The Bully General's Spiritual Husband

Li Zhe, who had followed, also overheard the conversation between the two inside. What could be the reason for this?

I haven't been able to find any clues since I came back.

After Grandma Wu's clothes were almost dried, Yin Baicai helped her back to the room that Li Zhe had prepared.

The night is almost over, and if I take a few more hours of naps, it will be almost dawn.

Yin Baicai had no intention of sleeping, so she just sat by the stove and warmed herself. The heavy rain outside the window brought a slight chill.

It felt as if we had suddenly entered late autumn.

Li Zhe didn't sleep either. He leaned against the door frame of the kitchen and went to the woodshed every now and then to fetch firewood for Yin Baicai.

At dawn, the roosters crowed, the sudden rain stopped, and the sun slowly rose from the east, its pale yellow halo gradually illuminating the distant mountains and forests.

Late night

Yin Baicai, who was roasting by the fire, started to doze off, her head bobbing up and down like a chick pecking at rice.

Li Zhe was afraid he would fall, so he sat down next to him and let him lean on his shoulder.

The rooster's crow woke him up, and for a moment, his mind, still somewhat groggy, went blank.

After a moment, she realized what was happening, looked at the shoulder she was leaning on, and hurriedly stood up. "Oh, I'm so sorry, I fell asleep leaning on you."

"It's alright, do you want to go home and check on things now?"

Yin Baicai nodded: "Yes, we need to go back and check. We don't know if our house has been buried by the landslide."

“When I went there yesterday, the mud and rocks on the mountain had not rolled down.”

Grandma Wu also came over carrying Yin Baicai's money box. "Brother Cai, let's go back and take a look. In this village, our two houses are probably the most vulnerable to being crushed by rocks."

Li Zhe invited the two to stay for breakfast, but they declined, preferring to go home first to check on the situation.

After the two left, Li Zhe went to the bedroom and found that Li Mo was still sleeping.

So I didn't bother him. I made him breakfast and brought it inside. After finishing my own, I prepared to go to Yin Baicai's house to see if there was anything I could help with.

As Yin Baicai and her companion left Li Zhe's house, they saw that the villagers were also leaving the village chief's house one after another.

Tian Xiaoqiang glanced at Yin Baicai and teased, "Brother Cai, do you want your brother Tian to come to your house and help you?"

Yin Baicai knew this man; he was a notorious good-for-nothing scoundrel in the village.

He's already twenty-seven or twenty-eight, and he doesn't even look for work. All he does is wander around all day.

This person took advantage of the original owner's quiet nature and always verbally teased him.

He was the one who incited the villagers to speak ill of the local bully, Li, at the village chief's house yesterday.

Yin Baicai told Grandma Wu to go first, then kicked Tian Xiaoqiang and ran away quickly. After running a distance, she turned around and gave him the middle finger: "Trash."

Tian Xiaoqiang was kicked by Yin Baicai and was swaying back and forth while clutching his foot. When did this scoundrel become so bold? Didn't he always avoid him before?

He shouted at Yin Baicai, who had run far away, "You scoundrel, just you wait, Grandpa Tian!"

Yin Baicai replied, "Afraid of you, vampire?"

Tian Xiaoqiang hates it when people call him a vampire.

His parents both died from overwork. He was the youngest child in his family, and his parents spoiled him. Even though he was old, he still had to work in the fields. Once, the two of them died from exhaustion in the fields, and they were not discovered by the villagers until the next day.

From then on, the villagers called him a vampire, saying it was all because he didn't find a job and just stayed at home all day waiting for his parents to earn money.

They didn't even lend a hand to their elderly parents, and just like that, they worked their sixty-something-year-old parents to death in the fields.

Tian Xiaoqiang didn't think it was his fault at all. He believed that they should give him money to spend since they brought him into this world, and that being born into such a family was truly bad luck for him.

Over time, he became a well-known vampire in Peach Blossom Village.

Watching Yin Baicai walk away, Tian Xiaoqiang's face was full of malice: You bastard, don't fall into my hands, or I'll beat you to death.

When Yin Baicai returned home, she saw that most of her house had been crushed by rocks.

With a helpless sigh, he said, "This little house was already dilapidated enough, and now it's been crushed by all of this. I don't have enough money to rebuild it! Oh well, I'll just take everything out and put it in the room where it was stored first."

Grandma Wu's house had been reinforced recently, so only one earthen wall collapsed.

Yin Baicai is in a terrible situation. Her family originally had three small thatched huts, but now only one is still in good condition.

The room where he slept and his mother slept was completely destroyed by the pressure.

Yin Baicai first cleared away the stones so that she could find her bed and cabinets.

When Li Zhe arrived, he saw Yin Baicai struggling to move the mountain stones.

He walked over quickly and said, "I'll do it."

Yin Baicai looked up and asked, "Li the bully, what brings you here? Is Xiao Mo awake yet?"

"He's not awake yet. I made him breakfast and was thinking of coming over to help you see if there's anything that needs fixing."

Yin Baicai looked at the ruins in front of her and thought, "What's the point of repairing it? It'll just collapse under the weight of the debris anyway. We might as well just build a shed for now."

I need to hurry to the gambling den in town to earn some money so I can buy a new plot of land and build a brick house.

Otherwise, with the heavy rains of summer, even the sturdiest thatched huts wouldn't withstand a storm like yesterday's.

"I won't fix it. First, help me find my bed and wardrobe. I'll make do in the kitchen for now. When I have more money, I'll find a place to build a tiled house."

Li Zhe blurted out, "Why don't you come stay at my house? I have some spare rooms."

She regretted it as soon as she said it. Would this young man think she was being presumptuous, letting him stay at her house before they were even married?

He'll be drowned in the villagers' spittle.

Yin Baicai thought for a moment. If she went to stay at his place, it would be inconvenient for her to go to the gambling den in town. No, she couldn't go.

This bully warned me last time not to step into the gambling den.

Yin Baicai refused: "Forget it, that's not good. I'll just make do with sleeping in the kitchen for now. You wait and see, I'll definitely have enough money to repair the house in less than a month."

Li Zhe asked coldly, "Where can you earn enough money to repair this house so quickly?"

Yin Baicai looked up and smiled: "Of course it's gambling—doing business in town."

He thought to himself: Thank goodness, I almost blurted out the truth.

Li Zhe knew exactly what this young man was up to. "You're not allowed to go to the gambling den. I can lend you the money, and you can pay it back slowly later."

Yin Baicai's eyes lit up: "Really?"

"nature."

Yin Baicai patted her chest and assured her, "Don't worry, I will definitely pay you back. Just write me an IOU first."

Li Zhe raised an eyebrow slightly: "Okay, but this money must not be something you won at the gambling den."

Yin Baicai's eyes lit up. "This is easy! I'll just go to town and sell a few more recipes."

This is my specialty; back then, Uncle Fatty would often drag me to memorize recipes.

Sometimes when the shop isn't busy, Uncle Fatty will pull me aside and teach me how to cook.

"I won't gamble, I'll earn it myself."

Li Zhe was finally satisfied. He didn't know what would happen if he let this young man into the gambling den again. Last time, he was even followed.

But it's really strange, how could a farm boy know how to gamble!

However, everyone has their own secrets, so I won't pry. He'll tell me when he's ready.