The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man

She extended her pinky finger again.

With one hand supporting the back of his head, her pinky hadn’t even touched his nose when he suddenly coughed, launching a spray of mud from his nostrils right onto her face.

“Xiao Yuchuan!” she exploded.

A booming sound filled his ears, frightening him into consciousness. He blinked quickly, gazing at two mud splashes on her face, he burst into laughter despite himself, “Dear, you look both terrifying and amusing now.”

“Hmph…” she waved her hand dismissively, full of disbelief, “How could a woman as beautiful as I am ever be scary?” She felt that after her pus sores were healed due to the medicine, her features were absolutely beautiful and attractive…

Xiao Yuchuan pointed at the water puddle by the mud pit he had just fallen into, “Take a look for yourself.”

Su Qingyue walked over and looked at her reflection in the muddy water, “Ah!”

She let out a scream.

She shrieked, “Is that even a human!”

Her face, which had cleared up a bit due to the ointment she applied before picking bayberries, had now lost most of its treatment to the rain, with just a few discolored traces left on the white face that had been soaked by the rain and pus sores.

Being green and white was bad enough, but now she also got two splashes of black mud fired from his nostrils.

Xiao Yuchuan quickly tried to crawl over to comfort her, but he was too weak. He could only gesture at her from a distance, “Dear, rest assured, you’re human! Definitely, still human!”

“It’s all because of you! My face just started to get a little better, and now it’s thrown back to square one!” She stormed over to him, right hand balled into a fist, palm facing upward, rearing back.

Before she could land a blow, he was already wailing, “Dear, you’re going to hit someone!”

She rubbed her palm against her own face, bent down, and gave him a charmingly gentle smile, “Husband, how could I ever hit you?

She was smiling so gently, yet he felt a chill going down his spine, “Wif…wif…wife…”

“I just want to kill you!” she finished, then viciously twisted his arm, then pinched and twisted it a full revolution.

“Ah!” It was his turn to scream this time.

Once she’d finished pinching his arm, she began pinching all over his body, his chest, twisted his thigh, his face was again pinched and twisted… “Ah!” He kept screaming, “My wife is murdering me…”

Since the rain had let up, several nearby villagers had all come out.

Upon witnessing Su Qingyue’s actions against Xiao Yuchuan, a few of the onlookers started to point and whisper. Among them, hunter Li Yibao said, “Wife of the Xiao Family, you’re going to suffocate Chuan…”

“Su Qingyue, is it because you think Chuan is a burden being sick, so you are disgusted and abusing him…” Mrs. Qian Zhang, who was gossiping in one of the homes, clearly disagreed.

“Wow, even hitting her husband, the wife of the Xiao Family sure is fierce…”

As the onlookers pointed and discussed, before Su Qingyue even had a chance to speak, Chuan stepped in, “I’m itching all over and asked my wife to scratch me. None of your business!”

“You ungrateful fool.” Mrs. Qian Zhang waved her old handkerchief, “If you don’t want our intervention, why do you yell murder?”

“Can’t I joke around while being itchy?” Xiao Yuchuan huffed coldly, then turned to look at his wife lovingly, “Yueyue, dear, do twist and pinch me a few more times. I have a weird taste and love the sensation of your little hands pinching and squeezing me….”