Chapter 83
Returning to the village recently, she would always hear funeral music on the road. She had heard that a butcher from the neighboring Lijia Village had died. That butcher was also a woman. Some time ago, her parents had died one after another, and now even she was dead. The whole family was gone, and the money they had saved all went to some relatives.
When Auntie Li came to Song Yugui’s house to chat with Shen Xizhi, her face was filled with anger. “The moment that Li Shuhe died, her relatives couldn’t wait to come and divide the money. They even said that Li Shuhe had a hard fate and brought misfortune to her family, that she couldn’t live a good life. Pfft! They complained about her being unlucky, yet they still took her money!”
Auntie Li felt very sorry for Li Shuhe, but the person was already dead. Although she was from Lijia Village, she was not familiar with Li Shuhe and couldn’t do anything for her. She just hoped that she would have a better life in her next life and not die of illness again.
Hearing this, Shen Xizhi also felt very sorry for this woman. Her family had no one left at all.
Song Yugui had been chopping firewood outside. Her peripheral vision caught her wife’s long lashes lowered, her expression a little sad. She quickly put down her axe and went in, sitting beside them. “Don’t be sad. Everyone has their own fate. If you don’t live well in this life, you’ll live well in the next.”
She stroked her wife, holding her in her arms and coaxing her gently.
“Mmm… I just hope that in her next life, she can have a father and mother and live a happy and peaceful life.”
Song Yugui rubbed the back of her wife’s head.
Auntie Li was not as open-minded as the young people and really couldn’t stand it. She just said she had to go and cook for the two men in her family and left.
Seeing that there was no one at home, Song Yugui became even bolder. She lifted her head and kissed her wife, gently pressing her lips against her wife’s rosy, thin lips, licking and kissing them carefully, not letting her think of any more depressing things.
She had actually been very uneasy recently. Who told her that this was the day her wife would die in the novel?
She knew that her wife had died on a winter night.
A winter day close to the Spring Festival, extremely cold. She had been driven out by the villagers, cold and freezing, with nowhere to go, wearing only a thin, patched summer dress, wandering blankly outside the village, and then had frozen to death in the middle of the night.
So heartbreaking.
She hadn’t thought of this plot for a long time, because every time she thought of it, her heart was filled with pity.
It’s a good thing I transmigrated. With me protecting my wife, I definitely won’t let anything happen to her. She can also have a very warm and happy winter.
Last winter, she had just transmigrated into the book not long ago and was not very rich. She had only bought winter clothes and couldn’t even afford charcoal. It wasn’t cold, but it wasn’t warm either.
“Since there’s no one at home, can you give me a kiss?”
If I don’t kiss her now, Miss Chi and the others will be back.
She went closer to her ear. She had clearly already kissed her but still deliberately asked her.
Shen Xizhi was coy and said in a small voice, “Why do you like to kiss so much?”
“I like you, so of course I like to kiss you. Don’t you like it?”
Her gaze was fixed on her, as if she wouldn’t give up until she got an answer. Only then did the young woman lower her head shyly and say, “I… I also like it…”
She also liked to be kissed by her wife. When her wife was close to her, she would complain on the surface, but her heart was always filled with a secret joy.
“Then let me kiss you again.”
She hadn’t kissed her properly before and always felt that it was not enough.
Shen Xizhi’s face turned red. “All you know is to kiss. You even think of that kind of thing when there are people around.”
“Mmm, I’m shameless.”
Song Yugui said in a hoarse voice in her ear, clearly having already had the idea. Her little wife lay delicately in her arms. She hadn’t been touched by her wife in several days. Although she was shy on the surface, her heart also really wanted it.
“Wife~”
Her voice was filled with a soft coquettishness. Song Yugui’s heart skipped a beat, and her long, slender fingers gently stroked her body.
Shen Xizhi couldn’t support her own body and could only manage to say, “Wife, the door, close the door!”
Yugui-jiejie never closes the door, never closes the door. She… she’s shameless!
Song Yugui looked up at the slightly ajar door, quickly went over and bolted it, then came back and carried her wife horizontally to the bed, taking a mouthful of the large white rabbit candy and saying with a muffled voice, “Miss Chi showed me a lesbian storybook.”
