Quick Transmigration: The Cannon Fodder's Comeback in the Era Tales

Chapter 82: Chapter 82: The Pitiful Girl Killed by Her Uncle 38

Some villagers couldn’t stand it anymore and glared at Zhao Wenfang, eyes blazing with anger, ”What’s wrong with you, girl? How dare you come to Xiaxi Village and bully our village girls? If you don’t want to stay in Xiaxi Village, then go back to your own home. Do you think we welcome you all here, a group of pampered young ladies who can’t lift a shoulder or carry a hand, coming to snatch food from us? We don’t welcome you.”

”Right, we don’t welcome you. You bully our village girls as soon as you arrive, do you really think rural folks are easy to push around?”

”What’s so great about you city folks anyway? Without us villagers growing crops, you’d have nothing but the cold northwest wind to drink.”

”Captain, Village Head, this girl is nothing but trouble. Our village can’t let people like her stay, can we replace her?”

”Replace her, our village should replace her.”

The villagers were indignant and demanded a replacement.

Zhao Wenfang was scared.

If she got sent back to the youth spot, she’d be marked, and might be sent to somewhere even more distant and isolated.

She couldn’t be sent back.

She started crying.

Crying pitifully, ”I... I don’t want to be replaced, boo hoo... I didn’t bully anyone, it was her...”

Lan Chen stopped her, ”Zhao Wenfang, don’t say anything else, just admit your mistake.”

”Brother Chen?” Zhao Wenfang looked at him incredulously.

She got the villagers angry because she was helping him, yet he’s asking her to admit fault, what did she do wrong?

Lan Chen pressed his lips together and advised her, ”We newcomers know nothing about the place or the people. No one will help us. If you don’t want to be replaced, hurry up and apologize.”

Explaining more would only infuriate the villagers.

Zhao Wenfang was resentful, but the circumstances pressed down on her, and she finally lowered her head and apologized to the villagers, and to Liu Yuzhu.

Liu Yuzhu instantly puffed up like a victorious rooster, head held high and chest out, ”Since you’ve admitted your mistake and apologized, I won’t hold it against you. If you wish to stay at my place, for this esteemed Lan Chen’s sake, I’ll halve your rent to fifty cents per person per month.”

The villagers’ houses weren’t offered to the youth for free, collecting fifty cents a month was already very cheap.

The other two female youths beside Zhao Wenfang exchanged a look, then handed fifty cents to Liu Yuzhu, ”We’re going to stay at your place, but we plan to cook for ourselves.”

”Alright, suit yourselves. My house’s two spare rooms don’t have fire beds, I’ll have my father set one up for you tomorrow. We’ll just set up a small stove next to the fire bed; you buy a small iron pot to cook on the little stove.”

Liu Yuzhu received one yuan and felt elated, readily agreeing to the requests of her two tenants.

The other three male youths saw this and each handed her fifty cents, ”Then we’ll rent the other room, but we can’t cook.”

Liu Yuzhu’s eyes lit up, ”Then you can eat with us, but food costs and firewood costs are extra—five yuan a month, and I’ll make sure you get an egg every day.”

Five yuan each, totaling fifteen yuan a month.

And they paid on the spot.

Liu Yuzhu clutched the stack of money, smiling so wide her eyes were just slits.

”Comrade Liu Yuzhu, we’re staying at your place too.” Suddenly, Lan Chen also handed over rent and food money, leaving Zhao Wenfang with no choice but to pay her rent as well.

Liu Yuzhu took the money with a heart pounding like a drum, her face flushed with excitement.

But her skin was so dark, no one noticed.

Only Yuan Chun noticed.

Yuan Chun curled his lips into a smile.