I’ll Butcher Pigs to Support You! 109

Chapter 109: If Line: Reborn Before Marrying Xizhi [8]

Song Yugui: ?

She was bewildered, a little dazed, not knowing where her wife had gotten the idea that she was in love with Song Xinyu. Was it just because she had glanced at her?

But if someone passes by, isn’t it normal to glance at them?

Does one glance mean love?

Xiaozhi’er was getting more and more prone to overthinking.

She couldn’t help but reach out and rub Zhier’s soft, sweet cheek.

She smiled helplessly. Xiaozhi’er was even angrier, dodging her hand and burrowing her head into her embrace, complaining as she did so, “Say something, say something! I’ll be a good wife to you! I’ll listen to whatever you say, and I won’t scold you or say you’re not good! Don’t you like someone else…”

Her heart was about to break. What if my best wife doesn’t like me? What if she likes someone else? How can this be… Don’t like someone else.

Her eyes were watery as she thought.

How could Song Yugui have known that her little wife had already convicted her in her heart? She even asked her slowly, “If I look at her one more time, does that mean I’m in love with her?”

Shen Xizhi buried her head in her embrace, muttering unhappily, “If you weren’t in love with her, you wouldn’t be looking at her all the time.”

“Sss.”

This was too much nonsense.

“First of all, there was no ‘all the time’. I just happened to glance at her as she passed by. How can you talk such nonsense? Secondly, you are my wife. Why would I be in love with her? If you’re not happy, I’ll just close my eyes when I see her in the future. That should be fine, right?”

If I close my eyes, I won’t be able to see.

But who would suddenly close their eyes on the road? Shen Xizhi was not such a domineering person. She pouted her rosy lips, not very happy. “If you close your eyes, you won’t be able to see the road.”

“Mmm, that’s right. But what else can I do? What if I accidentally see Miss Song again? Won’t you be angry with me again?”

Xiaozhi’er was the most petty.

Song Yugui thought to herself.

But she couldn’t say this out loud. If she did, she would be even angrier.

Shen Xizhi was also troubled. She really didn’t like her wife looking at Miss Song, not even for a glance. After a while, she lifted her snowy white, delicate little face, pressed her rosy lips together, and said softly, “Then… then when Miss Song comes in the future, can you just lower your head? Don’t look at her, and don’t talk to her. I’ll be sad…”

She would think that her wife still liked her very much, even more than she liked her.

After all, everyone had known that her wife had liked her, and as for herself, what was she? Just the result of her being married off by her wife in a fit of pique after she had rejected her.

Every time she was jealous, Shen Xizhi would selectively forget that Song Yugui had said she liked her and would feel that she was not liked, just a second choice.

Song Yugui had no choice but to reiterate over and over again, “You don’t have to be so concerned about her. I don’t like her at all. I like you. I think you’re the most beautiful and the cutest. If you can’t help but be angry because of her, I can promise you that I’ll lower my head and not look at her when I see her in the future. But you have to know in your heart that I don’t love her. The person I like is you, and the person I love is also you. There has never been anyone else.”

Her tone was as gentle as it could be.

Shen Xizhi pouted her lips, about to cry.

“Really? You only like me, only love me? There’s really no one else?”

She held her wife’s neck and pressed her.

Afraid that she would slide off her, Song Yugui held her little bottom with one hand and nodded seriously. “Mmm, only you. There’s no one else.”

After her confirmation, a beautiful light instantly bloomed in Shen Xizhi’s eyes. She went closer and gave her a hard peck.

Her attitude was extremely intimate and natural. “You can’t have anyone else in the future either. Just like me, okay?”

Afraid that her wife would not agree, she quickly added, “I’ll always be very obedient to you. Didn’t you say my cooking is delicious? I’ll cook for you every day in the future, a different dish every day, okay?”

This was her wife, not someone else. She didn’t have to deliberately make it taste bad to make her angry.

“Mmm, alright. Xiaozhi’er is so obedient. Of course I’ll only like you and not others.”

She coaxed her gently.

Shen Xizhi’s eyes were filled with shyness, sparkling with a bright light, and she obediently agreed.

If she could only like me, that would be for the best.

“I’m going to cook. What do you want to eat today?”

“Whatever. I’ll eat whatever you make.”

“Then are we only having dumplings at night?”

“Mmm, didn’t we not knead the dough? It’s too late to make it now.”

“Alright.”

The two of them had a quick lunch. Dinner was when they had to be serious.

