Quick Wear: The Heirless Boss Wants to Get Close to Her Every Day

Chapter 394 Tall and Capable Hunter vs. Lucky Beauty (29)

Shen Shuyi didn't take Fan Xiurong seriously at all. Anyone with eyes could see that it was Chen Mengzheng who was shamelessly trying to win her back.

That slap was the best proof.

She took Chu Yi's hand, and the two went inside and closed the courtyard gate. The commotion outside couldn't bother them at all.

When Chen Mengzheng saw her close the courtyard gate without any hesitation, his face darkened.

Chen Wenxian and Chen Wenyun stood there motionless for a moment when they saw their father like this, and only followed after he left.

Fan Xiurong naturally went back to the Chen family with Chen Mengzheng. After this incident, she was certain that Chen Mengzheng would not go to her parents' home to persuade her to return. Why should she wait in vain? It would be better to simply go back to the Chen family, otherwise she would have no place to stand in her parents' home.

Because of her involvement with human slaves, her father was arrested by the government. Her mother hates her now that she knows about it, and she might even be sold to an old widower for money.

Chen Mengzheng looked very gloomy. He thought that he could use the two children to win back Shen Shuyi's sympathy and make her divorce the country bumpkin and return to the Chen family.

Unexpectedly, he was not only humiliated by Shen Shuyi, but also ridiculed by so many people, with that vain bitch Fan Xiurong following behind him.

Seeing that he ignored her, Fan Xiurong followed him back to the Chen family and asked, "Cousin, don't go looking for Shen Shuyi anymore, so as not to give people something to talk about."

"What does this have to do with you?" Chen Mengzheng turned around angrily and stared at Fan Xiurong. It was all this woman's fault for seducing him in the study. Otherwise, why would Shen Shuyi be making a fuss about getting a divorce!
Fan Xiurong felt a chill run down her spine under his gaze, her heart turning ice-cold. She pursed her lips and said, "How can it be nothing? I am your wife now."

“From this day forward, you are no longer one!” Chen Mengzheng angrily wrote a letter of divorce. “You have been disobedient to your parents in the Chen family, and you are also jealous and talkative. I am divorcing you.”

Fan Xiurong went mad. "I will never leave the Chen family! Cousin, you can't divorce me! I've sacrificed so much for this family, how could you do this?"

"So what? Have you forgotten how you married into my family? If you hadn't seduced me, why would Shen Shuyi have left?!" Every word Chen Mengzheng uttered made Fan Xiurong's face turn pale.

She admitted that she intentionally seduced Chen Mengzheng back then. Wasn't he right? If he had been more determined, if he hadn't had ulterior motives, how could she have succeeded!

Fan Xiurong went crazy and tore up the letter of divorce, and the two started fighting.

Upon seeing this, Chen's mother, who had been pretending to be disabled and needing to be served, immediately stood up, grabbed her crutch, and started hitting Fan Xiurong.

However, Fan Xiurong and Chen Meng were struggling when she accidentally hit Chen Meng on the head with her cane.

Heads were broken and blood was flowing freely; the whole family was in complete chaos.

……

When Shen Shuyi heard that Fan Xiurong had been sent to the authorities for beating her husband, and that it was her two stepchildren who filed the complaint, Chen's mother had been pretending to have difficulty walking. Who would have thought that it was she who had injured her own son? Fan Xiurong had no way to defend herself.

The blow from the cane was so severe that Chen Mengzheng's brain was injured. He became dizzy and lightheaded whenever he looked at a book, making him completely ineligible for the imperial examinations. Upon hearing this, Shen Shuyi stopped caring about the Chen family's affairs and focused solely on her pregnancy.

Because she was quite far along in her pregnancy, her legs and feet were a bit swollen, so Chu Yi soaked her feet in hot water every night to reduce the swelling, which made her feel more comfortable.

Shen Shuyi braced herself with her hands behind her back, looking at the man in front of her with her pregnant belly sticking out.

Chu Yi sat on a small wooden stool under the bed, put her dazzlingly white feet in the water to soak, and after a while dried them with a handkerchief, carefully helped her lie down on the bed.

