Chapter 36: Everyone Envies Me for Having a Good Wife

There were plenty of green peppers and meat, they didn’t realize that the two large plates of meat were more than a pound.

They praised Ye Xiaozhen’s cooking skills.

Ye Xiaozhen just smiled and said nothing.

They all thought that the new wife was shy, and didn’t realize that Ye Xiaozhen was playing the role of a fool.

With two more people helping, they finished harvesting the wheat in four days.

That night, Xie Lin’an said that the two younger brothers he had arranged to come back had been praising her cooking skills.

“Xiaozhen, everyone says your cooking is delicious, they all envy me, they said they wanted me to treat them to a meal and have you cook a few tables.”

Ye Xiaozhen: “…” You want to use me as a cook?

Just as she was thinking this, she heard Xie Lin’an say, “Bah, they can dream on, they’re enjoying themselves, but my wife will be tired, right? We won’t let them eat, let them envy us.”

Ye Xiaozhen breathed a sigh of relief.

Xie Lin’an hugged her from behind, resting his chin on her shoulder, “Xiaozhen, your illness will definitely get better, right?”

Ye Xiaozhen didn’t pay any attention to him.

His chin rubbed against her shoulder, and he said again, “If you still haven’t gotten better in half a year, I’ll take you to the hospital. I’ve made money from this job, I have money to treat you.”

Although she was pretending to be stupid now, she was still touched to hear him say this.

“My third uncle and third aunt will probably come tomorrow, and my second and third brothers will go back to school to get their notification letters, I won’t go to the construction site tomorrow morning, so that the old, weak, women, and children at home won’t be bullied by them.”

He was a prophet, his third uncle and third aunt came early in the morning.

Most of the wheat harvested these days had already been collected in the granary, only the batch harvested yesterday was still drying in the yard, it needed to be dried in the sun for another day.

When they came back and saw the wheat all over the yard, they didn’t think much of it, they first pulled Lin Xinghua aside and cared for him for a while, then they said, “Dad, you’re old, and your legs and feet aren’t good, don’t go to the field. Me and Xiaomei will go, we can finish harvesting the few acres of land at home quickly.”

“Yes, Dad, look, we’ve already brought out the sacks. We’ll load it directly from the threshing ground into the sacks, it’s easier than putting it in baskets, look how sturdy these sacks are.”

Lin Xinghua said directly, “You don’t need to help this time, it’s already been harvested.”

Their smiles froze on their faces.

“Harvested?”

“Yes, it was harvested yesterday morning.”

They looked at each other.

Then Xiaomei complained, “Dad, I asked you last time, didn’t you say you would start harvesting this week? I came to help according to the time, why have you already harvested everything?”

Xie Zhili also said, “That’s right, Dad, we said we would come to help, why did you harvest it yourself? You’re old, what if you get hurt?”

Xiaomei continued, “Lin’an is really something, he’s not a kid anymore, he doesn’t know how to be considerate. Why did he let you harvest it yourself?”

“No, Lin’an…”

“Alright, Dad, don’t defend him. You’re always like this, only your eldest grandson is your heart and soul, you just spoil him, you’ll spoil him sooner or later.”

They didn’t know that Xie Lin’an was at home, Lin Xinghua knew what kind of person Xie Lin’an was, how could he take this?

He was so scared that he quickly covered their mouths.

“Don’t say it.” He warned in a low voice, and kept looking towards the house.

Unfortunately, they didn’t understand what he meant.

“Dad, are you still covering for him? You don’t even look at what Lin’an has become. He didn’t study when he should have, he’s always fighting, everyone in the ten miles knows he’s a hooligan.”

“Dad, you’ve spoiled him into a hooligan, how can you face Big Brother?”

Lin Xinghua’s face changed.

It’s over.

No, it’s already over.

“Who’s facing Big Brother, my father?”

Xie Lin’an slowly came out of the house.

Xie Zhili and Li Mei were stunned, staring at him blankly.

Lin Xinghua subconsciously stood between them.

“Lin’an, you… how come you’re home?”

“Yeah, how come you’re home? Didn’t you say you were busy at the dam?”

“Heh, if I was busy at the dam, how would I know that my third uncle and third aunt were talking about me behind my back?”

Ye Xiaozhen didn’t come out, she just stood by the window and watched.

Seeing the expressions on Xie Zhili and his wife’s faces, as if they had eaten shit, she almost couldn’t help but laugh.

“I, I didn’t say anything.” Xie Zhili said.

Xie Lin’an snorted and shifted his gaze to Li Mei, “Third aunt said that I didn’t study when I should have, I’m always fighting, and that I’m a hooligan in the ten miles?”

Li Mei was so embarrassed that her toes were digging into the ground.

Lin Xinghua hurriedly stopped him, “Lin’an, let’s talk calmly.”

Xie Lin’an smiled, “What are you talking about, Grandpa, I’m talking calmly.”

Lin Xinghua shook his head helplessly.

Xie Lin’an continued to ask, “Third aunt, you haven’t answered my question yet, why did you say I didn’t study and that I’m a hooligan? Do I need to remind you again why I didn’t take the college entrance exam, why I didn’t continue my studies?”

Li Mei said, “No, I… I didn’t mean that.”

“Oh, then what did you mean?”

“This… I just wanted to say that you should think more about your grandpa, he’s so old, and his legs and feet aren’t good, you should be more filial to him.”

“Heh.” Xie Lin’an sneered and stared at her.

“Third aunt is so filial, I wonder how the third uncle and third aunt have been filial to Grandpa all these years?”

He was tall and strong, the biceps on his arms looked scary, no one could help but be afraid when he stared at them like that.

Li Mei was afraid, thinking, this hooligan wouldn’t hit her, would he?

One punch from him, and she would be dead.

“This… you have to look at your third uncle to be filial.”

“Oh, that makes sense.” He withdrew his gaze, and Li Mei immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he looked at Xie Zhili, “Third uncle, what do you think?”

Xie Zhili’s face was a little embarrassed, he adjusted his glasses and said, “I came to help harvest wheat, I didn’t expect that the wheat was harvested early, now I can’t help much.”

“How can you not help? If Third Uncle is really filial, you can take Grandpa home and take good care of him, eat well and drink well, and be filial to him.”

“That’s not possible, our house is small, we can’t fit.”

“Then why did you come here, what did you buy for Grandpa?”

The two of them: “…”

“No way? You didn’t come empty-handed, did you? Tsk tsk, you’re still a son, Grandma Zhang in the village always scolds her daughter for being unfilial, even when her daughter comes to her mother’s house, she doesn’t come empty-handed. Not to mention anything else, you should have brought two jin of white sugar.”

He said this, and Xie Zhili and Li Mei’s faces were very ugly.

“Lin’an, aren’t you just blaming me for not supporting you financially to go to school? Why are you being so sarcastic?”

Lin Xinghua was really tired, why did it come back to school again?

“You…”

He had just opened his mouth when Xie Lin’an interrupted him.

“Grandpa, don’t say anything, go sit in the house.”

Whether it was his son or grandson, Lin Xinghua couldn’t control them.