The Abandoned Wife’s Rebirth - Chap 132
Click here for content warningsExplicit Chinese mother nagging
In order to let Hei Xuanyi see her most beautiful side, Wu Yuxue put on a smile that she felt was her most beautiful and walked over to Wu Ruo and Hei Xuanyi: “Xiao-Ruo, Xuanyi, are you two going to compete with theGuiclanspeople?”
Hei Xuanyi tugged on Wu Ruo’s hand straight away and said: “Let’s go back for our meal.”
“Hn.” Previously, when they had visited the Wu estate, Wu Ruo had already achieved his goal. Now, there was no need to bother with Wu Yuxue anymore.
Wu Yuxue, who had been ignored, froze where she stood. She was so infuriated that the make-up on her face developed cracks.
Zhi Tao carefully called out to her: “Young Mistress?”
Wu Yuxue glared at her, boiling with fury, then entered the city together with Wu Ruo and Hei Xuanyi.
On the main street, there were throngs of people coming and going; it was extremely crowded.
At this moment, over a hundredGuiclanspeople marched over, chins raised, with intimidating auras.
Wu Ruo intuitively felt that this group ofGuiclanspeople were here to find trouble with them, because their gazes kept passing over him and Hei Xuanyi.
Hei Xuanyi threw a side glance at this group ofGuiclanspeople and pulled Wu Ruo into his arms.
Wu Yuxue and Zhi Tao, who were walking behind them, looked at each other and grinned.
When they were still half azhangaway from Hei Xuanyi, suddenly, theGuiclanspeople rushed towards Hei Xuanyi and Wu Ruo.
Without a change in his expression, Hei Xuanyi picked Wu Ruo up and retreated back by a step. When they were almost about to bump into Wu Yuxue, who was behind them, Hei Xuanyi suddenly jumped up and stepped onto Wu Yuxue’s beautiful face, using her as a springboard to fly up to the rooftops, quickly leaving this place.
Without being able to guard against this, Wu Yuxue took that heavy step to the face and brutally crashed to the ground.
On top of that, theGuiclanspeople who were rushing over weren’t able to stop themselves in time; they stomped over Wu Yuxue quite a few times consecutively. It was so painful that Wu Yuxue howled loudly.
When Zhi Tao saw this, she shrieked and pushed away theGuiclanspeople who were stepping all over Wu Yuxue: “Young Mistress, Young Mistress, are you alright?”
The bodyguards around her hurriedly pushed away theGuiclanspeople and helped Wu Yuxue to her feet.
At this moment, Wu Yuxue was covered in dirty footprints all over her body. The one footprint on her face stood out in particular, and her hair had also become very messy. The rare pearls and ornaments in her hair were all hanging crookedly; the entire image made her seem like a crazy woman.
“Screw off! All you damned freeloaders, screw off!” Wu Yuxue endured the pain from her face and her body, shoving away the bodyguards around her in anger. She looked towards the direction that Hei Xuanyi had been standing in: “Where is he? Where have Hei Xuanyi and Wu Ruo both gone?”
Zhi Tao looked around in every direction but didn’t see a trace of them: “Young Mistress, they’ve disappeared.”
Wu Yuxue said furiously: “All of you freeloaders! Go after them, quick!”
“Yes, miss!” The bodyguards turned around, but they were blocked from leaving by the hundred overGuiclanspeople.
Zhi Tao hurriedly shielded Wu Yuxue behind herself, looking at theGuiclanspeople warily: “What are all of you trying to do?”
The leader of those hundred overGuiclanspeople said: “We agreed that after the matter was done, you would give us the other half of the money. Where’s the money?”
Zhi Tao said exasperatedly: “We already agreed that the rest of the money would be given after the matter was done, but have you done what we agreed upon? We told you to separate the two of them, but where are they now? Where are those two? Have they been separated? Let alone separating them, you’ve even made us lose them. How could we possibly give you the rest of the money?”
The leader of theGuiclanspeople said angrily: “Are you refusing to pay us?”
“How can it be called refusing to pay you? It’s clear that all of you were the ones who didn’t do what you promised to.”
The leader of theGuiclanspeople snorted coldly: “In any case, we have already done as you instructed us to. If you don’t give us the other half of the money, then don’t think about leaving this place.”
