Ruling the Historical Romance Novel as the Female Supporting Character-Chapter 211: Winning the Aunties’ Favor

Clearly, it was those people bullying Jiajia and Ze.

If it weren’t for Jiajia’s intelligence and capability, who knew what might have happened to them.

If Ze were healthy, she wouldn’t have to handle everything on her own.

"Yes, my brain isn’t working well. Sister-in-law, don’t be mad. It’s all my fault for saying the wrong thing," Gao Huabin apologized immediately, without even knowing what he had said wrong. But if both his boss and leader thought he was wrong, then he must be wrong.

"It’s nothing. We’re just chatting casually," Su Yijia said, somewhat embarrassed, waving her hand to ease their tension. It’s all the fault of those troublemakers, tarnishing her reputation.

"Jiajia, even though we said this village is dangerous, it’s not to the extent that you have to be overly cautious and suffer," Xia Weiguo cautioned, worried that the young girl might endure bullying quietly because of them.

"Uncle, don’t worry. I really haven’t been bullied," Su Yijia reassured him, somewhat helplessly.

"I think it’s actually good that these educated youths don’t try to get close to us. Since we’re not staying here long and have so many things to do in such a short time, avoiding unnecessary socializing is better."

Many troubles arise from unnecessary social interactions.

"Fine, we’ll go with your plan. I’ll take people to the mountains to catch wild chickens this afternoon," Xia Weiguo said, eager to go after hearing that Su Yijia planned to distribute Great Strength Pills to the participants. He didn’t even want to wait for lunch and wanted to head to the mountains immediately.

The people they brought this time were between twenty-three and thirty-three years old. After taking the Great Strength Pills, he could assign them to a small team. Once Ze recovered, these people would be placed by his side. With his wife’s unique prescription and his own achievements, along with the fact that some of these people were his former subordinates, it would be completely within regulations to file a report and get approval from higher authorities.

After lunch, instead of taking a nap, Su Yijia went to the room where Qin Kaize was sleeping to give him a full-body acupuncture massage. Gao Huabin was puzzled, wondering why they were doing this so early today. Usually, they did it after dinner.

While he was pondering this, the noisy voices of village aunties came from outside the educated youth courtyard.

"Comrade Su, are you there?"

"Aunties, I’m here. Just come in, I have something to do with my hands right now," Su Yijia called back, not pausing in her acupuncture massage on Qin Kaize. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

The curious aunties entered and saw her working hard to care for her husband, sweat dripping down her temples and dampening her hair.

Suddenly, they felt a pang of sympathy. They had previously thought she had it too easy, but now it seemed it was only a facade. After all, with a husband paralyzed from head to toe, how could things be easy? She was just holding up a brave front.

"Su, what’s wrong with your husband? Will he get better?" the aunties asked with concern.

Su Yijia’s expression showed a hint of sadness, but she forced a smile. "As long as we can gather the necessary medicine, there is hope."

"What kind of medicine? Can’t your status help you get it? Tell us what you need. We have a lot of medicines around here, and maybe we can find them for you," the aunties offered enthusiastically.

Su Yijia’s previously dim eyes brightened instantly with surprise and gratitude.

"Really? That would be wonderful! But first, we need to finalize the medicinal field project since it’s a collective matter. Once that’s settled, I won’t feel guilty about troubling you," she said.

Hearing this, the aunties felt she was exceptionally considerate, which made them even more sympathetic towards her.

"This won’t delay anything! Just tell us what medicine you need," the village chief’s wife assured, patting her chest.

"Alright, I’ll think about it carefully over the next couple of days to list exactly what we need. I don’t want to waste your time with multiple trips," Su Yijia agreed sweetly.

In a few days, the news about the medicinal field would be confirmed, and then she could ask these aunties for help. However, directly asking for the poisonous insects might seem suspicious. She could also collect wild ginseng and polygonum multiflorum, both rare herbs, which would be reasonable requests.

The aunts readily agreed, then all looked at Su Yijia with curiosity, while diligently massaging Qin Kaize’s acupuncture points. After ten seconds passed and they didn’t speak up, Su Yijia turned her head, somewhat puzzled, and asked, "Aunts, did you come to me at noon for something?"

"Oh! Look at us, what forgetful minds we have! We came to ask how you made the lobster and snails. We had some brought by the children for lunch, and the taste was simply irresistible." As soon as the aunts mentioned the delicious food they had at noon, their gazes towards Su Yijia turned into full admiration. This young comrade was indeed different from what they had expected. They had initially thought she was a delicate girl who couldn’t do anything, pampered to the extreme. But they didn’t expect her cooking skills to be so excellent, even the smelly snails and small lobsters could be made delicious. They had tried countless times but couldn’t achieve such mastery.

"Okay, how about this afternoon? I’ll go to the river again and catch some, so step by step, I can show you all how I do it." Su Yijia was quite satisfied with the idea of catching fish in the afternoon.

"Alright! Then I’ll have our children come over later. They’re the most skilled at catching these things." The aunts didn’t expect Su Yijia to be so easygoing, and their faces all bloomed with smiles.

When they came over, the men in their families were reluctant to agree. They thought that after the incident with Comrade Wu in the morning, things had become serious, especially with this young lady, who they believed would be difficult to deal with.

But they didn’t think so! If Comrade Su had a bad temper, would she play with their children? Would she give each family in the village a bowl of food? These educated youths had been in their village for so many years, and they hadn’t even eaten a sweet potato from them. Were the inspectors better than these educated youths?

In fact, these educated youths looked down on the people in their village. Especially Comrade Wu, who treated the village’s youth like fools.

Look at how many young people she had fooled into helping her with work over the past two years. Sneaking them food, sneaking them things. But which family had she confirmed a relationship with? Only those blind and foolish men would think that Comrade Wu was okay, just not very good at working.

"To be honest, when you tied up Comrade Wu today, it was a relief to everyone!" The village head’s wife was somewhat excited as she grabbed Su Yijia, who was preparing to wipe her sweat.

"Ah? I was worried that you might think I was too harsh and would report me directly to the higher-ups," she said, feeling a little embarrassed as she lowered her head.