After wearing it: I traded a pig for a man.

"When I was a child, I stayed in the old house for a few days. There were rats in the woodshed, so I couldn't sleep. Every night around this time, I would get up to go to the outhouse."

At the time, the original owner had asked Jiang Mancang's wife and learned that he had developed a habit of getting up at night, and that he had to get up once or twice a day.

The closer they got to the old house, the quieter their movements became.

After waiting for a long time, there was still no movement coming from the courtyard.

Just as they were thinking about how to lure the person out tomorrow, the creaking sound of a wooden door came from the courtyard.

Then came the sound of slow, shuffling footsteps.

In the courtyard, Jiang Mancang had finished using the outhouse and was preparing to go back to sleep.

Jiang Yuning reached out and gently knocked on the door a few times. The sound was faint, but enough to attract Jiang Mancang's attention.

"Who?" he asked, scratching his head in confusion.

It's so late, there shouldn't be anyone around.

Jiang Yun Ning held his breath and gripped the stick tightly in his hand.

The courtyard was quiet. Jiang Mancang thought he had misheard and was about to turn back when he heard the sound of the door lock.

Somewhat puzzled, he picked up the hoe from the corner of the wall and carefully approached.

Hearing the noise, Jiang Che gestured to Jiang Yun Ning that he was approaching.

Jiang Yun Ning nodded and opened her mouth to imitate a sheep's bleat: "Baa~"

Jiang Mancang's eyes lit up.

Whose sheep escaped in the middle of the night?

Get rich!

He hurriedly opened the door, but fearing that making too much noise would scare the sheep away, he could only move very quietly.

The door opened, and Jiang Mancang eagerly poked his head out.

Jiang Yuning smashed a stick on his head. In the last second before he fainted, his eyes rolled back and he tried to look up to see who it was, but Jiang Che's sack had already covered him completely.

The two dragged Jiang Mancang to the big willow tree at the village entrance, a place usually bustling with people. This way, he could be seen sooner tomorrow.

"Tear his clothes open and tickle his chest a few times," Jiang Yun Ning said, reaching out to pull Jiang Man Cang's clothes.

She wanted to create the illusion that Jiang Mancang had been kicked out for having an affair. Even if there was no actual harm, the rumors would still annoy him to death.

Jiang Che frowned, and seeing that her hand was about to touch Jiang Mancang's chest, he quickly reached out to stop her. "I'll do it."

Despite some disapproval, it was impossible to let Jiang Yun Ning, a woman, strip Jiang Man Cang's clothes off.

He pursed his lips, used only two fingers to loosen Jiang Mancang's belt and tug at it haphazardly, grabbing it a few times before quickly letting go.

The hand that had touched Jiang Mancang rubbed back and forth on his pants a few times.

Jiang Yun Ning nodded in satisfaction, then raised his leg and kicked Jiang Man Cang hard in the groin.

"You bastard." She's petty and holds grudges. "You dare hit my mother and my nephew?"

Jiang Che felt a tightness in his crotch and took a small step back.

A warning popped into his mind: Never offend Jiang Yunning.

She never cared whether the methods were insidious or not; she only cared about her own comfort.

After another flurry of activity, the two left behind their tools and went home.

Everything happened silently.

The next morning, villagers who got up early to cut pig feed found Jiang Mancang lying on the ground at the village entrance. He had a cut on his head, but it looked like the bleeding had been stopped.

The surrounding area was noisy, and most of the villagers were there to watch the spectacle.

Naturally, Jiang Yunning and Jiang Che, the two instigators, were also involved.

Jiang Mancang had already been woken up and was still in a daze, not knowing how he ended up lying at the village entrance all night.

"Jiang Mancang." The village head looked at his open clothes with displeasure, which bore several scratch marks. "What happened to you? Did you drink too much tonight?"

"Isn't it because you're afraid the widow's bed will be beaten in the middle of the night?" Zhang Sangou was always outspoken, and the more he looked at Jiang Mancang, the more he seemed to think so.

"Nonsense." Jiang Mancang's face turned bright red, and he shook his head before realizing it hurt a little.

When I reached out and touched it, I found a hole in my head, and the blood had dried.

