"You little brat, Jiang Yuwei, now that you're married, you think you're all grown up? I'll beat you to a pulp!"
As Li Cuihua spoke, she reached out to pull Jiang Yuwei's hair.
Seeing this, Jiang Yuwei quickly turned to the side to dodge. When Li Cuihua realized she hadn't caught Jiang Yuwei, she gave Jiang Yaoyao a wink. Jiang Yaoyao understood and immediately stepped forward to hug Jiang Yuwei's waist. Li Cuihua quickly slapped Jiang Yuwei across the face.
Seeing this, Jiang Yuwei tried to break free, but Jiang Yaoyao was holding her too tightly, and Li Cuihua was pulling her hair hard, making her unable to move. Before she got married, this mother and daughter must have bullied her like this. Thinking this, Jiang Yuwei felt an endless sorrow spreading in her heart.
Just as Li Cuihua was about to reach out and slap Jiang Yuwei's face, she felt a sharp pain in her raised wrist, causing her to lose her strength. Just as she was wondering what was going on, she saw a mud ball flying towards her face, hitting her right between the eyebrows.
The mud ball was so powerful that it caused a large bump to swell up on Li Cuihua's forehead. Jiang Yaoyao was wondering why her mother had stopped hitting her when she turned around and saw a mud ball flying towards her eye. The pain made her immediately let go of Jiang Yuwei's hand and cover her eye.
Old Man Jiang also sensed something was wrong. Looking into the courtyard, he saw Ning Huaizhi angrily aiming his slingshot at him. Just as he was about to dodge, Ning Huaizhi hit him in the stomach, causing him to writhe on the ground in pain.
Jiang Yuwei looked at the three people in front of her, and while she was wondering, she looked up at Ning Huaizhi in the courtyard who was holding a slingshot and smiling at her. At this moment, the small mole under Ning Huaizhi's right eye made his smile look a little sinister, and Jiang Yuwei was stunned for a moment.
At this moment, Li Cuihua seemed to realize that it was the young master sitting in the courtyard who had caused her injury. She put her hands on her hips and was about to go over and verbally abuse Ning Huaizhi when she saw Ning Huaizhi looking at her coldly.
"Since my wife doesn't like you people, don't even think about setting foot in my house again. Get out of my house before I lose my temper!"
Jiang Yuwei was surprised that Ning Huaizhi would defend her like this. At this moment, she felt quite complicated. If he really didn't like her, it didn't seem bad that he could protect her for life. After all, without the protection of a family, it was really difficult for a woman to get by in this society. If she was not careful, she would be captured and sold into slavery.
Old Man Jiang noticed that this disabled son-in-law was not someone to be trifled with. The imposing aura surrounding him already made him tremble, not to mention that he had just been shot and rolled on the ground with just a slingshot.
Thinking this, he quickly got up, tugged at Li Cuihua, and whispered:
"We've come at the wrong time. Let's go back first. We need to discuss this matter further."
Li Cuihua felt she couldn't stay any longer, so she pulled Jiang Yaoyao to leave. Jiang Yaoyao glanced at Ning Huaizhi with great reluctance, and as she walked to his side, she muttered softly:
"What's so great about my sister that you would protect her like this?"
Ning Huaizhi ignored her, only watching coldly as the three of them helped each other out of his courtyard. Then he turned back to Jiang Yuwei with a worried expression and said:
"Yuwei, I'm sorry. I failed to protect you today and you got hurt."
Jiang Yuwei looked at Ning Huaizhi's guilty expression and couldn't help but laugh.
"No, I should thank you for helping me today. By the way, I've thought it through. If you truly love Xu Qianqian, I agree to you taking a concubine."
Ning Huaizhi was both annoyed and amused by Jiang Yuwei's nonsensical remark. He pushed his wheelchair up to her, looked her straight in the eye, and said seriously:
“I have never liked Xu Qianqian. I only have feelings for her because we are from the same village. She helped me when I was young, so I was never wary of her. Today I found out that you have misunderstood the relationship between her and me.”
As Ning Huaizhi said this, Jiang Yuwei smiled:
"Now that I am disabled, it is only because you can treat me without disgust that I am not interested in me. How could anyone else possibly want me? As for me, you are the only one in my eyes. I do not want our relationship to be ruined by irrelevant people. I will not take a concubine. I have you, and that is enough for me."
Jiang Yuwei looked at Ning Huaizhi, whose eyes were flushed red, whether from anxiety or embarrassment, and burst out laughing:
"Hahaha, hahaha, you, like this now, hahahaha."
Ning Huaizhi, a little embarrassed by Jiang Yuwei's laughter, scratched his head and continued:
"I... I'm not good with words and I don't know how to sweet-talk people, but you must believe that I'm sincere towards you. You're the only one in my heart, and there's no room for anyone else."
Looking into Ning Huaizhi's sincere eyes, Jiang Yuwei felt a strange urge to trust him again, so she smiled and said:
"Alright, I understand. My family caused a scene today, and I hope they will be more restrained in the future. If they dare to come to our house to cause trouble again, you must not let them in. I'm afraid you won't be able to handle them when you're home alone. They are shameless and capable of anything, so we must be vigilant."
Ning Huaizhi nodded and said:
"Okay, I'll do whatever my wife says."
When Jiang Yuwei heard Ning Huaizhi call her that, her heart suddenly raced, and she felt her face burning. She stopped looking at him and turned away, saying:
"Now that Li Cuihua has prepared such a big pot of stewed meat and steamed buns, let's give these to the villagers for lunch first."
As he spoke, he went into the kitchen to tidy up the things that Old Man Jiang and Li Cuihua had messed up.
Xu Qianqian, who lived at the west end of the village, came out of Zhang Laizi's house with a wicked grin on her face. Jiang Yuwei dared to steal her man; she was really blind. Now it was time to teach her a lesson.
Jiang Yuwei was tidying up the dishes in the kitchen when she suddenly sneezed. She felt a little uneasy, thinking that she should go to the market tomorrow.
Jiang Yuwei still needed to make about a dozen bottles of chili sauce for Lianxianglou, and she needed to finish them all today. She also thought about checking the fish baskets she'd left by the pond to see how many crayfish they'd caught. She planned to make a few batches tonight to marinate them, so she called out Ning Zhao and Ning Wan.
"Zhao'er, you and Wan'er take the baskets to the pond and retrieve the fish baskets that I put there yesterday. Bring back the lobsters you caught inside, then put the fish meat back into the baskets. Just put the baskets back in their original places. Remember to use the sticks to shoo away the grass, and be careful not to get bitten by snakes. Come back quickly."
Ning Zhao listened to Jiang Yuwei's instructions, nodded hurriedly, put on his basket, took his sister's hand, grabbed a stick, and went out.
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