Honey, you didn't really drugged me, did you?-Chapter 85 - 80 Wife, Let Me Explain

Chapter 85: Chapter 80 Wife, Let Me Explain

“Go die!”

Seeing Chen Jie’s mocking expression, Zhao Ya realized she had been played. The man in front of her was clearly toying with her, which made her furious. She threw the Water Gourd she held in her hand at him.

She wasn’t afraid of the man in front of her suddenly hurting her, for her identity protected her. Even Ni Manzi, if he found out, would only dare to capture her, not to kill her.

This man was just an accomplice of Ni Manzi. How could he dare to kill her?

Chen Jie hadn’t actually planned to do anything to the girl. He just wanted to tease her a bit, to keep her from getting too clever.

After a brief probe, both knew that the other was not to be trifled with. They both maintained their silence, but Zhao Ya glared fiercely at Chen Jie.

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Chen Jie didn’t mind being glared at. A few glares wouldn’t kill him. Besides, the girl was indeed very pretty.

“Hey, are you eating or not? Time’s up, you need to get back into the sack.”

Chen Jie wiped the blood off the back of his hand and then said to the girl. Startled by his words, she exclaimed, “Let me stay out a bit longer. I don’t want to go back into the sack.”

Chen Jie stood up and said, “You don’t have a choice in the matter!”

The girl, alarmed, quickly said, “Wait a moment, I haven’t even eaten the bread yet.”

Looking at the bread on the ground, she said, “Why is this bread so dark? Didn’t you poison it?”

Chen Jie glanced at her and said, “Haven’t you eaten sorghum rice before?”

The girl took a piece of the bread and started to chew gently. She had expected it to taste awful, but after a few bites, she commented, “It actually tastes pretty good, better than the white bread.”

Chen Jie didn’t reply.

A meal might taste good, but if you had it all the time, you’d realize it couldn’t compare to the texture of white bread.

Moreover, not everybody had sorghum bread at every meal. He had worked hard to get to the point where he could say his family could eat it all the time.

But to someone of her noble birth, white bread was common, and this darker sorghum bread seemed novel.

Thinking about it, Chen Jie felt that this world was quite similar to his past life.

The things common to the poor might still be novel to the rich, just like when he used to feed pigs with wild herbs as a child, only for them to be later bought by city people who considered them delicacies. Then, leaving the countryside, he found those same wild herbs all the more novel…

Reflecting on this, Chen Jie noticed the girl was tearing the bread into tiny pieces and eating slowly—this could take forever, and he still had things to do.

Thinking thus, Chen Jie said, “I’ll give you the time of one more cup of tea. If you don’t finish, you’re still going in the sack!”

“Ah, you people, can’t you even let a person eat in peace?”

Chen Jie responded, “Talking counts as time too!”

“You!”

Hearing this, the girl angrily stuffed the bread into her mouth, glaring fiercely at Chen Jie. Wait and see. You’d better pray you don’t fall into the hands of this Commandery Princess, or I’ll make you regret today’s actions tenfold, you damn bastard!

The girl bit into the bread fiercely, chewing as if to vent her anger, her eyes burning with rage at Chen Jie.

Chen Jie, unfazed…

“Alright, time’s up!”

Chen Jie got up, grabbed a rope, and motioned, “Come here.”

The girl walked over furiously and said menacingly, “You’d better not fall into the hands of this Commandery, little miss. I swear I’ll make you pay back a hundredfold for today’s humiliation.”

Chen Jie said, “Alright, alright, extend your hands.”

He tied up the girl, stuffed a cloth in her mouth, put her in the sack, and tossed it in a corner.

Chen Jie said, “I’m leaving.”

Whimper, whimper…

At that moment, a whimpering sound came from inside the sack. Chen Jie leaned in and asked, “What?”

Whimper, whimper…

Chen Jie untied the sack, pulled out the cloth, and the girl started coughing desperately, tears streaming down her face. “Come back early, I… I’m afraid of the dark.”

Chen Jie, upon hearing this, said, “You, a heroine-like figure, are afraid of the dark?”

