Five cubs at the beginning: the vicious stepmother turns over and becomes a group favorite

Chapter 5 Lessons
"Sister Tong, you are so kind to us!"

Old Si Ji Xiujing grabbed the corner of Ruan Hantong's clothes, looked at Ji Xiuping pitifully and said, "Brother, can we go to sister Tong's house for dinner?"

Ji Xiuping also felt sorry for his younger siblings, he hesitated for a while and nodded: "Okay, then I will trouble Sister Tong."

He gave Ruan Hantong a gentle smile, and quietly glanced maliciously at Mu Daiyao's closed door, feeling unwilling.

How could he let her go so easily?Must teach her a lesson!
Don't you like to pretend to be sick?Let's see how she pretends later?
Watching his younger siblings follow Ruan Hantong out, he pulled his second son, Ji Xiukai, to his side, and whispered a few words of advice.

Ji Xiukai's eyes lit up, and he nodded quickly.

After a while, the five brothers and sisters of the Ji family walked out of the courtyard, and a few small black snakes were slowly crawling in through Mu Daiyao's door...

If this woman dares to fight against them, there will be no good fruit for her!
……

"And who did this?"

Not long after they went out, Mu Daiyao on the bed opened her eyes, stretched out her hand and grasped the two black snakes precisely and powerfully.

The system stammered: "Children are not sensible..."

"immature?"

Mu Daiyao sneered, grabbed the two snakes without hesitation, and threw them directly into the children's room and Ji Xiuping's study.

system:……

"Host, you can't complete the task if you keep fighting against the children like this."

The system earnestly said: "I am also very distressed when you are like this!"

"Then why don't you give me another mission?"

Mu Daiyao said casually: "Could it be that I can only rely on a few little white-eyed wolves to change my destiny? People live their own lives. You are not as knowledgeable as a woman like me."

The system was choked by her: "Then, what do you want?"

"Well, although I can't educate them, I can make more money and improve their quality of life."

Mu Daiyao smiled slyly: "And maybe I've made money, and I'm too lazy to be angry with them when I'm in a good mood. Do you want to think about it and let me make money first?"

The system was silent for a long time without saying a word.

But Mu Daiyao was not in a hurry: "Hey, without money, what can I do with them, I can only let them live and die."

"can."

The system finally spoke again, but the tone was a bit gritted: "If the host earns 20 taels of silver within three days, he will be rewarded—an out-of-print recipe."

Mu Daiyao's eyes brightened.

In her previous life, she really wanted to open a restaurant by herself, but for the face of those unfilial sons, she has been working as a cow in Ji's family, and the dishes she has studied carefully can only be fed to dogs!

If she can complete the task and get the recipe, she will be one step closer to her dream!
But earning 20 taels of silver in three days is not something you can do by selling pastries.

Mu Daiyao frowned slightly, and suddenly thought that there seemed to be a lot of medicinal materials on the mountain behind the village.

It's better to go up the mountain and look for it. If there are rare things, one plant is enough!
Just in the past, in order to sell her to a wealthy family as a maid, her natal family also let her learn medical skills with a barefoot doctor for two days, and she still knew how to identify medicinal materials.

As soon as she thought of it, Mu Daiyao saw that the sky had not yet completely darkened, and without wasting time, she picked up the flint basket and sickle, and hurried up the mountain.

As for those little brats, when they come back, let's think about how to deal with the "gifts" in the room.

It was dark and the road was slippery, so Mu Daiyao was careful every step of the way.

Halfway up the mountain, she managed to find a few herbs.

But these ordinary goods are far from 20 taels of silver...

Mu Daiyao hesitated whether to go down the mountain, but out of the corner of her eye, she caught a small yellow flower on the cliff.

That is Inula inulae, which can clear away heat and detoxify, which is rare!

Mu Daiyao's eyes suddenly brightened, such a big plant can be sold for at least five taels of silver!
Holding the torch, she carefully leaned towards the cliff, but suddenly her foot slipped when she grabbed the bindweed plant, and she fell towards the cliff.

it's over...

Mu Daiyao's mind went blank, thinking that she would be hurt if she didn't die, but her wrist was tightly grabbed by a strong hand.

"Grab it."

A deep, steady, and somewhat familiar voice sounded, making Mu Daiyao unconsciously startled, and instinctively clasped the man's wrist.

With just a little effort, the man pulled her up.

"Girl...why are you?"

As soon as she landed, she met a handsome dark face.

The man stared at her with a pair of phoenix eyes, sweat dripped from his tall nose, his thin lips were tightly pursed, and his expression was very unhappy.

It was Ji Zhixu?

Looking at his tall body and the bow and arrow behind him, Mu Daiyao fell silent.

She and him were nothing more than a matchmaker's order from their parents, so they couldn't be considered liking. His indifference to her in his previous life was almost all because of the child's instigation, and he never hurt her.

In this way, they don't have a big problem.

Seeing that she was silent, Ji Zhixu frowned even tighter. He didn't like this woman, and he only married her to take care of the children. He didn't expect that she couldn't even take care of the children well, and would come to make trouble for him at night!

His eyes fell on the pannier behind her.

So many herbs?What is this woman doing up the mountain to collect herbs in the middle of the night?
His tone was indifferent: "Didn't you ask you to take the children at home? They also went up the mountain?"

Mu Daiyao saw that his attitude was not kind, and thinking of the bad things those children said in front of Ji Zhixu in the previous life, she rolled her eyes.

"My husband...there is no food at home, and I gave Xiu Ping all the money to go to school, so I went up the mountain to find something to eat, and I bought some medicine to exchange for money..."

Hearing this, Ji Zhixu couldn't help frowning.

The children said that this woman was extravagant at home, and often instructed them to work, and beat and scolded them.

