Male Lead's Canon Fodder Wife

Hearing her daughter's request, Lu Jueyu chuckled and said, "Alright. Mother will make more snacks for you and your friends."

Sitting near the stove, Dong Huang grinned and said, "Mother, I also want some roasted sweet potatoes."

"Okay, we will roast them after we finish cooking," Lu Jueyu replied with a smile.

Hearing this, Dong Huang clapped and said, "Thank you, Mother!"

Today, Lu Jueyu prepared chicken noodles, scallion pancakes, tea eggs, and soymilk for breakfast.

For the snacks, she made more scallion pancakes and added some meat and vegetable fillings. The amount of meat she added was less than usual so as not to attract too much suspicion.

When she was done cooking, she removed the firewood from the stove and extinguished the fire, leaving only some embers in the stove.

She washed several sweet potatoes and buried them under the embers. When they finished their breakfast, the roasted sweet potatoes should be ready.

Not long after they finished preparing breakfast, Dong Li and Li Chenmo returned from the pigpens. After the two of them took a quick shower, the family ate together.

When they were done, Li Chenmo and the children went to change their clothes into work clothes. Their work clothes were made using hemp fabric on the outside, while the inner layer used soft cotton fabric.

Using two layers of fabric with different softness would protect their skin from rashes and scratches. As for the hemp fabric, it was durable and fit for farmland work. Wearing these clothes wouldn't raise people's suspicions.

While the father and children were changing clothes, Lu Jueyu was packing their snacks and honey water in the kitchen. When she walked to the living room, she saw them already waiting there.

Handing over the bamboo baskets to her husband, she said, "Husband, be careful when you work."

Nodding at his wife's words, Li Chenmo said, "I will take good care of myself and the children."

"Okay."

When they left the house, the sun had just risen on the eastern horizon. Today, not only Li Chenmo and his children went to help, even some villagers who had a good relationship with Chen Gang came over.

While it was a good thing to have more people come help them repair the house and plant vegetables, they had to prepare more food and water.

For the Wei family, it wasn't a problem to cook more. The problem was that no one knew how to cook in their family.

Before their family fell from grace, they had hired a nanny, a cook, a housekeeper, and several helpers at home. With others cooking and cleaning the house, they never did the work themselves.

While they could learn how to clean the house and take care of the crops and chickens, they couldn't learn how to cook without someone teaching them.

Therefore, when Wei Zhiying saw so many people come today, she was panicking inwardly. It was not until she saw Wu Yahui come over with some women that she heaved a sigh of relief.

After living together for more than a month, her relationship with her second sister-in-law was closer than before.

Walking over, she held her second sister-in-law's arm and said, "Second sister-in-law, you are finally here. I thought you wouldn't come today."

Wu Yahui chuckled when she noticed her eldest sister-in-law's expression. The two of them were the same age, so it was easier for them to understand each other's thoughts.

Patting her hand, she replied, "I knew that there would be lots of people coming to help today, so I went to invite several friends to help out with cooking."

Hearing this, Wei Zhiying smiled at the women and said, "Sisters-in-law, thank you for coming over to help. I'm sorry for bothering you all with my family's matter."

At first, the women had only come to give Wu Yahui some face as her friends. Due to the rumors, they didn't have a good impression of the Wei family.

But now that they finally met Wei Zhiying and heard her soft-spoken words, they felt that they shouldn't judge people before knowing more about them.

Since their friend said lots of good words about her, she must not be as unbearable as the rumors said. With this thought, everyone no longer showed their unwillingness and finally showed sincere smiles.

"Sister Wei, it's normal for us to help each other out in this village. In the future, we might need your family's help too. So, don't be polite with us," one of them said.

"Yahui said a lot of good things about you. Since someone as picky as her has such a close relationship with you, we believe that you are someone worth befriending. In the future, you will be our friend too. Helping friends is what we ought to do," another one chimed in.

When she heard this, Wei Zhiying was grateful to Wu Yahui. Without her help, she wouldn't have been able to befriend the villagers. As an outsider in this village, it was hard for her to mix with them.

"Then, I won't be polite with everyone. Please come inside," she said with a smile.

As they walked to the kitchen, Yi Jiao finally arrived with her family. Seeing her sisters-in-law, she said, "Eldest sister-in-law, Second sister-in-law."

The moment she said this, the group of women stopped in their tracks and turned around. Seeing that it was her, Wu Yahui said, "Third sister-in-law, Third brother, you are here."

Chen Xiang nodded at them and walked to the group of men who already started working. While Chen Xiang and his son went to help the men repair the house, Yi Jiao walked over and stood a few steps away from them.

She looked at Wei Zhiying from head to toe openly before she said, "Eldest sister-in-law, this is the first time we have met. You are more beautiful than I thought."

Wei Zhiying had heard about what happened between her parents and her third sister-in-law before.