Siheyuan: Relieve stress and relieve worries

Chapter 1249 Summer Mishaps
The west bedroom in the early morning is warm and elegant.

"Tell me, did you lie to me too?" Ugly Girl blinked her big eyes, squatted on a stool, and looked at Kournikova on the bed.

Kournikova didn't want to pay any attention to her; she was unfairly beaten.

"You lied to Grandma saying you were going to study, and then you went to learn to cook, didn't you? I knew it." Ugly Girl seemed to have discovered a big secret and wasn't going to let him off the hook.

“No, I was forced. I studied, but I didn’t learn to cook,” Kournikova shouted.

"Keep being stubborn. I'll go get a bucket of salt water and soak the rattan in it. Maybe we can use it tonight." Ugly Girl jumped off the stool and walked out.

Kournikova was on the verge of tears. What kind of sister was this? She couldn't stay here any longer.

Kournikova rolled off the bed, quietly opened the door, and just as she turned around...

"Bring Daben along, he doesn't seem to have eaten anything." Grandma's voice came from inside the house.

As I walked to the gate, I saw Da Ben following me listlessly.

Kournikova looked at it and said, "Serves you right for being so cocky. You've been taking baths so much that you can't even eat. You're the dumbest cow ever."

"Hey, you too, can't you go out and find something to eat yourself? Um... I'll teach you how to open the door when we get back."

The man and the ox headed straight into the mist.

The fog was thick, and only the Mercedes knew the way. Kournikova wisely closed her eyes and lay down on the cow's back.

"Bang" a loud noise.

Kournikova opened her eyes and said, "Every time I come, I won't appear unless there's some kind of commotion."

The Mercedes was eating voraciously; it was truly hungry.

Baishan Town

Bai Nanshan sat in the upper left seat, holding a teacup and blowing on the tea leaves one sip at a time.

Ouyang Zheng and the Chief Warrior sat opposite each other, drinking tea. Ouyang Ziyi looked at the Chief Warrior, then at Bai Nanshan, lost in thought.

Bai Nanshan spoke up, "You two have been here for varying lengths of time. Today, we are in the midst of the imperial examination. If we delay any longer, rumors may spread, which would be detrimental to both of us."

The captain of the samurai looked at Bai Nanshan and said, "I just arrived."

Ouyang Zheng said, "He just arrived and he's already knocking on the widow's door."

The samurai captain got angry and retorted, "Who knocked on the widow's door? Is she a widow? She's visiting an old acquaintance."

"Do you have an old acquaintance with Madam Sun?" Ouyang Zheng asked.

"No, no, don't talk nonsense." The captain of the samurai was incoherent; he missed Wu Yi.

"The sword case?" Ouyang Zheng suddenly said.

The samurai captain calmed himself down and said, "Yes."

Ouyang Zheng said, "I'll help you get the box, and you help me get the person."

"No!" the samurai captain blurted out.

"Who is it?" Bai Nanshan interjected.

"None of your business!" the two said in unison.

After a brief silence, the samurai chieftain said, "Let's talk outside."

After that, the Wu and Ouyang families disappeared from Baishan Town.

Bai Nanshan gazed in the direction of Beizhou City and muttered, "Why go so far if you're just going out?"

Xishan Canyon
Birds chirped softly in the misty morning. When Kournikova woke up, it was still dark.

He's now terrified of Ugly Girl and Linglong. When he woke up yesterday, it felt like he was swimming in a duck's nest. Ugly Girl was shouting with a spray bottle, spraying as she shouted, and Linglong was repeating every single one of Ugly Girl's actions, all with great expression.

Good food is a must, so after a quick tidy-up, I headed to the kitchen. Today I'm going to make duck blood and vermicelli soup, roast duck, mustard duck feet, and spicy duck heads.

The meal was ready. After washing up, I called out, "Dinner's ready!"

When Grandma came out, she looked at the table and asked, "Do you have a grudge against ducks?"

“I have a grudge against my two little ducks,” Kournikova replied.

Ugly Girl came over, followed by Linglong, who was dressed exactly like her. "When did we start raising ducklings? Ducklings are so cute," Ugly Girl said.