Song Yugui sat beside her wife. She rolled out the dumpling wrappers, and she helped to wrap the dumplings. Today, it was still dumplings with a shepherd’s purse and pork filling.

Shen Xizhi thought of something, and her movements paused, a hint of displeasure dyeing her eyes again.

She suddenly asked, “Who likes to eat shepherd’s purse dumplings? Miss Song?”

Song Yugui: ?

Weren’t you already coaxed just now? How did it start again?

She rubbed her forehead, her heart like dead ashes.

“Didn’t I say it? You love to eat shepherd’s purse dumplings. Don’t you love to eat them?”

Song Yugui’s eyes were filled with doubt. Has my wife’s taste changed? It can’t be, right? It’s been the same for over ten years.

Shen Xizhi bit her lip. Yes, she did love to eat shepherd’s purse dumplings. She thought they were delicious. But the problem was! “On our wedding day, it was my first time eating dumplings. Before that, I had never eaten dumplings, let alone liked them or not.”

She liked to eat shepherd’s purse dumplings, but she didn’t even know that she liked to eat them.

Song Yugui was shocked, her pupils suddenly shrinking. What! My wife has never eaten dumplings in her life?

“Wait, your Shen family doesn’t eat dumplings? Not even during the New Year?”

Shen Xizhi’s lips were pressed into a straight line. “We do. They eat them. I don’t.”

Song Yugui was instantly silenced. Her wife didn’t eat dumplings. What else could it be? She was bullied by them and wasn’t given any to eat.

A dull pain spread through her heart, and her eyes were watery as she stared at her wife. “It’s alright. We’ll be together in the future. You can eat dumplings whenever you want.”

Shen Xizhi lifted her eyelids. “Is that the point?”

Oh, that’s right. It wasn’t. The point was that Xizhi had never eaten dumplings. How did I know she loved to eat them with a shepherd’s purse and pork filling?

Damn it! You and your quick mouth!

“Then… then I was just guessing. I also really like shepherd’s purse and pork filling. I just guessed you would like it…”

Seeing her expression seem a little guilty, Shen Xizhi’s heart turned cold, and her tone was filled with grief and sadness. “Is it her!”

“Who?”

“Song Xinyu! Does she like to eat shepherd’s purse dumplings!”

“No!”

Hearing someone else’s name, Song Yugui denied it without even thinking.

“What does it have to do with Song Xinyu! I’m not even close to her and don’t even know what kind of filling she likes to eat! Don’t talk nonsense!”

“Then why did you say I like to eat shepherd’s purse filling? There are so many fillings. Why did you only say this one!”

Song Yugui was so guilty she couldn’t stand it. Seeing her wife holding the noodles with one hand and the rolling pin with the other, she was afraid that the rolling pin would smash into her own forehead in the next moment.

She pressed her forehead. “How would I know? I just thought of this at the time. Can’t you just say my mouth slipped? It has absolutely nothing to do with anyone else. Xiaozhi’er, don’t misunderstand me.”

She coaxed her wife with a warm voice.

Xiaozhi’er’s eyes were fierce, and they also carried an indescribable sense of grievance, which made one’s heart soften.

Song Yugui was afraid that she would really misunderstand and would keep this matter in her heart, thinking about it day and night and unable to sleep. It was too harmful to her body. The very thought of this made her heart ache.

Her tone became even softer and more gentle. “It’s really not because of anyone else. I didn’t expect that you had never eaten shepherd’s purse dumplings. I’ve also never eaten this with anyone else. Don’t be angry, okay?”

She held Xizhi’s slender, snowy white wrist and gently held her in her embrace, her brow furrowed. “I said, I only like you.”

Xiaozhi’er pouted her lips. “Really? Then why were you so good to Miss Song before?”

She had originally thought it was very good, that it would be fine if she married her, that she was also willing to live a good life with her and be good to her. This was the best possible ending. But…

She was too good. Being with such a good person, one would always uncontrollably sink a little, fall a little.

Shen Xizhi thought with her head bowed.

The moment love was born, jealousy would arise. Thinking that this person was good to her, but was even better to others, she was extremely jealous.

Can I compare to the status of others in her heart? She always says I’m very beautiful, but others say Miss Song is the village belle… Miss Song is also very beautiful. In her eyes, am I more beautiful or is Miss Song more beautiful? I don’t want to compare, but…

Before Shen Xizhi could finish her self-pity, she was fiercely and retaliatorily flicked on the head.

“Ya.”

She covered her head in a fluster, her eyes filled with a watery sheen, very dissatisfied. “You… what are you doing?”

