I’ll Butcher Pigs to Support You! 108

Chapter 108: If Line: Reborn Before Marrying Xizhi [7]

The Shen family were arguing with Auntie Li’s husband and wife, trying to force their way in. They hadn’t expected to be forcefully pushed away by a person who had suddenly appeared, and immediately let out an “aiyo” and staggered twice.

They were about to look up and question, but a knife, glinting with a silver light, was fiercely swung at the fence.

Everyone was shocked and looked over with a trembling expression. Seeing Song Yugui standing in front of them with a cold face, they all dared not speak.

Song Yugui looked inside and saw her own wife, frail and helpless, fall to the ground. An nameless anger surged up in her, and she was so angry she was about to die.

The moment I’m not careful, someone always comes to bully my wife!

She stepped into the fence and helped her wife up with a cold face, scolding her as she did so. “Can’t you hide a little further away when you see them coming! Why did you still come out? Did they push you?”

Song Yugui looked over, her gaze as if she were going to eat someone, which startled everyone again and again.

How could Wang-shi have known that the butcher would come back so early? She was flustered the moment she ran into her. Now, seeing that she had the intention of blaming them, she was even more flustered, muttering, “What’s wrong with a fall? We country folk are not so delicate. It’s not like she broke her hands or feet.”

It wasn’t until Shen Xizhi saw her wife return that the momentum she had been holding on to dissipated, and a sense of grievance instantly spread. She pouted her lips, her eyes becoming watery and glistening, and her voice also carried a hint of a sob. She softly hammered her wife’s chest and blamed her willfully, “It’s all your fault for not being here. They all bullied me. I wanted to tell them to go back, but no one listened to me.”

Seeing her like this, Song Yugui’s heart ached even more. She held the small hand that was pushing her and pressed it against her face, gritting her teeth. “Alright, alright, alright. It’s all my fault. If I had known they would come, I wouldn’t have gone out today. Don’t you know how shameless your family is? I told you not to have any contact with them. The moment they came, you should have just gone back to the room and waited for me to come back. Would they have dared to tear down my door?”

Being called shameless by her, Wang-shi’s face turned a mixture of green and black. A man also came out from beside her relatives, his tone very displeased. “You must be the Shen family’s in-law, Yugui, right? Since you’ve married Shen Xizhi, you are our junior. As a junior, how can you insult your elders? How did your parents teach you?”

Ever since Song Yugui had stood up, Auntie Li’s husband and wife had no longer cared about this matter. It was clear that it could be resolved. Song Yugui was not a person with a good temper.

She just saw Song Yugui pick up her wife horizontally, pat the dirt from her skirt, and say with a cold face, “I have no parents to teach me, and not everyone is worthy of being my elder.”

Xizhi’s two hands nervously held her wife’s neck, burying her small face in her embrace, her pale fingers gripping a corner of her clothes, not daring to speak, just hoping that she would stand up for her.

Seeing her so fierce, the man was even more unhappy. “Sure enough, you’re a wild child with no parents to teach you, to be able to say such unreasonable things!”

“If you dare to say one more word, do you believe I’ll chop you to death!”

They had already said she was unreasonable, so she would be unreasonable. If she were too reasonable with this group of people, they would only push their luck!

The people who were shown unreasonableness: …

Shivering with anger.

“You… you really are…”

The man’s hand was trembling with anger. He pointed at her but couldn’t say a single word.

Song Yugui ignored them, turned around, and went back into the room to put Xizhi down. She told her not to come out and then hurried to scold them. This group of people were also used to being unreasonable, but their reputation was not as well-known as Song Yugui’s. Wang-shi had been greatly embarrassed and was still not convinced, about to speak, when Song Yugui turned and pointed the tip of her knife at her, saying fiercely, “I spent six taels of silver to marry a wife, not to welcome you bunch of poor relatives! Since Xizhi has entered my family’s door, she is my person and has no more relationship with you. Don’t come looking for her, and don’t even dream of getting a single coin from me. It would be faster to just dream.”

The moment these words came out, Wang-shi’s expression changed, and the expressions of the group of relatives who didn’t want to be scolded and were acting like quails also changed. They kept glaring at Wang-shi. “Didn’t you say she only gave a betrothal gift of one tael of silver, and that it was because you saw her sincere love for Shen Xizhi that you agreed to this marriage!”

Someone said angrily.

No wonder. The wedding banquet that day was so grand. She had specially bought a bright red wedding dress, and it was said that the bride had even worn a phoenix crown!

