From Folly to Fortune：I Rewrite My Life After Rebirth!
Chapter 128 - 129: Clever Shuangshuang (Second Update)

Chapter 128: Chapter 129: Clever Shuangshuang (Second Update)

Little Black sniffed a few times and was about to throw away the copper coin in its hand, but Mu Shuangshuang’s gaze was too sinister.

Suddenly—

After hissing twice, it ran over to Lu Yuanfeng, picked up one of the copper coins Lu Yuanfeng had counted to the side, and dashed over to Mu Shuangshuang.

Its eyes, like those of a cunning fox, gazed at Mu Shuangshuang ingratiatingly.

"Smack!" Its butt got smacked again, and Mu Shuangshuang said righteously,

"You can’t take things from your own home. If you dare touch the family’s things next time, I’ll sell you."

"Hiss hiss—" Little Black hung its head pitifully and crouched at the side, whining continuously, looking quite forlorn.

"Trying to gain sympathy? No way. Just stay over there!"

"Shuangshuang, take it easy. Little Black has been living in the mountains for so long, meat is definitely more tempting than copper coins for it." Lu Yuanfeng looked up, grinning at Mu Shuangshuang.

The lively and adorable girl in front of him made his previously irritable heart calm down.

"You’re right. I should come up with some punishment and reward measures, but I won’t train it now. I’ll try it at home tonight. By the way, Lu Yuanfeng, do you have any fresh meat here?"

I asked Lu Yuanfeng to soak some in the well last night; I’m not sure if he did.

"Only cooked meat left; we don’t have a well at home..."

In fact, the village only has three wells in total.

They’re located at the village entrance, the eastern part of the village, and the southern part of the village.

Although the third well is near Lu Yuanfeng’s house, it’s the one most prone to drying up in the village.

So most of the summer, Lu Yuanfeng prefers going to the stream on the northern side of the village for water.

The water there is sweet, and he doesn’t have to compete with villagers for it.

"I’ll go to Wang Erma’s later to get some."

Wang Erma is a butcher; there’s definitely meat in his house, no doubt about it.

"That’s fine too. Later, take some coins from my share to buy just enough meat for Little Black for tonight and tomorrow morning. I’ll buy some from town for it at noon."

Little Black doesn’t eat much, just two finger-length pieces of meat at a time.

"No need, I’ll take care of it; Little Black doesn’t eat much!"

Having finally counted the silver, Lu Yuanfeng handed the cloth bag to Shuangshuang, then took a jar from the kitchen, stuffed all the copper coins inside, and carried it back to his room.

On the way through the yard, he saw the conspicuous underpants hanging on a long bamboo pole by Xia Guagua, angrily ran over, and threw the newly patched underpants into a nearby manure pile.

On the way back, Lu Yuanfeng helped her carry the soaked mung beans and only left after dropping Shuangshuang off at Aunt Xiao Yun’s house.

It was still early when Mu Shuangshuang put away her things, held Little Black, carried a small string of meat tied with a straw rope, and returned to the Old Mu Family.

At the entrance, Mrs. Lin seemed to have been waiting for Mu Shuangshuang for a long time. As soon as she saw Mu Shuangshuang, she twisted her sagging hips proudly and said,

"Oh, look who it is, the rich lady is back?

Tsk tsk tsk, who would have thought, Shuang, you have the potential to be a rich lady!"

Mrs. Lin spoke while covering her mouth and giggling.

Shuang felt a pang of fear, thinking Mrs. Lin knew about her business dealings outside. Although she had a contract, she currently had over two taels of silver, and who knows if Mrs. Lin might get greedy.

But Mrs. Lin’s next words made Shuang think she was overthinking it.

"You brat, don’t think marrying a rich man will put you in the clear; you might end up with nothing."

Mrs. Lin got scolded by Old Mrs. Mu in the afternoon, over Mu Dade’s exam expenses.

What the old crone was up to, Mrs. Lin knew clearly.

Expecting Gou Dan’s uncle to pay for Mu Dade? Dream on!

But since the old lady annoyed her, she’d come to bother Mu Shuangshuang instead; after all, bullies pick on the weak.

Bully the weak!

Mrs. Lin looked at Mu Shuangshuang sarcastically, her words hinting at Shuangshuang’s marriage prospects.

"Second Aunt, what’s with the chicken and the egg? Did you steal grandma’s eggs and get caught? Or are you planning on stealing grandmother’s chickens?

But you know, the chickens and eggs belong to Uncle, so neither you nor little cousin Gou Dan has the right to them."

Mu Shuangshuang squinted her eyes, smilingly countered Mrs. Lin.

"You brat, you go ahead and be smug; just don’t come crying to me later. And stop bringing junk into the house; it’s not a trash heap for that crap."

Mrs. Lin wiggled her hips back to her room.

She just wanted to assert her presence, and since Shuangshuang didn’t suffer a loss, her mood wasn’t great upon leaving.

Mu Shuangshuang brought Little Black back to her room, fed it a small piece of meat, and took out the copper coins from Little Black’s treehouse.

With food and freedom, Little Black dashed around Mu Shuangshuang’s room, and in no time, its little footprints were all over the room, including on Mu Shuangshuang’s bed.

However, its fate was unfortunate as it got another smack from Shuangshuang.

After circling around the room, Mu Shuangshuang found a mouse hole in the corner next to the bed.

She rolled her eyes and shooed Little Black inside.

Soon after, Little Black crawled out with a half-grown rat in its mouth, looking excited.

The rat squeaked continuously, but Little Black, like it had found a playmate, casually tossed it around the room, trampling and kneading it flat.

In no time, the little rat was dead as a doornail.

Since then, there were no more mice in Mu Shuangshuang’s room.

And Mu Shuangshuang confidently stashed all her money into the mouse hole.

——

In the evening, when Mu Dashan returned from work, the first thing he did wasn’t to go to the kitchen but to return to his room and give Mu Shuangshuang the "Eight Characters of Birth" he got from Mrs. Jin.

"Shuangshuang, I got this from your Aunt’s place, you keep it!"

Mu Shuangshuang took the contract, looked at the words on it, and it was indeed the Eight Characters of Birth, but the ink on the paper didn’t seem like it was written days ago.

It looked freshly written today.

Mu Shuangshuang had a strong intuition that Mrs. Jin was up to no good.

"What’s wrong? Is something off?" When Mu Dashan went to get it at noon, Mrs. Jin handed it over without a word, saying she’d find Mrs. Lin later to match the Eight Characters.

So Mu Dashan couldn’t tell what might be wrong.

"Nothing, Dad. Second Aunt blocked me today and said strange things; she said I’d soon marry a rich man.

She even called me a rich lady. Do you think Grandpa and Grandma want to marry me off to get the exam silver for Uncle?"

Being familiar with special work, Mu Shuangshuang’s reasoning skills were unparalleled; even a slight hint would lead her to analyze thoroughly.

This was currently the most plausible conclusion she had come up with.

The Old Mu Family is planning to sell her off to scrape together money for that unworthy Mu Dade.