Joyful Motherhood in a Rural Family

Chapter 56:  Chapter 53: The Apricot Blossoms Beyond the Wall

Translator: 549690339

“Ah! Ah, come here, Sisi, come quickly! Sisi–”

The man yelled her name as if he was afraid others wouldn’t hear him.

Liu Sisi glared at him, no matter who he was, climbing over the wall to find someone else’s daughter-in-law was definitely a playboy.

She hurriedly turned her head and saw Ms. Wang poking her head out in this direction.

Biting her teeth, she quickly bent down to grab a handful of mud from the ground and threw it with all her might at the fence where the man was.

At the same time, she cursed non-stop: “Where did this playboy come from? Don’t you know that you have to go through the main entrance when visiting others? Sneaking around on someone else’s courtyard wall is clearly up to no good! Get lost! What nonsense, pah!”

“Ouch!”

A chunk of mud hit the man’s forehead. With his painful scream, the figure rolled off the wall, followed by a thud, obviously falling outside the fence.

Perhaps Liu Sisi’s scolding deterred him, and the man did not show his face again.

“Wow, Third Sister-in-law, there’s a handsome young man spying on you from the wall! He looks familiar, won’t you go out and greet him? Haha…”

Ms. Wang mocked, her lean face with a monkey-like expression and feigned laughter put on a girl’s disguise, making her look creepy.

The words reminded Liu Sisi of what happened last night, and her face turned pale.

“Second Sister-in-law, you can joke about eating, but you must be careful what you say! Aren’t you the second sister-in-law to Sisi? How can you be like a gossiping woman, slandering Sisi’s innocence? Which eye saw that he is an old acquaintance of mine? Which eye saw me involved with someone else? Shameless words, what exactly are you plotting?”

Liu Sisi, having held her anger, naturally spoke without reserve.

Ms. Wang’s smiling face faded, and she almost tore the handkerchief in her hand. “What are you talking about, Third Sister-in-law? What am I plotting? I clearly saw him calling you from the wall of your house! Are you still trying to deny it?”

“Hmph! If Sisi remembers correctly, this is quite a coincidence! Second Sister-in-law ‘you’ and ‘he’, one each on opposite walls calling me simultaneously! To those who know them, it’s a coincidence. But to those who don’t, they might think… Ha! Now that’s a joke! Second Sister-in-law, isn’t that what Sisi just said?” Liu Sisi emphasized the pronouns ‘you’ and ‘he’ when speaking.

Ms. Wang’s face changed instantly after what Liu Sisi said!

She had intended to humiliate Liu Sisi, but inadvertently implicated herself. At the moment, she was no longer concerned with anything, but eager to clear her name.

“What do you mean by that? Liu Sisi, you better clarify that! Don’t you dare falsely accuse me of anything! Don’t think I’m easy to bully because I’m old…”

Before Liu Sisi could speak, a furious voice came from behind her, startling both of them!

“Who’s old mother are you?”

Liu Sisi quickly turned her head to see Di Yelei standing at the corner of the eaves. His tall figure made the corner seem even lower. The storm was brewing in his pair of black eyes above that expressionless face.

How long has he been here? How much did he hear of the conversation? Did he recognize the man who was climbing the wall just now?

An inexplicable sense of guilt rose in Liu Sisi’s heart.

He came to Liu Sisi’s side, looked her up and down, and saw nothing unusual. Then he raised his head to look at Ms. Wang outside the fence.

“Second Sister-in-law, who’s old mother are you? Why don’t you tell us! And it seems you’ve forgotten about the written proof from last time, haven’t you?”

As soon as Di Yelei appeared, Ms. Wang’s face turned pale.

At the moment, being questioned by Di Yelei, Ms. Wang was so frightened that she nearly jumped up.

“I… I misspoke, misspoke! I’m leaving now, leaving now…”

Ms. Wang was notoriously rash, but she was instinctively afraid of Third Brother, especially when he was angry, she wanted to avoid him subconsciously.

Watching Ms. Wang run far away, Di Yelei turned back and looked deeply at Liu Sisi, not saying a word, just reaching up and taking down the several pieces of meat hanging under the eaves, then carried them into the room.

Could he really know the person who was just peeping over the wall?

This idea crossed Liu Sisi’s mind for no reason, followed by a wave of annoyance. She didn’t know the person at all, and it was unbearable to be so blind.

Looking at the discarded organs by Di Yelei, Liu Sisi went back to her room to fetch scissors and tidy them up. She kept the heart and liver, stuffed the intestines with pumpkin leaves, cleaned them several times to remove the dirt, then rinsed them with clear water, filling a full big ocean bowl.

She carried the bowl into the kitchen and found Di Yelei sitting in front of the stove in a daze, with steam bubbling from the pot and the smell of meat wafting from it. The firelight in the stove flickered on his resolute face, making it even more angular.

Seemingly noticing Liu Sisi coming in, he looked up in surprise at the big bowl in her hand, but didn’t say much in the end.

Sisi scooped water to clean the organs again, while secretly watching the expression on Yelei’s face.

Waiting until she had washed them and then rubbed them with salt and set them aside, she finally looked up at him.

“Di Yelei, do you know the man who was just peeping over our wall? I don’t know him, and that playboy kept waving at me, so I deliberately grabbed some mud and threw it at him…”

“You don’t know him?”

Di Yelei suddenly looked up and asked, obviously very surprised!

“Ah! What’s wrong? Am I supposed to know him?”

Even though Liu Sisi’s original self definitely knew the man, she herself naturally didn’t, and she wasn’t going to admit it: “You know I’ve forgotten everything that happened before, I don’t even remember what my own parents look like, how could I know him?”

Looking at Liu Sisi’s bewildered expression, Di Yelei’s tense face relaxed, and suddenly loosened!

“It’s good that you’ve forgotten, if you’ve forgotten, don’t worry about him, he’s not an important person anyway. You just need to remember, if he dares to come again next time, just deal with him like today.”

“Although I don’t know him, but I have a feeling that I used to know him?”

Liu Sisi narrowed her eyes subconsciously. Who on earth was this person?

Why was Di Yelei hiding it from her?

“No matter who this person is, he knows that you’re my Di Yelei’s wife but still dares to be so arrogant, so he should be prepared to face the consequences!”

“But… ”

Although she said so, she didn’t know what felt strange. Liu Sisi couldn’t figure it out.

Di Yelei’s tough facial lines grew even more rigid: “There’s nothing to say! Don’t be fooled by his hypocritical appearance, that toy boy-looking face has deceived so many virtuous women…”

Really? He could have come up with a better excuse.

Liu Sisi squinted her eyes. She didn’t expect Di Yelei, a man like him, to be a gossiping woman, talking about people behind their back. This change had really taken her by surprise!