The Little Life of a Big Landlord

Chapter 180 Heart-to-Heart Talk

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"Teacher Wang, you have a fever???" Zheng Dazhuang said, his breathing rapid.

"Ugh! I feel unwell, carry me to bed..." Wang Li said, almost moaning.

"Hmm..." Zheng Dazhuang responded, picked up Wang Li, and walked towards the bed.

He laid Wang Li's soft body on the bed, and somehow, her arms wrapped around his neck. Her hot breath sprayed sweetly onto his face...

Looking at those red lips, Zheng Dazhuang felt an urge to kiss them. Once the impulse took root, it spread rapidly through his mind, gradually shattering his thoughts and leading him to put that impulse into practice.

The moment their lips met, the warm, sweet sensation captivated Zheng Dazhuang...

"teacher……"

Xiao Bao'er's voice rang out from outside, instantly waking the two from their daze, and they quickly separated.

"I...I...I...I..." Zheng Dazhuang was at a loss.

"What do you mean, 'what are you saying'?" Wang Li blushed and glared at Zheng Dazhuang. "Aren't you going to fetch water for me right now???"

"Oh, oh, oh..." Zheng Dazhuang nodded hurriedly and was about to pick up the carrying pole when Wang Li whispered, "I'll wait for you tonight..."

"Hmm..." Zheng Dazhuang nodded in a panic, picked up the two empty buckets, and quickly ran away.

Wang Li smiled silently and called out, "Bao'er? Come in..."

Zheng Dayong grumbled as he emerged from the public hot spring and headed to Yang Ming's backyard. He wanted to check on the greenhouse there. Although he was furious, he didn't forget his duty.

"Yuting, what's wrong?" Zheng Dayong had just entered the back garden when he ran into Li Yuting. Seeing that Li Yuting's face was flushed and she looked flustered, he couldn't help but ask with concern.

"Pah, you stinking men, not a single one of you is any good..." When Li Yuting saw Zheng Dayong, she was overcome with embarrassment, remembering how she had wanted to do "that" with him yesterday. She spat lightly, slipped past him, and disappeared in a flash.

"I..." Zheng Dayong blinked, somewhat confused, but then his face turned deathly pale. Only one thought crossed his mind: Did she know Da Han's thoughts?

It must be said that people who are preoccupied with worries are most prone to suspicion and frightening themselves.

(By the way, I'm a person who carries a lot of worries. I often scare myself for fun, and I feel that life is quite heavy.)

Zheng Dayong's hands and feet turned ice cold. He stood there stunned for a long time before taking off after him.

"Yuting, Yuting, listen to me..." Zheng Dayong chased after Liu Sao to her house, but the door was bolted shut. In desperation, Zheng Dayong pounded on the bolt.

"Hey, Dayong, did you offend your wife???" A tourist greeted Zheng Dayong with a smile. The affair between Zheng Dayong and Li Yuting was not a secret in the village. After all, the village was small, and news spread like wildfire.

"Hehe..." Zheng Dayong turned his head, forcing a smile on his pale face, nodded to the tourist, and then continued to knock on the door.

This tourist was also a kind-hearted person. Seeing Zheng Dayong's pale face, he was startled and stepped forward, saying, "Dayong, are you alright? Why do you look so pale?"

"I...I'm fine..." Zheng Dayong forced a smile, but his hands kept banging on the door.

"Are you two having a fight...?" The tourist also knocked on the door along with Zheng Dayong.

"What are you doing? You've broken the door..." Li Yuting's slightly spoiled voice rang out from inside the door.

"Girl, hurry up and open the door, okay? You might have some misunderstanding about Dayong. If there is a misunderstanding, sit down and talk it out. As you talk, the misunderstanding will be cleared up..." the tourist earnestly advised.

"You men are all the same..." Li Yuting's face turned so red it was almost purple.

"Girl, you can't generalize and condemn all men... Some men are indeed bad, but our Dayong is definitely an honest guy..." the tourist advised, thinking the young couple was just arguing.

"Brother, you go ahead with your work..." Zheng Dayong said to the tourist with a wry smile.

