Chapter 48:
Li Sanmao didn’t know that she had just sold the bird’s nest for thirty taels of silver.
She also had no intention of telling him how much she got. She felt that there was no need to be so detailed about everything, even for husband and wife…
They still needed to have their own space.
He had his own private stash, and she had never asked him about it. Besides, she didn’t really know him.
Suddenly, someone behind her called out to her.
“Luo Zhi’er, stop! Wait! Wait for me!”
Luo Zhi’er turned around; it was Luo Wenzhou!
His wife had been left by him ten meters behind.
She had a face full of coldness looking in her direction… She didn’t pay much attention to the details…
Luo Wenzhou had nothing to do with her, not even half a penny’s worth of relationship.
Luo Zhi’er pulled Li Sanmao and turned to leave! “Crazy!”
“Stop!”
Luo Wenzhou took a few big steps and ran in front of them, blocking their way…
Luo Zhi’er frowned, feeling repulsed by him from the bottom of her heart, and couldn’t help but scold out loud,
“Luo Wenzhou, what do you want to do?”
“Heh heh, what can I, Luo Wenzhou, do?”
Luo Wenzhou had just seen their backs from behind and wished he could stare a hole through them!
He had just run over, looking at Li Sanmao with great interest. That gaze seemed like jealousy, like displeasure, and like contempt!
After a while, he said meaningfully: “Li Sanmao, your taste is truly nauseating. I really didn’t expect you to marry a woman like her as your wife!”
He thought Li Sanmao would be so struck that he’d want to bury his head in his crotch.
And never pay attention to Luo Zhi’er again. Unexpectedly, Li Sanmao just said indifferently,
“Heh heh, for me, Li Sanmao, to marry such a good woman as Zhi’er as my wife, that’s the good fortune I’ve cultivated over several lifetimes!”
“What?”
His eyes widened; which man could tolerate his wife having someone else in her heart?
“You, don’t you know about all her past?”
A flash of smugness in Luo Wenzhou’s eyes, “She used to chase after me all day long. I found it disgusting and couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to her!”
“Pah! Who do you think you are?”
Luo Zhi’er spat at him first,
“That was because I was young and didn’t know what a real man was. I just like my Sanmao Gege’s strong and powerful big build, his strong big arms, his eight-pack abs!”
“Tch! Who likes your skinny little frame… like a little collapsed vegetable…”
“You…”
Luo Wenzhou was instantly struck back so hard he couldn’t take it!
He shrank to the side, listless…!
A flash of coldness in Li Sanmao’s eyes, protecting his little one: “In the past? Heh! At least that’s been over six years ago…”
“She herself said that she was just a little young woman back then; what could she possibly know?”
“Now, Zhi’er is my Li Sanmao’s wife, Miaomiao’s mother, isn’t she?”
“What?” Luo Wenzhou’s eyes darted around; how was this Li Sanmao completely unmoved by his sowing discord?
Was the relationship between this couple so solid? A suspicious look in his eyes, and inexplicably, a trace of jealousy arose in his heart again.
“Don’t you want to know… what your wife was doing in the backyard of the apothecary just now?”
Beat around the bush first!
Damn it, this scummy ugly man was truly here to sow discord!
Luo Zhi’er put her hands on her hips and roared fiercely, cursing: “Luo Wenzhou, I didn’t dig up your family’s ancestral grave! In the backyard? So what if I’m in the backyard? What business is it of yours what I do there?”
“My Sanmao Gege never meddles in my little trifles; he just spoils me. And you still want to sow discord here!”
“You sneaky little man, are you envious or jealous? I haven’t seen you in six years, haven’t provoked you, and my days with Sanmao Gege are so comfortable!”
“What I said in the backyard, I’ll say again: don’t appear in front of me to be an eyesore anymore; go back where you came from, get lost!”
“San… Sanmao Gege?”
Luo Wenzhou was so angry at being called “gege” over and over that blood rushed to his forehead!
Back in Luojia Village, she used to call only him Wenzhou Gege!
“Luo Zhi’er, you fatty, you’re really shameless. I’m embarrassed for you. Nothing’s even happened yet, and you’re calling him gege every other word. You sure have a lot of good geges!”
