My Beloved Super Fierce Wife
Chapter 388: The ancestral grave is emitting green smoke.

Chapter 388: The ancestral grave is emitting green smoke.

Like in past years, the summer heat is back, along with the swarms of mosquitoes, making life miserable.

But this year, it’s much better!

I never expected that one day, he, Lin Lu, would be so fortunate; it’s like there’s a plume of green smoke rising from the family gravesite!

When Li Xiuli saw the head of the household take out the cooling patch, her eyebrows shot up in surprise.

"Why are you still carrying that treasure in your pocket? What if you lost it?

Didn’t I tell you to put it on before leaving the house?

Are you trying to show it off again, old man? I’m telling you, no way!

If you bring any trouble to our daughter, I won’t let it go..."

The cooling patches that Tangtang brought are unbelievably magical.

Such a small thing, but once you stick it on, it’s out of sight, and most importantly, it keeps your entire body cool.

There’s definitely something extraordinary about it.

The villagers, who’ve never seen much of the world, might get scared out of their wits if they see the patch just disappear; they might even chop off their hands in fright.

So, she explicitly instructed her family not to breathe a word about the cooling patches to anyone outside.

Whoever dared to speak would have to suffer the heat.

The Lin family members all knew what’s at stake and treated Li Xiuli’s words as an imperial edict - for over half a month, there were no slips.

Now, seeing Lin Lu about to take a cooling patch with him, Li Xiuli was about to explode!

Lin Lu felt unjustly accused under his wife’s glaring eyes.

"This is for you."

"Isn’t the one you’re wearing about to lose its effect? I was thinking of finding a secluded spot in the field to put a new one on you later..."

Upon hearing this, Li Xiuli realized she had misunderstood and felt a bit embarrassed.

But she stubbornly said, "...well, you should have said so earlier."

Lin Lu knew there was no reasoning with a woman and simply grinned apologetically, admitting fault, "It’s my mistake."

Li Xiuli, who wasn’t one to stand up to tender gestures, immediately broke into a smile.

"You sure have a way with words."

Lin Tang took a mouthful of cold dog food and thought of her Comrade Gu.

Gu Yingzhou, who was cozying up at home with his cat, suddenly sneezed.

The little feline, caught in the sneeze, bristled all over.

It gave its litter-shoveling servant a look of disdain.

That look was caught precisely by Gu Yingzhou.

With a quick move, he grasped the scruff of the neck, which was the cat’s lifeline.

The kitten wore a look of confusion on its face, not yet grasping why its perspective had suddenly changed.

Flailing its limbs and meowing softly, it gazed up at its servant, trying to charm him.

Unable to resist the cute creature’s tender appearance, Gu Yingzhou let out a soft chuckle.

"...It’s practically enchanting."

Even more cunning than the big boss cat back at home.

"...Meow?" Seeing the litter-shoveling servant spacing out, the little ancestor let out another meow.

Gu Yingzhou came back to his senses and placed the cat on the sofa.

He then started fiddling with the suitcase he was making for Lin Tang.

Considering that the young girl would also be traveling all the way to Sea City, her luggage couldn’t just be carried or dragged; he found some materials and crafted a sizable wheeled suitcase for her.

The suitcase was made of dark brown, tough leather.

The zipper was something extra he bought, having Xia Yunxiu’s wife ask the master craftsmen at the Textile Factory to sew it on with several sturdy stitches.

Gu Yingzhou gave it a tug to test, and it felt quite robust.

This item was practical; Tangtang would surely like it.

Little did Lin Tang know, as she thought of Gu Yingzhou, that he had spent two days and two nights at the factory, personally crafting an effortless-to-carry suitcase just for her.

Lin Lu and Li Xiuli had gone to work, and with Zhou Mei seeing that her little sister-in-law had nothing to do, she suggested they visit the Sauce Factory.

Thinking it had been a while since her last visit, Lin Tang nodded in agreement.

They hadn’t even reached the Sauce Factory when they saw a crowd gathered from a distance.

