Chapter 663: Feeling a little suffocated inside.
Xiao Qinghe couldn’t help but reveal a faintly ironic smile, knowing full well that she was looking for money.
Xiao Ailiu looked at his facial expression and wanted to scold him. However, considering that his third brother would stand up for him, she decided not to cause this trouble and just said, “Fourth Brother, why are you blocking the entrance with your wheelchair? Move aside and don’t block my way out.”
Xiao Qinghe moved his wheelchair back a little. She then went back to the yard and craned her neck at the entrance of the courtyard, trying to see if her second brother had returned… After waiting for a while, she figured he wouldn’t be back so fast.
Yuchuan caught one of the three live chickens by the courtyard fence, went into the kitchen, and held the chicken’s head and wings together with one hand while he chopped its neck with a kitchen knife in the other. The chicken blood flowed into the bowl on the table.
Once the water in the stove pot boiled, he scooped the hot water into a basin for washing dishes and put the slaughtered chicken inside to scald it. When the water cooled down a bit, he plucked its feathers.
Su Qingyue watched her third brother doing housework through the open kitchen door.
She thought Third Brother was actually pretty diligent; he could make money selling goods and was willing to do housework. Plus, he was indeed… one of the most handsome young men in the village.
Everyone said Li Gui was the most handsome young man in the village, followed by Chuan.
In fact, they were both equally handsome, but the Li Family had always been much better off than the Xiao Family both in the past and even now. Li Gui was the village’s wealthy and handsome man, so naturally, everyone thought he was more handsome.
People used to be wary of the Xiao Family’s heavy burden. Now that Third Brother’s health had improved, with his handsome face and hardworking nature, it would be easy for him to find a wife.
Thinking about finding a wife for her third brother…
Her heart felt a little stifled.
After handling the chicken and cutting it into pieces, the medicine on the stove was ready as well. Yuchuan carefully scooped it into a bowl and placed it on the stove.
Xiao Ailiu entered the kitchen and saw Yuchuan go out to get firewood. When she saw the medicine bowl on the stove, she was filled with resentment, thinking about how Yuchuan had beaten her up for Fourth Brother and Su Qingyue. She felt like he hadn’t even treated her like his sister!
She didn’t want a younger brother like him!
The medicine was worth seventy taels, but his life wasn’t even worth that much. He had caused her to return without a single copper coin, and she wanted to pour out the medicine so that he would be a useless person for the rest of his life!
But then she thought about how the Xiao Family still had over two hundred taels and that the medicine, which cost seventy taels, had been divided into six doses. She could just pour out one bowl and then buy more later, so she changed her mind again.
Yuchuan had no idea of her thoughts, and asked, “What are you doing here in the kitchen?”
With a fake smile, she said, “Third Brother, I just came in to see if there’s anything I can help with.”
“There’s nothing for you to do here. Piss off.”
“Hmpf…” Xiao Ailiu sneered and left the kitchen. Once Second Brother returned, a ‘good show’ would begin.
Yuchuan threw the firewood in his arms onto the bed by the stove, glanced at the medicine bowl on the stove, and then at Xiao Ailiu’s retreating figure, wondering if his elder sister had any intention of tampering with his medicine.
There was no use in her taking his medicine. Could it be that she wanted to dump it?
He picked up the medicine bowl, seeing a ring of water stain under it, which showed that she hadn’t touched the bowl. Maybe he was just being overcautious.
After the medicine had cooled down a bit, he lifted the extremely bitter bowl and drank it all in a few gulps.
Having detoxified his body, and no longer prone to fainting easily, he was quite excited inside.
He glanced at his wife in the courtyard…
His life was given by her. It’s natural that he was grateful to her in his heart, but more importantly…
The love he felt for her grew deeper day by day…