The Country Maiden: Fields and Leisure-Chapter 791 - 790 Reunion with an Old Friend

For a long time, the woman slowly stopped wailing and rolling, and could only lie on the ground gasping for breath, like a dying fish, occasionally trembling her hands and feet, proving she was still alive.

Yang Zongbao did not move, and waited until the woman incredulously sat up slowly, looked herself up and down, revealing a look of surprise and disbelief. She wasn’t dead?

She opened her mouth joyfully to speak but found that her throat hurt so much she couldn’t make a sound.

The woman covered her mouth in horror, then shivered while pointing at Yang Zongbao, her eyes filled with both resentment and fear.

Yang Zongbao confirmed that the woman was mute, then he put away the bottle and turned to leave.

The woman wanted to shout but couldn’t make a sound, wanted to catch up but had no strength.

She struggled to get up from the ground and walked home until the sun set.

She didn’t notice that Yang Zongbao kept following her from a distance.

When the woman returned home, she was greeted with a slap.

She was already weak, struggled to get home, and with that slap, she fell to the ground, "Where the hell have you been? Did you go out to seduce men? Let me tell you, if you dare to mess around outside, watch how I’ll deal with you!"

The widower cursed twice and spat at the woman: "Hurry up and cook! Your man has been starving all day! You were bought with my funeral money, yet all these years you couldn’t even lay an egg, always wearing a dead face, do you still think you’re not bad luck enough?"

The woman bit her teeth and crawled up, stumbled into the kitchen.

Even though her hands and feet were trembling, she didn’t dare delay, reluctantly cooked dinner, and served it.

The widower drank while nitpicking at the dishes, finding fault with everything.

The woman didn’t dare make a sound, just scooped a half bowl of scorched rice and ate it soaked in water, not daring to touch the dishes at all.

After finishing the meal and cleaning up the dishes, the woman had just walked out of the kitchen when she fainted on the ground.

The fact that the woman was mute couldn’t be hidden, the widower initially gave a few large coins to buy medicine, but seeing no improvement, he stopped caring.

Later, he found that because the woman was mute, he became even more reckless in abusing her.

Within less than half a month, the woman couldn’t stand it anymore. While cooking, she added something to the food and served drinks to the widower with a low profile.

The widower drank two cups of yellow liquor and lost his senses, just kept drinking as long as someone poured it.

This dinner lasted till after midnight.

The next morning, neither the widower nor the woman left the house.

The widower was bad-tempered and had poor relationships with his neighbors. When the neighbors sensed something was wrong and opened the gate, the smell of corpses had already spread.

The main hall door was open, the widower lay on the ground, the woman sat in the chair.

The dishes on the table were long rotten, mixed with the smell of decomposing bodies and flies all over the room...

The stench was so overwhelming that no one dared enter, covering their noses and taking a glance from the door, saw the overturned wine jug on the ground, both faces black and purple, clearly poisoned.

The neighbors noticed the woman was dressed neatly, indicating preparation, and guessed that she finally couldn’t bear the abuse and decided to end it with the widower.

The clan offered a high price of Silver Pieces to have the bodies hurriedly buried.

With a thin coffin, the two rotting corpses were placed inside and buried haphazardly, ending the matter.

The widower’s property was naturally taken by the clan.

Yang Zongbao watched the burial of the two and then turned and left. freeweɓnøvel~com

His great revenge was achieved, yet he felt no lightness or joy, only immense emptiness, without a goal, not knowing what else he had to live for.

However, touching the Silver Pieces, Yang Zongbao could force himself to live on.

He traveled across many places, working as an armed escort, a shop assistant, a boatman, in short, he walked most places across the world.

Being a mute, he always worked silently and earned the trust of his employers.

One day, in a distant place, Yang Zongbao met the friend from years ago, they were both deeply moved, especially seeing the once spirited Yang Zongbao now like this, the friend was greatly surprised.

The friend rented a private room, one asked, the other answered with pen and paper, revealing everything to each other.

The friend had taken his family and fled far away, now stood firm, married a beautiful wife, took in concubines, had several children, living comfortably.

Upon learning that his abandoned wife caused the death of Yang’s parents, the ruin of Yang’s family, and the destruction of Yang Zongbao’s life.

The friend was astounded and guilt-ridden.

He repeatedly said that if he hadn’t hidden the truth from the Yang Family due to his foolish pride, Yang Zongbao’s family wouldn’t have ended up like this.

He tearfully apologized to Yang Zongbao, offered to compensate him, asking him not to leave, promised to help him find a wife to start a family, even offering to adopt one of his children to Yang Zongbao for support in old age.

Logically, such words from a friend would move anyone deeply?

But after years of wandering, Yang Zongbao had seen too much of human evil and cruelty, and he immediately sensed something odd in these words.

He vaguely mentioned being poisoned and his damaged body, but didn’t imply he couldn’t have children, how did the friend know?

The current Yang Zongbao was no longer the trusting person he once was, he remained expressionless but acted grateful, persuading the friend to drink.

The friend, perhaps stimulated somehow, drank without refusal, soon softened.

Yang Zongbao had learned some tricks from his years in the Jianghu, and with slight pressure, the friend confessed the truth.

It turned out everything was secretly planned and driven by this friend.

The friend’s resentment towards the woman after their wedding fiasco made him hate Yang Zongbao even more.

He even suspected Yang Zongbao had an affair with the woman, humiliating him.

His paranoia made him appear conciliatory, continuing as husband to the woman, yet daily praised Yang Zongbao excessively in front of her, agitating her, saying she would never deserve such a fate.

He subtly incited the woman during arguments, challenging her to seek out Yang Zongbao if she dared.

He imprinted the Yang family’s address repeatedly in the woman’s mind.

The woman, nearly driven mad, was finally divorced.

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