I’ll Butcher Pigs to Support You! 72p1

Chapter 72 p1

Although Shen Xizhi mentioned the past, she didn’t seem to be angry. After speaking, she lay quietly in her arms, her dark, bright, grape-like eyes staring at her.

Song Yugui could only plead with her in a low voice not to bring up old accounts. She snorted lightly and didn’t say anything more. After a while, she looked down at her legs and said,

“You can get up now. I’ll help you. You’ve been squatting for so long, your legs must be numb.”

Shen Xizhi’s own legs had been well-rubbed and stretched and were no longer numb. But Yugui-jiejie’s legs must still be numb.

Song Yugui also felt that they must be numb. She stood up with Xizhi’s hand and, just as she was halfway up, it felt as if many needles were pricking her leg.

It made her unable to walk a single step. Shen Xizhi then lowered her head and gently rubbed her calf for her.

“It’s alright. It will be fine in a little while.”

“Hiss, okay.”

Song Yugui replied.

After they had rested for a while longer, they took her into the woods to split bamboo strips. Xizhi’s bamboo baskets sold well, and now most of the people who came to buy meat would bring one. They were good for holding both meat and vegetables, looked beautiful and light, and their capacity was not small. They were almost like decorations.

Chu Wantang was a young lady from a good family and rarely did such rough work. She had never been to a bamboo forest in the countryside and was filled with discomfort. She pressed her lips together, took a half step back, and silently watched them work.

Chi Xiangyue was the most energetic, wielding an axe to split the bamboo.

Not only did she chop the most bamboo, but she also cut the most grass. She even single-handedly took care of watering the vegetable seeds. She was simply a born-to-work saint.

Song Yugui held her wife’s hand and stood on the side, sighing with emotion.

Only Chu Wantang’s face turned green and then white. She had already felt sorry for her cousin doing these rough chores. Before, she had said she was being controlled to do it, which had made her so angry. But now, looking at it, she would do farm work even if she wasn’t being controlled, just with a different person!

So angry, so angry.

Just as she had finished watering over there, Chi Xiangyue walked back happily, only to have the watering can snatched from her by her little cousin.

She was bewildered, at a loss. “Wh-what’s wrong?”

Her little cousin ignored her and left in silence.

Chi Xiangyue: …

“Did I provoke her?”

She looked at her two good friends with a blank expression.

The two friends’ expressions were hard to describe.

Finally, Shen Xizhi shook her head silently. “Not really. Miss Chu is probably just feeling sorry for you.”

Chi Xiangyue was shocked. “When you feel sorry for Yugui, do you also throw a tantrum at her and make her coax you?”

Shouldn’t feeling sorry for someone mean being gentle and considerate? How can you feel sorry for someone like this! I feel like my understanding has been challenged.

Song Yugui was silent.

It’s true. My Xizhi is the most duplicitous. Sometimes when she throws a tantrum at me, it’s not because she’s angry with me, but for all sorts of other reasons, such as feeling sorry for me.

Seeing the two of them not speaking and both looking at her with great sincerity, Chi Xiangyue couldn’t say a single word for a moment.

Is it really like this? Is everyone like this? My goodness.

She opened her mouth, then turned her head to chase after her cousin.

As she chased, she still didn’t understand in her heart. If you feel sorry for me, why don’t you say a few gentle words to me? Why get angry? If you’re angry, don’t I still have to coax you? I’m the one who’s working so hard.

Song Yugui shook her head and took her wife’s tender little hand. “Let’s go, let’s go back too.”

“Mmm.”

“The clothes are just finished. Will you wear them for me to see tonight?”

Shen Xizhi: …

My dishonest wife who always wants to test my bottom line!

She pressed her lips together, naturally unwilling. Her small face was covered in a pinkish-white, and she turned her head away, not paying her any mind.

“Xiaozhi’er~”

Song Yugui was unwilling to miss the opportunity. She took her hand and swayed it, acting coquettishly.

Xiaozhi’er’s voice was as faint as a mosquito’s buzz. “But… but, but this is too embarrassing.”

She was still unwilling, and her appearance was also delicate and soft, extremely pitiful. Unfortunately, she had met the heartless Song Yugui.

“What’s so embarrassing about this? If you’re even shy about this, what will you do in the future if I do something even more excessive, Xiaozhi’er?”

Shen Xizhi: …

Her doe-like eyes widened. What, there’s something even more excessive!

The young woman closed her mouth. How could she dare to say anything more?

Her heart was filled with a daze. How much has my wife learned to be bad? She didn’t know these things before. How does she know so, so much now…

On a night with a high moon, the sound of frogs and the rustling of leaves in the gentle breeze could be heard outside. Occasionally, the sound of wild dogs fighting over food would ring out, but otherwise, it was quiet.

Song Yugui sat properly on a stool, insisting that the young woman, who was so shy her face was dripping with blood, stand in front of her, dressed in bright and neat clothes, but only revealing a pair of large white rabbits, swaying back and forth, extremely eye-catching.

Beautiful, and shaped like water droplets.

So delicate.

Song Yugui was comfortable looking at her. Her fingers gently tapped on the table, a very pleasant rhythm.

She said, “Feed me.”

Shen Xizhi was startled, her expression immediately flustered and at a loss. Wh-what? You want me to feed you?

The voice of the person who specialized in bullying her came again. It was clearly a very gentle tone, but the words that came out were always like this!

“Didn’t you feed me before? Just like last time.”

The night was still long. The woman had three fruits on her body. Tonight, they were all chafed and swollen.

The two of them washed themselves and lay down on the bed, exhausted.

