"What happened? How can someone who can’t walk or crawl just disappear? Someone must have let her go! Search! Hurry up and search..." Old Ganzi bellowed like a madman before he instructed Big Ganzi and Second Ganzi to lift Third Ganzi onto the kang. He then sent Little Ganzi to fetch the only traveling doctor from the surrounding villages.
However, the diagnosis from the traveling doctor was that, although Third Ganzi was not dead, his ’eggs’ were smashed to bits, much like an egg dropped on the ground. Thankfully, the ’pipe’ was still functional; he could still pee, but he would never need a woman again.
"Who on earth was it?" Old Ganzi was truly enraged.
"Dad." Little Ganzi suddenly seemed to remember something, "Some stranger of a woman showed up at the idiot’s house..."
As soon as Lin Xiwang heard this, he became anxious, "That’s my wife, the same as a wife to my mom."
Old Ganzi frowned at Lin Xiwang, then turned and made his way to his house.
The onlookers who had heard the commotion hurriedly followed. There was a wife in the idiot’s house? Was she someone who had lost her way and wandered into the mountains? Or had she willingly stayed behind? How come they were not the ones blessed with such luck?
Lin Xiwang panicked and started to run towards his home, needing to hide that sister quickly, but just after taking a few steps, someone grabbed his collar from behind.
"What are you rushing for?" Big Ganzi glared fiercely at Lin Xiwang, "Your wife won’t get away. If she isn’t..." A glint of viciousness flashed in his eyes.
Lin Xiwang could only offer a foolish smile, then walked forward slowly, yet he thought to himself that it would be best if Sister Ruxin had already left.
Yang Ruxin stood in the courtyard, gently caressing the wrist where Xiaolun was sound asleep. When would Xiwang come back? To leave the village, they needed someone to cover for them.
But instead, Old Ganzi arrived at the door with a group of villagers.
When Yang Ruxin heard the noise and looked up, the people entering got a full view of her face.
The men were all stunned. There were quite a few good-looking women among their own, but since they were not there willingly, they were mostly crying and making a fuss until they were smacked into disfigurement. Who cared about the beauty of a woman? As long as they had two steamed buns to feed a child and a hole for them to use, that was enough. Where had they seen a woman of such proper bearing standing before them?
Her gaze was full and her smile was gentle.
All the men stared, transfixed, then swallowed hard involuntarily.
"Sister Ruxin..." Lin Xiwang quickly stepped in front of Yang Ruxin, looked back at the crowd, "This is my wife, don’t stare at her, it will frighten her."
Old Ganzi’s narrow eyes squinted immediately and he walked over to Yang Ruxin, pushing Lin Xiwang aside with a shove. He stared at Yang Ruxin like a needle, "Where are you from? How did you come to our village?"
"I’m from the mountainside. Our village doesn’t have a name; there are just seven or eight families. I got lost while I was gathering herbs..." Yang Ruxin sighed, "This young man was kind-hearted, he gave me a sweet potato, so I wanted to stay. After all, I am alone if I go back..."
Old Ganzi’s brows furrowed slightly, "Is what you’re saying true?"
"Do I have any reason to lie to you?" Yang Ruxin rolled her eyes, "Your village is as poor as ours; what would I gain by lying to you?" she said, pulling Lin Xiwang’s hand, "Anyway, he’s alone, I’m alone, I thought it would be nice to put a household together, at least if I starve to death one day, there will be someone to take care of the body, right?"