"Li Youcai said, you knew I was going to the hospital for an abortion, and you spread it all over the village, wanting to kill me."
"When did I ever spread it all over the village?!" Yu Jingting kicked over a small stool in anger.
The stool fell in the mud, making a muffled noise.
"He’s spreading rumors, but you have a way of making people believe them."
Yu Jingting quieted for a few seconds, as he heard her indirectly criticizing him.
"Don’t be upset, I’m just stating the fact, you start smashing things as soon as there’s a problem and talk about fighting and killing within three sentences, once people find your weakness, they use this to spread rumors, nine out of ten would believe."
In Suizi’s previous life, she had believed too.
When she returned from the abortion, he was smashing things in the courtyard, after smashing things he went to the hospital to fight, someone told Suizi that he wanted to kill her, they had only been married for a month, she didn’t know much about him, only that he was an irritable fighter, so she fled in the middle of the night.
"Then why didn’t you believe it?" Yu Jingting held his breath, looking at the ground.
He is considering how to get to the Li Family, drag out Li Youcai, and beat him up.
"Firstly, I believe you wouldn’t do that. Secondly, Li Youcai’s words have loopholes. He said that everyone in the village knew, so why didn’t our mother know? No one in the village is more informed than her. There’s only one explanation, he lied."
None of these things happened in her previous life, nor did she have the opportunity to analyze them. After the abortion, her body was weak, her brain slow, only thinking about how to survive.
"How did you find out I was going to the hospital for an abortion yesterday?"
"At that time, I was fighting with someone—expressing my feelings, and I was about to win, when Old Wang Family’s grandson came to find me and said you were at the hospital having an abortion, I ran all the way there."
"Didn’t you find it strange? A kid who just started primary school, what does he know about losing a child? Judging by your reputation in the village, which child would dare approach you?"
"Must be an adult passing the message—you mean, Li Youcai used the child to pass the message?"
Suizi nodded.
"Looking at yesterday’s situation, only Lamei and Li Youcai in the village knew I was tricked into going to the hospital. I have reason to suspect that the two of them conspired to scheme against me."
"If I hadn’t woken up in time on the operating table, their vicious plan would have succeeded, your temper is so bad, you’d definitely have the hospital smashed, and Li Youcai’s words would reach me, maybe I would have run away."
"If you dare to run, I will break your legs!" Yu Jingting claimed angrily, a massive, unnamed rage brewing in his heart, not for Suizi, but for those two bastards.
"There you go again, trying to be quick with words. You obviously won’t do it, but you have to act like the boss. Li Youcai only analyzed you and me thoroughly, and then came up with this vicious plot."
Yu Jingting choked on his words.
When Suizi stopped trembling like a little white rabbit and calmly became a little black rabbit, her words were hard to refute.
As a cultured person, she always had reasoning, he couldn’t argue with her.
"Can I go and settle the score with Li Youcai now? Let him do such disgraceful things!"
Yu Jingting felt uncomfortable all over if he didn’t hit something.
He never suffered such a grievance before. His wife and child almost got taken away.
"I’ll get you a kitchen knife. He’s as weak as a chick, and you won’t even need three seconds to end the fight." Suizi bit off the thread she was using to darn the trousers, "Cut someone in less than three seconds, and you’ll spend the rest of your life in jail. I’ll bring our child to see you, let him remember it was you who got him in a position where he can’t become a civil servant, can’t join the army, can’t go into politics... "
"Why do you sound like Tang Seng in the storytelling? You keep nagging." Yu Jingting felt as if he had been put on a tight spell, the spell being in Suizi’s hands, and she kept nagging and nagging, it was irritating.
"You say this and that can’t be done, so what do you want me to do? Let him take my place and you go live with him?"
If she dared to think that, he’d pin her right there on the kang. He now realized that he had no way to deal with her except for using their bed to suppress her.
"I’m not an idiot, he’s a cunning, shameless, filthy, and treacherous villain, who’s been a freeloader for three generations. I didn’t want him in my last life, don’t want him in this life, and won’t in the next one either."
"Right! He’s no good!"
Yu Jingting again found her words pleasing to his ears. She was truly a cultured person, even her cursing was so elegant. But too much elegance was also annoying. Yu Jingting then organised a five-hundred-word critique on Li Youcai’s family, filtering out all the inappropriate words, leaving him with basically nothing to say.
After this long rant, Yu Jingting’s rage simmered a bit.
"So, what do you really want to do? You’re usually so quiet, but it seems like you’ve got plenty of clever tricks up your sleeve, just say it."
Suizi gave him a glance.
"I’m your wife, don’t keep calling me a young woman and such. Doesn’t it sound bad?"
"That’s how my dad used to call my mom when he was still alive." He didn’t think there was anything wrong with it, it sounded warm and fuzzy.
"I was wondering... do you have a way to ’communicate feelings’ with him? Don’t go overboard, just render him bedridden for ten days or half a month, don’t break his bones. Of course, I hope this ’communication of feelings’ is one-sided, don’t let him discover you."
She borrowed his words, ’communicate feelings’.
After digesting this long-winded statement, Yu Jingting realized, wasn’t this—
"You want me to hit him when he’s not looking?!"
Suizi gave a quiet nod.
Yu Jingting laughed, he pulled Suizi into his arms and kissed her fervently.
"Afraid for me?"
"Not at all, I’m afraid that if the child’s father has a criminal record, he won’t be able to—"
"Okay okay, darling, you’re right, I’ll do as you say, your little mouth today is so kisssable~"
He’s not satisfied with just a few more kisses.
When Wang Cuihua returned, she saw her son dressed only in cotton trousers, fooling around with her daughter-in-law.
"You little scoundrels, I’ve told you that a woman can’t be with a man in the first two months of pregnancy. Take care of my little grandchild!"
Yu Jingting pulled on the trousers that Suizi had mended and winked at Suizi.
"Just stew the ribs at home, when the ribs are ready, I’ll be back."
"You’re going now?" Suizi, being a good girl, was encouraging someone to do a bad thing for the first time, was it appropriate to do this in broad daylight?
"Don’t worry, he’s not capable of getting anything on me."
"What are you two talking about in riddles? What mischief is this kid up to?" Wang Cuihua was confused.
Suizi smiled and went to stew the ribs after putting away the needle and thread.
Li Youcai truly deserved the beating he got.
She had originally planned to let him do as he wished in the previous life, allowing him to commit errors as an accountant and get thrown in jail. Once he was out, Suizi didn’t want to have anything to do with him and planned on avoiding him.
But Li Youcai’s reaction was too strange, which made Suizi want to test him.
If the results turned out as she had guessed, imprisoning him for a few years was surely not enough.
How to find out what Li Youcai was up to? Yu Jingting beating him up would reveal it right away.