Rebirth: My Dear Little Wife Is So Scheming

Chapter 36: Chapter 36: Coming to the Door Chapter 36: Chapter 36: Coming to the Door “Honghong, tell me, what exactly happened? Is what your mom said true?” Liu Baoguo could not believe that his well-behaved daughter could do something like this.

Liu Hong lowered her head, her fingers pinching and twisting the corner of her clothes, silent.

Li Chunmei slapped her across the face, hitting Liu Hong relentlessly. Liu Hong did not dodge and was beat by Li Chunmei.

Seeing this, Liu Baoguo quickly intervened, “Enough, what’s the use of beating her to death? We have to solve the problem now that it has happened. Do you really want to kill her?”

Li Chunmei collapsed on the ground, “I can’t live anymore. How did I encounter such a shameless creature? We have lived a decent life in this village our whole lives, never did anything guilty. Now, look, our own daughter has done such a thing. If the villagers find out, how can our family live on? Do you still want to face anyone after this?”

Li Chunmei wept bitterly, thinking the disgrace was minor compared to her worry that her future in-laws would despise her daughter, and she wondered how her child could walk her path in the future.

Liu Baoguo helped Li Chunmei to sit down, “Don’t cry anymore, let’s properly ask what really happened?” Liu Baoguo was angry as well—in his own house, his daughter got pregnant out of wedlock, an embarrassment that would make many people laugh their heads off.

Wiping away her tears, Li Chunmei asked Liu Hong, “Tell me, whose child is it?” She couldn’t let her daughter suffer in silence.

Liu Hong remained silent.

Li Chunmei was so furious she could eat someone alive, “Still won’t say it, will you? For a man, you even abandoned your own reputation. Do you now also want to forsake your parents’ lives? Your two brothers are not yet married. If this gets out, what respectable family would let their daughters marry your brothers? Can’t you use your head and think for a moment?” Frustrated at her lack of understanding.

Finally, Liu Hong reacted, lifting her head, her face streaked with tears. She regretted it, why hadn’t she controlled herself, falling for Han Dazhi’s sweet talk. That day, under a spell, she ended up with Han Dazhi who said he would ask for her hand in marriage in a few days.

But the thing had already happened. She had been feeling unwell these past few days and sneaked off to the town hospital, where she gave a fake name and got tested. Holding the test results, she felt the urge to die. Wasn’t she smart enough to know the consequences of getting pregnant before marriage?

Once the story got out, not only would she lose face, but her parents and brothers would be implicated too. People would accuse their family of having no morals, for raising what kind of child? Also, Han Dazhi’s parents might look down on her because of this. But what could she do?

Now she was pregnant. She could only marry Han Dazhi. Otherwise, what could she do?

“Mom, it’s, it’s Han Dazhi from our village!” Liu Hong finally stuttered out the name.

Li Chunmei got up, ready to leave, but Liu Baoguo stopped her, “Where are you going?”

Li Chunmei said viciously, “I’m going to Han Dazhi’s house to ask, what are they going to do after such shameless behavior from their son? I must make Han Dazhi marry my daughter. I really didn’t expect Han Dazhi to dare have relations with my daughter right under our noses. Isn’t this a slap in our face?”

Liu Baoguo held her back, “Don’t go, Han Dazhi works in the county, he’s not at home. What are you going to tell his parents? That your daughter has his son’s child? What if Han Dazhi denies it? Do you want the whole village to know? Will Honghong still be able to live?” Liu Baoguo was thinking long-term.

Liu Hong, frightened, clung to her parents and said, “Dad, Mom! What should I do?” If Han Dazhi did not marry her, she could only die.

Li Chunmei slapped her, “Now you know fear when it’s too late. When you were busy doing such shameless things with that man, didn’t you think about what you’d do if he didn’t marry you?” Her urgency mixed with anger.

Liu Baoguo pulled Li Chunmei away, “Enough, stop making a scene. Honghong, tomorrow come with me to the county to find Han Dazhi. This matter is no longer just between you two. I want to see what their family plans to do.”

Liu Hong murmured a nod.

No one in the family could settle down.

They were all counting the time.

Bai Xiao had just returned home and was barely seated when Li Chunhua, accompanied by Hao Fang, arrived furiously pounding on the front door.

Bai Xiao had feared that Li Chunhua would come to make trouble, so she’d made sure to bolt the door.

“Bai Xiao! Come out here, you little wretch—now you even dare to hit your grandma? Do you know that hitting an elderly person calls for divine punishment? Aren’t you afraid of the gods above? Look at this lump on my head that Bai Xiao gave me; it’s so big and it hurts like hell!” Li Chunhua announced to the people outside the door.

Bai Xiao opened the door, “Grandma! What’s happened to you?” she asked with feigned concern.

Li Chunhua grabbed hold of Bai Xiao in an instant, “You wretched girl, you still ask? Don’t you know what happened? It was your sneaky attack from behind that did this to me! You all don’t know, this ingrate hit me and then left me lying at the village entrance for hours without a care, not worried in the least that bad people might carry me off! Such a cruel heart.” Li Chunhua’s grip was fierce, and Bai Xiao’s arm quickly bruised.

Bai Xiao struggled free from Li Chunhua, “Grandma, you’re saying I attacked you from behind, but that’s not true. Why would I hit you for no reason? Aunts and uncles—you wouldn’t randomly sneak attack someone either, right? There has to be a reason!”

She wasn’t afraid of Li Chunhua making a fuss.

Li Chunhua glared with eyes sharp as daggers, “You attacked me from behind and snatched the letter from my arms!” As soon as she said this, Li Chunhua realized her mistake; she couldn’t talk about the admission notice.

With a smile that was not quite a smile, Bai Xiao asked, “What letter? One that needed me to knock you unconscious to take it? I really have no idea about it!”

Li Chunhua was at a loss for words—what to do now?

“You—you’re the one who hit me?” Li Chunhua could only cling to that accusation.

In a gentle and amiable tone, Hao Fang said, “Xiao, if you’re dissatisfied with your grandma, you can’t just retaliate with a deadly sneak attack. She’s getting on in years; aren’t you afraid of causing a fatality with just one blow?” This was an attempt to defend Li Chunhua’s earlier statement about the letter.

Bai Xiao chuckled, “Little Aunt, I really didn’t know about this. Grandma, did you see with your own eyes that it was me who hit you? Everyone says to catch a thief red-handed—who saw it? Don’t tell me you were the only witness. If I go around pointing to an injury on the back of my head and say that my grandma hit me early in the morning and I saw it, it would be a real mess, wouldn’t it? We still have to talk about evidence.”

Dead men tell no tales.

Li Chunhua was shaking with rage. She knew it was Bai Xiao who had done it because when she woke up, the letter was gone from her pocket! Who else would want that letter? Needless to say, it had to be Bai Xiao.

So she was convinced it was Bai Xiao, but what she hadn’t expected was for Bai Xiao to so adamantly deny it; she also couldn’t reveal why Bai Xiao would have knocked her unconscious.

What a suffocating frustration.