When Ye Xiaoxiao went in, she saw Li Yanhong with a smug smile on her lips. It seemed that the two of them had indeed made an agreement.
"Sister-in-law is here! Sister-in-law is here! Let's help her tidy up these things. We're going to have a feast soon."
Li Yaqin called her sisters over to lend a hand.
Outside, Li Chenyang was busy greeting his relatives and friends who had come to visit. When he went back inside, he saw Chen Dashun actually coming out of his own room.
"Hey Da Shun, what are you looking for? The dowry is in my younger brother's room. It was originally lying in the yard, but now it's coming up."
Li Chenyang didn't think that much about it.
Chen Dashun entered the house but couldn't find the big basin that Li Yanhong had mentioned, but he didn't want to ask Li Chenyang.
He could only laugh awkwardly, thinking that the woman must have hidden the basin, but where could she have hidden it?
Thinking of this, he called his younger brother over to take a look around the Li family. Anyway, there were many people around today, and no one would pay attention to anyone.
After chatting and laughing with her sisters, Ye Xiaoxiao went outside to get some fresh air.
The courtyard was now incredibly slippery from the rain. She walked under the eaves, intending to pour herself a cup of hot water.
[Mission: Chen Dashun attempts to seduce the host, who retaliates.]
[Fine, is Chen Dashun even a man? He actually laid a hand on me, a pregnant woman! Let's see who's more unlucky today!]
As soon as I reached the gate, I heard a chorus of "Make way, make way!"
Ye Xiaoxiao turned around and saw two people carrying the camphor wood chest that was part of Chen Dashun's dowry as they approached.
Because of the rain, everyone was walking a bit faster.
Chen Dashun deliberately turned around at this moment and quickly backed away, intending to knock his wicked sister-in-law down while lying backwards. He wanted to vent his anger on his wife.
At this moment, Ye Xiaoxiao flashed and was already behind Li Chenyang, who was pouring hot water for everyone.
As Chen Dashun fell, Ye Xiaoxiao pulled Li Chenyang back. The white porcelain teapot in Li Chenyang's hand, which was filled with freshly poured boiling water, was knocked to the ground by Chen Dashun's falling body. It shattered with a crash.
Chen Dashun pressed himself against the spilled boiling water, letting out a scream. "Ah! It's scalding me!"
Chen Dashun's shout startled the two men who were helping to lift the boxes, causing them to drop the wooden boxes on the ground.
Li Chenyang never expected that pouring water for everyone would cause such a problem, so he immediately went to help his brother-in-law up.
"Are you alright? Get up!"
Li Chenyang was at a loss.
But he didn't know what to say at that moment. The main problem was that if his wife hadn't hidden behind him, she might have been the one who fell. What a mess!
"What happened? What happened?" Everyone who heard the noise gathered around.
Chen Dashun's scream attracted all the relatives and friends from the surrounding villages who had been busy helping out in the courtyard.
They all craned their necks, looking this way like geese.
"What happened? Da Shun, why are you lying on the ground?"
Chen Dashun grimaced in pain, his back scalded as if it were a boiled crab.
Li Chenyang quickly helped him up, and the others gathered around to help.
Ye Xiaoxiao hugged her stomach and leaned against one side, pretending to be worried:
"Oh dear, come quick and check on Chen Dashun! We can't let anything happen on such a joyous occasion."
After saying that, he didn't forget to add:
"Hey, brother-in-law, there are already people helping out. You're the groom today, what are you doing getting involved with these helpers?"
When Chen Dashun was asked this question, the expression on his face was even more painful than the burns on his back. He stammered and said:
"It's not that... I saw you walking ahead, sister-in-law, and I was afraid of bumping into you, so... that's why..."
Even after falling, Chen Dashun didn't forget to bring Ye Xiaoxiao along, so that everyone would know that it was because Ye Xiaoxiao was blocking his way that he got hurt.
Ye Xiaoxiao blinked: "Oh? Really? You're so thoughtful. But..."
She abruptly changed the subject, raising her voice eight octaves:
"My eyesight isn't very good, but just now it looked like you were deliberately rushing towards me."
If I hadn't dodged quickly, I, a pregnant woman, would have been the one to fall.
As soon as he said that, the courtyard became so quiet that you could hear a mosquito burping.
"This...this is impossible!"
Sweat dripped from Chen Dashun's forehead more frequently than raindrops. "How could I..."
Before he could finish speaking, one of the two young men carrying the box, a rather simple-minded fellow, spoke up:
"Yeah, Brother Da Shun, you saw someone in front of you, but instead of moving aside, you were backing up."
One of the men carrying the box was a bit of a simpleton; he blurted out what he had just seen, laughing all the while.
"Shut up!" Chen Dashun roared, nearly biting his own tongue in the process.
This caused quite a stir, with the surrounding crowd buzzing with discussion.
"What's going on here? What's the groom up to?"
"Who knows? I heard the bride and my sister-in-law have always been at odds. Could it be true?"
Aunt Wang finally seized the opportunity and immediately started whispering to the group of old women around her.
"That can't be right. The younger sister and the older sister-in-law don't get along. What does that have to do with their son-in-law?"
Aunt Li glared at Wang Ailing and said, "What nonsense are you spouting?"
"Hey, I was wondering why Chen Dashun suddenly bumped into Ye Xiaoxiao. Turns out, he had ulterior motives."
Gou Shengzi's father chimed in.
Several elderly women in the village chattered on and on:
"That Li Yanhong, marrying her is the worst luck imaginable."
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