Chapter 72.1

Translated by Aviana

Hi Guys!

Hope you all are safe and healthy! Sorry for the two weeks sudden hiatus. After exams, I became an intern and was barely manage to keep my work up. It took me quite a while to get everything on track. As an apology for the due chapters, I am releasing few chapters at a time. Thank you for patiently waiting for me.

Enjoy reading!

*****

Lin Qingwan spent her days leisurely while raising her fetus and teaching Yang Tiezhu how to read and write simultaneously. On the third branch’s side, contrarily, Yang-shi and the third branch’s couple were so busy that their feet barely touched the ground. They were busy making laweixian and salted peanuts and then delivering them to the restaurants in the town. Simultaneously they also had to sow seeds in Yang-shi’s share of land.

Though Xia Dacheng’s injuries had healed, going to work in the fields was nevertheless somewhat difficult. Yang-shi’s family had only two women and two kids around ten years old. Doing the work in the fields simply proved challenging for them.

With no other way, the third branch’s husband and wife had been helping Yang-shi for the past two days.

However, their help wasn’t much. The couple took all the work related to making Laweixian on their shoulders. And would go to help in the fields every two to three days. Firstly, Yang-shi didn’t let them help them in the fields. Secondly, they were afraid that Yang laoyezi might have other thoughts after seeing them do so. Yang-shi was sort of a person who had to do everything correctly. Even though the work might be exhausting and toiling, she would never do something which would invite criticism from others behind her back.

On He-shi’s side, He-shi began preparing for Yang Xuezhang’s marriage. Past few days, she had been bustling in and out of the house, completely different from her indolent appearance at Yang Tiezhu’s marriage.

Lin Qingwan’s days were quite systematic. Once in a while, she would cook. Nevertheless, most of the cooking was actually done by Yao-shi. After eating, she would go on walks. Lin Qingwan was distinctly aware that the medical technology here wasn’t much developed. Yang-shi had also previously explained to her to exercise control over the quantity she ate and move about more, enabling her to give birth more easily later on.

Though Lin Qingwan had never experienced giving birth, she still had a slight impression of it. Understanding that Yang-shi was saying for her sake, she bore Yang-shi’s words in her mind. Along with Yang Tiezhu she would make sure to have a walk on a daily basis.

This day, after lunch, Lun Qingwan took out a nap and called Yang Tiezhu to go on a stroll.

Yang Tiezhu knew it was his wife’s daily habit, so he put on his clothes and helped his wife out.

They strolled on the village trail. Few villagers who were aware of Tiezhu’s little wife’s recent habit, nodded their heads in greeting when they saw Lin Qingwan. Occasionally, every two or three villagers would exchange a few words with them.

After strolling for a while, they came across a married woman with a grey-coloured kerchief wrapped around her head. That woman was dressed in old and worn-out clothes and had her head lowered as she walked. Only when she was a few steps away from the two did the woman react and raise her head.

When the woman glanced at them, she seemed to be astonished. Her lips quivered, and her eyes were welled up with tears.

Yang Tiezhu’s expression also seemed to be complicated.

Lin Qingwan glanced at them, a little speechless…

This couldn’t be her man’s former relationship, could it? One can’t blame Lin Qingwan for being so melodramatic. These two people’s expressions simply made one’s thoughts go awry.

As such thoughts arose in her heart, Lin Qingwan felt her breath become agitated and pinched his arm.

Only then did Yang Tiezhu return to his senses. Simply ignoring him, Lin Qingwan turned around and left. Her steps were heavy, and strides were big, exuding angry aura.

Yang Tiezhu didn’t care about these complex feelings anymore and dashed to his wife’s side to help her walk.

Lin Qingwan refused his touch and walked straight after flinging his hand away. Dreading that she might fall down if any big movements happened, he quickly put his arm around her back, a few inches away, without touching her.

“Wanwan, what happened?” Yang Tiezhu’s brows were beaded with sweat, unaware of what had happened to his wife.

Lin Qingwan turned her face towards him. Ever since her pregnancy, her face complexion had become even fair, plump, and smooth-skinned. Her pair of eyes, which usually used to be filled with smiles, had now become red.

“You are still asking me this? I was standing just beside you, yet you began ogling at some other woman ….” With a choked voice, tears began to trickle down as she spoke.

Lin Qingwan herself was unaware of why she was behaving in such a manner. Anyway, she wanted to cry out, for she felt melancholic in her heart.

Seeing that he had made his wife cry, Yang Tiezhu swiftly began coaxing her, “Wife, I wasn’t ogling at another married woman. I just happened to bump into an acquaintance. Don’t dwell on it much, alright. I truly didn’t mean that way, ah. “

The more Lin Qingwan thought about it, the more she detested it. She furiously wiped her tears, turned her head away, and walked back.

Yang Tiezhu wanted to stop her but was scared that he might injure his wife if he pulled her. He could only put his arm behind her as protection, Beaded with sweat, appearing extremely comical.

While on the other hand, the married woman behind them swallowed the words ‘Elder Brother Tiezhu’ that were about to spill out from her lips. As she glanced at the distant silhouettes of the two people, her tears trickled like rain.

After returning to the house, Lin Qingwan flung her shoes away, got onto the kang, reclined down facing the inner side, and wrapped herself tightly with a quilt.

Yang Tiezhu bent by the kang and called her name a few times but received no response from her.

Yang Tiezhu breathed out a sigh and sat on the kang with his head lowered down. From time to time, he would turn his head and glance at his sulking wife. But the more he looked, the more he felt something was wrong. Why was the quilt continuously shaking?

Alarmed, he quickly flicked aside the quilt covering his wife. When the quilt was pushed away, his wife’s face streaked with tears with closed eyes came into his sight.

Suddenly, Yang Tiezhu had an urge to thrash himself to death. Using his one arm, he quickly pulled her into his embrace.

Read only at Travis Translations