"Oh..." The tourist suddenly realized and laughed, "Okay, okay, you guys chat, I'll go do my thing..." With that, the tourist quickly left.

"Come in..." Li Yuting quickly opened the door, swiftly pulled Zheng Dayong inside, and then slammed the door shut.

"Yuting, what... what's wrong with you???" Zheng Dayong's face turned pale.

"Tell me, what happened to your sister-in-law???" Li Yuting stared intently at Zheng Dayong, her mind filled with images of a pale, fleshy body.

"My sister-in-law..." Zheng Dayong's face was completely drained of color.

"You found out too???" A look of surprise appeared on Li Yuting's face.

"I...I...I..." Zheng Dayong's breathing became rapid. He felt as if a building was collapsing, as if he had been crushed to dust by immense pressure.

"You saw it???" Li Yuting's face showed even more surprise. That's not right, you just came in from there, how could you have seen it???

"I...I saw...I...I didn't see anything..." Zheng Dayong shook his head repeatedly.

"You're lying..." Li Yuting stared directly at Zheng Dayong with her big eyes, a hint of shyness hidden deep within them. "You must have seen it. Tell me, how did you see it from outside?"

"I, I didn't see it, I... I heard it..." Zheng Dayong confessed immediately.

"You heard it? Your ears are pretty sharp..." Li Yuting narrowed her big eyes. "Do you think I'm stupid? You could hear it from that far away???"

"I, I really heard it... I'm absolutely not lying to you..." Zheng Dayong said repeatedly.

"What did you hear? Let's verify it together..." Li Yuting said.

"You...you go first..." Zheng Dayong wasn't completely stupid after all.

"Ladies first, huh? You're quite the gentleman..." Li Yuting rolled her eyes at Zheng Dayong and said.

"Yuting, you're joking. I'm not that good, am I?" Zheng Dayong said.

"You actually took it seriously?" Li Yuting rolled her eyes. It turned out that Zheng Dayong hadn't realized she was being sarcastic.

"Could it be that what you said isn't true???" Zheng Dayong was already in a panic.

"You have to speak first..." Li Yuting pouted and said.

After talking with Zheng Dayong for a while, Li Yuting's mood calmed down. Although Zheng Dayong was clumsy with words, being with him made people feel at ease.

"Yes, yes, I'll go first, I'll go first. Da Han said he has no feelings for his sister-in-law, he just wants to protect them, and Uncle Da Bao won't let him have any ideas either..." Zheng Dayong said.

As soon as Zheng Dayong finished speaking, Li Yuting's eyes widened. So, Zheng Dayong also had feelings for Liu Sao? This was a huge revelation! Liu Sao and Yang Ming being together wasn't a big deal; at most, it was a third party. In today's society, being a mistress isn't considered a scandal at all. Besides, Wei Qingqing was right there, and even the direct victim wasn't upset. Others meddling wouldn't help. But Zheng Dayong…

"Does Zheng Dayong have feelings for Liu Sao?" Li Yuting stared at Zheng Dayong with a strange look.

"Really, really not..." Zheng Dayong said in a flustered manner.

"Do you think I believe you???" Li Yuting's gaze held an aggressive quality, making Zheng Dayong's expression even more evasive.

"You don't believe me..." Zheng Dayong thought Li Yuting had also heard the conversation between Zheng Dahan and Zheng Dabao, and he was almost in tears.

"Good to know..." Li Yuting snorted.

"Yuting, I know you look down on me and the Zheng family after such a big incident. Let's just pretend nothing happened..." Zheng Dayong said with difficulty.

"What do you mean 'never happened'? You can't pretend that nothing happened! How can you be so irresponsible???" Li Yuting knew exactly what Zheng Dayong meant, and immediately started yelling. She was so angry she felt like her ex-boyfriend was the same kind of person.

"Oh... what happened between you two?" Suddenly, Zhao Yu's voice rang out from outside the door. "Zheng Dayong, I never thought you were this kind of person. You took advantage of my daughter, and you think you can just let it go like that? I must have been blind to even consider marrying my daughter to you... Open the door for me, or I'll beat you to a pulp..."

