I’ll Butcher Pigs to Support You! 80

Chapter 80

No matter how much Chi Xiangyue tried to stop her, the letter was sent out in the end.

Chu Wantang sat gracefully on an embroidered stool, as if she were not at all afraid of her father getting angry, and admired her cousin’s dazed expression, a look as if the sky were falling.

As she watched, she couldn’t help but burst out laughing.

Chi Xiangyue ignored her. She went over herself and shook her cousin’s shoulder, her voice filled with a smile. “Alright, the letter has already been sent out. What are you still thinking about?”

…

“Don’t talk to me.”

Her chin rested on the table, her voice sounding a little sullen. Chu Wantang narrowed her eyes and lifted her hand to brush past a strand of dark hair.

“Cousin doesn’t want to talk to me anymore? How sad. But I really want to talk to my cousin.”

Her cousin didn’t speak, just remained silent. Seeing this, Chu Wantang was even more dissatisfied. She squeezed past the table on her own and sat in the other’s lap, her brow slightly furrowed. “You’re ignoring me? You don’t like that I rejected my father? Could it be that you want me to go back to the capital and get married?”

She guaranteed that if her cousin dared to agree, she would be dead.

Feeling the person in her arms slide down a little, Chi Xiangyue was forced to hold her to prevent her from falling to the ground, and she was a little unnatural. “When did I ever say I wanted you to go back to the capital and get married? Since you and I have already… of course you can’t marry someone else.”

She had finally given up the idea of straightening out her cousin. She probably also saw that her own cousin was as crooked as she could be, with absolutely no possibility of turning over a new leaf.

She had been dragged into the water by her cousin. Now, besides facing it with her, there was no other way.

Hearing her say this, Chu Wantang’s expression finally improved a little. She obediently hooked her neck and pressed her cheek against her embrace.

“Mmm, as long as my cousin understands.”

She would always be with her cousin.

Her cousin didn’t speak. Her cousin was still thinking about how to save her own skin when her uncle came to kill her. She was really in a difficult position.

“I heard that Miss Yugui and Miss Xizhi are a married couple with a marriage contract registered with the government. When will we also go and get a marriage contract?”

Her little cousin thought of this most important step and asked in a warm and gentle voice.

Chi Xiangyue’s whole body stiffened. Wait, a marriage contract? We’re getting a marriage contract already?

She said with difficulty, “But my dad still doesn’t know about this. This… is not very good, right?”

“If you’re willing, you can tell my uncle today.”

Chu Wantang didn’t care about this. She was going to be with her cousin anyway, and her uncle would find out sooner or later.

Chi Xiangyue also understood that her dad would have to know sooner or later, but… she wiped the sweat from her forehead. Forget it. My cousin and I have already come this far. We can’t be separated anymore.

She pressed her lips together lightly and finally agreed. “I… I’ll find a chance to talk to my dad in a few days.”

She agreed again.

Chu Wantang’s eyes suddenly lit up. Her cousin was so easy to talk to today, agreeing to everything she said.

Then wasn’t she about to have a happy ending with her cousin?

It had come too easily. Chu Wantang was a little uneasy and asked in return, “Really?”

Her long, narrow phoenix eyes were sparkling.

It wasn’t until Chi Xiangyue nodded seriously that the words that came out were stammered. It was clear that she was not prepared for this. “Mmm, mmm… of course. I have to tell my dad eventually.”

She thought with her head bowed, There’s no way out even if I don’t say it. A letter like that has already been sent out. I can’t just wait until my uncle comes to my door to whip me, and my dad is still looking at me with a blank expression, not knowing what happened, right?

Chu Wantang obediently leaned against her cousin’s embrace, her expression content, and said slowly, “Then let’s go to Miss Yugui’s house. We can eat first, and then talk to my uncle?”

She seemed to be in a bit of a hurry, wanting to settle the matter tonight. Chi Xiangyue’s body stiffened. In the end, she also thought that a short pain was better than a long one and gritted her teeth, agreeing.

Her cousin was even happier and got up with her cousin to go next door for dinner.

Song Yugui’s house was already very different from before, and could even be said to be brand new. The house was new, the furniture was new, and Xizhi loved to be clean, sweeping every day, so that it was spotless. The moment one entered, even the smell was pleasant.

It was probably because they had a few pots of fanshi in both the kitchen and the room, so there was always a sweet and sour fruit fragrance.

“You’re here.”

Shen Xizhi saw the two of them come together and only had time to look up before she hurriedly stir-fried the vegetables, occasionally having to check on the fire.

