Chapter 95 begins the journey back to her parents' home to settle scores.
After Wang Yuqing returned to her room, Ji Xuening was still working overtime making a wooden cart, because they would need it the next day.
She tossed and turned in bed, unable to resist getting up and opening the window as she listened to the noises outside.
Under the bright moonlight, the man was shirtless, with a strong physique, broad shoulders, a hard chest and abdomen, and long, sturdy arms holding an axe. His muscular biceps bulged, and his whole body exuded a bloodthirsty and masculine aura.
Soft, dappled light shone on his healthy, bronze skin, giving it a metallic sheen and adding a touch of sensuality.
As Wang Yuqing watched, her face suddenly flushed, because her thoughts started to wander, and a thought popped into her head: was he just as vigorous in bed...?
Suddenly, a pair of dark eyes met, and their gazes locked.
Wang Yuqing's heart was pounding. She quickly closed the window, pulled the covers over herself, and wondered if he had noticed her lecherous intentions. If he had, she would be incredibly embarrassed.
Ji Xuening, standing outside, was taken aback, wondering if he had startled her by taking off his shirt. After all, she was still a virgin, and it was indeed inappropriate for him to do that.
Then, he quickly put on his shirt, deciding that he could never take off his shirt like that again.
Wang Yuqing woke up before dawn the next day. She slept soundly that night, unaffected by her upcoming trip back to the Wang family, as she had to settle accounts there as well.
She heard Grandma Ji and Ji Xuening's voices in the main room.
Grandma Ji, being an elderly woman, always believed that harmony in the family was the key to prosperity: "When you go to Yuqing's house, you can't always have a long face. You should smile when you should. Even though you haven't registered your marriage, they are still your father-in-law and mother-in-law. Be nice to them."
Ji Xuening frowned: "Grandma, I'll treat them the same way they treated Yuqing."
He snorted: "You can't make me laugh, but you can be ruthless."
Grandma Ji: "..."
He continued, "They don't treat Yuqing like a daughter, so why should I be nice to them?"
Grandma Ji sighed and said, "Then it depends on Yuqing. If she wants to get along well with her family, then she should. If she doesn't want to, then listen to her. She's a poor girl too. Now that you've taken her money, you have to work hard and buy her some things."
Ji Xuening nodded: "I will."
Inside the room, Wang Yuqing listened to the conversation outside, her chest filled with a warm and sweet emotion.
Her purpose in coming to the Ji family was to lie down and relax. She thought that as long as the Ji family treated her well, she would treat them well in return. Unexpectedly, everyone in this family was kind-hearted.
Although selling snails these two times was a bit tiring, it was worth it!
Just as he was about to push the door open and go out, he heard Ji Xiaoming's voice again: "Dad, you should at least shave your beard before you go back to your parents' house with Mom."
Ji Xuening said, "Why get up so early? Go back to your room and continue sleeping. Why shave? Your mom likes me with a beard."
Ji Xiaoming didn't quite understand, but he still yawned and went back to his room to sleep.
Wang Yuqing, who was inside the room, remembered that he did say last time that he wasn't handsome after shaving and that she preferred someone more masculine.
I never expected this man to still remember those words.
Wang Yuqing came out of the house, and Ji Xuening quickly stepped forward: "Breakfast is ready, eat something before you go, the water for washing your face is also ready."
Grandma Ji chuckled beside her.
Wang Yuqing said, "Grandma, it's still so early, why don't you sleep a little longer?"
Grandma Ji said, "Okay, okay, I'll go back to my room now."
Before going back inside, she gave Wang Yuqing and Ji Xuening a few more instructions, and then happily went inside. No one knew what she was so happy about.
When Wang Yuqing was eating breakfast, she discovered that the handcart had already been made; it was a single-wheeled cart with a shoulder strap.
She couldn't help but praise, "Ji Xuening, you're amazing! You managed to do this, and it looks just like the ones I saw online..."
"Um?"
Ji Xuening was a little confused.
Wang Yuqing realized she had let something slip and quickly corrected herself: "It's exactly the same as the little cart I saw at Grandpa Wang Shang's house. Grandpa Wang Shang is an old man I used to know."
Ji Xuening found the explanation a bit awkward and convoluted, but he didn't think much of it and said, "You eat first, I'll get those stools upstairs."
The two set off when it was just dawn, around 5:30 a.m., since it was summer.
On the way, we also met some early-rising commune members, who were taking advantage of this time to do some things for their own families, such as planting vegetables, watering and weeding in their private plots, cutting pig feed, or going up the mountain to cut trees and collect firewood.
The fact that Wang Yuqing went back to her parents' home to give her milk money was already spread around by Lin Meili last night, and now almost everyone knows about it. Those who are close to her are worried, while those who are not close to her are just waiting to see her make a fool of herself.
They knew Wang Yuqing was not someone to be trifled with, so they only discussed it privately. Liu Li said, "Could it be that he has saved up 100 yuan? Last time, Ji Xuening really got lucky with that wild boar meat."
She added, "I heard from Lin Meili that Lin Xuemei doesn't take her seriously at all, and even said she regrets not kicking her to death when she was born."
After remaining quiet for a while, Yuan Fang couldn't help but speak up: "That Lin Xuemei is an even more ruthless person. When she goes back this time, she'll probably beat her half to death, and she probably won't be able to come back."
Liu Li said viciously, "Just beat her to death. Just thinking about how she treated my brother makes me want to skin her alive."
Yuan Fang suddenly asked, "By the way, about Liu Huo's past in the army, was it him writing love letters to that female comrade, or was it Ji Xuening who wrote them?"
Liu Li's face turned pale, and she said stiffly, "How could it be written by my brother? It must have been written by Ji Xuening. He asked my brother to write it for him."
Yuan Fang chuckled, but she didn't believe it.
When Shi Feng was cutting pig feed, she saw Wang Yuqing and Ji Xuening leave. When she passed by Ji's house, she ran in to chat with Grandma Ji, but Grandma Ji remembered what Wang Yuqing had said and coldly chased her out.
The Cao family members gradually got up.
Early in the morning, Lin Meili said to her mother-in-law Mao Chun, "Mom, don't worry. When Wang Yuqing goes back this time, Lin Xuemei will definitely help us get revenge. She'll probably give her a good scolding and beat her half to death. If she doesn't get revenge, I won't visit her relatives."
Mao Chun has been quite dejected these days. She used to be very smug, but after her crushing defeat in her competition with Wang Yuqing, she fell ill from anger and hasn't been to work for half a month.
Lin Meili knew that her illness was a minor matter; her main concern was that she was ashamed and couldn't hold her head up when she went out. In addition, she was lazy.
Mao Chun glared at him with his eyes wide open: "You don't have the ability, yet you went all the way to someone else's house to complain. Aren't you ashamed? If you're so capable, go do it yourself."
Lin Meili muttered, "Then who in our family is capable... Several grown men have been beaten up."
It wasn't just the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law; all three men in the Cao family harbored resentment, but they just hadn't found the opportunity to vent it. One day, they would definitely make the Ji family pay!
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