You're shameless! Yes, I gave it to you, but you just didn't have it.

"Are you scared?" Jiang Jinghong asked.

"What if we fall into the water?" Ye Qingzhou twisted her handkerchief, looking worriedly at the narrow bamboo raft in front of her.

"Scared? Then let's skip rafting and head up the mountain?" Jiang Jinghong looked at the green mountains ahead and began to plan the route.

Ripples continued to spread across the water as several more bamboo rafts picked up passengers.

Ye Qingzhou watched as the people haggled over prices, took their seats, and cheered as the bamboo raft moved forward.

Jiang Jinghong noticed all of this and understood. He slung the two large bundles over his shoulder and said, "Those who are free have gone into the water. I'll go ask over there. Wait for me."

"Give me the bag. You're sweating." Before she finished speaking, Ye Qingzhou's handkerchief had already flown to Jiang Jinghong's forehead to wipe away the thin layer of sweat.

A cool breeze touched his forehead, but joy filled his heart. Jiang Jinghong happily went to greet the raftman.

Two other people also came to visit and lingered by the river for a long time. One was a man, and the other a woman. They both had their faces covered with cloth, and it was unclear what illness they were suffering from.

Ye Qingzhou took a step forward and examined the river closely.

The water is so green!

"Brother, you're really green on the head." The woman pulled down the cloth covering her face.

The man snorted coldly.

Yu Xi and Yu Yue were already standing on either side of Ye Qingzhou.

"Wife, you're being disobedient again. Have you forgotten what it feels like to have your head submerged in water and choke on it?" Yu Xi reached out, seemingly to pull Ye Qingzhou.

Ye Qingzhou dodged: "Who's your wife? Didn't you say that Yan'er is a thousand times better than me and that you divorced me?"

Yu Xi awkwardly withdrew her hand: "Husbands and wives shouldn't hold grudges overnight, why bring that up?"

Yes! A deep-seated grudge!

"Pah! Who's your husband? Why is he like a leech, following me everywhere?" Ye Qingzhou took a step forward and showed him the back of her head: "Liu Yan'er is your wife!"

A raftsman rowed by on a bamboo raft: "Sir, would you like to hop on?"

Ye Qingzhou was about to reach out to stop her when Yu Xi said, "No! She's been drowned before, she's afraid of water."

The bamboo raft drifted away.

Yu Xi looked at Ye Qingzhou's face; he was quite attractive. And Liu Yan'er? Liu Yan'er was good in every way, except for the fact that she cheated him out of money. That wealthy woman was also good, except for the fact that she wore fake gold in public.

Give him money, give him real gold and silver, and it's still this soft-hearted, easily fooled fool, Ye Qingzhou.

After more than half a year, Yu Xi finally figured it out: he should choose someone like Ye Qingzhou as his wife.

More tourists passed by; it was a family of six or seven. The father put his child on his shoulders and showed him the bamboo rafts going downstream, a scene of many boats racing against each other. He also pointed to the anglers in a corner of the riverbank for the child to see.

Looking at her brother's sticky eyes glued to Ye Qingzhou, Yu Yue felt resentful: Didn't we agree at home to teach Ye Qingzhou a lesson and make her behave?

This guy surnamed Ye bought two whole big bags. He's wasting money again!

This money should be for her. She hasn't had anything good to eat for two months. Yu Yue, who wished she could just pull the money out of Ye Qingzhou's pocket, glared at Ye Qingzhou's back as if she wanted to stab him through a hole.

"Qingzhou, turn around and look at me," Yu Xi said.

Ye Qingzhou didn't turn around, but took a few more steps forward.

"Ugh! You two are such a scoundrel!" Yu Yue spat at her brother, then, smelling the aroma, she quickly deduced that the bundle on the left contained delicious food, and opened it without thinking.

This package contains crystal dragon and phoenix cakes.

The package below contains Gyokuro (jade dew) dumplings.

Yu Yue stuffed one into her mouth, then one in her left hand and one in her right.

“Qingzhou, you’re a divorced woman, nobody wants you anymore. I pity you, that’s why I’ve come to you again and again,” Yu Xi said, chasing after Ye Qingzhou.

"Nobody wants you. But someone does." Just ahead, they'd reach the water. Ye Qingzhou stopped, forcibly suppressing her anger.

"Jiang Jinghong? He's gone, he won't be coming back. Besides, you're heavily pregnant. Compared to those young girls, you're just a withered flower, a worthless piece of trash. Qingzhou, don't be silly. Come with me!" Yu Xi thought she was speaking with great sincerity, and even tried to pull Ye Qingzhou along.

"Get off me!" Ye Qingzhou was annoyed that he was pressed against her back, with water in front of her! So annoying!

"Exactly! You're such a pregnant old woman, all you do is waste money." Yu Yue ate her snacks and then rummaged through the items underneath. "Sister-in-law, why did you buy Chongyang cake? I hate that the most. And why is there pine nut cake? That's the worst. Brother is right, you really don't know how to buy things. Just give him all the money, like before."

Ye Qingzhou pushed Yu Xi away forcefully, and when she turned around, she saw that Yu Xi had already put the pine nut cake in her mouth while saying it was unpalatable: "Yu Yue, who told you to steal my food? I specially saved it to give to others."

"It tastes awful! Who wants it?" Yu Yue said defiantly, taking another one without hesitation.

"You! If you think it tastes bad, then don't eat it!" Ye Qingzhou was furious. She ran over, grabbed the paper packets, and threw them all away!

One of the packets even flew onto a tree branch by the roadside.

