Chapter 20: If You’re Angry, Can You Hit Me a Few Times?

Tang Xiaoxiao slowly got up from Song’s mother, looked at Chen Fengya, whose face was blurred, and glanced at the villagers around her.

She had heard the rumors about Song Jingzhi’s leg not getting better.

She had also heard people say that he wouldn’t be able to find a wife, and she had heard rumors about their relationship.

Having experienced the ups and downs of life in the future, she had never taken these words to heart. But today, when she heard someone say something bad about Song Jingzhi, she was truly angry.

“I, Tang Xiaoxiao, am saying this now. If I hear anyone say anything bad about Song Jingzhi again, I will beat them up every time I see them.” She looked around, and the aura of a former leader from her past life was released in an instant.

Chen Fengya looked at her, her whole body trembling. This girl was terrifying.

“Song Jingzhi and I saved people together in Xu Shan. He saved me during the aftershocks. We are comrades in arms. If one day he really can’t walk, I, Tang Xiaoxiao, am willing to be his wife and take care of him for the rest of my life.”

“Xiaoxiao.” Song’s mother looked at the girl in front of her. She had also heard some rumors these days, saying that Song Jingzhi would never get better.

Although the doctor said it would take three months, Song Jingzhi hadn’t gotten better after so long. She and Song’s father were also very worried, but she could only cry secretly at night, and Song’s father could only smoke his pipe and sigh.

She didn’t expect this girl to stand up and stand in front of their family.

Song Jingzhi felt his eyes getting dry. He gripped his knee.

She, she actually said that in front of so many people?

Was she really sure he would get better? What was she doing this for? Was she really going to take care of a disabled person for the rest of her life? Was it for responsibility? Or was it because…?

Actually, he had a feeling that his leg might not get better.

Over the past month, his knee had no longer been painful, and he had no feeling in it.

It’s just that he had never dared to show it in front of her or his parents.

Tang Xiaoxiao seemed to sense something and turned her head. She saw Song Jingzhi looking at her. She ran towards him, and Song Jingzhi instinctively rolled his wheelchair to leave.

But how could he be as fast as her? She ran over, grabbed his hand with her small hand, and squatted down in front of him.

“Song Jingzhi, I believe you will get better one day. Don’t give up, okay?”

Actually, they had been together every day, and she knew his emotions. It was because of this that she didn’t dare to use the Jade Dew on him rashly. She was afraid that it would be wasted if it didn’t work.

He looked at her, her eyes still filled with tears, but they also shone with determination and brightness, the brightest light in the world.

“Okay.”

She smiled brightly at him, the dimples on her cheeks the most beautiful sight Song Jingzhi had ever seen.

“Let’s go home.” She got up and pushed him forward.

The villagers watched their backs. No one gossiped about Tang Xiaoxiao’s actions. Instead, some people started pointing at Chen Fengya.

“Such good people, and you were so cruel to speak ill of them. Chen Fengya, do you have a heart?”

“That’s right. You’re heartless. You deserve to be shot. You deserve to pay.”

“Ugh, you almost caused the whole village to lose its advanced title.”

Tang Xiaoxiao didn’t care about what happened behind her. She wanted to go home and cook something delicious to reward herself.

She also needed to drink a lot of well water. She had shed so many crocodile tears, she needed to replenish her fluids.

Well water at this time was cool and sweet, a good remedy for the summer heat.

“What you said just now…” Song Jingzhi spoke.

“Which part?” She had said so many things.

The hand he had placed on his leg clenched and unclenched, unclenched and clenched again.

Tang Xiaoxiao, standing behind the wheelchair, naturally saw this. She also looked at his ears. Good, they were red again.

Now, without him saying anything, Tang Xiaoxiao knew which sentence he was referring to.

She knew he was probably going to say something like, “Tang, I’m not your responsibility. I would have saved anyone else,” or something similar.

“What’s wrong, Song Jingzhi? Are you looking down on me?” She stopped pushing the wheelchair, crossed her arms, and stood in front of him.

He didn’t dare to look up at her. The words he wanted to say got stuck in his throat. He knew she was angry, and she might explode any second.

But the words that were supposed to leave him speechless and unable to retort didn’t come. She didn’t stand in front of him and silently cry. This time, she continued pushing the wheelchair forward.

Back at the Song family’s house, Tang Xiaoxiao pushed Song Jingzhi to the yard and left him there. She took her teacup and drank three cups of well water in a row. When she was about to drink a fourth cup, he stopped her.

“Stop drinking. You’ll get a stomachache if you drink any more.”

She put down the teacup expressionlessly, without responding to him. She went straight into the kitchen to prepare dinner.

This kind of Tang Xiaoxiao made Song Jingzhi a little uneasy. He followed her into the kitchen.

“Didn’t my mother say you don’t need to cook?”

Song’s mother had already given her word that Tang Xiaoxiao shouldn’t do any housework. If they had nothing to do, they should go back to their room and read.

She didn’t say anything. She had taken a lot of large bones from her space that morning, and she planned to make braised bones.

She didn’t ask him to start the fire. She was about to do it herself.

“Let me.” Seeing her about to start the fire, he quickly got there before her. Seeing him go, she went about her business.

She had blanched the bones when she brought them back that morning, fearing that the weather would be too hot. After the water boiled, she added the sauce and was ready to cook.

Seeing her busy with her work but ignoring him, Song Jingzhi felt a little uneasy.

Seeing that she had already put the bones in the pot and knowing that she wouldn’t need to add more fire, he pushed his wheelchair to her.

“Say something. If you’re angry, can you hit me a few times? Don’t be like this.”

She looked at him and said seriously, “Song Jingzhi, I, Tang Xiaoxiao, am not the kind of person who would sacrifice my whole life for the sake of repaying a favor.”

Then she ignored him again. The incident with Chen Fengya earlier was initially her anger at hearing Chen Fengya say bad things about Song Jingzhi. Later, it was her calculation in dealing with the matter.

The last words she said were ostensibly to defend Song Jingzhi, but they were also her true feelings.

Song Jingzhi was very strict about gender boundaries. He would blush at the slightest provocation from her, but Tang Xiaoxiao knew he wasn’t stupid.

These days, he had almost asked someone to bring her snacks once a week. Since he knew that she had traded candy for pigweed on her first day, he had asked Stones to bring candy to trade for pigweed for her every day.

So, from her first day of work until now, she hadn’t gathered pigweed herself. Every day at noon, he would read to her, and when she fell asleep, he would fan her.

Did Song Jingzhi not understand his own heart? Since he heard that, under normal circumstances, shouldn’t he take the opportunity to confess?

Anyway, after guessing what he was going to say, Tang Xiaoxiao was truly angry. It wasn’t like before, when she was teasing him or pretending in front of Song’s mother.