Deng Mazi approached Cui Xue with a lewd face. “Comrade Cui, do you need help?”
Cui Xue was panting heavily while looking in Yu Zhi’s direction in disbelief. She couldn’t believe that she just left like that.
Hearing Deng Mazi’s voice, she was even more furious and roared fiercely, “Get lost!”
Her eyes rolled back then she fainted, probably because of anger.
Deng Mazi’s eyes suddenly brightened. He looked around, but there was no one.
His dry black hands stretched out to Cui Xue, thinking that he couldn’t eat meat, so he had to drink some soup first.
He was not stupid because this woman had reported him before, so he usually stayed away from her when he saw her. But today’s good opportunity was rare.
He didn’t have to say it but this woman was a bit annoying.
Deng Mazi smiled lewdly and his saliva flowed out.
After touching her enough, seeing that Cui Xue was almost frozen to death, he picked her up reluctantly and ran around the village, while shouting that Cui Xue had fainted and he would take her back.
The young and old men in the village looked at Deng Mazi who was hugging Cui Xue’s soft body tightly, and running around the village with their legs crossed. They were really envious and jealous.
However, they did not have the courage of Deng Mazi and did not dare to provoke Cui Xue, not to mention that there was that tigress back in the village now, so they dared not touch her.
As soon as the five members of the Sang family entered the yard, they closed the gate tightly.
Yu Zhi secretly opened one of her eyes, looked around to see if there was anyone outside, and then opened both her eyes.
She patted Sang Dazhuang’s hand. “Put me down quickly.”
But Sang Dazhuang didn’t let her go. His expression was still dark, his eyes were still red, and his brows were tightly furrowed. “Uhm… Let’s go back to the hospital.”
“Go where?! You idiot!” Wang Xinfeng slapped his forehead making it buzz. “Are your eyes covered with shit? You idiot! Why didn’t you inherit any of my cleverness, but inherited all your dead father’s stupidity instead?! You’re so stupid that I want to poke my eyes out to avoid being mad at you.
“This useless thing! You just stood there stupidly and didn’t say anything to help Zhizhi. Oh, my poor Zhizhi… With her small arms and legs, she had to swing that broom by herself. Tell me, what’s the point of marrying you? Only your two kilos of meat can be of some use, otherwise, it would be better to marry a pig.”
Wang Xinfeng was really angry. Her son was not stupid. He usually had some brains. But when it came to Yu Zhi, it was as if his head was flattened by a door, and feces and urine poured into his brain from his eyes. It was like he was hit with a big hammer for three days and three nights, making him blind and stupid. It was really a sin.
Sang Dazhuang felt her maternal love and his face was numb. It’s not true, not true at all! It’s not true that only two kilos of meat on my body are useful. All of my more than two hundred kilograms of meat are useful!
Yu Zhi blushed quietly. Sang Dazhuang really had a big physique but was treated as a good-for-nothing.
Feeling the shock of Wang Xinfeng’s slap on Sang Dazhuang, Yu Zhi bared her teeth in pain. “Mom, don’t be angry. Be careful not to hurt yourself. I’m fine, not hurt at all, and I feel good. Don’t you have to hit someone yourself to feel happy?”
Wang Xinfeng turned around and smiled, holding Yu Zhi’s hands to look at her red palms, feeling very distressed. “How can you not be hurt? You are still weak. Be good, go inside your room and rest. Mom will make you something delicious.”
When she faced Sang Dazhuang, she was a ferocious tigress again. “What are you doing still standing there? Why don’t you send Zhizhi back to her room? Are you going to freeze her to death?”
Sang Dazhuang had come to his senses. His wife was fine but he just couldn’t bear to let her go. Once he let her go this time, he didn’t know when could he hug her again. What he planned was to let her mother hit him again, it was not painful anyway.
But he had no choice so he slowly walked into her room while secretly watching Yu Zhi’s expression. My wife didn’t refuse… She still didn’t refuse… Oh, she really didn’t refuse at all…
Yu Zhi ignored Sang Dazhuang’s little thoughts and waved to Wang Xinfeng. “Thank you for your hard work, Mom.”
