Wu Xia and the other two were startled and looked at the newcomer in confusion.
The newcomer was none other than the village chief's daughter, Li Mengyue, who was five or six years younger than Wu Xia. She had followed Wu Xia around since childhood, calling him "Brother Wu Xia."
"Wu Xia, are you sick or something? Hurry up and call off the marriage!"
Li Mengyue glanced arrogantly at the three who were having breakfast and said coldly.
"Call off the marriage?" Wu Xia was dumbfounded, "Call off what marriage?"
Though Li Mengyue was quite attractive and everyone had joked about arranging a childhood marriage, even after Wu Xia was admitted to university, Li Mengyue had told others that he was her husband.
But Wu Xia felt no love for Li Mengyue, not to mention he was tired of seeing her since childhood, especially with her unruly and willful temperament, which Wu Xia disliked.
In the two months since Wu Xia had returned, he hadn't seen Li Mengyue, who had reportedly bought a house in the town and moved there to live a joyous life.
"Of course, it's the marriage between you and me!" Li Mengyue looked at Wu Xia disdainfully, "You don't even look at your penniless self, taking those childhood jokes seriously, and you have the nerve to come to my house to propose!"
"And you think to offer only sixty-eight thousand for the bride price? Dream on. If you could offer six hundred eighty thousand, maybe I'd consider it."
Wu Xia was utterly confused.
Wu Gang quickly stood up, "Yue, what's gotten into you? Let's talk this out, you used to like our Xia so much, didn't you? Your dad was really happy about this marriage!"
"Pah!" Li Mengyue spat out coldly, "Back then, he was the only university student in our village, of course, I liked him."
"Now what is he? There's a bunch of university grads in the town; I wouldn't even spare a glance for someone like him!"
"And, if your family hadn't gotten my dad drunk that day, how would he have agreed to marry me off for just sixty-eight thousand?"
"Put away your filthy tactics, disgustingly cunning!"
Wu Xia immediately realized that this was orchestrated by his older brother, Wu Gang.
"What do you mean 'got him drunk'? That was your dad who brought it up!" Wu Gang was an honest man, unable to tolerate any slander, and said through clenched teeth, "You can ask your dad to confront this!"
"Enough, stop talking about all this nonsense!" Li Mengyue scoffed, "With the bad Feng Shui of your house, only a fool would marry their daughter into your family!"
"What did you say?" Wu Gang was furious, veins popping and fists clenched.
"Oh, what, you wanna fight?" Li Mengyue was not the least bit afraid, and the two strong men behind her immediately stood out.
Their towering figures, each half a head taller than Wu Gang.
"One married for seven or eight years, unable to have children. Another just married and then widowed," Li Mengyue mocked mercilessly, "My advice is to act like humans and not to harm me, or I will make sure you can no longer stay in Wu Family Village!"
"You..." Wu Gang trembled with fury.
Slap!
Suddenly, a loud slap rang out.
All eyes widened in disbelief as they looked at Wu Xia, who had unexpectedly positioned himself in front of Li Mengyue.
"Keep your mouth clean!"
Wu Xia looked at Li Mengyue coldly, "From the beginning to the end, it's been you pursuing me; I have never been interested in you!"
Li Mengyue was terrified, "You... you dare to hit me?"
"Hitting you is to wake you up, trouble comes out of your mouth, do not cross my line!"
Wu Xia radiated an aura of coldness.
The thing he cherished most now was his family, especially when his family members were in pain, he couldn't tolerate others rubbing salt in their wounds!
"What the hell are you guys waiting for? Beat him, beat him to death!" Li Mengyue screamed.
The two strong men finally reacted, swinging their fists at Wu Xia.
Wu Gang saw what was happening and quickly grabbed a stool to rush forward, but before he had taken two steps, Wu Xia had already knocked down two burly men.
Li Mengyue stood there, utterly shocked, unable to believe that the slender Wu Xia possessed such great strength.
"Get out of my sight now!" Wu Xia coldly stared at Li Mengyue, "Listen clearly, the marriage was proposed by your family, but the annulment is my decision. You are not worthy of marrying into the Wu Family!"
"Scram!"
The final word, infused with Spiritual Power, exploded inside Li Mengyue's head.
Li Mengyue peed herself on the spot, clenching her legs and screaming as she ran away.
Only then did Wu Gang come to his senses and quickly ran up, "Xia, are you alright?"
"Brother, I'm fine!" Wu Xia smiled slightly, "I learned some combat skills in school, dealing with these punks is a piece of cake!"
"Ah!" Wu Gang sighed, "You acted impulsively, the village chief's family are all petty people, you hit his daughter and hurt his pride, he will target us from now on!"
"Brother, don't worry, I am now the resident doctor here, although it's under his authority, I am directly managed by the town, he can't do anything to me!"
Wu Xia patted Wu Gang's shoulder and whispered, "Don't think too much, hurry up and get ready for the noon plan, the sooner sister-in-law gets pregnant, the sooner the rumors outside will collapse."
"I'm off to work at the village committee, I'll be back at noon!"
"Mm!" Wu Gang snapped to his senses and quickly nodded.
Wu Xia waved his hand and headed towards the village committee.
Lin Jiao hid in her room, watching Wu Xia's retreating figure, her eyes flickering with complex emotions, ultimately becoming resolutely determined.
The village committee was converted from an old primary school, consisting of just three rooms, a large playground, and a public restroom.
As a rural doctor, Wu Xia had to report here every day, and one of the rooms was exclusively his.
The room was divided into two sections, one for convenience of patients receiving IV drips, equipped with two hospital beds.
The other was filled with medicines, facilitating Wu Xia's diagnostics and prescribing.
This place was just a hundred or two hundred meters away from Wu Xia's home, so he would come here every morning to sit for the morning and would be at his home in the afternoon.
People who came for consultations had gotten used to this routine; they would look for Wu Xia here in the morning and at his home in the afternoon.
Just as Wu Xia had sat down, Du Lijuan arrived, and with her was another woman, none other than the village chief's wife, Liu Xianglan.
Wu Xia's brow furrowed involuntarily, he had just hit her daughter, and now her mother was coming for him?
"Yo, Doctor Wu, who would have thought, you're quite impressive!"
Liu Xianglan approached with a seductive smile, her eyes lasciviously hungry as she ogled Wu Xia.
Wu Xia shuddered and turned his gaze to Du Lijuan.
At this moment, Du Lijuan was extremely anxious, hastily trying to explain in a fluster, "Xianglan, you misunderstand, it's not Xia's fault, really, it's not!"
But as she gestured, Wu Xia's clothes fell to the ground, his underwear still tucked inside them.
"Enough, Lijuan, no need to explain, why would his clothes and pants be at your place?"
Liu Xianglan grinned mischievously, bending down to pick up Wu Xia's underwear, "Even this was left at your place."
Caught off guard, Du Lijuan became even more frantic, "It's not like that, we didn't do anything!"
"Sure, you didn't do anything, just swollen lips!"
Liu Xianglan laughed even more joyously, directly grabbing Du Lijuan's buttocks, "Just not sure if it's swollen down there too?"
"Ah!"