The Country Maiden: Fields and Leisure
Chapter 349: Suggestions

Chapter 349: Chapter 349: Suggestions

"Then, please accept the housing task: Improve living conditions by building a house suitable for the whole family. Upon completion of the task, you will be rewarded 100 Points. Do you accept the task?"

Wang Yongzhu clicked to accept and couldn’t help asking, "With food, clothing, housing, and transportation, could it be that there’s going to be a main task related to transportation next?"

"Yes, host. Reaching the Farming Pinnacle is not limited to the pinnacle of a career; your quality of life must also improve. Keep it up, host, I’m rooting for you! As long as you complete this task, I can level up again."

Xiao Tiantian was full of longing.

"How many points are needed for the next level upgrade?" Wang Yongzhu asked, at first it was 10 points, then it was 50, what about the next level?

"200 points."

Wang Yongzhu took a sharp intake of breath.

"I think you better not upgrade anymore; this level, I can barely afford to level up." Wang Yongzhu felt her future was bleak. Where was she going to get so many points from?

"Host, please take care of me, don’t give up on me! I’m very easy to maintain, as long as you complete the rural love task, achieve the highest accomplishment, love stronger than gold, and get one hundred thousand Points, I can reach full level in minutes!" Xiao Tiantian was getting anxious, how could she possibly give up at a time like this?

Why do other systems and their hosts seem like one big happy family, intimately intertwined, creating a harmonious bond between system and host?

Her own bound host keeps threatening to strike, what exactly was the problem? Xiao Tiantian really felt life as a system was tough.

Wang Yongzhu replied to Xiao Tiantian with a couple of "hehe."

Love stronger than gold, my ass. Right now, she’s still stuck on friendly terms, without a clue of when she might even reach close intimacy, let alone a love stronger than gold?

"Host, don’t be like this! You, why don’t you give it a try and have an intimate encounter with your destined partner? Maybe it will increase the intimacy level. Look, you and your destined partner have only held hands so far; the progress is too slow, isn’t it? Other hosts have almost finished steaming their buns..."

"Want to change hosts?" Wang Yongzhu sneered.

"No switching! Host, my feelings for you are stronger than gold, unswerving till death——"

"Scram——"

Distracted by Xiao Tiantian’s fuss, Wang Yongzhu’s mood didn’t get much better, but Xiao Tiantian’s suggestion did remind her of something.

Since she had already decided to keep going, for this somewhat reluctant love task, should she perhaps start taking it more seriously?

Yes, maybe she would consider Xiao Tiantian’s suggestion after the house was built.

Wang Yongzhu decided in her heart.

There was a rush to drain the water from the farmland, and Wang Laozhu couldn’t wait for Laosi to come back, so he got busy with his son and grandson. By noon, even the meals were delivered to the field by Lady Jiang.

This was a job that required physical strength, so Old Granny Zhang went to buy tofu early in the morning and also purchased a big grass carp to slaughter. By evening, she stewed a big pot of tofu and pasted a circle of flatbreads around the edge.

The aroma was so enticing that Lady Sun couldn’t help swallowing her saliva.

As the sun set, Wang Yonggui just couldn’t keep up anymore. He hadn’t eaten all day, and even what he had eaten the day before had passed through him; with no food in his stomach, he had no energy in his body.

Wang Laozhu couldn’t stand to watch him looking so lifeless, so he let him go home to rest. He and his two grandsons finished digging the drainage ditches in the remaining field before they returned home.

As soon as Wang Yonggui entered the yard, he smelled the aroma of fish stewed with tofu and couldn’t help but have his stomach growl.

Seeing no one in the courtyard was paying attention and knowing that his wife was usually the one to cook, he thought of sneaking into the kitchen first to steal a few pieces of tofu.

As soon as he entered the kitchen, he came face to face with Old Granny Zhang’s scowl, and a fire poker came crashing down on his head, "You worthless thing, is that how a son or an uncle should act? Your own father is still out in the fields, your own nephew is still out there, and here you are running back first to skive off?"

Wang Yonggui took a couple of hits and scurried out, gulping down a ladle of cold water to suppress the hunger in his stomach.

By the time Wang Laozhu and the others came home, the meal had already been served on the table.

On the table sat a large basin of grass carp stewed with tofu, along with home-grown bean sprouts, stark white tofu, fish skin fried to a golden crisp, milky fish soup, crisp bean sprouts, and the top was sprinkled with a layer of green scallions.

The aroma was intoxicating.

The pancakes that had stuck to the side of the pot, now thoroughly saturated with soup, were slowly roasted to a crisp on the bottom and steaming as they were brought to the table.

Everyone couldn’t help but swallow their saliva.

Lady Sun still didn’t have the privilege to sit at the table and stood by the side, looking eagerly at Wang Yonggui.

Wang Yonggui gave Lady Sun a meaningful glance, and she obediently stood behind him.

"Mother, Ahfu is also tired after a long day’s work, and you’ve seen for yourself, she does whatever you ask of her. Please, for the sake of your son, let her sit at the table and eat today? It just doesn’t look right for her to be the only one standing while everybody else is seated," he pleaded.

"Pah! Do you know what a concubine is? A concubine is someone who stands while others sit, watches while others eat, listens while others scold, and endures while others beat. If she wants to sit at the table to eat, why the hurry to become a concubine? If you nag me again, get the hell away from the table and stand with her—" Old Granny Zhang was now irritated by the sight of Laosan.

Did he really think he was the only clever one in the world? Lady Sun wasn’t a fool; she came as a spy in the first place, to steal the family’s dye formula from her own daughter.

And he truly believed they would hand over everything to him? Like a blind, foolish donkey led by a dangling carrot, he couldn’t see anything clearly.

Wang Yonggui had no choice, he couldn’t very well starve himself for Ahfu’s sake, could he?

At least he fought for one more concession, "Then at least give her a pancake, mother, or else where will she get the strength to work tomorrow?"

Lady Jiang heard this and couldn’t even cry.

She felt like her heart was being sliced with knives; for all these years, she had managed the household of three rooms, borne and raised children, endured her mother-in-law’s harassment, and suffered through hunger when they refused her food; where was this man then?

Now, for the sake of a widow, he was surely breaking his heart, right?

Old Granny Zhang snorted and brought out a bowl from the kitchen, inside were two chunks of almost burnt crust left over on purpose from lunch, and slammed it onto the table, "A concubine deserves to eat pancakes? She should be grateful to have some crust."

Wang Yonggui glanced at his own mother and then at the wronged Sun Ahfu by his side; in a moment of brash courage, he gritted his teeth and ladled some fish broth over the crust.

Before Old Granny Zhang’s chopsticks could strike, he quickly handed the bowl to Lady Sun, then insolently said to Old Granny Zhang, "Mother, just consider that this spoonful of soup was drunk by your son, alright? I’ll drink one spoonful less later, I will definitely drink one spoonful less..."

Old Granny Zhang was fuming...

It was Wang Yongzhu who glanced at Wang Yonggui, causing him to immediately sit down obediently, which finally calmed Old Granny Zhang as she patted her hand soothingly, "Mother, let’s eat."

It wasn’t worth it to upset herself over such a worthless son.

Old Granny Zhang shot an angry glare at the useless Laosan, acting first to pick the tenderest part of the fish eye for her own daughter, then chose all the belly meat for her, and even ladled a big scoop of tofu into Wang Yongzhu’s bowl before signaling for everyone to start eating.