This was their territory, so naturally what they said was what counted.
The otherGuiclanspeople immediately surrounded Wu Yuxue and her people.
Wu Yuxue’s lungs were almost about to explode from how angry she was: “Zhi Tao! Give them the money!”
The other party had over a hundred people, whereas they only had a few dozen people. Of course there was no chance of winning. Not only that, this was theGuiclan. If they started fighting here, they wouldn’t have any home ground advantages.
“Yes, Young Mistress.” Zhi Tao unwilling took out a pouch of money and handed it to theGui.
The leader of theGuiclanspeople counted the money. Once the amount was correct, he took his people with him and left.
Mad with fury, Wu Yuxue shoved away the bodyguards next to her and wanted to go looking for Hei Xuanyi. It was then that she saw Yao Yiru and the other young mistresses standing not too far off, looking as though they were laughing at her as they watched the situation unfold.
Wu Yuxue, who had never been embarrassed to such an extent before, seethed: “What are you looking at!”
Yao Yiru said mockingly: “If you weren’t looking at us, how would you know we were looking at you? Besides, we weren’t looking at you. We were looking at a crazy woman who is as dirty as a beggar.”
Wu Yuxue, who had never been so humiliated by others before, was incensed. She no longer cared that their families were supposed to be on good terms with each other and directly commanded her bodyguard: “Teach them a good lesson!”
“Bring it on, who’s afraid of you!” Yao Yiru also commanded her guards to join the fray, however, she had only brought four bodyguards. The bright side was that Wu Yuxue even went after the young mistresses of the Zhang, Song and Shang family. It was clear to see that Wu Yuxue had been angered to her limit.
The Shang family’s young mistress had never thought that Wu Yuxue would lift a hand against her; she said angrily: “Wu Yuxue, you’ve gone mad!”
Recently, nothing had gone right for Wu Yuxue so she vented all her frustration onto them: “I have gone mad indeed. Since I’ve gone mad, then I have to do the things that mad people do.”
She took off the whip that hung at her waist and brandished it directly at Yao Yiru.
Yao Yiru didn’t hold back either, drawing herjianfrom her sleeve. She started fighting with Wu Yuxue.
Zhi Tao hurriedly spoke up: “Young mistresses, us humans have an agreement with theGuiclan! We cannot cause trouble within theGuiclan, otherwise theGuisoldiers from theGuiclan will come and arrest us!”
Everyone was in the throes of fury, who would possibly pay attention to what she was saying? In an instant, the entire main street was a chaotic mess. All kinds of magical weapons were flying around in the air. Everyone was employing the magical techniques they were all best at to deal with the other party. In just the short duration of half a joss stick’s time, they had destroyed many roadside stalls and buildings. All of theGuiclan commoners had run away, hiding themselves.
Not long after, someone shouted: “TheGuisoldiers have arrived, theGuisoldiers have arrived!”
“Young Mistress, let’s leave quick! It’ll be terrible if you get arrested by theGuisoldiers!” Zhi Tao hurriedly pulled Wu Yuxue away, dodging an attack from Yao Yiru, and turned around to run away. At the same time, they heard Yao Yiru letting out a shrill shriek: “Ah! My face! My face!”
Wu Yuxue and Zhi Tao were worried about getting arrested, and couldn’t be bothered to go take a look at what had happened. They hurriedly ran out of the city, boarded their carriage and left theGuiclan, returning to the estate that the Huangdu City Wu family lived in.
They had just entered their courtyard when they ran right into Shang Zhirong who had been waiting for them to come back the entire time.
When Shang Zhirong saw that her daughter had returned, dirty all over, she was very distressed: “Xue-er, what happened to you? How did you get yourself into such an awful state? Have you gotten injured? Shall I call the physician over to take a look at you?”
Wu Yuxue was feeling very irritable, she really had no mood to entertain her mother: “I’m fine.”
Shang Zhirong looked toward Zhi Tao: “You tell me, what happened to Young Mistress?”
Zhi Tao didn’t dare to tell the truth about Wu Yuxue’s awful state, so she said haltingly: “Just now, Young Mistress and Miss Yao Yiru got into a fight.”