Song Yugui flicked her wrist. Shen Xizhi had her back to her and refused to turn around no matter what. She didn’t mind and was glad in her heart. “It’s a good thing I had you make two pairs of open-crotch pants. Otherwise, it would have been very uncomfortable at night.”

Shen Xizhi: …

She didn’t want to say a single word to her!

That hand slipped in through the slit in her pants again. No matter how she tried, she couldn’t stop it. She simply pretended not to know and slept with her lips pressed together. But she couldn’t sleep—the feeling of being gently touched was so bone-deep, so achingly tender, it left her trembling.

Unable to hold it in, Shen Xizhi lifted her soft leg and kicked Song Yugui, a little angry, her delicate brows furrowed. “It’s all swollen! It hurts!”

“Mmm, I know. It’s swollen, so I’m not touching here.”

If this place is swollen, isn’t there still another place that’s not swollen? Can’t she touch that place? She only did it once today!

Song Yugui didn’t listen and made her wife so angry she almost fell over. But she couldn’t say anything to her, and her face turned black.

She was held in her arms again and gently done once, the sound of panting endless. She didn’t even have the strength to wipe herself clean. Before she was done, her two eyes had already narrowed into slits.

The next morning, she didn’t give her a good face.

That place, it actually hadn’t swollen down!

Shen Xizhi was almost angry to death when she was changing her clothes. Yugui-jiejie is an idiot! And she even said she was going to buy medicine for that place. How can you just buy that kind of thing? If she went, would she still have any face left?

Since she had to go out today, she couldn’t wear those strange-looking pants anymore. It would definitely be uncomfortable to wear them. The more she thought about it, the angrier she got, and her expression became even colder.

Song Yugui didn’t dare to say a single word on the side, her eyes looking at the sky one moment and the ground the next. It wasn’t until she was about to go out to sell meat that she dared to gently poke her wife and coax her guiltily, “Don’t be angry. I won’t do it to you tonight, is that okay?”

Shen Xizhi glanced at her faintly but didn’t speak.

Song Yugui’s head instantly drooped. She thought her wife was really angry with her and was a little regretful and also a little wronged.

She also didn’t know what she was wronged about. Perhaps it was that Xizhi had always been gentle and graceful to her, always putting her first, feeling sorry for her, and rarely getting angry with her.

It wasn’t until the two of them were eating steamed buns for breakfast as usual that she was eating with little appetite, when Shen Xizhi stretched out her head and took a bite of Song Yugui’s meat bun.

The fragrance of the meat filled the air.

Song Yugui was stunned, her eyes suddenly lighting up as she looked at Xizhi.

After her wife had finished her meat bun, she didn’t speak again, just lowered her head to eat her vegetable bun in small bites, her dark, moist eyes lowered, not paying her any mind, including when she had eaten her bun just now, not saying a word, just poking her head out to take a bite, and then quietly pulling her head back.

She was clearly telling Song Yugui, I’m still angry, but you can coax me. If you don’t coax me again, it’s not a sure thing!

Song Yugui’s eyes gradually softened. She went over with a bit of joy and, at Shen Xizhi’s side, kissed the corner of her lips.

Shen Xizhi’s pretty face turned black. I want you to coax me, but not like this!

She gently pinched Song Yugui.

Song Yugui had a sudden realization and lowered her head to also eat the bun she had bitten.

The woman’s long, dark lashes trembled, but she didn’t say anything.

She had earned over one thousand three hundred wen from selling pork today, which was over one tael. She had also earned twenty wen from selling bamboo baskets. After deducting the cost of the bricks and tiles she had bought before, she still had a little over fifteen taels. The craftsmen would need at least ten taels for renovating the house, and this money could not be touched.

Song Yugui sighed deeply, thinking, Why do the sows grow so slowly? If I could just slaughter all five of them, I would have a lot more money.

A sow’s first litter was usually small. This time, she had only had five, four sows and one boar. If it weren’t for the lack of money at home, she wouldn’t have been in such a hurry to slaughter a sow that had only given birth once.

Aiya.

Earning money was so hard. She also wanted to do everything well, lest she dislike it later. If she had known, she would have earned a few more days’ worth of money before renovating.

Shen Xizhi was also worried about this and refused to buy any more jewelry no matter what. The two of them had made up after eating steamed buns in town. She held her wife’s hand as they walked home. Shen Xizhi was troubled. “I have to cut a lot of pig feed again today, or there won’t be enough to eat.”

In the past, she had only raised one pig, and cutting two baskets of feed was enough to make it very fat. Now, with six pigs to feed…

Shen Xizhi didn’t even want to think about it.

“There’s no other way. When the house is renovated, I’ll pay someone to help us cut pig feed, how about that?”

Cutting pig feed was not very tiring work. Every household had to go up the mountain to cut it anyway. She could just ask them to help and give them some money.

Shen Xizhi was helpless. She leaned against her wife’s embrace and said in a small voice, “You just know how to spend money. Let’s be a little more frugal. What if we need it in the future? At worst, I just won’t go to town with you.”

She got up early every day to go to town with her wife and had to stay for more than half a day. When she came back in the afternoon, she would be sleepy and often needed to take a nap, leaving little time for cutting pig feed.

At worst, she just wouldn’t go in the future. She would just go and cut pig feed in the morning and afternoon. She would definitely be able to raise the pigs very well.

Although she was clingy, she also knew how to manage the household and didn’t want to leave everything to her wife alone.

Song Yugui shook her head. “We’ll talk about it when the time comes. We’re not there yet. There’s no hurry.”