Chapter 10: He Wasn’t a Good Person to Begin With

Thinking about it, Hu Yao’s inexplicable panic subsided. She took her hand and said, “Sister Zhaodi, don’t do anything foolish.”

Lin Zhaodi’s words had made her think too much.

“I won’t do anything foolish.” Lin Zhaodi was stunned when her hand was grasped. She slowly smiled again, patted her twice, and said some comforting words to her as usual. She watched as the anxious Hu Yao walked away.

How could she do anything foolish? Today’s incident had completely woken her up! She hadn’t made Li Zhuangzhi experience the taste of pain yet!

Lin Zhaodi threw away the stool in her hand, her face contorted in hatred as she looked at the two people on the ground.

She had endured enough! The gossip from those gossipy women outside, the insults and torment from Li Zhuangzhi and his mother, every single one of them could drive her crazy! She had also anticipated that she would eventually go mad! Today, they got their wish! After making her suffer for so long, they wouldn’t be able to live well either!

With a stiff and cold face, Lin Zhaodi grabbed Li Zhuangzhi’s leg and dragged him back to the room. After dragging Li Pozi back to the bed and tying her up, she began to sharpen the knife slowly.

The Li family even had the whetstone kept in Li Pozi’s room. Lin Zhaodi sharpened the knife in her room.

When Li Pozi woke up and saw this scene, she looked at Lin Zhaodi’s cold and sinister expression. Her eyes rolled back, and she fainted again.

…

The development of the situation was a little unexpected for Hu Yao. She went back with a stiff body and saw Jiang Xiaochao, who was obediently waiting for her at the door as she had told him to, and her heart calmed down.

“Yaoyao, you’re back? Did you fight?” Jiang Xiaochao rushed over and hugged her leg, looking up at her.

“No.” Hu Yao patted his head.

“Where’s Auntie?” Jiang Xiaochao asked again, pouting. He also told Hu Yao with dissatisfaction that Li Zhuangzhi always bullied Lin Zhaodi. He had also said something to Li Zhuangzhi, but he didn’t listen. Jiang Xiaochao didn’t like him very much.

Before Hu Yao could answer, a miserable cry came from next door.

It was Li Zhuangzhi.

Hu Yao paused, thinking about what Lin Zhaodi had said to her. She bent down, picked up Jiang Xiaochao, closed the door, and acted as if nothing had happened.

The chaos just now, being pushed by Li Zhuangzhi, and then so many things happened, Hu Yao felt her head starting to ache again.

So, after taking a bath, she quickly went to bed with Jiang Xiaochao. The mother and son hugged each other, their faces peaceful in their sleep.

The Li family next door was far from peaceful. Li Pozi woke up and fainted again and again, while Li Zhuangzhi was woken up by the pain.

Lin Zhaodi had cut his Achilles tendons, and the bright red blood soaked through the bedsheets.

“Lin Zhaodi! You poisonous woman! You bitch!” Li Zhuangzhi’s face was ugly, and he glared at her, wanting to fight back. But the excruciating pain in his feet kept coming, and he was tied up, completely losing his momentum, unable to resist.

Lin Zhaodi sneered, slapped him across the face, and continued to sharpen the knife.

Li Pozi had fainted several times in fear. She had already brought the whetstone over.

Under Li Zhuangzhi’s increasingly terrified gaze, she cut the tendons of his other foot.

This wasn’t all. Lin Zhaodi continued to sharpen the knife. Li Zhuangzhi began to panic and fear, his face pale, sweating profusely: “Wife, wife, we’ve been husband and wife for so long, don’t go too far! I won’t treat you like that anymore! I swear! I swear!”

“Now you’re thinking about being husband and wife?” Lin Zhaodi sneered, her face still bearing obvious red and swollen slap marks.

“You don’t want to sell me anymore? You don’t want to use the money from selling me to marry a new woman?”

“Don’t worry, Zhuangzhi, we’ve been husband and wife for so long, I’m not as cruel as you. I won’t take your life.”

“I want you… to live like a dog!” Lin Zhaodi, with a crazed expression, grabbed Li Zhuangzhi’s hair: “Your mother is the same!”

“Behave yourselves, and I’ll be kind to you!”

Since Lin Zhaodi married into the Li family, every major and minor matter in the household was handled by her. Whether Li Zhuangzhi was there or not, it made little difference.

Since everyone said she was worthless, she would make them even more worthless! It was just a matter of losing a life! What was there to look forward to in her life? There was nothing she couldn’t lose!

…

The next day, Hu Yao woke up groggily. Jiang Xiaochao was still nestled in her arms, sleeping soundly.

She looked at him softly for a long time, gently pulled his small hand away, and got out of bed to make breakfast.

There was still a lot of food in the house, rice, noodles, fine grains, and coarse grains, all piled up in the storage room.

Jiang Han’s life was affluent, otherwise, he wouldn’t have spent 300 yuan to buy her a few years ago…

The neighbors knew he was rich, but most of them said his money wasn’t clean, saying he did too many wicked things and would suffer retribution sooner or later.

However, these words were only spoken in private. No one dared to say them to his face, otherwise, before Jiang Han suffered retribution, he would make them suffer.

Hu Yao learned from Jiang Xiaochao that Jiang Han went out to make money every trip, but what kind of business he did and what kind of money he earned, no one knew except Jiang Han himself.

Perhaps his friends knew, but his friends seemed to be divided, one group in the countryside and another in town. It was said that he had many connections in the county, city, and even other places, otherwise, how could he be so domineering and lawless?

Hu Yao had also heard many rumors about him.

It was said that he had been in prison before, and he had done almost every kind of bad thing. He also had many affairs, often looking for loose women, playing with women like drinking water.

Whether all of this was true or not, it was spread around like this. There was no basis for these rumors, but he wasn’t a good person to begin with, so he must have done those things!

Hu Yao gathered her thoughts and continued to make breakfast.

Jiang Xiaochao loved the food she made, and he would always praise her without hesitation, and he ate very well, which made Hu Yao even more eager to make him delicious food.

Her cooking skills were good. Even when she was at the Hu family, with Hu Guifen being so stingy, the food she made still tasted good.

Now that she didn’t control the amount, the food she cooked was even more delicious.

Jiang Xiaochao was also Jiang Han’s son, using his rice to make him fatter and whiter, he definitely wouldn’t have any objections!

From Lin Zhaodi or even Jiang Xiaochao himself, she knew that Jiang Han was very indulgent when it came to what he ate.

After breakfast, Hu Yao had to go wash clothes again.

Lin Zhaodi went with her again.

A night had passed, and Lin Zhaodi seemed like nothing had happened, except for the traces left on her face reminding her.

After what happened last night, her smile was even more frequent today, more cheerful than usual.

Seeing this, Hu Yao felt a strange sense of relief.

She wisely didn’t ask about Li Zhuangzhi and Li Pozi, talking to her about trivial and ordinary things, about the interesting things about Jiang Xiaochao.

“Xiaochao, come to your mother here, don’t trip and fall.” Hu Yao was talking to Lin Zhaodi, but she also kept an eye on Jiang Xiaochao, who was playing mischievously, stepping on the stones by the riverbank.