I Am A Big Villain Chapter 7

The original body's memory about his father wasn't much. But Yan Chu thought, with just a few simple letters would restored a dying man's hope for life. For the other party, the original body might be a very important person, but unfortunately in the past life, he never saw this son until his death.

"Yan Chu, why on earth are you happy for?"

Lin Qingshan pushed Yan Chu aside, now was the time to meet the bride's family, couldn't afford to be late!

Yan Chu snapped out of it, for the time being didn't take care of that 300 points. Together with a group of educated youth and fellow villagers, went toward Lin Jia[1] fervently and lively.

Because Yan Chu's elders was far in the capital, the wedding's inside and out were all arranged by Lin Jia. There were also many people who gossip about it in the village. They thought, on the surface Lin Jia was married off their daughter but in reality, it hadn't different with accepted a son-in-law living with wife's family, subsidized money to picked up a shàng mén[2] son-in-law.

These words weren't good. Huang Ruhua was really annoyed to death by those blabbermouth meddling women. She knew a normal man's self-esteem in her heart. She understand the truth of these known gossips, she wouldn't take her anger out on young married woman. If she meets a black hearted[3] people and heard these words, still not wrong at all to blame the young married woman and the head of her parents' family?

There were aplenty of people who were feeling inferior and yet arrogant in this world. She thought deeply in her heart, 「I will remember you. By the day she has the upper hand, you will be very embarra.s.sed.」

Huang Ruhua's temper was liable to over thinking, but she wasn't unreasonable. Fortunately, Yan Chu wasn't kind of narrow-minded person at all. Moreover, what some villagers, including some educated youths, actually said also made sense. Now he really seems to be eating soft rice[4], the work was arranged by wife's jiù jiu[5], the house was the old house of the wife's house beforehand, the dowry was only the eggplant wrist watch that the original body brought with him. Just like that wrist watch, which was to change a scene. When the moment comes, it would still returned as Lin Dingding's dowry.

Yan Chu heard about it and completely wasn't angry at all. Evermore thought that his wife was good, his father-in-law and mother-in-law was lenient and generous, all he could do was treat them better.

Time bears witness to everything. One day, others would know that the father-in-law and mother-in-law married Dingding to him was a loss or a gain.

*****

"Have you heard that the college entrance examination has been resumed?"

In October 1977, a shocking news spread to several nearby villages. The news was brought by retinue from the county. On almost the same day, all the educated youth who got the news were crazy.

There weren't an educated youth who not looking forward to returning to the city, including those who had already married and had children in the village. The idea to return city practically already within the grasp. Their loved ones and dreams were in the city. Compared to the barren countryside and heavy labor, it was obvious that the decent and relaxed life in the city was the lifestyle they were used to.

Lin Guangguo looked at the field that was originally a.s.signed to the educated youths. Today, he didn't see any figure. He holding a dry smoke pipe,「 bā da bā da」 pulling the pipe, with deep headlines and full of melancholy

"What's going on here?"

Huang Ruhua hadn't been vigorous for the past two days straight. Both cleaning the table and mopping the floor, as soon as she stopped, she had a headache.

"Patriarch, you said Yan Chu, that child……" Their daughter had been married for more than half a year. Apart from not having a child yet, there was almost no dissatisfaction, even can said fall in the nest of good fortune. To the ones who originally gossiping at the back, now who didn't envy her daughter, ah!

He was both responsible and considerate his wife's needs. Now he was teaching at the commune elementary school for six days a week, went home at evening, helping his wife boiling water to cook, which big men in the village would helped their wife did this. Lin Dingding's simple life, Yan Chu didn't let her touch the cold water, he even helped wash the close-fitting little clothes.

The family income even more wasn't need to say. He taught in elementary school, he had 20 yuan as monthly salary. It wasn't even warm yet, he had been handed all of money over to his wife. He neither drinks nor smokes, and he didn't hit his wife. In the summer evening, it was fairly often to seen the young couple take a walk at the river bank or the foot of the mountain to enjoy the cool air. Usually it could be seen that there was a bunch of beautiful wildflowers in Lin Dingding's hands, need to ask who picked it? It wasn't Yan Chu's fault to specially picked them to make his wife felt happy.

