Chapter 253 The Sickly Cannon Fodder in the Period Literature 13
Chapter 253 The Sickly Cannon Fodder in the Period Literature 13
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Just when Yun's father stretched out his hand and was about to knock on the iron gate, the door suddenly opened.
Xu Xingzhou wore a jacket, revealing his muscular figure. His handsome face with a buzz cut was filled with a look of deep displeasure.
Father Yun was frightened by what he saw and quickly took a step back, looking him up and down with suspicion in his weathered eyes.
"You, you are Xu Xingzhou?"
"I'm."
Xu Xingzhou said unhappily. Father Yun straightened up when he heard it. He suppressed the fear in his heart and said arrogantly:
"I'm Xiaowu's father, your father-in-law. Is this how you talk to me?!"
"I only know that my wife said that she only has a brother and sister-in-law."
Xu Xingzhou said with a frown. He was tall and very imposing, but his stern face dampened much of Yun's father's arrogance.
"Wu girl!"
Father Yun noticed Yun Wu walking to Xu Xingzhou's side. She was still wearing a large tweed coat.
Father Yun showed a look of deep sorrow on his face, then frowned and looked at Yun Wu and blamed her:
"You didn't even discuss your decision to get married with me. What if you get cheated? And I haven't even seen a glimpse of the betrothal gift!"
Yun Wu's frail face showed an expression of "as expected". She knew that Father Yun was thinking about the betrothal gift.
"You promised me last time that from now on you have nothing to do with me and my brother. Getting married has nothing to do with you, let alone the betrothal gift."
Yun Wu's voice was weak, but her tone was exceptionally firm.
When Father Yun heard that look, he felt a little guilty, but he relied on his identity as Yun Wu's biological father.
"How can you talk to your father like that! I gave birth to you and raised you, and now that you're married and living a good life, you want to forget about me as your father, right?"
"When I was little, you thought I was troublesome and wanted to throw me away, but my aunt took me in and raised me. My brother spent all his salary on drinking for you over the years, and I have paid back all the debts I owe you."
Yun Wu's bright eyes seemed to still be sparkling with tears. Her mother had long since died of depression because her father Yun was always out fooling around.
"That day you took the money and signed the receipt. The document in black and white is still in my brother's house. I took it to the brigade as evidence a long time ago. If you insist on not giving up, we will go to the brigade to ask someone to judge the matter."
"Hey, you damn girl, how dare you talk to me like that!"
Knowing that he was in the wrong, Yun's father pretended not to hear anything and went crazy. He rolled up his sleeves and wanted to punch Yun Wu with a ferocious look on his face.
Yun Wu remembered that when she was a child, she was beaten by her father because she was often sick. Her eyelashes trembled twice and she clutched her coat tightly in fear.
As a result, before Yun's father could get close to him, Xu Xingzhou grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up.
"Hey! Let me go, let me go!"
Father Yun felt even more uncomfortable as his collar and neck were grabbed. Then Xu Xingzhou picked up his clothes and threw him to the ground in disgust.
"Ouch!"
Father Yun fell to the ground. Not only was his body hurt, but his face and clothes were also covered in mud.
"You bastard, you want to hit my wife in front of me!"
Xu Xingzhou stood in front of Yun Wu, his strong and muscular figure tightly protected.
He spoke foul language in front of Yun Wu without any hesitation, which really made Yun's father feel very unhappy.
Xu Xingzhou had vaguely heard Yun Qingshan mention that his wife had not had a good life when they were young, but fortunately she was later taken away by her kind widowed aunt.
"Hey, old man of the Yun family, I heard from Miss Wu that you signed and agreed not to care about their affairs anymore, so why are you still asking for a betrothal gift?"
An aunt who was woken up by Yun's father rubbed her eyes and said angrily.
"Yes! You drink and gamble every day, and now you have gambled away all your money, so you come to ask for money from your daughter whom you have neglected for several years!"
"They are a newlywed couple, please leave now and stop embarrassing yourself here!"
The accusations from the neighbors around him made Yun's father's face turn blue and red as he sat on the ground.
Father Yun raised his head in embarrassment. The man his daughter married was staring at him fiercely.
"Get out of here right now. If you stray again, I'll pick up my weapon and beat you up."
Xu Xingzhou said that his arms were full of strong muscles, and if he was hit with a stick, he would probably be half dead.
Father Yun staggered to his feet from the ground and ran away in a hurry.
The neighbors who were watching the scene dispersed upon seeing this, and since there was nothing exciting to watch, they all went home.
After Xu Xingzhou carefully closed the iron door, he turned around and saw Yun Wu and said apologetically:
"Let you see a joke..."
"You are my wife, your business is my business, there is nothing funny about it."
Xu Xingzhou said straightforwardly. He didn't feel anything in his heart, he just thought...
If her alcoholic father comes to visit again, he will have to use a handy weapon to give her a good beating to vent her anger.
After this incident, Yun Wu didn’t want to sleep anymore and immediately went back to the main room to change clothes.
When she changed out of her nightgown, she remembered that she had not washed the clothes she took off after taking a shower last night.
Because last night was her first night of marriage, she was very nervous. After putting on her pajamas, she put the clothes she wore during the day into a red basin beside her.
Fortunately, the weather is cool now, and clothes won’t get moldy if left overnight without washing. Yun Wu thought about washing the clothes quickly.
As a result, she had just come out of the main house when she saw Xu Xingzhou lifting a bucket of water up from the well in the yard and pouring it into a red basin on the ground.
In the basin were the clothes she had taken off last night.
"Let me wash it."
Yun Wu said hurriedly. Xu Xingzhou had already sat down on the small bench and looked up at Yun Wu, who had changed into autumn clothes.
"No, I'll do it."
Xu Xingzhou thought he was strong enough to wash things cleanly. He, a big man about 1.85 meters tall, sat on a small stool with a basin of women's clothes in front of him.
He rubbed the soap very skillfully, then put the clothes on the washboard and started scrubbing them.
"Then I'll go cook."
Yun Wu said a little embarrassedly that she used to wash her own clothes, but today she suddenly asked someone else to wash them, but that person was the man she was already married to.
But she remembered that few men in the village would take the initiative to wash clothes, and it was the aunts who were washing clothes on the bank of the small river near the village.
Since Xu Xingzhou was washing clothes, she might as well prepare breakfast.
When Yun Wu was about to go to the kitchen, Xu Xingzhou stopped washing the things he was washing. He rubbed the water in the basin twice and then fished out something.
"what is this?"
Yun Wu was stunned to see Xu Xingzhou holding a piece of bright red cloth with very little fabric...
That was what she brought back from the department store along with her nightgown. It was the most popular set of underwear in the city right now. It was nothing special, except that the style was very...
She was just embarrassed to be seen, so she hid it in her changed clothes.
Xu Xingzhou took it out and then realized what it was. It was a thin, slippery piece of cloth that felt particularly hot on his broad, bronze palm.
Compared to Yun Wu's blushing cheeks, Xu Xingzhou seemed much calmer.
He thought that he would have to let her dress nicely in the future.
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