flstandardbreds Chapter 128 The Educated Youth Tricked into Going to the Countryside (22)
Chapter 128 The Educated Youth Tricked into Going to the Countryside (22)
As evening fell and darkness completely descended, Lin Jingyi quietly concealed himself under the cover of night.
Together with Zhao Ergou, one human and one ghost, they walked towards Zhao Cheng's house.
Lin Jingyi pulled Zhao Ergou up to the roof and sat down to observe the situation downstairs with his divine sense.
Liu Jia was sitting in a chair, and Zhao Cheng placed a basin of hot water at her feet.
"Jiajia, wash your feet," Zhao Cheng said with a fawning smile.
Upon hearing this, Liu Jia took off her shoes and put her feet into the basin.
Now that she is pregnant with Zhao Cheng's child, she no longer needs to work in the fields.
Although Zhao Chengren is ugly, missing an ear, and has a crippled arm.
But Zhao Cheng was really good to Liu Jia, doing everything for her, big or small, and always responding to her every call.
Liu Jia also began to disregard the other person's appearance, only caring about how good he was to her, and she was willing to do so.
The reason Zhao Cheng treated Liu Jia so well was because he knew...
I'm practically disabled now. I couldn't find a wife in the village to begin with, and now it's even less likely.
Zhao Cheng is already quite content with the fact that he can keep a woman with his good voice; it's better than having no wife at all.
Now that he's missing a piece of one arm, he can't exert any strength at all, and it's hard to say who will win against Liu Jia.
When the two argued, Liu Jia would threaten Zhao Cheng with the child and the threat of leaving, forcing Zhao Cheng to compromise.
If Liu Jia leaves, he will have no hope of having children in this lifetime.
The only thing he could do was to treat Liu Jia even better, making her unable to leave him.
"Sister Xia, what are you doing?" Zhao Ergou asked when he saw Lin Jingyi sitting still on the roof.
Lin Jingyi only looked away after hearing this.
"I'm checking the situation inside the room, so don't make a sound." After saying that, Lin Jingyi continued to observe.
Although Zhao Ergou was puzzled about how he could see the situation downstairs from the rooftop, Sister Xia told him not to make a sound, so he didn't ask and quietly sat down next to Lin Jingyi.
"How many work points did you earn today?" Liu Jia asked, looking at Zhao Cheng who was standing to the side with a smile, after putting her feet into the basin. She was a little annoyed.
"Well... just two work points," Zhao Cheng replied somewhat hesitantly.
After all, he used to slack off at work, and now he suddenly has to work hard, which is really tiring.
I can't help but want to rest.
"Why so little? Didn't I tell you to work hard? I do more work than you." Upon hearing this, Liu Jia raised her voice by an octave.
"Jiajia, don't be angry. I haven't gotten used to it yet. I'll get used to it for a few days."
You should know that he used to only earn one work point a day.
"How are you going to support me and the child like this?"
Lin Jingyi never expected that Zhao Cheng would change so much in this life.
In Xia Lin's previous life, Zhao Cheng would often beat and scold her, even saying things like, "So what if she's a scholar? She still has to serve him."
Xia Lin was pregnant at the time, yet she still had to work in the fields, support Zhao Cheng, and provide him with emotional support.
In this life, however, it's the other way around.
What made Zhao Cheng treat Liu Jia so well?
Lin Jingyi withdrew his divine sense and sat down to ponder.
In Zhao Ergou's view, Lin Jingyi had been doing this all along.
Unable to figure out the reason, Lin Jingyi continued to use his divine sense to check on the two of them.
Zhao Cheng then used the water Liu Jia used to wash her feet to wash his own feet.
Their conversation also stopped after Zhao Cheng's assurance.
The two then blew out the kerosene lamp and went to bed. It was only when Zhao Cheng took off his hat that Lin Jingyi noticed Zhao Cheng's missing ear.
He also wore long sleeves to cover his arms.
Lin Jingyi then had a guess: perhaps it was because of his ears and arms that Zhao Cheng treated Liu Jia so well.
She came up with a way to make things difficult for the two of them, a way that would free her from her own troubles and also make them hurt each other.
Lin Jingyi sat on the roof until the two people inside the room were breathing steadily.
Lin Jingyi made hand seals and cast a dream-making spell on Zhao Cheng.
In his dream, Zhao Cheng turned into a baby. His father was a warlord, and his mother was the warlord's legal wife.
His father wasn't good-looking, but he was rich and powerful, and his mother was beautiful, but Zhao Cheng didn't inherit his mother's good genes.
Zhao Cheng didn't know why he woke up as a baby, but at his age he couldn't speak, he could only babble.
Finally, he shut his mouth after suckling the beautiful mother's breast milk.
"If Liu Jia were as pretty as this woman," Zhao Cheng thought to himself as he nursed.
Zhao Cheng's father had several concubines, but no sons; he was the warlord's only son.
He naturally became the young marshal.
Zhao Cheng was pampered by his parents from birth, and they granted him almost every request.
He gradually forgot his identity in Zhao Family Village; the Young Marshal was his true identity!
His father was a powerful warlord, and as the only son of the warlord, Zhao Cheng was always admired wherever he went.
As Zhao Cheng grew up, he was no longer bound by age and became even more unrestrained, indulging in all sorts of pleasures.
What he liked most was seeing beautiful girls begging him from beneath him. As a result, Zhao Cheng, who was only eighteen years old, already had more than a dozen concubines in his house.
Sometimes when he went out, he would see a pretty young girl, snatch her back to his residence, and force himself on her.
