87 Sexy
◎Twelve strips off, Xiaowu is jealous◎
She handed the wontons to Twelve, but her eyes were looking at the woman who was setting up a stall opposite. After just half a year, Shu Yao could hardly recognize her.
I don’t know what she has been through in the past six months, and now she looks so haggard.
Twelve followed her gaze and saw a disheveled woman coming across the street. She was skinny but had a bulging belly. She was wearing patched and tattered clothes, and her hair was a mess like a chicken coop. She stared at the food at her feet with numb and empty eyes.
She felt the gaze falling on her, looked up, and met Shu Yao's eyes. She was embarrassed for a moment, and quickly lowered her head, frantically covering her thin and pale face with her hair.
Shu Yao withdrew her gaze, with no expression on her face. She began to pack up the vegetables on the stall and planned to take the ox cart back. If it was after noon, there would be no ox carts returning to the village.
Just as she put away the remaining cabbages, a rough male voice suddenly came from the opposite side.
"You stinky bitch, you didn't even sell a single vegetable. I'm going to beat you to death." After saying that, he raised his fist and hit the woman's back hard.
The woman kept dodging to the side, pleading, "Please, stop hitting me."
The man still refused to give in. He grabbed her hair and banged her head against the wall: "If you hadn't come late today, how could you not sell it?"
The woman broke down and explained, "My mother asked me to scratch her back yesterday. I didn't sleep all night and only took a nap this morning, so I'm late. Please don't hit me anymore."
More and more people came over to watch the fun, and everyone was talking about it, but no one went up to help.
Shu Yao looked at the situation opposite and hesitated.
Ge Yong had long lost the scholarly air he had when he first came to Ji's house. He was wearing a short sweat shirt and was dirty all over. He didn't look like a scholar at all. At this moment, his face was ferocious and he was cruel to his wife.
An old lady selling vegetables nearby couldn't help but sigh and shook her head with pity.
Shu Yao squatted down and asked her, "Auntie, do you know them?"
The old lady put down her work and pointed at the beaten Ji Zhao: "I heard that girl used to be the daughter of a wealthy family, but she chose to follow this boy from the Ge family. Look at what she has become now."
"I remember that girl was plump and beautiful when she first came here, and she looked like a blessed person. I never thought she would become like this."
Shu Yao didn't comment. Ji Zhao did have some weight on her body when she was at the Ji Mansion, so when she saw her for the first time, Shu Yao wasn't sure how she could have changed so much in just half a year.
His whole body was just skin and bones, with only his belly protruding high. He looked dull and sluggish.
"Are her in-laws treating her very badly?" she asked, but she already had the answer in her heart. When she saw the mean looks on Ge's mother and father's faces, she knew that they were difficult to get along with.
Hearing her ask this, the old lady was somewhat indignant: "Their family simply doesn't treat this girl as a human being."
"When their son married the daughter of a wealthy family, the Ge family boasted about it everywhere. But later, when they heard that the in-laws had fallen on hard times, they started to criticize the girl."
"The girl is still pregnant, and it's pitiful that she has to wash clothes in the stream in winter."
"In the Ge family, this girl does everything, and her mother-in-law watches from the side and beats and scolds her from time to time."
"The Ge family kid isn't a good person either. I heard he has sex with girls every night. He's had bleeding several times and almost lost the baby."
"I heard that a while ago, that girl committed suicide by jumping into a well. After she was rescued, Ge's father beat her up, breaking two of her bones. He also locked her up in a leaky house and starved her for two days before he gave up."
The old lady pointed at the vegetables in front of Ji Zhao's stall and said, "She picked these vegetables from the mountains. A woman who is about to give birth has to do so much work every day. Sooner or later she will be exhausted to death." After saying that, she sighed heavily.
Shu Yao felt that the wontons in her hand tasted bland.
Ji Zhao on the opposite side was beaten to the point of being nearly dead. The blood on her forehead dripped onto the vegetables along with strands of hair. Before she had a chance to breathe, Ge Yong picked her up and threw her even further away: "Who would buy our vegetables if your dirty blood is all over them? Bah, what bad luck!"
Ji Zhaoan lay quietly on the ground, his eyes wide open, full of despair.
Ge Yong straddled her, groping her body roughly with his hands. He didn't care that her clothes were open, and let the man next to him look at his wife.
After searching for a long time, he finally found two copper coins in the innermost pocket of his clothes. After taking the money, he kicked Ji Zhao again and said, "Just two copper coins, not enough to fill my teeth. If you don't sell all these vegetables today, don't go home."
He left cursing, and after a few steps, he turned around and said, "Mom wants to drink egg soup today, buy two eggs tonight."
Ji Zhao let out a bitter smile. He had taken all her money. How could she buy eggs with it? Her life?
The farce was over, and the onlookers left in twos and threes. Only some men remained where they were. They looked at Ji Zhao's exposed body with obscene eyes, and kept touching their chins and swallowing their saliva.
They left in disappointment only after her body was covered with a coat.
Ji Zhao's dull pupils finally focused. She slowly turned her eyes and found that the person covering her with clothes was Shu Yao. Her expression changed slightly, and she felt mixed emotions. She said "thank you" dryly, then slowly supported herself and sat up from the ground.
