Becoming the Villain's Discarded Wife
Chapter 63_1

Chapter 63: 63_1

"Mom! Someone is sleeping over there!"

Shen Zhiyu was small, and could see someone lying on the ground asleep at a glance.

"Mother thinks..." Nanzhi looked a little strange, who would come up to the mountain to sleep at this time of the day?

"Could it be possible that the person fainted?"

Shen Zhiyu blinked his eyes without saying more, taking whatever his mother said as truth.

Nanzhi hurried over, hesitated for a while before stooping down and using a stick to poke the person.

After poking for a while and finding no response, Nanzhi reached out and turned the person’s face around.

"Aunt Wu!"

Shen Zhiyu took a closer look, recognized the person, and immediately shouted. Nanzhi was also startled by her face.

A few days without seeing, where is Ms. Wu’s former brilliance?

Now her face had lost all its human features, with a wax-yellow skin, protruding cheekbones, eyes narrowed into a thin line. If they hadn’t been neighbors for five years, Nanzhi probably wouldn’t have recognized her.

"Ms. Wu? Ms. Wu?"

She called out twice more but still received no response. Nanzhi’s heart suddenly tightened. She couldn’t possibly be dead, could she?

Just as she was about to reach out and check the person’s breathing, she heard Ms. Wu cough.

"Water...water..."

Nanzhi was taken aback, and felt relieved. She immediately took her bamboo tube from her waist, opened the wooden stopper, and fed Ms. Wu water.

After drinking water, it took Ms. Wu a while to regain consciousness. The moment she saw Nanzhi was taking care of her, her complexion changed.

Her lips trembled for a long time before she managed to utter two words: "Thank...you..."

"It’s fine." Nanzhi didn’t mind, she just shook her head, hesitated for a while, and asked, "What happened to you?"

Ms. Wu kept silent without speaking, and Nanzhi didn’t press further.

If someone didn’t want to talk, there must be some concerns. She and Ms. Wu weren’t exactly close acquaintances, she didn’t have to upset her.

"Take this bamboo tube with you, pay more attention to yourself." Nanzhi stuffed the bamboo tube in her hand, then stood up, prepared to take Shen Zhiyu back home.

"Lin, Lin sister." Seeing that Nanzhi was about to leave, Ms. Wu immediately grabbed her pants.

With her pants being grabbed, Nanzhi nearly fell. After regaining her balance, she took a breath and asked, "What’s the matter?"

Ms. Wu suddenly coughed a few times, then forced a smile and said, "Lin sister, do you have any food? I’m really starving..."

Nanzhi frowned, still finding it hard to say no seeing the pitiable sight of Ms. Wu lying on the ground. Thus, she took out a half-remaining white steamed bun from her bosom that was left over from last night.

"You take it and eat. I don’t have anything else." Having said that, Nanzhi left with Shen Zhiyu’s tiny hand in hers.

Watching the two figures gradually moving away, Ms. Wu then stuffed the half steamed bun into her mouth.

She had to eat something to save her life. She had to take Shi Tou and leave this place.

"Mom, Aunt Wu is okay, right?" Holding Nanzhi’s hand, Shen Zhiyu turned his head to take another look at the Chestnut Forest behind them.

He remembered how fierce Aunt Wu used to be, but now she was looking so thin.

"I don’t know." Nanzhi was careful to watch the road, all the time pondering in her heart.

After just a few days of absence, how could Ms. Wu have become this thin?

When they had last met, she only thought Ms. Wu looked a bit haggard, but now she looked like a refugee, her body condition even worse than when Nanzhi first arrived here.

Could it be that Li Tian did something to her?

Thinking of Ms. Wu’s arrogance from before and comparing it to her current situation, Nanzhi felt a certain unease in her heart.

What on earth must have happened to make a person change into this state within just a few days?

When they got back to the village, Nanzhi didn’t go home straight away. Instead, she knocked on the door of the Li family next door.

Ms. Liao was peeling chestnuts in the yard. Hearing someone knocking, she hurriedly responded.

"Who is it?"

When she opened the door and saw Nanzhi and Shen Zhiyu standing at the gate, Ms. Liao was a bit surprised. She was about to get out of the way to let them in when Nanzhi said something.

"I won’t go in." Nanzhi waved her hand and continued, "I just ran into Ms. Wu in the chestnut forest, and she didn’t seem to be in a good shape."

"Ah, thanks for your concern, I’ll tell my older brother about it later."

After saying this with a forced smile, Ms. Liao closed the gate.

Seeing the firmly closed gate, Shen Zhiyu tilted his head and asked in a low voice, "Mom, will Aunt Liao go looking for Aunt Wu?"

After looking at the gate of the Li family’s yard, Nanzhi led him towards their home.

"Family matters are hard for outsiders to address, and what we could do to help has already been done."

She had given water, given the steamed bun, and after coming back, also informed Ms. Wu’s sister-in-law about the situation. The rest was completely up to Ms. Wu herself.

The little one didn’t quite understand what his mother was saying, but he nodded and ran to the backyard.

Watching Shen Zhiyu’s cheerful figure, Nanzhi tightened her grip on her basket handle.

She also had selfish thoughts. She couldn’t forgive the things Ms. Wu had done in the past, nor forget the sight of Zhiyu being beaten up and bleeding from the nose.

Ms. Liao returned to the yard with mixed feelings.

Because she only gave birth to two daughters, she was always squeezed by her mother-in-law, not to mention the humiliations she suffered from Ms. Wu.

Although previously her husband and her father-in-law were unhappy with Ms. Wu because Shi Tou nearly drowned, yet these days, she had noticed something else.

Her older brother seemed not merely wanting to divorce Ms. Wu. From the moment she passed out during the heat, he made her sleep in the courtyard and depended on Shi Tou for food.

Today, as soon as she could get up, she was instructed by her brother to retrieve chestnuts. It was crystal clear that her older brother wanted her life!

Ms. Liao sat in the yard and felt a chill running down her spine.

After pondering for a while, she still couldn’t harden her heart. Telling her two daughters to cook, she set out all on her own.

Old man Li was lying in bed, watching his grandson with a smile on his face and patting his head.

"Shi Tou, what are you thinking about?"

Shi Tou sat on the stool, twiddling his thumbs in silence.

"Don’t you like to be with your grandpa?"

Shi Tou’s fingers paused, hesitating but still took old man Li’s hand and said, "Grandpa, I miss mom. Can we let mom sleep inside the house again? Can we?"

The smile on old man Li’s face froze. He said no more.

Seeing his grandpa in such a state, Shi Tou also got frightened and dared not say anything more.

His grandpa and grandma used to be the ones who loved him the most. But, ever since his grandpa amputated a leg, no matter how noisy he got, his grandpa would no longer pamper him as he used to.

As the sun grew hotter and hotter, Nanzhi, while drying the chestnut powder, kept thinking.

What on earth happened to the Li family?

"Mom!" Shen Zhiyu saw his mother looking up at the sky, he tugged at her clothes and tried to pull her back from her daydreaming.

"Ah? What’s the matter?" As soon as Nanzhi turned her head, she saw the little one extending his hand in front of her.

Looking closely, it turned out he caught a bug in his hand.

"Mom, I just caught this in the backyard!" The little Shen Zhiyu swung his tiny hand.

He had never seen such a bug before. He was just watching the river clams in the backyard when this bug dropped down from the sky!

Nanzhi frowned and looked at the bug in his hand, feeling a tad bewildered. This bug, why does it look familiar?

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