The villagers might felt that Yan Chu wasn't very masculine to did something like this. Wasn't it necessary for a wife to give birth a son in marriage? Since she didn't obedient, she should knew how to serve her man. He was so good to his wife that made people felt that he hadn't man's moral backbone.

The women scoffed at this, what a group of heartless old men know? They didn't like to take a bath, smokes and drinks, stinking every day. Thinking about the smelly men who wrapped themselves with quilts, a good husband like Yan Chu was simply comparable with the G.o.d.

At the beginning, they were secretly jeering at Lin Dingding's blind eyes to look for impressive-looking but useless man. The girls of her age who wasted her good family background, don't mention the regret, If they had known that Yan Chu was such a considerate husband, they went on their own.

Coupled with this husband was famous for his handsome looks, simply made people to feel jealous, scratching their ear and heart, also tossed and turned, couldn't sleep.

"Don't think about it, Yan Chu is a high school graduate. How can he isn't partic.i.p.ate in this resumed college entrance examination? Today, the unified team will help them to sign up, his and Dingding's name are on the top."

Although Lin Guangguo surprised his daughter actually signed up for the college entrance examination, however he still had a lot of thoughts about his daughter's scores. He estimated that she was going to join in for fun. On the contrary, Yan Chu was a high school graduate from the capital city, the hope of pa.s.sing the college entrance examination was great. By the time he was a university student and the other was a young village girl in the countryside. Even though Yan Chu remembered to contact his wife and without became Chen s.h.i.+mei[6], as the days go by, the gap between the couple was getting bigger and bigger. perhaps, this tolerably life was also difficult.

Huang Ruhua's worry really became true. She put the rag to the table and, like her husband, didn't feel that her daughter had the hope of pa.s.sing the college entrance examination.

"Patriarch, doesn't that list get through your hands? How about you take hold of our son-in-law's name? Quietly, quietly……"

Huang Ruhua still wasn't good to straight speaking to let him removed their son-in-law's name from the list. After all, this was too sinister. She was an ordinary farmer woman, although she was worried about her daughter, she couldn't say frankly anything like this.

"Do you want your daughter to live well?"

Lin Guangguo glanced at his wife, he knew to be within the limits of blind ideas. If he took his name out from the list and waited until the time to take the exam, then when others received the admission ticket only Yan Chu didn't have one. What thought he will made? He wasn't a fool anyway.

"Don't worry, our son-in-law isn't that kind of person." Lin Guangguo frowned, looking at Huang Ruhua erased the twitch at her mouth. While talking about their son-in-law wasn't such a person, didn't know who was had the big night[7], turn over and over, couldn't go to sleep.

*****

"Lin Dingding, your man is here to pick you up."

After the marriage, Lin Dingding try to find a work to subsidize family expenses. They were relying on the sea here. Some factories would divided some works, letting women in several nearby villages to help weaved nets. A group of women would simultaneously working and chatting. Lin Dingding's limbs movement were fast, she could earned two or three mao a day. There wasn't much money earned in one month, but also could reduce some family's burden.

Because the location of weaving nets was set at the house with a relatively large yard in the village, every day when Yan Chu came back from school, he would pa.s.s by and picked up his wife to go home. Everyone in the group were used to it the young married couple who was still intimidated after married for almost a year, most of the jokes were also well-meaning.

Lin Dingding put away her more than half weaved net, looked at her husband who stood at the door and waved at her. She smiled sweetly and ran over briskly to him.

"What are you proud of? The college entrance examination has been resumed and the educated youths are still willing to stay in this small village. I also watched Yan Chu stay for a while, and now become more loving. When it's time to become a yellow-faced woman[8], there are more on her face."

Looking at the handsome, straight and tall man carefully guarding the back of his wife, the young married women about the same age as Lin Dingding were muttered jealousy. 「The people on the side looking at me, let me look at you.」 It was very tacit to move slightly away from her.

The man who patronized the hatred didn't realize this, but still tried in vain to give sympathetic response to others.