Such a family, how could they only give one tael of silver? The Shen Yaozu family was so profit-driven. How could they be willing if they only gave one tael of silver?

Sure enough, it was fake!

She said that just to delay repaying their money!

This group of relatives instantly glared at Wang-shi. Wang-shi’s heart panicked, and she quickly looked at Song Yugui again. “How can a woman not recognize her parents after she’s married? If her family is in trouble, how can she, as a daughter, just stand by and watch!”

Song Yugui was impatient with these things and just said one sentence, “I won’t care. If Xizhi marries me, she has to listen to me. If you have no money, then let that useless son of yours stop studying and hurry home to farm. People trusted you, which is why they were willing to lend you money. But you’re good, you’re treating them like fools. You clearly have the money but you just won’t repay it. I’ve seen shameless people, but people as shameless as your family are rare.”

The moment others heard her speak up for them, they became even more indignant. They all spoke up one after another. “That’s right! We trusted you, which is why we were willing to lend you money! It’s one thing for you to keep dragging it out and not repaying it, but I heard that you even had a new set of clothes made for Shen Yaozu!”

The one who spoke was Shen Yaozu’s aunt. She had also lent money out, which was why she had hurried over today to ask for the money.

Wang-shi was annoyed that Song Yugui had cursed her son for being useless and shouted, “Yaozu is a scholar. What do you people know about a scholar’s affairs? You’ve helped Yaozu. When he passes the imperial examinations in the future, will he forget you?”

She was using this excuse again. Song Yugui was quite unimpressed with such a big tongsheng. She quietly spat out two words, “Idiot.”

Then she turned and left.

She was sure they wouldn’t dare to barge in.

And that was indeed the case. This group of people had originally come because they had thought they could get money from the Song family. But the other’s meaning was as clear as it could be.

She looked down on them and would not give them money.

And with the sudden knowledge that the Shen family had tricked them, their hearts were no longer united. They were all blaming the Shen family for tricking them, and in a short while, they had all dispersed.

Wang-shi was left alone, unable to support herself. How could she dare to cause trouble? Naturally, she also hurried home.

Song Yugui returned to the room with a cold face. Xizhi was anxiously craning her neck, trying to see outside through the window. Seeing her return, she immediately pulled her neck back and smiled at her fawningly.

She was afraid of scaring her wife and still softened her expression, curving her lips helplessly. “Is there any place where you fell and it hurts?”

She reached out to touch but hadn’t expected Shen Xizhi’s head to come closer, pressing her small face against her palm, looking extremely obedient, her soft, fleshy face nuzzling her palm.

Cute.

The scolding words could no longer be said. She held her wife’s small face and gently pinched it. “Does it hurt where you fell?”

Shen Xizhi shook her head. “It doesn’t hurt. I just wasn’t steady on my feet.”

Her aunt was about to fight with them. She was anxious and wanted to go and stop her, but she hadn’t expected the wound to still be a little painful. She wasn’t steady on her feet and fell.

Ever since she had married her wife and had been doted on every day, she was becoming more and more clumsy.

Song Yugui gently opened her knee to look. Seeing that the wound on it had already scabbed over and looked like it would be fine soon, and that it hadn’t been reopened, she was a little relieved.

“If something like today happens again, you just hide in the room and don’t come out. Wait for me to come back and then tell me. I’ll go to their door and find them.”

Song Yugui was not a person who liked to cause trouble, but she also knew very well that for this kind of person, if you don’t beat them until they’re afraid once and for all, you won’t have any peace in the future.

Shen Xizhi nodded and then said in a small voice, “Then when I wake up in the future, can I go to town to find you? I’m scared when I’m at home alone.”

After today, she was afraid she would be uneasy, always afraid that someone would come to her house to bully her. She didn’t dare to stay at home alone anymore.

Song Yugui thought of how in her past life, Xizhi also liked to cling to her side and go to town with her. It turned out that no matter which Xizhi it was, they were all the same.

She smiled helplessly.

Seeing her not speaking, Shen Xizhi thought she wasn’t agreeing. Her eyes immediately turned red, and she said with a wronged expression, “I’ll tidy up the house before I go and find you. I won’t not work just because I’m going to town.”

I’ll be very good and virtuous.

Her doe-like eyes welled with tears again, as if if she didn’t agree, she would immediately cry.

How could Song Yugui bear to see her wife cry? She quickly agreed. “Alright, alright, alright! It’s fine even if you don’t do housework! I couldn’t be happier if you’re willing to come to town with me.”

