“Mom, are we really going to do this with Big Brother’s newlywed wife?”
“What are you afraid of? He’s serving in the army far away. He’s never even come home.”
Huo Jianguo was somewhat reluctant. “But she’s a fool…”
“A fool is even better!” Liu Hongxia shot her son a look. “From now on, just let her stay home and give us sons. Leftovers are enough for her to eat. If she dares to run away, break her legs. After all, as long as she can give birth to sons, that’s all that matters…”
……
Qian Xing’s brows twitched. In her sleep, she sensed the presence of a stranger and instinctively grabbed the other person’s hand, pressing down on a nerve point and squeezing it.
“Ah! It’s numb, it’s numb! Mom, help me! My hand is numb!”
The hoarse, grating voice was so irritating that Qian Xing finally opened her eyes.
Whitewashed walls. A wooden bed frame. And standing beside the bed was a startled-looking man and woman.
This wasn’t her room.
Qian Xing frowned slightly. When the corner of her eye caught sight of the dark, skinny hand that clearly did not belong to her, memories came flooding into her mind.
She was an orphan, picked up and raised by an immortal master from a young age. But her master had calculated that she would not live past twenty-five. The only way she might have a chance of survival was by doing more good deeds.
Thus, she learned medicine and divination from her master and traveled the world, saving people wherever she went. She had become highly skilled in medicine, but when it came to divination, she had barely even gotten her foot through the door.
On the eve of her birthday, her master had divined that beyond the Gates of Death, a great opportunity was waiting for her. He had also said that her destined person was somewhere in the southwest.
Qian Xing blinked.
So… she really had died, only to come alive in another world inside a different body.
The original owner of this body had been mentally impaired. She had been picked up by this woman and brought home. On the surface, she had been married to the woman’s eldest son, but because the eldest son was away from home, the woman actually intended for her younger son to take his place on the wedding night and continue the family line.
And the reason was so ridiculous that it was almost laughable.
They simply wanted more grandchildren.
While the two were still stunned, Qian Xing quickly checked her pulse.
Fortunately, her body was merely severely malnourished and depleted. Her life was not in danger, and she could be nursed back to health.
“Why did she wake up so quickly? I wasted a whole cup of Shaodaozi!”
Liu Hongxia stamped her feet in distress.
“Forget it! Who cares? I’ll hold her down. Hurry up and get on!”
She quickly pressed both hands against Song Qianxing’s shoulders, pinning her onto the bed so she could not move.
Qian Xing tried to struggle, but her body was still weak and limp. The effects of the alcohol probably had not worn off yet. Forget beating someone up—even pushing the woman pinning her down was difficult.
She frowned.
Before she could stop him, the man standing at the foot of the bed had already taken off his pants and climbed on top of her.
“Wife, let’s consummate our marriage. Hehe.”
Huo Jianguo had initially been unwilling. This fool was dark and skinny, with bones so prominent they were uncomfortable to touch.
But now, as he leaned over and pushed aside her disheveled hair, he realized that her features were actually quite beautiful. Especially those large eyes—they were as lively as a cat’s. When she slightly narrowed them, they even carried a hint of alluring charm.
Huo Jianguo immediately felt himself heating up.
Besides, she was his elder brother’s wife.
Whenever he thought of his elder brother’s stern appearance, he could not help but shudder.
Now that he had the chance to sleep with his elder brother’s woman, wouldn’t that mean he had finally gotten one over on him?
Let’s see how his elder brother could act superior in front of him after this!
Huo Jianguo reached out to undo the buttons of the woman beneath him. His excitement made his hands tremble slightly.
But when he glanced at his mother sitting on the bed to his right, he frowned.
“Mom, go outside first. How am I supposed to do anything with you here?”
“You’re shy in front of your own mother now? When you were sixteen, you used to run around the whole village with your bare butt.”
Liu Hongxia rolled her eyes, but she did not argue with her son. She released the hand that had been holding the foolish girl down and stepped away from the bed.
Qian Xing had been waiting for precisely this opportunity.
The moment she realized both hands were free, she immediately raised her hand and struck directly and precisely at Huo Jianguo’s eyes.
“Ah!!”
The pain in his eyes made Huo Jianguo squeeze them shut and scream.
Song Qianxing seized the opportunity and pressed several acupoints on Huo Jianguo’s body in rapid succession. Then she shoved him away.
The man on top of her immediately collapsed to the floor with a loud thud.
“Ah—! Mom, my eyes! They hurt so much!”
Huo Jianguo felt that it was not only his eyes that hurt. His entire body was numb and weak, as though he had been pinned down by a ghost in his sleep.
“Mom! Where are you? Hurry and help me up!”
