The heavens set sail from the courtyard

Wang Gang returned home after a busy day and was about to take off his coat when a pair of small hands touched him and a soft and tender voice came from behind.

"My lord, let me undress you."

Wang Gang frowned, feeling the voice was unfamiliar. He turned around and found a pretty, thin maid standing behind him. She looked no more than fifteen or sixteen years old.

"Who are you? You don't look like a maid in the courtyard!"

Li Shouhua came out and said, "Sir, this is Chunmei. I brought her back from home. She will take care of your food and clothing from now on."

Wang Gang glanced at Chunmei, who was looking down at him, and said to Li Shouhua, "Where are those maids from before?"

Li Shouhua explained: "The previous maid is old and will soon be sent out to get married. My mother has already made arrangements."

Wang Gang said indifferently: "From now on, you will take care of my food, clothing and daily life! I don't need anyone to serve me."

Li Shouhua blushed slightly and said, "Sir, I'm in Kuishui, so it's not convenient these days."

Wang Gang finally understood what Chunmei was here for and couldn't help laughing: "You are so generous. You've been married for less than two months and you're already stuffing women into my house?"

Li Shouhua seemed to hear a hint of displeasure in Wang Gang's tone, and asked in confusion: "Sir, don't wealthy families have maids?"

Wang Gang said with a straight face: "I don't need those. Don't push them on me anymore."

Li Shouhua became more and more confused about why Wang Gang was angry.

Wang Gang shook his head, not wanting to explain, and said: "Since it is inconvenient for you these days, I will go to the study to sleep and let Chunmei take care of you!"

As he said that, Wang Gang picked up his coat and prepared to go to the study.

"Sir." Li Shouhua felt that Wang Gang was really angry and wanted to explain.

"You don't have to do this." Wang Gang sighed and said, "I know the rules of your Li family. If we are still childless at the age of forty, we can consider taking a concubine."

Li Shouhua bowed his head and said, "Today I went to pay my respects to my mother, and she was urging me to have a baby. When she learned that I was pregnant, she was quite disappointed."

Wang Gang raised his eyebrows and asked, "Did my mother put pressure on you?"

Li Shouhua shook his head and said, "No, that's not the case. I want to have an heir for the Wang family as soon as possible."

Wang Gang said seriously: "Don't worry too much about the baby. We are both in good health and will get pregnant in the future."

"Sir, actually my health is not very good. I get sick every spring." Li Shouhua said guiltily.

Wang Gang said indifferently: "You are allergic to pollen. Just move the flowers out of the room. It won't affect your fertility."

Li Shouhua was stunned and asked in confusion: "What is pollen allergy?"

Wang Gang explained: "You just can't smell the strong fragrance of flowers. Just be more careful in the future. Besides, I'm not in a hurry for the child. Just let nature take its course."

Li Shouhua's heart trembled, and he lowered his head and whispered: "Sir, can you please not be so nice to me!"

"Hmm?" Wang Gang asked curiously, "Is it not okay for me to be considerate to you?"

Li Shouhua said with some sadness: "I'm a little scared!"

Wang Gang felt that Li Shouhua was in a bad mood and waved Chunmei away.

"What's wrong with you? Have you been wronged?" Wang Gang walked up to Li Shouhua and asked with concern.

Li Shouhua suddenly turned his back, his shoulders trembling slightly, as if he was sobbing.

"The better you treat me, the more I fear losing you." Wang Gang raised his hand to hold Li Shouhua's shoulder and said, "I'm not a sickly ghost. I have a long life. Don't worry!"

Li Shouhua couldn't bear it any longer and threw himself into Wang Gang's arms.

"Sir, I'm sorry I reminded you of him again."

Wang Gang sighed and said, "I am angry not because you have been married before. I don't mind your past. What I really mind is why you can't let him go!

Am I not better than a dead man? "

Li Shouhua hurriedly shouted: "No, I can't forget Shiyilang because he has helped me and the Li family so much. I am grateful to him and appreciate his kindness."

"So are you grateful to me, or do you like me?" Wang Gang hooked Li Shouhua's chin with his finger.

"I don't know." Li Shouhua closed his eyes guiltily.

Wang Gang raised his lips slightly and said, "I know you married me for your mother and sisters, and you don't like me."

Li Shouhua opened his eyes helplessly and was about to explain, but Wang Gang blocked his mouth with his index finger!
"You don't need to explain. I know what you're thinking, but I don't care." Wang Gang said firmly:
"I've said before that I'm a very domineering person. Since you've married me, you have to put me first in everything from now on. No matter if it's your mother, your sister, or even that dead tuberculosis patient, they all have to come after me.

On the other hand, you are the most important person to me now, so you don’t have to think that my kindness to you is a burden!”

Li Shouhua listened to Wang Gang's domineering words without feeling unhappy at all. Instead, he felt very happy and even warm-hearted.

"Sir, there are some things I have never told anyone, not even my mother and sister." Li Shouhua said sadly and helplessly:
"When Shiyilang died, his body was still warm, and my mother-in-law took advantage of my sleep and tried to strangle me to death to bury with Shiyilang.

If I hadn’t fought back desperately and agreed with my mother-in-law to observe mourning for three years, I might have died! I was only sixteen years old that year!"

Wang Gang's eyes narrowed slightly. He didn't expect that Li Shouhua had such a past.

"Shiyilang was very kind to me when he was alive. I could even say that he obeyed me in everything. My mother-in-law also pitied me and treated me like her own daughter." Li Shouhua's hands and feet were cold and his body was trembling.
"I never expected that everything would change as soon as Shiyilang left. My mother-in-law, who treated me like a daughter, beat and scolded me, and even wanted me to die, saying that was Shiyilang's wish before he died.

The three years of mourning were really difficult, and every day was torture.”

Wang Gang hugged Li Shouhua and comforted her: "Don't be afraid, I'm here with you, and I won't let anyone hurt you."

Li Shouhua unconsciously stretched out her hands, hugged Wang Gang's waist, and cried: "I am afraid that you are too good to me. What if one day you get tired of me and abandon me? I don't want to be alone anymore."

"Silly girl." Wang Gang touched Li Shouhua's head and said, "I promise you, I will always walk behind you and will never let you feel lonely."

"No." Li Shouhua raised his head and said, "I don't want to go ahead of you. I want to take care of you for the rest of my life, forever and ever."

Wang Gang hugged Li Shouhua tightly and said, "We are husband and wife. We should sleep together in life and be buried together after death. No matter what happens, we will face it together. Even death cannot separate us."

Li Shouhua felt that these were the warmest words of love she had ever heard in her life. All those poems that have been passed down through the ages could not compare to this moment.

Wang Gang kissed Li Shouhua on the forehead silently. The couple kept hugging each other like this for a long time until the servant came to report.

"Second Young Master, it's bad, the eldest young master is dying."

Li Shouhua was startled and struggled out of Wang Gang's arms.

Wang Gang said dissatisfiedly: "Brother is dying, please ask the doctor, I can't bring him back to life."

The servant replied: "The doctor has been invited. The old lady asked you to go over and see the young master for the last time."

Li Shouhua wiped the traces from the corners of his eyes and persuaded: "Sir, let's go and take a look!"

Wang Gang nodded with a straight face, Li Shouhua tidied his clothes for him, and the two of them rushed to Wang Yi's courtyard together. (End of this chapter)