Chapter 4

Jiang Yuning’s face flushed red, she felt that she shouldn’t have spoken. Now, he didn’t believe her, but instead mocked her.

But if what he said didn’t work, then we couldn’t just let him try it or take himself to see a midwife, right?

That would make him look too eager. Not to mention that he couldn’t do that, I guess as soon as he said that,

What he will be greeted with is slander that he despises even more.

When she thought of this, she suddenly lost hope in marrying him: “…….”

Forget it, let’s just endure it for a few months and live happily ever after.

Seeing that she was silent, Xiao Liye thought that she had nothing to say since her lie had been exposed. His brows turned cold and he turned to leave.

Jiang Yuning’s body lying on the bed gradually relaxed.

At this moment, Xiao Fangdong came back with an armful of green vegetables and said to the inside of the house:

“Xiao Ning, I’ll make whatever you like to eat.”

Jiang Yuning gathered her thoughts, stood up, and walked outside.

“Uncle, let me cook dinner.”

Xiao Fangdong placed the green vegetables in the basin beside the well and said:

“Well, there’s still some weeds to pull in the vegetable garden. Your eldest brother and his wife are coming back for dinner, so you can cook more.”

Jiang Yuning nodded.

Xiao Fangdong said to Xiao Liye again:

“Li Ye, go help your wife. It will be inconvenient for you to both add fuel to the fire and cook by yourself.”

Xiao Liye sat on the millstone and raised his eyebrows.

“Why did I marry her? She needs help with cooking, and I need to feed her when she eats? I need to fetch her water when she washes her feet? I need to carry her on my back when she goes to the street? I need to help her with the birth of a child?”

Having said this, he paused and said, “I almost forgot, she can’t give birth at all, so there’s no need to put the effort aside.”

Jiang Yuning was so angry that her breathing became heavy, and she wished she could tear his little mouth apart.

Xiao Fangdong’s face was not looking good either, but he knew that it was already aggrieved enough for him to marry her, and if he was forced to take care of her more,

Something must have happened, so he simply kept quiet and went to work in the vegetable garden.

Xiao Liye then turned his eyes to look at Jiang Yuning with satisfaction. Seeing Jiang Yuning standing there, her eyes were filled with anger, staring at him without blinking, he curled his lips and said:

“See? I’m so fierce! From now on, you have to listen to me every day you stay at my house.”

Jiang Yuning chuckled:

“I don’t know who said I had a good temper, but now I realize I’m mean and I’m not ashamed of myself for saying things that contradict myself.”

Xiao Liye was speechless for two seconds, then said:

“Who told you to pretend to be a little girl and lie to me? And you didn’t say anything for a long time. If someone didn’t know, they would think you were interested in me.”

Jiang Yuning was so angry that her eyes turned red, and she said with a choked voice:

“Who’s pretending? I was just married once and my husband died. Is it necessary to stick the word ‘widow’ on my forehead and introduce myself to everyone I meet?”

Xiao Liye’s handsome face immediately showed a layer of panic, and he was at a loss. He took a step forward, but just as he took a step,

He realized that his reaction was wrong, and stopped in his tracks, regaining his arrogance, and muttered softly:

“I didn’t say that.”

Jiang Yuning didn’t want to pay attention to him. She turned and went into the kitchen, and even closed the kitchen door, completely blocking his sight.

She placed her hands on the edge of the table and took a deep breath to relieve the soreness that seemed to be spreading in her chest.

In this era, most people get married blindly. Most people get married after seeing each other for the first time and they don’t mind. She also hopes to live a good life in this marriage.

But who would have thought that not only would he make a fool of himself for the whole village, but he would also keep talking about her being a widow, which was just poking at her wounds.

The sound of sobbing, so subtle that it was almost inaudible, reached the door. Xiao Liye looked at the door stiffly and wanted to leave immediately.

But thinking of Jiang Yuning’s red eyes, he couldn’t help but walked to the door and gently pushed it open a crack.

