"Ling Dapeng, you bastard, how could you do this to me?" Zhou Xiaoyun pushed Ling Dapeng away and started hitting him while crying and screaming! "Which woman were you fooling around with? You heartless man, how could you do this to Er Gouzi, how could you do this to the child in my belly?"
Ling Dapeng felt a little guilty, but he really hadn't done anything to betray his wife!
"Honey, no, I really didn't. It was just a girl who had drunk too much. I helped her up, and she bumped into my chest, that's all." Ling Dapeng grabbed Zhou Xiaoyun's arm and coaxed her into the house.
He felt quite embarrassed because there was also Aunt Liu around!
"Ling Dapeng, you heartless bastard! I was afraid something had happened to me, so I swallowed my pride and went to the restaurant to beg my mother, my elder brother, and my sister-in-law to come find you." Zhou Xiaoyun cried and cursed, "You're lying to me! What a coincidence! Are you bewitched by the women of the brothel?"
"No, Xiaoyun, wife, I really didn't," Ling Dapeng cried out. "Today I really went to a banquet at the Ministry of Rites' residence. Many people from the Jiaosifang went. A girl drank too much and tripped when she got off the carriage. I helped her up. That's really what happened. Many people saw it!" Ling Dapeng said hurriedly, but he didn't mention Shishi's name.
"Impossible, there's no such coincidence in this world!" Zhou Xiaoyun persisted, but with her hands held by Ling Dapeng, she couldn't scratch his face.
"What a coincidence! My real wife, I swear to God, everything I said is true." Ling Dapeng pulled Zhou Xiaoyun into the house, where Cao'er was coaxing Ling Zhi to sleep.
“Master, Madam…” Cao’er was startled.
Ling Dapeng released Zhou Xiaoyun and awkwardly said to Cao'er, "We're back, you can go back inside!"
"Mom~" Ling Zhi mumbled sleepily, and Zhou Xiaoyun immediately rushed over and hugged the child, waking him up instantly.
“Son, Er Gou, your father is a monster!” Zhou Xiaoyun cried, holding her child. “He doesn’t want us anymore. He has a lover outside.”
Cao'er left in a panic, and Ling Dapeng immediately closed the door and knelt down at Zhou Xiaoyun's feet with a thud.
"Wife, I swear on my life that I really did nothing to betray you."
"You make it sound so nice, but you still have someone's lipstick mark on your chin. Is it really possible for you to fall like that? Did they just fall right into your arms?" Zhou Xiaoyun sobbed. "You've just become too wild and look down on me, haven't you?"
"No, really no, Xiaoyun, we grew up together, don't you know what kind of person I am?" Ling Dapeng said hurriedly.
"Then quit your job there tomorrow. I won't allow you to work in a place like that!" Zhou Xiaoyun said immediately. Seeing that Ling Dapeng didn't agree, she hugged the child and started crying again. "I know, I knew it. You always smell so good, and today you were even kissed. What kind of place was that? It must be a brothel!"
"Wife, aren't you putting me in a difficult position? If we don't go now, won't all my work these past few days have been for nothing?" Ling Dapeng said with a bitter face. "You can't find such an easy job outside. Besides, didn't I tell you? The Jiaosifang is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites. We went to the Minister of Rites' residence today. Wife, don't you know your husband's personality best?"
"Waaah~" Zhou Xiaoyun was still sobbing. As if sensing that her mother was unhappy, Ling Zhi also started to cry.
Ling Dapeng was at his wit's end, but he didn't dare to shout, afraid of scaring the child. He could only patiently comfort Zhou Xiaoyun.
"Wife, you're carrying my child, how could I possibly do something so beastly!" Ling Dapeng said. "You said you went to the restaurant, what will Mother say? What will my elder brother and sister-in-law say?"
"Hmph, they didn't want to do anything at all, they just told me to go home and wait. Luckily you came back. What if you hadn't come back? Do you think it's easy for me, a pregnant woman?" Zhou Xiaoyun stopped sobbing and said in a choked voice, still with resentment towards Tao Wanniang and her brother and sister-in-law.
"Wife, I promise you, if I ever come home late again, I will definitely ask someone to tell you in advance. It was wrong of me to make you worry." Ling Dapeng stood up, sat down next to Zhou Xiaoyun, and put his arm around her to comfort her. "Look, Zhi'er is so scared. Son, be good, don't cry!"
Looking at her son and then at Ling Dapeng's sincere face, Zhou Xiaoyun decided to trust her man.
"You're not allowed to let other women lean on you, understand?"
"I know, I have a wife and children," Ling Dapeng immediately assured him.
"Go wash up. I won't allow you to smell like a woman. Go now!" Zhou Xiaoyun said with a look of disgust.
"Okay, okay, honey, don't be angry. Getting angry is bad for you and the baby."
After Ling Dapeng walked out of the room, he breathed a sigh of relief. Then, when he saw Cao'er and Aunt Liu waiting not far away, his face stiffened.
“We didn’t argue, nothing happened, you can go back inside,” Ling Dapeng instructed.
"Oh!" Aunt Liu and Cao'er tactfully left.
Ling Dapeng washed himself and went back to the room. He saw that Zhou Xiaoyun was already sleeping with her son. He sighed and inexplicably thought of Shishi's flushed face after drinking too much. He felt a surge of warmth in his heart.
After the restaurant closed, Tao Wanniang went home with her son, daughter-in-law, and Bai Yumei. Chen Liansheng had moved to live near the restaurant so he could do more for it.
Bai Yumei still had most of the restaurant's daily income with her, and she prepared the daily accounts. She planned to deposit the money into Tao Wanniang's account at the money exchange the next morning.
"What is Zhou Xiaoyun doing here?" Tao Wanniang couldn't help but ask on the way back.
“Dapeng didn’t go home, so she was worried and came to our restaurant,” Wang Hongyu explained. “But it’s this late, he must have gone home.”
Tao Wanniang frowned. Could something happen to Ling Dapeng in a place like Fuleyuan?
"Tell Da Hu to visit Fuleyuan when he has time," Tao Wanniang said to Wang Hongyu after thinking for a moment.
“Mother, why don’t you go and do something about it?” Wang Hongyu suggested. “Last time I went there with Da Hu, they didn’t tell us the truth either.”
"Heh, no way. Does a son this age need his mother to teach him? If he gets wicked, that's his business." Tao Wan's mother said uninterestedly, "Let Da Hu, as the older brother, give him a few pointers. If he doesn't listen, then there's nothing I can do."
"I'm afraid Da Hu won't give us a good look either. Zhou Xiaoyun came over today and said we've been too busy making money to care about them," Wang Hongyu said helplessly. "I told her it was her idea to divide the family property, so she's definitely resentful of me!"
"Ha, she's got quite a temper. Who spoiled her?" Tao Wanniang scoffed. "Then just ignore them and let them do whatever they want!"
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