Chapter 59: Paying for the Child

It was an unknown brother who had ratted her out.

“Why are you smiling at all those men like that? Are you tired of living?” He was quite fierce, and his face was very sour.

“Want to learn from Lin Zhaodi, huh?!” Jiang Han glared at her.

“All day long you’re playing with some things, not a bunch of little kids who haven’t been weaned and cats and dogs, but all sorts of messed up things!” He didn’t think about himself, but he was still so bold to talk about Hu Yao.

“I didn’t.” Hu Yao pursed her lips. What had she done that was out of line? She just sold some dried bamboo shoots. Before, he wouldn’t let her sell watermelons, after all, the watermelons were his, but now the dried bamboo shoots were dug and made by her own hands, and he wouldn’t let her sell them!

Moreover, everyone who sold things at the market had a smiling face, did they have to pull a long face? She was just being polite and smiling at people, it wasn’t like he said she was only smiling at men!

Thinking about this, she was a little depressed and unconvinced.

“Here’s the money for you.” She gave him the money she had earned these days, her voice soft and serious. “I won’t do those things. Zhaodi and the others haven’t paid you back that much money yet, I’m helping…”

Speaking of Lin Zhaodi again, Hu Yao’s eyes lowered slightly, a little complicated.

Just as Jiang Han said, she had taken care of her for those few years, and she had been paid, but her kindness and meticulous care were real, perhaps she had her own purpose at the beginning, and she wasn’t as good as she remembered, but now that she had helped, there was nothing to say, and she had really caused trouble for Jiang Han.

She wanted to make as much money as possible to pay Jiang Han back quickly, also because she didn’t want to owe him so much.

He was actually pretty good to her, although he was a little fierce, his words were a little harsh, and his temper was a little unpredictable…

The day she helped Lin Zhaodi, she had hesitated, after all, her current confidence, the respect others had for her, was all thanks to Jiang Han, this she knew very well, she was also gambling on whether he would help…

The incident with Lin Zhaodi had already become a matter of who was right and who was wrong, she and Li Zhuangzhi both had problems.

It was just that few people were as good to Hu Yao as she was, seeing Lin Zhaodi being beaten like that, she couldn’t bear it, so she still helped her.

If it had been someone else who had nothing to do with her, she wouldn’t have been so foolish as to meddle in such a controversial matter.

“You’re helping? Helping what, whose side are you on?” Jiang Han interrupted her, his face turning even darker.

Her words were like saying that she and Lin Zhaodi were on the same side! Jiang Han was even more unhappy.

“If you run around again, I’ll break your legs! If you like to make people laugh, laugh at me and Jiang Fuchao at home! That cow can too!”

“…”

“There’s no work for you to do at home, is there? Or is it that I don’t have any money to spend on you?” He continued to lecture, still not wanting her to “show off”.

“Did I ask you to pay me back? I don’t even care about that little bit of money!”

Were they people with no relationship at all? That little bit of money was not worth arguing about. In the end, this dead woman still didn’t see herself as his person.

“Okay, you’ll pay it back! I don’t want Lin Zhaodi’s money, I want you to pay me back in flesh!”

“You know I used to lend money at high interest rates, right? Interest on interest, you get ready, Jiang Fuchao won’t have ten or eight siblings!” His eyes narrowed slightly, his tone serious.

Hu Yao froze, her face flushed red, he didn’t want her money, he wanted her children!

“… It’s better if Zhaodi and the others pay you back.”

“Now it’s none of your business?” Jiang Han saw her lively and varied expressions, raising an eyebrow.

“… Yeah.”

Jiang Han snorted coldly. He knew that this would scare her into not meddling, he should have said it like this.

But then he thought about how she still didn’t want to have children for him, and his face turned black again. Damn it, it would be better to give her money!

“Go and settle their wages! If you do this well, I’ll pay you too, if you run around outside showing off, I’ll beat you flat!”

“Jiang Fuchao, don’t go talking to your cow, get over here and collect this pile of junk!”

Jiang Han, who was in a bad mood, couldn’t stand anything, even yelling at Jiang Fuchao who was talking to the little cow in the yard from a distance.

…

Lin Zhaodi had been at Xiaoya’s house for over a month and was pregnant.

This once again caused a stir in the village. Who didn’t know that she had been married to Li Zhuangzhi for so many years and had never been pregnant, and now that she had changed to another man, she had become pregnant in less than a month.

Some said that Li Zhuangzhi was useless, and some said that they were just not meant to have children.

Hu Yao wasn’t interested in these gossipy rumors.

However… she knew that Lin Zhaodi wasn’t actually a month pregnant, but almost two months.

At that time, she and Li Zhuangzhi had not yet separated.

Lin Zhaodi didn’t notice Hu Yao’s subtle change in expression. After all these years, she was finally pregnant, and she was finally able to get rid of the reputation of being a hen that couldn’t lay eggs! How could she not be happy and excited!

“By the way, Xiaoyao, we’re a little short of money this month, can you give me the money a little later this month?” She looked at Hu Yao with a look of apology and pleading.

Hu Yao paused, remembering Jiang Han’s words about her having to pay him back with ten or eight children, she shook her head in alarm. “Go talk to Jiang Han.”

She was clearly aware that Jiang Han didn’t like her favoring Lin Zhaodi now, and he didn’t like her staying with her much.

Thinking of how she had just been boasting to Li Zhen about her pregnancy, and how she had ridiculed Li Zhen for not being able to have children like those gossiping aunts who had always slandered her for not being able to have children, Hu Yao’s eyes sank, feeling uncomfortable.

This discomfort grew even stronger when she saw her stunned and disbelieving expression after she rejected her words.

“Xiaoyao, help me out, it’s just a matter of talking to Brother Han, you two are husband and wife, it’s easier to talk to him.” Lin Zhaodi held Hu Yao’s hand and begged.

“I’m also afraid of him.” Hu Yao said calmly, calmly pulling her hand away.

“Brother Han is very good to you, no matter what, he won’t be too harsh on you.” Lin Zhaodi had taken care of her for so many years, how could she not see that Jiang Han cared about Hu Yao.

“Last time I helped you, he came home and beat me.” Hu Yao looked at her, her eyes clear and long.

Lin Zhaodi paused slightly, slowly opening her mouth: “I’m sorry, Xiaoyao, it’s all because of me.”

“But men are like that, you just have to bear with it, be more accommodating to him, and he won’t hit you as much. Xiaoya’s father hasn’t had any work for a long time, our life is really tight now, that money… Xiaoyao, why don’t you talk to Brother Han again, see if there’s any work for him to do, that way we can pay you back faster…”

Disappointment flashed in Hu Yao’s eyes, and she remained silent for a long time.

Her current urgent appearance truly confirmed what Jiang Han had told Li Zhuangzhi, her kindness towards her wasn’t entirely pure.

She had suffered in the Li family, and she would have collapsed and resisted, but once she escaped that environment, she came to advise others to endure, and when she heard that she was being mistreated by Jiang Han, she didn’t even care, only focusing on her own affairs.

“I have something to do, I’ll go back first.”