“What? That stupid girl! How dare she retaliate!” Shang Zhirong was furious: “Then why didn’t you help Xue-erdeal with her?”
Wu Yuxue was already in a bad mood; when she heard Shang Zhirong making such a big fuss, her mood became even more irritable: “Mum, just let it go. I want to have some peace and quiet.”
Shang Zhirong had never cared about what Wu Yuxue wanted: “How can I just let it go? It wasn’t easy for your grandfather to soften up and let you go outside, but look what you’ve gone and done! The moment you go out, you go after that man with the surname Hei! If he had power and status, then it wouldn’t be that bad. But other than being a little more handsome than others and being a little rich, in what other aspects does he suit you? Not to mention, he even married a male wife! If you marry into his family, would you be able to have a good life? Xue-er,I painstakingly raised you, feeding you delicacies of all kinds and dressing you in the best silks and satins, in the hopes that you would be able to have a good marriage in the future. It was not for you to cheapen yourself in this manner! Xue-er,listen to your mum, if you want to marry someone, you must marry someone with a good family background, only then can you have riches and wealth for your whole life.”
In her heart, Wu Yuxue had already decided on Hei Xuanyi. Naturally, she wouldn’t allow others to criticize Hei Xuanyi, even if it was her own mother, she wouldn’t allow it: “Mum, I only like him. I like everything about him. In my eyes, he’s the best. In any case, I fell for him the first time I saw him. In this lifetime, I won’t marry anyone else but him.”
“You…!” Shang Zhirong was angered half to death, but she still couldn’t bear to use harsh words on Wu Yuxue. After all, this daughter of hers had grown up being coddled in the palm of Shang Zhirong’s hand since she was little.
The person Shang Zhirong was most angry with was Wu Chenzi, who actually let Wu Yuxue fool around like that. However, Wu Chenzi really did dote on Wu Yuxue to the depths of his heart.
In the Wu estate, everyone revered Wu Chenzi. No one dared to behave rashly in front of Wu Chenzi, even his own biological children treated him with the utmost respect. It was only Wu Yuxue who dared to act like a spoiled child and throw little tantrums at Wu Chenzi. This was unusually intimate for Wu Chenzi and it was something that he had never experienced before. It was also because of this that Wu Chenzi would especially dote on Wu Yuxue, letting her have her way all the time.
Wu Yuxue grabbed onto Shang Zhirong’s sleeve and said: “Mum, your daughter has never begged you for anything since I was a child. Now, your daughter is begging you to let her make the call regarding her own marriage.”
“…” Shang Zhirong had really never seen her daughter lowering herself like that before, so when she saw her daughter behaving like this, she felt especially distressed. She couldn’t help softening up in her heart. At this moment, the head steward hastily ran into the room: “Bad news, Madam! Something has gone terribly wrong!”
Just as things were heating up in the Wu estate, Wu Ruo was currently happily eating lunch with his family members at theGuiclan’s inn. After their meal, Wu Ruo and Hei Xuanyi went to the medicine shop to choose a few herbs that could heal the injuries ofGuiclanspeople to bring home and refine themselves. They only boarded their horse carriage to leave theGuiclan and return to Huangdu City atshenshi. At this timing, other than human practitioners, there wereYao,GuiandMoclan practitioners walking about on the main street. For peole who had never seen such a scene before, it was extremely novel.
Wu Xi looked out the window and said: “This place is about to become the territory of all manner of practitioners.”
TheYao,GuiandMoclanspeople on the street outnumbered the human practitioners.
Nu Mu smiled and said: “I heard that after night falls, the people of theGui,YaoandMoclans will host a dinner party on the outskirts of the city. IfXiao-Xi is interested, you can go and take a look.”
Wu Xi said curiously: “What kind of dinner party will it be?”
Hei Xuanyi explained briefly: “They will host a bonfire dance and dinner party outside the city. The people of the three other clans will surround the fire pit and dance the folk dances of their clans. It’ll be extremely crowded at the scene. On top of that, a lot of humans will also participate.”
Wu Xi’s interest was piqued: “Then will all of you go?”
“I’ll go!” Hei Xuantang loved crowds the most, so how could he miss out?
Nu Mu smiled and said: “We Miaojiang Wu clanspeople love bonfire dances the most. If there’s this sort of dinner party, we will defiinitely go.”
