Chapter 30 A surge of madness erupted from the young man's body.
The whistling sound of the arrow was very piercing.
Two sharp swords tore through the cold wind with lightning speed, their chilling arrowheads piercing the bodies of the two wolves. The two wolves, who had just been baring their teeth and attacking the deer, instantly fell to the ground.
The sika deer was startled and ran away.
Jiang Ninghui stared at the scene in shock, her eyes filled with an unprecedented sense of awe.
Young Master Pei's archery skills are truly remarkable; he fired two arrows simultaneously from such a distance.
They all hit the mark!
She was so engrossed in watching that she could hear the whistling wind and the calls of the running deer that she didn't pay attention to what Young Master Pei was saying.
Jiang Ninghui snapped out of her daze and realized she was still between Pei Gongzi's arms. She pulled her hands out of his arms, slipped out from under his arms, and took three steps back, maintaining the proper etiquette between a woman and a man.
She lowered her head, looking awkward and unsure of herself.
After entering the mountains and separating from Uncle Pei and the others, she became somewhat too close to Young Master Pei.
This has crossed the line that a woman should have with a man from another family.
Although Young Master Pei was thinking of her best interests.
He held her wrist to avoid wild animals.
They confined her so that they could hunt down two wolves and give one to her as an opportunity.
That shouldn't be the case.
She must not tarnish Young Master Pei's reputation because of this, nor should she take advantage of the Pei family as a matter of course.
The young man clenched his fist tightly around the bow, his cold, dark eyes fixed on the woman three steps away.
His sister-in-law was avoiding him.
She was deliberately avoiding him.
What can be avoided?
He hadn't done anything inappropriate to her yet, and he hadn't let her glimpse the evil thoughts he harbored towards her.
He was polite and respectful to her, yet she avoided him like this.
If he continues to approach her and does increasingly outrageous things, wouldn't she have to run away from him?
Pei Duo stepped towards her, his deep, cold eyes filled with a chilling, malevolent aura.
My sister-in-law is such an honest, obedient, and gentle person.
Even if he did something to her, where could she hide?
"Did you hear what I just said, sister-in-law?"
He approached her, his tall figure completely enveloping her in shadow. It was as if countless invisible vines sprouted from the young man's body, binding Jiang Ninghui and drawing her into his body, making her stick to him, and seamlessly embedding her into his bones and blood.
Jiang Ninghui kept her head down, unaware of the obsessive and frenzied plundering in Pei Duo's dark pupils.
All she could see was the hem of Pei Gongzi's robe as he suddenly approached, and a pair of black cloud-patterned boots covered in white snow.
Jiang Ninghui didn't understand why Young Master Pei was approaching her, but upon hearing his words, she took a few steps back, looked up in confusion, and asked with some bewilderment in her clear eyes, "What did Young Master Pei just say?"
She tried to recall, but her attention had been focused on the two wolves that had fallen after being shot by arrows.
With the howling of the cold wind and the cries of deer still in her ears, she did not notice what Young Master Pei was saying.
Pei Duo lowered his eyes, watching Jiang Ninghui's legs gradually avoid him once again.
I said—
The young man lifted his thin eyelids and gazed into Jiang Ninghui's almond-shaped eyes: "That day at the ferry—"
"Duoge'er!"
"Duoge'er!"
The shouts of Pei's father and Xie's mother could be heard from not far away. Pei's father's voice was loud and clear, startling the birds in the trees into flight.
Jiang Ninghui turned her head and saw Uncle Pei carrying Aunt Xie running towards them.
Pei Duo frowned slightly.
They came at a really bad time.
Pei's father rushed over and put Xie down: "Duo-ge'er, why did you bring Sui-sui here? It's so dangerous—"
"I hunted two wolves."
Pei Duo interrupted his father, slightly raising his chin towards the distance.
Seeing this, Pei's father glared and slapped Pei Duo on the shoulder: "As expected of my son, Pei Dazhao, you're amazing!"
Concerned, Xie asked Pei Duo and Jiang Ninghui if anything had happened.
Jiang Ninghui gently shook her head: "Auntie, I'm fine."
Pei's father went over, tied the two wolves together with rope, carried them on his shoulders, and called the three of them back.
Along the way, Xie and Jiang Ninghui supported each other as they walked together.
The four of them finally came down from the mountain at 3:45 PM.
Fiery clouds rolled across the horizon, their golden afterglow illuminating the way and draping the surrounding snow-covered landscape in a purple-golden robe.
As they approached the end of the village, Jiang Ninghui hesitated for a moment before calling out to Pei Duo, "Young Master Pei, I have something I want to tell you."
Pei's father and Xie's mother glanced at Jiang Ninghui, making her feel somewhat embarrassed.
Pei Duo nodded and took a few steps to the side: "Please speak, sister-in-law."
Jiang Ninghui: "Young Master Pei, I didn't help much with this trip into the mountains, so please don't give me one. I can't accept that."
Pei Duo: "Then we'll calculate it by headcount and give you half."
In this way, the Zhao family will neither gain too much advantage nor suffer any mistreatment from her.
Jiang Ninghui shook her head. How could she have the face to ask for half a wolf? Even a wolf leg was too much.
The young man didn't give her another chance to refuse: "It's getting late, let's go."
Jiang Ninghui remained silent the whole way home. As soon as she got home, her parents-in-law quickly pulled her into the house to prevent her husband from seeing her disheveled state and arousing his suspicion. When Zhao's father and Li's mother learned that the Pei family had hunted two wolves and were dividing them equally among the people, giving Jiang Ninghui half of one wolf, they were overjoyed.
It was rare for Zhao's father to give Jiang Ninghui a kind look; this daughter-in-law was quite useful.
Li told her to quickly change her clothes and wash up, and she went to send Zhao Zhixue away.