“It’s not a big deal, not a big deal.” Wang Xinfeng was also nervous. Seeing her silly son getting closer and closer to Yu Zhi’s room, she hurriedly asked the two children to go into the kitchen, so that Yu Zhi wouldn’t be embarrassed and stop Sang Dazhuang from going in.
Yu Zhi’s room was the best in the Sang’s house. The Sang family only had three rooms, one main room and two bedrooms.
Wang Xinfeng used to stay in this room, and later it was cleaned up after Sang Dazhuang and Yu Zhi got married.
But Sang Dazhuang only came in on the wedding night when he forced Yu Zhi to consummate the marriage. Since then, he was never allowed to come in again and he had been living in the woodshed next to it.
Later, they had children and the two children lived in another room with Wang Xinfeng after they were born.
When Sang Shen turned two, he didn’t want to stay with Wang Xinfeng anymore, and went to stay in the woodshed with Sang Dazhuang, and they had stayed there ever since.
When Sang Dazhuang stepped into the room again, he couldn’t help but feel timid and excited. Yu Zhi nestled in Sang Dazhuang’s arms without any reaction, as if the rules she had set before didn’t exist at all.
Yu Zhi cleaned the room by herself, and not only Sang Dazhuang was not allowed to enter, but no one else was either.
The air was filled with Yu Zhi’s scent. Sang Dazhuang was so nervous that he didn’t know where to put his hands and feet. His legs trembled as he walked.
He lowered his head and didn’t dare to look around. He was ready to put Yu Zhi on the kang and go out.
But Yu Zhi clung to him and didn’t let go. “You sit on the kang.”
Sang Dazhuang didn’t dare to refute and sat down. His buttocks touched the edge of the kang and he sat there stiffly.
Yu Zhi smiled secretly, sat on Sang Dazhuang’s legs, found a comfortable position, nestled into his arms, put her ears against his chest, listened to his heartbeat like a drum, and felt very relieved.
She wanted to do this in the hospital, but it was inconvenient with so many people.
Sang Dazhuang felt the young wife in his arms, soft and fragrant, so his heartbeat got louder and louder. He subconsciously held his breath for fear of scaring Yu Zhi.
Yu Zhi was afraid that the man would do something bad to himself, so she had to sigh and get up from him.
She had accumulated a lot of prestige in the past, and it would be impossible to change the man’s mentality in a short time, so she could only take it slowly.
After Yu Zhi left, Sang Dazhuang couldn’t help feeling disappointed, but he was still satisfied when he thought about it. This was the closeness that he had never dared to think about before.
He rubbed his hands and stood up. “Uhm… I will—”
“Sit down, don’t move.”
Sang Dazhuang sat down again without saying a word. He really followed Yu Zhi’s every instruction and every action, proving that training him over the years was very successful.
Yu Zhi didn’t want to complain anymore. These were all her own sins and she had to bear them herself.
Turning around, she took out a small cloth bag from the kang cabinet and took out the sandalwood bracelet inside.
This was given to her by Wang Xinfeng when they got married. She said it was a family heirloom passed down from the Sang family to their daughters-in-law for generations.
It was made of sandalwood so it was not very precious. It was too old, a bit outdated, and its fragrance had been almost obscured.
Yu Zhi never wore it once. It was not because she disliked it, but because she was too proud to care about anything from the Sang family, and she did not admit that she was the daughter-in-law of the Sang family. She thought that she would definitely return it to Sang Dazhuang when she left in the future, so she kept it in the cabinet.
Sang Dazhuang and Wang Xinfeng knew about this matter, and they also understood that she did not accept the bracelet, which meant that she did not accept the intention of their family. The mother and son did not say anything, let alone force her.
Sang Dazhuang was a little nervous when he saw Yu Zhi take out the bracelet. Is she going to return it to me?
***Original translation is from enchantesstranslations.com. Please read it on the translator’s website.***
Yu Zhi handed the bracelet to Sang Dazhuang and his eyes turned red instantly. Is she really going to return it? Is she going to leave?
