Chapter 144 - Chapter 144: Chapter 142: I am your arsenic, you are my honey (4) (1/2)
Chapter 144: Chapter 142: I am your arsenic, you are my honey (4)
Zuo Xingyu returned home, dragging his extremely exhausted body.
The Zuo Family’s house was located on a slope outside South Mountain Village, not far from the county. It neighbored Liu Family’s Mansion and was a small thatched hut with three rooms.
At the moment, it was already late at night. Apart from a few distant barks, the families nearby had already fallen into dreamland.
A few steps away from the thatched hut, Zuo Xingyu couldn’t help but quicken his pace towards home.
“Yu Er, is…is that you? You’ve come home?”
A voice, old and kind, inquired.
“Mom, why haven’t you gone to bed yet?”
Upon hearing this, Zuo Xingyu hurriedly quickened his pace to help the elderly woman, turning towards the direction of the thatched hut.
The elderly woman reached out for his hand, steadying herself. Her heart finally found some relief.
“Ai! How can mom sleep when Yu Er hasn’t come back? Your job is completely like licking blood off the edge of the knife, toiling all day long, and yet… ”
Ms. Wei spoke with a face full of sadness and quickly changed the subject: “Mom can’t help much with your work, so she can only cook for you while waiting for your return.”
“Mom, Yu Er has already said that he could cook for himself when he comes home, it will not take long, and you don’t have good eyesight, so don’t bother with cooking and waiting for Yu Er every time. If you tire yourself out, what will Yu Er do in the future? Mom, please sit down and rest for a bit.” Zuo Xingyu carefully helped her into the house and settled her into a chair.
“The rice is in the pot, it should still be warm. You eat it quickly.”
Ms. Wei sighed, wiping away her tears: “Aiyo! Your dad left us too early. If he were still here, would those so-called relatives of yours dare to be so arrogant? Not only have they taken all the farmland that should belong to us, but they also drove us to live in this thatched hut?”
Zuo Xingyu went to the kitchen and uncovered the pot. Inside were the already-cooked dishes. He grabbed a bowl.
“Mom, don’t worry! These people who bully us will not end well!”
“Mom knows, but they are your blood brothers after all.”
Ms. Wei sighed: “And your fiancée, who was engaged through finger-pointing! Not only did she choose wealth over poverty, she even deliberately teamed up with an adulterer to humiliate you. That one deserves a thousand cuts…”
Ms. Wei continued to talk for a long while, while wiping the endless tears from her eyes.
Zuo Xingyu brought the cooked dishes from the other thatched hut, eating silently with his hands gripping the bamboo chopsticks, never interrupting his mother’s words.
Only in those star-like deep eyes, did a raging fire kindle.
“If you ask me, who is to blame and resent, it’s your deceased father. If not for his stubborn determination to engage you with Liu Sisi, there wouldn’t have been so many troubles. Look at her now, even though her reputation has been tarnished, she married someone in the end. It’s actually my son who’s pitiful…”
As Ms. Wei spoke, she began wiping her tears again, as they seemed to never run dry after a long while: “I don’t have high expectations, I just hope that within my lifetime, I could see you get married and have a child. Then I’d be content…”
Zuo Xingyu returned to the kitchen to put away the empty bowl without a word. He carefully picked up the washbasins and filled them with water, took a towel, and went out of the kitchen.
“Mom, let me warm your feet.”
As he spoke, Zuo Xingyu slowly put down the basin, carefully wiping his mother’s face, then twisting the towel dry and putting it aside, before carefully washing her feet.
Ms. Wei’s hazy old eyes couldn’t see clearly, but she could make out a blurry figure.
She reached out to touch Zuo Xingyu’s head, her hands slowly sliding down, gently touching his face.
“Yu Er, how come you seem to have lost weight again? Did you not eat enough or were you starved?”
“No, Mom! Yu Er is as strong as a horse!”