C6 Return to Tranquility

As the sound of voices continued to ring out, families began to emerge. Not long after, the front of the house became much more lively.

After all, Zhou Feng-er is a famous tigress with many enemies. From their whispers, I deduced that most of them came to watch the show.

He Sheng and Hu Sheng kneeled on the ground and continuously kowtowed towards the villagers, begging them to help them find Zhou Feng-er.

Seeing the two of them being so pitiful, the people around them also agreed.

"We'll look for it too."

My husband takes my hand.

"Why?" I wondered.

"If we don't look for him, we won't be able to sleep. It would only raise suspicions." He lowered his voice.

Unexpectedly, this search lasted for an entire night. It was naturally impossible for me and my husband to search for it. Instead, the cat lay behind the pile of straw in the field, staring at the stars for an entire night.

I wanted to sleep, but my husband didn't seem to feel sleepy at all. He didn't seem to notice my sleepiness and instead told me a lot of things.

However, there was one sentence that he remembered very clearly, because his reaction was rather big.

He asked, "Ling'er, if I died, would you be so indifferent?"

"I don't know." I answered honestly.

He suddenly stood up and pressed himself against me, his eyes staring into mine as if he were trying to see through me.

Perhaps it was because I was suppressed by him to the point where I couldn't even breathe, but I felt the atmosphere had become stifling.

In order to alleviate the situation, I narrowed my eyes and smiled at him. He seemed to be a bit disappointed as he hugged me tightly. "Ling'er, if it weren't for you, I would have died."

"Why?" I asked, puzzled.

He suddenly laughed. "This is good enough. At least you won't be sad."

"Ling'er, you probably don't have the heart …"

After saying this, he no longer spoke.

It was finally over. Looking at the already bright sky, I closed my eyes and fell asleep.

When I woke up, I was lying on the kang at home, warm and cozy.

At the side, his husband asked, "Are you hungry?"

Actually, I'm not hungry, but I haven't eaten since I woke up yesterday. I nodded anyway.

Her husband said guiltily, "I forgot about it yesterday as well."

He brought out food from the stove. For the first time ever, there were four dishes, chicken and fish. He took out a few pancakes and two bowls of rice porridge.

Initially, he wasn't really hungry. However, with him acting this way, it revealed how greedy I was. He sucked in a deep breath in front of the dishes and said, "Seems not bad."

"Hurry up and taste it, I made it!"

Husband handed me a pair of chopsticks worth of fish and fed it into my mouth. The moment this fish entered my mouth, it was so fresh and delicious that I couldn't help praising it.

He grinned.

"Is yesterday's matter finished?" As I ate, I asked about the day.

After all, my husband looked so abnormal yesterday. I still want to know what happens next.

"It's over."

As his husband spoke, he changed the topic.

Indeed, it was as her husband had said. Everything was over.

Without Zhou Feng`er, the house was much quieter. Many neighbors had also come to the He family.

However, there were some things that changed. First, my husband would bring me wherever he went from now on; second, all the household chores would fall to him; third, my unfortunate father-in-law, who had already been turned into his wife by the village, would not be able to continue playing the string anymore.

Seeing that my husband was busy at work, I couldn't bear to help him, so I wanted to help him out, but he was still unwilling to do so. However, since then, we didn't split up our family, after all, when Zhou Feng'e died, he felt that no one would make things difficult for me, and there would always be someone to take care of his family.

Spring passed and winter came. Every year, things went by extremely fast. Little days could be considered beautiful and peaceful.

I have also learned a lot of human skills, and sometimes I can guess some of their intentions, which makes me secretly happy.

20 was a hard time. After becoming an Elementary Scholar and then a High Scholar, he would soon become an official. This made his husband extremely happy. He had spent so much effort in the past few years for his family.

The weird thing is, my husband's hair is already a bit white. From time to time, he would ask me to help him pull it off, but I didn't …

Not only that, he touched my belly from time to time.

Seeing his strange actions, I found it funny. "What?"

"It's fine, it's fine. The two of them are pretty good."

From what he said, I understood that he wanted a child. After all, in the blink of an eye, many of the people who were with him were going to leave home in their early twenties, and the family would be much more lonely.

"It can't be that you can't give birth!"

I said deliberately.

"You!"

My husband is choked to the point that he is unable to speak. Yet, he pounced on me with an evil smile …

It was not until twenty that we learned that he had been hired to be an official in the county.

As soon as I heard this, I knew that my father would be angry and that he had spent all these years studying in order to make him famous and leave this little place. But wouldn't it be a waste of effort for him to come here?

Sure enough, as soon as the twenty voices fell, the male father was already so angry that he pounded his chest. He scolded: "Reverse!"

At this moment, 20 isn't the young man from back then. He is much more mature now, and he is quite happy. He raised his glass to me and my husband and said, "Thank you big brother, thank you sister-in-law for taking care of me all these years. I will do it for you at 20 first!"

After saying that, he raised his head and finished the wine in one gulp. Then, he stood up and said, "I have business to attend to. It's inconvenient for me to drink too much. See you later!"

When I saw his resolute back, I always felt that his words were quite different.

The Greatfather angrily scolded the twenty-year-old's back, "What an ingrate!"

After leaving, he no longer contacted us. Originally, I wanted to go with him to visit the county as well, but now it seems that I shouldn't stick my face to someone's cold butt and keep this matter buried deep in my heart.

In the end, it was an official from the village who came from all directions to congratulate me. Naturally, I had to greet him as well. Nineteen's idle chatter naturally could not be exchanged. All I could do was thank these villagers for their good intentions.

About half a year after he left, Official suddenly came to his house and said that he had sent twenty of them.

I hurried in and asked, "Is there any message?"

Official bowed to me and told me, "He Zhi County has asked me to send someone to invite Master over to the county, saying that I can't let my father suffer in this place."

"Oh."

I got up and called out to my father-in-law, told him everything, and when he heard, he just picked him up and went away, feeling very unhappy, and sat down in his chair and shouted, "This unfilial son! Back then, who was it that gave him access to the Imperial examinations! "

Official was only a messenger, so he didn't dare to say anything. He was at a loss on what to do.

"Ling'er, pack your things and call for nineteen more. Let's go together!"

"Father ~"

I softly called out. After all, if they don't want us to go, then we shouldn't go. Moreover, after recalling what happened back then, I felt a little sorry for the past 20 years. However, I didn't regret it.