Chapter 44:
After selling the bird’s nest, Luo Zhi’er and Xiu Xiu left together.
After walking a few steps, Luo Zhi’er alertly turned her head to look back!
Strange?
Nothing there? She must have been overthinking it, scratched her own hair strands, shook her head, and walked away!
Not far away, a pair of dazzling eyes like black obsidian stared at her staggering departing figure…
Eyes filled with sorrow,
“A person from Luojia Village, the wife of Li Sanmao from Zhao Li Village… Luo Zhi’er?”
He lowered his gaze, lost in thought…
This woman was clearly so fat, completely different from her, not from the same world, yet she made him think of one person…
A person who wielded a sword and intoxicated three thousand, making him dream endlessly with lifelong regret and lifelong yearning…
The man had sword-like eyebrows and phoenix eyes, peerlessly alluring features, black hair like ink, skin like jade, brows like dark ink.
Like an immortal’s exquisite handiwork, clad entirely in white robes, with skin so pale it seemed devoid of any blood color…
His heart twitched, immediately a burning pain and feeling of suffocation assaulted him, he clutched his chest and spat out a mouthful of blood.
“Master… you’re spitting blood again?”
The man wiped his lips with a handkerchief, calmly said, “No harm.”
“Let’s go, Bu Wei.”
Luo Zhi’er came out and immediately bumped straight into Li Sanmao’s arms…
“Oh, it’s you, husband!”
She touched her forehead!
Li Sanmao gazed at her in his arms, full of worry in his eyes,
“Wife, are you alright? I saw you go to the backyard, why did it take so long to come back?”
Luo Zhi’er smiled sweetly, “What could happen to me? I just went to the latrine, see, I’m perfectly fine, right? Husband, why are you here? Where’s your bamboo basket?”
“Look at you, like you were fished out of the river, sweat dripping down to your chin, it couldn’t be you were so worried about me you got like this, right?”
She tiptoed, reached out her hand, and wiped the sweat beads for him!
The look in Li Sanmao’s eyes eased a bit; his tension was naturally because he had seen Luo Wenzhou coming from behind…
That was why he couldn’t suppress the ball of anger in his heart and hurriedly rushed over…
Looking at his wife before him, her expression normal, no sign of anything…
His mind suddenly flashed with her words from last night, asking him what exactly he liked about her?
Liked her what?
Probably because at that time he had nearly died, his own father, brothers, sisters all watched on coldly from the sidelines.
Only Zhi’er and her father, with no blood ties, cared for him selflessly and meticulously without asking for anything in return…
Since this life was destined to love one person, then he would love that pure her, the one who had cherished him when he was down on his luck…
Because she deserved it!
“What are you spacing out for? I’m asking about your bamboo basket?”
There was meat in it!
“I just now asked that old man’s wife to watch it for me. I saw you were gone a bit long, as long as you’re fine… then your husband will go wait outside!”
“Oh!”
Luo Zhi’er’s eyes darted around, not knowing what this big fool was worrying about blindly?
She wouldn’t get lost!
“Hurry and go, if the meat’s gone, they’ll hold you accountable!”
Her eyes didn’t even glance toward Luo Wenzhou’s direction…
And this intimate scene of the two fell into the eyes of Luo Wenzhou and Hua’er not far away…
A flash of shock passed through Luo Wenzhou’s eyes, tinged with anger, suddenly he grabbed and pinched Hua’er’s arm painfully!
After she got married, he couldn’t tell if it was vanity at play or what, but he had specially paid attention to matters between Luo Zhi’er and her husband…
He heard that Luo Zhi’er was cold and indifferent toward Li Sanmao, usually didn’t see the two being all that good, just living together, and she didn’t have it great at the Li family either… he had felt quite satisfied inside!
But just now… clearly so intimate… he couldn’t accept it; before, she had only been proactive toward him…
Young and ignorant of silver’s importance, only single-mindedly wanting to be with the person she liked, only to find once together it was nothing special…
The Hua’er by his side was not as good as day by day; because of conditioning her body, she had become much rounder, her once sallow and withered yellow face had changed shape and lost its original appearance.
Most importantly, all the household expenses were on him; having silver had become the most important thing in his life…
But just now, how much had she easily gotten? He vaguely heard it said… thirty taels or sixty taels?
“Wen Zhou, what’s wrong with you?”
“……Nothing, I just saw some people that made me uncomfortable……I couldn’t help but feel nauseous and want to vomit!”
How couldn’t she hear the trace of disappointment in it……
Hua’er smiled, “Is that so? Alright then……From now on, we’ll never have to see those annoying people again!” A haze flashed in her eyes, instantly turning ice cold.
“What? No……that’s not what I meant……”
“Hm?”
“Nothing, I was just saying
Luo Zhi’er looked at the queue earlier, it was almost to An Ge’er and the others.
An Ge’er’s mother was also winking at her from this direction, she was solely focused on squeezing over quickly……
“Sorry, excuse me a bit……”
Unexpectedly, she suddenly collided full-on with a woman.
“Ouch, who is it, why don’t you watch where you’re going?” Looking up, it was Gou Sheng’s Mother!
Gou Sheng’s Mother was stunned,
“Who would’ve thought, Miaomiao’s Mother, it’s you, didn’t you all go to market day? Why are you still wandering around the apothecary?” Gou Sheng’s Mother’s eyes darted around wildly……
“Can’t I come to the apothecary on market day? You’re here too, aren’t you? I’m not feeling well, came to see a doctor!”
Luo Zhi’er said casually!
They had all heard she was unwell, but was her coming the same as hers? Gou Sheng’s Mother said with contempt, “Oh, you even have silver to see a doctor? I don’t believe it, would your mother-in-law bear to give you silver?”
Convinced,
“Come on, tell auntie, what valuable things did you sell today? You know auntie’s family is having a tough time, let me earn some pocket money too!”
Her man is a cripple, known as Er Gouzi, this Li Ergou is really a good-for-nothing!
Didn’t learn well as a kid, peed in the village well, started stealing when older, neighbors’ dogs, chickens, ducks, geese, silver—all not spared……
That leg of his was broken by someone when he was young and didn’t learn well, now the family is indeed quite difficult!
“Nothing like that, we just came to sell smoked meat, haven’t sold it all yet, if you don’t believe me, go see San Mao watching the bamboo basket outside!”
“Tch, fooling ghosts, haven’t sold it all and you have silver to see a doctor?”
Luo Zhi’er was too lazy to argue with her: “Whether I sold it all or have silver to spend is my business, Ju Hua Shen, I still need to queue up, see you later!”
After saying that, she went to queue up in front of that woman from earlier.
Dog’s mother, looking at Luo Zhi’er’s back, spat, “Pah! What’s so great about you, your man just knows hunting, look at you acting all high and mighty!”
