Chapter 231 - 225: Sober (2)
Just as she was in great distress, Zhou Wangshu opened his eyes and burst into laughter.
Su Yaoguang saw him like this, and a look of anger flashed in her eyes: "You tricked me?"
Zhou Wangshu slowly lay back down, the idiotic expression from earlier disappeared, and he returned to his usual demeanor: "You were really funny just now."
"Zhou Wangshu, I was worried sick, and you’re joking about such an important matter?" Su Yaoguang said, pinching his arm. "Do you find this funny?"
Zhou Wangshu winced in pain, pleading, "I was wrong. I just saw you were too tense and wanted to help you relax a little."
Su Yaoguang sat back down: "I even thought you had really lost your memory. If you lost your memory and became an idiot, wouldn’t I have to take care of you for life?"
"I’m fine." Zhou Wangshu saw the red blood streaks in her eyes and could imagine how she had been enduring these past days.
Luckily, he woke up. If he hadn’t, remaining in a neither-dead-nor-alive state like recent days, he really would have been a burden to her.
Actually, during his coma, he could hear what she was saying. He learned her secret and discovered that the dream wasn’t a dream but something that had truly happened. It turned out that in the past life, he was a hapless fool who barely made an appearance, and she was a silly woman deceived by a man.
He won’t tell her that he already knows this secret. She was busy blaming Zhou Wangshu for scaring her this way and didn’t notice the tenderness in his eyes.
Zhou Wangshu hugged Su Yaoguang tightly.
Su Yaoguang stopped her babbling and gently patted his back: "It’s okay now. When the stone fell, it must have hurt a lot, right?"
"Yaoguang, let’s be a real couple!" Zhou Wangshu said.
Su Yaoguang: "..."
Not receiving her response, Zhou Wangshu continued: "Look, my head is smashed like this; it will probably leave a scar. I’m so ugly now, no one would want me, you have to take responsibility for me."
Su Yaoguang was initially a little nervous when he said that, but he remained so unserious. The more unseriously he acted, the less she took it seriously.
"I’ll go get you something to eat." Su Yaoguang stood up. "Do you want noodles or something else?"
"It’s so late, I can’t really eat anything. Whatever you make, I’ll eat." Zhou Wangshu said.
The next morning, the monks in the temple saw Zhou Wangshu acting like nothing happened and were all relieved about his miraculous survival.
Su Yaoguang said she wanted to donate incense money and indeed donated a large amount before leaving, also lighting a blessing lamp.
The brothers from Mingye Hall had been guarding here these days, and now that Zhou Wangshu was awake, they quickly prepared a carriage to take Su Yaoguang and Zhou Wangshu down the mountain.
As for Xiao Yanci’s body, they hadn’t found it, and they didn’t want to search anymore.
Worrying about Zhou Wangshu’s injury, Su Yaoguang took him to see other doctors once they returned to the provincial capital, to confirm that his injury was not serious. As long as he wasn’t hit again before recovery, there would be no issue, and only then did they take the carriage slowly back to the provincial city.
Zhou Wangshu’s head injury wasn’t easy to heal. Throughout the journey, his head was wrapped in bandages. Upon reaching the county, Zhou Wangshu insisted on removing the bandages.
"They’re back, they’re back." Zhang Pandi shouted excitedly.
Zhang Zhaodi came out joyfully, saying, "Our top scorer is back. Everyone, my son-in-law is back. Today we have a celebration, everything is 30% off."
"The boss lady is so generous!"
"Boss lady, your family is really blessed to have found such a good son-in-law."
"That’s because my daughter has good taste." Zhang Zhaodi said proudly, "Starting tomorrow, we’ll have a banquet, a continuous feast for three days."
Zhou Wangshu said, "Mom, isn’t this too extravagant?"
"It’s rare for our family to have such a big celebration, of course, we should make it grand, but trust me, it won’t be wasteful." Zhang Zhaodi said, "Whatever’s clean that we can’t finish can be given away for others to eat, and leftovers can be used as feed for pigs. In any case, it’s rare for our family to have such a big celebration, and no one will stop me from making it grand this time."
Zhang Pandi laughed and said, "When the Lord came to bring the good news, your mom was so overjoyed upon hearing that Wang Shu had topped the list. That Lord received a reward of ten taels of Silver!"
"Didn’t Uncle-in-law come back?" Su Yaoguang asked, "We saw the list then, Uncle-in-law was on it, ranked somewhere in the thirties. But we didn’t see Uncle-in-law."