Shu Yao: "Does your uncle know that he treated you like that?"
Ji Zhao was stunned, her heart aching. She knew, how could she not know? She had fled to Youyang County at the beginning of spring, hoping that her parents would make the decision for her, but her mother was sick in bed and just held her hand, crying non-stop.
The father had just married a concubine and he waved his hand impatiently and told her to go back, saying that when you marry a chicken, you follow the chicken; when you marry a dog, you follow the dog. Don't come to your parents' home to cry, so as not to affect his son.
She was kicked out after only half a day back home. Only Ji Lai secretly handed her a small bag of silver when she left.
Remember when Ji Lai asked her, "Do you regret it?"
At that time, she still held on to a glimmer of hope and shook her head at her sister, but now, she only felt that she was extremely wrong.
Shu Yao left her small stool to her, and when she and Twelve closed their stalls and went home, she quietly put ten cents on Ji Zhao's stall.
When Ji Zhao found the ten cents, he finally couldn't help but burst into tears.
…
As the ox cart arrived at the village entrance, Ji Shijing was seen standing tall and gracefully on the edge of the field.
When some young girls from other villages on the same bus saw him, their faces all blushed. They never thought that there was such a handsome young man in Dongping Village.
Shu Yao and Twelve got off the ox cart, and the cart continued to drive towards another village. The little girls on the cart looked back frequently with shyness on their faces.
Shu Yao walked up to Ji Shijing and said "tsk tsk" twice: "Ah Jing is so charming."
Ji Shijing frowned.
Twelve was walking in front carrying a basket, while Shu Yao and Ji Shijing were walking side by side behind.
"Were you waiting for us on purpose?" she asked.
Ji Shijing's lips were a little dry because he had been standing in the sun for too long. He nodded and planned to go straight to town if she didn't come.
He didn't like Shu Yao and Twelve being alone together at all.
Shu Yao said "Oh" and then said, "I met Ji Zhao in town today."
Ji Shijing said "hmm" lightly, not interested. If Shu Yao hadn't mentioned her name, he would have almost forgotten about such a person.
Shu Yao thought for a moment and said, "Let's go see her after Ji has recruited students." After all, they are still relatives in name only. Besides, she is living such a miserable life now. Shu Yao can't just stand by and watch.
Ji Shijing: "It's up to you."
…
Now is the time when new vegetables emerge, and the vegetables on the mountain are harvested one after another. These days, Shu Yao and Twelve have been busy in the fields. However, there is an additional person, Ji Shijing, by their side. He follows them up the mountain every day and goes to the town with them to sell vegetables, never giving them the chance to be alone together.
However, in the following days, Shu Yao never saw Ji Zhao again. She also asked others, and they only said that Ji Zhao was about to give birth and was probably resting at home.
She didn't think much about it.
That day, the three of them were busy working in the fields as usual. Suddenly, the mute on the top of the mountain ran down happily, came to Shu Yao, and started dancing and babbling, unable to hide his excitement.
Then he took out a living beet and carefully held it in front of her.
Shu Yao immediately understood, and a hint of joy appeared in her eyes. She took the beet and said, "The vegetables on the top of the mountain are alive, right?"
The mute nodded continuously.
Some villagers nearby also gathered around, all with their eyes wide open, muttering "magic". The land on the top of the mountain had not grown crops for more than ten years, and they didn't expect that the most difficult to grow beets would survive. It was really amazing.
Soon someone thought of the shed Shu Yao had built for the mute that day, and hurriedly said, "Yao girl, I actually have a piece of land on the top of the mountain. Can you build a shed for me as well?"
After hearing what he said, some people who had land on the top of the mountain wanted Shu Yao to help them build a greenhouse.
Shu Yao agreed to all of them.
Everyone was very happy. Originally, except for the mute, everyone else had given up on the land on the top of the mountain. It was too cold up there to grow crops anyway. But now that they saw that the mute's crops survived, they were eager to try again.
Only after receiving Shu Yao's affirmative answer did they disperse.
The midday sun was the hottest. Shu Yao sat down under the shade of a tree to rest early. Twelve continued to fetch water, not even noticing that his clothes were soaked. She asked him to come over and rest, but he just shook his head and concentrated on the task at hand.
On the contrary, Ji Shijing had already sat with her under the shade of the tree. He glanced at her sideways and saw the sweat on Shu Yao's cheek slowly sliding down her graceful neck. His Adam's apple rolled and he looked away with difficulty.
Shu Yao tilted her head back and took a sip of water. When she looked over again, she found that Twelve had taken off his shirt, revealing an extremely strong body. His bronze skin was stimulating hormones under the sunlight, and beads of sweat as big as beans adhered to his skin, adding a touch of... sexiness.
He walked over and bent down to pick up the water on the ground.
Shu Yao looked at the perfect body in front of her and let out a soft "Wow".
The man had broad shoulders and a narrow waist, and his body exuded a burning steam. Beads of sweat flowed down the lines of his abdomen, and every muscle was very strong and powerful.
Ji Shijing noticed Shu Yao's gaze. He looked at Twelve, then reached out and touched his lower abdomen. His expression was gloomy, and a gloomy look flashed across his eyes.
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