Chapter 5: Clear Porridge
Chapter 5
However, when Lin Zaozao sat down at the only dining table in the house early in the morning, what her husband Murong Hai put in front of her was just a bowl of porridge so clear that one could see their reflection, plus a small dish of pickles.
Lin Zaozao stirred the watery porridge with her chopsticks and carefully counted - there were exactly thirteen grains of rice. She looked at the small dish of homemade pickled radish in front of the porridge bowl. She felt that she might as well remain a fool.
She now really wanted to howl loudly and make a scene.
It was just too much bullying of a fool.
As soon as she makes it big, the first thing she will do is get a new husband.
Hmm...get a few who are well-behaved and can warm her bed.
These five scumbags, though good-looking, have such nasty minds.
She was now certain that they despised her for being too ugly and wanted to starve her to death before getting a new wife.
Might as well take advantage of still being a fool, and smother them to death with her butt, save them the trouble of trying to starve her.
Always observing Lin Zaozao's expressions, Murong Hai saw her eyes redden and glare fiercely at them.
To prevent Lin Zaozao from making trouble, he preempted her by slamming the table loudly with his hand.
"Lin Xiaohua, let me tell you. If you dare make trouble, I'll take advantage some night when no one is around and throw you straight to the wolves in the back mountain.
You should know that the wolves on the back mountain eat people. You're so fat, they especially love to eat nice juicy fat meat like you. Understand?"
Seeing Murong Hai's fierce expression, Lin Zaozao immediately suppressed her impending actions and the tears about to spill out.
She nodded repeatedly to show her understanding.
Dear god! This cripple was scary enough when not angry, but when furious, his ferocious expression was enough to eat someone.
Lin Zaozao nervously swallowed and quickly lowered her head to pick up the bowl, gulping down the porridge in two or three mouthfuls.
It was no big deal not to drink the porridge. But when Lin Zaozao drank the watery gruel into her stomach, she felt even hungrier.
But raising her head to see Murong Hai's fierce look, she could only force down her grievances and quietly return to her room after putting down the bowl.
Because this Murong Hai fellow was too aggressive while she was a coward!
After stroking her growling hungry stomach, Lin Zaozao, who had reached the door, quickly turned back around. She picked up the small dish of pickles and dumped them straight into her mouth.
It was not bad to have something to eat. She could not waste food.
It was just somewhat salty. She would drink more water later. This would at least give her a full stomach!
Watching Lin Zaozao obediently walk out the door, Murong Cold Sea felt remorseful despite himself.
"Fantian, treating Lin Xiaohua like this, I feel a little bad."
"Hai, there is a strange poison in Lin Xiaohua’s body. If she doesn’t lose weight soon, she definitely won’t live past three months.
If you don't want her to die early, you still have to be harsh. You also don't want to be used as a pawn again and passed on to another woman, right!
After all, we already look like this now." Ji Fantian said as he stroked the small medicine bottle at his waist as if stroking a lover, utterly engrossed.
Walking out the door to find water to drink in the kitchen, Lin Zaozao saw her other husband Gu Shan sitting alone in a simple wheelchair, just as he had since their marriage.
To be honest, although Gu Shan was paralyzed, he was rather good-looking! Unfortunately, he exuded an inexplicable murderous aura, making Lin Zaozao not dare to approach him casually.
However, the system had told her that if she did not help transfer afflictions to herself, she would not have many months left to live either.
Having just drunken her fill from the water ladle, Lin Zaozao thought, so what if Gu Shan has a murderous aura? He was now paralyzed. Even if she teased, ah no, touched him, it’s not like he could leap up to hit her!
Thus, holding onto her identity as an idiot and Gu Shan's lack of mobility, Lin Zaozao put down the ladle and walked straight towards him.
Gu Shan, who had been silently lying in the wheelchair, revealed a hint of surprise in his cold eyes when he saw Lin Zaozao walking towards him.
He knew that even ordinary men dared not casually approach him because of the killing intent surrounding him.
But he did not expect that his new idiot wife would actually dare to approach him.
Could it be that because she was an idiot that she could not sense the murderous aura around him?
Feeling the murderous aura surrounding Gu Shan, Lin Zaozao suppressed her wildly beating heart. Pretending to be silly, she walked to Gu Shan’s wheelchair.
She had originally wanted to squat beside the wheelchair, but with 280 pounds of fat on her body, even a simple squatting action was beyond her.
So she disregarded dirtiness and plopped her butt right beside Gu Shan’s wheelchair.
First, she tentatively poked Gu Shan’s hand back with her chubby fingers to test his reaction. Seeing that he did not even glance at her, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It seemed this Gu Shan was just a man with a cold temperament and would not truly harm her.
In any case, he was now paralyzed. Even if he wanted to harm her, he did not have the ability!
Seeing that Gu Shan would not hurt her, Lin Zaozao stretched out her plump hand to grasp his, using the contact to transfer his afflictions.
Gu Shan, who had been secretly observing Lin Zaozao's every move, could have easily avoided her outstretched pudgy hand.
But thinking of how this clear-eyed idiot was now his wife, coupled with her complete lack of any murderous aura, he allowed his fat and ugly idiot wife to grasp his hand.
He did not know if it was because he was used to loneliness, but at this moment, he felt a warmth from this little fool’s hand that he had not experienced since being poisoned and paralyzed, as well as a comfort.
Gu Shan glanced sideways at Lin Zaozao, a trace of unnoticed gentleness flowing in his cold eyes.
At the same time, Lin Zaozao saw the black stuff transferred from Gu Shan’s body onto her palm instantly sucked into the black hole that appeared in her palm.
Simultaneously, two chat boxes appeared again in her palm - a drop of Marrow Cleansing Potion and a drop of Beauty Potion.
【System, can I drink the Marrow Cleansing Potion and Beauty Potion now?】
【Yes host. But I kindly remind you that you can only drink up to three drops of Marrow Cleansing Potion and Beauty Potion per day. If you do not finish today’s earnings, the system has the right to forcibly retrieve them.】