Chi Xiangyue consciously took over the task of starting the fire, went over and sat down, and after stuffing a thin piece of firewood into the stove, she asked casually, “Where’s Yugui? Why isn’t she here? Are you just letting her be busy alone?”

This had never happened in her impression. If Yugui were here, how could she let Xizhi be busy in the kitchen alone?

Even if she didn’t help, she would at least be by her side.

Shen Xizhi added water to stew the duck, put the lid on the pot, and replied with her head bowed, “Yugui-jiejie’s stomach hurts. She’s lying down in the room for a while.”

“Her stomach hurts? Is she also on her period?”

“Mmm.”

“Oh, I am too. But my body is good, so it doesn’t hurt much.”

Her cousin’s period was very painful. Hearing Yugui say that Xizhi’s period also hurt, she had never seen Yugui have period pain before. It was only this time that she had heard she was in pain.

Sure enough, she soon heard Shen Xizhi say with a bit of displeasure, “My wife usually doesn’t have pain either, but she’s been too tired recently. She also washed clothes with cold water yesterday, which is why it hurts.”

She had thought she wouldn’t have pain during her period and had started to do as she pleased. She had been told not to wash… but she had insisted.

It turned out that one still had to have some reverence for their period. Today, she had gotten her just deserts, so much so that she couldn’t even straighten her back and hadn’t even gone to town.

The duck was stewing in the pot. Shen Xizhi wiped her hands and said to Chi Xiangyue, “I’ll have to trouble Miss Chi to watch it for me. Don’t let it burn. I’m going to see Yugui-jiejie.”

The two of them had a very good relationship. Yugui’s stomach hurt, so Xizhi must be worried sick.

“Mmm, alright. I’ll watch it for you. You can go now.”

Shen Xizhi was calm on the surface, but her feet were quick as she went out, almost running by the time she reached the back.

Song Yugui was on the bed, her back arched, clutching her stomach, her heart like dead ashes. Wait, why does it hurt so much?

Xiaozhi’er ran in with a pot of hot tea in her hand. She had brewed it earlier and had let it cool a little. It was just right to drink now, to warm her stomach.

“Yugui-jiejie, hurry up and drink some water.”

Song Yugui’s face was slightly pale. She hadn’t been so weak in a long time. Xizhi was about to die of heartache.

“Slow down. It’s alright. It won’t hurt after you drink some hot water.”

After a few cups of hot water, the pain seemed to ease a little. She leaned against the bed and breathed a sigh of relief. Shen Xizhi took the cup and put it away, then stuffed herself into her embrace, her tone actually becoming wronged. “I told you not to wash. You just relied on your good health. Now you’ve suffered, haven’t you?”

She held her wife’s waist and put her hands in the quilt to warm them up. After a while, she carefully took them out again and gently massaged her stomach.

“I know I was wrong, I know I was wrong. Don’t nag me anymore.”

Xizhi had been nagging her all day, making her head ache.

Hearing her still unhappy, the young woman glared at her.

“It’s not like you didn’t insist on washing those clothes! I told you not to wash them when you were on your period, but you just wouldn’t listen!”

Song Yugui buried her face in her wife’s neck, her voice sounding muffled. “Then I was afraid you were tired and wanted to share the burden with you.”

How could she have thought it would have such a big effect?

Shen Xizhi was worried. “Your body was so good before. You must have not been careful and ruined your body, which is why your stomach hurts. You’re not allowed to touch cold water again in the future.”

“But you also have pain when you’re on your period. If I don’t help you, and you touch a lot of cold water before you come, you definitely won’t feel well. Why don’t we just pay someone to help us wash?”

In a flash, she had thought of another way to spend money. Shen Xizhi was so angry she bit her on the neck. “No, no! All you know is to spend money! I can wash them myself.”

“Then what about when you’re on your period?”

Her wife was even more serious when she came. She often couldn’t even straighten her back, which was very scary.

Shen Xizhi’s small face was wrinkled up. She thought for a while and said, “Then let’s just leave them for now. We can wash them after they’re gone.”

In short, she didn’t want to see her wife wash them.

“Then you’ll be so tired. When it’s winter and the weather is so cold, it will be easy for you to get frostbite if you wash clothes again. It’s better to hire someone to wash them.”

When it came to how to spend money, Yugui-jiejie always had a plan.

It was just that she was used to being frugal. Even though she knew it was for the best, she was still a little reluctant.

“Then… then we can talk about it when it’s winter.”

It was only early autumn now. How could she not be able to wash clothes?

Xizhi’s small mouth was pouting. Song Yugui didn’t say anything more, lest she make her angry. She just secretly decided in her heart that she would just spend the money and hire someone to wash!