After Jiang Ninghui finished tidying herself up, she saw her husband come out of her parents-in-law's room. He was stunned for a moment and asked, "Wife, where did you go today?"
Following her in-laws' instructions, Jiang Ninghui said, "My mother asked me to send half a pound of millet to her uncle's house."
Li's maternal home is far from Xiping Village, and it takes a whole day to walk there and back. The distance is roughly the same.
Upon hearing this, Zhao Zhixue scolded, "Why didn't you call me when you went? What if you, a woman, encountered danger on the way and couldn't come back? Your parents are really getting senile! Don't they think about these dangers that could happen at any time?"
Jiang Ninghui quickly said it was nothing.
Zhao Zhixue seemed genuinely angry. He led her into the house and told her to rest first, while he went to the Zhao couple's room himself.
Upon entering the house, Zhao Zhixue launched into a tirade against his parents. He deliberately lowered his voice at the end, angrily saying, "Didn't you ever consider what would happen if Sui Sui didn't come back? Have you forgotten what the fortune teller said? Without Sui Sui, my path to the imperial examinations will be fraught with difficulties! Have you ever thought about my future?!"
Upon hearing this, Mr. and Mrs. Zhao could only offer kind words of comfort to Zhao Zhixue, promising that it would not happen again.
This finally calmed Zhao Zhixue down.
When Zhao Zhixue returned to the room, he saw Jiang Ninghui sitting on the edge of the couch, massaging her calves. Her beautiful face showed deep fatigue.
It's clear that today's trip really exhausted her.
Zhao Zhixue walked over to Jiang Ninghui and sat down next to her, letting her lean against the headboard. He then held her legs and placed them on his own lap to massage her.
Jiang Ninghui was somewhat flattered.
"My lord, you don't need to pinch me."
She tried to pull her leg back, but Zhao Zhixue held it down: "If my wife can massage my shoulders and neck, why can't I massage my wife? What kind of logic is that?"
Jiang Ninghui felt a lump in her throat, and a hint of warmth welled up in her almond-shaped eyes.
She lowered her head, trying to suppress the stinging in her eyes, and smoothed the wrinkles in her clothes with her two delicate hands: "My husband treats me so well."
Zhao Zhixue smiled and said, "What happened today was wrong of my parents. I have already spoken to them. If this happens again, you can tell me and I will go with you."
Jiang Ninghui was not good at lying, and fearing that her husband would see through her lie, she only gave a soft "hmm".
Zhao Zhixue: "Wife, how's this strength?"
Jiang Ninghui: "A little heavier."
As dusk fell, everyone lit candles.
Pei's father slaughtered a wolf under cover of night and was about to take half of it to the Zhao family when Pei Duo grabbed the wolf's leg first: "Father, clean up this blood, I'll go deliver it."
Pei's father was somewhat surprised.
In the past, Duo-ge'er would never have bothered with such trivial matters.
Duo Ge'er was taciturn from a young age and acted aloof and indifferent. They lived in Xiping Village for eighteen years, but Duo Ge'er rarely interacted with the villagers, and even his relationship with the Zhao family next door was only a nodding acquaintance.
Pei's father had always been puzzled, as neither he nor his wife were like that, so how could Duo'er be like this?
Later he realized that everyone says a nephew resembles his uncle, so he guessed that Duo'er's eccentric personality came from his uncle.
Pei's father said, "Alright, you go ahead, I'll clean up this mess."
Pei Duo gripped the wolf's leg and walked out of the courtyard gate.
The young man lowered his eyes, listening to the commotion from the Zhao family's side.
Zhao Zhixue is massaging his sister-in-law's legs.
Perhaps he used too much force, because his sister-in-law groaned softly, with a slight pant and a gentle tone.
That good-for-nothing's hands lingered on her body, touching and kneading—
The young man clenched his fists, and the wolf bones wrapped in flesh suddenly snapped. His sinister and ruthless madness seemed to want to break Zhao Zhixue's bones, so that his claws wouldn't keep touching the woman's body.
Pei Duo stepped through the door and glanced at the half-open window on the east side.
Jiang Ninghui leaned against the couch, her clothes slightly open, revealing two slender and delicate collarbones.
Zhao Zhixue sat next to her, holding her legs and massaging them.
The couple were having a private conversation. Jiang Ninghui smiled, her bright eyes filled with a tender dependence that she only showed to Zhao Zhixue.
It's blinding.
And it's extremely unsightly.
What can one rely on such a useless person?
His sister-in-law either avoided him or treated him with restraint and politeness.
The young man's dark pupils stared coldly at Jiang Ninghui.
I watched her smile gently, her eyebrows arched.
Looking at her soft, rosy lips.
Watching Zhao Zhixue move towards her, she raised her hand to touch her shoulder and kissed her soft lips.
He had the privilege of 'tasting' those lips today.
But the place he touched just today...
"sister in law--"
A clear, deep voice pierced through the half-open window.
Zhao Zhixue inside the room paused, then turned to look out the window.
Jiang Ninghui was also stunned. She looked out the window over her husband's shoulder and met Pei Gongzi's cold and indifferent black eyes.
Jiang Ninghui instantly felt ashamed and embarrassed.
Why is Young Master Pei here?
And to make matters worse, Young Master Pei caught her doing such an intimate thing with her husband!
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Author's Note: There's a red envelope in this chapter!
My darlings, because I need to put on a clip, the next chapter will be updated on Sunday night at 11 PM. There will be three chapters updated in a row then! [Sprinkling flowers]
If you like this kind of "stealing someone's partner" novel, you can check out "Cannon Fodder Beauty, But Remarried Four Times." Every one of the female lead's future husbands tries to steal her current husband's woman. [Facepalm emoji]
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