Cherry Blossoms Falling

The village girl who was close to death from illness was about to marry, and her suitor was a strong and hearty hunter.
Having time-traveled to a poor and backward mountain village, she had resigned herself to the lack of three square meals a day, but was her new body already halfway into the grave? What's more curious was that someone still wanted to marry her despite being on her deathbed?
Driven by curiosity, she went ahead with the marriage, eager to see who the unlucky sap was who'd lose his betrothal gifts and even the coffin money.
Cradled in his arms, her body was thin as a rake, and she really wanted to ask him, "Husband, does holding me hurt your hands?"

The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law

Gu Youyou looked in the direction the voice had come from; by now, there was no sound at all—perhaps the person had already left.


She took a breath and, without changing her expression, said, "Catching cicadas!"


"Catching cicadas at night?" Jin Zijin asked skeptically, raising an eyebrow.


Gu Youyou responded earnestly, "Yes, at night. I can't climb trees, so I can't catch them during the day."


"If you can't climb trees, you'll catch even fewer at night."


"What do you want those for? They're disgustingly creepy," Jin Zijin said with a grimace.


"It's an ingredient for medicine, a good remedy for sickness," Gu Youyou explained.


Having been at Jisheng Hall for so long, she realized it was the season to collect cicada shells, yet she had not seen this ingredient in the medicine cabinet. This could only mean one thing: at this time, the use of cicada shells in medicine had not yet been conceptualized.


Chapter 279: Catching Cicadas