After drinking two more cups of hot tea, she was finally able to get out of bed and walk around a little. Chi Xiangyue laughed at her for being bent over like a shrimp, and was glared at fiercely by Shen Xizhi.

She was stunned and hid behind her cousin with a wronged expression, her gaze as if to say, The two of them are bullying me. You have to help me.

Her cousin was amused.

Chu Wantang coaxed her, “It’s alright. If they’re not good to you, I’ll be good to you.”

Song Yugui looked at her wife, and they both had a sudden realization in their hearts. It’s eighty percent certain that they’re together. I knew Chi Xiangyue would be taken down by her cousin.

That night, the sound of cursing from the Chi family woke up the two girls who were sleeping next door.

Song Yugui held her wife in a daze and whispered, “What is Mr. Chi cursing about? Could it be that Miss Chi and Miss Chu’s affair has been discovered?”

Shen Xizhi was also very sleepy, but her ears were filled with the sound of cursing, and she couldn’t sleep soundly. She could only nod in her arms and reply, “Mmm… it seems so. I heard Mr. Chi scolding Miss Chi.”

That one sentence, ‘How did I give birth to such a rebellious daughter?’ can’t be about Miss Chu, right? Although Miss Chi is purely taking the blame, the truly rebellious one is someone else.

In the house next door, Chi Xiangyue was kneeling on the ground, her heart like dead ashes. It was a good thing they were not in the old mansion in the capital, or her dad would have definitely made her kneel in front of the ancestral tablets to reflect.

She had a wooden expression on her face and said in a monotone, “Dad, my cousin and I really want to be together. Please grant us your blessing.”

Seeing her cousin being ordered to kneel, Chu Wantang’s expression was already a little bad.

Chi Jingming was holding a feather duster in his hand and pacing back and forth angrily. “Sincere? Tang’er is your cousin! How can you!”

He couldn’t even say it!

“Even cousins can be together. Why can’t cousins? Dad, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with this…”

She didn’t know when she had been completely convinced by her cousin. Her words were enough to make Chi Jingming lift the feather duster and want to hit her.

Chi Xiangyue usually argued with her dad but was also afraid of him. How could she dare to dodge? She obediently prepared to be hit. But who knew that Chu Wantang’s eyes would turn cold? She quickly went over and stood in front of her. The blow couldn’t be stopped in time and actually hit the woman’s delicate shoulder.

Her little cousin let out a muffled grunt. Both Chi Jingming and Chi Xiangyue were greatly shocked. Chi Xiangyue even jumped up, held her cousin’s slender, frail body, her expression panicked, and kept shouting, “Doctor, doctor! Dad, hurry up and get a doctor! Tangtang, how are you? It doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t hurt. I’ll get a doctor to take a look at you right away. I have some high-quality golden sore medicine in my room. You can use it, all of it. It’s alright, it will stop hurting soon!”

Seeing her little cousin being hit, Chi Xiangyue felt as if she had been whipped a dozen times herself. Her heart ached so much. She held her cousin and kept urging her dad to get a doctor.

Chi Jingming: …

At first, he was also very nervous when he had hit the wrong person. But wasn’t Chi Xiangyue overreacting a little?

Chu Wantang: …

Why is my cousin talking as if I’m about to die?

The two of them were a little speechless. Chi Jingming had also doted on this niece who had lost her mother since she was young and had watched her grow up. In his anxiety, he no longer scolded Chi Xiangyue and quickly went to his own room to get some medicine for healing wounds and removing scars. He was a man and naturally couldn’t look at a woman’s wound, but he also didn’t want his daughter to see it.

“You can go and ask the auntie next door… next door to help Tang’er apply the medicine.”

He had just been about to ask her to ask the girl next door when he suddenly remembered that they were also two lesbians. How can this be? I’m actually surrounded by lesbians!

But Chu Wantang didn’t want others to touch her. She was held in her cousin’s embrace, who was feeling extremely sorry for her. Because of Chi Jingming’s firm refusal and his desire to hit her, her expression turned a little cold. “No need. My cousin will apply the medicine for me. I don’t need anyone else.”

Chi Jingming was still holding the feather duster in his hand. Seeing his daughter’s anxious expression, he really didn’t know what to say. How could this be? How could this be?

He finally waved his hand wearily. “Then Yue’er, you can take Tang’er back to apply the medicine. Tang’er, why did you have to block for her? She’s thick-skinned. This blow probably wouldn’t have even broken her skin.”

