Chapter 121: Chapter 121 Washing Clothes
At dawn, Xuexue got up early to wash up before heading to the river to wash the clothes.
Groggy and yawning, she got dressed and shuffled towards the door.
Suddenly, she stumbled over something at her feet, nearly tumbling over…
Xuexue couldn’t help but exclaim. She remembered the direction towards the door was clear, always free of any clutter. What was going on? She quickly rubbed her eyes and took a clearer look—she had kicked a person! Startled, she hadn’t realized anyone was in her room. She quickly bent down and carefully approached, parting the long hair from the person’s face…
Big Bull, having been kicked by Xuexue, woke up. He opened his seductive, peach blossom eyes and said lazily, “My lady, good morning!”
“You… why are you sleeping here?” Xuexue’s eyes widened in shock. She had clearly seen Big Bull return to his own room last night. How had he ended up in her room by morning? And to be sleeping on the floor—it was winter, just the thought of lying on the cold floor was painfully chilling.
“I… I’m afraid of the dark,” he admitted.
Remembering what Xuexue had said the previous night, Big Bull seemed to realize his mistake, his voice slightly lacking in strength.
“Aren’t you cold?” she asked, squatting down and taking his icy hand with concern.
“Not cold, I spread some corn stalks on the ground,” Big Bull pointed to the row of corn stalks on the ground where he had slept the night before.
“You’re such a fool, with a room available, why come here to sleep on the floor and suffer?”
“My lady, are you angry?” he asked very cautiously.
“I’m not angry. It’s you who are cold, not me. Just don’t let my mother see this. If she finds out you’ve been sleeping in my room, she will definitely throw you out.”
Upon hearing this, Big Bull was startled and quickly covered his mouth: “I won’t say, won’t say, I don’t want to leave my lady.”
Knowing he lacked the capacity to take care of himself, Xuexue helped him clean out the trash caught in his hair and combed it neatly, then fastened it with a hair tie. “Let’s go wash up.”
After washing up, Xuexue and Big Bull went to the river to wash the clothes.
Country folks wake up early. By the time they arrived, there were already small groups of women washing clothes by the river, surprised to see Xuexue with an unfamiliar man.
Indeed, when they returned last night, it was already very dark, and not many people saw them.
“Xuexue, who is this young man? He’s quite handsome,” an elderly woman asked while tirelessly scrubbing clothes with a washing board.
“Handsome, right? He’s my fiancé,” Xuexue introduced proudly.
Upon hearing this, the old lady stopped her activity, looking at Xuexue with curiosity, “Xuexue, are you engaged? How come we haven’t heard about it?”
“Yeah, we haven’t heard about it either. Just a while ago, her stepmother was still looking everywhere for a matchmaker, trying to find a family for her,” said another woman washing clothes nearby.
“Pah! That filthy creature, let’s not talk about her. I just get angry thinking about it. I feel like slapping her. The Seductress Fox is just a seductress, scheming to hook up with someone’s father and even arranged a man to ruin Xuexue’s reputation. Luckily, Xuexue is blessed and managed to evade that. Otherwise, a fine young lady would have been destroyed by her hands,” the old lady said angrily.
In the past couple of days, the entire Mo Family Village had heard about Aunt Sun’s actions. Some detested her to the point of gritting their teeth, and others who loved to see turmoil hoped Xuexue would gain a bad reputation just to have something to talk about after meals.