Could it be that she was found out and is now hitting me out of shame and anger?! How outrageous!

She was not timid but even angrier.

Song Yugui was also angry, and she was even so angry she laughed. “How many times have I told you? I haven’t been good to Miss Song! I’m worried about you every day, afraid that you’re tired and hungry. I bring you food and help you with your work. You can go and ask that Miss Song if I’ve ever done such a thing for her?”

It wasn’t that Song Yugui was not confident. The original owner was so lazy. How could she go and help the village belle with her work?

If she really went, I would still respect her a little.

But it was impossible. If she had gone, Song Xinyu would have said something about it in her past life.

Shen Xizhi covered the spot that had been flicked, her eyes filled with confusion. After a long while, she tugged at her sleeve and asked, “Really? You’ve only ever done such a thing for me?”

“Mmm, if you don’t believe me, you can go and ask Miss Song.”

She was as open as the sky!

What she hadn’t done, she hadn’t done!

Hearing this, Shen Xizhi was already thinking in her heart that she really had to find a chance to go and ask Miss Song. She couldn’t always misunderstand her…

Before I ask, I’ll just believe her for now.

Thinking this, Shen Xizhi’s on-the-verge-of-tears expression subsided a lot, but she was still a little wronged. “I will go and ask Miss Song.”

Song Yugui’s face turned black. Wait, you’re really going to ask? You don’t believe me that much?

But then she heard her complain with a pitiful expression, “You just hit me so hard. Is it swollen? You can take a look.”

She pitifully asked her to take a look.

Song Yugui’s attention was immediately drawn away, and she was also worried. Did I use a lot of force? I was a little angry just now. Maybe it was very heavy.

“Let go. Let me see if it’s swollen.”

Shen Xizhi let go as she was told, her small mouth pouting with a wronged expression as she looked at her.

Song Yugui went closer, her brow slightly furrowed. “It’s red, not swollen. I can rub it for you and then apply some safflower oil, okay?”

Xizhi’s whole body was very white. That one red mark on her skin was really too conspicuous.

The sight made one’s heart soften, and they pitied her for being hurt.

“Mmm, alright.”

After she had finished her fuss, she returned to her usual obedient and docile appearance.

The switch between the two faces was so seamless it was truly amazing.

Song Yugui went inside to get a box of safflower oil, poured it into her palm, and carefully rubbed it warm before she applied it to her forehead, and then rubbed and rubbed.

Shen Xizhi tried her best to hold her wife’s waist so that her figure would not be unstable from being rubbed. She… she’s really something. She doesn’t even know to be a little gentler.

Song Yugui didn’t know that her wife was secretly complaining about her in her heart. After she had finished rubbing the safflower oil, she looked at the table of half-wrapped dumplings and felt a headache. “Then are we still having dumplings tonight? If you don’t want to eat dumplings, we can just eat something else.”

This whole fuss was because of the shepherd’s purse dumplings. She wasn’t sure if Xizhi still loved to eat this filling now. She was probably disgusted with it.

Shen Xizhi didn’t blame the dumplings. No matter what, the food was innocent, and she couldn’t bear to waste it.

So she nodded. “I want to eat them. We’re still having dumplings.”

“Alright then. Then I’ll continue to wrap. Do you want me to go and ask Miss Song to come over now, and then you can ask her directly?”

This would be faster. It always felt a little awkward not to ask clearly.

Shen Xizhi gave her a coquettish glare. “Didn’t you promise me you wouldn’t talk to Miss Song?”

Song Yugui: …

“Oh, if I don’t say, I don’t say.”

She just wouldn’t say it.

“Then you can find a chance to ask her yourself. Remember to be quick. I don’t want to come back every day to your cold face.”

That would be too torturous.

Shen Xizhi pouted and didn’t speak.

Her dumpling-wrapper-rolling speed was very fast. She immediately rolled out the dumpling wrappers the two of them were going to eat and then helped to cook them.

The shepherd’s purse and pork dumplings really tasted very good, and she liked them very much.

If it weren’t for her wife’s initial words, she would have really liked to eat the shepherd’s purse and pork filling the most.

Song Yugui was angry that she really didn’t believe her and was extra fierce when she bullied her at night.

She had clearly already sucked until she couldn’t suck out any more sweet juice, yet she still insisted on using force, and she also bullied her one after another. Shen Xizhi almost had an out-of-body experience, her joyous body trembling.

