Farmer girl swaps husbands: buys a sickly villain and pampers him

Chapter 32 Green Tea
Zhou Wangshu carried a bucket to the well to fetch water.

The women from the village gathered around the well. When they saw Zhou Wangshu, they looked him up and down with strange expressions.

"This young man is really handsome, and has a good physique. He's a head taller than my man. If you don't tell me, who would tell he's less than fifteen?"

"I heard he's half a year younger than Yaoguang! This little Yaoguang is really getting a great bargain, buying such a handsome young husband for just ten cents."

"Little Wangshu, I'm out of strength. Can you help me pump the water up?" Aunt Li said with a smile.

Zhou Wangshu blushed and nodded obediently: "Okay. But I'm not very strong, so I might be a little slow..."

"It's okay, just shake it slowly."

Zhou Wangshu pumped half a bucket at a time, and when he poured the water back into the bucket, he'd break some more, so he'd have to pump it three times to fill it. Seeing him panting, the women began to show some sympathy. Those who usually took advantage of him stopped asking him to do it and volunteered to help him pump the water. One even asked if she could carry it back. Zhou Wangshu politely thanked him and carried the water home.

"Yaoguang girl is really willing to let such a handsome young husband fetch water."

"She's really cute and has a good personality. Besides being a little young and unable to protect Yaoguang, everything else is good."

"I think Yaoguang is very powerful now. She doesn't need a man to protect her. Instead, she needs a gentle husband like this to match her."

Zhou Wangshu was carrying water by the river when he saw a young girl in a green gauze skirt anxiously gazing at the water. She turned around and saw Zhou Wangshu. She walked towards him with delicate lotus steps and said in a delicate voice, "Brother Zhou, can you do me a favor? Please."

Zhou Wangshu frowned, looking embarrassed. "I'm only fourteen, and you look much older than me. Isn't it inappropriate to call me brother?"

Jiang Yihuan: “…”

The expression on her face changed.

Zhou Wangshu moved to the side carrying the water, but was blocked by Jiang Yihan again.

He looked at Jiang Yihuan unhappily and angrily: "What are you doing blocking my way?"

"I...my clothes fell into the water. Can you help me fish them out? Please." Jiang Yihuan looked at Zhou Wangshu with pleading eyes.

Tears flowed from the corners of her eyes, one after another, like pearls, without ruining her makeup at all. She looked so pitiful.

Zhou Wangshu glanced at the river surface and saw a few pieces of clothing floating on the surface, still moving into the river with the current.

"I can't swim, find someone else!"

"But everyone else is busy."

"I'm busy too."

"Brother Wangshu, you are so kindhearted, you certainly wouldn't leave a weak woman to die without helping her, right? Please, my mother will beat me."

Zhou Wangshu looked at Jiang Yihan in front of him.

He has been with Su Yaoguang for so long, how could he not know Jiang Yihan?

Not only did he know her, he also knew that Su Yaoguang particularly disliked this woman.

This man's clothes didn't fall off earlier or later, but just when he passed by, revealing such a pitiful posture. His seduction method was even more clumsy than the fifteen-year-old concubine his father took in when he was fifty.

Zhou Wangshu had seen many gentle women. In his eyes, such women were like vicious tigers disguised as cats, who would pounce when their owners were not paying attention.

"I have a way to get your clothes out quickly."

"What can we do?" Jiang Yihuan looked at him expectantly. "The clothes have already flown far away. There are no bamboo poles that long nearby, and it's too late to cut bamboo now." "No need to cut bamboo poles." Zhou Wangshu put down the bucket and pointed toward the river. "Look over there."

Jiang Yihuan looked in the direction he pointed. She was so close to Zhou Wangshu that the scent of her powder and cosmetics nearly irritated Zhou Wangshu's nose.

"What's there? What do you want me to see?"

Zhou Wangshu stretched out his arm and pushed her hard.

Splash! Jiang Yihuan fell into the water.

"Ah..." Jiang Yihuan thrashed on the water, "I can't swim... Help..."

Zhou Wangshu saw several women approaching and shouted in panic, "Help, help! Someone has fallen into the water."

The women came running over.

"What's going on here?"

They had already seen Jiang Yihan struggling on the water.

"This girl suddenly fell into the water, and I don't know what happened. Dear beautiful ladies, please help her. I'm a stranger, so it's not convenient for me to stay here. Otherwise, if I ruin her reputation, I won't be able to clear it even by jumping into the river. Dear beautiful ladies, please find someone to save her."

Zhou Wangshu quickly slipped away carrying the bucket.

"Hurry up and find someone, call for help, the girl from the Jiang family fell into the water..."

Zhou Wangshu walked for a while, carrying the bucket, then stopped to look toward the river. Several single young men in the village rushed into the water to rescue Jiang Yihuan, and some even picked up the clothes Jiang Yihuan had dropped in the river.

Jiang Yihuan was quite popular among the men in the village. Any decent-looking man in the village was considered her "brother," and when they heard she had fallen into the water, of course someone would save her.

Su Yaoguang was fiddling with the powder. Seeing him carrying water back, she said, "Is it too heavy? Is it a bit difficult for you to carry it?"

Zhou Wangshu looked into Su Yaoguang's eyes. There was concern in them, not even a hint of dissatisfaction. This was the first time he had met such a simple and straightforward girl.

"Why are not you talking?"

"Oh, I can carry water. The reason I came back late was because someone fell into the river."

"Someone fell into the water? Who fell into the water?" Su Yaoguang was worried. "Is that person okay?"

"It seems her surname is Jiang, and she's a girl named Huan."

"She can't die. There's a saying that evil can last for a thousand years." Su Yaoguang curled her lips.

"But I'm in trouble." Zhou Wangshu carried the water into the kitchen, poured it into the vat and came out again, looking like a pitiful little guy who had done something wrong.

"What's wrong?" Su Yaoguang asked, "You're so honest, you definitely didn't do it on purpose. Tell me, what trouble did you get into?"

"I was carrying water and passed by there when she stopped me and said her clothes had fallen into the river and asked me to help her retrieve them. I can't swim and was afraid of going in the water, so I wanted to leave quickly. When I passed by her, she tried to pull me, but I quickly dodged and heard the sound of someone falling into the water. I looked back and saw that she had fallen into the water."

"You didn't push her. She lost her balance. It's none of your business." Su Yaoguang said nonchalantly. "Stay away from her in the future. She wants to get any handsome guy she sees. You're so good-looking, she's definitely not going to let you go."

"She is so scary. Yaoguang is the best. Fortunately, it was Yaoguang who bought me." Zhou Wangshu looked at Su Yaoguang with gratitude.

(End of this chapter)