Chapter 144: Won’t Die
When Su Yaoguang and the others arrived, they saw the nearby patients punching and kicking Xiao Yanci.
Xiao Yanci was holding his head, curled up there, shouting from his mouth, “I didn’t splash him,” “He did it on purpose.”
Looking at Zhou Wangshu again, his sleeves were soaking wet and still steaming. His eyes were red, and several patients were comforting him nearby.
Su Yaoguang strode over, lifted Zhou Wangshu’s sleeve, and breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing only a slight redness on the skin.
When the patients saw Su Yaoguang coming, they kicked Xiao Yanci a few more times and slowly stopped.
“Young lady Su, this Mr. Xiao is truly unworthy of being a scholar, always bullying Young Master Zhou. As Zhou Wangshu’s wife, you must stand up for him and not let this outsider bully him.”
“What did he do?” Zhang Zhaodi asked.
The woman speaking was full of vigor, clearly not far from recovery. She loudly accused Xiao Yanci of how he provoked Zhou Wangshu, saying that Su Yaoguang bought him only because he was cheap and actually didn’t like him at all, also saying that Zhou Wangshu’s studies were poor, his six arts were no good, and apart from a decent face, he had nothing else. He also said Zhou Wangshu served with his looks and was just treated as a plaything.
“He also said that the person Young lady Su truly likes is him.”
Su Yaoguang listened to these words and found them increasingly strange.
Xiao Yanci was a pretentious person who cherished his reputation greatly. Even if he thought that way in his heart, he wouldn’t let himself show such an ugly state.
Xiao Yanci’s face was flushed red with anger as he glared at the woman: “Nonsense, I never said such words.”
“Others can testify.” The woman said, looking at the people around, “Tell her, isn’t that right?”
The people around hurriedly chimed in, saying that Xiao Yanci clearly knew Young lady Su had a husband yet still had delusions, like a toad wanting to eat swan meat.
“You villains were all bought off by Zhou Wangshu to wrong me. And you, Zhou Wangshu, how are you so despicable? Clearly you spilled the soup yourself, yet you insist it was me who splashed it.”
Zhou Wangshu frowned and said aggrievedly, “Yaoguang, I didn’t say he splashed it. He didn’t splash it.”
“Young lady Su, don’t listen to him. He didn’t splash it blatantly. If he dared to splash Young Master Zhou, we would have sent him to the government office. A few punches wouldn’t vent our anger. He clearly knew Young Master Zhou was coming with the soup pot and deliberately tripped him, causing Young Master Zhou to be splashed with hot soup.”
“What’s the difference between this behavior and murder?”
The people around spat a barrage at Xiao Yanci.
Su Yaoguang said to Jiang Jing beside her, “What did this Xiao Ci do to draw such discontent from so many people?”
Jiang Jing shook her head: “I don’t know either!”
“Enough, stop arguing.” Zhang Zhaodi shouted loudly, “You’re all patients, why make such a racket? My head hurts. Mr. Xiao, I’ll notify your family to come take care of you. Our Wangshu is willing to care for you, you should be grinning from ear to ear, yet you dare bully him. Do you really think our Wangshu has no backing? Since you’re so unpopular, we’ll have to arrange a separate place for you. Luckily, many patients have recovered recently, freeing up quite a few rooms. We can arrange a separate dormitory room for you.”
“Auntie Zhang, this Zhou Wangshu is a two-faced person. He deliberately brought these people to bite me back. How can you conclude it’s my fault without distinguishing right from wrong?”
In her previous life, she was so good to him and never gave him a dark face. In this life, without becoming his son-in-law, her true face turned out to be so ugly.
Back then, after he became the top scholar, he even sent people to escort her to the capital city to enjoy good fortune, but she herself had no good fortune and was killed by bandits halfway.
“What a trouble. So many people dislike you, why not reflect on yourself?” Zhang Zhaodi looked disdainful, “We’re so busy every day, and you have so much energy. Don’t cause us trouble.”
Zhang Zhaodi called over two young monks and had the young monks take him to the previous zen room.
Upon hearing he was going to the previous zen room, Xiao Yanci’s face darkened. He didn’t want to go, but with so many people staring coldly at him, his back chilled, so he could only grab his bundle and follow.
As he passed by Zhou Wangshu, he said viciously, “Zhou Wangshu, this isn’t over between us.”
“Young lady Su, he’s threatening Young Master Zhou again.” That auntie said loudly, “We all heard it.”
“This person is really shameless.”
“Exactly, he just thinks Young Master Zhou is easy to bully.”
Xiao Yanci was so angry his chest hurt. He had to leave here quickly, or he worried he couldn’t control himself from hitting someone.
He glanced at Su Yaoguang, his eyes full of grievance.
“Look, that’s it. He always shows such a seductive posture to Young lady Su. What is that if not seducing her?”
“Right, right, a big man being so restless.”
“I heard he made two women fight over him for jealousy. Could this person be from a brothel?”
“What scholar? He’s really disgracing scholars.”
Xiao Yanci left in disarray.
A gentleman like him couldn’t handle so many shrews and could only choose the wise course as the hero.
“Yaoguang, apply the ointment to Wangshu first!” Jiang Jing handed her a bottle of ointment.
“Okay.”
Su Yaoguang pulled Zhou Wangshu away.
Once they were far from the others, Su Yaoguang pulled him to sit at the stone table, placed his arm on the table, rolled up his sleeve, and applied medicine to him.
“What exactly happened just now?” Su Yaoguang asked.
Zhou Wangshu lowered his eyes and said, “Are you feeling sorry for him?”
Su Yaoguang pressed hard on his arm: “I feel sorry for a…”
“Ah, it hurts…” Zhou Wangshu cried out in pain.
Su Yaoguang quickly lowered her head to blow on it and apologized nervously, “Sorry, sorry, I didn’t mean to. Who told you to say such baffling words to anger me?”
Zhou Wangshu looked at her nervous appearance, a triumphant smile flashing in his eyes.
“Actually, I don’t care what he’s like, but did he really say those words?” Su Yaoguang asked. “Whether he said them or not, just pretend we didn’t hear those words earlier. They’re all nonsense.”
“I didn’t take it to heart. A man like him is like the water in the Ni’nan River—some wash clothes there, some wash diapers there. It looks clean on the surface, but it’s already dirty inside.”
Su Yaoguang murmured to herself, “Turns out you can curse people in such an elegant way.”
She had lived two lives, and her greatest achievement in this life was having a bit more divine power, so she would swing her fist whenever something didn’t go her way.
Zhou Wangshu watched Su Yaoguang applying medicine to him.
In the dream, Xiao Yanci despised Su Yaoguang as crude—that was his eyes having a problem. Su Yaoguang dared to love and hate, was sincere to people, wasn’t she a hundred times better than Jiang Yihuan, whom he treasured like something rare?
If his plan succeeded, he would pick a powerful and influential young man for her, so that besides being rich, she would also have power, letting Xiao Yanci know what it meant to be unattainable.
“What are you spacing out for? I’m asking you something. What are you thinking?” Su Yaoguang waved her hand in front of him.
“What?”
“I’m asking if it hurts?” Su Yaoguang said, lowering her head to blow on the red scalded spot.
