Chapter 10: Dumping Night Fragrance (Part One)

Pei Yuanshao stood guard at the door of the woodshed, his face alternating between shades of green and white. He stood with his head lowered, the teardrop mole at the corner of his eye resembling the slanting redness of the setting sun outside.

Inside the woodshed, Liu Changning stepped out of the wooden tub, wiped the water droplets from her body, and put on her clothes before leisurely opening the wooden door.

She gave him a glance and raised her eyebrows, asking, “What’s the matter that you’re looking for me in such a hurry?”

The man not far away suddenly lifted his head. The flustered and exasperated look he had in the room earlier seemed like a fleeting glimpse of a startled swan. His peach blossom eyes were now blazing with flames.

Perhaps truly infuriated, his chest heaved up and down. He took a deep breath and enunciated each word, his voice squeezing through his teeth, “Low-life scum… Indecent exposure in broad daylight…”

Liu Changning folded her arms and looked at him at her leisure, interrupting him with a neutral tone, “Exposing what? If you hadn’t barged into my bedroom without permission, would I have taken off my clothes in front of you?”

Pei Yuanshao choked on his breath and coughed violently. The reprimand on the tip of his tongue was forcefully swallowed back into his throat.

He rubbed the red whip at his waist with both hands, his fingers curling and extending. After repeating this three or four times, he finally suppressed the urge to lash out at her.

Pointing at the nearby latrine, he raised his voice angrily, “If you hadn’t made the latrine reek to high heaven, how would I have broken in? Besides, who would have thought that a proper woman like you would bathe indoors in broad daylight like a little boy?”

Pei Yuanshao’s eyebrows were tightly knitted, his peach blossom eyes filled with disgust.

After a busy day, he had returned home from the town in a good mood. However, when he went to the latrine to relieve himself, he didn’t expect the earthen latrine to be overflowing with black and yellow filth.

The entire latrine reeked, and the pent-up frustration of the past few days, combined with the foul odor filling his nostrils, completely erupted.

Thinking of the offensive smell from earlier, the anger that had just subsided on his face surged again. He furiously rubbed the teardrop mole at the corner of his right eye. The mole was so red that it seemed ready to drip blood on his fair and handsome face.

Liu Changning lifted her eyelids and met his gaze, asking in surprise, “The latrine naturally has an unpleasant smell. What’s wrong with that?”

Pei Yuanshao was already feeling irritated, and now the woman in front of him was deliberately asking questions despite knowing the reason. She even seemed to be self-righteous.

He calmed his turbulent emotions and smiled instead of getting angry, “Forget it. Just go and take a look at the latrine. You’ll see that the earthen jar is already full of waste. Wife-master, you’d better hurry and carry it to the fields for fertilization!”

Liu Changning was dumbfounded. She pointed at herself in disbelief and asked, “You want me to remove the feces?”

Pei Yuanshao nodded, a hint of impatience flashing in his eyes, “If you, the wife-master, don’t do it, do you expect me, a frail young husband, to carry the feces? Besides, the waste jar is now full. If we don’t remove the filth, our family’s latrine will be unusable in the future! And whose fault is that? If it weren’t for you, wife-master, having… frequent bowel movements? How would there be a need to dump the night fragrance so diligently?”

Liu Changning’s round eyes suddenly widened. She… had frequent bowel movements? Could it be that the cheap husband thought… This person’s imagination was truly rich.

However, the medicinal bath water in the waste jar was indeed created by her. But asking her to remove the feces… Hahaha!

Liu Changning stroked her pointed chin, her eyes glinting. Facing the cheap husband’s disdainful gaze, she smiled with a fake grin, “Just yesterday, we established three rules. Household chores are to be shared by you and me. If my memory serves me right, in the past, the task of removing feces was always done by me. In the interest of fairness, isn’t it your turn this time?”

The man in front of her stood with his back to the light, the erupting anger on his face completely hidden in the shadows. His fingertips repeatedly rubbed the red whip at his waist.

As soon as Liu Changning finished her infuriating words, the long whip at his waist became an arc, swiftly sliding through the air.

The man in red clothes and ink-black hair, holding a whip, the anger bursting from his eyes seemed capable of burning a person to ashes. With a flick of the whip, in an instant, it would have landed on Liu Changning’s body.

She reacted swiftly, spinning her body to avoid it and catching the tail of the whip with her bare hands. Her seemingly thin arms exerted a slight force, pulling the whip-wielding man close to her.

Liu Changning leaned in, raised her eyes, and lowered her voice in warning, “I said yesterday, let’s not interfere with each other. If you can’t do that, Young Master Pei, you should have self-respect and dignity. Take your divorce papers and leave immediately, lest we become sick of each other and add to the unpleasantness.”