Sourness bubbling in his heart…
“Tch! None of your business. You’re not allowed to talk nonsense; my only good gege is my family Sanmao!”
As she spoke, she hugged Li Sanmao’s arm, stood on tiptoe, and planted a “smack!” on his stubbly left cheek!
Li Sanmao was immediately a bit stunned… Dazed, he shook the bamboo basket on his back, “Wi… wife!”
And showed a silly pervert’s grin…
“You!”
Luo Wenzhou was shocked, so angry he nearly spat blood… eyes sparking… everything was so glaring!
“You flirtatious, shameless fat woman, don’t you know shame? Hugging and kissing on the street!”
“Tch! I’m happy to! Mind your own business! If you can’t stand it, just gouge out your own eyes!”
“You!”
“Hmph!”
Luo Zhi’er couldn’t understand this man’s behavior?
Could it be that because she no longer admired him now, it provoked him?
Anyway, she knew one thing: this Luo Wenzhou was deliberately here to sow discord in their husband-and-wife relationship!
Then let him see how good she and he were!
Luo Wenzhou’s purpose was indeed to sow discord. He was certain that Luo Zhi’er had hidden that scene of selling things from Li Sanmao.
Otherwise, why go to such a remote place as the backyard?
Li Sanmao watched Zhi’er’s childish and playful scene, raised an eyebrow, his voice slightly hoarse, “I’m happy too!”
“What? You two…”
He wanted to say adulterer and adulteress, but they were a proper husband and wife…
Li Sanmao looked serious, staring coldly at him,
“Whatever my wife does, that’s my wife’s business. I support whatever she does, no objections. But you, abandoning your wife to block us—what for?”
“I just… I just wanted to remind you, Luo Zhi’er isn’t what you think; she’s not proper!”
Li Sanmao’s face changed drastically, clenching his iron fist,
“Luo Wenzhou, right?”
“I didn’t go looking for trouble with you before—that was your good fortune. I remember everything you did to bully Zhi’er, hmph!”
“Listen up: don’t you dare think of harassing my Li Sanmao’s wife again, and don’t insult her repeatedly!”
“I, Li Sanmao, don’t usually get fierce, but when I do, I’m not to be trifled with! Next time I catch you bullying my wife, you… watch out for my iron fist!!!”
Li Sanmao raised his fist over his head, “You know what I do! My wife has me to protect her from now on!”
“Won’t kill you, but making you crippled is totally possible!”
Li Sanmao went hunting; that year he was scratched by a big cat, but that big cat supposedly didn’t get off easy either.
Back then, he beat it half-dead with his bare fists and iron fists. Later, when Old Man Luo went up the mountain to dig for mountain goods, he found the corpse under a big pine tree.
The skull was shattered; he only brought back a large tiger hide…
His reputation for beating a tiger was renowned in several nearby villages!
“Are you… your brain… have some problem?”
Luo Wenzhou shrank his neck; after a while, he could only come up with that. Otherwise, could it be… he… really fell in love with his wife?
This fat woman… impossible, absolutely impossible; he didn’t believe it!
Li Sanmao wasn’t angry and chuckled softly,
“It’s not a problem here; it’s this…”
He pointed first at his temple with his index finger, then at his heart.
“If you don’t believe me, you can try!”
Luo Wenzhou was stunned,
His heart—meaning… his heart belongs to his wife!
Luo Zhi’er? This ugly woman! Fat woman! What virtue or ability does she have?
He staggered, nearly tumbling…
“Luo Wenzhou, why haven’t you come back? You… you, you’re too much! Wuu…! I, Miao Hongmei, see you clearly now!”
Suddenly, Hua’er cried out shrilly from behind in a distraught manner.
That crying voice carried over with the wind… “You Luo Wenzhou don’t mind the shame, but I do!”
Hua’er stomped her foot, covered her mouth, turned, and ran off crying…
“No, Hongmei, wait!”
Luo Wenzhou hurriedly chased after her upon seeing this, but after just a few steps, he tripped over something and fell to the ground!
Luo Wenzhou helped her up… “Hua’er, are you okay?”