But now she actually came to the mountain in the middle of the night in search of food...

Ji Zhixu wouldn't believe it if it was just a show, the mountain is so dangerous, if he hadn't just come here just now to see if there was any prey, she would have died.

He was silent, intending to go back and ask the children what was going on, but when he met Mu Daiyao, he still had a cold face, and casually threw her a pheasant that he had taken from the trap earlier: "Take this Let the pheasant go down the mountain, I will come back after hunting some prey in two days, and go to the market to exchange money for your family."

Mu Daiyao wanted to nod, but suddenly her mind changed.

Those cubs are used to complaining in front of their father, isn't it just right for her to do the same thing to him now?

Seeing that Ji Zhixu was about to turn around and leave, she reached out and grabbed the corner of the man's clothes.

"Sir, I'm afraid..."

Mu Daiyao pinched her thigh quietly, tears welled up in her eyes, she looked at the man tenderly and said softly, "Listen, I heard that there are fierce beasts on this mountain, I accidentally sprained my ankle just now... "

Ji Zhixu frowned slightly, with an unnatural expression, obviously hesitating.

Seeing the usefulness of this trick, Mu Daiyao secretly laughed in her heart, and made her tone more aggrieved, holding him softly with her small hand, "I don't want to delay my husband's affairs, it's just, just..."

As she spoke, tears rolled down her face, and she looked pitiful to me.

Ji Zhixu saw a change in his heart.

The reason why he didn't like this wife was because the children said she was a fierce and domineering woman who would treat them harshly, but she was so delicate, how could she look like someone who abused children harshly?
"Don't cry, I'll go and collect the trap, and I'll follow you down the mountain."

Ji Zhixu sighed, and took the pannier on her back: "You wait for me right here, come over soon."

Mu Daiyao heard him say to collect the trap, but she had a thought.

Ji Zhixu is a well-known good hunter in this town, and he has set traps very well. If she can learn something, she will have some security in the future if she wants to come out and start her own family.

"I'm with my husband, he's been hunting hard, and I want to help."

Ji Zhixu couldn't stand her acting coquettishly, and nodded with a low cough: "Okay...be careful."

Mu Daiyao nodded, and very obediently stretched out her hand to grab Ji Zhixu's sleeve, leaving the system dumbfounded.

Is this the host that it draws its sword at every turn? !
So soft, don't be possessed by a goblin in the mountains!
Mu Daiyao didn't have time to pay attention to its complaints, and just followed behind Ji Zhixu, watching him skillfully remove the trap and put it away, silently memorizing his technique.

I have to say that Ji Zhixu's trip was quite rewarding. There were not only a lot of pheasants and rabbits in the trap, but also a big wild boar baring its teeth.

Mu Daiyao took a look and turned her head away, not noticing that the wild boar was struggling to break free from the trap, staring at them with scarlet eyes.

"careful!"

She was about to walk towards Ji Zhixu, but the man suddenly yelled sharply, and pointed his bow and arrow at her back: "Low your head!"

Mu Daiyao's heart tightened, and she instinctively followed suit.

Arrows whizzed past her ears, and at the same time, a miserable howl came from behind her.

The stench filled the nose, it turned out to be that wild boar!

Before Mu Daiyao came back to her senses, she was picked up by Ji Zhixu's iron-like hand.

The man's chest was hot. After picking her up, he put her under the tree, grabbed the javelin next to her and guarded her in front of her vigilantly: "You slowly back up, go down and call someone, I'll stop it."

Mu Daiyao watched the wild boar approaching herself and Ji Zhixu, and Ji Zhixu took up the javelin without hesitation and stabbed the wild boar in the eye, without any intention of retreating, suddenly her heart softened.

He is actually a very responsible man, at least at this time, he didn't leave her alone and wanted to protect her.

With his ability, it is easy to run directly down the mountain, but it is unwise to fight with wild boars...

Seeing Ji Zhixu's Qiaojian figure dodging under the wild boar's fangs and giant palms, Mu Daiyao gritted her teeth and slowly approached the wild boar.

Ji Zhixu's movements gradually became difficult.

He already consumed a lot of physical energy during the day, and his eyesight at night is not as good as this beast. It is not easy to support himself, but he still has to find a way to buy time for Mu Daiyao.

But who told her that it was his wife?He is an upright man, even if he doesn't like her, he can't even protect his wife and children!
Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth, raised his javelin, and stabbed fiercely at the wild boar's eyes!

This thing is covered in mud, the only weakness is its eyeballs!

The shot stabbed steadily into the wild boar's eye, but it failed to kill it directly, but made the painful wild boar even more violent.

It shook its head fiercely, and threw Ji Zhixu and the javelin heavily onto the big tree beside Mu Daiyao.

The severe pain almost shifted Ji Zhixu's internal organs. He watched the wild boar bumping towards him and Mu Daiyao, and his heart sank. He grabbed the javelin and was about to rush out again, but he saw that he was still soft and tender just now. The wife suddenly raised a big stone with both hands, and let out a roar: "Hey... ah!"

With a loud bang, the stone hit the wild boar's head, and red and white brains splashed out immediately.

Ji Zhixu was stunned, staring at Mu Daiyao for a long time without returning to his senses.

That stone is as big as a millstone, how could she...

"Master, you..."

Mu Daiyao borrowed this huge strength from the system, smashed the wild boar to death with all her strength, and just wanted to see if Ji Zhixu was injured, when she looked at him like a ghost.

She finally realized that what she just did was a bit too shocking, she quickly rubbed her wrist and said weakly: "Msister, my hand hurts so much... that stone is so heavy, I actually lifted it just now, it must be I'm too worried about you!"

(End of this chapter)