Chapter 08: Can Fight

Hu Yao didn’t know yet the special place she held in Jiang Xiaochao’s heart.

After drying Jiang Xiaochao’s hair, she found some clothes and prepared to take a bath.

There was a large wardrobe in the room, containing clothes for Hu Yao, Jiang Xiaochao, and Jiang Han.

As Hu Yao rummaged through it, she realized that she had more clothes now than she did at the Hu family.

Her fragmented memories recalled that Jiang Han was not kind to her, often scolding her, but her food and clothing were much better than most families.

Jiang Han had a fierce reputation, and his name was infamous. Any decent person would avoid him. He was ruthless and acted entirely on impulse. Those who offended him could be openly maimed, or he could retaliate silently, leaving no trace, but making it clear that he was the one responsible.

He was tall and muscular, and even without using force, the bulging veins on his clenched fist could easily scare people.

Like Hu Yao.

Last night, Hu Yao actually dreamt of him. She woke up in a fright, otherwise, why would she have gone to bed so late and woken up so early?

It was because she dreamt that he was scowling fiercely and said he would slap her flat!

She had never been very brave. Although the Hu family was unkind to her, she had never encountered anyone as brutal as Jiang Han.

Now she was married to him and had even given him a son. All this made her feel unreal and a little scared after waking up yesterday.

Hu Yao was looking for clothes, and she glanced at the black clothes belonging to Jiang Han next to hers, hesitantly asking Jiang Xiaochao, who was lying on the bed, swinging his little feet boredly.

“Xiaochao, does your father… hit people?”

She didn’t ask in detail. Originally, she wanted to ask if Jiang Han had ever hit her, but she couldn’t remember for the moment.

“Yes! Dad hits people! He hits me too!” Jiang Xiaochao answered without hesitation, then pouted.

He hadn’t complained about Jiang Han with Hu Yao for several days. Now that Hu Yao had started, he couldn’t help but start accusing his own father: “Dad hits really hard! He even uses a rattan cane to hit me! He hit Yao Yao last time too, it’s annoying!”

“He always says we’re disobedient, but Dad is unreasonable too!”

“…”

Jiang Xiaochao snorted, listing Jiang Han’s misdeeds without repeating himself.

He was only three years old, but he was very smart and spoke clearly and logically.

It was also because Jiang Xiaochao was sometimes too talkative that Jiang Han, when he was angry with Hu Yao for constantly causing trouble, would sarcastically say that Jiang Xiaochao was the one who stole her brain.

His accusations continued, but Hu Yao was startled and her face turned pale.

Sure enough! Jiang Han would hit her and Xiaochao!

Jiang Xiaochao hadn’t noticed her discomfort and didn’t know that Hu Yao was scared by his words.

It was true that he said Jiang Han hit her, but he had only ever hit her palm, treating her like a disobedient child like himself.

The last time Jiang Han hit them was because they went to play by the creek at the foot of the mountain, got soaked, and caught frogs to put in Jiang Han’s cup.

Jiang Xiaochao put it in his cup, and Hu Yao threw it directly at his face while he was scolding Jiang Xiaochao. Jiang Han’s face turned black on the spot.

Naturally, they, mother and son, were scolded badly that time.

Jiang Xiaochao felt that he was worse off because Jiang Han always used the same method to hit Hu Yao, hitting her palm, while he was different. His father’s methods of disciplining him were endless. That time, his little butt not only swelled up, but he was also miserably tied up in a frog-like position for a long time.

So Jiang Xiaochao remembered it vividly!

Hu Yao’s face was grim, and she didn’t want Jiang Han to come home anymore. She didn’t know how to face him. If he was unhappy, he would hit her…

Compared to his physique, she was nothing. He could accidentally kill her!

Suddenly, Hu Yao couldn’t help but think wildly, her face becoming increasingly grim.

Actually, she had seen Jiang Han hit someone. That was also the first time she saw him in person.

Jiang Han’s notoriety spread throughout the ten surrounding villages, but Hu Yao had only heard of him, never seen him. They weren’t from the same village, and she rarely left the village.

That day, she was washing clothes by the river when a sudden splash of water splashed all over her. Jiang Han stepped on someone in the river, his expression cold and cruel.

The painful screams and the crisp, chilling sound of broken bones accompanied his fist landing, splashing water stained with blood-red, splattering on her.

She was terrified, never having witnessed such brutality so close up.

The people around had already scattered. He was hitting the person right in front of her, and she was too scared to react. It took her a long time to run away, trembling, not even bothering to take her clothes.

She was scolded by Hu Guifen again that time, and it took a long time for her to go back and get her clothes.

Later, she heard that the person Jiang Han beat up owed him money or was trying to steal his woman, there were all sorts of speculations, true or false.

Hu Yao didn’t pay much attention. She was never a person who liked to gossip about others. If it weren’t for Jiang Han’s “fame”, she wouldn’t even know how many outrageous things he had done.

“Yao Yao, let’s beat Dad together next time!” Jiang Xiaochao continued.

Hu Yao pursed her lips, feeling that she couldn’t carry out this plan with him.

Her rosy lips moved slightly, about to say something, when there was a commotion from next door.

Let’s not talk about whether Jiang Han hits people or not, right now Li Zhuangzhi is beating Lin Zhaodi next door!

Hu Yao instinctively clenched her hand, her heart suddenly tightened, and she instinctively ran outside.

“I just said a few words to you, and you dare to talk back? You even dare to hit my mother! Lin Zhaodi, how much do you weigh? You haven’t even given birth to an egg for our family in all these years, and you still dare to give me a face?” Li Zhuangzhi had been drinking, and the alcohol had gone to his head. He grabbed Lin Zhaodi’s hair, slapped her, and cursed incessantly.

His strength was not small, and Lin Zhaodi

One side of her face immediately swelled up red. Her face turned pale, and her eyes looked at him with a dullness, her heart as dead as ashes.

Li Pozi fanned the flames from the side: “This wife we married is different from other people’s wives! A money-losing thing who eats from the inside and betrays from the outside! Any good thing she has, she only hides it to eat and drink herself! We’ve raised her for so many years in vain, all for nothing but raising a money-losing girl for the Lin family!”

Li Pozi knew that Hu Yao’s family had stewed chicken soup today. She had asked Lin Zhaodi to get it for her, both openly and secretly, but Lin Zhaodi refused. Li Pozi suspected that she had eaten it herself.

She didn’t care if it was true or not, and just beat Lin Zhaodi. Lin Zhaodi couldn’t help but take a step back. Li Pozi missed her blow, and her feet became unsteady, causing her to stumble. Luckily, she held onto the table next to her and didn’t fall to the ground.

This made her even angrier. Coincidentally, Li Zhuangzhi came back from drinking. She exaggerated the story, and then this fight broke out.