Unlike Chu Wantang, who was a delicate young lady, Chi Xiangyue had been mischievous since she was little and had been punished many times.

But it was true. If she were to be punished and Tang’er saw it, Tang’er would definitely be angry and stop her.

Their relationship had always been good. Could it be because of this that she had turned crooked?

Chu Wantang had always respected her uncle very much, but today it was difficult for her to show a good face. Her heart was heavy, and her tone was also quite cold. “A person will feel pain. I can’t bear to see my cousin in pain. I’d rather it fall on me.”

These words made the two people present both shocked. Even if Chi Xiangyue didn’t think she had become a lesbian yet, her heart couldn’t help but be moved. She held her and called out to her softly with watery eyes, “Cousin…”

Chi Jingming’s voice was low, and his tone was a little incredulous. “So you’re also willing in this matter?”

Even though Chu Wantang saw that her uncle was about to get angry, she was not afraid and nodded seriously. “It’s me who wants to be with my cousin forever, who wants to have a marriage contract with my cousin. If you want to punish me, then punish me.”

In short, she couldn’t bear to see her cousin get hurt.

Chi Jingming really didn’t know what to say. He had always thought that his own daughter was the rebellious one. His brother-in-law’s daughter was obedient, sensible, and well-read. He was afraid that Yue’er would lead Tang’er astray. But today…

Everything had overturned his understanding.

Chi Xiangyue was both moved and sorry. She held her cousin. “Let’s go in and apply the medicine. Don’t mind this old man. He can’t stand to see us happy.”

As she spoke, she carried her cousin horizontally and didn’t even want her to take another step.

Chi Jingming was not at ease and stood at the door, his voice low. “Chi Xiangyue, apply the medicine, but you’re not allowed to fool around!”

The moment the words fell, a gentle voice came from inside, different from the slightly cold tone she had used when she had spoken to him today. She said with pity, “Cousin, don’t listen to my uncle. You can do whatever you want. We’ll decide for ourselves.”

Chi Jingming even began to suspect, Could Tang’er have been replaced? Otherwise, how could she do such a thing, say such a thing? Let alone a woman and a woman… just their identities are also extremely inappropriate.

Chi Jingming went back in silence and didn’t sleep all night.

Chi Xiangyue didn’t care how worried her dad was in his heart. She held her cousin in her arms all the time. After getting the medicine, she carefully opened her collar. Seeing that it was red and swollen, and a little bit of skin was broken, her heart ached so much.

“Why did you block for me? My dad was right. I’m thick-skinned. A little hit is nothing. Look at you. What if it leaves a scar?”

Her little cousin loved to be beautiful. She also knew that.

But Chu Wantang didn’t care about her own injury at all. Hearing that there was no movement from her uncle outside, she whispered to Chi Xiangyue, her delicate brows slightly furrowed. “My uncle is too unreasonable. You just want to be with me, and he punished you so harshly. It’s really too much.”

“My dad is a pedant. It’s alright. I’ll make him agree. Don’t worry.”

Her slender, fair hand dipped a little ointment and applied it to the woman’s wound. It was cool and extremely comfortable.

Chu Wantang lowered her eyes to watch her seriously apply the medicine for her, and as she applied it, she didn’t forget to blow on the wound lightly.

Her posture was extremely gentle.

Suddenly, she couldn’t help but look up and kiss her.

Chi Xiangyue was stunned, her expression as usual, only her ears were slightly flushed.

After Chu Wantang had finished kissing, she didn’t say any more shameful words and was unusually quiet, letting her cousin finish applying the medicine and then coaxing her to sleep with a warm voice.

The two next door had been eavesdropping for a while. Hearing no more movement, they held each other and rolled around on the bed. “Mmm… the argument is probably over. Let’s not mind them. Let’s go to sleep.”

She lowered her head and kissed her wife’s soft, tender cheek. “Xiaozhi’er is so fragrant.”

Xiaozhi’er was shy and hid in her wife’s embrace, her long, slender lashes tightly closed, muttering, “Sleep, sleep. Don’t kiss me anymore.”

She was afraid of being kissed. She was kissed every night, and her mouth was swollen.

Song Yugui was also very sleepy. How could she have the strength to pull Xiaozhi’er out and kiss her fiercely? So she just obediently held her and fell asleep quietly.

At the Chi family’s house, Chi Xiangyue had finally managed to coax her cousin to sleep. She carefully tucked her cousin’s long, slender, jade-like fingers, which were clutching her collar, into the quilt.

She got up and walked out on tiptoe.

Outside the room, her dad was waiting for her.