With a creak, the wooden door of the kitchen was opened, and a ray of light leaked into the dark kitchen.

Jiang Yuning turned her eyes to the side, her voice mingled with a hint of sobs that had not yet subsided as she spoke:

“What are you doing here?”

Xiao Liye felt a little uncomfortable looking into her red eyes. He touched the hair on the back of his head awkwardly.

He was a little embarrassed to say soft words, so he took the vegetables from the basket in the corner and washed them in the basin, saying,

“Isn’t this because I’m afraid you’ll harbor a grudge and poison me?”

Jiang Yuning became even more angry:

“You can cook the meal yourself.”

Xiao Liye said confidently:

“I can’t.”

Jiang Yuning bit her lip lightly, as if she didn’t know what to do with him.

She paused for a long time, not wanting to argue with him, and put the cleaned red beans and peanuts into the pot.

After closing the lid, he went to the back of the drying chamber, took out a handful of wheat straw, folded it in half twice, and was about to look for firewood to light it, but he couldn’t find any.

She looked around but couldn’t find him, and she didn’t want to talk to Xiao Liye, so she just sat there.

When Xiao Liye came back from washing the vegetables, he saw her motionless. He had never cooked before and didn’t know which step this was, so he didn’t ask any more questions.

He simply went straight into the main room to clean up the broken things he had dropped, and then threw them away. But when he came back, he saw her sitting there doing nothing. He frowned and said,

“You were acupunctured?”

Jiang Yuning turned her head away in anger and said to him with the back of her head:

“No matches found.”

Upon hearing this, Xiao Liye felt dizzy and his blood rushed to his head. He felt like he had met an opponent for the first time in his life. He put down his shovel and broom and walked over and said:

“You’re amazing! You’re my ancestor, but you didn’t tell me if you didn’t have it. Fortunately, I asked you. Otherwise, you would have just sat there and you’d have been drinking cold tea when you got home that night.”

Jiang Yuning still said nothing and handed the folded wheat straw to him.

Xiao Liye took out the golden metal lighter from his pocket, walked up to her, lifted her hand holding the straw with one hand, and lit it with the lighter with the other hand.

Seeing that she was still looking away angrily, as if she was angry and didn’t want to look at him, he curled his lips, picked up her hand with his big palm, grabbed her slender wrist and raised it an inch higher.

At the same time, Jiang Yuning felt the rough and hot touch, and she immediately pulled her hand back in fear. However, as she shook her hand, a straw with a burning seed fell directly onto the haystack.

Xiao Li Ye was numb, watching the fire spread rapidly, he pulled Jiang Yuning out,

Then he suddenly raised his foot and stepped forward, but it was too late. With a “bang”, the fire surged and thick smoke billowed.

He cursed in his heart, wondering why she grabbed her wrist for no reason, but he quickly poured the water from the well into the back of the stove.

Jiang Yuning also felt guilty and thought it was her own problem, so she quickly followed the person behind her and poured the water in the pot onto the fire.

Fortunately, the fire was put out, but the whole kitchen was smoked black, and the pots and pans were inevitably contaminated. Thick black smoke kept rushing out like a fog.

Xiao Liye stood at the kitchen door, glanced around, and seeing that nothing was wrong, he threw away the bucket and said jokingly:

“You set the kitchen on fire on the first day of our marriage. Is this your way of getting back at me?”

“It was you who suddenly grabbed… ” Jiang Yuning’s cheeks flushed for a moment and she said, “…it was my wrist that caused it.”

Xiao Liye turned his eyes and saw her porcelain-like face stained with mottled black and gray. Her lips were pursed, and her cunning eyes were filled with seriousness.

He glanced at her face and said with a curled lip:

“If I don’t catch you, you’ll still get into trouble with your eyes and no back of your head. Besides, considering our status, I should sleep with you. You reacted so strongly just because I squeezed your wrist, do you think you’re right?”