Her voice was tense. “Don’t… don’t do it anymore…”

A line of clear tears slid down the corner of her eye.

She hoped that the other would listen to her and give her a break, but she also knew that once she was on the bed, how it went was not up to her.

Song Yugui had been wronged and coaxed her during the day, and at night, she took it all back on this bed.

Shen Xizhi was so pleased her waist lifted, and the tip of her pale, tender bottom trembled slightly.

Tears slid down, wetting her chin. Her beautiful eyes looked up at the ceiling in a daze until she was gently held in her arms.

Song Yugui had clearly let out her anger, humming and humming, her mood much better. She held her slippery wife in her arms, her chin resting on her shoulder, one hand holding her large, soft, white bottom, and squeezed it casually.

Shen Xizhi looked at her with a shy and timid expression, also reaching out to hold her waist, leaning against her embrace, her rosy lips pressed together, her small feet kicking her leg. “We haven’t washed up yet. I want to wash first.”

“Mmm, then I’ll go and boil the hot water.”

Every time this happened, Xizhi’s legs would always be sore and weak. She couldn’t possibly ask such a Xiaozhi’er to go and boil the water.

Shen Xizhi wrapped herself in the snowy white quilt, only her head poking out. She kept looking at the door, trying to wait for her to come back.

When is she coming back? It’s only been a short while since we separated, but I feel that the quilt is so cold.

The firewood was burning brightly, and the hot water was ready soon. Song Yugui mixed in some cold water and carried it in. Holding a clean cloth in her hand, she said warmly, “It’s late today. It’s fine to just wipe down. Don’t wash.”

The person on the bed was also obedient and said “oh.” Her small, sweet face burrowed into her embrace again.

Although they had just had a fight today, she was as clingy as ever.

Song Yugui wet the cotton cloth and wiped her all over, clean and refreshed. Only then did the two of them lie down on the bed again.

The room was quiet. It seemed that they were both asleep, but in fact, neither of them were.

Shen Xizhi was always rubbing her leg with her foot!

Not at all honest.

Song Yugui snorted lightly in her heart and asked, “If you find out in the end that you’ve wronged me, how do you plan to compensate me?”

The young woman’s eyes widened. “Why do I have to compensate?”

“Of course! I can’t just be wronged by you for nothing, can I?”

She said so, and that was also…

Shen Xizhi puffed out her cheeks and finally let it go with a helpless expression. She nestled in her embrace and said in a muffled voice, “Then what do you want?”

Hearing her words seem to compromise, Song Yugui’s eyes lit up. She took her hand. “I’ve recently thought of a new way to play.”

Shen Xizhi: …

I don’t want to hear it, I don’t want to hear it at all.

But she didn’t want to hear it, but her wife insisted on saying.

Song Yugui went closer to her ear: blah, blah, blah, a writing brush… spreading her legs on a stool, blah, blah, blah, you can hold your own chest.

Shen Xizhi: …

I really don’t want to hear her say this.

The young woman’s whole body was already flushed pink with shyness.

Her watery, bright eyes hid in her embrace, not wanting to speak.

Seeing her not speaking, Song Yugui knew she had agreed. She smiled more happily than anything, the corners of her lips curving up, and she held her wife and fell into a deep sleep.

The next morning, she still had to get up early to help her wife tuck in her quilt and then go to town. When Shen Xizhi woke up, there was no one at home. She propped herself up on the bed and got up. Thinking of how Song Yugui had been unruly before she left and had secretly lifted the quilt to suck on her, her cheeks were a mixture of white and pink.

She ran into Song Xinyu. It was during mealtime.

As it was hot now, they would sometimes eat in the courtyard. So she carried her bowl of congee and walked into the courtyard, and saw Song Xinyu carrying a small basket, passing her and going up the mountain.

Shen Xizhi immediately called out to stop her.

“Miss Song.”

Song Xinyu had been glared at by her yesterday and had been angry all night. Today, seeing her, she also immediately glared at her.

Shen Xizhi just pretended she didn’t see and tried her best to show a smile, quickly walking over. “Miss Song, do you have a moment?”

Song Xinyu was not in a good mood, her arms crossed, very unhappy. “What?”

“I have a few things I want to ask you. It’s about my wife.”

…

Song Yugui had almost sold all her meat and was finally waiting for her own wife.

