The little ones, who were happily playing just moments ago, climbed onto the bench with trepidation.
Su Yunyi had a condition: she was prone to tearfulness and was easily swayed by any emotion. Upon hearing him curse, her eyes turned red, but she didn’t dare to provoke him.
She tiptoed towards Xiao Ze’s mother.
Xiao Ze, catching sight of her out of the corner of his eye, became even more annoyed.
They were about to eat, and she still wasn’t sitting properly. Mom only bought a pound of meat, and she was so greedy, yet she hadn’t come to grab a spot.
She’d be hungry again at home later if she didn’t eat enough.
“Su Yunyi, come here.”
Hearing his voice, the plump body suddenly lifted its head. Her nose was red, and her eyes were misty, looking incredibly pitiful.
In his memory, Su Yunyi wasn’t this prone to crying.
What trick was this woman trying to pull now?
If he didn’t know her true nature, he would have been deceived by her.
“Everyone sit down, let’s eat, let’s eat.” Xiao Ze’s mother smoothed things over and pushed Su Yunyi to sit next to Xiao Ze.
Xiao Ze’s father looked like a respectable farmer. After receiving a look from Xiao Ze’s mother, he fumbled under the table for a bottle of wine and placed it on the table.
“Third child, today is your wedding day. I’ll pour you a cup. You’re an adult now that you’re married. Live well with your wife from now on, and don’t mess around anymore.”
Xiao Ze reached out and covered the rim of the cup: “Dad, I’ve quit drinking. You drink it yourself.”
What?
Xiao Ze’s words were like a bomb, stunning the entire Xiao family.
The drunken Xiao Laosan actually said he was quitting drinking.
Xiao Ge, his elder brother, said foolishly: “Dad, Laosan drank too much last night. He probably can’t drink now. You should save it. Otherwise, he’ll remember in a few days and fight with you again.”
“I’ve really quit drinking. I won’t drink today, and I won’t drink in the future either.”
Seeing that he was serious, everyone perfunctorily agreed: “That’s good, that’s good.”
Clearly, no one believed him. He subconsciously looked at Su Yunyi beside him.
Su Yunyi was looking at him with a shocked expression.
The book didn’t say he beat people every time he got drunk.
Was she possessed by a lucky carp?
On her first day after getting married, her drunken husband had quit drinking?
Meeting Xiao Ze’s gaze, Su Yunyi said sincerely: “Alcohol is not a good thing. Drinking too much harms the liver and damages the brain nerves. It’s a good thing that you can quit drinking.”
Su Yunyi’s words reminded him of the memories of suffering after getting liver cancer in his previous life.
Xiao Ze’s mother saw that Su Yunyi could persuade people so eloquently and was very satisfied. She was indeed a girl who grew up in the city; her knowledge was extensive.
Xiao Ze’s mother, happy, took the largest, glistening piece of fatty meat from the bowl of streaky pork and placed it in Su Yunyi’s bowl.
“Yunyi, eat meat. Strive to give me a chubby grandson soon. You are both good-looking, so your child will surely be beautiful.”
“Tch”
Xiao Ze’s mocking laugh was not very hurtful, but extremely insulting.
She was plump now, but she had looked in the mirror. Her features were very attractive. Every fat person was a potential stock, and she would definitely become beautiful.
Looking at the large piece of fatty meat in her bowl, she couldn’t bring herself to eat it.
Xiao Ze saw Su Yunyi staring blankly at the bowl and nudged her.
“If you’re not eating, give it to me.”
As if receiving a signal, Su Yunyi picked up the fatty meat and put it in his bowl: “Eat it.”
Xiao Ze had only intended to tease her, but he didn’t expect her to be so willing to give the meat to him.
She even looked at him with sparkling eyes, signaling him to eat quickly.
Under Su Yunyi’s gaze, Xiao Ze ate the piece of fat bomb in one bite.
Xiao Ze’s mother didn’t expect her youngest son and daughter-in-law’s relationship to progress so rapidly in just one afternoon. She smiled so broadly that her eyes couldn’t close.
She kept urging everyone to take more food and eat heartily.
When they were leaving, Xiao Ze’s mother pulled out a small bunch of green onions, garlic, and two cabbages from the field behind the house for her.
Before anyone else could see, she slipped two eggs into her bag.
She didn’t want to lose the daughter-in-law she had finally acquired, lest she run away from hunger.
On the way back after dinner, Su Yunyi began to worry. There was only one bed in the house.
How would they sleep tonight?
Back home, Xiao Ze went into the room, took off his clothes, and wearing only a pair of shorts, poured a bucket of water over himself from head to toe. After washing, he went into the room.
Su Yunyi didn’t expect Xiao Ze to have such a good physique – broad shoulders and a narrow waist.
But it was a pity that he had a good appearance but was too fierce and prone to anger.
Su Yunyi washed her face by moonlight and brushed her teeth with the toothbrush she had brought from the city.
This home was so poor that they couldn’t even afford a kerosene lamp.
It was dark inside and out, which was quite frightening.
Su Yunyi stood outside, swatting mosquitoes for a long time, then made up her mind.
She was married anyway, and they had slept in the same bed yesterday. Given his looks, she wouldn’t lose out even if they slept together.
She took off her outer clothes, stepped over the bulging quilt, and crawled into the covers, curling herself up at the farthest edge of the bed from Xiao Ze.
Xiao Ze felt Su Yunyi’s rustling movements and smelled the milky scent on her. It was a lie to say he felt nothing, after all, she was the woman who had given birth to his child.
However, he wasn’t planning to touch her right now. Although she said she wasn’t leaving now, who knew if she would get tired of the hardships of village life in a couple of days and, like in her previous life, constantly clamor to return to the city.
Moreover, his house was fine in the summer, but it would be freezing to death in the winter.
He needed to find a way to earn some money and renovate the house before winter.
With their own thoughts, they somehow spent the night peacefully.
When Su Yunyi woke up, the sun was already shining brightly outside.
She sat up in bed and stared blankly for a few seconds, looking at the unfamiliar surroundings, and then remembered her current situation.
She put on her clothes, stretched, and Su Yunyi had the illusion that she was about to get up and shoot a video. She entered the kitchen. The kitchen had a cold stove and a cold pot. There were only the two eggs and two cabbages she had brought back from the Xiao family yesterday.
Xiao Ze wasn’t here, and she felt too embarrassed to eat the eggs all by herself.
Rubbing her stomach, which was already protesting, she felt the fifty yuan hidden in her pocket.
This money was given to her by her adoptive parents in the city when they sent her away. Su’s mother had quietly put it in her bag and told her to keep it hidden and not let anyone else see it.
In those days, fifty yuan was a lot of money. It was the monthly salary of her cheap father, Su Fu, and that was because Su Fu was the director of the meat processing plant, so his salary was so high. Ordinary workers only earned about thirty yuan a month.
Su Yunyi planned to go and buy some chicks.
As soon as she opened the door, she bumped into a wet body.
It was Xiao Ze.
Water was still dripping from him. He was carrying a string of fish with a grass rope. Su Yunyi reached out to take it.
Xiao Ze had already walked past her and hung the fish on the kitchen door.
Su Yunyi then saw clearly that there were five fish, each weighing about six or seven catties.
Looking at Xiao Ze, who was drenched, Su Yunyi boldly guessed: “Did you catch the fish? Is there a river nearby?”
Xiao Ze looked at her fixedly: “Caught in the reservoir. You should stay away from there.”
He used the back of the knife to pat the fish heads twice to stun them, then began to scale them, remove their gills, and clean their insides, his movements so swift that one would think he was a master chef.