I became beautiful by eating melons

Ye Rou put down her chopsticks when she was 80% full.

Jiang Chen was eating his third bowl of rice, and the half bowl of meat was almost empty.

There is only a very thin breeze in the summer night, which is gone before you can feel it.

The weather is too hot, Ye Rou wants to drink sour plum soup.

She has a senior sister who studies traditional Chinese medicine. She makes her own sour plum soup every summer and sends her a portion every year.

Later, the senior sister’s sour plum soup became famous and developed into a brand. Every summer, many people came to buy it.

It tastes sweet and sour, and with two ice cubes added, Ye Rou's mouth is watering just thinking about it.

Jiang Chen put down the bowl only when there was no more space left in his stomach.

He cleared the dishes and left some food for the four old men in the cowshed.

Ye Rou was thinking about what to do with the remaining pork.

Pig skin can be boiled into jelly and used to make dumplings. When you bite into them, you will find rich broth.

While she was thinking, Jiang Chen went to the backyard and came back holding a round thing.

Big green watermelon!

"Watermelon." Ye Rou stood up in surprise.

Jiang Chen placed the melon on the table and soaked it in the well water for a long time. It was already completely cold.

He cut the watermelon in half, scooped out a piece of the red heart in the middle with a spoon and fed it to Ye Rou: "Eat."

Ye Rou took a bite. It was so cold that it hurt her teeth, but also so sweet, refreshingly sweet.

Her eyes narrowed as she ate, and Jiang Chen cut the remaining melon into pieces.

Ye Rou took a petal and took a bite.

It’s so nice to have a bite of watermelon in the summer!

The two of them sat side by side and only stopped after eating half of the watermelon.

Ye Rou was cleaning the table that was covered with watermelon juice, while Jiang Chen was standing beside her with a lunch box.

She looked at him curiously: "Why don't you go and deliver the food?"

Jiang Chen raised his chin: "You come with me."

The black shadow had been banging on the door for several days in a row, and Jiang Chen didn't plan to leave Ye Rou alone at home until he caught him.

Jiang Chen's four masters are all big shots. Ye Rou has long admired them. When she heard him say that, she immediately got excited: "You want to take me there?"

Jiang Chen responded.

Ye Rou picked up the remaining half of the watermelon, looking even more excited than Jiang Chen: "Let's go."

"..." Jiang Chen felt uncomfortable when he saw her eyes sparkling. Why were she so happy to meet four old men?

The cowshed is far away from Dahe Village, on the other side of the paddy field.

Surrounded by green trees, the gray-brown wooden house looks better than the square houses built with gray-white cement in the village.

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The atmosphere in the bullpen was tense.

Doctor Liu had a gloomy expression on his face as he took the pulse of the skinny old man.

Wang Guoping asked him anxiously: "Old Zheng, what's going on?"

He heard Lao Zheng rummaging through the porcelain basin under the bed last night, followed by a muffled cough.

With the candlelight, they saw that the porcelain basin under Lao Zheng's bed was full of dark red blood.

Old Liu took my pulse for a long time without saying anything, it was really frustrating.

Doctor Liu let go, sighed, and shook his head.

Zhou Yuqing: "Old Liu, don't keep me in suspense. What's going on with Old Zheng?"

Doctor Liu sighed: "Depression is in the heart, and there is no medicine to cure it."

Wang Guoping suddenly heard what Dr. Liu said and couldn't believe it: "What do you mean? Are you saying that Old Zheng is going to die?"

Doctor Liu took out a red box from the medicine box and opened it to reveal a hundred-year-old ginseng. "All I can do is keep him alive. As for what happens in the future, it depends on whether Old Zheng can figure it out on his own."

Jiang Chen and Ye Rou pushed open the door and saw Dr. Liu was there. The other three old men looked uglier than each other. "What's wrong?"

Seeing Dr. Liu standing in front of Mr. Zheng's bed, he put down his lunch box and walked over. Seeing a basin of glaring blood, his face suddenly darkened: "What's going on?"

