"Wife! It's time for dinner!"
Today it was Yu Xiaotian's turn to cook. At four quarters past midnight, he came to knock on Hua Qingcheng's bedroom door again.
After taking a nap for half an hour, Hua Qingcheng suddenly felt relaxed all over. She looked at the newly renovated bedroom with satisfaction before walking out of the room.
Seeing the clean camel-colored tents hanging in the yard, and even the original owner's sour and smelly clothes were washed and hung one by one, a hint of embarrassment flashed across Hua Qingcheng's face.
"Xiaotian, thank you for washing my clothes and tent."
"No... no, my wife. Big... Big brother..."
Seeing that his wife had misunderstood, Yu Xiaotian hurriedly tried to explain, but Hua Qingcheng interrupted him again and did not give him a chance to speak.
"Okay, I'll handle these things myself from now on. Let's go, aren't we going to eat?"
For dinner, Hua Qingcheng was still arranged to have a pot of porridge for herself, while the four husbands ate wild vegetables.
Sitting on the only chair in the main room, Hua Qingcheng looked at the husbands standing on both sides of the table with pale faces, and sighed slightly in her heart.
"Xiaotian, bring the bowl to me. From today on, I will be in charge of distributing the food."
"Wife...wife, but...but what did Xiaotian do wrong? You...tell me, I...I will definitely change!"
Yu Xiaotian suddenly became panicked upon hearing this. Although his wife seemed to be much easier to talk to today, maybe she just happened to be in a good mood?
In the past, if his wife was not satisfied with the food, she would beat the four of them severely. Thinking of the scars on his body, Yu Xiaotian couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. His legs went weak and he knelt down in front of Hua Qingcheng.
"Wife...wife, Xiao...Xiaotian has a very small appetite. From now on, I...I can only eat half a bowl of rice every...every meal. Please...please, don't send Xiaotian away!"
Listening to Yu Xiaotian's sobbing voice, his stammering words, and suddenly kneeling down before her, Hua Qingcheng was completely bewildered. The original owner's memories were fragmented, making them somewhat confusing for Hua Qingcheng, and for a moment she couldn't understand what was going on with the man before her.
"Yes, my wife, if you think we eat too much, we four can just eat half a bowl for each meal from now on. Please, don't beat Xiaotian or drive him away. He is weak and can't bear to be beaten anymore."
Seeing this, Mu Lige also knelt in front of Hua Qingcheng to plead for Yu Xiaotian. Not only did he kneel down, he also pulled Situ Ye and Han Yichen to kneel down with him.
Although Situ Ye was very reluctant, he couldn't bear to see Yu Xiaotian being beaten and kicked out, so he knelt down reluctantly. Han Yichen knelt with an indifferent expression, saying nothing.
Looking at the four men who were much taller than her, who suddenly and inexplicably knelt in front of her, Hua Qingcheng's forehead veins jumped and she was speechless.
"What are you doing? Get up! I just said that I will be in charge of distributing the food from now on. Besides, when did I ever say I was going to beat Xiaotian or drive him away?"
Hearing Hua Qingcheng's words, the sad Yu Xiaotian stopped sobbing immediately and looked at her with tearful eyes.
"Wife...wife, you won't beat Xiaotian? You won't drive Xiaotian away either?"
"No fighting! No chasing! Get up quickly!"
It seemed like the original owner's fault. She didn't know what the original owner had done to them, but just a single word could scare them like this. Hua Qingcheng had no choice but to patiently explain.
"Besides, I'm usually not nice to you. If, I say if, I divorce you and give you freedom, wouldn't that be better for you?"
Yu Xiaotian had just stood up when he heard Hua Qingcheng's words. His legs went weak and he knelt down again. He had been sobbing silently before, but this time he actually cried out loud.
"Wife, please don't divorce us."
Not only Yu Xiaotian, but the other three also knelt down.
"Why is that? Wouldn't it be better to get a divorce? That way no one will beat or scold you in the future!"
Hua Qingcheng was stunned. Could it be that these people had masochistic tendencies? The original owner beat and scolded them, yet they begged the original owner not to divorce. This...
"Humph! Big brother, I told you this woman has bad intentions, right?"
Upon hearing this, Situ Ye stood up and looked at Hua Qingcheng with a mocking expression.
"Isn't this your usual trick? Beat me when you want, scold me when you want, and threaten me with divorce when things don't go your way!"
"Second brother, kneel down! Don't talk to my wife like that."
Mu Lige grabbed Situ Ye's robe and made him kneel back down, but he was so angry that he hummed and turned his face away, not looking at Hua Qingcheng.
"Wife, you really don't know?"
Han Yichen narrowed his narrow almond-shaped eyes, pursed his thin lips, and stared at Hua Qingcheng intently.
"Why?"
"Two years ago, His Majesty issued a decree that any woman who doesn't marry by the age of sixteen, or any man who doesn't marry by the age of fifteen, will have their mother and father convicted and fined ten taels each. Men who are divorced or abandoned will be sent directly to the military camp to serve as camp prostitutes. If you divorce us, you're essentially sending us to our doom!"
Hua Qingcheng gasped upon hearing this. What kind of bizarre decree was this? The emperor was really going to great lengths to increase the population. No wonder these husbands silently endured their former owners' beatings and scoldings. Because if they were divorced or divorced, the consequences would be a hundred, even a thousand, times more miserable!
"All of you get up! If you don't get up, I'll fuck you right away!"
When the four heard Hua Qingcheng's words, they all stood up one by one and looked at her in unison.
"I almost died today. After a near-death experience, I finally figured it out. You may not believe what I'm saying now, but time will tell. From now on, I really won't scold you for no reason, let alone hit you."
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