The Female Supporting Role Shows Out

Chapter 81

Translator: NovelMultiverse | Editor: NovelMultiverse

Embroidery required a lot of patience, which was precisely what Lin Dan lacked the most. Every few quarters of an hour, she would become very anxious and cannot continue. However, the Lin family had fallen, so she had no choice but to learn embroidery and revive the family business. Therefore, she had to find an effective way to suppress the anxiety in her heart and smoothen her sharp edges.

The wooden blocks and posts in the house were visibly decreasing. When Fourth Aunt was cooking, she complained to the servant for being too diligent and chopping the wood into too small, making it difficult for her to control the fire. The servant felt distressed in his heart, but he didn't dare to express it. He was a little scared after seeing the young lady's fierceness while chopping the woods.

Every day, Lin Dan practiced embroidery for a while and chopped wood for a while. When her waist and legs didn't hurt anymore, she felt better when taking the needle. Eventually, she felt that her vile was reducing, and she was more flexible and calmer.

She had thought that violence was her nature, but it didn't seem like that. It was more like a sequela caused by some memorable experience than her nature, which just needed a little patience to shape it. Strictly speaking, her temperament was more like water, which could change with the situation. It could lubricate things silently and also surge like a raging tide.

One day, she sat for two hours before she took out the woodcutter and was about to regulate her mood, but she saw the servant, Cui Lan, walking in with a strange expression.

"What happened?" Lin Dan asked casually as she adjusted the wooden post properly.

After looking around, Cui Lan lowered her voice and said, "The Du siblings have moved here for more than a month, but they have never talked to us. Today, for some reason, they sent someone to send a cart of gifts."

"What is there to be strange about? More than a month ago, they had to tidy up their new home, so naturally, they were not in the mood to make friends with their neighbors." Lin Dan split the wooden post evenly into two with a single strike. Then she placed them properly and chopped them into four pieces, followed by six, eight...

Since the servant was scolded by the two aunts, she didn't simply vent her anger. Instead, she chopped the wooden piles into strips so that they could be carried to the kitchen to use.

Cui Lan got even closer to her and asked, "You have no idea, Young Miss. It's not surprising that they gave us gifts after more than a month. What's strange is that his family sent us a cart of wood! The wood that was a few feet long can't be used as wood, nor it's good to make furniture. It's useless except for being used as firewood. What do you think that means? It doesn't seem that they were so poor and can't afford a gift, right? Madam Lin is unhappy now. She thinks that they are bullying us."

However, Lin Dan grinned and said happily, "Woodpile? That was great!" She didn't mind it at all. She could chop as much as they gave, which saved them from spending money to buy firewood.

Cui Lan was speechless.

She shouldn't have discussed this with the young lady!

The two were like dialogue of the deaf. What they didn't know was that behind a wall, Du Rusong was leaning against a tree trunk, eavesdropping on their conversation, with a faint smirk at the corners of his lips.

"Brother, Brother, I heard that today you sent a cart of wood to the next-door neighbor? Let me tell you, we are no longer the son and daughter of the emperor. We can't play tricks on others like this!" A girl in a butterfly dress rushed into the yard and shouted.