Chi Jingming didn’t say a word, just looked at the cold moon in the distance. After a long while, he finally spoke in a low voice, “Was it you who had this idea first, or Tang’er?”

Chi Xiangyue was silent for a while and said in a low voice, “It was me.”

Chi Jingming turned around, his sharp eyes falling on her. “Really?”

“Mmm.”

The corners of his mouth seemed to curve up slightly. “Actually, before we came here, I had already noticed that Tang’er was particularly dependent on you.”

Chi Xiangyue’s lashes trembled. My dad found out a long time ago? Damn it! He didn’t tell me earlier! It seems that her dad is also responsible for the situation being so unmanageable now!

Chi Jingming sighed. “I just didn’t expect that you would agree to her.”

Chi Xiangyue’s body stiffened again. These words had clearly exposed her lie. But… so what if she had agreed to her cousin? Her cousin was as beautiful as a fairy. It was very normal for her to like her cousin. But as for her cousin liking her, she still didn’t know the reason.

She was not good at arguing with her dad, afraid that he wouldn’t agree to their affair. She also knew that he was going to scold her, so she shut her mouth and quietly listened to his lecture.

The sound of talking could be heard vaguely from outside the room for a long time, and the man’s helpless, heavy sighs also sounded several times. Finally, when the moon was bright and the stars were few, Chi Xiangyue came back on tiptoe again, carefully shaking off the chill from her body, changed into a thin inner garment that clung to her skin, and got into the quilt to hold her cousin.

Chu Wantang’s sleeping face was serene. After she got on the bed, she seemed to have sensed something and nuzzled into her embrace, finding a warm and comfortable spot to nestle in on her own.

Unlike Mr. Chi, who had sat up all night, the two of them had a good sleep. They only got up when the sun was high in the sky the next day. Mr. Chi, who should have gone out to the school to teach, had not left. The moment Chi Xiangyue stretched and came out of the room, she saw him.

She quickly stood up straight.

Chu Wantang came out behind her. Not seeing Chi Jingming, her delicate voice couldn’t be held back, and it was filled with a hint of allure. “My cousin was so gentle to me last night. Why isn’t there even a single kiss today?”

Chi Xiangyue: …

Chi Jingming: … He even suspected that his old ears were not working properly.

Is this something my reserved, gentle, and well-versed-in-the-four-arts niece could say? If he had heard these words from Yue’er’s mouth, he wouldn’t have been so unable to accept it.

Only after Chu Wantang came out did she realize that Chi Jingming hadn’t actually gone out today. But she didn’t mind and just called out to her uncle with a normal expression, then stood beside her cousin and held her arm.

Chi Xiangyue still wanted to struggle a little and secretly pull her arm out but was glared at by her cousin.

She was obedient.

“You go out. I’ll have a few words with Tang’er.”

He had thought about it all night and felt that whether this matter would work out or not was all in the hands of this meticulous niece of his.

Chi Xiangyue lazily lifted her eyelids. She didn’t have to ask to know what her dad was up to. But this time, she was afraid she would have to disappoint her dad. If her cousin were willing to give up, they would have separated long ago. Her cousin’s side was much harder to get through than hers.

Thinking of this, she was a little helpless. She looked back at her cousin, who nodded slightly, signaling that she could.

Only then did she go out.

Not long after she went out, her cousin also came out with a smile, took her hand, and asked softly, “Shall we go to town for a meal? I’m so hungry. After we eat, we can bring some pastries to find Miss Yugui and the others to chat.”

Faced with her, how could Chi Xiangyue not agree? Naturally, she nodded. Just as she nodded, Chi Jingming also slowly came out, his gaze toward her filled with condemnation. He clearly knew that everything had started with Tang’er, but he still felt that his own rebellious daughter had led another’s obedient daughter astray. Thinking that his brother-in-law would find out about this sooner or later, he was a little unnatural.

Seeing him walk out, Chi Xiangyue asked casually, “It’s already past class time. Where are you going, Dad?”

Chi Jingming’s footsteps paused. His fingers fumbled with his sleeve, and he said helplessly, “It’s naturally for the matter of you two. I need to write a letter to Lord Chu to explain, and then ask a matchmaker to go to the Chu family to propose marriage.”

Although the two of them had already promised each other, he didn’t want to wrong Chu Wantang. What should be given should naturally be given. He hadn’t expected Tang’er to be so firm. These two, he couldn’t persuade either of them.

Forget it. Life is long. If one can be with the person they love, that’s also very good. It was he who was pedantic.

Chi Jingming had thought all night before he had figured this out. Our dynasty already allows women to marry. Why should he go against the law?