The girl defiantly responded, “Yes, I’m scared, so what? Is that not allowed?”

Chen Jie said, “Alright, I’ll see how it goes. The outside is very chaotic right now. Don’t cause any trouble. Be careful of bad guys discovering you and harboring indecent intentions. You know, our village has quite a few thugs. If they see a girl as lovely as you, they might not all act honorably like I do.”

Hearing this, the girl became even more frightened.

Now, weak and powerless, if she really encountered hooligans, it would be an unpredictable outcome.

Thinking this, she fell silent. Finally, looking at Chen Jie, she said, “If anything bad happens to me, I won’t let you off as a ghost!”

“Hey, it’s not my doing!”

“Then let me go?”

Chen Jie, upon hearing this, replied, “Forget it. You might as well become a ghost. I certainly don’t want to be one.”

“You!”

The girl realized she really couldn’t win against this slick-tongued Ni Manzi. This damn guy, one day I’ll unmask you and see who you really are. Just you wait!

“Come on, open your mouth.”

Chen Jie picked up the cloth. The girl angrily said, “This is too dirty. Can you give me a cleaner one next time?”

“Being a captive and still so many demands. We’ll talk about it next time.”

With that, Chen Jie stuffed the cloth back in her mouth.

Then he tied up the sack, disregarded the noises from behind, stepped lightly, and leaped up to the cellar door, then covered it with wood and put some objects over it, leaving room for air to pass.

And left the dilapidated yard.

He wasn’t in a hurry to return home, but strolled through the town to see if anyone was following him. Seeing no one, he bought two roast chickens to take home.

Just arriving in his own yard, he saw Daisy watching ants moving at the corner of the wall.

It felt charmingly childlike.

But he didn’t hear Daisy muttering, “How come there’s not a single straggler today?”

At that moment, Chen Jie opened the yard door, startling Daisy. Daisy suddenly saw Chen Jie and rushed over, “Brother-in-law.”

Chen Jie smiled and asked, “What are you doing?”

“Watching the ants move house.”

Daisy answered, and then Chen Jie pulled out the roast chickens and said, “Look what your brother-in-law brought for you?”

“Wow, big roast chickens!”

Daisy jumped up excitedly.

Chen Jie asked, “Where’s your sister?”

Daisy said, “She’s at home hatching chicks.”

“Hmm?”

Chen Jie looked puzzled. Was it what I thought?

Then Daisy went to take the roast chickens from Chen Jie.

Noticing the bite marks on Chen Jie’s hand.

“Brother-in-law, are you hurt?”

Chen Jie chuckled and withdrew his hand, “It’s nothing.”

Daisy thought about it, didn’t speak, and walked in with the roast chicken.

Upon entering, Chen Jie saw Su Yunjin fiddling with a wooden basin. Inside the wooden basin was a pottery basin filled with dry grass and other insulating stuff where eggs were placed, followed by pouring warm water at the right temperature into the wooden basin and covering it with a small cotton blanket for insulation.

After finishing all this, Su Yunjin looked up and saw Chen Jie had returned.

She got up, moving her body slightly, feeling a bit of pain, but still smiled and said, “Husband, you’ve come back.”

Chen Jie asked, “What is this?”

“Oh, didn’t I say the day before yesterday that I wanted to raise some chicks and ducklings? Since I couldn’t go to the town, I thought of hatching some myself.”

“Erba Auntie helped me buy a few eggs.”

Chen Jie said, “Is this not too much trouble for you?”

Su Yunjin replied, “It’s not troublesome, just regularly change the warm water and keep it from cooling. Aunt Erba said it only takes twenty-one days to hatch chicks.”

Chen Jie heard this and smiled, “That’s too arduous.”

“What’s arduous about it? There’s nothing else to do anyway; this gives me something to occupy myself with.”

Su Yunjin spoke, smiling sweetly.

She went to grab Chen Jie’s hand but just as she touched Chen Jie’s hand, her expression turned to shock, and in the next moment, she looked forlorn.