At this level, Shen Xizhi could still barely maintain her clarity. Hearing this, she asked with a puzzled expression, “Mmm~ Wh-what kind of storybook?”
“Mmm, the kind where they’re hung up with a hemp rope.”
Shen Xizhi: …
“Don’t you talk to me anymore!”
“Hmph, you’re my wife. If I don’t talk to you about this kind of thought, who else can I talk to?”
Song Yugui knew she was refusing, but it wasn’t a stern refusal, so there was still a chance!
Shen Xizhi didn’t speak, and her cheeks, which had already been flushed with emotion, became even redder.
After a long while, she wiped all the water from above onto her feet.
Shen Xizhi: …
Doing this again.
She glared at her without any deterrence after she was covered, her snowy white, round toes curling slightly.
“You…”
Before she could finish, her rosy lips were covered. She wasn’t afraid of her at all and was just thinking of ways to bully her.
It wasn’t until it was almost time for dinner that they finally stopped, lest the female lead come over and see something she shouldn’t from a newly married couple.
Xiaozhi’er lay on the bed with a dazed look in her eyes. No matter how you called her, she wouldn’t speak. She looked as if she were in a daze, not very clear-headed, truly obedient.
Song Yugui lowered her head and kissed her wife. “You can tidy up. Miss Chi and the others will be here soon.”
She had thought that since the two of them had gone to town, they wouldn’t come back for a free meal. But they had gone to town on their wedding night and had moved back later, coming for a free meal every day.
Having been kissed again, Shen Xizhi finally regained a bit of her senses and blinked her eyes. “Mmm.”
Xiaozhi’er was always very obedient afterwards. She seemed to have not yet reacted. Hearing her wife’s instructions, she obediently held the quilt and sat up.
Speak of the devil and he shall appear. As the two of them were tidying up, Chi Xiangyue was banging on the door and shouting, “Xizhi, Yugui, are you home? Why is the door closed in broad daylight?”
Song Yugui: …
We’re both married women. How can you ask such a question?
She was speechless and was too lazy to even reply. From outside, Chu Wantang’s voice came, soft and gentle, unlike Chi Xiangyue, who was a brute. She was very sensible. “Miss Yugui’s door is closed. She must have something to do. It’s also possible that she’s not at home. Don’t you call out. Didn’t you say you wanted to see Miss Yugui’s chickens? You can watch for a while.”
Song Yugui’s chickens were said to be Song Yugui’s, but in fact, it had always been Chi Xiangyue who had raised them, feeding them with the fine rice Chi Xiangyue had brought from her own home. They were well-fed.
Those chickens probably knew that there would be good food when she came. They surrounded her feet one by one, pecking at the stones.
“Oh, then I’ll go home and get some rice. Yugui and the others are always forgetting to feed them. The chickens will be hungry.”
If the chickens were hungry, they would find small worms or eat some rotten cabbage leaves themselves. But Chi Xiangyue seemed not to know this. Seeing the chicken bowl so clean, she quickly went home to get some rice, even using her qinggong.
Although she didn’t eat at home, Chi Jingming would occasionally cook for himself, so there was always rice, flour, grain, and oil at home, which was also convenient for Chi Xiangyue.
Although her own mouth was not at home, she had brought back several mouths. How could that not be a kind of filial piety?
By the time Song Yugui had finished tidying up inside, Chi Xiangyue had already finished feeding the chicken. The moment she saw them, her eyes lit up. “Ya, so you’re at home. Then why did you ignore me just now?”
Song Yugui: …
What kind of person can ask such a question?
Chu Wantang smiled apologetically at the two of them. She clearly knew that something unspeakable had happened inside just now, but her cousin was an idiot, always careless, and would never learn to be more delicate. But it didn’t matter.
She would accompany her cousin, would help her.
Before Song Yugui could think of a reply, Chu Wantang held her cousin’s hand. “Didn’t my cousin say she was going to take me to the woods to pick fruit?”
The two of them were both stunned. Then, Chi Xiangyue’s cheeks exploded with red, and even her neck couldn’t be spared. Song Yugui was puzzled. “It’s so cold in winter. Are there also fruits to pick on the mountain?”
…
Of course not. This fruit was not that fruit. Aiya, they didn’t understand. These were all sweet troubles.
