Chapter 158: Farming: Saving the Substitute Bridegroom 01

Host! Welcome back!

0731 pounced onto Jin Chen, excitedly bouncing around.

Jin Chen saw a weird creature lunging at him, he dodged back in disgust, but still couldn't get away.

You actually really used this weird creature's body.

He was bewildered.

He pinched its pink wings and took a look, his brows furrowed.

So ugly.

Ugly in a very unique way.

Even Lingduan praises me as cute! Host! Don't you think I'm cute?

0731 immediately bit the corner of Jin Chen's clothes, tears welling up.

... Cute, very cute.

Jin Chen's expression was hard to put into words.

Host! I have a request for you.

0731 still hadn't let go, maintaining the pose he had practiced over a hundred times.

Jin Chen twitched the corner of his mouth, not wanting to ask why its tears were blue or what the setting was, 'Go on.'

Now I only need 500 points, and I can successfully gain the ability to appear in the small world!

0731 wiped the blue tears from his face, 'This way I can help more...'

Okay, that works.

Jin Chen feared the unknown blue tears would stain his clothes, so he hurriedly pushed 0731 away, 'You handle it yourself.'

Thank you, Host!!

0731, having Jin Chen's promise, hurriedly exchanged.

Go to the next world.

Sure thing!

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【Beginning transmission……transmission successful.】

Jin Chen had just opened his eyes when a sharp tearing-through-the-air sound came from nearby; he didn't have time to think, quickly sidestepped to dodge, turned his head, and saw an extremely fierce wolf.

Its fur was excellent, its green pupils vicious, it snorted from its nose, and after failing to land a blow, it lunged again.

Jin Chen dodged again; not knowing the situation of this world, he feared that acting rashly might cause hidden dangers.

【0731, can you kill it?】

【Yes!】

That'll do.

Jin Chen picked up an axe from the ground, kicked off the tree trunk, spun and leapt, pressing down on the wolf and striking straight at its forehead.

It instantly lost breath and collapsed to the ground.

Only then did Jin Chen have a chance to look around.

This place seems deep in the mountains and forests, rarely visited by people, and I, wearing short clothes and hemp trousers, am alone here fighting wolves.

【Host, walk eastward ahead; that's where you live. First bring the wolf back, then I'll transmit the memories to you.】

【Hmm.】

Jin Chen dragged the wolf's leg and left the mountains and forests.

Sure enough, not long after walking, he saw a bamboo-framed small house, with tall fences erected around it, also surrounded by mountain thorns.

Jin Chen walked in, took water from the outside barrel to wash his hands clean, then entered the house.

The interior was similarly simple, but it was not hard to see signs of someone living there.

He casually found a spot to sit down.

【Let's start the transmission.】

【Sure thing, transmitting……transmission successful.】

This is an ancient world.

But unlike the previous royal power struggles, the protagonist and antagonist are just ordinary farming households.

Here there are three genders: men, women, and shu'er.

Shu'er have a male appearance but are more delicate and slender, with a vermilion dot on the forehead as their distinguishing feature.

The antagonist Yelin is a shu'er born in Fengshu Cun.

He also has an older sister, Ye Yun, who is the female lead of this world.

Ye Yun's father had once been saved by Jin Chen's father, and they had betrothed their respective children, but before the two could grow up, they both died in successive accidents.

Jin Chen, a hunter, tall and handsome with good skills, should have been the kind of man all the girls within ten miles wanted to marry, but after his father met with an accident, he also accidentally bumped into a tree and was knocked silly.

How could Ye Yun agree to marry a fool? Instead, she fell for Jin Chen's cousin Jinbei, who is the male lead of this world.

Jinbei's father, Lao San Jin, and his wife Madame Song also liked this future daughter-in-law, but Jin Chen and Ye Yun's engagement, registered at the village ancestral hall, could not be easily changed, which also reflected poorly on Ye Yun's reputation.

Thus Madame Song and the Ye family consulted together and came up with a plan.

The Ye family earlier only relied on Ye Father going up the mountain to gather medicinal herbs for money; after his death, it was as if their income source was cut off. Although they had three children—the eldest daughter could marry out to help the family, the youngest son was treasured as a gem—only the shu'er Yelin was not valued.

Thus Yelin was forced to marry in place of his sister, donning the wedding garments and going to the Jin family to marry Jin Chen.

Jin Chen, an immature simpleton, didn't understand the principles of marriage; he was good at catching game but lacked scheming, and the money he earned all went into Madame Song's pocket, while he cheerfully thought it was his uncle's family giving him a place to live in the village, otherwise he'd only be able to stay in the mountain bamboo hut.

He followed Madame Song's advice, ignoring Yelin on their wedding night, and went up to live on the mountain the next day.

Meanwhile Madame Song spread rumors in the village, saying Yelin was a lowly wretch who, instead of admitting he was taking his sister's place marrying Jin Chen, would, as soon as this new husband went up the mountain to hunt, sneak a peek at his uncle Jinbei bathing and even try to climb into his bed.

Such a mountain village in a poor, remote area places the utmost importance on the chastity of both sons and daughters and women. Madam Song said so, and they spread it by word of mouth, firmly believing it without doubt. Within a few days, the whole village knew that Yelin was a licentious person, lacking propriety, and they said Ye Yun was ill‑fated, having her marriage prospects forcibly snatched away by her own younger brother.

With this pretext, Madam Song and Old Third Jin, using the excuse of not wanting to wrong Ye Yun, had Jinbei marry her and bring her into the household.

Jinbei was a scholar who would soon take the xiucai examination; how could Ye Yun pass up the chance to become an official's wife?

But the problem was that Jinbei also took a liking to Yelin's appearance.

Jinbei forced himself on the helpless Yelin, ordered him not to speak of it, and kept it hidden from Ye Yun and everyone else, leaving Yelin nowhere to go and forced to stay in the Jin Family.

Yelin suffered endless humiliation in the Jin Family; by day he had to serve the whole household, and by night he repeatedly endured Jinbei's abuse. Finally, one day while gathering herbs on the mountain, he managed to find a few poisonous plants, steeled himself, and slipped them into the Jin Family's food.

Ye Yun ate it, and Jinbei happened to catch the evidence of the poisoning. He spent a lot of money in town treating Ye Yun, but did not report Yelin to the authorities.

Instead, he tied Yelin up in an abandoned pigpen on the mountain, a remote place that even Jin Chen rarely visited.

Sometimes when he had free time, Jinbei would go to vent his frustrations on him, bringing along leftover rice and vegetables; when he was busy, he would ignore him completely.

In less than half a month, Yelin died in the pigpen.

Meanwhile, the story of Jinbei spending a great deal of money to save his wife spread throughout the village; later he obtained an official position and became the county magistrate, and no one knew he had once killed someone.

After receiving the memories, Jin Chen furrowed his brows and opened his eyes.

This was the first time he felt that the original plot had a logical error.

【0731。】

【Hey! I'm here!】

【In the original plot, it's said that Jinbei's grades were always mediocre, so how did he suddenly manage to obtain an official position?】

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Good morning~

I've seen all of yesterday's comments!

Don't argue anymore (covering my ears) I didn't mean to make you guys argue!

In the end, I still decided not to have children—just enjoy a world for two!

Sorry to those who want to see children—this world will have more highways written in! Making it up to you~

Dear readers, enjoy the story!