It got lively. Neither of them expected Zhao Yu to be listening outside. Their conversation was indeed quite ambiguous, naturally leading those who overheard it to think of other things.

"Mom, why are you back???" Li Yuting quickly pulled open the door latch.

"I'm not coming back, I'm not coming back, so you'll suffer this in silence..." Zhao Yu glared at her daughter with a hint of disappointment, pointing her finger at Zheng Dayong's forehead. "Zheng Dayong, Zheng Dayong, I really misjudged you. I never thought you were this kind of person. You heartless bastard, you're even more shameless and immoral than that bastard..." That bastard was Li Yuting's ex-boyfriend.

Zheng Dayong was dumbfounded. What's wrong with me? What did I say? Even if Da Han really has feelings for his sister-in-law, that's Da Han's business, isn't it? I have no feelings for her, what kind of talk is that? How am I heartless? How am I shameless? How am I immoral?

"Mom, you've misunderstood..." Li Yuting quickly stopped her mother.

"You brat, you're still helping him??? That bastard may be heartless, but at least he didn't abandon her after starting a relationship, unlike this treacherous wolf..." Zhao Yu's face flushed red and then turned pale with anger, pointing her finger at Zheng Dayong's nose, "You're a wolf in sheep's clothing..."

"Mom, Dayong and I have nothing..." Li Yuting was anxious. In just a short while, a large crowd had gathered outside, all there to watch the spectacle.

"Nothing much? You're such a fool! He seduced and then abandoned her, and you're still defending him???" Zhao Yu pushed her daughter aside, pointed at Zheng Dayong's nose, and said, "Zheng, don't think you can act like a bully just because this is your village. You'd better make this clear today: are you going to marry my daughter or not??? If you dare say no, I'll go hang myself at your house tomorrow..."

"Ah... Auntie... I... I..." Zheng Dayong was never good with words, and after being hit by Zhao Yu's series of punches, he was dizzy and couldn't say anything.

"Zheng Dayong, are you even a man?! I never imagined you'd be this kind of person..."

"This is a classic case of knowing a person's face but not their heart. Zheng Dayong looks so honest, but who would have thought he had so many cunning schemes..."

"Hmph, all men are like that. The people in Zhengjia Village all look just like Zheng Dayong. Who knows what they're thinking? Let's leave tomorrow, before we lose anything..."

The tourists started chattering and criticizing Zheng Dayong. Zheng Dayong felt dizzy and lightheaded, as if he had no footing.

"Hey, what are you all yelling about? Why are you all making such a fuss..." Li Yuting snapped, slamming the door shut. She grabbed her mother and said, "Mom, what nonsense are you spouting? Do you want your daughter to have any dignity? Nothing happened between him and me. We're innocent, don't you believe me???"

"What do you think???" Zhao Yu asked back.

"Facts speak louder than words. If you don't believe me, we can go and check it out..." Li Yuting said to Zhao Yu, her face flushed.

Zhao Yu stared at her daughter for a long time before saying, "Come on, let's go inside..."

It seems Zhao Yu is really planning to give her daughter a proper check-up.

The mother and son went inside together. Zheng Dayong, for some reason, followed them as if possessed. Zhao Yu suddenly turned around and angrily said, "What are you doing following me? Wait outside. Don't sneak away before there's a result, or else... well, you can't hide forever. If you dare to run away, I'll come looking for your family..."

"Ah ah..." Zheng Dayong stopped and nodded blankly.

After a while, Li Yuting, her face flushed with shyness, and Zhao Yu, her face full of embarrassment, came out of the house. Li Yuting was too embarrassed to say anything, while Zhao Yu coughed twice and said, "Dayong, I misunderstood you..."

As soon as Zhao Yu finished speaking, Zheng Dayong felt a sense of relief and collapsed to the ground with a thud, making the mother and daughter burst into laughter.

Li Yuting quickly helped Zheng Dayong up.

"However, I can't say I'm wronging you. You and my daughter have feelings for each other, but you irresponsibly just said you'd call it quits..." Zhao Yu wanted to take this opportunity to settle things between Zheng Dayong and his daughter. Anyway, she had already thrown a tantrum and lost face, so saying something more wouldn't make a big deal.