Her eyes were gentle, and she reached out to stroke her lover’s face.

Hearing her agree, Shen Xizhi’s expression finally relaxed a little, and her eyes were also filled with a soft smile.

Cute.

She went closer and kissed her on the eyes, then little by little, she moved down, kissing her on her two delicate lips.

“Ugh.”

One hand held her wife’s back to prevent her from falling, and the other supported her on the bed, letting her kiss her fill.

Her red lips sucked on her lover’s little pink tongue, kissing her until she whimpered.

By the time she was let go, the young woman immediately held the quilt and hid at the very back.

She didn’t even dare to look at her, her voice light and thin. “I… I’m going to cook for you. Don’t kiss me anymore.”

If you don’t kiss me, you don’t kiss me. Hiding so far away, as if I were some kind of monster.

Hmph.

Song Yugui stood up straight and pouted her lips in feigned dissatisfaction. “My own wife, and I’m not even allowed to kiss her. If you don’t kiss me, you don’t kiss me.”

As she spoke, she walked to the window, as if she were angry with someone.

Shen Xizhi’s toes had just been about to touch the embroidered shoes on the ground when she heard this sentence and was stunned. Her heart was a little flustered. She bit her lip and propped herself up to walk over in small steps, and then quickly explained herself. “No, no. I’m not not letting you kiss. I have to go and cook. If you want to kiss, you can kiss me after I’m done…”

Her cheeks were stained with a faint pink. To say such a thing was already a great challenge to her sense of shame.

“Tsk, after I’ve finished cooking, I can kiss you however I want?”

Song Yugui’s expression still hadn’t softened. Shen Xizhi didn’t dare to make her angry and nodded like a little yellow chicken eating rice. “Mmm, mmm, you can kiss me however you want!”

“You can kiss me wherever you want?”

In order to not make her wife unhappy, Shen Xizhi didn’t think for too long. With a grit of her teeth, her heart hardened, and she nodded vigorously. “Mmm! You can kiss me wherever you want.”

She knew that if she said this, her wife would probably do some very excessive things, but that was also better than being angry.

As long as she wasn’t angry, anything was fine.

Song Yugui finally showed a smile, which was very reassuring to see.

The moment Shen Xizhi saw her wife smile, her eyes lit up. “Then… then I’ll go and cook. You wait for me for a little while. I’ll make you some scrambled eggs to eat, okay? We stewed some ribs this morning. Can we also have some taro stewed with ribs?”

“Mmm, alright.”

Anyway, whatever his wife made was delicious.

Shen Xizhi happily went.

After they had finished eating, she was kissed all over from head to toe, and she cried out that she would never dare to make her angry again.

From the next day on, Xizhi would go to town every day.

She couldn’t get up very early and would always get up around dawn. Then she would change into a set of clean clothes, tidy up the house, and after she had made breakfast and eaten, she would carry her woven bamboo basket and go to town to find her.

She would go with Auntie Li. As a farm girl who had only ever worked, she was not very familiar with the town. If no one took her, she was afraid she wouldn’t even be able to find the place.

Auntie Li would occasionally pass by Song Yugui’s stall when she was buying vegetables, so she recognized the place.

When she delivered the eagerly following Shen Xizhi, her expression was a little speechless.

“This wife of yours, she said she was coming to find you first thing in the morning, but she doesn’t know the way. She begged me to take her. I say you’re also something. How can you not tell your wife where you sell meat after you’ve married her, letting her not even have a sense of direction?”

Song Yugui was helpless. She cut a piece of meat of about a catty from the unsold meat, tied it with a rope, and carried it over. “It was my oversight. I’ve troubled you today, Auntie. Xizhi is close to you, so she would think of you if she didn’t know something. Please bear with her.”

Auntie Li hadn’t expected her to understand human relationships so well now and even knew to give gifts. She was a little embarrassed and wanted to push it back. “Aiya, I was just saying. It’s not like I want your things.”

“I know. Auntie is kind. This is what I want to give to Auntie. Thank you for your usual care of Xizhi.”

At first, Auntie Li was too embarrassed to take it. After some back and forth, she finally took it, her face smiling like a flower, and her attitude toward the two of them was much better.

After she left, Shen Xizhi slowly went to her wife’s side and asked in a small voice, “Did I cause you trouble?”

“Mmm? No. You’re so good every day. What trouble can you cause me?”

She also went to rub her round head.

The young woman’s eyes curved into a smile.

