Chapter 38
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Shen Yunfeng was almost scared to death by him. Before leaving, he was still thinking,
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Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough, otherwise Cheng Yeran would know that he was reborn.
But why was Cheng Yeran reborn? How could a lazy guy like him, who is nothing, be worthy of this?
I was reborn with a strong obsession. What is Cheng Yeran's obsession?
Could it be that Cheng Yeran’s obsession is him? Cheng Yeran deliberately showed his love for his cousin in front of him, but was he actually trying to make him angry? Because he couldn't marry him in this life but married Xia Xiaowu instead? Is that why Cheng Yeran is so ambitious, so that he will regret marrying Xia Xiaowu?
He couldn't help but sneer. No matter how ambitious Cheng Yeran was, it would be useless. He was going to be the wife of the county magistrate. Cheng Yeran was nothing. He worked hard all his life but was just a tofu seller. He was not even considered a rich man in the village, let alone an official.
In his mind he had already begun to imagine himself becoming an official's wife, surrounded by a group of servants, returning home in glory, and all the villagers had to kneel at his feet. Cheng Yeran and his cousin were the same, they had to kneel at his feet and look up at him. No, they were not allowed to look up, they had to bury their heads low and get their faces covered in dirt, that would be funny.
He couldn't help laughing when he thought of this. As a result, he was seen by his mother-in-law when he got home. She slapped him and said, "Who did you see? You look so mean. Don't bring shame to our Xia family! If I know that you have done anything to let my son down, I will let my son divorce you."
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After Shen Yunfeng left, Shen Yuntang asked Cheng Yeran to put the hairpin away quickly: "Why did you take it out in front of him? What if he goes out and tells nonsense?"
"He doesn't know. Even if he knew that this was given to me by his husband, what else can he do except sulk? His husband gave a hairpin to another man. It's embarrassing enough to tell others about it. His husband's face is gone." Cheng Yeran was quite happy to see that he was talking to her. She deliberately put the hairpin on her head and asked Shen Yuntang, "How is it? Does it look good on me?"
"How can a man wear this?" Shen Yuntang raised his hand and pulled the hairpin off, "And how can it be considered a gift to you?"
"Why, you want it?" Cheng Yeran suddenly felt uncomfortable. He didn't like Xia Xiaowu before. He felt that he looked shifty and wanted to seduce his wife. There was a sour taste in his tone, "Do you really like the hairpin he gave you?"
Cheng Yeran would not go into a cold war, nor would he lose his temper. Instead, he would lean in close to him and lie on his shoulder like a big dog, acting like a spoiled child to him: "Are you willing to let me do corvée labor? Are you willing to let me suffer? I know you definitely won't, and that's why I know you treat me the best."
Shen Yuntang was numb. If someone else came up to him and rubbed against him and acted coquettishly like this, he would feel disgusted and quickly pull the person away. But it was different when it came to Cheng Yeran. Although he also wanted to avoid her, it was not because he hated her and wanted to stay away from her, but because he was afraid that the other person would find out that he liked her.
"Okay, get up quickly. Did I ever tell you to do labor service? Our family doesn't have much money now, and there is really no other way except to sell the hairpin." Shen Yuntang didn't dare to let Cheng Yeran do labor service. There were only two people in their family. If Cheng Yeran left, he would be left alone. What was the difference between this and being a widow at home?
He didn't dare to open the door to sell tofu. He couldn't sleep well even if he locked the door at night, for fear that someone would climb over the wall and do something. It was not that he was being self-indulgent. There were just too many such things happening in the village.
If an unmarried woman or boy encounters such a thing, the options are either death or marriage to the person who defiled him. If he is married, there is no way out. He finally came back and didn't want to lose his life because of being defiled by those bad guys in the village.
In addition to worrying about this, he also felt that Cheng Yeran could not bear the hardship.
Although his brothers were relatively introverted and didn't like to talk, they were all very strong. The eldest brother built a bridge that year, the second brother built a river embankment, the third brother paved the road, and the fourth brother helped transport military supplies. They would not come back for three to five months at the least, or seven to eight months at the most.
