After returning from my cultivation journey, I built a farm through fortune telling.

Chapter 149

"Uncle Aqiu, please sit down and enjoy the food!"

Bai Chen, with a stern face, pulled the man up and shoved him aside, causing Bai Qiu, who had just been pulled up, to fall back into the ditch.

Bai Qiu braced himself on the ground, his face appearing exceptionally pale in the moonlight—if you walk by the river long enough, you're bound to get your shoes wet. It's over; after stealing so many times, he's finally been discovered.

He braced himself against the muddy ground and stood up casually: "Hey—it's Xiaolu and Xiaochen! You scared your uncle half to death! Why are you still here so late? Go back to sleep, early to bed and early to rise makes you healthy!"

"It's my land, we can come anytime. But what are you doing? Are you here to take a dump?"

Bai Chen spoke sarcastically, then kicked over the two large bags of vegetables next to him, and the fresh, green vegetables rolled out, covered in dirt.

"Hey, watch out!"

Bai Qiu was heartbroken and wanted to pick them up, but Bai Chen stopped him, raising an eyebrow at him. Bai Qiu smiled awkwardly, trying to hide his embarrassment: "Xiao Chen, you know about my uncle's situation. We've been short of vegetables lately, so we were thinking of borrowing a few from you..."

Bai Lu interrupted him, her tone slightly mocking: "Borrow? Do you need to bring two big plastic bags to borrow vegetables? Your way of 'borrowing' is quite unique."

"Just a little bit, hehe... lend me just a little bit..."

"A little bit? You're telling me this is a little bit?" Bai Chen almost laughed in anger: "You know our vegetables sell for thirty yuan a pound, right? These two big bags, plus the ones you picked but didn't have time to pack, weigh at least a hundred pounds. A hundred pounds is worth three thousand yuan, enough to file a case."

"What case? Who are you trying to scare? You think you can file a case?! You think you can get the police to arrest me for taking two of your vegetables? Bai Chen, let me tell you, I'm your elder, from the same household. Even your dad has to call me 'brother' when he comes. And you think you can file a case?! You think you're so great!" Bai Qiu had never taken these two "kids" seriously. At first, he was thinking of taking it easy and getting away with it, but when he found that Bai Chen wasn't buying it, he simply stopped pretending. He even tried to push Bai Chen away, pick up the vegetables, and leave, but he found that he couldn't move him at all. The tall, big young man was like a mountain, completely unmoving.

He got even angrier: "Get out of the way! Otherwise, if I lie on the ground, you can't just fob me off with two bags of lousy vegetables!"

When many people mention the countryside, they subconsciously think of the word "simple and honest." But Bai Lu grew up in the countryside, and she admits that simplicity and honesty are the most common traits. However, what impressed her most were "ignorance" and "unruly behavior."

There's an old saying: "Bad people come from poor and remote areas."

Upon closer examination, it makes perfect sense.

Because of limited education in rural areas, people are already instinctively "calculating" in order to make a living, and not being greedy for small gains is considered a sign of high moral character.

Qin Xiu was like that. Her generosity was only shown in giving away some worthless things, such as vegetable seedlings and melon vines grown from two yuan's worth of seeds, pickled vegetables, dried vegetables, and dried sweet potatoes. She would give away as many as she could without feeling bad. But if anyone dared to steal one of her chickens, she would curse them from one end of the village to the other, and she would not give up until she found the chicken thief.

Bethune is the finest among them.

He was the one who stole vegetables from someone's field in the dead of night, yet he still tried to turn the tables on them. You won't find another person with a face as big as his in Dongshi Village.

(End of this chapter)