thefictionvixens Chapter 15 She has a husband, and he's still alive.
Chapter 15 She has a husband, and he's still alive.
Ruan Zhijuan fell silent, turned over, and covered himself with the blanket. He was sure Zhou Gangxun was lying to him, or Zhou Gangxun was just too poor, and by following Zhou Gangxun, he would naturally benefit...
It's all Zhou Gangxun's fault!
Yes! It's all his fault!
Ruan Zhijuan poked her head out, about to yell at Zhou Gangxun, when she saw that the seat Zhou Gangxun had just been sitting in was now empty, and only a female nurse who had just come in was left next to the bed.
"What?!" Ruan Zhijuan pouted, her face falling. "Why is Zhou Gangxun like this? He just left me here and ran away. He hasn't even finished venting his anger yet."
He didn't run away... ran away, did he abandon him? ಠ_ಠ?
He must have run away because he couldn't pay the medical bills. What will he do then? Will he have to be sold to the old blind man to pay off his debts?
As Ruan Zhijuan thought about it, her heart ached, she pouted, and tears fell down her cheeks. Didn't they agree to be together through thunder and lightning? How could she have abandoned him and run away?
The nurse searched the ward for a long time before finally finding the boy the tall man had mentioned. She thought to herself, "He doesn't look stupid at all. He's quite a handsome boy, but he's so swollen and looks pitiful. It makes my heart tremble."
"Are you looking for your husband? He went to work. He asked me to bring this to you..."
"Oh, so he went to work..." So he's the only one with a job... Indeed, he's the only one with one.
Ruan Zhijuan pouted, thinking that Zhou Gangxun didn't want him anymore. Humph, he wouldn't dare. When Zhou Gangxun came back, he would definitely have a good talk with him.
Ruan Zhijuan looked at the candy the nurse handed him, and only then did he reluctantly choose not to make a scene for the sake of the candy. Clutching the candy in his hand, he lay back down on the bed, covered himself with the blanket, and stopped crying. He blinked and looked carefully in the dark to see what kind of candy it was.
White Rabbit milk candy... crispy... shrimp candy... orange segment fruit hard candy... oh wow...
"You have to be good, your husband will be back soon..." The nurse standing next to Ruan Zhijuan, who was still trying to comfort her, heard the rustling sound of tearing packaging coming from under the bulging blanket, and then stuffing it into her mouth.
He said you can only eat one piece every half hour, and if you eat too much outside of that time, I'll confiscate it.
Ruan Zhijuan sullenly hummed, stuffing the handful of candies into her clothes. "That's enough." Confiscating them was out of the question.
The nurse outside spoke again, "Make sure your hand is outside when you're getting the injection, don't touch the needle, otherwise it will hurt a lot and you'll have to get the injection again."
Upon hearing this, Ruan Zhijuan immediately and obediently extended the hand with the needle. Re-injecting would definitely cost money, and Zhou Gangxun was so poor that he certainly wouldn't have the money to buy him more medicine.
Hmph, Zhou Gangxun.
Around 11 p.m., Zhou Gangxun returned to the ward after moving the goods.
Then he saw a young man with dyed blond hair standing by Ruan Zhijuan's bedside. He wasn't sure if it was his imagination, but he thought he saw a dog's tail wagging around the man and circling around his wife. "What illness do you have?"
"Does your hand hurt from the injections? I see you've already had three packets of medicine; your hand is all red..."
"What's your name? Are you hungry? I have some small cakes here..."
Small cakes...
Ruan Zhijuan's eyes lit up upon hearing this, and she hummed, "Then... hurry up and bring it over ( 。ớ ₃ờ)ھ..."
As he spoke, he opened his mouth from a distance, as if he were about to take a bite directly from the cake.
But before it could even touch her, Zhou Gangxun's large hand suddenly appeared and pinched her open mouth shut, his soft lips licking his hand full of saliva, and she let out a whimper, "Ugh..."
Zhou Gangxun looked at his hands, his brows furrowed slightly, and the light in his eyes deepened.
I want to chop off that mouth of his wife's, that mouth of hers that flirts with other men so easily.
He subtly used his body to separate people from his own space. Standing at 1.9 meters tall, and with his body even stronger from carrying goods these past few days, he was like a wall, oppressively forcing people to retreat.
Zhou Gangxun looked at the young man with his dark eyes. "He has a husband, and he's still alive."
The words were meant for two people.
Yellow Hair, and his always restless, flirtatious wife.
"Oh...oh, then...I'll put the cake here..." Su Anle looked at Ruan Zhijuan, who was being disciplined by her husband on the hospital bed, and hurriedly swallowed, making a "gulping" sound.
His face was being grabbed like that, it felt so rough...
Husband...he usually lives with this man...
This man looks... fierce, very strong... he pinched his face until it was deformed and red...
"Is there anything else?"
The man's deep, sharp voice clearly reached Su Anle's ears, causing his legs to buckle and he almost knelt down. His heart pounded violently. "N-nothing...it's nothing..."
Before Zhou Gangxun could utter another sound, Su Anle fled in panic.
He only hurriedly left behind the words, "Well... I'm leaving now, brother, sister-in-law... sister-in-law..."
Even though the person had run away and was no longer in the ward, the scene from just now couldn't be shaken off from his mind.
Why is it that he's the one who seduces someone else's wife, and then gets caught by another man...?
How will he... how will his husband treat him?
Will I hit him and tell him he's not allowed to talk to strange men again? Will I lock him in the bed and tell him his only activity area from now on is the bed?
Her husband... is so fierce... he'll definitely abuse her.
This led him to engage in more than half a month of completely involuntary, voyeuristic... erotic fantasies as a third party.