"You guys just watch it, that Yan Chu is good toward Lin Dingding isn't it because Lin Dingding's father is leader of production team, OK? Her jiù jiu is the deputy director of the commune, right? When he got into college and became a college student, see how much he still able to favor this wife?"

She made a solemn vow, if her life indeed too bad, she was jealous of others family, and wished that all the others' happiness were false, it was good to pretend.

"Today, I went to the county to report the task and bought your favorite steamed meat buns, also cut off five liǎng[9] meats. I went back to you at evening to cook the steamed egg with meat and then gave dad and mom some more."

Yan Chu pulled out a steamed stuffed bun from a tightly sealed oil paper bag in his embrace. Because it placed close to his skin, even if the weather has turned cold, the buns were still warm.

"Let split it in half between us." Lin Dingding took the steamed meat bun with delight and thought that she wouldn't want to split the meat into two halves, stuffed the other half of the mincemeat into Yan Chu's mouth.

"It is a state-run steamed stuffed buns shop, I presume. The stuffing of the buns is richer and more fragrant. Unlike the two other stores, the meat is thin." Lin Dingding loved eating buns that her husband specially bought. Her brows and eyes were bent in happiness, obviously it just an ordinary meat bundle, only she seem like had eaten some exotic delicacies.

"Yan Chu, you say if I didn't attend to college, what's to be done, ah?"

He didn't know what to think. The little girl, who had always been very energetic, suddenly hung down her shoulders. Even she was eating her favorite meat bundle, it seemed to had no taste.

Lin Dingding knew her own level in her heart. Although the two were married, Yan Chu often gave her remedial lessons. After the news of the college entrance examination was recovered, the intensity of the remedial cla.s.ses was increased.

It's just that Rome wasn't built in a day. Lin Dingding's foundation was there. If she wasn't there to ask Yan Chu help, his results could be advanced by leaps and bounds. Her educational background just a junior high school. Even she basically gave the teacher the knowledge she had, let alone wanted it, not to mention now she had to make up for a few years of high school courses, got into college was like a dream.

"Yan Chu, if you get into university, you go ahead, okay? I'll wait for you at home."

She raised her head and looking over at her husband, who could made her blus.h.i.+ng at all times, and said firmly.

She knows that he shouldn't stay in this small village. Yan Chu was talented and had a broad future. She shouldn't be the one who binds him. Besides, she also saw Yan Chu's great efforts. Even if the surrounding arguments made her fl.u.s.tered, she didn't want to leave each other selfishly.

"Stupid."

Yan Chu finally understood why she always had a lot of tea in these days, she was thinking about it.

"You scolded me."

The current Lin Dingding was a treasure within a man's hand palm, but also had some spoiled temper. Once he listened to her painful sacrifice, she actually changed back to a fool and pouted her mouth, didn't want to take care of him.

"Even if you didn't go to college, would you be willing to let me go to school alone? If I am thirsty and hungry, what should I do? If I am going to sleep at cold night, what should I do? My little wife really heartless, just abandon her husband like this no matter what."

Yan Chu helplessly pointed the little girl's nose. From the beginning to the end, he didn't want to leave her alone to go to college. Even if he was admitted to college, he would take her away.

"What, what do you mean?"

Linding Ding's eyes widened, immediately joyously cheered.

"It's getting dark. Let's go home and cook dinner." Lin Dingding put the remaining bun in her mouth, where was her previous melancholy? Her light footsteps seemed to fly up and she didn't dare to look at Yan Chu's expression at this time. She always felt just like acting in the bitter drama of their own, it must be silly in Yan Chu's heart.

Yan Chu shook his head and looked at his little wife, who was still like a child, and left immediately after her.

[1] household, family

[2] to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family

[3] ruthless and lacking in conscience, vicious mind full of hatred and jealousy

[4] a man who is supported financially by a woman (other than his own mother)

[5] mother's brother, maternal uncle

[6] a Chinese opera character and a byword in China for a heartless and unfaithful man, ref link

[7] an important and usually antic.i.p.ated evening

[8] faded old woman

[9] tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1/16 of a catty (old)