Sang Dazhuang gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, unwilling to take it.
No matter how Yu Zhi treated him or how much she hated him over the years, he could accept it, but he could not let her go.
Yu Zhi knew that the man had misunderstood, so she lowered her head and kissed him on the lips. “Silly, what are you thinking? Put it on me.”
Sang Dazhuang suddenly opened his eyes and stared at Yu Zhi. He was so shocked by the sweet and soft kiss that he didn’t understand what she said. “Huh? You want to wear it?”
Yu Zhi raised an eyebrow. “Yes. Why? You don’t want me to? If you don’t want to—”
“No, no, no! You can, of course, you can!” He snatched the bracelet and put it on Yu Zhi, fearing that she would change her mind and it would be too late.
Yu Zhi curled her lips, raised her hand, and looked at it. Against the background of the dark red bracelet, her slender wrist looked even whiter.
“Does it look good on me?”
“It looks good.” Sang Dazhuang smiled like a big fool.
Yu Zhi glared at him. “How come your reaction doesn’t match what you said?”
“Huh?” What kind of reaction should I have then?
Yu Zhi gritted her teeth and held Sang Dazhuang’s big black face. “My man is really good-looking.” Then she lowered her head to kiss him.
Then she looked at Sang Dazhuang eagerly and asked, “Am I good-looking?”
Sang Dazhuang seemed to have learned something, but he was not sure, so he shrank his neck and tentatively responded, “Yes, you’re good-looking.”
Then, like a thief, he looked at Yu Zhi’s face and slowly approached, and he carefully kissed Yu Zhi on her cheek. As soon as his lips touched the small hair on her face, he bounced away as if he had seen a ghost.
Yu Zhi was not very satisfied, but fortunately, there was progress. She opened her mouth and asked again, “Do I look good?”
Seeing that Yu Zhi was not angry, Sang Dazhuang knew that he had done nothing wrong, so he became much bolder. “You look good.”
He leaned over and kissed her. It was so loud that Sang Dazhuang’s heart skipped a beat. He was very scared, but seeing that Yu Zhi was not angry, he smiled foolishly.
Yu Zhi couldn’t help but smile and asked again, “Do I look good?”
“You look good!” Sang Dazhuang shouted at the top of his voice, hugged Yu Zhi excitedly, and kissed her hard all over the face, making Yu Zhi cry.
She turned around to look in the mirror and saw that her face was blue. She suddenly became furious. She stretched out her hand to twist Sang Dazhuang’s ear and roared, “Sang Dazhuang, are you born in the year of the dog? Look at what you have done!”
Sang Dazhuang felt guilty and tried to shrink his head as much as possible so that Yu Zhi could twist his ear more easily.
Wang Xinfeng rushed out of the kitchen with a fire stick in hand when she heard Yu Zhi’s roar.
Yu Zhi’s mouth pursed and she leaned forward to show it Wang Xinfeng. “Mom, look at what Sang Dazhuang did.”
Wang Xinfeng saw her daughter-in-law’s face was blue and her anger kept rising. She swung the fire stick and smashed it on Sang Dazhuang’s head. “You bastard! You are a brainless fool! You can’t do anything good! You are a waste that eats everything! Zhizhi’s face is so tender and you did that? I will beat you to death! Oh, you are worse than a pig and a dog!”
Wang Xinfeng’s eyes were so sharp that she knew at a glance that those were marks from kissing.
The young couple had a good relationship now and she was so happy in her heart.
But her stupid son was so reckless that Yu Zhi’s face turned blue from kissing.
Sang Dazhuang couldn’t stand the fire stick in her hand.
He realized that her maternal love was too heavy this time, so he dared not resist anymore. He carefully took Yu Zhi’s hands off his ears and ran away with a bucket.
Wang Xinfeng chased him to the gate and yelled at the top of her voice, “You bastard! If you have the guts, then just die outside and don’t come back!”
Yu Zhi was so happy that she ran over to massage Wang Xinfeng’s shoulders and fan her. “Thank you, Mom, you’ve worked hard. Mom, do you think this looks good on me?”