She held her arm, her whole body hiding behind her, her chin resting on her shoulder, and said affectionately, “I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to find where you are, and I also wouldn’t be able to find my way home, so I asked Auntie to take me. It’s market day today. Auntie was originally going to town anyway.”

It was just that she had gotten up too early and had disturbed her aunt’s sleep.

Xizhi was guilty.

Song Yugui replied, “Mmm, then I should also give her something. Thank you for speaking up for her yesterday.”

She had seen it all. Uncle Song and Auntie Li were both on Xizhi’s side. In her past life, she had also helped Xizhi. Auntie Li hadn’t come today, but she had also been planning to carry some meat back to thank her.

“You’re still the thoughtful one.”

The young woman replied and held her wife’s arm, fawningly.

Song Yugui rubbed her cheek and didn’t speak.

There were the most customers when the stall had just opened. Now it was a little better.

She had the time to have an on-and-off conversation with her wife.

“Are you hungry? Do you want a meat pancake?”

Hearing ‘meat pancake’, her eyes lit up. “Is it the same as the one you bought me before?”

“Mmm-hmm, that’s right. The one you had before was what I bought from here.”

She pointed to the meat pancake stall not far away.

Shen Xizhi followed her hand and looked over. She clearly heard her own wife swallow her saliva.

“Can I eat it?”

“Nonsense. The money is all managed by you. If you want to eat it, you can just buy it.”

“But the money is all what you earned.”

The one who earned money was her wife. She was too embarrassed to spend it as she pleased.

Song Yugui didn’t think there was anything wrong with this. “What I earn is for you to spend. Hurry up and buy it. Buy one for me too. Be good.”

She patted her wife’s back of the head.

Shen Xizhi was coy. “Don’t mess up my hair. Then I’ll go and buy it now?”

She pulled her hand back and said, I won’t mess it up. Shen Xizhi then obediently went.

And then she came back happily with two pancakes.

“Yugui, I bought two, one pork and one lamb! Which one do you want to eat?”

This life’s Xizhi was not like her past life’s. She had almost starved to death and was not so stingy. If it were her past life’s Xizhi, she would have chosen to buy one meat pancake and one flaky pancake. Flaky pancakes were vegetarian and were just crispy on the outside.

They were much cheaper than meat pancakes.

“I’ll have the pork. You can have the lamb.”

Xizhi had never had a lamb pancake before. She wanted Xizhi to try it.

“Alright, then I’ll have yours in a little while too. Don’t you finish it.”

Song Yugui hadn’t even opened her mouth to bite yet when she was reminded. The corners of her mouth immediately twitched, and her smile was a little helpless as she nodded. “Alright, I’ll save a little more for you.”

“Mmm.”

Shen Xizhi replied and lowered her head to eat her lamb pancake.

A meat pancake was eight wen, but a lamb pancake was twelve. But the meat inside was very thick, and the juice was also plentiful. It was very delicious, just as delicious as the one Yugui had given her that day.

She ate a few bites and narrowed her eyes with satisfaction. Then she went closer to her wife and said affectionately, “I want to try yours.”

Song Yugui casually handed her own pancake over. “You can start eating from the bottom.”

She was afraid that this life’s wife would dislike her saliva.

But Shen Xizhi didn’t take the pancake. Instead, she took a bite from the place where she had eaten, with her hand.

The juice was plentiful, and it was still the same taste as before.

So delicious. It felt even more delicious than the one in her hand.

She stuffed the lamb pancake she had only eaten half of into her hand and shook her head. “I don’t want to eat this anymore. I want to eat yours. Is that okay, Yugui~”

Who could resist a young and tender wife acting coquettishly in front of them?

Song Yugui silently took the lamb pancake and gave her own meat pancake to her.

Shen Xizhi ate in small bites and didn’t forget to glance at her from time to time.

“Aren’t you going to eat? Do you dislike me?”

Seeing her just put the pancake on the side after she had taken it and not eat it at all, Shen Xizhi first secretly glanced at her, then widened her eyes, her cheeks also puffed out, very unhappy.

Song Yugui’s meat-chopping hand paused, and she looked up with a helpless smile. “My wife is young and a little lively. Don’t mind her.”

The customer opposite her quickly waved his hand with a smile, a little novel. “So she’s your wife. I thought she was your younger sister. She’s younger than you, right?”

“Mmm, two years younger than me.”

“No wonder she doesn’t look as steady as you.”

