Exile? A mad, wicked woman empties the national treasury to escape famine.

"What do you mean? You really won't lend it to me? It's just a pickaxe, don't be so stingy."

If everyone else can catch fish, why can't we?

I only asked to borrow your pickaxe, I didn't say I wanted you to give us the fish directly. I've raised you for so many years, don't be so ungrateful!

"You won't even lend us your things, have you no conscience?!"

These same words again!

Ji Yunshu picked at her ears; she was so tired of hearing those words that they were practically calloused.

"Hmph, my conscience is perfectly fine, but your consciences must have been eaten by dogs! Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten to this point!"

No matter what you say today, you won't be able to touch my pickaxe!

Okay, I have my own things to do. If you have nothing better to do, don't come near me and interrupt my work!

After Ji Yunshu finished speaking, she glared at Aunt Zhu and shouted coldly.

"roll!"

Aunt Zhu originally wanted to take advantage of the large number of people to give Ji Yunshu a good scolding, but Ji Yunshu glared at her and shouted, which instantly triggered her memories.

Thinking about what Ji Yunshu had done along the way, she felt her scalp tingling.

Her intuition told her that Ji Yunshu's gaze indicated she was angry!

If I keep pestering her, I'm afraid I'll get another lesson from her in the next second!

Thinking of this, Aunt Zhu's nose tingled, she shrank her neck, and her voice softened.

"Yunshu, we're all family. Don't be so ruthless. It's just a pickaxe. I won't let you give us the fish, but you can lend me the pickaxe, and I'll..."

"I told you, get out!"

Faced with Aunt Zhu's feigned tearful appearance, Ji Yunshu didn't bother to say a word.

Others might not understand Aunt Zhu's character, but she did.

Don't be fooled by Aunt Zhu's show of weakness now; she's probably cursing her in her heart.

She couldn't muster even a shred of sympathy for this kind of person.

She had said before that whether Consort Zhu and Minister Ji lived or died was none of her business.

Given what Aunt Zhu and Old Man Ji had done to her in the past, the fact that she didn't send them straight to their deaths already shows how kind she was.

This was only because Old Man Ji was the original owner's biological father. If he weren't, she would have sent him to meet the King of Hell long ago.

Faced with Ji Yunshu's piercing gaze, Aunt Zhu shrank back, feeling somewhat frightened.

When Ji Yunshu goes berserk, she doesn't care about anything else. Aunt Zhu is also worried that if she says a few more words, Ji Yunshu will really disregard everything and beat her up in front of so many people. In that case, she will really suffer a loss.

Ji Yunshu is really capable of doing something like this.

Aunt Zhu cursed Ji Yunshu from head to toe in her heart, but forced a smile on her face and said awkwardly:

"If you don't want to lend it, then don't. Why are you being so fierce? It's just a piece of metal. I... I'll go back and talk to your dad. We should be able to find a way. If you don't want to lend it, then don't..."

Aunt Zhu spoke softer and softer. Startled by Ji Yunshu's gaze, she took several steps back, her smile becoming even more awkward.

A moment later, disregarding whether the people around her were watching her, she slowly turned around, glanced at the shore, and quickly ran towards her home.

Where Ji Yunshu couldn't see, Aunt Zhu's face instantly turned cold.

He gritted his teeth, his fists clenched tightly in his sleeves, his whole body tense.

"Damn Ji Yunshu, damn Ji Yunshu, so heartless, so incredibly heartless, you little bitch! It's just fishing, isn't it?"

Do you really think I have no other options?

"Anjia Village is so big, I refuse to believe I can't find a way to catch fish. Once I do, I'll catch all the fish in this entire river!"

Recalling how Ji Yunshu had humiliated her just now, Aunt Zhu's face turned red, and she wished she could find a hole to crawl into.

She was, after all, Ji Yunshu's elder, yet Ji Yunshu told her to get out in front of so many people!

She didn't give her any face at all, that damned Ji Yunshu!

She really wanted to strangle Ji Yunshu right now.

It's just fishing, isn't it?

She refused to believe that Ji Yunshu and the others could catch it, but she couldn't. She had plenty of ways to catch it when she got back!

If Ji Yunshu tries to stop her from fishing again, she won't let Ji Yunshu get away with it!

On the river, everyone was still enthusiastically chiseling away at the ice, chatting and laughing.

Before long, the miners had caught more than a dozen fish, each one big and fat.

They used bamboo spears, and every time they speared a fish, the other fish would be startled and scatter under the ice, making the entire area under the ice incredibly lively.

Only where Ji Yunshu and the others were located was a little quieter. The fish, unable to find anywhere else to go, all swam to the vicinity of the pond that Ji Yunshu and the others had surrounded.

Ji Yunshu's fishing net already contained a lot of fish, and it was still getting more and more in.

Seeing this, Xiao Lan was overjoyed and quickly ran to Ji Yunshu's side, pulling her to the edge of the pond.

"Third sister-in-law, third sister-in-law, look! Look at those fish! They've all run into our pond by themselves!"

This pond is teeming with fish, and fish have even swarmed into the other two ponds. Hahahaha, this is wonderful!

They didn't have to exert any effort at all, and the fish just swam into their nets on their own. Xiao Lan felt like she had won the lottery.

Everyone in the Prince's mansion smiled when they saw this.

Ji Yunshu really made the right choice with this fishing net; she caught so many fish without lifting a finger!

Just then, the fishing nets on the Chen family's side were also finished being woven.

Wang Rong was near the ice cave, constantly smashing it to make it bigger. After the fishing net was woven, his ice cave was almost finished.

Wang Rong wasn't greedy. There were only two people in his family, him and his mother. The ice hole he carved wasn't big, and he was very careful when he was carving it, trying his best not to disturb the fish.

After he widened the ice cave, many fish appeared inside. The fish were not frightened; instead, they poked their heads out of the ice cave.

Upon seeing this, Wang Rong was so nervous that he almost stopped breathing. He hadn't seen a fish in a very, very long time.

I never imagined that I would actually be able to catch fish in the river in the dead of winter; it was truly unbelievable.

They've lived in this place of exile for many years, and they've never heard of anyone managing to catch fish from the river in winter.

He excitedly waved to his mother.

"Mom, quick! Come and see! It really is! There are fish! We can have fish to eat now!"