Huo Jianguo’s screams were piercing.
Not only did Liu Hongxia, who had just walked out of the room, hear him, but the guests in the main hall who had finished their wedding feast and were about to leave heard him as well.
Hearing her son’s cries, Liu Hongxia had no time to explain anything. She immediately turned around and rushed back into the room.
The people in the main hall exchanged glances. They quickly sensed that something unusual had happened and hurried after Liu Hongxia to see what was going on.
Inside the room, Huo Jianguo was sitting on the floor with his pants halfway down, covering his eyes and crying out in pain.
Meanwhile, the foolish newlywed daughter-in-law of the Huo family sat on the bed, staring blankly into space.
Anyone could immediately tell what had happened from this scene.
The person squeezed closest to the front immediately shouted,
“Huo Jianguo tried to take advantage of his sister-in-law and got beaten up! What a shameless bastard—”
Before he could finish, Liu Hongxia slapped him across the face.
“What are you saying?!”
She glared viciously at him.
“This is a misunderstanding!”
She helped her son up and hurriedly pulled his pants back on.
“My… my Jianguo simply fell down.”
Chen Guiying, the woman who had been slapped, was no pushover either. She immediately tried to chase after Liu Hongxia and retaliate, shouting all the while,
“You people dare to do something so shameless, yet you’re afraid of people talking about it?”
“I’m going to say it! Huo Jianguo is shameless! He tried to get handsy with his elder brother’s wife!”
“You—you’re talking nonsense! She was the one trying to seduce me! I went into the room to get her some hot water, and she suddenly threw herself at me. She even took off my pants!”
As the stabbing pain in Huo Jianguo’s eyes eased somewhat, he immediately began defending himself.
Fortunately, this fool was weak. His eyes were merely reddened and his vital areas had not been seriously injured.
Huo Jianguo had dared to do it, but he absolutely did not dare admit to it.
Not only was sleeping with his elder brother’s wife a major taboo in the village, but if word of this reached his elder brother’s ears, he would probably be beaten to death.
Fortunately, she was a fool.
They could say whatever they wanted, and she would not be able to defend herself.
“I saw her all alone and helpless in the mountains, so out of the goodness of my heart, I took her in. Who would have thought she was such a shameless—”
Slap!
The crisp sound of a slap echoed throughout the entire room.
Everyone stared in shock.
At some point, the foolish girl on the bed had already gotten down. The hand she had used to slap Liu Hongxia had yet to be lowered.
“You stupid fool! How dare you hit me!”
Liu Hongxia covered her burning cheek and immediately raised her hand to slap her back.
Qian Xing reacted swiftly and blocked it.
She then kicked Liu Hongxia to the ground, climbed on top of her, and pinned her down.
“What did you just say? That you took me in out of the goodness of your heart?”
Liu Hongxia was pinned down and unable to move. Furious, she shouted,
“That’s right! I was kind enough to take you in, only for you to repay my kindness with betrayal, you ungrateful wretch—”
“Slap, slap, slap, slap, slap!”
Before she could finish, a series of slaps rained down on her face like a sudden downpour.
“Ah! You—you let go of me!”
Liu Hongxia tried to shield herself, but for some reason, she could not muster any strength at all. She could only twist her head from side to side, desperately trying to dodge the barrage of slaps.
“Help! Someone help me!”
Liu Hongxia’s cries finally snapped everyone present out of their daze.
But for a moment, no one actually dared to step forward and pull the foolish girl away.
Who knew whether the fool would turn around and attack them next?
The Huo family had never done much good in the village. Why should they risk getting involved to save her?
Seeing this, Huo Qiang hurriedly called out to everyone,
“What are you all standing around for? Hurry up and pull her away!”
His voice was urgent, but he made no move whatsoever to stop the beating himself.
Chen Guiying crossed her arms and sneered,
“Liu Hongxia, look at that. Even your own son doesn’t dare come over!”
“That’s enough!”
Village Chief Chen Weidong walked over to the foolish girl and tried to persuade her.
“Foolish girl, stop for now. Don’t beat her too badly. If you have something to say, we can talk it out.”
Qian Xing paused before getting off Liu Hongxia.
Seeing that someone had finally managed to restrain the foolish girl, Liu Hongxia immediately regained her confidence.
“Captain, hurry up and arrest her!”
“This wretched woman only dares to bully our Huo family because she knows we’re kindhearted! Everyone saw me give her food. No matter how you put it, everyone here is on my side.”
“Captain, you tell me—our family kindly took her in, and somehow we’re the ones at fault—ah!!”
A wooden stick as thick as an arm came crashing down on Liu Hongxia, cutting her off mid-sentence.