Song Yugui herself said her wife, that was being modest. It wasn’t okay for others to say it. She smiled and changed her tune. “My wife is in a good mood today, that’s why she’s like this. She’s usually very steady.”

Seeing her finish chopping, the other also nodded in agreement and left with the meat.

When there were no customers, she finally picked up the lamb pancake, took a bite, and then slowly looked at her wife, who had long since lowered her head, eating her meat pancake like a quail. “What did you say just now?”

Shen Xizhi knew she had misunderstood and now wanted to bury her head in the ground. Her voice was also so small it could barely be heard, with no confidence. “Ah, no… nothing. You can eat now. Don’t mind me.”

She only had her own wife in her eyes and actually hadn’t seen a customer come.

No wonder she didn’t eat it. A customer naturally has to be served first. I’m too ignorant.

“Hmph, hmph. I know you’re slandering me. I’m always kissing you. Can I dislike you? Yesterday, I even… your foot…”

The moment that word was uttered, her mouth was quickly covered. Shen Xizhi glared at her and said angrily, “How can you say such a thing? And it’s still outside!”

The moment the two of them came, they were so clingy. The people selling things next to them had long since noticed them. She was afraid that those words would be heard by them, and she was both ashamed and angry.

Song Yugui also thought of it and quickly shut her mouth. She held her wife’s back with one hand and silently comforted her.

Shen Xizhi pressed her lips together, and her watery eyes secretly glared at her.

“When we get back, you can say whatever you want…”

Her tone was still filled with shyness.

“Ahem.”

Song Yugui also knew what her words meant. She coughed lightly, looking forward to going home.

After they had sold all the meat, they saved a piece of streaky pork. She wanted to go back and chop it to make dumplings.

Shen Xizhi put that piece of meat in her small basket and then took her to buy some vegetable seeds before they went back together.

There was a lot of land at home. Xizhi wouldn’t let her sell it all and insisted on keeping a piece to plant. She couldn’t win against her and had no choice but to agree.

And so, she had bought a little to go back and plant vegetables.

The two of them walked down the country path. The passersby were all familiar villagers. As in her past life, the first reaction when they saw them was to stay away. But after all, they were from the same village, and in the end, they would still greet them with embarrassment.

Song Yugui also didn’t care and just nodded faintly.

A group of people walked over from not far away. In the lead was the village chief of Songjia Village. Beside him was his daughter, Song Xinyu. Behind them were a few other villagers. Song Xinyu, as in the past few times, glared at her when she saw her. She was quite speechless and withdrew her gaze, not noticing that the expression on the person beside her had suddenly darkened. She actually glared back at Song Xinyu fiercely.

That expression seemed to say, Don’t you glare at my wife! If you glare at her, I’ll glare at you!

Song Xinyu was so angry she almost fell over. She just felt that Shen Xizhi didn’t know a good heart when she saw one. She had told her so many things about how Song Yugui was not to be trusted, yet she was still siding with Song Yugui!

Forget it, forget it. Let her be. When she finds out she’s been tricked by Song Yugui, hmph!

As the four of them passed by, the village chief casually called out to Song Yugui, and Song Yugui also casually replied. The two of them had nothing to say.

One of them had been a rogue before, and the other’s daughter had been pestered by a rogue. After they had met, they quickly separated.

Shen Xizhi quietly and angrily followed behind her wife.

Her small mouth was pressed together tightly.

Bastard, bastard, Song Yugui is a bastard! How can she look at another woman, and even look at the woman she used to like? Is it old feelings rekindled?

The moment these four words came out, Shen Xizhi was almost certain in her heart. She gritted her teeth and thought, I’m going back to question her! The heavens have turned! I told her that after she has me, she’s not allowed to like anyone else!

The young woman stomped her foot in anger, and tears were almost about to come out.

When Song Yugui was absent-minded, she really was clueless. She was still thinking about what kind of filling to have for tonight’s dumplings and didn’t notice at all that her own wife was about to die of anger.

It wasn’t until she was resting by the bed that Xizhi suddenly sat in her lap, her long, straight legs wrapped around her waist. She didn’t know when she had provoked her, but she just saw her pretty face looking fierce as she questioned, “You glanced at the village belle one extra time just now. Do you have a crush on her?”

Song Yugui was stunned. But before she could reply, the other continued angrily, “No, no, no! I’m better behaved and more obedient than her! You’re not allowed to like her! And she’s still badmouthing you!”

Thinking that her wife liked someone else, Shen Xizhi was extremely indignant, her small mouth pouting with anger.