I Own a Garden with One Hundred Herbs - Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Teaching Evil Sister-in-law a Lesson

“Hehehe, are these all… for me?” Bai Caoshi laughed, sounding like a pig. She had really done a great deed. This was a blessing. “You’re really a lucky baby.”

Little Fu Bao1, who had picked up the name, howled. Its expression was clearly smug. It used its claws to pull at the wild rabbit and chicken, as if to say, “We’re all yours.”

Bai Caoshi’s eyes darted around as she calculated. The chicken and rabbits were fine, but bringing this wolf home might cause some trouble.

She held Fu Bao’s face and rubbed it. She pouted and blew a kiss. She said with conscience, “Thank you, Fu Bao. I’ll bring the chicken and leave this wild rabbit for you. You have a big appetite, so you can’t go hungry, right?”

Fu Bao shook his head and used his front paws to climb onto Bai Caoshi’s small basket.

“Wait, are you coming home with me?”

The wolf cub nodded repeatedly. That was brilliant.

In the end, Bai Caoshi wrapped the tools in weeds and the mushrooms in rags. She threw the wolf cub and the wild rabbit into the basket on her back. She picked up the chicken on the ground and went home happily.

At dusk, the sky was dyed red with red clouds, and Bai Caoshi approached the village entrance.

Bai Caoshi smiled. Suddenly, she saw a tall figure standing under the old willow tree at the entrance of the village. He looked like an immortal, like a person who had walked out of an ancient painting.

Zhe Yu.

The chicken fell to the ground, raising a small cloud of dust.

Bai Caoshi, who had been tired all the way, touched her nose and shouted, “I’m so tired. Come and help!”

She had to show her weakness to gain sympathy. She would not really let the sickly invalid carry such heavy wild animals.

Zhe Yu walked closer, a look of disbelief in his eyes. “Did you catch this?”

Bai Caoshi blinked her beautiful, harmless eyes. “Would you believe me if I said that I have the luck of a koi fish and only waited by a tree for the chicken?”

Zhe Yu stared at the woman in front of him. From vinegar-soaked ginger to chicken, she seemed to have changed. Her originally kind and cowardly personality was now confident but staunch. As for strength, hadn’t she saved him from the mountains in the same way? “Koi luck, interesting.”

He reached out to pick up the chicken’s claws.

“You carry one wing and I’ll carry the other. It’s not tiring for a man and a woman to work together.”

Right now, his body was still very weak. Bai Caoshi could not bear to see him suffer. This was the male lead. In the future, she would be dependent on him.

The couple returned home.

“Young master, why did you come to pick me up?”

Zhe Yu didn’t want to talk about it. He was too bored and had nothing to do. He replied calmly, “I came because I wanted to.”

Oh, this casual and unruly temperament. Bai Caoshi smiled. “Let’s have an extra meal tonight. Chicken stewed with mushrooms and braised rabbit meat. Oh, no, no. With your current body, it’s not suitable for you to eat anything too greasy. You have to slowly nourish yourself.”

Zhe Yu paused for a moment and noticed the small basket on her back. It had been a fruitful day. It must have been very tiring. Wait, when he met those round eyes, Zhe Yu was shocked. This was… a wolf?

It turned out that she waited by a tree for a wolf!

After a moment of surprise, Zhe Yu regained his composure. The couple looked harmonious as they walked home.

However, there were dozy people who ruined the beautiful moment. A couple walked towards them aggressively. The woman had pearls on her hairpin and her figure was plump. She glanced at the chicken in their hands and suddenly shouted, “You’re already divorced, but you’re still thinking about the chicken at home. Have you lost your conscience?”

Bai Caoshi recognized the person in front of her at a glance. She was the daughter-in-law of the Xie family’s head, Xie Bochang— Madam Wang. She was the one who slandered the original host for having an affair with Zhe Yu and causing her death. That was why Bai Caoshi transmigrated here. She took her time and looked at Zhe Yu, implying that she had put down the chicken. She slowly approached Madam Wang and glanced at her. “Say that again.”