But it was too cold on the mountain now. She had just mentioned it yesterday. How could she go right away? It was so cold. Her little cousin would be frozen. She couldn’t bear that either.
“No. What’s so good about going when it’s so cold? We can go for a spring outing on the mountain when spring comes.”
Is a spring outing on the mountain?
Isn’t that a picnic?
But speaking of which, I haven’t been on an outing with Xizhi yet.
In modern times, she would sometimes go traveling when she had free time. Anyway, it was just to go out and see. There was always some benefit to seeing. But after coming to ancient times, she had always been trapped in this mountain village.
She rarely went out for a walk.
Mmm, I’ll earn some money and go out to play once before I open a shop for Xizhi, and also take Xizhi to change her mood.
Shen Xizhi was the last to come out. After being played with by her wife, her soul had already traveled ten thousand eight thousand li away. It had taken her a long time to come back. She had been sitting in the room, holding the quilt for a long time. Vaguely hearing the sound of conversation outside, she finally got up and put on some clean clothes.
Seeing her come out, Chi Xiangyue quickly waved at her, looking at her with a bit of excitement. “Xizhi, you’re finally out! We’ve been here for a long time. I thought you weren’t here.”
Shen Xizhi looked over blankly. “Mmm… it’s Miss Chi.”
Seeing this, Song Yugui immediately covered her forehead and smiled bitterly. She quickly went over and pulled her into her arms. She’s not awake yet.
“Do you want to go back and sleep for a while? I’ll cook.”
Chi Xiangyue: …
Did I say I wanted to eat yours? If I had known it was you who was cooking, I wouldn’t have come down specifically, TVT.
The moment Shen Xizhi was surrounded by a familiar scent, her legs couldn’t help but go weak. Her fingers had to hold her wife’s waist to stand firm, but she still shook her head firmly. “The food you make is not delicious. You won’t be full.”
Chi Xiangyue nodded vigorously on the side. That’s right, that’s right. We’ll all not be full.
Song Yugui was angry. How can you expose my shortcomings in front of others!
But because the other was her wife whom she had doted on for a long time, no matter how angry she was, she couldn’t bear to be angry. In the end, she just muttered something.
Shen Xizhi was dazed and didn’t hear clearly. She subconsciously put her ear closer, but she was caught off guard and was bitten on the ear.
It was a little sharp and painful. The young woman covered her ear with a wronged expression and glared at her, accusing, “Why did you bite me?”
Chi Xiangyue also looked stunned, then she had a look of ‘I didn’t expect you to be this kind of person’, and said with indignation, “That’s right! How can you bite Xizhi? If Xizhi did something wrong, you should just say it. Why bite her!”
Chu Wantang was speechless. She lowered her eyes and covered her heart with her hand. “Cousin.”
The moment her cousin turned her head and saw her clutching her heart, she remembered her frail constitution and was immediately so scared that she forgot everything else. “Tangtang, what’s wrong? Are you uncomfortable anywhere?”
Chu Wantang replied in a low voice, “Mmm, you can help me back to rest for a while. I want to rest.”
“What’s there to help you with? I’ll carry you back. You can save some energy.”
As she spoke, she carried her horizontally. Chu Wantang then lay in her cousin’s embrace and cast an apologetic look at Song Yugui.
Miss Chu is so sensible.
Seeing the two of them leave, Song Yugui turned her head to hold her wife, her hands holding her shoulders, not happy. “Where did I make food that didn’t make people full?”
Seeing her angry, Shen Xizhi quickly threw herself into her embrace. “I didn’t say you weren’t good. Don’t be angry with me.”
Song Yugui, who had been about to get angry, had her anger completely dispersed.
She couldn’t help but laugh, gently pulling the person in her arms back a little. When she saw her looking up with an uneasy, cautious expression, any anger she had melted away. All she could do was roughly rub her fluffy head and say, “You’re not allowed to say I’m not good in front of other people.”
Xizhi doesn’t like her to say she’s not good in front of others, and she doesn’t like it either.
Shen Xizhi had just been unclear. Now that she was clear, she understood something and guiltily covered her messed-up hair, replying with a guilty “oh… I’m sorry.”
She even apologizes. A little obedient.