"Ah ah ah ah... Auntie... you, you, you, you said..." Zheng Dayong stammered.

"You're not getting any younger, and our daughter just graduated from university. We don't mind that you have a lower education level. If you two are compatible, just get your marriage certificate to avoid any unforeseen problems..." Zhao Yu said.

"Heh...hehehe..." Zheng Dayong felt like he was going from hell to heaven in a flash. He chuckled foolishly for a while, then suddenly his eyes rolled back and he fainted...

When Zheng Dayong fainted, the mother and daughter were terrified. Li Yuting's hands and feet turned ice-cold, and she held Zheng Dayong's head in her arms, sobbing uncontrollably. Zhao Yu, on the other hand, rushed off to find Li Haishui.

The hot spring valley was filled with a sweet fragrance, and the flowers, seemingly oblivious to the winter chill, bloomed in profusion.

"You know, this Zheng Dahan actually has feelings for you..." Yang Ming put his arms around Wei Qingqing and Liu Sao's waists as they soaked in the hot spring.

"Of course! That day I went on a blind date, and he was waiting outside our house, wasn't he?" Aunt Liu said while massaging Yang Ming's thigh.

Yang Ming swam two laps in the icy river, feeling his blood stagnate. Although he had soaked in the hot spring for half a day, his legs still felt a bit stiff, tingling, and numb.

"That Zheng Dahan is really something..." Wei Qingqing massaged Yang Ming's other leg. "Aunt Liu, the child in your belly, could it be Zheng Dahan's???"

Aunt Liu rolled her eyes and said, "I've already told you, my child is Yang Ming's. How many times do I have to say it???"

"You always interrupt when we're talking about serious matters..." Wei Qingqing glared at Liu Sao with displeasure and said.

Wei Qingqing didn't believe for a second that the child in Liu's belly was Yang Ming's. First, Yang Ming was always under her nose, so there was absolutely no chance for the two of them to have that kind of relationship. Second, they had never used any protection, although they did hide some safety equipment under the quilt in their house.

"What interruption? Everything I said is true... Once my son is born, I'll have him and Yang Ming do a DNA test, and you'll know that I haven't lied at all..." Aunt Liu said.

"Hmph..." Wei Qingqing snorted through her nose and stopped talking. She didn't believe it at all, and there was no need to argue with her.

"Sister Liu, why do you always say that the child in your belly is mine?" Yang Ming stroked Sister Liu's lower abdomen, feeling the throbbing life force inside her.

"You'll get used to it. Once you do, when my son is born, you can raise him as your own..." Aunt Liu said with a smile.

"Hehe..." Yang Ming chuckled, saying nothing more, but slowly lay down, letting his back rub against the pebbles.

The two women massaged his legs for a while, and when their hands got a little sore, they slowly lay down and nestled on either side of him, their beautiful heads resting on his chest, their dark hair swaying in the pool water.

"I think we should resolve Zheng Dahan's matter as soon as possible; we can't ruin him..." Yang Ming suddenly said, his hand stroking the two women's shoulders.

"Hmph, some women are just a source of trouble..." Wei Qingqing said, pouting.

"What about yourself???" Aunt Liu gently pinched Wei Qingqing's chest with her small hand.

"Ugh...you're so annoying..." Wei Qingqing slapped Liu Sao's hand away. "You still won't admit it?? If my husband hadn't been so resolute, you might really have broken up our family..."

"Alright, alright, why do you two always fight like this?" Yang Ming tried to break it up. "Later, I'll go talk to Zheng Dahan. You said the child in your belly isn't Zheng Dahan's, right?"

"Yes, I can guarantee it's definitely not his..." Aunt Liu said.

"That's fine then..." Yang Ming nodded and said.

"You're not going to tell him, are you???" Aunt Liu rolled over and lay on top of Yang Ming.

"Of course we have to tell him, otherwise he'll keep hoping for the best..." Yang Ming said.

"That won't do. If Bao'er's grandparents find out, they'll make a huge fuss..." Aunt Liu quickly objected.

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