"I'm sick." After Dr. Liu said this, he saw Ye Rou coming and waved to her.

Ye Rou put down the half watermelon in her arms and walked over: "Master, what's wrong?"

Doctor Liu pointed at Old Zheng who was lying on the bed and said, "Go and take his pulse."

Old Zheng's condition is a typical case, and Dr. Liu doesn't want Ye Rou to miss it.

Ye Rou first observed the old man lying on the bed. His face was yellow, his lips were black, there was blood on the bedclothes, his cheeks were thin, and his brows were tightly furrowed.

She stretched out her hand to feel his pulse, and found it to be weak, stagnant and stagnant, a typical case of depression in the heart.

The old man was breathing heavily. Ye Rou looked at him and felt inexplicably close to him.

She remembered who this old man was - Zheng Zhiyuan, the richest of the four old men, but also the one in the worst situation and who died the earliest.

He was criticized and sent down to the countryside. Before leaving, he entrusted his wife and two children to a friend's family. As soon as he left, his friend's family moved into Zheng's courtyard in the name of taking care of them, occupied the main house, and drove his wife and children to a small house.

His wife and the children tolerated everything, but the family kept pressing them, fearing that she would write a letter to complain, and so they didn't allow them to go out.

In order to embezzle the Zheng family's money, the family watched Zheng Zhiyuan's wife fall ill and did not save her, allowing her to die in bed.

The family decided to go all out and simply sold Zheng Zhiyuan's sixteen-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son.

Zheng Zhiyuan hadn't received any letters from his family for 23 years. Some time ago, the control was not strict, so he asked his old friends to find out the situation at home.

Zheng Zhiyuan collapsed upon hearing the bad news suddenly, and considering that he had entrusted his trust to the wrong person. In the book, he starved himself to death.

Before he died, he told Jiang Chen where the money was hidden at home and made only one request, asking Jiang Chen to help him get revenge.

Jiang Chen went to the capital and found the family. They used the money left by Zheng Zhiyuan to live a lavish life. Their two children received the best education, and they made friends with powerful people.

Moreover, their family was on guard against Zheng Zhiyuan and had long since found out about the relationship between Jiang Chen and Zheng Zhiyuan. Jiang Chen was targeted as soon as he entered the capital.

He was severely cheated by that family and his newly built business was completely ruined.

After that, it took Jiang Chen another three years to get back on his feet and bring down that family, but the other party was too cunning and had already arranged for his two children early on. Although he no longer had the Zheng family's property, he still lived a comfortable life.

Ye Rou sighed softly. In this situation, if Zheng Zhiyuan was determined to die, no matter how good the medical skills were, they couldn't save him. They could only keep him alive.

Unless he could find his sold children, but in the book, Jiang Chen never found out about Zheng Zhiyuan's daughter until his death.

Zheng Zhiyuan was enveloped by a faint fragrance, and the boredom in his mind dissipated a little. He opened his eyes with great effort, and after seeing the girl in front of him clearly, he could no longer stop crying.

He propped himself up and sat up, holding Ye Rou's wrist tightly: "Lily."

Ye Rou knew that Master Zheng had recognized the wrong person. Just as she was about to explain, her wrist was grabbed by her master.

Doctor Liu stared, "Old Zheng, your daughter is still alive. She is all alone. Can you bear to leave her to die?"

Zheng Zhiyuan's eyes suddenly widened, thinking of that family of beasts.

His precious daughter should have grown up surrounded by love and affection, but now she has been sold and has suffered so much.

He can't die. He can't die!

Seeing that Zheng Zhiyuan was conscious, Doctor Liu quickly cut a piece of ginseng and stuffed it into Zheng Zhiyuan's mouth. He continued, "Your daughter has lived a miserable life and has been bullied. You are her only relative."

Zheng Zhiyuan held Ye Rou's hand tightly and did not let go. That's right, for the sake of his daughter, he could not die!