Chapter 74 Wang Dani Blocks the Way to Confess Her Love
Don't worry, I've gone up the mountain to chop firewood.
Bai Zilin drove the oxcart to the mountain to chop firewood, leaving only willow leaves at home. She pickled the dried cabbages, making two large vats of sauerkraut, half a vat of salted radishes, and 50 cabbages left to eat in the winter.
Time flies, and five days have passed in the blink of an eye. Bai Zilin's house was finished. After pasting paper on the windows and doors, it was done. Bai Zilin and Liu Ye moved in, and Liu the bricklayer and the others started building the courtyard wall.
Liu Ye lives in the fourth room of the five main rooms, the fifth room is a storage room, Bai Zilin lives in the third room, the second room is the kitchen, and the first room is also a living room, which is currently empty.
Now, apart from the kang (heated brick bed), all five large brick houses are empty except for some things that Liu Ye brought over. Liu Ye spread out the kang mat and piled her bedding at the end of the kang. She had already planned that after Brother Bai left, she would take out the things in her space to use. Last time they were in Taicheng, she had collected a lot of furniture, so she could take it out and use it. When Brother Bai came back and saw it, he would assume that she had bought it.
Bai Zilin was also tidying up his things in the west room. Actually, he didn't have much stuff, just some clothes and shoes. He went to Liu Ye's east room and said, "The wall will be finished in about three days. I should leave then. I'm really going to miss you..."
Upon hearing this, Liu Ye joked, "If you can't bear to part with me, then don't go. I'm also worried about you going. It's all the way to Shanxi. What if you run into bandits? Besides, I don't think Young Master Zhao is very reliable. I even doubt whether he has his brain when he goes out. Brother Bai, don't listen to him too much. You have to have your own ideas. If things don't look good, run away."
Bai Zilin smiled and nodded. In fact, he had his own ideas and wouldn't really listen to Young Master Zhao completely: "I know. I'll go next door and bring back the firewood. You stay here and don't go out. It's quite cold outside now."
Bai Zilin muttered to himself, "Among the workers outside, there are probably 15 out of 30 or so bachelors. My wife is so beautiful, I won't let them take advantage of me..."
Liu Ye nodded obediently. Since all the workers outside were men, she felt embarrassed to go out and wander around. By the way, do we need a hot pot when moving to a new house? She remembered that in her previous life, the hot pot seemed to have a pig's head, pig's trotters, and pig's tail. After it was cooked, it was placed in the center of the house at midnight, and incense was lit as an offering. She wondered if this place had this custom.
The next day, Bai Zilin returned from selling his game in town and bought a jar of wine. However, he didn't intend to drink it; instead, he poured the wine around his house as a ceremony to celebrate moving into his new home.
Three more days passed in the blink of an eye. The courtyard wall was built and the front and back gates were installed. Liu the bricklayer then led people to Liu Ye's courtyard to demolish the house and lay the foundation. Only then did the villagers realize that Liu Ye was also going to build a new house. Of course, the gossipy women in the village couldn't just say that Liu Ye was going to build a new house. Instead, they spread rumors that Liu Ye insisted on having Bai Zilin build her a new house, or she wouldn't marry him.
Zhang Fang and Wang Dani were so angry when they heard the rumors in the village that they couldn't sit still at home. Wang Dani was already furious when she saw Liu Ye move into Bai Zilin's house, and when she heard the rumors outside, she decided to take drastic measures!
Wang Dani found her mother and pitifully stretched out her rough hands: "Mother, give me 100 coins, I need to go to town to buy rouge and face powder..."
Aunt Wang was furious when she heard this! Buying rouge and face powder? This brat must be crazy! She put her hands on her hips, pointed at Wang Dani's nose, and yelled, "Get out of here! We're almost starving, where would we get the spare money to buy you rouge and face powder? Get out! Before the mountains freeze, hurry up and go find some wild vegetables!"
When Wang Dani realized that gentle persuasion wasn't working, she turned around and went back to her room. If gentle persuasion didn't work, then she would resort to stealing!
The next afternoon, Bai Zilin was driving a cart of firewood down the mountain when he was startled by Wang Dani, who suddenly appeared: "Brother Bai, wait a moment, I have something to tell you..."
Bai Zilin patted his chest with a dark face. "Damn it, this Wang Dani looks like a paper doll that escaped from the paper shop. Look at her face, it's as white as a ghost. And look at her mouth, it looks like she's eaten a dead child. This is too scary. If he wasn't brave, he would have peed his pants from fright!"
"Speak your mind, or shut up!"
Wang Dani shyly smoothed her hair and gave Bai Zilin a flirtatious wink. Bai Zilin closed his eyes, suppressing the urge to punch her, and gritted his teeth as he opened his eyes: "If you're not going to talk, then get out of the way. I don't have time to chat with you!"
Seeing that Bai Zilin was unmoved by her beauty, Wang Dani bit her lip in grievance and said, "Brother Bai, don't you understand my feelings for you? I like you. I've liked you ever since I first saw you. I think about Brother Bai when I work during the day, I think about Brother Bai when I sleep at night, I think about Brother Bai when I wash clothes, and I think about Brother Bai when I go up the mountain to dig for wild vegetables."
"Brother Bai, I'm willing to marry you. Please marry me. I won't be greedy like Liu Ye, making you build me a house. I also won't ask you for a lot of dowry. As the old saying goes, Brother Bai, you should marry a virtuous wife, not a lazy one. A lazy wife doesn't know how to manage a household and will just spend money recklessly, breaking a man's back. Brother Bai, I'm virtuous and know how to manage a household. After you marry me, our family's life will get better and better. Next year, I'll give you a big, healthy son. We'll have two children in three years and three in five years. Brother Bai, please marry me."
Bai Zilin was so angry he almost laughed. He looked at Wang Dani with a sarcastic expression and said, "Marry you? Wang Dani, you're dreaming! Marry you? What a joke! Even if I were blind, I wouldn't marry an ugly ghost like you. It's cold outside, you should go home quickly and don't forget to cover yourself with more dirt!"
Wang Dani stomped her foot in anger after being scolded, and pointed at Bai Zilin angrily, saying, "Bai Zilin, you'll regret it if you don't marry me. If you marry Liu Ye, she'll only squander your family's wealth. Sooner or later, she'll ruin your family and leave you, leaving you penniless. Even if she doesn't run away, she'll still cheat on you and make you a cuckold!"
Bai Zilin snorted coldly and said in a way that was sure to infuriate people, "I'd still marry her even if she was a spendthrift, but I'd rather not marry an ugly ghost like you. You look like a maggot crawling out of a latrine, and you don't even think before you speak. Stay away from me from now on, just looking at you makes me sick!"
Wang Dani was so dizzy from the scolding that she almost fainted from anger. She never expected a grown man to be so good at cursing: "Fine, Bai Zilin, you'll regret this. We'll see how things go!"
Bai Zilin, infuriatingly, retorted, "We'll see! I know how to use a dog-beating stick, do you think I'm afraid you'll bite me?"
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