The Lucky Farmgirl

After Junior Ms. Qian finished speaking, she reached out to grab Manbao’s clothes to pull her up. As soon as she touched her, her expression involuntarily changed. She immediately pulled Manbao up for a closer look and asked angrily, "Manbao, did you go play in the water?"

"No," Manbao immediately denied, crying out, "It wasn’t playing in the water, it was the water from the tree that dripped down!"

Junior Ms. Qian wasn’t foolish; she understood as soon as she heard it and was quite angry. She dragged Manbao back to the house to change clothes and, upon coming out, gave Datou and Daya a good beating.

Datou and Daya cried out loudly, not necessarily from much pain, but they wailed extremely loudly. Manbao was so frightened that she rushed out from the house and placed herself in front of them, her eyes brimming with tears, she begged, "Sister-in-law, I was the one who shook the tree, I won’t dare to do it again."

Ms. Qian came out of the house and said, "As punishment, the two of them will go stomp on grass in the field tomorrow. If they dare to let you, their young aunt, do this kind of thing again, it won’t just be stomping on grass; they will have to take over all the household chores."

Datou and Daya weren’t really afraid when they were being beaten; they were just crying loudly. But now, with their grandmother’s words, they truly cried.

Stomping on grass was hard work. Since the Zhou family had plenty of male labor, even their mother didn’t need to do such farm work, let alone them.

Stomping on grass involved picking up the weeds that were raked up from the fields and throwing them out or stamping them into the soil to fertilize it. Now, there were not only pond snails and stones in the field but also grasshoppers.

The two children really cried.

Manbao also wanted to cry, but under her mother’s stern gaze, she dared not utter a word.

Ms. Qian coolly said to Manbao, "Your health is frail. Since you were young, I’ve taught you not to play in water, not to get rained on, not to catch cold, and not to eat all sorts of messy things from outside. If you do it again next time, I will punish the person responsible for taking care of you."