Living like a widow? My rough neighbor is coaxing me to have a baby every night.

Chapter 92 How will Qin Rushan govern this good land of yours?

It was a woman's voice, sounding like Aunt Wang Qiao from the next street.

This person is like a human megaphone in the village; she can tell you how many litters of mice a family has.

Li Xianglian's heart tightened.

So early? Could it be that we made too much noise last night and people came to laugh at us?

In the courtyard, Qin Rushan had just put yesterday's clothes into a wooden basin when he heard a noise. He shook the soap off his hands, walked over with a sullen face, and unlatched the door.

The door opened a crack, and Wang Qiao's pale face squeezed in, her slanted eyes darting around, carrying an empty basket as a prop.

She followed him like she had entered a den of thieves, first scanning Qin Rushan's bare arms.

Her eyes lit up when she saw it.

On the man's broad shoulders, several fingernail marks were still swollen and red, looking quite impressive.

"Oh my, mountains!"

Wang Qiao tucked the empty basket under her armpit, her face beaming with laughter, "This energy and spirit... he's definitely a man who's just had his fill of something new. It's different, just different!"

Qin Rushan frowned, blocking the doorway and refusing to let her in: "Auntie, is something wrong so early in the morning?"

He never had a good look at these gossipy women, especially today, when his wife was still resting in the house and couldn't stand their teasing.

"Look at your face! Your auntie has come to congratulate you!"

Wang Qiao lifted the basket up a bit, "Look, these are freshly laid, warm eggs... (The basket was empty)"

"Oh, that's not important! Dashan, you were so busy with your fun inside last night that the world outside was in chaos, didn't you hear a thing?"

Qin Rushan didn't engage with that pretentious talk: "What is it?"

Last night, all his thoughts were on that beautiful jade beneath him; apart from his wife's cries for mercy, he couldn't hear a thing.

Wang Qiao slapped her thigh, her excited spittle almost spraying Qin Rushan's face: "My God! Our brigade's golden phoenix, that arrogant Liu Chunhua, got caught naked in the cornfield at the west end of the village last night!"

Qin Rushan took the towel draped over his shoulder and wiped his face without stopping: "So what if it's blocked? What does it have to do with me?"

He had no liking for Liu Chunhua at all. She always acted arrogantly, relying on her father being the Party Secretary, and looked down on everyone as if they owed her eight hundred strings of cash.

"What do you mean it's nothing! It's a huge deal!"

Wang Qiao stamped her feet anxiously, "Do you know who that man is? It's Li Laizi! That scoundrel covered in festering sores! Those two were rolling around in the mud like a ball, and Zhao Tieniu and the others saw them clearly with their flashlights!"

Qin Rushan paused in his hand-wiping motion.

Li Laizi? Liu Chunhua?

How could these two completely unrelated people end up in the same bed?

"Do you know what's even more amazing?"

Wang Qiao's mouth spouted like a machine gun, without stopping for a moment, "That Li Laizi confessed on the spot, saying that Liu Chunhua herself dragged him into the field, shouting your name! Shouting something like 'Brother Qin, I want you!' Tell me, isn't that insane?"

"Snapped!"

Qin Rushan slammed the towel in his hand onto the washstand, making the enamel mug on it vibrate loudly.

She was having an affair with Li Laizi while calling out his name?

What a damn bad luck!

That Liu Chunhua, she really won't let anyone have any peace, she's disgusting to the core!

"That's her own fault for being horny, don't drag me into it."

Qin Rushan spat and said fiercely, "If anyone dares to spread rumors outside and ruin my wife's ears, don't blame me for my fists not being discriminatory."

Wang Qiao shrank back in fright and chuckled dryly, "Of course! Everyone knows you're a respectable man. Last night you were cuddling your wife on your own kang (heated brick bed). Now the whole village is laughing at the Liu family, saying that Liu Baoguo always acts all high and mighty, but he raised a daughter who's even more despicable than a prostitute."

As she spoke, her thieving eyes darted towards the main room again: "Is Xianglian awake yet? I'll go talk to her. That Liu Chunhua used to bully Xianglian a lot, didn't she? This is what they call 'evil gets its comeuppance'!"

Qin Rushan originally wanted to send them away, but then he thought about it again.

Xianglian is too soft-hearted. She was bullied badly in the past, and she always feels uneasy.

Let her hear about the fate of this wicked person; it might make her feel better and let her know that she has someone to back her up in this family.

"He's inside." Qin Rushan stepped aside to make way for him. "Keep your mouth shut when you go in, don't let any swear words spill out."

"I know, I know!" Upon receiving the order, Wang Qiao, like a large, fluttering moth, grabbed her basket and headed straight for the main room.

Qin Rushan didn't even look at her, turned around and walked to the well to continue washing clothes.

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inside the house.

Li Xianglian was staring blankly with her face in her hands when Wang Qiao suddenly burst in. Startled, she quickly pulled the quilt over herself and wrapped herself up tightly.

"Oh my dear girl, stop hiding!"

Wang Qiao plopped down on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), their familiarity making it seem like they were long-lost sisters. "What are you hiding for? It's broad daylight and you're still huddled under the covers. You must have been exhausted last night!"

She slammed the basket down on the kang table, and her eyes immediately fell on Li Xianglian.

The young woman's exposed neck and collarbone were covered with dense red marks, clearly indicating that she had been severely injured.

"Tsk tsk tsk!"

Wang Qiao let out a series of meaningful sighs, sat cross-legged on the kang (a heated brick bed), and said, "You wouldn't believe it last night, not a single man in the village, young or old, slept! Their ears were perked up like antennas, just listening to how Qin Rushan was going to manage your good land!"

Li Xianglian, never having experienced anything like this before, blushed so deeply she could bleed, burying her head in the pillow: "Sister-in-law...you...please stop...it's so embarrassing..."

"What's there to be ashamed of! This is an incredible skill!" Wang Qiao slapped her thigh, spitting as she spoke.

"You have no idea, these old women in the village, they say you're indecent, but who knows how much they're secretly drooling over you! They're all wondering just how good Qin Rushan is, that he can make you cry and beg for mercy, even yelling 'I can't take it anymore!' Tsk tsk, that voice, you can hear it from two miles away, you really make us women proud!"

At this point, Wang Qiao grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds and cracked them open, spitting the shells all over the ground: "Those gossipy people who said Qin Rushan was no good before, they were blind! Last night's incident has shut the whole village up. Your good days are yet to come!"

Li Xianglian covered her face, feeling embarrassed, but a warm feeling welled up in her heart for no reason.

Seeing that she remained silent, Wang Qiao wiped the sunflower seed shells off her face, changed the subject, and couldn't hide the schadenfreude on her face: "But, sister, you're lucky. Someone else is really unlucky! Don't you want to know how Liu Chunhua got herself into trouble last night?"

Li Xianglian looked bewildered: "Liu Chunhua? What happened to her?"

Wang Qiao recounted the dramatic scene that unfolded in the cornfield last night, embellishing the story.

From Liu Chunhua's screams to Li Laizi's confession, the story was told in a way that was more exciting than a theatrical performance.

Li Xianglian was stunned.

Liu Chunhua, who usually wore a polyester shirt and walked with her chin held high, actually ended up with someone like Li Laizi...

"How could this be fake? Hundreds of eyes in the whole village saw it!"

Wang Qiao wore a gloating expression. "You didn't hear it? That idiot Erhan was yelling all over the village this morning, imitating Liu Chunhua's cries perfectly! I heard Liu Baoguo fainted several times from anger, and Liu Chunhua tried to hang herself in her house but was stopped. She's trying to kill herself right now!"