Every time he came back, he was dark and thin, like a skeleton, and he had lost all his energy.
I don’t know what to do this year. Cheng Yeran is not as strong as his brothers and he is picky about food. He always complains that the bed at home is too hard when he sleeps and he wants to put more hay underneath. He also always complains that the fabric is too rubbing against his skin and he thinks that this fabric should be used to make shoe soles and not to be worn on people. He seems quite delicate.
It’s good enough to be able to sleep on a wooden bed outside. Three years ago, Fourth Brother said that they had to sleep in the open air, on the ground, and in haystacks. If it were Cheng Yeran, who would be picky about this and that every day, he would be beaten to death by the manager. Would he be able to come back alive?
He even suspected that Cheng Yeran's death in his previous life was related to corvée labor. He went once every three years, and the first time was too tiring. After three years, he was too lazy to go and simply died...
He believed that Cheng Yeran would definitely do such a thing, so he had to save more money and not let Cheng Yeran die in three years.
"Let's go to the city in a few days to exchange some silver for payment." Shen Yuntang was going to go to the village to ask if anyone wanted to go to the city so that they could go together.
"Do we have to pay money every three years?" Cheng Yeran calculated. "Normally, a family in the village only spends two taels of silver a year. But we have to pay five taels of silver in three years. Who can afford this?"
"So people in the village will have more children, and the children will take turns to go there, and no one will spend this money." Shen Yuntang thought, they will also have four sons, and when they grow up, they can take turns to go there like their brothers, and Cheng Yeran, as a father, will not have to go there. Unfortunately, Cheng Yeran is unwilling to have children with him.
Cheng Yeran noticed that he was looking at him and sighed helplessly, frowned and asked him, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
"I remember that you have studied before. If you could pass the exam to become a scholar, you wouldn't have to go through all this. As a scholar, you can teach in the village, which is easier and more respected than making tofu." Shen Yuntang remembered that he was a child prodigy when he was young. It would be a waste of his talent if he didn't continue studying. It's just that now he has a fool in his shell. Will it affect the intelligence of his original body?
"Exam to become a scholar..." to start my career in officialdom? First, pass the imperial examination and become the top scholar. Then, use your vision and technology as a future person to develop infrastructure to change the lives of ordinary people of this era, make the emperor look at you with new eyes, and reach the peak of your life from then on.
But before that, he had to learn how to write his name in traditional Chinese characters.
They set a date to go to the city, which happened to be the last day of Cheng Yeran's program recording. On the day of departure, he was indescribably excited, expecting the production crew to suddenly show up, scare him, and say that everything was just a prank on him. Then he would be scared, tired and go back to the hotel to take a hot bath and sleep. With Shen Yuntang's WeChat, the two of them could go out for dinner and chat together, get to know Shen Yuntang in private, and also...
He shook his head. When he thought about going back, why was his mind full of Shen Yuntang? He wanted to be friends with Shen Yuntang, bring him with him when he went to work, invite him to his home, and introduce his friends to him...
But if this is really the real world, Shen Yuntang is no longer his wife. In their world, being exposed for dating a fellow artist will affect one's career. Shen Yuntang's career has just started, and he can't delay her. He has to come secretly if he wants to date her...
Dating! Why did I think of this word!
Cheng Yeran slapped his thigh suddenly. After a few months of dating, he seemed to really treat her as his wife. In the real world, they were not even friends. Maybe after this variety show, Shen Yuntang would think that he was incompetent and would not even want to be friends with him...
This was the first time in Cheng Yeran's history that he felt inferior. Normally, others would rush to curry favor with him, but this was the first time he was afraid that others would not want to be friends with him.
He looked up at the sky. They had left the house today by donkey cart and were already far away from the village. He always felt that something was wrong.
He looked at the sky for a long time before he realized that something was wrong. There were no high-voltage lines! It would be fine if there was no power line in the village, as the village might have been specially built by the program crew. But we have crossed a mountain and there are still no power lines. The program crew can't possibly build such a large venue for filming the show.
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