A Good Country Wife

Lin Yue shot Zhao Erhu a glance. If this man really hadn’t considered it, he wouldn’t have come to ask her. He could’ve just returned, but Lin Genfa wasn’t someone Lin Yue disliked. He was quite sensible and there was no need to make things difficult for Zhao Erhu over this. However, things that needed to be made clear still had to be clarified.

"Brother-in-law is indeed a good man. I don’t object to you inviting him over, and it’s only right for relatives to help each other. Although the work here isn’t exactly light, it’s much better than doing hard labor for others, and the pay is better too," Lin Yue paused before continuing,

"The thing is, you know what kind of person your eldest sister is. If you bring her over, then life really won’t be livable. I used to endure her antics for your sake since she’s your elder sister, but after what happened last time, she went too far. It broke my heart and cut off the familial affection between us. I cannot tolerate her like before. If you can’t let go of the sibling affection, and insist on involving her, then it’s better we settle things now."

"What do you mean settle things? I already said if you don’t agree, I won’t invite brother-in-law. As for eldest sister, that’s even less likely. I just drove her out last time because of you. I think she shouldn’t have the face to come knocking again. Whatever you want is fine, but don’t let me hear this sort of talk again, or I’ll really get angry."

Zhao Erhu frowned. The one thing he couldn’t stand was his wife always trying to set boundaries with him. This was one of the reasons he had been eager to consummate their marriage early. Women are like that. If they haven’t truly committed to a man, their thoughts wander and come up with all sorts of things, especially when his wife was young and impulsive. He could not afford to delay consummating the marriage any longer; otherwise, he might regret it if his ’cooked duck’ flew away.

Zhao Erhu understood his wife’s stance—Lin Genfa could come, but Zhao Yunxiang absolutely couldn’t. So he sent word to Lin Genfa to accept the arrangement but also made it clear to not let Zhao Yunxiang come, or else he wouldn’t be polite about it when the time came.

Zhao Yunxiang was so angry upon hearing Zhao Erhu’s decree that she couldn’t even eat. She complained that now Zhao Erhu had a wife, he didn’t even care about his own elder sister anymore, that he was heartless.

She had thought about going to work with Lin Genfa; he could work the fields while she helped out at home. She had heard that Liu’s wife was currently working at Erhu’s place, getting paid monthly, and that she was treated well, eating and using good things, even gaining a fair amount of weight. No wonder—Erhu’s place never lacked white rice and meat. His spendthrift wife would spare no expense.

If Liu’s wife was fine doing it, why couldn’t she, as the elder sister, do the same? Zhao Yunxiang had a plan, but she didn’t expect Zhao Erhu to lay down such terms. She knew her brother, and given what he had said, if she went over, she definitely wouldn’t be welcomed. Perhaps even her husband might lose his chance at the job. Zhao Erhu was willing to do anything for his precious wife, even ’lose his conscience’!