Chen Jie also saw her expression, even more so, he saw the row of teeth marks on his own wrist.

Damn it, he knew that woman would cause trouble.

Chen Jie looked at Su Yunjin, only to see her trying hard to put on a smiling face, “Husband, you’ve been working hard outside, I’ll go cook for you.”

After speaking, she turned and went into the inner room, fetching a bowl to scoop up sorghum rice.

But while turning around, her face was already covered in tears.

Drip, drip…

Her tears fell uncontrollably, believing that she could be in harmony with her husband from now on, living harmonious matrimonial days, but good days were yet to come.

But unexpectedly, her husband had another woman outside.

The bite mark on her wrist, how could she not recognize it—it was obviously from a woman.

Su Yunjin, oh Su Yunjin, why is your fate so bitter…

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She felt extremely aggrieved at that moment.

While she was secretly crying, a pair of strong arms embraced her from behind.

Simultaneously, the deep breath of a man was heard.

“Crying?”

“No, I’m not.”

Su Yunjin, with a crying voice, defended.

“Do you think your husband is unfaithful, cavorting outside soon after having your body?”

“No, that’s not…”

Su Yunjin’s voice grew more aggrieved as she spoke.

“Do you feel particularly wronged?”

“I’m not wronged; what man doesn’t have several wives and concubines, it was just the dust irritating my eyes earlier.”

Hearing this, Chen Jie sighed.

“You’re not speaking from your heart, are you?”

Drip, drip!

Her tears fell, splattering on Chen Jie’s arm.

Chen Jie gently turned her around and saw that his wife was crying her eyes out.

He wiped the tears from her face, and bending over, he whispered in her ear.

“Hmm?!”

Listening to Chen Jie’s words, Su Yunjin’s eyes widened, and she looked worriedly at her husband.

“Husband, you’re involved with the rebels…”

“Shush!”

Chen Jie made a shushing gesture.

“Do not speak of this matter aloud; my life is in your hands now.”

“Mmm, don’t worry, husband, I heard nothing.”

Su Yunjin said, following which she scooped a few more bowls of sorghum flour, “Husband, I’ll make some more steamed buns. From now on, it’s best not to buy food outside; it might get noticed by those with intentions.”

“Mmm, I know.”

Chen Jie nodded, Su Yunjin continued, “Husband, you shouldn’t have told me such secrets.”

Chen Jie: “You’re my wife, I don’t want misunderstandings to create a rift between us.”

“Husband, I was wrong not to trust you…”

“Enough, let’s not bring this up again.”

Su Yunjin nodded, then after thinking for a moment, she said to Chen Jie, “Husband, I know you are destined for great things. I don’t ask that you love only me all your life, just remember, there will always be two people waiting for you at home.”

Moved, Chen Jie embraced her waist.

At that moment, silence was more eloquent than words, everything was understood without being spoken.

The lunch was hearty, with steamed buns, roast chicken, and home-pickled wild vegetables.

Daisy’s face was greasy with food.

After the meal, Chen Jie took a few steamed buns and roast chicken and left.

“Wife, I’m off to work.”

Hearing this, Su Yunjin said, “Husband, let me see you out.”

Chen Jie left, and Su Yunjin stood at the door watching him go.

When she turned around, she saw Daisy gnawing a chicken wing and said, “Sister.”

“Hmm?”

Su Yunjin looked at her, unsure why she was calling her.

Daisy munching on the chicken wing, her mouth greasy, said, “Did you and brother-in-law have a fight?”

“Hmm? Who said?”

Su Yunjin frowned, wondering uneasily.

Daisy mentioned, “Who else, I heard everything last night.”

Last night?!

Su Yunjin was startled; she was all too aware of what had happened last night, remembering the madness, she still felt uneasy walking!

Daisy continued, “Yeah, last night. I heard sister pleading pitifully, crying, and kept asking brother-in-law to be gentler…”

Hearing this, Su Yunjin felt her head was about to explode; had she heard all that?

Was she really that loud yesterday?