Chapter 14
"Do you think she'll dare to speak?" Lin Miao asked, hesitating, her brow furrowed.
Though she had married Wu Fan reluctantly, with a simmering anger, she was still a woman. She couldn't be so cruel as to want him dead.
"Lin Miao, your family is a prominent one. If it were to get out that you were pregnant before marriage, and that this union was just a ruse, how could the Lin family maintain its status in Tianshui? You'd be ruined. The Lin family is not an ordinary one; for people like us, cohabiting before marriage or having uncommitted relationships is acceptable. But for you... haha, you know as well as I do. That's why you paid fifty thousand for a country man to marry, right? Just to silence the rumors?"
"I understand your reasons, but seeing him so honest and poor, getting nothing out of this union, and not even being able to touch me—yet risking his life—it really makes me uncomfortable!" Lin Miao bit her lip, still seeming to have some moral limits.
"Fine, don't worry about that. Focus on your business. I have things to take care of, I'm leaving now, we'll meet up tonight to have some fun!" Lei Meng waved his hand, his lecherous gaze fixed on Lin Miao.
"Wait, have fun? I'm really pregnant!" Lin Miao glared at him disapprovingly.
"Fine, take care of your pregnancy. It's a son from the Lei family, he'll be rich and powerful. When he's born, I'll make sure my father offers your family a ten-billion-dollar contract!" Lei Meng laughed heartily.
"Really? Meng Ge, you're incredible! I'll remember your kindness for the rest of my life!" Lin Miao cuddled up to Lei Meng happily.
The next day, after seeing his mother finish her breakfast, Wu Fan said, "Mom, stay here and don't go anywhere. I'm going to check our fields to the west of the village. I can't leave them unattended. I'll stay here and grow some vegetables!"
"Alright, do as you wish. I'm fine!" Meng Jiangmei replied with a smile.
Back in Taoyuan, the presence of her son seemed to improve his mother's mental state, and she no longer appeared as unbalanced.
"It's him, it's him!" As Wu Fan approached his garden with a hoe over his shoulder, a few people in the woods were watching him.
"Yes, it's him, still wearing yesterday's clothes. Yesterday, we should have sent him to Yama. Today, it's time to end his miserable life, haha!"
"Brother, should we act now?"
"Are you crazy? We're in the middle of the village, with all these houses around. Even if the young ones are gone, someone might see us. Let's wait until he's in a secluded place to act!" explained an older man confidently.
Wu Fan's garden was located about two hundred meters from his house, with no houses nearby.
Moreover, Taoyuan, although having five or six hundred residents, was mostly deserted as the youth had gone elsewhere for work. As a result, it was rare to encounter anyone in the village, which usually had less than a hundred inhabitants.
Since his father had fallen ill and disappeared, his mother hadn't been able to take care of the garden, leaving the land abandoned.
Wu Fan sighed and began to work the soil with his hoe.
"Haha, little guy, you're still alive! Here you are, cultivating the land. How is it that a son-in-law from the Lin family is doing such hard labor?" suddenly s
neered a mocking voice from behind him.