eurekapd Chapter 125 Should we do that?
Chapter 125 Should we do that?
"You don't know anything!"
Liu Xiaocui tapped him on the forehead with the end of her chopsticks, scolding him with exasperation, "Your wife is destined for great things! It's just that you're lucky, our family's ancestors must have been blessed to marry such a golden phoenix. If you don't work harder, you won't even have to fetch water for someone else's feet!"
Li Weimin rubbed his forehead and chuckled foolishly.
Believe it or not, he was actually quite happy to bring his wife water to wash her feet.
After dinner, Liu Xiaocui seemed to remember something important and called Li Weimin, who was about to go back to his room to rest, back to his room.
She turned and went into the inner room, rummaged through the locked wooden chest for a long time, and pulled out something wrapped in red cloth.
"Weimin, take this."
Liu Xiaocui stuffed the red cloth bag into her son's hand, her expression becoming serious. "There's twenty yuan in here. Do you even know what day it is tomorrow?"
Li Weimin was stunned for a moment, not yet able to react.
"Idiot!"
Liu Xiaocui gave him a big slap on the forehead. "Back to your parents' home! Tomorrow is the third day of the Lunar New Year. According to old customs, you have to take Xiaotao back to her parents' home! This is the new son-in-law's first visit, so you can't be stingy with the formalities. Take the money, go to the supply and marketing cooperative first thing tomorrow morning, buy two bottles of good wine, and get a few pounds of fatty meat. Don't be stingy and make people laugh at you!"
Li Weimin clutched the twenty yuan in his hand, the joy on his face long gone, leaving only a face scrunched up in a bitter expression.
Visiting one's mother-in-law's house for a homecoming is supposed to be a good thing for the new son-in-law to show off.
But the thought of facing Li Youtian's face, which was as black as the bottom of a pot, made Li Weimin's legs start to cramp.
Li Youtian, the village party secretary, is like a local tyrant in Lijia Village. He walks with a swagger and his eyes are like knives.
In the past, when Li Weimin saw him, he would want to hide his head in his crotch and wouldn't dare to breathe.
Now, this great Buddha has become his own father-in-law.
"What? I asked you to go buy something, why are you looking so long?"
Liu Xiaocui, with her sharp eyes, immediately noticed her son's cowardly appearance. Exasperated, she slapped him on the back. "Have some backbone! Now that you have money in your pocket, stand up straight! Tomorrow when we go to your in-laws' house, eat and drink as you please, don't act like a submissive little wife and embarrass the Li family!"
Li Weimin was startled by the slap, and groaned with a bitter face, "Mom, you don't know, that village secretary... no, my father-in-law, the way he looks at me, like I'm a thief. I'm afraid that if I drink too much tomorrow and say something wrong, he'll..."
"What if I give it to you? Will I eat you up?" Liu Xiaocui rolled her eyes. "Use your brain and think about it. You're a married man now."
Li Weimin shrank his neck, looking completely bewildered: "You have a wife... so what?"
"What's wrong? Are you stupid?" Liu Xiaocui poked Li Weimin's forehead with her finger and said in a low voice.
"What kind of temper does Li Xiaotao have? She's a fiercely protective tigress! You might be a coward outside, but you're her man. Can she just stand by and watch her man get bullied?"
"If that old bastard Li Youtian really dares to give you a hard time, just you wait and see, Xiao Tao will flip the table before you even open your mouth!"
Li Weimin was stunned as he listened, and the image of Li Xiaotao's big eyes, which always carried a hint of menace, involuntarily surfaced in his mind.
He swallowed hard, still unsure, and asked timidly, "Mother...can she...can she do it?"
In his memory, Li Xiaotao used to beat him up quite a few times.
Although these past few days have been so wonderful, like a dream, not only have I been cooking for him, but I've also been helping him earn money, and even on the kang (heated brick bed)... cough cough.
But facing the long-established and powerful Party Secretary father-in-law, could Li Xiaotao really turn against her own father for his sake?
"Definitely!"
Liu Xiaocui answered decisively, "Women, you know, they'll follow their husbands wherever they go. As long as they treat you like family, they'll protect you fiercely. When you were little, you were bullied by Er Gou next door. Who was it that chased Er Gou all over the village with a brick? Wasn't it Xiao Tao?"
"You weren't even married into the family then! Now you've slept in the same bed, do you think she'd let you suffer? Just relax and stand up straight tomorrow!"
After being brainwashed by his own mother, Li Weimin's heart, which had been hanging in mid-air, finally settled down a little.
Li Weimin returned to his room feeling dizzy.
Li Xiaotao had already finished washing up.
She sat cross-legged in the middle of the kang mat, having long since stripped off her usual work clothes and trousers.
Right now, she was wearing a tank top and loose shorts, her exposed thighs and forearms were so white they were almost dazzling, a stark contrast to how she usually looked when she was basking in the sun.
She had just finished showering, and her body was still damp. Her hair wasn't completely dry; it clung wetly to her neck, with water droplets trickling down her collarbone.
It's stuffy and hot inside because there's no fan.
Li Xiaotao was fanning herself with a large palm-leaf fan that had some tattered edges. Her vest was thin to begin with, and when it was slightly soaked with sweat, it clung to her body, clearly outlining the contours of her body.
Li Weimin's Adam's apple bobbed up and down suddenly, and his throat instantly felt so dry it felt like it was on fire.
He quickly turned around and bolted the door.
Take off your shoes and get on the kang (heated brick bed).
Li Weimin didn't dare to go directly to Li Xiaotao's side. Instead, he lay down on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), but his eyes were uncontrollably glued to his wife's sweaty back.
The air was filled with the smell of cheap soap mixed with face cream. Li Weimin had become so familiar with this smell over the past two days that it made him crave it every time he smelled it.
His mother's words just now echoed in his ears again—"You are her man," "You've slept in the same bed."
Yes, this is his lawfully wedded wife; they have a marriage certificate and a wedding banquet.
Li Weimin rubbed against the hard mat on the kang (heated brick bed), then mustered his courage and plopped down on the mat.
Li Xiaotao sensed the movement, paused in her fanning herself, and glanced at him.
"Why aren't you sleeping? What are you doing, scurrying around like a maggot?"
Li Weimin froze at the question, and the courage he had just mustered almost vanished.
"daughter in law……"
Li Weimin swallowed hard, fumbled around in the gap of the mat for a couple of moments, and then moved it in a large chunk of the way.
Almost half of his body was pressed against Li Xiaotao's thigh.
"Well... Mother said we have to get up early tomorrow to go back to our parents' home."
Li Xiaotao tossed the palm-leaf fan beside her pillow, braced herself behind her with both hands, and leaned back slightly: "You know you have to get up early, so why aren't you lying there like a corpse? What, do I have to sing you a lullaby?"
No...no.
Li Weimin's face flushed red, and his breathing became heavy.
He rolled over and lay on his side, directly facing Li Xiaotao's lean yet muscular waist.
He touched that spot last night; it felt incredibly good.
But he didn't dare to reach out at this moment. He just curled up his legs to slightly conceal his body's unruly reaction.
"I wanted to ask..."
Li Weimin raised his head, his gaze sweeping over the face as beautiful as a peach blossom, finally settling on the two rosy lips, and blurted out:
"Tonight... should we... do 'that' again?"