything about this, it's your Karma, you should have helped your fellow villagers -"
" you mean to say that just because I didn't help the villagers who spat curses and called me hooligan, monster and what not whenever they wanted, I deserve to suffer a life of poverty? Do you not know that a farmer's field is her life? If these crops got harmed today do you know what would have happened? Instead of finding the culprit you are telling me that this happened because I was wrong ?" Yu Dong sneered as she leaned closer to Mu Xuan who was terrified by the sudden change in her rhythm, Yu Dong raised her hand and showed three fingers " three days, I will give you three days to solve this case and bring me the culprit. If you don't give me a reasonable explanation, I will burn the crops of every fucking villager, if I and my family starve to death then you all might as well starve to death with us!