The Bully General's Spiritual Husband

"bang bang bang"

Yin Baicai, who was still fast asleep in bed, was woken up by the sound of knocking on the door.

He shouted towards the outside, "Who is it, disturbing my sweet dreams so early in the morning? I was dreaming about winning the lottery."

With a belly full of morning grumpiness, Yin Baicai put on her paper-thin cloth shoes and went to open the door. If she didn't go, this person would definitely smash her old wooden door to pieces.

She opened the door, rubbing her eyes: "You woke me up so early in the morning, you're disturbing my sleep! Go find—"

When he saw who was outside the door, his eyes widened and he was startled awake: "Li... Li the bully, what are you doing here?"

Li Zhe frowned. This man called himself Li the Bully, which sounded really grating. Yesterday, when he was helping him with his work, Li Zhe kept calling him "brother."

Seeing Li Zhe's cold expression, Yin Baicai put on a smiling face: "Brother Li, what brings you to my humble abode? Is there something you need?"

Li Zhe handed him the things in his hand: "Take these."

Yin Baicai looked at the thing handed to him; it was the bowl he had used to hold snails yesterday. If you asked him why, he recognized it at a glance.

It has to be their specialty; the big crack on this bowl clearly shows it.

There's also a small bag of rice.

Yin Baicai was no longer calm. He had been here for so long, but he hadn't even seen a trace of rice.

This family was so poor that they didn't even have cornmeal, let alone rice.

Yin Baicai looked at Li Zhe with starry eyes: "Is this for me?"

Li Zhe nodded.

Yin Baicai asked again, uncertainly, "No money required?"

Li Zhe said coldly, "Can you afford it?"

Yin Baicai shook her head: "I have no money, but I need a person."

Li Zhe raised an eyebrow. This shameless young man was different from the one he had met before. Now his tongue was really asking for trouble.

He looked at Yin Baicai with a cold face: "Shameless."

Yin Baicai: "What do you mean you're shameless? You're my husband in name only. What's wrong with me saying some sweet nothings to you?"

Li Zhe's face grew even colder, but his bright red ears betrayed him.

He coughed lightly and said, "Please keep your things safe. I'll be going now."

Yin Baicai could tell from the bow and arrows on the man's back that he was definitely going up the mountain.

This bully Li is a skilled hunter in this village; he's only been back a short time and he's already killed a big wild boar.

They renovated his older brother's old house into a large brick and tile house. In Peach Blossom Village, only his family and the village chief's family live in large brick and tile houses.

The villagers were incredibly envious.

Yin Baicai asked with a smile, "You went hunting again? When are you coming back?"

Li Zhe thought for a moment and said, "Let the sun set."

Seeing that the person had kindly brought her food, Yin Baicai asked with concern, "Do you want me to go back and help you take care of Xiao Mo? He's only four years old, so he probably can't cook lunch for himself."

Li Zhe thought about it and realized that it made sense. He had made lunch for Xiao Mo before leaving home, but it was already cold by noon. It's not good for a child to eat too much cold food.

He handed the keys to Yin Baicai: "Okay."

Yin Baicai asked one more question: "Why did you lock him up at home?"

“I’m afraid that Li Jiang and his gang will come to my house and bully him while I’m not home.”

He thanked Yin Baicai, saying, "Thank you for your trouble."

Yin Baicai shook her head: "No trouble at all. Besides, isn't your nephew also my nephew? Don't worry, I'll arrange everything properly."

I added in my mind: "It's because you brought me rice that I haven't seen in over a month."

Li Zhe nodded and walked up the mountain.

This guy is getting stranger and stranger. Could he have really damaged his brain from the fall? Now he's not only not afraid of me, but he's even willing to accept the things I give him, and he's even offered to help me take care of Xiao Mo.

Why is that? Can a person change so much after just one fall?

If Yin Baicai knew, she would definitely reply, "The core has been replaced, how could things not change?"

He carried the bag of rice back home.

The more he looked at the bag, the more familiar it seemed.

Now I remember, isn't this the bag that the original owner would leave at his door every now and then after he got engaged to Li the bully?

The original owner had secretly opened it before and found it contained either rice or noodles. The original owner didn't know who had given it to them.

I've always been afraid to take other people's things, worried that if they come looking for me, I won't be able to explain myself.

So it was sent by that bully Li. But why didn't he send it openly? Why did he have to do it secretly?

Suddenly he remembered that the original owner of this body was terrified of Li the bully. Everyone in the village said that Li the bully had been captured and sent to the army at the age of fifteen, and that he had returned alive and well, which must mean that he had killed people on the battlefield.

Besides, the frightening scars on Li Zhe's face terrified him.

So every time the original owner saw him, he would hide.

Over time, the bully Li stopped daring to appear in front of him and even stopped giving him gifts.

The original owner of this body was such a fool; she wouldn't even accept the food her fiancé offered, and instead spent her days miserably digging for wild vegetables in the mountains.

Anyway, I'm thick-skinned; if I don't take it, I'll have to eat wild vegetables again.

Just thinking about wild vegetables makes me feel like I still have a bitter taste in my mouth.

Since Yin Baicai was already awake and wouldn't be able to sleep anyway, she figured she might as well take all the clothes from home to the river to wash, since there might be fewer people there if she went early in the morning.

If you go to the riverbank at noon, it will be packed with people, and it will be very uncomfortable for everyone to be crammed together.

He took a small handful of the rice that Li Zhe had given him and cooked it into a thin porridge.

After finishing the meal, I exclaimed, "This rice tastes really good; even the porridge made from it is sweet and fragrant."

After finishing eating, I put the bowl down, threw two handfuls of grass I had cut the day before into the bamboo basket where the chickens were kept, and went out with my faded clothes in hand. These dirty clothes were from when I wore them to the mountain to cut grass the day before and got them dirty from sweating.

They hummed and sang all the way to the riverbank.

The river in Peach Blossom Village is located in front of the village entrance. He glanced at Li the bully's house as he passed by, and sure enough, the gate was tightly locked. He thought that the child was still asleep.

I'll wash the clothes myself first, and then come over to make him lunch at noon.

Little did they know that Li Mo had already woken up and knew that his uncle was going hunting in the mountains today. After breakfast, he obediently sat in the yard reading the Thousand Character Classic that his uncle had bought for him.

He can only understand about twenty characters now. His uncle said that he needs to learn to read well so that he won't suffer in the future.

Since his uncle came back, he hasn't let him do anything but teach him to read. This is much better than when he lived with his second grandfather and the others.

Second Grandma and the others would only tell me to do chores and give me a small amount of food every day.

Yin Baicai first took the dirty clothes out of the basin, drew a basin of water from the river, threw the dirty clothes in, took out a soapberry from her pocket, broke it into small pieces and threw it in, and waited for it to soak for a while before washing it.

Yin Baicai muttered to herself, "This is really troublesome. There's no washing machine, not even laundry detergent. This soap pod lathers slowly, so washing clothes is such a hassle."

"I miss my beloved fully automatic washing machine at home. I can just take the clothes out and hang them to dry after washing them."

A moment later, a handsome young man dressed in coarse cloth came over. Yin Baicai glanced at him, then looked at her own reflection in the stream. She still couldn't compare to the socially awkward Xiao Qing's good looks.

It has to be said that the original owner's face was really pretty. Even though it was exposed to the wind and sun every day, it was not rough or darkened. It was still fair and clean.

The young man who walked over saw Yin Baicai and glared at him fiercely.

Yin Baicai caught him red-handed. Oh ho! Daring to glare at me, who is this young man?

That's incredibly audacious.