A Good Country Wife
Chapter 211 - 240: Who to Harm_1

Chapter 211: Chapter 240: Who to Harm_1

Lin Yue watched Zhao Erhu rush to the city in such haste, thinking there must have been something urgent waiting for him to handle, so she didn’t ask any more questions.

After Zhao Erhu had gone to the city, Mrs. Liu came over and shared a big piece of local gossip with Lin Yue: Chunxi’s husband, Zhao Jingui, had returned, but he didn’t come back alone, he brought with him a *****. It’s said that he married this wife in the city, who was much prettier than Chunxi, exuding a feminine charm that made all the lecherous men in the village stare with gaping eyes.

This truly was massive news for the village. It had been several years since Zhao Jingui, Chunxi’s husband, was last seen, and everyone thought something bad might have befallen him. Even Chunxi and her family thought so. Now, Zhao Jingui had returned safe and sound, bringing with him a delicate *****. This set all the gossip-mongers’ eyes on them, as they loitered near Chunxi’s house all day long, doing nothing but trying to pick up some juicy bits of news.

There was indeed a bustle at Zhao Jingui’s house, and within no time, new information spread: Zhao Jingui intended to demote Chunxi from wife to concubine. Zhao Jingui’s household was in an uproar, with Chunxi seeking death and asking for life; the tumult of adults and children crying turned into a pitiful scene.

Understandably so. She had withstood several years of hardship waiting for her husband to come back, only for him to bring another woman home. And not just that, but he even intended to demote her from wife to concubine. That was something no one could tolerate. Zhao Jingui’s mother, of the You Family, was known for being fair, but unexpectedly, she did not stand up for Chunxi this time. Her only demand was that Zhao Jingui must not mistreat her grandson.

"Mother, that’s certain. Xiaoquan is my son as well, my only flesh and blood at the moment. How could I possibly mistreat my own child?" Zhao Jingui answered readily. Even if his mother did not mention it, Xiaoquan was his own son, after all.

The woman Zhao Jingui brought back was named You Family. Being clever, You Family, despite feeling uneasy inside, showed a very appropriate and generous attitude on the surface, quickly echoing Zhao Jingui’s words, "Yes, mother, Gui’s son is also my son. I will treat Xiaoquan as my own child. Don’t worry."

"That’s good. All I want now is to live peacefully with my grandson. Whatever else you want to do, I’m too lazy to care about, just don’t wrong my grandson." Mrs. You had been angered by Chunxi’s recent behavior. If Chunxi were a good woman, she wouldn’t let her son do such things. But Chunxi, a woman as fickle as the nature of water, was so ungrateful to even do that sort of thing despite how much Erhu’s wife, such a good person, had helped her family. She was truly heartless. Her son had finally returned, and she couldn’t be bothered to ruin their relationship over such a woman. It wasn’t worth it.

"Mother, you’ve seen with your own eyes how we’ve lived these past few years. I’ve been waiting so hard for Jingui to come back. It was one thing to bring back a woman, but to favor the concubine and destroy the wife, how can you stand by and watch your own son do something like this? You must have lost your conscience, aren’t you afraid of people poking your spine from behind."

Chunxi’s words even implicated her mother-in-law, and Lady Zhao’s face turned ugly. "Don’t make it sound so nice. I’ve seen it all clearly, but are you really just waiting for my son to return? I’m not blind yet, it’s a pity. If only Erhu’s wife wasn’t so good, or else you might have let my son wear the green hat long ago. Have you forgotten how Erhu’s wife helped us? And yet, you could deliberately ruin the duck eggs and sell them to her. That truly is a loss of conscience."

Lady Zhao, a woman who raised her son alone, and with him gone for several years, had been guarding her daughter-in-law, grandson, and the household. She was indeed a capable woman. With just a few sentences, she left Chunxi speechless.

"Oh, sister, that’s where you’re wrong," You Family said lightly after listening. "Your brother-in-law is working himself to death out there, how could you do such a thing? Do you deserve him? Don’t tell me you’re thinking he won’t come back, and that’s why you’re looking for a new place to go?"

Zhao Jingui’s wealth was in You Family’s hands, and actually, most of it was left by her former husband. If Zhao Jingui wanted to live a good life, he would have to rely on her. You Family was not afraid that Zhao Jingui wouldn’t promote her to his legitimate wife. She saw their disputes as nothing more than a show and only intervened with a few words when necessary, keeping Chunxi under her foot. After all, she fancied the man herself and wasn’t keen on sharing him with another woman, so You Family planned to slowly deal with Chunxi.

Zhao Jingui, who already looked down on Chunxi, slapped her twice upon hearing his mother recount the situation, "You shameless, brazen trash, thinking I must have died out there to do such things. Now you even dare to make a scene with me? It’s only for the sake of my son, Xiaoquan, that I gave you any respect at all. Make a scene again and I’ll divorce you!"

Without her mother-in-law’s help and Zhao Jingui’s stern threat, Chunxi truly didn’t dare to make a fuss anymore. With no hope from her parental home and the threat of being divorced by Zhao Jingui, she would have nowhere to go. She could only bow her head and cry silently, feeling that there wasn’t a single good person in the world, hating everyone. Even her son Xiaoquan wasn’t spared from her resentment; Chunxi felt that her son was too useless, unable to stand up for his mother when it mattered. She didn’t consider that Xiaoquan was still young and had been raised to be timid and cowardly, that it was already good enough if he didn’t hide from strangers, let alone have the courage to speak up for her.

When Zhao Erhu returned, he took two bags from the carriage to his room. Lin Yue was discussing Chunxi’s matter with her elder sister-in-law, Mrs. Liu. Seeing Zhao Erhu, she told him about it too. Zhao Erhu never had a good impression of Chunxi, especially since she had secretly caused trouble for his wife before. After hearing the story, he just felt that a woman like that, frivolous and ungrateful, deserved to be abandoned by a man.

Hearing Zhao Erhu’s words, Lin Yue curled her lips. "Well, that’s what people like Chunxi deserve, but Zhao Jingui is really despicable too, going away for so many years and leaving his mother, wife, and child all behind without even a letter. To suddenly come back with another woman, if I met this kind of man, I’d take a knife to his lifeblood and then divorce him. Let’s see who he can trouble after that!"

Was this little wife warning him? Zhao Erhu felt helpless. Women, they all like to be petty. Even if a little wife like her is quite reasonable among women, she’s the same in some ways. But where did she learn to speak such crude words? Zhao Erhu’s least favorite thing was to hear such talk from his little wife’s mouth, fearing that someone had led her astray.

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