"What’s going on there?" Lin Tang asked in surprise.

Zhou Mei glanced over and said with a smile, "You’re talking about that? Those are people from the East Wind Brigade coming to deliver beans."

"The East Wind Brigade?" Lin Tang became even more puzzled, "Didn’t they already deliver some before?"

"They did, but who would have expected the captain of the East Wind Brigade to be so clever..." Zhou Mei smacked her lips and explained further.

It turned out that the members of the East Wind Brigade had come to the Shuangshan Brigade to deliver beans once before, which gave the captain of the East Wind Brigade a vision for wealth.

The current cadre of the East Wind Brigade were legitimately elected by the people and were quite capable.

Seeing the hopes for the villagers to become rich, their minds raced like the wheels of a car speeding on a highway and immediately got to work.

They came up with a good idea at last.

Their brigade would go out to collect beans from various other brigades on the periphery and then resell them to the Shuangshan Brigade.

Lin Fu and the others gave it a bit of thought and agreed.

This little matter would be more efficiently handled if outsourced.

After all, their sauce factory had many orders and, despite expanding several times, it was still overstretched.

On top of that, they had to clear new land for planting herbal medicine.

And there was still plenty of work to be done in the fields.

They really didn’t have the energy to send people out to collect beans.

Since there was a brigade willing to take on the task, why wouldn’t they be happy about it?!

After the incident with his third aunt, Lin Tang’s impression of the East Wind Brigade had plummeted, but he didn’t believe in condemning everyone for one person’s fault.

There were good people everywhere, and bad people too.

Just as the aunt and niece passed by, an elderly woman from the East Wind Brigade’s eyes lit up when she saw Lin Tang.

"Girl, it’s you!"

She hadn’t expected that her trip with her two daughters-in-law to deliver beans would lead to them running into that kindhearted girl.

What a stroke of luck!

Lin Tang turned her head with a smile on her face.

"It’s me, hello, ma’am."

The old lady in front of her was the military family member who had asked her to write a letter at the post office entrance.

"My girl, thank you so much for what you did before," the old lady thanked Lin Tang first.

Then she turned to her two daughters-in-law.

"Hongying, Lingzi, this is the kindhearted girl who helped me write the letter."

Hongying, the old lady’s elder daughter-in-law, was a military wife who had stayed in her hometown to take care of her in-laws and children while her husband served in the army.

Hearing from her mother-in-law that the young girl before her had helped write a letter to her child’s father, she looked at Lin Tang with gratitude.

"It’s the kind comrade!"

"Thank you so much!"

Lin Tang held a deep respect for soldiers and likewise for military wives.

She replied with a smile, "Sister-in-law, you are too kind, I merely lent a hand since it was convenient."

Not wanting to waste time with ’thank yous’ and ’no, thank yous,’ Lin Tang changed the subject.

"Ma’am, sister-in-law, how did it go with delivering the beans, was everything smooth?"

Thinking of the additional income for the family, Hongying felt delighted.

"Very smooth, very smooth, everyone in our brigade is warm-hearted."

The old lady, too, had a genuinely simple smile on her face.

"Indeed, it was smooth. The people at the Shuangshan Brigade were so courteous to an old lady like me, offering water and moving chairs; they couldn’t have been nicer."

She, a simple country wife with no special skills, had never been treated so kindly by outsiders before.

Initially, she thought the folks in the Shuangshan Brigade would become haughty once they grew wealthy, with their noses in the air.

To her surprise, each of them was more courteous than the last, which left her feeling extremely satisfied.

Lin Tang was well aware of the character of the village people, who were known for respecting their elders and cherishing the young.

Feeling proud upon hearing the old lady’s words, she said, "That’s how it should be. If they knew you were the mother of a hero, they would be even more respectful."

Her parents had told her, ever since Uncle Heping returned to the village, the brigade’s enthusiasm to support the military had instantly peaked.

The old lady and Hongying were thrilled to hear Lin Tang refer to them as the family of a hero, something no one had said to them before.

This girl sure had a way with words!