As she spoke, she mimed a duck spreading its wings and called out "Little duck, quack quack." Just as Linglong was about to imitate her, she heard Kova's voice.

“They’re all on the table,” Kournikova said ominously. “Kill two more tomorrow, and let them wake me up whenever they want.”

Linglong and Chou Niu looked at each other and quickly said, "We never wake people up, starting today."

Grandma laughed so hard she could hardly breathe, and quickly said, "Dinner's ready!"

While eating, Grandma said, "It's been quite quiet these past few days. Do you want to go back and check on things?"

"Okay, let's go back and see if Li Daniu has run away." Kova had just eaten wasabi duck feet and was looking for water everywhere.

Niu Niu handed over the water and said to Kourva, "We can't let anyone take over our ancestral home."

Kourva was taken aback. "Where is our ancestral home?" she asked, looking at her grandmother with a questioning gaze.

“That’s not our ancestral home. If you dare say it is, Aunt Ba will hang herself at the gate of that courtyard tomorrow. Our ancestral home is in heaven,” Grandma said.

This time, the adult and the two children all looked up at the sky. Ugly Girl was the first to react and proudly said, "The places where the sun shines are my ancestral home."

Kournikova was stunned, her heart churning with emotions. She had just started thinking that she might be the queen, but before she could think any further...

Grandma said, "A place where our ancestors live is called our ancestral home."

Linglong asked, "Where are our ancestors?"

Grandma stopped eating, threw down her chopsticks, and said, "They're all dead."

Kournikova and Ugly Girl were sweating profusely when Linglong asked again, "What does that have to do with the sky?"

Grandma's angry roar came, "Take Linglong away from me, I don't want to see her today."

Ugly Girl thought for a moment, then burst into tears, shouting, "I'm all alone again, Grandma, you did this on purpose!"

The sun was warm, and there were few passersby.

On Xizhen Road, a man, a cow, and an imposter ugly woman slowly moved towards Baishan Town.

As soon as we entered the town, we could see a crowd gathered at the entrance of West Tenth Alley from afar.

Kova's heart skipped a beat. Leading the cow, she slowly approached, but before she got close, she heard Li Daniu's voice.

"My liver was freshly harvested this morning, so why are you saying I have a dirty heart and rotten lungs?" Li Daniu roared.

Manager Zhao shouted loudly, "Your food made my customer sick, what else can you call that but being filthy-hearted and rotten?"

Li Daniu, his face flushed and neck thick, said, "I sold you pig liver this morning, not your heart and lungs."

"It's your liver, your rotten heart and lungs, that made me lose money," Manager Zhao said urgently.

"Wait a minute, you two, it's my companion who has diarrhea. I haven't even asked you to pay for it yet. Why are you two so agitated?" said a chubby man dressed in short clothes.

Manager Zhao bowed and scraped, saying, "I'm worried about my customer. Diarrhea is so dangerous."

“You’re trying to shirk responsibility and run away first,” Li Daniu retorted without giving an inch.

The fat man said, "My companion just went to the outhouse. Manager Zhao, is it really necessary? Do I owe you any money?"

Manager Zhao remained calm and composed, smiling broadly as he said, "No, Commander Wang, you haven't been to Dongzhou much, and you only owe fifty-three taels of silver."

Wang Weizhang was furious and shouted, "What do you mean? Huh? It's just that I owe you some money. Is it really necessary to call everyone from the west side of the town here so early in the morning?"

Li Daniu was also furious, "Old Zhao, you're using me as a pawn, aren't you?"

Manager Zhao said calmly, "I was just reminding you to pay attention to hygiene in advance. Guard Zhao, I was also reminding you in advance that you should pay back the money. The imperial entourage should be entering the town this afternoon, right? I heard that the eldest princess is coming."

Wang Weizhang shuddered and said, "Here, I'll give it to you right away. I have to wait for my companion who needs to use the outhouse."

Li Daniu said slowly, "Your companion jumped over the back wall of my house and ran away."

Fatty Wang wilted, took out some silver, handed it to Manager Zhao, and said before leaving, "It's not like we're being tested every day."

"After the assessment, we don't even know if Baishan Town will exist," Manager Zhao said dismissively.

Wang Weizhang ran away in terror.

(End of this chapter)