“Sishu, I want to go too!” Dandan excitedly pulled on Hei Xuantang’s sleeve.
Hei Xuantang pinched his little face good-naturedly: “Of course we can’t leave you out.”
Wu Xi looked at Wu Qianqing: “Dad, Mum, will you go?”
Wu Qianqing and Guan Tong preferred peace and quiet, so they shook their heads no: “All of you should go ahead. We won’t join in on the fun this time.”
Wu Xi looked at Wu Ruo: “Erge, what about you two?”
“We’ll go.” Wu Ruo wasn’t interested in the bonfire dances, however, he wanted to go and experience the atmosphere of the crowd.
“Then we’ll return to the manor first and have a meal before we go.”
After they had arrived at Hei Manor and had dinner, it was just beginning to turn dark. Everyone headed to the outskirts of the city together. This time around, Nu Mu brought his fellow clanspeople together with him. They all wore the resplendant clothing and accessories of the Miaojiang Wu clan. As they walked along the road, their bodies emitted melodious ringing noises which Wu Xi liked very much.
Before they had even exited the city, they could see that everything outside the city was washed red as though the grasslands were burning on fire. Half the sky was shining a bright red. After they exited the city, many different kinds of songs spread to their ears. When they arrived at the place that was hosting the dinner party, they were shocked by the crowded scene. No matter if it was in the nooks and crannies or the skies, there were hoards of people as many as the mountains and seas. People of all the four clans were mixed into one massive crowd, chatting with each other, exchanging interesting news and incidences about their respective clans.
Nu Mu led his fellow clanspeople directly to the bonfire to dance. Wu Xi, Hei Xuantang, Hei Gan, Hei Xin, and Dandan went to roast meat. Wu Ruo and Hei Xuanyi stayed in their spots, watching all manner of practitioners dancing around the fire pit. Their mood couldn’t help but be influenced by the atmosphere, making them feel happy and excited.
Wu Ruo held onto Hei Xuanyi’s hand and walked towards the riverside: “Let’s go, let’s row a boat!”
Hei Xuanyi let Wu Ruo drag him to where he wanted to go.
When they arrived at the riverside, Wu Ruo rented a small boat. After that, he and Hei Xuanyi laid down in the center of the little boat, allowing the little boat to float along with the current of the river.
There were a lot of people rowing boats in the river, but the majority of them were humans who preferred the quiet. As such, the atmosphere at the river was extremely tranquil.
Suddenly, Wu Ruo giggled aloud.
Hei Xuanyi turned his head to look at Wu Ruo: “What are you laughing at?”
Wu Ruo turned onto his side: “I just suddenly thought of you stepping on Wu Yuxue’s face today. It definitely must have pissed Wu Yuxue half to death. Did you do it on purpose at the time?”
Hei Xuanyi didn’t deny it: “Hn.”
If it wasn’t because Wu Yuxue still had some use for Wu Ruo, he would’ve stomped her to death on the spot.
“I never thought you would also have such a mean side.” Wu Ruo turned back to lie flat on his back, looking at the moon and the stars in the sky: “I used to like lying on a small boat like this to look at the night’s starry sky the most. This kind of feeling is really very good; it’s quiet and you can enjoy the view.”
“Won’t the little boat sink?” Hei Xuanyi’s sudden words made Wu Ruo stunned for quite some time before he understood what they meant. He was so irritated that he slapped Hei Xuanyi’s chest: “Hei Xuanyi, can you not spoil the mood!”
He was talking about his previous lifetime, not about when he was still a big fatty.
Hei Xuanyi’s lips curled up and he pulled the other person into his arms: “In the future, I’ll accompany you.”
“That’s more like it.” Wu Ruo hugged his waist: “Hei Xuanyi, let me ask you something.”
“Hn?”
“You know, too, that our Wu family practices going for experience training when we turn 20. If I go for experience training, then what plans will you make?” Wu Ruo asked him this because he suddenly thought of when he’d gone for experience training in his previous lifetime. Often, when he ran into dangerous situations, they would inexplicably clear up by themselves.
Hei Xuanyi said without stopping to think: “I’ll secretly follow behind you.”
Just as he said this, abruptly, Wu Ruo got up and climbed on top of him.
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