If someone is obedient, he'll give them a title; if they're disobedient, he'll beat them until they obey. If he really likes someone but they're still disobedient, Zhao Cheng can't bear to torture them, so he tortures their family members instead.
As a result, some of the beautiful women under Zhao Cheng's father's jurisdiction dared not go out on the street, while some dressed up in a flamboyant manner in order to climb into the gate of the marshal's mansion.
Zhao Cheng accepted them without hesitation.
With no one in his family arguing with him, Zhao Cheng became even more unscrupulous.
His happy life ended when he was twenty-four years old.
At that time, one of his concubines was giving birth to his first child in the delivery room, and he was waiting anxiously outside the door.
Suddenly, it seemed as if an irresistible suction force was trying to pull him away.
No matter how much Zhao Cheng struggled, it was to no avail. Suddenly, everything went white before his eyes. When he opened them again, he saw Liu Jia, who was of average appearance.
Having grown accustomed to seeing beautiful women, Zhao Cheng suddenly felt a little out of place.
"Zhao Cheng, when are you going to stop sleeping? The sun's already high in the sky, and you're still not up to get out of bed and get to work."
When Liu Jia saw that Zhao Cheng was awake, she stopped pushing him and started cursing loudly.
Since Liu Jia became pregnant, her temper has become much worse.
Just a moment ago, Zhao Cheng was bossing around a bunch of people, but now that he's woken up and suddenly being scolded by an ugly woman, anger begins to rise in his heart.
He instinctively reached for his gun at his waist, but found nothing. Zhao Cheng's face immediately darkened.
"Who do you think you are, daring to speak to this young marshal like that?"
Zhao Cheng squinted at Liu Jia and asked in an extremely displeased tone.
"What level am I? I'm your great-aunt, and you call yourself a young marshal? Are you still dreaming?"
Liu Jia got angry at Zhao Cheng's attitude, and she was already in a bad mood.
So, Liu Jia put one hand on her hip and kept tapping Zhao Cheng's head with the other.
Zhao Cheng stumbled backward as Liu Jia tapped his head, looking at Liu Jia as if she were a dead man.
He remembered; the woman was Liu Jia.
He felt that he might be dreaming in this life, and that one day he would go back to be the young marshal, surrounded by beautiful women, and holding great power.
After all, he had lived for more than twenty years as a young marshal.
Who would want to spend their whole life in this remote corner with an ugly woman?
But since she was a woman who appeared in his dreams, Zhao Cheng became much more tolerant of Liu Jia.
"Liu Jia, I'm going to sleep, don't disturb me."
Zhao Cheng wanted to end this dream as soon as possible.
Deep down, he was panicked. He was afraid that being the young marshal was just a dream, but he dared not think about it. He just wanted to go back to being the young marshal as soon as possible.
"Sleep for whoever you are, get up and get to work!"
Seeing that Zhao Cheng was about to lie down again, Liu Jia's temper flared up instantly.
This was the first time Zhao Cheng had given her such a cold shoulder in the months they'd been together. She felt both angry and aggrieved; that jerk couldn't keep his word.
As Liu Jia spoke, she tried to help Zhao Cheng up.
Zhao Cheng frowned. If he had a gun, he would have shot Liu Jia long ago. How could he let her be so presumptuous towards him?
"Get out!" Zhao Cheng roared at Liu Jia.
Liu Jia paused for a moment, somewhat shocked.
She never expected that the man who had made such solemn promises to her last night would now be so angry and tell her to get out.
"Zhao Cheng, you bastard!" Liu Jia said, then scratched at Zhao Cheng without a second thought.
"Ouch, you crazy woman." Zhao Cheng's face was scratched by Liu Jia's long fingernails, leaving a long red mark instantly.
But Liu Jia didn't just tickle him; she also kept trying to pull Zhao Cheng off the bed.
Zhao Cheng was in pain, and instinctively reached for his lower back, but found nothing. His heart sank.
He could only roar in pain, and when Liu Jia pulled at him, he could only hold on tightly to the edge of the bed.
"Kacha~"
"Ahhhhhh..." A crisp sound came from Zhao Cheng's arm. His arm had been gnawed to the bone by Zhao Ergou, and it was not fully healed yet, with no flesh growing back.
Zhao Cheng screamed for a while, sweat pouring down his forehead, and finally couldn't take it anymore and fainted.
In a tug-of-war between the two, Zhao Cheng's arm, which had exposed bone, broke.
Liu Jia was startled by Zhao Cheng's scream. She immediately let go of Zhao Cheng's arm, took a step back, covered her mouth, and looked at Zhao Cheng.
Liu Jia didn't realize what was happening until Zhao Cheng fainted. In the end, she saw blood seeping through Zhao Cheng's clothes and belatedly ran out of the room.
Liu Jia stopped several men from Zhao Family Village who were on their way to work in the fields and asked them to help take Zhao Cheng to the clinic.
Liu Jia was also terrified. She hadn't expected this to happen. Her legs were still trembling when she ran out, and she spoke to the villagers with trembling lips.
Finally, Liu Jia simply tied a knot above Zhao Cheng's arm to prevent excessive bleeding. With the help of two villagers, they took the unconscious Zhao Cheng to the health center.
Zhao Ergou, who was hiding in a corner of Zhao Cheng's house, was shocked to see things develop like this and quickly walked towards Lin Jingyi.
Last night, after Lin Jingyi finished casting the dream-making spell on Zhao Cheng, he left Zhao Ergou to watch over him and went back to sleep.
The dream-weaving technique she used was simply to create a more realistic experience for the dreamer, presenting what they most desired and fantasized about. The dreamer would gradually become lost in the dream until they were woken up by someone or died in the dream.