Yu Yue was stunned; not a single bite of food remained. She had never seen Ye Qingzhou so enraged, so directly attacking her. The once soft and yielding person, like a lump of dough, seemed to have suddenly transformed into a porcelain doll sold by a peddler, complete with a face and hands.

Ye Qingzhou went to pick up the bundle, but Yu Xi stopped him.

"You seduced me?" Yu Xi asked with a strange smile.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Ye Qingzhou felt so angry that she thought she was hallucinating.

"You touched my waist just now, weren't you trying to seduce me?"

"Push! That's pushing you! If you hadn't stopped me, would I have pushed you?" Ye Qingzhou shouted angrily, panting heavily.

The tourists nearby, hearing the argument, all came to watch. The family of seven, who were closer, saw the whole thing. They then recounted the events to the dozen or so people who followed: "Let me tell you, that woman stole someone's food. And that man, tsk tsk tsk..."

Ye Qingzhou was about to leave when Yu Xi stopped him again.

Ye Qingzhou angrily grabbed his face and ripped off the cloth covering his face.

Those watching the spectacle were all laughing.

The child riding on his father's head clapped his hands and shouted, "Fairy sister, hit him! Hit the bad guy!"

The little girl's mother said to others, "This woman is so beautiful, yet she has been so tolerant. That man, on the contrary, calls her a used and worthless woman. Look at himself, what a wretched person he is!"

More and more people gathered to watch the spectacle, soon forming a crowd of twenty or thirty, pointing and whispering about Yu Xi. Yu Yue secretly covered her face with a cloth.

"What are you looking at? She's my wife!" Yu Xi said matter-of-factly. "Even if we're divorced, who else would want a second-hand woman like her but me!"

“I want her! You’re secondhand. She isn’t. She’s the mistress of the Jiang family, and the child in her belly is my child.” Jiang Jinghong stood on the bamboo raft, his hat askew and his clothes disheveled. Beside him were Lao Jiu and Liu Lao Liu, who were tied up.

The plan's failure didn't surprise Yu Xi. But Jiang Jinghong's admission in front of so many people that he wanted to pick up the women he had slept with and raise his son surprised him: Could there really be such a stupid person in the world?

As the bamboo raft docked, Jiang Jinghong stepped off and said, "Thank you for your trouble, sir."

The old man said, "I'm sorry to have troubled you, sir. Don't worry, I will definitely take them to the authorities."

Old Nine and Liu Laoliu, with their mouths gagged, kept making muffled noises towards Yu Xi.

"Useless!" Yu Xi cursed.

The old man's bamboo raft was gone. Then another bamboo raft arrived. A middle-aged man was pole-pushing it, with his wife and daughter behind him.

Jiang Jinghong picked up two bundles in one hand and held out her hand to Ye Qingzhou: "Are you scared to come with me?"

Yu Xi rushed in front of him: "You shameless person."

Ye Qingzhou placed her hand in Jiang Jinghong's hand and said to Yu Xi, "I didn't want it, but I'll give it to you. It just so happens that you don't have it."

The onlookers burst into laughter. The little girl's mother even taught her daughter, "Learn from her, so that we won't be bullied when we grow up."

A middle-aged woman said, "May the Bodhisattva bless my clumsy son so that he may also have such a clever daughter-in-law tomorrow. Then I won't worry about him anymore."

Yu Xi stood on the shore, watching the bamboo raft drift away. That damned Jiang Jinghong, he looks honest, but his hands are anything but honest, touching Ye Qingzhou's shoulder.

Push him away! Yu Xi gritted her teeth in anger. But she watched helplessly as Ye Qingzhou straightened Jiang Jinghong's hat and tidied his clothes.

On the bamboo raft, Ye Qingzhou took a handkerchief and carefully wiped the dust off Jiang Jinghong's face, bit by bit: "They hit you? Did you suffer a loss? Where does it hurt?"

Jiang Jinghong took her hand, pulled her along, and slowly sat her down on the bamboo chair on the raft: "Getting beaten is nothing. As soon as those two came out, I knew something bad had happened. I was afraid we would arrive too late, I was afraid you would run into bad people, I was afraid something might happen to you."

Ye Qingzhou smiled slightly: "I'm only worried about you."

Jiang Jinghong squatted down in front of her. This tall man looked as docile as a large child: "I'm glad you chose me. In your heart, I'm better than him, aren't I?"

"What are you saying? Can he compare to you? You're such an honest person, you say what you mean and do what you mean. He's such a two-faced person, humph! And Yu Yue, the number one ungrateful person. She scolded me and said the pastries I bought were bad, but she ate a lot of them."

"Stop the bamboo raft. I'll avenge you." Jiang Jinghong said, getting up.

Ye Qingzhou pulled him back to sit down: "No need, I threw away all the pastries. I won't give them to her. Sit still, why are your ears covered in dirt? Don't move, let me wipe them off for you."

Jiang Jinghong sat obediently, enjoying his lover's tenderness. He glanced at the shore and caught Yu Xi's unwavering gaze.

Want to see more? I'll show you as much as you want.

Jiang Jinghong casually reached out and pulled Ye Qingzhou into his arms.

The bamboo raft moved slowly, and Yu Xi, standing on the bank, could see everything clearly. He couldn't hold back any longer and clenched his fists: "She used to look down on people with the surname Jiang, and she only served me. She only served me."

The man who had let his daughter ride on his shoulders was about to leave, but upon hearing this, he turned back and said, "Dude, have some decency! People can't keep suffering with you."

"No!" Yu Xi's fists trembled, and the veins on her neck stood out with anger. "She only listens to me. I could do it before, and I can do it now."