Madam Wang was shocked by this gaze. She kept feeling that Bai Caoshi’s gaze could pierce through her like there is a blade on her back. However, when she thought about it, one was a thin and weak widow, and the other was a sickly person who panted and coughed very often. She also had a burly husband by her side. What was there to be afraid of? “You stole the chicken at home and still dare to make a pretense here?”

Bai Caoshi’s hand moved swiftly like the wind.

Madam Wang covered her face and was triggered. Bai Caoshi had actually hit her. In the past, Bai Caoshi did not even dare to speak to her loudly.

“How dare you!” Madam Xie also raised her palm, but she was held in midair by Bai Caoshi and could not hit. However, she had already used the strength enough to chop bamboo.

“So what if I dare?” With the male protagonist by her side, Bai Caoshi grew a hundred times bolder. Her misty eyes narrowed, and a sharp glint appeared. “I have to let you know you can eat anything without permission, but can’t speak anything without permission. You have to be kind!”

Bai Caoshi slapped Madam Wang. Madam Wang staggered and a red mark appeared on her face.

Looking at Xie Bochang, who seemed to have frozen, Madam Wong roared, “What are you waiting for? She’s already bullying us.”

Xie Bochang came back to his senses and rushed up angrily, wanting to teach Bai Caoshi a lesson. Suddenly, there was a very thin sound of rushing wind. Xie Bochang’s knee was hit by a stone that came out of thin air. He knelt on one knee as if begging for mercy. He was in a tight corner.

Bai Caoshi had a plan in mind. Was this the effect of the cheat code? However, she didn’t show it on her face. “Brother Xie, if you want to apologize, there’s no need to be so polite. Just take care of your wife.”

Xie Bochang was furious. “Nonsense. What did you do?”

Bai Caoshi crossed her arms and spun around in front of him. “You call this an evil person will be tortured by another of like ilk? Don’t have any bad ideas. Although I’m kind, I’m not someone to be bullied.”

When Madam Wang saw this, she sat on the ground with her legs crossed and wailed, “Everyone, come and judge. How can someone who steals a chicken beat, someone, up? Where is the justice in this world?”

With her shout, all the villagers gathered, including Village Chief Xie and the Village Head of Whitewater Village. Madam Bai Li and Bai Xiaoshu were also there, looking at Bai Caoshi worriedly.”

Bai Caoshi ran back to Zhe Yu’s side and gave him a look. She gave a thumbs up and quickly retracted it. When she faced the villagers, she instantly turned into a harmless little white rabbit.

With a calm expression, Zhe Yu shifted his body slightly and stood in front of Bai Caoshi and the chicken.

The village chief asked about what had happened, and Bai Caoshi stood forward. “To inform the village chief and the villagers, I happened to encounter a seriously injured chicken on the mountain and brought it home. However, the daughter-in-law of the oldest son in the Xie family insisted that I stole their chicken. Alright, Madam Wong, let me ask you. Since you keep saying that the chicken belongs to your family, do you know what color it is under its stomach? Black, white, or yellow?”

Madam Wang looked at the chicken, but it was blocked by Zhe Yu. How could she tell? She braced herself and stammered, “Yellow?”

Bai Caoshi pulled Zhe Yu aside and saw that the chicken was very fat. Its crown was red, and its feathers were long. It was white under the stomach.

Village Chief Xie was looking at his son and daughter-in-law. He flicked his sleeves and left. “Get lost. You’re embarrassing yourself here.”

After the Xie family had walked far away, Village Chief Xie said sternly to Madam Wang, “In the future, if you see Bai Caoshi and her husband, avoid them!”

Madam Wang did not understand. Why?

The villagers sized up the couple. Bai Caoshi was magnanimous, and the young husband beside her was like a celestial being. They were quite compatible.

The crowd dispersed, leaving only the four members of the Bai family. Bai Xiaoshu smiled and rubbed his hands. “Sister, are you braising the chicken tonight?”