He faced his wife, held both of his hands and exhaled before he said,
"Tingting, I don't know how you would understand this but I am not your husband.
I don't want you to think that I am saying this to push you away or that it this the madness returning.
No, it is not.", he paused when he noticed his confused face, which is quite understanding.
Still he continue, "I know this will be too much for you to digest but I need you to hear me out.
I could've kept silent and no one will ever know but I thought at least you need to know the truth to understand how dire our situation is.",
he waited for it to sink in and after getting an approving nod he continued.
Surprisingly, Wang Ting was taking it well, better than he had hoped for.
"Your husband, the real Chen Yan had died from poisoning. He was forcefully fed the poison two days ago.
The culprit was the moon of the second son but all of them were in on it together.
How do I know this? It's because I too had died in my world and now I am occupying your husband's body so I have all of his memories.
They had planned to kill your husband and put the blame on you and then sack you and the kids from this this house.
That way, they get to leave you with nothing for all those years that you had served them and yet no one will point fingers at them and put the blame on you for killing your husband.",
he paused to wipe the tears streaming down his wife's face.
He hugged him and put his head on his chest to prevent the children from noticing while stroking his back.
"I am sorry, please continue." Wang Ting said.
"Shh, you don't have to apologise. It's okay if you want to cry. I can continue later." Yue Yua said.
Wang Ting shook his head and said "Don't worry, I'll be okay. You please continue. I'm sure you have a way out of this for us. And thank you for choosing to tell me this. Please tell me everything. Please go on.", Tingting said.
Sighing, Yue Yan continued, "Yesterday, my intention was for us to move into your husband, Chen Yan's quarters today but that was before I had this memory of him being poisoned this morning.
So I don't think it is safe for us anywhere near this family.
It made me also realised that I may not have all his memories yet so I need to thread carefully. By the way, my real is Yue Yan.
I have the same first name as your husband. Perhaps this was destined. Don't you agree?", his joke made Wang laugh and hit his chest, wondering how he could find humour in this situation.
"That is the first one. The second one is that, we are not safe here and so we have to leave this place. We don't have the means now but it doesn't mean we are hopeless.
I know the main occupation of this village is farming but I do not have any idea about that and from the memories that I have from Chen Yan so far, it does not seem like he had much experience either.
We do not own any lands too for us to do our own farming and so I thought of something. Instead of you having to use your energy for this ungrateful house, I want you to use it only on our little family.
Today, I want us to get ready and go into the village to see what opportunities we can use to our advantage, okay?", he asked.
"Hm. Ok." Ting said while nodding. Yue Yan could see a glimmer of hope in his eyes as he answered.
He himself does not know whether they will find anything good or not but he has to be positive for the sake of his new family.
After they had all finished with their baths, Chen Yan himself went into the kitchen to heat the leftover food that they had kept from yesterday.
He told Tingting to stay indoor with the kids and only open the door when he knocks.
He should ignore anyone else. You could say that the new memory that he had had during this dawn had made him a little paranoid around his family.
He came from a peaceful and loving home so the memory of how Chen Yan's family had pushed the poison down his throat still hunt him hence why he did not let Tingting to do any house chores today lest someone attacks him.
He's sure he would have eaten the mud to sleep instead of going for the food yesterday if he had had this new memory earlier.
To be honest, he is now very scared of them but he refused to let them see that. Now all he wants is to find ways and means to leave this family as soon as possible.
Well, with his plan of his wife not serving the family anymore, he's sure they'll be sacked sooner or later.
At the kitchen, the moon of the second son came to disturb and even insulting and hitting, him but he ignored him.
When he was done, he took the food to their thatched hut.
He and his family sat around and enjoyed the meals. Perhaps, this may be the last sumptuous meal that they would be having for a while until things get better. When they finished, they decided to leave the house.
Wang Ting had just stepped out of their hut with Lulu in his arms when he was met with the angry mob of his in-laws.
Papa Yen, the mama-in-law, slapped Ting hard across the face that he lost his balance losing his grip on his son.
Lulu fell hard on the stony ground and started crying and whimpering.
The second son and his moon held Tingting tightly while Mama Yen kept beating him after some slaps with a piece of log that was lying around.
Chen Yan had also just stepped out carrying Yuyu in his arms when he heard Lulu's wails and he saw the angry gang in beating his wife. He quickly put Yuyu down and rushed to his wife.