Xizhi was dressed exceptionally beautifully today. The clothes were a snowy white long skirt she had specially bought for her some time ago. She had always complained that it was easy to get dirty and had refused to wear it. Today, she was actually wearing it. She had also applied a thin layer of makeup on her face, had tied her hair into an exquisite bun, had put on a few small, plain flowers, and was also wearing the dangling pearl hairpin she had bought for her. The fine, moist pearls hit her face, and she just stood there, holding a basket, smiling at her gently.

Song Yugui swallowed hard.

A discussion about which family this woman was from actually started in the surroundings.

She was immediately anxious and shouted, “Xizhi, you’re here! Come here quickly!”

Shen Xizhi went over with a smile, her expression extremely gentle. “Yugui.”

Seeing her come closer, Song Yugui reached out to hold her hand, her voice unable to hide her satisfaction. “Why are you dressed so beautifully today?”

The young woman in front of her twisted her body. “Do you think it’s beautiful?”

“Mmm, beautiful.”

“If you like it, I’ll wear it for you every day in the future.”

Her tone was delicate and soft, with a hint of a desire to please. From Song Yugui’s understanding of her, she had been so excessive last night. It would have been good enough if she hadn’t been angry. How could she still come and please her? So this was… she had asked Song Xinyu and knew that she had guessed wrong?

Hmph.

Song Yugui suddenly stood up. She glanced at Shen Xizhi and turned her head away proudly.

Shen Xizhi pleaded in a panic, “Don’t… don’t ignore me.”

“Why should I talk to you? You don’t think I’ll be willing to be wronged by you for nothing just because you’re wearing something beautiful for me to see, do you?”

The young woman was extremely guilty and nervously pressed her lips together. “Then… then what do you want? I’ll listen to whatever you say, okay?”

She was obedient at this time.

Song Yugui was also not soft-hearted and requested, “Do you remember what I told you last night?”

Thinking of those words, Shen Xizhi’s cheeks suddenly turned red. She lowered her eyes slightly, looking shy.

After a long while, fearing that Song Yugui would really be angry, she finally nodded slightly.

Song Yugui: Comfortable.

She showed her wife a smiling face and affectionately pinched her small face. “That’s more like it. It was you who slandered me in the first place. We’ve been arguing about this for so many times, and you still want to argue with me.”

Being with a thick-skinned wife, Shen Xizhi’s skin was also gradually becoming thicker. Being pinched on the face in the street, she was still shameless enough to lean into her embrace without anyone else around.

Her eyes blinked lightly, so good, so good.

She said in a pleading voice, “I won’t make a fuss anymore in the future. I believe you, I believe all of you. Don’t be angry with me. I was wrong, Yugui, Yugui-jiejie~”

Her small waist was almost twisted into a pretzel. She was dressed like a fairy, but the moment she acted coquettishly with her, she was still the same young girl as before.

Song Yugui had never been able to bear to be really angry with her. Seeing this, she held her slender waist, which was cinched by a belt, and secretly touched it. “Mmm, I’m not angry anymore. You can wait for me for a little while. After I’ve sold all the meat, I’ll take you to buy a few new sets of clothes, and then we’ll go home.”

“Mmm, mmm, alright. I’ll buy a chicken to take back, and I’ll make you chicken soup tonight to replenish your strength.”

“Alright.”

The moment Song Yugui had agreed, she saw a brother selling vegetables next to her walk over with a foolish smile, wanting to buy two catties of streaky pork. She replied with an “okay” and nimbly divided the meat for him. However, the other’s attention was not on the meat but was constantly looking at her side. Song Yugui impatiently threw the meat over. “Seventy wen. Take care.”

“Aiya, alright.”

The other took the meat but still didn’t leave, finally asking hesitantly, “Sister Song, is this your younger sister?”

Song Yugui had been a butcher here for a long time, and the original owner had also sold meat here, so everyone nearby knew her.

But Shen Xizhi had only been here a few times, so they didn’t know her.

Seeing this, Song Yugui’s small face turned black. She knew he had designs on her wife and couldn’t help but wave her hand impatiently. “Go, go, go! This is my wife! Don’t ask anymore! She’s not my sister, she’s my wife!”

She deliberately raised her voice by a couple of notches. When the people around heard it, someone immediately sighed in disappointment.

You’re crazy! My wife is my wife! What’s there for you to be disappointed about?

Shen Xizhi didn’t stop her from saying these things and just stood by her side, covering her mouth with a gentle smile.

She let her grip her own hand angrily, and then she affectionately leaned into her wife’s embrace.

In this life, it was already very good to be able to live with her in mutual love. It was already a good life she had never dared to imagine before. Someone pitied her, doted on her, and treated her like a treasure.