"Village head! I've been beaten! My head is broken! You must catch the culprit! I'm going to report this to the authorities!" he shouted, but it was just a bluff.

Actually, I was terrified.

Who did he offend? How could someone beat him up like this in the middle of the night?

"Oh." Jiang Yun Ning crossed her arms and looked down at him condescendingly. "What's wrong? It's just a cut, is it really that serious?"

Jiang Mancang was stunned. Wasn't that what he said yesterday?

Jiang Yunning shut him up with his words.

Without even thinking, Jiang Mancang knew that it was very likely Jiang Yunning who was behind it.

Suddenly, he remembered the bleating of a sheep before he lost consciousness.

"Damn it." Jiang Mancang realized he'd been tricked. "Jiang Yunning! It must have been you!"

Jiang Yun Ning simply looked at him without saying a word.

Jiang Mancang looked at her: "It's no use denying it; I'm going to report it to the authorities!"

"Go ahead and go." Jiang Yun Ning wasn't afraid at all. "Then you can just say that I was angry because you stole silver from my house, and that you injured my mother and An He during the theft. So I went to your house in the middle of the night, dragged you out, and beat you up."

Jiang Mancang's expression had changed.

With this announcement, it seems likely that it won't be Jiang Yun Ning who goes in, but rather he himself.

"Let's see how the magistrate decides." Jiang Yun Ning gave him a mocking look, then pulled Jiang Che away.

"Jiang Mancang," the village head said with a disappointed look, "It's one thing for you to be malicious, but don't assume others are so malicious too."

"Exactly. The Jiang family is a very honest and kind family. They wouldn't do something like this."

Zhang Sangou was also amused. He had been holding a grudge against Jiang Mancang for tricking him into selling cicada nymphs at Baiweixuan last time. Now that he finally had a chance, he naturally wasn't going to let it go.

"Jiang Mancang, I'm not trying to be mean, but Jiang Yunning is the kind of person who would just walk into your house with a kitchen knife. If he really wanted revenge, would he need to do it secretly?"

He looked at Jiang Mancang's crotch with a mocking gaze: "I remember, you were scared to death last time, weren't you?"

As soon as Zhang Sangou said that, everyone around him immediately remembered.

The look of disgust and contempt in their eyes left Jiang Mancang feeling utterly helpless and with nowhere to hide.

"He's definitely cheating on me. Look at his clothes, tsk tsk."

"Exactly, they still won't admit it."

"Hmph." Jiang Mancang couldn't stay any longer, so he covered his head and ran home.

I was just wondering why my groin area was hurting so badly.

Jiang Yuning, who had just finished watching the commotion, was unaware that because of Jiang Laosan's honest and simple image, and because of her own impetuous and reckless act of rushing into the old house with a kitchen knife last time, she had completely cleared herself of any suspicion in the eyes of the villagers.

The next day, Jiang Yuning took two more baskets of tomatoes to the county town. Halfway there, he took two more baskets out of his spatial storage and put them on the truck.

In order to travel alone today, she specially learned how to drive an oxcart.

After delivering the tomatoes, I went to pay the taxes.

Then they went straight to the grain store, filled the truck, and found a deserted alley to store the ingredients into their spatial storage.

Then they switched to another company and repeated the process.

The rice, flour, and cooking oil cost fifty or sixty taels, enough to feed the whole family for two or three years. A full year's supply of various meats, vegetables, sugar, and salt was also prepared.

They carefully checked for any missing items and bought some clothes and bedding, spending over a hundred taels of silver in one go.

When they reached the city gate guard post, they encountered Wang Dahe, who was on duty.

"Brother Wang." Jiang Yun Ning waved and jumped off the oxcart.

"Yun Ning, little girl." Wang Dahe's stern face broke into a smile.

"Could you bring me a few more pounds of the tomatoes you brought last time? The tomato and egg stir-fry you mentioned will make my kids eat two more bowls of rice." He was so happy that his eyes almost squinted into slits.

Jiang Yunning nodded: "Okay. I'll bring more next time."

Wang Dahe glanced at her suspiciously: "You came alone?"

"Yes." Jiang Yun Ning nodded.

"Don't come alone next time." Wang Dahe looked around and, seeing that no one was paying attention, he approached.