Chapter 182: All He Sees Is Hu Yao

“What are you pretending for!” Feng Yulan sneered, blocking her attempt to close the door.

Footsteps approached from behind. Feng Yulan glanced over her shoulder and saw Jiang Han.

She immediately changed her expression, grabbing Hu Yao’s hand and pulling her towards herself with a sudden jerk. Her expression was one of extreme grievance, “Sister-in-law, what are you…”

Feng Yulan’s words stopped abruptly, the rest of her sentence caught in her throat.

Because of the sudden pull, Hu Yao stumbled before she did!

“What are you doing!” Caught off guard by the sudden pull, Hu Yao hadn’t reacted in time. Her center of gravity was thrown off, and she tripped over the door threshold, falling to the ground.

The umbrella in her hand fell, the rainwater on the ground soaking her clothes. The fall also caused her pain.

Jiang Han strode forward with a dark face, pushing aside Feng Yulan who was flustered and trying to explain, reaching Hu Yao first. He helped her up, his eyes filled with concern and displeasure.

Feng Yulan was pushed aside without mercy, stumbling several meters away. When she landed heavily on the ground, she felt a numbness in half of her body. She couldn’t help but cry out in pain, “Ah!”

He was so ruthless!

Feng Yulan was genuinely hurt. The spot where Jiang Han had pushed her away was where Jiang Xiaochao had carelessly thrown a stone after playing. She tripped over it.

She almost gritted her teeth, her face contorting with pain. When she looked up at Jiang Han, her expression was still one of pitiful helplessness.

This time, it was more genuine.

“Where did you fall?” Jiang Han didn’t even glance back. He looked Hu Yao up and down. Seeing her gloomy and angry expression, he was even more angry, “You’re a real talent, letting someone push you and fall at the doorstep!”

He really had to watch over her at home.

Hu Yao pursed her lips, glaring angrily at him. She pulled away from his hand and walked over to step on Feng Yulan who was still lying on the ground, tears welling in her eyes as she looked at Jiang Han.

“Ah!” Feng Yulan cried out in pain, timidly dodging and moving to the side, acting like she wanted to avoid it but couldn’t. The current scene made Hu Yao look like a domineering bully.

“I didn’t mean to.” She was still pretending.

Looking at her act, Hu Yao’s brows furrowed even tighter.

“Finished beating her up? Go home and change clothes.” Jiang Han saw her soaked clothes and his expression wasn’t good. He urged her to go home.

She hadn’t even finished her confinement period. Her body was weak and prone to illness. If she lingered any longer, she would catch a cold.

“There’s no business for you here. Go find a man to stand with on the street!” He had no good face for Feng Yulan who was still pretending on the ground. His cold and sharp tone was completely different from the gentleness he had shown Hu Yao.

“Don’t let me see you again!”

His blunt and merciless words made Feng Yulan’s face turn pale and then green. He had pushed her away, and now he was openly insulting her, calling her a dirty woman!

She had been so humble and repeatedly tried to please him, but he was indifferent and even insulted her!

Feng Yulan’s face darkened, her eyes narrowed as she stared at the figures of the two of them disappearing behind the door.

The rain intensified, washing her even more miserably.

She had deliberately not brought an umbrella because of the light rain. She never expected this outcome. Country folks were indeed crude and barbaric. They had no manners, even resorting to violence!

“How did you gather information! You couldn’t tell me when Jiang Han was at home and when he wasn’t! You made me do something for nothing!” Feng Yulan returned home, her heart filled with resentment and anger, and she blamed her mother, Li Lian.

“What are you going crazy for, you dead girl! His legs are his own, how can I stop him?” Li Lian paused her hand as she was cracking sunflower seeds. Her half-slouched body straightened a bit because of Feng Yulan’s accusations. She looked at her with a stern expression.

“Then go and sleep with those guys again. Find out Jiang Han’s whereabouts before you tell me!” Feng Yulan said coldly, wringing out the water droplets from her clothes.

“Those bastards said they were Jiang Han’s brothers, but they are not even remotely related. How much can they know?” Li Lian snorted, accustomed to her daughter’s outrageous and disrespectful words.

However, looking at their dilapidated house, she couldn’t help but feel anxious. She never expected Jiang Han to be so capable. In the past, Jiang Han’s father and Feng Yulan’s dead father had a good relationship. Now that they, mother and daughter, were so destitute, he should have helped them. After all, she was considered Jiang Han’s elder!

But who knew that Jiang Han was so cold-hearted. Not only had Feng Yulan gone to him, but she had also gone, but he was completely unmoved and even treated them with impatience and disdain.

“If those debts aren’t repaid, those bastards will come to make trouble for us, mother and daughter. We just came back, those outsiders don’t know us well. After a while, you’ll be like before, no one wants you even if you try hard! If you want to live a good life, seize this opportunity. If Jiang Han doesn’t work, find someone else!” Li Lian didn’t care how Feng Yulan snatched men, or whose men she snatched, as long as she could live a good life with her in the future!

“How many years have we been gone? Everyone knows about you running away with someone back then. Good reputation? Do we even have one?” Feng Yulan said with a cold face. Their current situation was really bad. They were not only in debt but also struggling to eat.

And Jiang Han was so cold to her. She could clearly see that he was not interested in her, unlike those other men in the past.

Thinking of his actions towards her and Hu Yao, and their harmonious and dazzling appearance, a dark cloud crossed her eyes.

“Isn’t their youngest son getting married in a few days? How much medicine is left?” She forced a smile.

She had heard that Jiang Han had many women in the past, but now all he saw was Hu Yao. He was such a ruthless man that even if he slept with her, he wouldn’t accept her so quickly.

If that was the case, then she would let him see with his own eyes how Hu Yao was debauched with other men!

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The rain continued, falling for days.

By the time Hu Yao’s confinement period ended and Jiang Fu Heng’s full-month celebration arrived, the weather had cleared, and the sun was shining brightly.

Feng Yulan hadn’t come to bother them again after that day.

However, Hu Yao heard a few gossipy aunties mention her, saying she had really gone to borrow money from Song Sikai.

These aunties seemed to dislike Feng Yulan’s ways too. Now, she and her mother were renting the dilapidated old house from Li Pozi. Several people who recognized Li Lian remembered the past and their criticisms of them moved from behind the scenes to the open.

Feng Yulan, a girl in her twenties who hadn’t married, had previously pretended to be a good girl, claiming that Li Pozi’s relatives were her own.

Now, they had witnessed her shameless flirting and quarrelling with men multiple times, and their opinion of her instantly turned sour. They couldn’t stand her, and some aunties were even afraid that their unmarried sons would be seduced by her.

Feng Yulan wasn’t well-behaved when she asked Song Sikai for money either. With an unknown source of confidence, she used Jiang Han’s name to make connections, pretending to be someone she wasn’t in front of Song Sikai.

She even dared to sarcastically provoke the pregnant Du Ximei.

Du Ximei slapped her across the face, sending her flying several meters away.