In Love With My Fierce Farming Wife!
Chapter 935 - 940: It’s the Punishment from Heaven!

Chapter 935: Chapter 940: It’s the Punishment from Heaven!

Old Qin felt waves of darkness before his eyes, and he bit down hard on the tip of his tongue, trying not to fall, at least, not here!

He turned slowly and made his way back, step by laborious step, towards home!

Home, an ordinary-looking word, yet brimming with countless meanings.

So many people strive their entire lives, struggling just to have a home.

A place to shelter from wind and rain, a place to anchor one’s heart, a place that feels warm!

Most importantly, it must house someone who waits for you, someone who truly knows your comforts and pains!

Caring and cherishing your beating, living heart.

Somehow, the snow from the sky began falling heavier and heavier, gusts of freezing wind carrying the snowflakes slapped against his face, the pain sharp like a knife, piercing to the bone, so cold that his heart seemed to freeze.

Old Qin staggered, and he did not know how long it took before he finally reached his doorstep.

But that place called "home", what came from inside was a succession of curse words, loud as broken gongs, a complete mess, people overturning!

That was "her" scolding some grandchild again.

Hearing that grating cursing, those filthy words that one could not bear to retort with, unexpectedly, they were coming from his own bedside partner!

Old Qin looked up to the sky, closed his eyes, and sighed deeply!

The saying "One should marry a virtuous wife" did not deceive; eventually, all actions must be accounted for. He had mistakenly married a woman, a calamity that plagued the Qin family for three generations... Oh, no! Perhaps, he did not only harm three generations but also brought trouble upon the entire Qin family.

Maybe, this was the punishment that the heavens had given him!

Punishment for being blind all these years, mistaking the false for the true, loving her fiercely even in sleep!

This year, the cold snap in the first year of the Jiantai Era was unusually biting.

Yet, inside and outside Xiangyang City, the scene was bustling!

Qin Yi’s Great Army had already headed north, and the capable General Mo was left in charge of Xiangyang City.

At this moment, General Mo was mobilizing all the commoners, leading his soldiers in rebuilding the city walls. The southern wall had crumbled to nonexistence with the fall of the thunder in the previous battle. Now the walls they were constructing were even sturdier and taller than the original by several meters!

As everyone was earnestly at work, a priest leisurely road a donkey towards them.

When he came closer, they could see that the priest wore an old robe, had a long beard, was all skin and bones, with sunken cheeks, deep-set eyes, and dead fish eyes that startled anyone who glanced at him, mistaken for a walking corpse!

The donkey ambled along, and he sat on its back, not urging it on at all, letting it take him right to the edge of the city wall.

As he approached, someone stepped forward to scold him.

"Hey! —— Where did you come from, priest? Can’t you see we are building the city wall here? Considering you’re an outsider, we won’t be harsh. Leave now! Off you go!"

With his words, a group around them burst into laughter.

But when they saw the priest looking at them with dead fish eyes, they all suddenly fell silent.

Those eyes, what kind of eyes were they?

It was better not to look at them, for once you did, it felt as if those dead fish eyes could peer into your very bones, sending shivers down your spine!

Several soldiers hesitated, wondering if they should report this anomaly to Shangfeng.

Before they could decide, the priest had already dismounted from the donkey with a leisurely air.

Before, when he was sitting on the donkey, they had not taken much notice. But now that the priest was down, it was clear just how thin he was. Thin wasn’t the right word; he was skin over bones! The baggy robe hung on his skeletal frame, swaying this way and that with each step he took!

What a skeleton that could move forward!

It was simply unbearable to look at, unbearable indeed!

Yet the skeleton, not the least bit self-aware, swaggered to the base of the city wall and stared at it unabashedly.

"Hey! You, the crazy Taoist priest!"

A centurion came running over furiously, pointing at the Taoist and shouting, "You, what are you doing here? Leave at once, or don’t blame me for being rude. I’ll have you arrested for obstructing official duties and thrown into the dungeon. At that point, your frail body won’t likely survive a single beating. Go on, get out of here!"

The centurion was shooing him away as if he were a fly.

"Don’t panic, no need to rush,"

the Taoist priest said calmly as he looked at the base of the wall, full of sighs, "This world, oh! Whether it be the so-called glory and riches, or contending for supremacy, what’s yours will inevitably be yours. You can neither hide from it nor avoid it. Just like this stretch of land..."

His mumbling greatly irritated the centurion.

"Hey! Are you, the crazy Taoist, deaf to what I’ve just said?"

This section of the wall was fully his responsibility; he had already pledged a military oath. If anything went wrong, having ten heads wouldn’t be enough to pay the price!

Thinking this, he pointed at several soldiers and ordered, "You there, seize this crazy Taoist and take him directly to the dungeon. Interrogate him thoroughly! See if he is a spy sent by the enemy to create trouble! Take action."

Several fierce-looking soldiers hastily complied and stepped forward swiftly to apprehend the Taoist priest.

But the priest stood there with an unperturbed demeanor; as the soldiers lunged at him, his figure suddenly flashed and vanished from sight.

Before the onlookers could make sense of it, he reappeared atop the city wall several meters away, standing amidst a group of construction workers.

The centurion trembled all over!

This was eerie!

Such swift movements. Anything out of the ordinary indicates the presence of demons; this wasn’t a crazy Taoist at all but a demon in disguise!

"Quick, capture this demon! Hurry!"

he pointed at the Taoist and bellowed furiously.

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerate!"

The crazy Taoist suddenly made a greeting gesture, then swept his sacred whisk towards those rushing at him...

A gust of fierce wind erupted, and with a scream, the soldiers were swept up by the wind and thrown directly into the moat below. The sounds of plunges resonated continuously like making dumplings.

Only then did the centurion realize he had encountered a tough guy!

He was about to call for more hands, but the Taoist suddenly turned around. His dead fish eyes suddenly bulged open, his gaze like lightning, piercing into the centurion’s eyes.

The centurion shivered all over, feeling an overwhelming force from above crashing down on him, almost grinding him to dust. He could not even move a finger, let alone dare to make any more reckless moves.

And he dared not speak another word.

"A bunch of self-important busybodies! Get lost!"

The Taoist’s brows were inverted in anger, showing true fury!

With another sweep of his whisk, those surrounding him, including the centurion, were sent flying away, clearing the space within three meters around him in an instant.

It left the crowd too afraid to approach any closer.

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