Chapter 484: Chapter 484: Wild Vegetables Chapter 484: Chapter 484: Wild Vegetables “My dear, I’ll head back first, and you follow behind slowly,” he said.
“Go on, go on, what time is it now? Stop dawdling! Hurry home and see how my mother is doing.” Xuexue anxiously waved him away.
Seeing Xuexue’s urgent demeanor, Big Bull felt an unexplained nervousness, so he agreed and swiftly turned to run toward the village.
The area below the mountain was a plain that had to be crossed to reach Mo Family Village.
Normally, this plain was overgrown with weeds and filled with a variety of wild vegetables, which the villagers liked to gather and cut pigweed amongst other things.
The villagers, who were digging for wild vegetables at the foot of the mountain, sometimes glanced up to see a shadow flash by and disappear, thinking their eyes were deceiving them.
“Hey, did you guys see something just now?”
“No, what would there be?”
Hearing this, other villagers who were bent over digging for wild vegetables looked up and scanned around, appearing puzzled. Aside from a nearby mountain range, it was all plains; if someone had passed by, they surely would have seen a figure unless it flew past them unseen.
“Strange, maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me,” muttered the villager who had seen the shadow.
“You! You always try to save too much, maybe your body is too weak, and that’s why your eyes mislead you. It’s about time you spent some silver to properly nourish yourself,” someone laughed.
“Ah! You know my family’s situation, we are so poor! Having food to eat is good enough, where would the extra money to nourish my body come from?”
“That’s true, our situations are quite similar. Before, we used to joke about Madam Xie being divorced by her husband, and how she would struggle with her daughter in the future. But look now, just a few months later, things have changed dramatically. The life she leads versus the life we lead, it’s like heaven and earth, incomparable.”
“Indeed, as the saying goes, comparisons can be infuriating.”
“When it comes down to it, she’s lucky! Found a good son-in-law. Big Bull might be a bit foolish and goofy, but he’s incredibly strong, could kill a tiger with one punch. Getting rich was just a matter of time.”
“Shush! Keep it down, Xuexue is right there!”
“Hey! What’s there to be afraid of? We aren’t speaking ill of her.”
“You called her fiance stupid.”
“That’s a fact, everyone in the village knows.”
Xuexue, oblivious to the nearby villagers’ constant chatter, was still very worried even though Big Bull had already rushed back. She couldn’t bear the thought of her foster mother encountering any trouble, the tragedies of her past life must not reoccur, or she would regret it for life.
Thus, she didn’t stop for a single moment and hurried home.
Auntie Sun’s eyes shone wickedly as she gripped a vine tightly around Madam Xie’s neck.
She had conveniently picked it up from the ground a moment ago; it was originally used to bind firewood, but now it had become a lethal weapon.
Logically, since Madam Xie often did farm work, she should have been stronger than Auntie Sun, but at that moment, she was panicking, while Auntie Sun, determined to kill her, had her strength multiplied several times, clearly overpowering Madam Xie.
It made sense, as Madam Xie, a simple and honest farmwife, had never encountered such a perilous situation; it was natural to be flustered.
Despite Auntie Sun’s delicate and gentle appearance, she was ruthless. In the past, in the brothel, when some new girls stubbornly refused clients, they were strangled to death by thugs; she had fully mastered those tactics now, as she dealt with Madam Xie.
Madam Xie struggled for breath and fought back desperately, reaching behind to grab Auntie Sun’s hair and pulling with all her might.
“You wretched woman, even at death’s door, you dare to pull my hair?” Auntie Sun’s face twisted into a terrifying grimace.