Chapter 254: Rainy Day

“You don’t know how to avoid people?” Lian Li snorted coldly. “The whole village now knows you don’t have any face!”

Madam Qiao agreed with this sentence deep in her heart.

“I regret it too! I shouldn’t have acted like that in front of all those people!” Madam Qiao finally felt regretful but immediately she gritted her teeth and said” “That’s why I said that this was all the design of that little bitch! She did it to hurt me!”

She looked at Lian Li anxiously: “Old man, you must think of a way to get revenge! I am really aggrieved in my heart!”

Lian Li looked at her and then closed his eyes in despair.

She is aggrieved! It is him that is really aggrieved!

Everything he had said before was for nothing! If it wasn’t for her terrible decisions, how could that little bitch succeed, even if she did set it all up?”

“Give me a break, don’t talk about it anymore! From now on, we will live our own lives and won’t provoke them anymore!” Lian Li twitched his mouth, gritted his teeth, and said: “Just let them die!”

He was not really reconciled. Such a bounty of wealth should have belong to him, he should have been in charge of the arrangement! How could he give up the opportunity in vain?

If he had known that that bitch had purposely set up the separation letters for such a day, he would not have stood for it and would have taken the initiative to raise them!

He really regretted it!

Madam Qiao was stunned. When she came back to her senses, she immediately opened her mouth but before she could say a word, she was stared at fiercely by Lian Li. He said coldly: “You remember this for me! Do you hear me? Do you dare repeat yourself? I’m being serious so don’t blame me for killing my relatives righteously!”

Madam Qiao shivered. In the past, many villages had occasionally invited entertainment troupes to come during holidays and give a few shows. She had listened to a few of them and understood what this meant.

“What kill?” Madam Qiao said angrily: “You want to kill me? You! You!” She was so furious she couldn’t finish speaking.

Kill her? He really dared to think this!

Lian Li felt that he was so mad he was about to commit suicide. “If you want to start trouble again, I will tie you with a rope and put you outside of the ancestral hall! Do you want to go?”

“…” Madam Qiao shuddered, her body stiff.

Lian Li hummed again, turned around, and went into the house.

Before evening, the sky gradually became gloomy and the wind pushed the clouds close. The dark grey color became heavier and heavier until the dense clouds covered the sky and it seemed if they would be crushed down.

It was going to rain.

This would be the first rain of early spring.

Although once it rained work would be delayed and the weather, which had just started warming up, would be cool again, everyone was looking forward to it.

When it rained, the soil became softer and spring would be closer.

That night, the rain came down heavily.

As soon as the sky had begun to change, the people working in the fields returned home one after another. At this time, most of them were looking at the curtains of rain through their doors and windows, talking, laughing, and gossiping.

The misty rain and wind outside made their houses feel warm and cozy.

At this time, Sun Zhang Xing and his family were in the wooden house on the mountain top.

Seeing the rain, Madam Sun’s mood was exceptionally comfortable and happy. Listening to the sound of the rain outside, she laughed a few times and turned to look at her husband, who was sitting in a corner, carefully wiping his bow and arrows. Lying at his feet was a lazy little yellow dog. She couldn’t restrain her excitement in her heart and said to her husband briskly: “Husband, it’s raining, it’s raining!”

Sun Zhang Xing’s hand paused where it had been wiping the bow and he raised his head to glance at her. “I know,” he said, “isn’t it just rain? What’s so good about it?”

Hearing him, her originally cheerful expression darkened and Madam Sun sighed softly, the joy from earlier gone.

She said in a low voice: “In the past, I was most afraid of rain. As soon as I saw those gloomy clouds, my heart would be pounding. But even if I was scared, it was useless to worry about it. If god wanted it to rain, it would rain! I could only hope that the rain would finish quickly and the sky would clear up so I could worry about the next rain…”

Sun Zhang Xing did not know when he had stopped wiping his bow. He only held it in one hand with the rag in the other, frozen.

He lifted his chin slightly and couldn’t help but listen to the sound of the rain outside.

He wouldn’t have remembered if his wife hadn’t said anything but, thought he had forgotten, didn’t he also used to hate the rain?

It was impossible to go hunting in the mountains on rainy days. The forests of Xianteng mountain were old and dense and the moisture was heavy. Even after the rain stopped, you would have to wait five or six days, sometimes even eight or nine, before you could go out again. During that time, he would have to make do with hunting in the hills where he’d be lucky to find one or two pheasants, far less than what he could get from the mountain.

There was also their shack. When it rained, it leaked everywhere. Water would drip all over the ground and become mud. Sometimes, when the rain was very heavy, even the small wooden bed would need a tub to catch the rainwater. They would have to pour it out every half an hour, unable to sleep at night.

“Husband.” Madam Sun’s eyes were wet as she blinked and smiled: “Look how good it is now! No matter how heavy the rain is outside, we can close the door and the room is warm and dry! You can do whatever you want without worry! How great it is! I’m not greedy, as long as we can have such a house of our own in the future, I will be satisfied!”

Sun Zhang Xing couldn’t help but feel a little guilty when he heard his wife’s words. He looked up at her, his mouth twitching as he smiled, and said: “Then we will! When our Ah Ming comes out, there should be some houses in the Gaofang compound!”

Madam Sun’s eyes lit up and the glow of her face carried the pride of being a mother. She smiled and nodded: “Ah Ming is sensible and filial! We will definitely be successful!”

“That’s true!” Sun Zhang Xing smiled emotionally. “Miss Lian is a good person. When Ah Ming is successful in the future, we should definitely repay her!”

“Does this need to be said?” Madam Sun laughed: “That is how it should be! We will give Miss a share in the future, no matter what we have! If it wasn’t for her, Ah Ming’s fate… look at what I’m saying! Ah Ming, this can be considered a blessing!”

While the couple was sighing with emotion, Lian Fang Zhou’s family was teasing the little wolf when they suddenly realized that it was time for Lian Che to returned from school but he hadn’t come back yet.

“Such a heavy rain, I’m afraid it won’t stop for a while!” Third Aunt frowned. She said to Lian Fang Zhou, “You should go pick him up!”

Lian Fang Zhou had also wondered this in her heart, but she also thought that there would be many more days like this in the future, should she pick him up every time?

“You stay home, let me go!” Ah Jian said: “I’ll take the donkey cart and bring him some dry clothes and a coat!”

“Brother Ah Jian, let me go!” Lian Ze stood up, smiling: “I can drive the cart by myself!”

He had grown up now and didn’t want his sister to treat him as a half-child, only doing his chores. If he let Ah Jian do something so trivial as picking up his brother from school, then he really was a useless person!

TN: I don’t have a beta, so if you guys see any spelling mistakes, please point them out, like if I wrote ‘limb’ instead of ‘limp’. I’m a fast typer and sometimes my brain puts a word in that definitely doesn’t belong and I don’t notice.