The Herbal Scents of Farm Life
Chapter 1157: Go Put Out the Fire

Chapter 1157: Chapter 1157: Go Put Out the Fire

"Such a family it was, and she felt fortunate to have seen through their true nature before marrying into them.

Otherwise, her life would have truly been ruined.

...

Lin Family.

Lin Changhong and Lin Changyi had just returned and told Lin Caisang and Lu Qiubo what had happened with Elder Mr. Zhou taking Zhou Liang to Liu Yushui’s house.

"Hmph, this old Zhou geezer — he still has the nerve to show his face, completely losing all ancestral honor!"

Lu Qiubo took a sip and cursed.

Even if Liu Yushui doesn’t carry the Liu surname, she should carry the Lin surname. It’s none of the Zhou family’s business, those with faces thicker than city walls, whether she marries or not. They just have to stick their noses into everything, don’t they!

"Why do you bother getting upset with those people?" Lin Laogeng said to her irritably.

Anyway, as long as Liu Yushui and her husband weren’t bullied, that was all that mattered.

As for Elder Mr. Zhou, he used to seem respectable, but now it appears he’s nothing but a wolf in countless sheepskins, never having been fully unmasked before.

Now, he couldn’t hold out any longer and has finally revealed that bottommost layer of wolf skin!

He was genuinely curious to see, in the end, what would become of such a person!

"Grandpa, Grandma, keep an eye on the Zhou family. I’m going to the mountains," said Lin Caisang. She didn’t pay any more attention to the Zhou family, but instead shouldered her bamboo basket and headed for the mountains.

In the past, to undertake a mission, all she needed to do was enter her room. But now, with the Zhou family having suddenly moved back into the village, she couldn’t be expected to stay in her room either.

Who knew when the Zhou family might cause a scene at their doorstep?

If Grandpa and Grandma were looking for her and she couldn’t be found in her room, they would certainly become suspicious, wouldn’t they?

So, she decided to head to the mountain instead.

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Zhou family.

Elder Mr. Zhou returned home with Zhou Liang, who was drenched in foul water, and nearly fainted at the door.

"Put out the fire! What are you standing there for? Go put out the fire right now," he quickly ordered Zhou Liang to extinguish the fire in the kitchen.

As it turned out, Madam Zhou, who couldn’t cook, accidentally set all the firewood in the kitchen ablaze. It was quite a sight, the fire raging so intensely that Old Master Zhou alone couldn’t possibly put it out.

And Madam Zhou herself was so frightened by the blaze that she had run out of the kitchen at the onset and hid in the farthest corner of the yard.

Eventually, Old Master Zhou and Zhou Liang emerged from the kitchen looking bedraggled.

Both were covered in black soot, especially Old Master Zhou, with much of his hair burned off and his clothes sporting several charred holes.

"Is... is the fire out?"

Seeing them come out of the kitchen, Madam Zhou cautiously emerged from the corner and asked.

But the next second, she was met by a slap from Old Master Zhou, who did not hold back.

"What good are you? Can’t even cook a meal — might as well be dead!" His eyes blazing with rage, he roared at her.

Just now, if his son hadn’t come into the kitchen to put out the flames on him, he’d already be facing the King of Hell, and his wife? She was nowhere to be seen, cowering far away!

Of what use is someone who only knows to hide at the side when a disaster strikes at home?

"Why did you hit me? I never knew how to cook anyway," Madam Zhou complained, covering her aching face, her eyes full of grievance as she looked at her husband.