Ruan Zhijuan's fair face was grabbed and pinched by her husband's large hand with bulging veins, forcing her to raise her neck and look at him with pleading eyes that were red at the corners... Her husband coldly and forcefully fed her cake.
Then she was jolted awake by her husband's cold "Is there anything else?" and lay limp on the bed, panting heavily with cold sweat.
In the ward.
Ruan Zhijuan didn't even glance at Su Anle as he left; all his attention was on the small cake on the table.
Once the person had left, Zhou Gangxun released his grip and wiped Ruan Zhijuan's drool on the clothes he no longer intended to keep.
Once her mouth was free, Ruan Zhijuan immediately picked up the small cake and started eating it. During this time, she didn't forget to glare fiercely at Zhou Gangxun. If he had just ruined her small cake, she definitely wouldn't have let him off the hook!
You should know that he had been eyeing this little cake ever since he started taking his second bottle of medicine.
He practically glued his eyes to the cake, waiting for the other person to ask if he wanted to eat it, if he wanted to try it, or just hand it to him.
Hmph, at least they have some sense.
It's so delicious!
As Ruan Zhijuan ate, she kept staring at the cake in her hand. It was a rectangular block of white cream topped with three pale pink cream flowers of different sizes. The cake had four layers inside, with jams containing strawberry and apple pieces, and a layer of sandy red bean paste and chocolate sauce...
I'll write this down and ask Zhou Gangxun for money to buy it next time. But this... shouldn't be too expensive, right?
Ruan Zhijuan only now belatedly realizes how much money she has.
He spent thirty yuan on peaches today alone, and when he asked the nurse about the hospital bill, it was one hundred and seventy yuan.
He spent two hundred dollars on Zhou Gangxun today...
Zhou Gangxun's gaze fell on Ruan Zhijuan. Although he didn't know what Ruan Zhijuan was thinking at the moment, he could see that Ruan Zhijuan's amber eyes were rolling around, just like those villainous supporting characters on TV before they thought of doing bad things.
Ruan Zhijuan bit her cake fork and secretly made a decision: she would wait until Zhou Gangxun received his salary next month to buy the cake. If the cake cost more than thirty...fifty yuan, she would not buy it.
However, he didn't know that the palm-sized cake in his hand actually only cost 5 yuan, and the expensive peaches he had eaten in the past two days would not have been bought by anyone other than Zhou Gangxun and himself.
Thirty yuan is enough for other people to have a balanced diet of meat and vegetables for several days, or even more than a week.
At that time, the income of a single-income family was around 800 yuan, while that of a dual-income family was around 1,300 yuan. Pork cost 7 or 8 yuan per jin (500g), which was divided into three or four meals. Eggs cost 3 or 4 mao each, and a dozen or twenty eggs were consumed every week. The rest of the food consisted of vegetables.
We don't eat much fruit; we only buy it once or twice a month, each time for two to three yuan, which is enough to last for several days.
Just as Ruan Zhijuan finished the last bite of the cake, Zhou Gangxun's large hand slammed down, hitting her swollen chest squarely. Ouch...
He...he was beaten by Zhou Gangxun!
Ruan Zhijuan looked at Zhou Gangxun's eyes in astonishment, but they were too swollen to open wide.
Through his slits, Zhou Gangxun spoke as if he were lecturing a child who hadn't brushed his teeth, in a matter-of-fact tone, "Have you finished eating? Go brush your teeth if you have."
Ruan Zhijuan grumbled, clenching her fists and glaring at Zhou Gangxun. He kept saying he was going to brush his teeth... He kept saying! ( מּ,_מּ) He's going right now! He's going right now! He'll do it himself! He doesn't need to say anything! (´༎ຶД༎ຶ`) How annoying he is! Why did he have to say it! And why did I have to hit him for it! Waaah... It's so painful, so frustrating, you dog of a man! You dog of a man!
Then, Ruan Zhijuan, who was so angry that she couldn't speak because her throat was swollen, was led to the toilet to brush her teeth by Zhou Gangxun, who was stroking her from left to right with her swollen face and squinting eyes.
The hospital beds were small, just big enough for Ruan Zhijuan to sleep alone.
So Zhou Gangxun slept on a chair at night, since he wouldn't get more than a few hours of sleep before heading to the construction site, and there was no need to waste money on a bed.
Since Zhou Gangxun sat down by Ruan Zhijuan's bedside, he had been leaning against her with his arms crossed.
The young men who had been peeking around no longer dared to look openly, but instead stole glances at Zhou Gangxun while they were looking.
Either he goes outside to get hot water every ten minutes, or he goes to the toilet every short while, but he comes back in less than a minute.
"I just came back and saw a man at the door staring intently at the handsome boy on the bed. His eyes looked like he wanted to devour him, and he was even swallowing hard."
The man on the bed, with his legs crossed, said slowly, "Never seen anyone so beautiful before? Look at this ward, how many women wouldn't want to eat her up, but they can't help it, she has a husband."
"No..." The boy scratched his head and glanced at the door again. The man who had been staring at Ruan Zhijuan with a fixed gaze was gone. "I can't really explain it, but it was kind of scary, especially his eyes. He had two eyes. I was startled when I saw them just now."
"Who doesn't have two eyes?"
"No, not like us with two eyes, but the kind where there are two pupils inside one eye..."
The hushed voices made Ruan Zhijuan frown. He groggily pressed his fingers together to his ears. How could these people get up at night even more often than Zhou Gangxun? And the one who just came in, did he not wash his hands?
It smelled strongly of meat.
It's like meat that's been overcooked without any seasoning.
The mushy cooked meat was kept simmering in the boiling water of the pressure cooker, emitting a nauseatingly hot and fishy smell.
Ruan Zhijuan thought for a moment, then freed one hand and placed it on her nose to cover it.