A light was still on in the room. Shen Shuyi held Chu Yi's hand and placed it on her belly, smiling as she said, "This little guy is exceptionally active."

Looking at her gentle face, Chu Yi felt extremely fulfilled and sweet.

He gently pulled her into his arms, inhaled the fragrance of her hair, and whispered, "I felt it; the child just kicked my hand."

"He's quite strong." Shen Shuyi felt Chu Yi's burning body temperature. She took the man's hand and placed it on her stomach, and the two of them felt the powerful kicks beneath their bellies.

She looked up and saw the man's incredulous yet gentle expression. She chuckled, "What a mischievous boy!" "My dad said I was very naughty when I was little, and I often got into fights with the village kids," Chu Yi said nostalgically.

Shen Shuyi really couldn't imagine it. "I thought you always had a serious face since you were little."

Chu Yi didn't tell her that when he was a child, people made fun of him for not having a mother, and he got into a fight because he was so angry.

Shen Shuyi held Chu Yi's hand tightly. "No matter what happens in the future, Chu Yi, I will be by your side. After the child is born and grows a little older, how about we move our whole family to the capital? I heard that the capital is particularly prosperous."

"Okay, I'll do whatever you say." Chu Yi wanted to say that he would go hunting in the mountains more often to earn money, but he was worried about his wife being alone at home and also worried that she would be afraid that he would encounter danger in the forest, so he said, "Then I'll make more sugar, sell it, and save money to move."

"Well, let's move to the county town when it gets warmer in the spring. It's a bit boring in the village." Shen Shuyi quite likes shopping, and it's difficult to even go to the town in the village.

"Okay." Chu Yi gently patted her back. "Go to sleep."

……

Spring arrived in the blink of an eye. In April, the snow-white locust flowers hung all over the branches. The locust flowers were in full bloom and had a rich fragrance. Shen Shuyi thought about going to the river with Chu Yi to pick locust flowers and make locust flower cakes and locust flower omelets.

Seeing that she was heavily pregnant, Chu Yi didn't want to take her out, but since spring was a good time for outings, he carried a bamboo basket on his back and carefully helped his wife walk towards the river.

Seeing that he was being too cautious, Shen Shuyi smiled and said, "I'm walking very steadily, so you don't need to worry, husband."

"Spring is here and the flowers are blooming. The weather is so nice today."

"Okay, you can sit by the tree and have some snacks while you enjoy the breeze, I'll go pick some locust flowers." Chu Yi packed a box of sweet rice cakes and a box of shepherd's purse and egg dumplings into a bamboo basket.

"Okay~"

There were several locust trees by the river, but since they arrived early, only a few people came to pick the flowers.

Chu Yi took down the bamboo basket, then took out a long cloth from the basket and spread it on the grass. He then laid out some snacks and helped Shen Shuyi sit down before he felt at ease picking locust flowers.

In less than half an hour, Chu Yi had picked a whole bamboo basket full of fragrant locust flowers.

Shen Shuyi walked over and looked at the tender, newly opened locust blossoms, and said with a smile, "Husband, how about we have locust blossom omelets or steamed locust blossoms for lunch?"

"The rest can be used to make locust flower cakes."

"It's fragrant and sweet upon first bite!"

"Little glutton, you stand aside and give directions, I'll do the cooking." Chu Yi looked at his beloved wife's belly, which was two months away from giving birth, and was really worried that she would get tired and uncomfortable.

“Alright.” Shen Shuyi looked at the clear river water and said, “When summer comes, we’ll all move to the county town. I heard there’s a lake there, and lots of people go boating there to harvest water chestnuts in the summer.”

This time, Chu Yi didn't agree immediately. His wife was about to give birth, so he didn't dare take her boating on the lake.

……

In the summer, the family moved to the county town. Chu Yi bought two houses in the county town, which were separated by only a long alley.

The house where Shen Shuyi and Chu Yi lived had a large courtyard in front of it. A pomegranate tree grew next to the well in the courtyard. When they moved in, the pomegranates were ripe.

Across a long alley and on the other side of the courtyard wall lived my parents, younger brother, and younger sister; it was also an elegant and tidy house.

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(End of this chapter)