Raising the bracelet in her hand and shaking it for Wang Xinfeng to see, Yu Zhi knew that Wang Xinfeng and Sang Dazhuang had always felt insecure, so she had to do more to make them feel her determination not to abandon them and leave.
Sure enough, Wang Xinfeng’s eyes were red when she saw Yu Zhi wearing the bracelet.
She secretly wiped her tears, held Yu Zhi’s hand and looked at her. “It looks good! My Zhizhi looks good in anything.”
In the kitchen, Sang Ye held a straw in her mouth, leaned against the door frame with her arms around her chest, and watched the childish farce of the three people in the yard with disdain.
“I wonder how long can she act.”
Sang Shen was sitting in front of the stove and burning the fire, he was elegant and calm. The firelight was imprinted on his fair and handsome face, flickering and unclear. Such a down-to-earth thing was actually imbued with an elegant aura by him.
He did not respond to Sang Ye’s words. Although he also did not believe in Yu Zhi’s change, he would act as long as he could, making his stupid father and grandmother happy.
After leaving the house, Sang Dazhuang lost his silliness in an instant.
However, the joy between his eyebrows could not be hidden, and the delicate and smooth touch of Yu Zhi’s little face on his lips made his heart fly.
It’s great that my wife no longer hates me.
“Hey, Brother Zhuang.” It was Li Dapao, who was thin and small, like a monkey, and was nicknamed ‘Skinny Monkey’ by others.
When he was seventeen years old, he followed Sang Dazhuang and was one of his loyal followers.
He appeared out of nowhere and handed Sang Dazhuang a cigarette with a playful smile. “Oh, Brother Zhuang is fetching water. You take a rest and let me do it.”
Sang Dazhuang looked at his small body with disdain and pushed the cigarette away. “My wife doesn’t like the smell of cigarettes.”
Skinny Monkey secretly rolled his eyes and silently watched Sang Dazhuang pretending. Everyone knew that his Brother Zhuang was a monk with a wife, and his wife wouldn’t get close enough to him to even smell the ghost.
“Don’t worry, Sister-in-law won’t know. This cigarette is a new good stuff. Brother Zhuang, try it.”
Sang Dazhuang raised his arm, and Skinny Monkey took a few steps back and fell on his buttocks.
Sang Dazhuang snorted and suddenly had a mysophobia. “You only know shit! Go play somewhere else, don’t let the smell get on me.” What should I do if my wife won’t get close to me? This guy is not sensible at all.
Then, he strode to the well while carrying the bucket.
The fall didn’t hurt much, so Skinny Monkey patted his buttocks and hurried to follow him.
“Brother Zhuang, I don’t smell cigarettes. I didn’t smoke at all. Brother Zhuang, I’m here to tell you something about Cui Xue, that bitch.”
A fierce light flashed in Sang Dazhuang’s eyes and he responded indifferently, “What is it?”
“Just now, that bitch was touched all over by Deng Mazi and then he ran around the village with her in his arms. That’s just how that bitch designed to ruin Sister-in-law. It’s a matter of time, Brother Zhuang, should we also help publicize it?”
He thought of the time when Cui Xue designed Yu Zhi to fall into her vicious plot. If he wasn’t there, then Yu Zhi would have been entangled with an old man.
With the cruelty of an old man and the fragility of his wife, Sang Dazhuang didn’t dare to imagine the consequences.
The fierceness in his eyes became more intense and his voice was like a gong, with a low and cold tone. “Okay, just don’t expose yourself.”
Sang Dazhuang knew that Cui Xue was a bitch, and she was not a simple and thin-skinned person like his wife. Such rumors would not have a substantial impact on her and it was impossible for her to marry Deng Mazi.
But he had to make the impossible possible.
“Go and tell Deng Mazi to be responsible for that educated youth.”
Skinny Monkey laughed. “Brother Zhuang, you and Little Ye are really father and daughter. Your methods of playing tricks on people are the same.”
Sang Dazhuang raised an eyebrow. “Tell me about it.”