After being exiled, she married a rough man, and the sickly beauty was spoiled

He Zhan pointed his finger at Song Huiling's forehead and gently pushed her away. Suddenly, he chuckled, "Fairies all drink dew. Have you ever seen a fairy who eats as much as you? You might as well be raised like a pig."

Song Huiling's face darkened and she glared at He Zhan fiercely.

So angry! Can someone come and beat him to death?

With the clothes thrown to her by He Zhan, she was no longer scratched by thorns on the way up the mountain.

But she covered her head tightly and did not see He Zhan carrying her on his back with one hand and breaking off the thorny branches blocking his way with the other hand.

Considering the convenience of transportation, the group decided to cut the pine wood as close to the foot of the mountain as possible.

The two brothers of the Zheng family took the lead and walked and picked in front, and finally chose a pine tree with a straight trunk halfway up the mountain.

Song Huiling stood under the tree and raised his hand to touch it. The trunk was thick and the bark was rough. The cracks in the bark were deep and hard. He estimated that it was a pine tree that was at least fifteen years old. The trees around it were not too dense, so it was easy to fell it.

He Zhan took out a carp saw, a hatchet and two bundles of hemp ropes from the backpack. Song Huiling took the backpack and prepared to dig wild vegetables.

He Zhan thought that the two Zheng brothers had just finished their farm work, so he let them take a rest first. He and A'mo first cut down the tree and trimmed the branches.

The carp saw is a long saw board that is narrow on both sides and wide in the middle. The teeth on the saw blade are triangular in shape and cross each other outward. The gap formed by the upper and lower rows of teeth can prevent the saw blade from getting stuck in the tree and can also remove excess wood chips.

The cuts left by felling a tree with a carp saw are smooth and save wood compared to felling a tree with an axe. However, an axe can be operated by one person, while a carp saw requires two people to use it together.

He Zhan and A'mo grabbed the handles on both ends of the saw board, stood under the tree, and started cutting down the pine wood.

After they started, Song Huiling carried a basket on his back and went around looking for wild vegetables.

He Zhan was worried when he saw Song Huiling walking away, so he asked the Zheng brothers, "Second brother Zheng, Third brother Zheng, my wife is from Beijing and has no experience living in the mountains. I would like to trouble you two to help keep an eye on her, so that she doesn't pick poisonous weeds by mistake and kill our whole family."

Song Huiling hadn't walked far when she heard He Zhan's words. She slipped and almost fell.

Turning back, she glanced at him resentfully: "I wish I could identify poisonous weeds so I can kill you, a man with such a poisonous tongue!"

The two Zheng brothers looked at each other and laughed out loud.

Originally, Song Huiling wanted to dig wild vegetables by herself, but the two brothers of the Zheng family actually believed what He Zhan said and thought she was someone who didn't know wild grasses and vegetables. The two brothers started working and soon filled her small backpack.

In addition to the wind-cold grass that was used to boil water for Yang to drink, the two Zheng brothers also dug up some wild vegetables they could find around, such as wild water chestnuts, mustard greens, dandelions, purslane, and mouse ears. They even climbed up the Chinese toon tree and picked a handful of fresh young toon buds for her.

Song Huiling felt a little embarrassed. All the work had been done by others, and she was really here just to join in the fun.

"I'm really sorry, brothers. I wanted to let you rest, but now you can't."

Zheng Quanshui smiled cheerfully: "It's no big deal. We farmers have plenty of strength. It's just digging some wild vegetables. It won't take much effort."

The wild vegetables were dug here and the trees over there had not been felled yet. Song Huiling put down the backpack and sat aside to watch He Zhan and A'mo cut down the trees.

A'mo probably had never done this kind of work properly before, so his movements were a bit clumsy, and he and He Zhan didn't have much chemistry.

In order to get down the mountain faster, Zheng Quanchuan went up and pushed A'mo down.

Half an hour later, the bottom of the tree trunk was about to be sawed through, and Zheng Quanshui shouted: "The tree is going to fall! The tree is going to fall!"

When hearing something is about to fall, the first reaction is to run. This is deeply engraved in Song Huiling's body.

She stood up suddenly and ran to the side, but accidentally tripped over a broken branch on the ground, and her thin body flew out like a kite with a broken string.

As she fell, the felled pine trees also came crashing down.

He Zhan came over and picked her up from the ground, lowered his voice and scolded her harshly: "The tree is not falling towards you, why are you running?"

Water mist surged up, and when Song Huiling raised his face again, his eyes were wet. He rubbed his knees and said in pain, "My brain is having a seizure..."

He Zhan's eyes darkened, and he picked up Song Huiling and carried him horizontally towards the depths of the woods.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Song Huiling grabbed his collar with her small hands, a little at a loss.

He Zhan turned around and said to the people behind him: "Second brother, third brother, please saw off the end of the tree and trim the branches. My wife is injured. I will take her to see a doctor."

The answer came: "Don't worry, brother, leave this to us."

He Zhan walked towards the woods behind him and gradually disappeared from the sight of the three people behind him.

Song Huiling buried herself in He Zhan's arms, too embarrassed to raise her head. Her face was as red as a cooked shrimp. She said in a muffled voice, "Why would I go so deep if I have nothing to do? If someone doesn't know, they would think you were going to do something bad."

He Zhan put her down, put his hands under her armpits, and lifted her up easily, sitting her on a protruding flat rock. He knelt on one knee, looked up at her, and raised a malicious smile: "Then what do you think your husband is going to do?"

Song Huiling was stumped by the question and shrank his neck without saying a word.

He Zhan grabbed her feet, held her slender ankle with one hand, and tried to take off her embroidered shoes with the other hand.

"Don't--" Song Huiling stretched out her hand to stop him.

He Zhan glanced at her sharply and said, "Don't move! Otherwise I'll break your legs."

Song Huiling got scared, slowly retracted her hand, lowered her eyes and stared at He Zhan.

He Zhan took off Song Huiling's embroidered shoes and her silk stockings, revealing a small white foot with a small red and swollen spot on the instep.

He raised his thumb and pressed it on the red swelling: "Why are you so delicate? You got swollen just by tripping over a branch."

The rough fingertips gently massaged the instep of her feet in circles. Song Huiling's heart beat fast and her fair toes curled up unconsciously.

Damn! She is really open-minded but conservative in behavior.

Just when He Zhan pressed his foot, he felt like his whole body was burning.

After massaging Song Huiling's instep for a while, He Zhan pushed her trouser legs up to look at her knees.

Song Huiling couldn't stand this torture and raised her hand to block it: "Don't press here, it doesn't hurt, it really doesn't hurt at all!"

Although she and He Zhan were married, they were at most a couple who were not familiar with each other. He Zhan's behavior really made her unable to cope.

He Zhan saw Song Huiling's panic and embarrassment.

His deep eyes locked onto hers, and his deep voice was filled with laughter: "You can't even bear a touch on your knee? What will you do if I touch you somewhere else in the future?"